User talk:Michaelboyd

I have three Images that are not included that demonstrate Blythe CA is the location of Aztlan. 1)Section of Map from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (signed Feb. 2 1848) that lists the current location of Blythe CA as "Concepcion" or translated "Birthplace". 2)A photograph of the Blythe CA Giant Intaglos. 3)A photograph of the Throne of Quetzalcoatl from the top of a pyramid located next to Blythe CA.Michaelboyd (talk) 21:38, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Aztlan
Hi there. Could you please refrain from re-inserting those large chunks of text taken directly from Figueroa's book into this article, many thanks. There are a couple of reasons for this request.

Firstly, even if there was explicit permission from the current copyright holder to reproduce that material in wikipedia (and I see no evidence of that, pls review our copyright and licensing policies for details on what can/can not be added to wikipedia), it would still not be appropriate to do so. This is largely because wikipedia is not designed as a place where we republish materials that have been written elsewhere and for another purpose; this is an online encyclopedia intended to describe and fairly represent in its own words the sum of reliably published information from multiple qualified and verifiable sources on a given topic, and is not a place that merely copies what some single non-representative source has to say.

Secondly, the views on the location of Aztlan proposed by Figueroa do not represent any qualified scholarly consensus on the subject; instead he/his work are very much on the outer in terms of what mainstream and qualified historians and ethnographers have to say. At most, the identification of this as the "real" location of Aztlan is the opinion of an independent self-taught researcher operating outside of mainstream research methodology, standards and peer-review: we cannot represent it here as something accepted or even likely, when it's not.

Possibly, if multiple, independent and qualified sources can be found that discuss or even lightly entertain his proposals that would demonstrate that his writings pass a threshhold of notability, then maybe a sentence could be included to note that this is just one of the many and varied proposals purporting to locate this mythical place of origin. But otherwise, wikipedia is not the place to argue for or justify any one alternative view at the expense of, or in contradiction to, more reliable and peer-cited standard sources.

Pls see also our policies and guidelines for reliable sources, original research, neutral point of view, undue weight and what wikipedia is not about. Regards, --cjllw ʘ  TALK 03:31, 7 January 2009 (UTC)