Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mesoamerica/Archives/Archive 1

message: Moved this discussion here from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mexico/Terminology
There is a low-intensity debate over whether to use "Spanish" vs. "Spaniards" in articles related to the era of Spanish colonial rule over Mexico and Latin America.  We are specifically talking about the Spanish conquest of Mexico and related articles such as Aztec.  However, the general question applies to any article related to the Spanish colonization of the Americas starting from the time of the conquistadors through the end of the colonial era.
Some Wikipedians argue that the modern-day term "Spanish" should be used (as in "the Spanish conquered Tenochtitlan in 1521").  Others argue that, whatever the modern-day term may be for people from the country of Spain, the term "Spaniards" is more appropriate when referring to the conquistadors.
Your opinion is solicited.
IMHO almost a non-issue, except that within an article, consistency is definitely required for purposes of readability. Bridesmill 22:41, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We are not the only group of Spanish speakers in the English Wikipedia and personally I find this discussion to be out of place in this particular board. This issue would be better discussed in the Village Pump since this discussion is quite likely to affect articles that are not related to Mexico anyway. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 11:39, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Spaniards" vs. "Spanish" 

message: Hi all. The project structure and content for WikiProject Mesoamerica has been substantially overhauled and updated, and the content further expanded. As some of the proposals, guidelines and activities undergoing development there may have relevance and reference to this WikiProject you might like to take a look, comments are welcome. There's also a first catalogue dump of a few hundred Mesoamerica-related articles including many Aztec-related, these latter could also be copied to this Project to be worked on.--cjllw | TALK 15:38, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Mesoamerica- updates 

message: Can anyone give me an idea of what geographical region the Nahuatl term Mēxihco was originally applied to? All I can find is that it means "Mexico", but somehow I doubt that the Aztec concept was the same as the modern country. --Ptcamn 20:52, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The name  Mexico was applied to the Two city: states Tenochtitlan and Tlatelolco. Ussualy the aztec refer to "Mexico -tenochtitlan" to refer to their city.  Eventually this Two cities merged. Only after the conquest it was used to refer to the territory dominated by the aztec. Nanahuatzin 04:24, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mexico 

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.  B2T2 18:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.  Badbilltucker 21:57, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: Although there's continual work being done on the Aztec-related articles, the WP:AZTEC project pages themselves have not been updated or added to for a few months now, thus the project is appearing to be 'inactive'. 
Given that the parent WP:MESO project pages are at least being maintained (and I for one haven't the resources to maintain two sets of project pages), I'd propose that the WP:AZTEC project pages and banner be rationalised into the WP:MESO project pages and banner, identified as a specific "task force". The assessment ratings and cats could still be separately identified for Aztec-related articles, but the main project pages here would be redirected to corresponding WP:MESO ones (with perhaps one or two retained for separate discussion).
If there are no objections or other comments, I'll look to do the consolidation at some point in the (hopefully not too distant) future. Any other ideas/ comments welcome.--cjllw | TALK 09:32, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for consolidation as "task force" into WP:MESO pages 

message: Hi, I'm newly appointed coordinator of the Wikipedia: WikiProject History. I was coordinator of the Wikipedia: WikiProject Military History before.
My scope is to improve the cooperation among the different history projects andf use the synergy of a common infrastructure to improve article quality. One idea would be to merge small project into a larger wikiproject history with a common infrastructure and the small projects continuing independently as task forces of this project. What are your suggestions? Greetings Wandalstouring 15:23, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  collaboration of the history projects