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			=='''Misplaced Pages Assignment for "Pre-Hispanic Mexico and Central America" (ANTH 506) - Fall 2024'''==
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	Hi there Hoopes- would just like to compliment you on your impressive expansion of the a/n article. I think you've struck just about the right balance on a topic that is notoriously infused with much vagueness and speculative claims. You've also done very well to neutrally describe and distinguish between the contemporary esoteric interpretations, and the more authentic historically-based ones they are often mistaken for. Nice work! Cheers, --]<font color="#DAA520"> <span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA">ʘ</span> </font><small>'']''</small> 07:55, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

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	== Votan ==

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	Hi there Hoopes. If you want to change ] from redirecting to ] and beginning an article there instead (I agree it would make an interesting subject), here's how to do it:
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	#just enter "Votan" in the search box and hit "go", or alternatively just click on the link to Votan above
	#You will be redirected to the Woden article. However, at the top left of the page you should see some small text saying "(redirected from ])". Clicking on the link to Votan there will open up the Votan page without forcing the redirect. It will look something like this: <code><nowiki>#REDIRECT ]</nowiki></code>.
	##This will also have the same effect.
	#Then just click the 'edit this page' tab, and you can start the new article by replacing the '#redirect' instruction with your new text.
	To handle other possible meanings / associations of "Votan", we can just put up some variety of disambiguating ] on it to provide pointers to other potential targets. Would be happy to help setting that up once you've made a start on the new article.

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	Hope that helps, and regards, --]<font color="#DAA520"> <span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA">ʘ</span> </font><small>'']''</small> 07:43, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

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	:Hi Hoopes, no worries. And many thanks for that extremely interesting expansion on Votan- good work! Just one or two minor stylistic conventions there that I'll update. One thing that would be great to add in when you get a chance is a couple of ] against the key assertions, to annotate where that particular info comes from. This is accomplished by enclosing the annotation between <code><nowiki><ref></nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki></ref></nowiki></code> tags, immediately after the sentence. You can use a Harvard-esque abbr., for example:
	::Some statement that would benefit from an inline cite specifying the source of the information<nowiki>.<ref>Smith and Jones (1992, pp.123-125).</ref></nowiki>
	:The cited work (here Smith and Jones) would be expanded in full bibliographical style under the 'references' section. I'll have a go at adding in some of these, but may need your help for page no's etc as I don't have those works to hand myself.

			For references, it is best to start out using the particular referencing system[REDACTED] calls ]. You can then build a separate bibliography of sources towards the end of the article (in a separate section called either "References" or "Bibliography". Within the body of the text itself, you can then cite individual statements with shortened cites that correspond to some entry in the bibliography. This is easily done by adding cites in the form of <code><nowiki><ref>Smith 2008, p.123</ref></nowiki></code> after the statement to be cited.
	:Otherwise I think this serves its purpose admirably. It will be interesting to see if anything from actual Maya legendary accounts turns up, as opposed to the subsequent embellishments and projections by Europeans from Clavijero onwards. Regards,--]<font color="#DAA520"> <span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA">ʘ</span> </font><small>'']''</small> 05:33, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

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	::ps. I did some quick scouting around for other related context mentions of ''votan'', no doubt you've come across these. I think it'd be good to work them into the article for a fuller picture, I listed them on the article's ]. Saludos, --]<font color="#DAA520"> <span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA">ʘ</span> </font><small>'']''</small> 08:02, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

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			=='''Misplaced Pages Assignment for "How to Find a Lost City" (ANTH 177) - Fall 2022'''==
	Hi there Hoopes. Saw your proposal at the WP:MESO strategy talkpg, re your class coordinating some (much-needed) imput & improvement on Maya articles. I think that is a fantastic idea, and any input from that quarter would be most welcome. Feel sure that the other (alas few in number) currently active wp:meso folks would be only too happy to help out and support if and where needed.
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	I crossposted your proposal outline to the main ] discussion board (]), as that is probably the most visible place. May I suggest that further notices and chat take place in that thread. Completely up to you, but you might like to set up some separate project and discussion page to aid coordination; whatever suits.

