User talk:Authenticmaya

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The contributions I made to wikipedia, are product of my Non Profit web site http://www.authenticmaya.com and I have the copyrights Obviously!!!

El Baúl
was deleted because it was copyrighted text copied from another website. Wikipedia can only accept free material. - crz crztalk 20:58, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia! We could really use your help to create new content, but your recent additions (such as "La Amelia") are considered nonsense. Please refrain from creating nonsense articles. If you want to test things out, edit the sandbox instead. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. FirefoxMan 21:31, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Ixkun
The article Ixkun which you wrote has maintenance tags at the top. Please be aware that if the problems aren't dealt with, the page is likely to be deleted.Eli Falk 22:06, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Your articles
Hi there, Just a little friendly advice but when you write articles I have noticed you have not made sections for them, their are no references and you have not inserted any internal links so it may be hard for some users/viewers of the article to understand, please in the future could you add referecnes and make it a little clearer for readers; Cheers!

Kind Regards.... Tellyaddict Talk 22:19, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Welcome to me as well. It's great to see another contributor interested in improving our articles about Mesoamerica! You seem to have gotten off to a bit of a rough start-- I suggest you read Introduction and the other links in the first section of this page to get some familiarity with how things are done here, how to make articles link to other articles. Please don't remove notices that articles need cleanup or need to be "wikified" (marked up Wikipedia style) until such matters are taken care of-- you can take care of it yourself (it is pretty easy once you learn how). If you have questions, ask. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 00:50, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, I note from you message at User talk:Crzrussian that some of your text duplicates that you've previously written on your own website. If you're willing to release the text to share with Wikipedia, great! However understand that we need to be vigilent about copyrights, so we have to be wary of text that significant degree duplicates that found elsewhere on the web. If you are the author of the text on the website, a note on the article talk page explaining the situation should help clarify the situation. Hope this helps, -- Infrogmation 01:05, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Two important points. As mentioned above, don't violate copyrights. Do not "copy and paste" copyrighted text, as happened from a section of http://www.dartmouth.edu/~izapa/M-11.pdf. Put information in your own words; if there is a particularly informative website, add an external link to it, don't copy it. Second, please check at List of Maya sites or alternative spellings before creating articles-- for example, we already have Naachtun, and it is better to improve or expand that article than to create a seperate article about the same subject. If you think an article should be retitled, please explain on the article talk page, and the article can be moved to a new title if there is consensus. The material at Ceremonial Ball Court would probably be better incorporated into the Mesoamerican ballgame article. Hope this helps, -- Infrogmation 03:18, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Mesoamerica
Hello, I've noticed that you've written quite a few articles on Mesoamerica. If you're looking for more ways to expand Wikipedia's coverage of Mesoamerican topics, I suggest joining Wikiproject:Mesoamerica. A Wikiproject is a group of editors with common interests who come together to write more articles, organize, review, and expand coverage of their chosen subject. They will have more articles you can work on, and other interested people who can help improve and expand your own articles. Thanks for your contributions. GhostPirate 00:26, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Great work indeed! Asterion talk 23:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank You Asterion, I will go back to work tomorrow, so I will try to continue doing this edition in my free time.AuthenticmayaAuthenticmayaAuthenticmaya 02:12, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi there
Good to see you here, I'd like you to encourage you to bring your perspective to a few articles:


 * You may not be aware that due to a strong group effort by Maunus, Madman, cjllw, myself, and others, Mayan languages may be nearing Featured Article status, if you want to contribute now is the time.
 * I personally think Tzolk'in is important and could use some work.
 * Mesoamerica needs serious restructuring, as well as a broadening of the mostly Aztec perspective.

Oh, and if you made yourself a user page it would make it easier for people to get to your discussion page (as well as find out whatever you want to share about yourself - I for one am curious what country you are in and what your first language is).

