Talk:Maya calendar/Archives/2007/September

"May contain original research"

User:3LevelChess, you are being misled by your interpretation of what 'Category:Articles that may contain original research' means, as it is attached to this article. You are interpreting it as an invitation ("yes, you may add your original research here"), but instead it is meant to be a warning ("beware, this article possibly contains some original research"). It is a type of maintenance category, and its purpose is to flag articles that someone suspects contains inappropriate material, which needs to be examined and fixed up. On wikipedia "No Original Research" is definite policy, and a policy that extends to all articles, including their 'external links' sections. This policy is not waived for particular articles.

I realise that the category's phrasing can be grammatically interpreted either way, but the context (and the existence of the WP:NOR policy, a fundamental one) should make it clear which sense is meant.

Actually, looking at the offending section in the article, I don't see much there that hasn't appeared in citable published sources, so the 'original research' tag is probably not warranted. The bit which implies the significance of the number 13 is its correlation to the number of "major joints" is suspect, and I think can safely be deleted. The other statements can (and should be) sourced without OR coming into it, and it needs more balance and coverage of ideas beyond Malmström's. I'll change the maintenance tag to something more appropriate to the issue.--cjllw ʘ TALK 13:42, 5 September 2007 (UTC)