Talk:Mayan

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Purpose

Just to note, as dismbiguation page, the only topics and articles that require listing here are those which could plausibly be the intended target when someone searches on, or creates a wikilink to, Mayan. It is not a navigational aide or general listing of all articles conceivably connected to Maya(n) topics, and it's counter-productive to bloat out the list with links to all and sundry.--cjllw ʘ TALK 01:04, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Amen, cjilw, and congratulations to the editors of this page. I christen this the worst DAB that I've seen in the last 3 years. If you had taken the time to read the MOS, you'd know this much: "Disambiguation pages are solely intended to allow the user to choose from a list of ... articles" MOS:DAB. You also ignored these important rules:

No "Partial title matches" Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Lists
"Only include articles whose subject might reasonably be called by the ambiguous title" MOS:DAB#Organization
Entry permitted "if the subject is commonly referred to simply by Title" MOS:DAB#Introductory_line

--Hutcher (talk) 16:31, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mayan as an adjective for the people is a mistake?

Not according to a few well known dictionaries:

Oxford English Dictionary: "relating to or denoting the Maya people".
Collins English Dictionary: "of, relating to, or characteristic of the Maya or any of their languages".
Merriam-Webster: "a member of the peoples speaking Mayan languages".
Wiktionary: "Of, or relating to the Maya people of Central America."

So who decided it was a mistake? --194.176.105.6 (talk) 09:24, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]