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Comment: If you take away the qualifier 'Mesoamerican' the article title will give no hint of the location. There is an archaeological museum in Bilbao, Spain. In fact, the Spanish city is the primary topic of Bilbao. Better disambiguation should be considered. The German Wikipedia calls this site
de:Bilbao (Guatemala) and they don't use 'archaeological site' (Archäologischer Fundplatz) as a disambiguator.
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16:12, 25 September 2015 (UTC)reply
The following moves depend on whether 'Mesoamerican site' or 'archaeological site' are appropriate disambiguators. An alternative is to do something like
Bilbao (Guatemala), as in the German Wikipedia. A discussion here may be the best way to resolve that. The IP who opened the original request gave as their rationale : "Standard format in
Category:Mesoamerican sites" but did not link to any previous discussion.
EdJohnston (
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15:27, 26 September 2015 (UTC)reply
Oppose As previously mentioned, the most obvious thing to be looking for when going to "Bilbao (archaeological site)" is Bilbao, in Spain. Mesoamerican site is clear and unambiguous, I really see no reason to move it.
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08:47, 2 October 2015 (UTC)reply
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My dictionary defines "nuclear" as:
1 of or relating to the nucleus of an atom.
• denoting, relating to, or powered by the energy released in nuclear fission or fusion: nuclear energy | nuclear submarines.
• denoting, possessing, or involving weapons using nuclear energy: a nuclear bomb | nuclear nations.
2 Biology of or relating to the nucleus of a cell: nuclear DNA. Senor Cuete (
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14:36, 27 September 2015 (UTC)reply
I agree that the vocabulary used by Mesoamerican archaeologists is often not "by the dictionary" (for instance, widespread use of the word epicenter to describe the site core). However, "Cotzumalhuapa Nuclear Zone" is the given name for the area, and is used in English language publications (see for example, Chinchilla 2001, for which I've just fixed the link). Whether we like it or not, we must use the names and terminology from the published sources.
Simon Burchell (
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09:20, 28 September 2015 (UTC)reply
When one expresses his opinion, he shouldn't refer to himself as "we". I disagree about slavish devotion to "reliable" sources. In my opinion "we" should be synthesizing the best possible articles from multiple sources when possible. Sometimes the sources disagree. The what do you do? This includes correcting incorrect (or in this case incomprehensible) English. Of course an example of this is my attempt to correct the very wrong information about a 13 bak'tun cycle in the Maya civilization article. I can cite very many reliable sources for my contention that there is no evidence anywhere for a 13 bak'tun cycle but since a "reliable" source says there is, it has to stay.
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14:46, 28 September 2015 (UTC)reply