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	You might also like to look over ], some optional guidelines and suggestions for coordinating school & uni class inputs and contributions. May or may not contain some useful info. I know that ], a TEFL instructor at ] has been doing quite a few class contribs for Mexico-related articles for a while know, which have been working pretty well. Cheers, --]<font color="#DAA520"> <span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA">ʘ</span> </font><small>'']''</small> 04:42, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

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	Hi John. Good idea, but you might want to read so you don't run into any of the problems that professor did. ] (]) 08:08, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

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	:Thanks, guys! I've actually used this kind of assignment several times already (for courses on Mesoamerica, the Central Andes, and the history of anthropology), but decided to be more "transparent" in ] this time so that my students could see how more of the behind-the-scenes stuff works, especially in the context of WP:MESO. I am making it clear to students that this is NOT a context in which I want them to post termpaper drafts, but instead to create content appropriate for this medium. We'll see how it goes! (BTW, I really wish I could find more time for my own contributions...) ] (])
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	::No probs, and best wishes for the exercise. If you or any of your students run into issues or misunderstandings (for eg, to another wiki editor unaware of their origins, student contribs like these sometimes look suspicious, potential copyvios & the like) just give any of us a shout & we'll help to sort it out. Regards, --]<font color="#DAA520"> <span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA">ʘ</span> </font><small>'']''</small> 09:10, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

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	==Misplaced Pages Assignments for "The Ancient Maya" at KU (Fall 2008)==
	To my students: Please use this space for asking any questions you might have about the assignment. I'll answer if I can, but there may also be some answers from others. Please remember to sign your posts! ] (]) 01:17, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

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	===Maya personage names===
	Hello All: Two questions here. First, I am working on an entry on the topic of Ruling Queens and I have come across some different name spellings in two very recent publications for one of the Queens of Yaxchilan--Lady K'abal Xook. For my entry, which will be a stand alone page, I am inclined to use that of Martin and Grube 2008 in their Chronicle of Maya Queens and Kings, however Josserand's publication of 2007 (The Missing Heir at Yaxchilan: Literary Analysis of a Maya Historical Puzzle, In Latin American Antiquity vol 18(3) p 295-312) has the name as Lady Xok. Additionally, the existing Misplaced Pages page on this queen has it written as ]. So what to do? Second question/note is with regard to the existing Lady Xoc page, it is in some need of updating, clarifying and correcting of the existing text, which I can do as I have time but I wanted to check first before re-writing parts. Thanks ] (]) 05:36, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

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	:Hi Archaeochica, apologies for delay in commenting on your questions.

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	:Re the naming conventions and orthography for ancient Maya personages- at WP:MESO we had begun to work out some consistent naming guidelines, but so far have only developed a couple of guiding principles: see the ''']''' page. The rule of thumb for[REDACTED] naming conventions as a whole can be paraphrased as "use the most common name form (if there is one) for an entity, as it appears in english-language sources" — refer to ]. However, for most things we write about on Mesoamerican topics they are usually not widely enough known beyond the fields of Mesoamericanist study to have acquired some definitive 'common-use' form, so we take a more specific approach. Or more to the point, we might interpret "most common name" as the most common name appearing in contemporary scholarly sources, and not "common" in the sense that, say, some generic travel guide would use.

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	:For Maya personal and deity names or titles, our guideline would be to firstly use the actual Maya name (if that is known through some generally accepted modern decipherment), instead of any 'pre-decipherment' nickname or guess that may have been used in the past—even if that nickname or approximation may still be popularly known (Of course, as an encyclopaedia the relevant article should mention and document all of the main alternative names by which the figure has been referred to in literature past). Thus, we'd have ] and not "]", for eg. (the latter redirects to the former). However, if the figure's name is not yet deciphered or uncertain, then we'd refer to them by some established nickname or approximation, like ] or "]". Note, we still have articles like ] and ] which do not yet conform to these guidelines, although at some stage would prefer that they do. Pakal's article really should be at '''K'inich Janaab' Pakal''', have been meaning to move it there for a while now only hadn't worked out disambiguating with the other couple of Janaab' Pakals.

