Talk:List of Maya sites

We need to adopt policies of site naming and disambiguation. See preliminary discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mesoamerica/Guidelines. Also, a useful link: List of sites with known hieroglyphic inscriptions from famsi.org. -- Infrogmation 15:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Thoughts on List of Maya sites
I've been working through this list, adding articles when I can, however there are some sites without any information available on the web. Many of these sites are small, physically inaccessible, or recently discovered, and there is very little information out there unless you have access to a university library. Many of these sites will remain red links for the foreseeable future. Akubra 22:35, 30 September 2006 (UTC)


 * And a fine job you've been doing of it too, Akubra! Although there would be many hundreds more of Maya region sites which have had at least some minimal mention in academic literature, but are not yet on this list, it would remain useful to add these (even as redlinks) to the list as we come across them, to serve as placeholders for future expansion if more material comes to light.
 * At least, if we could get all of those mentioned in the CMHI volumes onto the list, we'd be covering most of the archaeologically-documented and significant ones.--cjllw | TALK  00:44, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Organization
Since an alphabetical list is largely redundant to a category, perhaps the less notable sites should be grouped by location or some other criterion to make the list more manageable. Eluchil404 07:17, 11 October 2006 (UTC)


 * You have a point, although alpha-lists have a couple of other uses/advantages over categories - "placeholder" redlinks can be added for sites yet to gain an article, and some more useful information could also be added against each entry (presently not done here, though I've had some thoughts about doing this).


 * Other useful ways of organising or grouping would be to do so by period - Formative, Classic, Postclassic etc, and by (sub)-region/locality - E/W/central highlands sites, peten basin sites, mirador basin sites, Puuc sites, etc etc.


 * I think that this alpha list can be retained, while other lists organised differently could also be created. The alpha listing could be made more useful adding at least the region and period info to it,- say by converting to a table.--cjllw | TALK  09:20, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Calakmul
Calakmul was one of the 2 biggest sites of the classic, only rivaled by Tikal in power, being the capital of the Kaan alliance/empire. Why is it not in the "most important" list? It was certainly way more important on it's time than the Chichen Itza sea outpost of Tulum. Soparamens (talk) 22:14, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * But Calakmul is on the most important sites list (3rd down). Simon Burchell (talk) 22:22, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

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Kulubá
The recently create Kulubá wiki page as well as all English language news sites using spelling with a K and an accent on the final letter. This list has spelled with a C and predates the creation of the page. German wiki uses the same spelling as this list. Assume we want to align this page and the site's wiki page. Is there any background on why this list uses the C spelling, as it appears that the K spelling much more common? Iowajason (talk) 18:13, 29 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Discussion on Kulubá talk page of proper spelling. Spanish language wiki page gives etymology of name and K spelling appears appropriate and aligns with news coverage.Iowajason (talk) 18:49, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Ichkabal
The site of Ichkabal is now considered as one of the most, if not the most important Mayan cities on the Yucatan. It is missing from the list and has no page, though it was a major city and it will be opened for tourists either this or next year. I have no clue how to edit the page or find relevant references, otherwise I would have done it myself. It is on the Spanish Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichkabal 109.59.90.58 (talk) 07:11, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Looks interesting - I'll see if I can find some time to add it. Simon Burchell (talk) 12:51, 24 February 2020 (UTC)