Talk:High Temple, Lamanai

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[edit] Own article?

I'm not sure of the need for a seperate article on this building. Perhaps should be merged into the Lamani article? -- Infrogmation 05:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

I guess that there's the potential for enough material to eventually be written on this (and other) specific Mesoamerican buildings & structures to justify its own article, but maybe it should wait until the main Lamanai article is more fully fleshed out. I'd agree that at this point we don't need to go about creating 100's of micro-stubs on individual buildings in the hope they'll eventually be expanded, it seems that that approach would make it more difficult to update relevant facts in the main article(s) as well as the structure-specific articles. However, there's only a few of these at the moment and so perhaps they can be kept around, with the proviso or guideline that any future ones should be expanded upon at the main site's article first, and only broken off into a separate article when there's sufficient material accumulated to justify it. Then again, there may be some structures/buildings which are reasonably well-enough known that it might be expected someone somewhere would be searching for info on it, maybe these could be created as stubs if we don't have the time at present to expand them. They could also be created as redirects I guess, but that would not be my preference at this stage, though open to other arguments.--cjllw | TALK 03:44, 12 July 2006 (UTC)