Talk:Maya calendar/Archives/2013/May

Removal of Fringe, pseudoscience by Rangorok

From my talk page: Anyone can come up with any bizarre theory that he wants about anything. So what? Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Entries must be verifiable and cite reliable sources. There are standards for reliable sources and they are that they should be primary or secondary sources. Fringe research like the page you cited is not allowed. Also not allowed is original research. The articles about the Maya calendar and the Long Count are about the real thing, based on real research and citing reliable sources. Unfortunately the the study of the people of Mesoamerica and their calendars is extremely polluted with complete crap, from the Mormons claiming that the Mesoamericans are the lost tribes of Israel to the new-agers like Callemans, and Arguelles making up their own revisionist versions of their pseudomayan calendars, etc. etc. Go to Amazon.com and search for mayan 2012 and look how much utter balderdash you will find. So much complete nonsense is out there that you could write a whole book about it. If you want to write a Wikipedia article about all of the BS hoaxes that's out there about the Maya, go ahead but it doesn't belong in an article about the real thing. Senor Cuete (talk) 14:10, 12 May 2013 (UTC)Senor Cuete

Editing under the IP address 159.253.145.150 and as Rangorok violates Wikipedia's policy against sock puppets. Senor Cuete (talk) 14:57, 12 May 2013 (UTC)Senor Cuete