Cheers, Homunq 23:34, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your edits, there's too much for me to comment on specifically but a lot of it looks really good. Two criticisms - the first one trivial, it's Kaqchikel in the modern ALMG spelling; the second one still a detail but an important, you should never make a link that looks like something. Before the | goes the name of a real, relevant article (main, since it always changes, is not relevant to anything in particular), after the | goes the article text that should link there. For instance, the Popol Vuh is a mythological document. Putting "main" there makes the link turn blue, because it links to something, but that keeps anyone from ever noticing the red link and creating the missing article, and it frustrates people who click on it expecting something useful or relevant. If you could possibly try fix the examples of this you have made, that would be great - you can do it much more easily than someone else. If you need help, you could post on WP:VPA, a place to ask for help, some of the people who hang out there have powerful programs which, once you told them what the issue was, could clean up this problem in a jiffy. --Homunq 03:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

pd. ¿En qué ciudad / qué zona vivís? ¿Nos vemos en las Cien Puertas algún día de esos?

For links, you have to be really careful about spelling and capitalization (except the very first letter). You link to whole articles; to link to an article section, you use the format article#section. Kaqchikel language and kaqchikel language go to the same place, but Kakchikel language and Kaqchikel Language are broken.

Those confusing Sierras
Thanks - yeah, i know the sierras go all the way down through central america - i didn't know that they have specific names for each area, and, i think like you, i was a little weirded out that the part of the Sierras in Guat. were named after the Mexican state of Chiapas...found it a bit strange. Anywho, my email is oaxaca_dan (at) yahoo. com - feel free to drop a line. Oaxaca dan 03:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Idiomasmap.jpg
I was looking through the images in Mayan languages in preparation for that articles WP:FA nomination and I saw that you had uploaded Image:Idiomasmap.jpg and tagged it as GFDL. I was wondering if you got the image from a specific source or made it yourself. If the Comisión de Oficialización de los Idiomas Indígenas de Guatemala made the image they probably hold the copyright and it can't be used on Wikipedia except through a fair-use claim. Eluchil404 15:27, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Guatemalan Fir
I was working on the article for the Guatemalan Fir and I noticed that you originally created it. The information quoted from Silba is very useful, but some of the other information is incorrect. For example, the tree is not endemic to Guatemala, but rather it is native to Mexico, Honduras, and El Salvador as well. At any rate, I wanted to ask if you remember your source for that information. One sentence says that he forest of Los Altos de San Miguel Totonicapán have large reserves of the tree and I want to give that claim a reference. Thanks very much and thanks for the great start on the article. Djlayton4 12:41, 12 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for providing the source. I wanted to ask if it would be possible for you to take a picture of this tree. There are no fair-use images that are already on the web that I know of, and most people that contribute on Wikipedia don't often get the chance to visit Guatemala. If you could take a photo that would be extremely helpful, but if they're aren't any near you, than that's no problem. Thanks again for your help. Djlayton4 21:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


 * La photografia es muy bonita y me ayuda mucho. Muchas gracias! Djlayton4 | talk |  contribs 07:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Image:Ceibal obser1.jpg listed for deletion
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Website typo
Hi Authenticmaya. I noticed a typo on one of your webpages, on the calendar page in the sentence: "The Maya reckoned their chronology in great cycles of 13 baktuns (about 5,128 solar years), the beginning of the current cycle 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ahau 8 Cumhú corresponding to august 13, 1314 BC", 1314 BC should of course be 3114 BC. Also, in the opening sentence of that page, "The Maya were consumed astronomers..." should probably read "The Maya were consummate astronomers.." Cheers, --cjllw ʘ  TALK 02:52, 17 October 2007 (UTC)~

Thank you I have changed it mayasautenticos 21:38, 16 November 2007 (UTC)Authenticmayamayasautenticos 21:38, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Image:Topoxte.jpg
Hello. Do to the wording on upload, there is some question about Image:Topoxte.jpg which you uploaded here and which has since been transfered to Wikimedia Commons. Please see ; could you please clarify as to whether this image was your own work and if so if you have released it under GFDL? Thank you. Cheers, -- Infrogmation (talk) 04:04, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

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Alonso de Zorita
Hi Authenticmaya, while reading the article about Maya codices I was wondering to which script of Zorita this (Zorita 1963, 271-2) refers to, then I found out that it was you who added this information back in 2007. Could you help me out with this and tell me where or if I can somehow find the whole text of Zorita. I would really like to read that quote in its context. Bloche (talk) 19:26, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

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