Template talk:Pre-Columbian era

message: Check out the Pre-Columbian article and the Pre-Columbian template.  I'm not sure how broad your interest is but this is the "umbrella" that I was describing in my previous message.  I'm thinking that the next step is to change the templates to say "This is part of the series on Pre-Columbian civilizations".  What I'm not sure of is whether each template should claim to be part of the series on Pre-Columbian civilizations.  The alternative is to have the Aztec template claim to be part of the series on Aztec civilization and so with the Maya template and the Inca template.
--Richard 07:39, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

message: :I've created an alternative template at Template:Pre-Columbian/Test. It doesn't contain all links, it turned out to be difficult to get everything in, so we might use the other templates to add a bit more information. My idea is still to put a civilization-specific side template at the top of the page and this one at the bottom. The template shows a few pages that are still missing and a few that have to be renamed (or made consistent across the different civilizations). The people sections and "related topics" need to be expanded. Piet 16:39, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking pretty good. "Maya" at the top is still linking to disambiguation at writing. -- Infrogmation 21:39, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternative template

message: Something else, now that we put the civilizations next to each other the different choices of page names become a bit annoying, I propose we rationalize this.
*The most obvious example: the main pages are called Aztec, Maya civilization and Inca Empire. We'd better use the same wording every time, either empire or civilization. 
*Further, could Inca religion become Inca mythology? For Aztec both mythology and religion exist, should we do this for the other ones too? 
*I think we need pages for Aztec society, Mayan society and Inca society. It probably only involves moving some information around.
Piet 22:24, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names 

message: Please check Template:Pre-Columbian/Test. I've added society and architecture articles for Maya and Inca, also cleaning up the main Maya and Inca pages a bit. Does anyone have important comments about the new template? I would like to move it here now. Piet 12:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Go? 

message: I think maybe the template should not be at the bottom of a page, but just above the references section. Because that's where many people stop reading; if the template is even lower many people will miss it. Piet 18:34, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved it on the Aztec page. Piet 20:55, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template position 

message: Could we please get a small-option for this HUGE template? In some of the smaller articles it takes as much space as the rest of the article combined. It would be very useful to have either a smaller template or one of those neat templates that open up hen you click on them.·Maunus· ·ƛ· 14:08, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: A small option?

message: The Nahua had writing, it was inherited from the La Venta culture as with the Mayans.  Also an extensive body of philosophy as discussed in 1491.  Course the Spanish tried to burn it all, but that's another story.
Of course, there are a host of problems with the template, not least of which that the Mayans were Mesoamerican while the Tairona, Mississipian, and Pueblo civilizations (among others were largely seperate), that it is Eurocentric to divide into three "main" civilizations which just happened to be the major ones at the time of the conquest.  Still, things like this involve fighting with some idiot who learned that the Mayan civilization was enlightened while the Aztecs were barbaric. They couldn't possibly be different parts of the same group of civilizations.  And the moundbuilers and Anazazi collapsed, the Tairona (and other Chibchan groups) were tiny, and civilizations elsewhere (Amazon) were abortive or in the early stages (northeast US).  Eh, not worth fighting over.
Did want to point out the bit that was factually wrong though. --71.192.116.13 03:47, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Aztec Writing

message: I belive we need some info on this culture! Enlil Ninlil 09:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Cajamarca culture]]

message: Anyone else feel that the original cultures of the Carribean should be included in this template? I think it makes perfect sense. --71.58.151.144 18:15, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pre-Columbian cultures of the [[Antilles]]

message: Why are they the "main" ones?  Perhaps "largest civilizations at time of European contact," but certainly not the "main" ones.  Does that label need to be there at all?  I'll take it off and see how it looks.  Fishal 02:20, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Main Civilizations"

message: This template is getting to big to be useful. I think it should have collapsible sections to adress this problem. Sietecolores (talk) 16:10, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: To big