User talk:Oaxaca dan

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Welcome!

Hello, Oaxaca dan, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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[edit] WikiProject Mesoamerica

Hi there Oaxaca dan- just like to say thanks for your fine work on the Chunchucmil article and several others on Mesoamerica-related topics. If as it seems Mesoamerican archaeology is your field of interest and expertise, then you may possibly be interested in WikiProject Mesoamerica, a collaborative project formed by some wikipedia editors with the intention of coordinating the expansion and improvements to Mesoamerica-related materials around here. You'd be most welcome to drop by there and help out; there are only about half-a-dozen or so folks who are active at any given time working regularly on Mesoamerica-related articles, and so any and all assistance given is much appreciated- as you can plainly see there's a lot of scope for improvement across a number of areas.

Feel free to ask any general questions, either at the project's messageboard or on my talk page (note I myself will not be around here much over the next two weeks, so may be some time in responding) or the talk pages of any of the active contributors.

In any event, hope you enjoy your experience at wikipedia, whatever or how frequently you are able to contribute. Kind regards, --cjllw | TALK 02:21, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Great stuff (re:Thanks)

Hi dan, you are most welcome. The work you and Chunc have been doing on that article has been quite fantastic, and your other related updates have been equally informative and highly useful. I am glad that so far you've had a gratifying experience editing here- there can be from time to time some frustrating experiences and trying encounters, but in the main it's usually pretty good. As you will have seen as you look around the Meso-related material, there's an endless amount of improvement and expansion to be done, so we are very glad for any time you can spare! If there's anything about wikipedia arcana I can help you out with, I'd be pleased to try.

Re the Chunchucmil article itself, when you guys are finished with it I'd say it would be just about ready for nomination as a Featured Article, or if not certainly as a Good Article. If you wanted to take it in that direction (not that you have to), then one thing which would help would be to add a few more inline citations or footnotes at pertinent junctures in the text to specific references; this may help those who are not as familiar with the background material. You could either do the inline cites Harvard-style as at present, or use footnotes/refs (see WP:CITE, also Mayan languages for an example of the latter in use).

Anyways, certainly appreciate your great work. Kind regards,--cjllw | TALK 07:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Hi. You don't need to add "Category:Mesoamerican sites" to articles already in "Category:Maya sites" and similar, as those are subcategories of Mesoamerican sites. Having the parent category in addition to the specific category is considered redundant. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 22:36, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article size

Hey there dan. Re your question, guidelines on recommended maxima for article sizes may be found at WP:SIZE. Basically, anywhere around 8000 to 10000 words is generally regarded as being the practical upper limit for a single article, ie 40-50 KB in size. Much beyond that and the page can take too much time to load up in some system configurations, or may not load up at all in some older ones (the restriction used to be around 32KB in size, which is still a limitation in for eg mobile browsers). There are also human readability considerations if a single page takes up much more.

The Mesoamerica article currently weighs in at around 64KB, which might be acceptable for such a broad-topic area, but we should probably aim to make it a little shorter. The solution in cases such as this where there's plainly a huge amount of useful and relevant info which could and should be written on a particular topic, is to use separate articles to contain the detail, by subtopics, and use the main article to link these together while still providing a summary of the main points.--cjllw | TALK 03:43, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Addendum- I've made some notes at talk:Chunchucmil about how to effect the auto-numbering and generation of footnotes, since I had noticed that you'd given that a trial run on that article. The present Harvard-style cites used there should be fine as they are, my notes there are just in case you'd like to implement the autonumbering on another article someplace. Cheers, --cjllw | TALK 03:54, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for your comments at Colombo article peer review. ŇëŧΜǒńğëŗ^Talk 06:12, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

My email is rvillalobos(at)guate.net.gt I think we really can put Mesoamerica as a Class A articlemayasautenticos 00:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)Authenticmayamayasautenticos 00:55, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] SW

Hey, glad to be of use in the creation of Shadow World stuff in Wikipedia. I've been waiting for a long time for someone to start the article. I guess I'm not bold enough myself. Although I can't promise to start new articles (I still feel weird knowing that millions will read and learn based on what I write), I'll check the whole category almost every day. Thanks again for having started the articles.--Voriig Kye 18:35, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Monte Albán

Gidday dan - once again, some great work by you in improving the Monte Albán article. A quick question- would you be able to confirm, or know of any sources for, the statement in that article which claims the site's name in some Zapotecan dialect is/was Danipaguache, and if so whether or not the glossed meaning given is ok? It's not that I really doubt it, but when I had a look at it last time I was unable to track down sources to confirm. I presume also that it's at least a post-conquest attribution, ie the contemporary name(s) are unconfirmed..? --cjllw | TALK 02:31, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Site map for Teopantecuanitlan??

