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what is the main thing about Mexico? (71.130.177.221 22:50, 13 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was PAGE MOVED per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 19:56, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

México (state) → State of Mexico - First of all it has an accent, and the English language has no accents, second of all, I don't know who named the article but the name is ambiguous, everyone knows it under the name of State of Mexico (Estado de México in Spanish), precisely so I wouldn't be confused with the name of the country, therefore the name of the article should be State of Mexico, in fact everything within the article (but the title) uses that name, thank you. Supaman89 19:10, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

I gotta agree with this. I know the other states are not named "State of..." but they do not need to be distinguised from the name of the country the way the State of Mexico does. Thelmadatter 19:21, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. It's the English version of the official name and doesn't seem to have ever been the official name of the country of Mexico. — AjaxSmack 21:50, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

How much time does it have to pass before someone changes the title? is it within a week? Supaman89 01:39, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Depends... If there is no obvious consensus, then I would allow 5 days to a week to see if a consensus develops. However, if the consensus seems to be clear, then a day or two might suffice. It depends on whether an admin considers the proposed move to be obvious commonsense and uncontroversial or debatable and possibly controversial. See WP:SNOW and Requested moves. I could do it now but I'll wait a day or two to see if anybody objects.
--Richard 17:10, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

flag and location isn't visible with msie 6 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.234.148.12 (talk) 11:42, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] work done on the State of Mexico page

Students from the Advanced B English class at ITESM Campus Toluca class have extensively expanded this article, adding a lot of goo information. However, the article does need editing work (spelling, grammar, paragraph formation etc). One citation is missing. I will give them a day to work on this, however, any suggestions for improvement are welcome.Thelmadatter 14:45, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I have done some initial cleanup. Is it your intent that other Wikipedians simply cleanup any issues or do you prefer that they be pointed out for your students to fix themselves? The latter approach is a lot more work than just fixing the problems as they are identified. Perhaps you could suggest to your students that they go back and review the article a few days to a week after they make their edits. This could be frustrating if their edits are completely deleted. If that happens, have them ask a mentor to look into why that happened.
I have deleted only one piece of text, the one that asserted "Mexicas=Aztecas" which is not technically true although many people may think that. The Mexica were only the ruling group in the Aztec empire. There were many other groups subjugated by the Mexica to form the Aztec empire. See the Mexica and Aztec articles for more details. Also see the Aztec codices article for more information about the codices. In particular, see my comment on Talk:Aztec codices asking for help correlating the codices mentioned in this article with those mentioned in that article.
--Richard 16:40, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
I dont expect you all to grade this like a teacher would, just some general comments on formatting and organization, readability and/or understandability would be nice so that students can see what the norms are and how they are applied. I will have groups go over sections that they did not create for the more minute editing (grammar spelling etc). I know some sections are easier to understand than others.Thelmadatter 19:53, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't think this Talk Page is the right place to comment on grammar, spelling, etc. If the discussion is not about the article content, then it doesn't belong here.

I would have put my comments on a team's Talk Page but it seems that multiple teams are working on this article and so it was unclear where the comments should go.

For this reason, I have put my comments on a new page.

--Richard 01:10, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

wow, quite impressive Richard! Wanna be an English teacher? <GRIN> I am more concerned about content, organization and understandability than grammar per se. I would like students to see how "real" (not teacher) readers perceive their work. Your comments are quite good for this.Thelmadatter 14:57, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


Are you still working in the page Thelmadatter? Or is over and open to add more content? cuellared (talk) 10:45, 29 november 2007

The Advanced B class that was working on this page is over. My school asked me to do a similar class with teachers here who need to improve their TOEFL scores... so Im sure we will be back to this page.. it still needs work. However, edit away! I know there are a lot of little errors... Im cleaning up my students' final projects (you know the little stuff you'd never expect a non-native speaker to know). If you like, go to Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Mentors and volunteer to help my new students in January!Thelmadatter (talk) 19:48, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] mexico state vs state of mexico

Why is this under Mexico State and not State of Mexico? The move discussion above was to move it to State of Mexico wasn't it? I think Mexico State sounds awful, and a google search shows that State of Mexico is much more common. -Solid Reign (talk) 05:21, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

All of the American States are known as "State of" in their articles, above their infoboxes. Solid Reign (talk) 15:45, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I just answered you in your talkpage, regards. Supaman89 (talk) 23:07, 19 February 2008 (UTC)