Talk:Cabildo (council)

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Conflict

If La Nouvelle-Orléans' The_Cabildo was in 1795, then there's conflict of "cabildos were created under the Law of Cabildos of 1927." -- hopiakuta 15:42, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think the original writer wanted to say that Canary Island cabildos were created in 1927. The cabildos of Spanish America are the interesting ones. I hope to flesh that out in the future.

Rexdwyer 05:15, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Two for one

Thanks to THORtenerife there are now two separate articles, this one primarily for the historical viewpoint and Cabildo Canaries for the modern system on the Canary Islands. This should help eliminate the confusion. --Bejnar 23:59, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Modern cabildos

On 17 April 2007, THORtenerife removed the section entitled: Modern cabildos, in the edit summary THORtenerife said "remove section on ´´modern´´ (cabido canaries) as has its own page,and also is on disambiguation page`." I disagree. There is a key concept in Wikipedia which is to provide users with the ability to instantly (at a moment's click) to access other information instead of what they are currently reading. (This concept came from Vannevar Bush.) Case in point, this article Cabildo (council). The template main in the Modern Cabildos section there, indeed the whole section consisting of a single sentence, was intended to lead people to the article that THORtenerife crafted on the modern cabildos of the Canary Islands. When that opportunity for readers to find the other article is removed, they are limited and hindered, and part of the way that the Wikipedia is intended to function is removed. It is not sufficient to say that access could be gained by clicking on one of the links in the See also section, especially when the Canary cabildos are in fact a specific example of the town councils that once were prevalent through Spanish Amercia. The other thing to think about is that the articles in the Wikipedia are to some extent hierarchical. There are more general articles such as ones about a mountain range, say the Andes, and more specific ones about the various peaks in that range, for example Mount Chimborazo. In this case, Cabildo (council) is the more general article, and the article Cabildo Canaries is more specific. It is entirely appropriate for the general to refer to the specific and vice versa. Cabildo (council) is not a replacement for Cabildo Canaries, or a duplicate, just like the article on Colombia is not a replacement for, nor a duplicate of the article History of Colombia. --Bejnar 23:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]