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	:As far as which version of orthography to spell Maya names goes, that's not so well defined. For consistency between articles, we've proposed a general adherence to ] orthography of Mayan languages, as a preferred update over the historical 16thC and later Spanish orthographies (eg ''ajaw'', not ''ahau'', or ''ahaw''; ''pakal'' not ''pacal''; ''kawak'' not ''cauac''). Within this though there are still some spelling choices which seem to be six of one and half-a-dozen of the other, eg ''b<nowiki>'</nowiki>alam'' vs ''b<nowiki>'</nowiki>ahlam'', and others where proposed decipherments differ, eg ''yopaat'' vs ''yoaat''. This is as close to a consistent standard that we can suggest, in the absence of an identified overarching resource that covers/applies a consistent orthography for every Maya name, that we cld refer to.
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	:In the particular case of Lady Xoc (Xok), we'd therefore lean towards ''K<nowiki>'</nowiki>abal Xook'' (or more strictly following ALMG, ''K'ab'al Xook'' ), while at the same time mentioning all the other variants and previous handles. IMO I'm not entirely convinced about having "Lady" (or ''ix'') as part of her name/article title, but recognise that it's often appended.
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	:Re the 2nd part of your question: by all means! If you have the time to spare then please do have a go at rewriting that article. We can always tidy up names & spelling &c. after the fact, but having the info there expanded in the first place would be excellent.
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	:Hope this helps, regards --]<font color="#DAA520"> <span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA">ʘ</span> </font><small>'']''</small> 06:22, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
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	Hi Hoopes. Is this editor {{user\|Chrisbfromeg}} one of your KU students? If so, seems some new article watchers got a little suspicious at seeing the text of their ] article appearing out-of-the-blue, and it's ended up nominated for deletion or merging. I'll contest the deletion/merge proposal anyway since there's valid info there, but wanted to check if part of the overall assignment. --]<font color="#DAA520"> <span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA">ʘ</span> </font><small>'']''</small> 05:23, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
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	:: Yes, the author of this entry is one of my students. I'm not sure of the reasons given for deletion, although merging with an existing article may be a better strategy. What do you think? ] (]) 20:32, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
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	:::OK, thx for the clarification. The deletion proposal didn't go though. I tend to agree with the comments you made at ] that there'd be a distinction to be drawn between "Shamanism" and the topic of this new article (I think "Maya priesthood" needs a better name, but can't think of one ATM. Maybe later). Re incorporating the priesthood article into (say) the ] article- some merit in that, but would equally be inclined to keep them as separate articles. Both need work and while one can cross-ref the other as subjects they can stand independently. Until recently we used to have a ] article as well, tho' I've just noticed someone has just redirected this to the ] article without any content transfer (the content ''was'' in bad shape, but still could've been improved; the old version is .) Maybe the shamanism one could be brought back (in an improved form), so that we cld have the 'priesthood' (or whatever better title) and 'shamanism' articles to make that distinction. --]<font color="#DAA520"> <span title="Pronunciation in IPA" class="IPA">ʘ</span> </font><small>'']''</small> 06:16, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
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	:::Thanks for your comments. One of the problems with the priest vs. shaman (and priesthood vs. shamanism) issue is that it is difficult to avoid venturing into the realm of new scholarship. Despite a lot of important discussion by Cecelia Klein, Alice Beck Kehoe, Barbara Tedlock, and others, there remains no consensus on whether "shaman" or "priest" is a better term. The best work I've seen on this is by Max Weber in ], with additional theoretical work more recently by Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo. I think the best strategy is to pick the best title (perhaps "Maya shamanism") and do a redirect from "Maya priesthood". ] (]) 20:02, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
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Misplaced Pages Assignment for "Pre-Hispanic Mexico and Central America" (ANTH 506) - Fall 2024

Your assignment, due by 5 pm on Friday, November 22, is to make a meaningful contribution of at least 1000 words (not counting the code that includes relevant hyperlinks) to Misplaced Pages in the form of either a new article relevant to the theme of the archaeology of pre-Hispanic Mexico and Central America or a revision of an existing article on a relevant topic. This can be an article about the topic on which you will be writing your term paper or any other related topic that we have discussed during the semester. I strongly recommend revising an existing article, but creation of a new article is acceptable if you would like to tackle that. The power of Misplaced Pages is in your hands and what you choose to do and how much time you want to spend on it is completely up to you. You will be able to get a good overview of approaches to the topic by reviewing the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Mesoamerica (WP:MESO), itself an excellent online guide to resources on the archaeology of Mesoamerica.

Please note that this is an assignment similar to ones I have used in my other courses. Please see the links below for examples of Misplaced Pages articles created by other KU students.

