User talk:M.Grotz

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Hello, M.Grotz! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! cjllw ʘ TALK 01:47, 7 September 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

ps. Good luck on your KU assignment. The above is just a handy set of links about aspects of wikipedia in case you're unfamiliar with how things go around here. If you encounter any issues while editing or have any questions on formatting, referencing, naming conventions & styles etc pls feel free to leave a message at my user talkpgage or any of the other active WikiProject Mesoamerica participants, a message left at the project's discussion board will usually do the trick. Best Regards, --cjllw ʘ TALK 01:47, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

I think this entry's shaping up really well! I especially like the overall organization and features such as the formatting of the chronological chart. However, you seem to be having some glitches in the formatting of references. Please check some other entries to see how this can be done in a way that shifts the in-text citations to a "reflist" at the bottom of the page, making all of the references appear as superscripted, numbered footnotes. The discussion of "routinization" is good, but be sure to make it clear that Oyuela's is a more general model while mine (Hoopes 2005) is one that has direct applications to Costa Rica. (The apparent shift occurs during the Late Arenal phase, ca. AD 300-600). Note that my article discusses many possible factors, including events unfolding in Mesoamerica (to the north) at this time. --Hoopes (talk) 23:34, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

I just noticed how close your topic is to mine. I'm trying to keep overlap at a minimum, but I suppose that some will be inevitable. Perhaps we can work to combine our articles at some point (though probably not until the project is due, I realize). - Stamford Raffles (talk) 20:42, 28 September 2009 (UTC)