Talk:Mesoamerican Long Count calendar

Oxford commas
The article contained many non-Oxford commas (" and ") and some Oxford commas (", and "). Some of the Oxford commas were not in lists (e.g. blah, blah, and blah) as generally used. Since the article is written in American English and to provide consistency, I changed them to non-Oxford commas. There is a controversy about this in which advocates for each side fight bitterly over this. There is a Wikipedia article about it. I left the Oxford commas in references but will look to see if they really are like that in the titles of the references. Maybe I should add a comment about using American English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Senor Cuete (talk • contribs) 16:47, 2017 June 17 (UTC)

Takalik Abaj Stela 2 Should Be Edited and New Stela from El Salvador
In light of the article by Doering and Collins (2011:43) the date on Takalik Abaj Stela 2 can no longer be considered as coming from Bak'tun 7 and should be removed from the wiki page. This is a Bak'tun 8 date. (Doering, Travis F., and Lori D. Collins 2011 The Takalik Abaj Monumental Stone Sculpture Project: High Definition Digital Documentation and Analysis. Digital Heritage and Humanities Collections Faculty and Staff Publications. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/dhhc_facpub/8.)

There is a new inscription, however, from the site of Chalchuapa, El Salvador announced by David Stuart in a Facebook post. It is broken and only shows the ISIG and a 7 for the Bak'tun. This probably is the earliest Maya Long Count, coming before the El Baul date, and may be the earliest from any Mesoamerican site. The paper on it has not been written yet. Grr (talk) 18:20, 4 April 2018 (UTC)


 * You should add a note to the text about Takalik Abaj Stela 2. When Stuart publishes info about the Chalchuapa inscription you should add it to the article with a reliable citation. Senor Cuete (talk) 18:25, 4 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Agreed, we are not in a hurry. When the finding is confirmed and duly published we can include it.·maunus · snunɐɯ· 18:47, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Punctuation of large numbers in conversion section
In this section, large numbers are presented, for example, a Julian Day Number of 1956583. These are somewhat difficult to read. In the United States this would be written as 1,956,583. Since this article is written in American English it would probably be appropriate to use this style of punctuation. You could also use spaces to do this - a style used in Europe and in some astronomy books. This would be 1 956 583. One could argue that this second style would violate WP:ENGVAR. Would it improve the article to add punctuation to these long numbers? Senor Cuete (talk) 16:38, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Nobody seems to care so I added American-style punctuation to the long numbers. Kettunen and Helmke used spaces, in the European style, so I left them as they are. Looking at books by European authors such as Meeus I see that these are probably thinspaces. I'll look at the source. Senor Cuete (talk) 15:43, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Month day year
The m,d,y date format IS supported by  wikipedia. It is perfectly acceptble. There was no reason to change it. 207.159.101.94 (talk) 14:17, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Tres Zapotes, Stela C - Gregorian date
In the subchapter "Earliest Long Counts", in the table row with I modified Gregorian date from September 2, 32 BCE to September 1, 32 BCE. I believe that -0032-09-01 is correct date for long count value 7.16.6.16.18. It is about Julian day 1709981. Please, double check and verify my modification.

I checked many other Gregorian dates stated in the article with corresponding long count values and everything seems to be very correct. Drzocije (talk) 22:01, 23 March 2024 (UTC)