Talk:Maya language (disambiguation)

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Primary topic?

Why is Mayan languages considered the primary topic? This title can't properly refer to a language family by itself (though it is a ikely misspelling) because it is singular. The better main topic would be to the (single) language called Maya by its speakers: Yucatec Maya. Eluchil404 23:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Also, doesn't the MOS say not to pipe links on dab pages, so that the opening paragraph should be rewritten? Eluchil404 23:02, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maya language is the primary topic, because that's where you "Go" if you enter Maya language in the search box and hit Go. It happens to be a redirect to Mayan languages. The advice against pipelinks does not hold in the intro, where the guidelines suggest using a (non-ambiguous) redirect piped to display the primary topic, so that automated systems can tell automatically that the link is not one of the potentially incorrect ones that should point to one of the other disambiguated pages. (A note that was only recently pointed out to me, buried in WP:D#Primary topic-- JHunterJ 23:17, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]