User talk:Unattendedglenda

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Doug Weller (talk) 11:34, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia and thank you for your contributions. I am glad to see that you are discussing a topic. However, as a general rule, talk pages such as Talk:Pre-Columbian era are for discussion related to improving the article, not general discussion about the topic or unrelated topics. If you have specific questions about certain topics, consider visiting our reference desk and asking them there instead of on article talk pages. Thank you.- gadfium 05:13, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

"Pre-Columbian
The other point is that our articles are built upon what reliable sources - see also WP:VERIFY say about a subject. This is the term used throughout academia, so we use it. Doug Weller (talk) 11:36, 7 November 2015 (UTC)