Talk:Aztec sun stone

message: Have removed the supposed 'alternate meaning' paras which were offered in this recent edit, that had been (rightly) tagged as speculation. No explicit source given, indeed it actually stated that it was "unpublished", therefore not eligible for mention here under WP:NOR, WP:SYN and WP:V at the least. --cjllw ʘ TALK 04:22, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Alternate meaning" removed 

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Support MarritzN (talk) 09:00, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: The article states that this monument "is a calendar". However, this is a monument with some of the calendaring symbols.
I just read it in the American Museum of Natural History, that the sun stone is usually considered "a calendar" but is not by any means a calendar. It is only a representation that the Sun was the most important thing to the aztecs and how many things circled around it.
I would like to edit the page to remove the fact that is a calendar and instead say that is usually 'confused' as a calendar, but is not.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nelfer (talk • contribs) 16:16, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. Not sure what "week" means in this context -- there were 13-day periods and 20-day periods, but I never heard of a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican 7-day period... AnonMoos (talk) 03:34, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a Calendar 

message: I see this was brought up in 2009 and nothing was done about it, so I felt this warranted a new section.
Again, the stone is not a calendar and in fact both in Mexico and modern academic discourse the stone is properly called the Sun Stone. The article should really be renamed. It was a gladiatorial sacrifice stone. It depicts the sun and days of the week as depictions of Aztec  cosmology but is not tied to their astrological calculations and is in fact useless for dating of any kind. This article is filled with outdated misinformation and I suspect its remained this way because of stubborn editors that insist on keeping up the outdated "popular" view that has been proven false by modern anthropologists and archeologists.173.56.79.75 (talk) 02:44, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: P.S. Not sure what "week" means in this context -- there were 13-day periods and 20-day periods, but I never heard of a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican 7-day period... AnonMoos (talk) 03:34, 19 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Again not a calendar 

message: How long did it take for the Aztecs to carve the stone?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.58.74.10 (talk) 20:32, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time 

message: Overall, this is a very solid article.
A few comments:
- When editing an article with this much pre-existing content, a lot of the work is going to come from evaluating existing claims and their citations.  It seems that you've done a bit of this, which is great.  
- The use of photos in this article is great.  There is a nice balance of historical and modern day photos of the calendar stone, as well as some more colorful photos such as the Mexican Amate paper craft.
- I like the section on other calendar stones, but I'm not sure that such depth is needed on this page.
-  The physical description section is good but the "central disk" sub header could likely be improved.
Nice work!
NickHelfand (talk) 01:10, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Peer Review 

message: I had a look at the previous discussions of the title, and while 'calendar stone' might be what the stone is most commonly, and incorrectly called, this should not be the Wiki title since it is incorrect. Encyclopedias are not about re-iterating common misconceptions, rather they are about correcting them.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.173.250.243 (talk) 00:11, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect title 

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion 

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thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ARHS 3720 Aztec Art in Mexico