Dan, I believe that the Teopantecuanitlan article could benefit from a site map. Might you have such a map, or know where I can find one? Let me know, and thanks, Madman 04:47, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I would think that the site maps you would have are copyrighted, and so should not be uploaded here. Let me know if you do find any and we can think about getting the information to the right person (I'm thinking of asking the same one who did La Venta and Monte Alban, but only if I can find enough maps.) Madman 02:15, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for all your help. Madman 03:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The 'Olmec question'

Howdy dan. I dunno whether Olmec-related matters are part of your speciality, but our WP:MESO colleague Madman has made an excellent start on an article to survey and describe Olmec influences on Mesoamerican cultures, in an attempt to sort out and document the various academic points of view on "the Olmec question" and the "mother- vs sister-culture" debate. If and when you've some time, perhaps you could look it over and see if there's anything which can be expanded upon, or if you know of any other key references which could be used- either on the nature and extent of Olmec/Olmecoid influences, or on contemporary or even earlier Mesoamerican sites/cultures for comparison purposes. Cheers, --cjllw | TALK 05:19, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

thanks for the note cjllw - I will take a look at it and see if I can contribute at all (though I dabble in Olmec stuff, its not my forté, so to speak) or offer any suggestions. -- Oaxaca dan 15:45, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind comments concerning this article. It's particularly exciting coming from a pro like you. Wow. I am touched. Thanks so much, Madman 15:58, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for helping improve WP:Mesoamerica

Thanks for helping improve WP:Mesoamerica! !

It looks like we are finally going to be able to get a real move on the project. There are so many areas of Mesoamericanistics that need attention but now we are working on some of them. ·Maunus· ·ƛ· 21:17, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Maunus!! Doing what I can to help out. -- Oaxaca dan 00:43, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments, Dan. I have been on a tear lately, but will be cutting back. And you are not only welcome, but encouraged to edit "my" articles. Thanks again, Madman 19:58, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Missing topcs

Thank for your notes in the archaeological missing topics page. I had actually missed the more formal term for stone knapping... - Skysmith 12:52, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Do you mean me?

English is my first language, but it's true that my mind often works in tortuously twisted ways, which comes out in my grammar. No offense taken at all - actually, if it is me, I'm flattered by the "excellent" - but I was just wondering. And if it is me, I'm fine, but have decided to cut back on Wikipedia. --Homunq 19:34, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] North America (Americas)

Would you please vote in this issue? North America (Americas) is an article I created and now it is nominated for deletion by Corticopia, who says it was the result of a POV fork, which is not, because the creation of the article had nothing to do with disagreements in the article North America nor other article. AlexCovarrubias ^{( Let's talk! )} 23:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Red Palace

The Red Palace is a structure at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan that was likely an elite residence (at least according to Richard Diehl). Google "Red Palace" "San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan" for some mentions. I haven't seen anything exhaustive on the Red Palace - it always seems to be mentioned but never fully explored. Maybe you could write an article on it. : ) Madman 18:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grinding stone image

Taken on the Eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains in east-central California. If you need more specific info, I can dig a bit further. :) --mav 18:26, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Great work...

Hi there dan - I note you've been quite busy around here of late! Just dropping by to say thanks for your recent efforts in doing some clearing up the backlog on the WP:MESO cleanup listings- what with all that there is to do around here, activities like that are all too-frequently overlooked. There's still a ways to go, but with great efforts like yours we're making inroads- thanks again!

BTW- haven't seen friend Chun/DH about of late. Guess he's tied up with FAMSI- have you heard from him recently? Cheers, --cjllw | TALK 07:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia New York Meet-Up

NEW YORK CITY MEET UP!!

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--David Shankbone 20:04, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome back...

Hi there dan, good to see your name popping up on the WP:MESO edit watchlists again. Guess you've been busy elsewhere, maybe out in the field? Anyways, just thought I'd drop a quick line to say howdy. Cheers, --cjllw ʘ TALK 03:49, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NYS archeological sites

Hi Oaxaca dan -- I wonder if you could visit the articles on Ganondagan State Historic Site, Fort Corchaug Archaeological Site, Fort Massapeag Archaeological Site, Lamoka, and Schuyler Flatts. These are 5 archaeological sites on the List of National Historic Landmarks in New York. I've contributed to them, but they sure could use some more development. Just following up on your stated interests on the NYS wikiproject page. Cheers, doncram (talk) 06:37, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jaiman (Shadow World)

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