Your article and/or editing should be in the style of current Misplaced Pages content, including relevant headings and subheadings, hyperlinks, and (especially) references. It will be graded on the basis of overall appearance as well as the value of its content and the degree to which it contributes to the value of the resource. Please note that you are NOT required to include digital images, although you are encouraged to do so if you are comfortable with the necessary permissions and procedures. The value of your contribution will depend not only on the information content you provide, but how well it is integrated into Misplaced Pages via hyperlinked text. (This part is very important!) If you create a new article, please note that it is good procedure to make minor edits to other existing entries so that they link back to your own entry when it ultimately goes "live".

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To begin this assignment, you must first login to Misplaced Pages with a valid user account. Please click on the "Create account" link in the upper right-hand corner to begin. Once you have chosen a userid and password and logged in to Misplaced Pages, please edit your userpage (by clicking on your username) and add a few sentences about yourself.

If you are editing an existing Misplaced Pages article, please add a hyperlink to your userpage to identify it. I will provide comments and answer questions on your own talk page. Please be sure to check the talk page of the article for past and new comments from others about the editing of the article. Note that any changes you make will be logged along with your username if you have correctly signed in to Misplaced Pages.

If you want to develop a new Misplaced Pages article for this assignment (on a topic that does not yet exist in Misplaced Pages), please set up a dedicated user subpage for it and save the link on your main userpage. You would do this by creating a name consisting of a backslash followed by the proposed article title (or "Draft" or any text). It should be coded like this: ]. Click on that link to create the new subpage, which will be created at User:Username/Article title. You can then add some text, save it, and then continue.

For convenience, you can transclude your working draft subpage onto your main userpage so it's visible from there by adding ] to the main userpage somewhere.

For references, it is best to start out using the particular referencing system[REDACTED] calls WP:CITESHORT. You can then build a separate bibliography of sources towards the end of the article (in a separate section called either "References" or "Bibliography". Within the body of the text itself, you can then cite individual statements with shortened cites that correspond to some entry in the bibliography. This is easily done by adding cites in the form of <ref>Smith 2008, p.123</ref> after the statement to be cited.

When your assignment is complete and ready to be graded, please notify me of that via email.

Articles Created and Edited by KU Students in Previous Courses

Thematic Articles (ANTH 507 "The Ancient Mayas")

Biographical Articles

Misplaced Pages Assignment for "How to Find a Lost City" (ANTH 177) - Fall 2022

Your assignment, due by 5 pm on Friday, December 2, is to make a meaningful contribution of at least 1000 words (not counting the code that includes relevant hyperlinks) to Misplaced Pages in the form of either a new article relevant to the theme of the lost city in archaeology, literature, film, video games, etc. (for students in ANTH 177) or a revision of an existing article on a relevant topic. This can be an article on the "lost city" about which you have written (for students in ANTH 177) or the paper on an aspect of pseudoarchaeology (for students in ANTH 212), or any other related topic that we have discussed during the semester. I strongly recommend revising an existing article, but creation of a new article is definitely acceptable if you want to tackle that. The power of Misplaced Pages is in your hands and what you choose to do and how much time you want to spend on it is completely up to you.

Please note that this is an assignment similar to ones I have used in my other courses. Please see the links below for examples of Misplaced Pages articles created by other KU students.

Getting Started

For convenience, you can transclude your working draft subpage onto your main userpage so it's visible from there by adding ] to the main userpage somewhere.

When your assignment is complete and ready to be graded, please notify me of that via email.

Latest revision as of 17:36, 14 December 2024

Misplaced Pages Assignment for "Pre-Hispanic Mexico and Central America" (ANTH 506) - Fall 2024

Getting Started

Articles Created and Edited by KU Students in Previous Courses

Thematic Articles (ANTH 507 "The Ancient Mayas")

Biographical Articles

Misplaced Pages Assignment for "How to Find a Lost City" (ANTH 177) - Fall 2022

Getting Started

Articles Created by KU Students in Previous Courses

Thematic Articles (ANTH 410 "Archaeological Myths & Realities)

Thematic Articles (ANTH 507 "The Ancient Mayas")

Thematic Articles (ANTH 603 "Shamanism Past & Present")

Biographical Articles (from ANTH 500, ANTH 507, and ANTH 701)