Talk:San Cristóbal de las Casas

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[edit] Translation from Spanish Needed

The article in spanish has been updated notabilly. Who will traduce it?

I started, but there is a lot! Delve in everyone. ¡Todos, ayuden! A1437053 07:06, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History

I've removed the following statement from the history section, which seems debatable:

Scholars believe that the Maya initially migrated from the lowlands and settled in the highlands only after the collapse of the "Classic" Maya civilization.

Linguistic reconstructions at least rather have it the other way around, ie Proto-Mayan(s) dispersing from the Chiapan-Guatemalan highland regions into the lowlands. If anyone has suitable refs to the contrary, it can be modified appropriately.--cjllw | TALK 08:32, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] keeping title "San Cristóbal de las Casas" instead of "San Cristóbal, Chiapas"

The former title is fine, because there is no other city with the same name, so no need to disambiguate them. Unless there is a specific conflict with an established style guideline for similar articles (maybe a Mexican cities wikiproject or similar would establish such a guideline?), I don't see any reason to move it to a "city, state" title. See WP:NAME:CITY for clarification: as explained, “The general rule is to name an article about a city or town with a name that does not conflict with any other town or concept as city name.” --jacobolus (t) 17:31, 28 October 2007 (UTC)