Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Latin America/Archive 1

Archive 1

Latin American project

Moved from Wikipedia:Village pump on Saturday, September 13th, 02003.

Hello. I am interrested in Latin America and want to create a new project for Latin America. There, I will put a list of articles to create, articles to expand, articles to translate (from Spanish, French mainly), a list of people who want to help, etc. What do you think about such a project? --Youssefsan 14:46, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I have just started Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America countries. Any critc, idea, comment are welcome. -- Youssef 16:53, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Latin American project

Moved from Wikipedia:Village pump on Saturday, September 13th, 02003.

Hello. I am interrested in Latin America and want to create a new project for Latin America. There, I will put a list of articles to create, articles to expand, articles to translate (from Spanish, French mainly), a list of people who want to help, etc. What do you think about such a project? --Youssefsan 14:46, 5 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I have just started Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America countries. Any critc, idea, comment are welcome. -- Youssef 16:53, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Still active?

I've moved Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America countries to the Inactive section of the WikiProject page, as it hasn't been edited since Nov 1st; I wanted to let you all know, and ask if you're still working on it. If so, feel free to move it back up into the active section. JesseW 08:02, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I am unfortunately not very active.--Youssef 18:48, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

WikiReader

What about a Wikipedia:WikiReader on Latin America countries. There are about 20 countries. So with 2-3 pages on each country we can have 50-60 articles. In the long term, we can have 5-10 articles/country that mean a book 100-200 pages. Someone interrested in the project ?--Youssef 18:48, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sounds like a cool idea. I'll definitely help out if you want to start it up. It looks pretty simple – we would just essentially have to copy the country articles over, though some of them probably need some serious work. But I don't mind learning about little Latin American countries. Also, we could do them on specific countries in the future, especially the ones with lots of articles (like Mexico, once I get the Culture of Mexico article in better shape). --Spangineer ∞ 03:51, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)

Improvement Drive

South America is currently nominated to be improved on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive. You can support the article with your vote.--Fenice 12:14, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Asia District, Peru

Our article on this locality is nominated for Articles for Deletion on 30 January 2006. It would be good if people with some knowledge of Peru could give their advice. Capitalistroadster 03:11, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team cooperation

Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 18:34, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Iguassu Falls

There's a move request going on for article Iguassu Falls at this place. Please leave your oppinion there. Mariano(t/c) 07:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:33, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Bilateral relations discussion

I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 17:58, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Guinea pig

Hi, this article just passed GA status and in the interest of making it as comprehensive as possible, I was wondering if anyone from this WikiProject might want to give it a lookover and see how its coverage of the animal as a facet of Andean culture rates. Thanks! Chubbles 20:19, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Spanish surname policy discussion

A discussion is under way here on how to style Spanish surnames after the lead sentence of biographies. The outcome is likely to become Wikipedia policy. Interested editors are invited to comment. Unconventional (talk) 16:27, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

South America in 1705

For Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos which is currently at WP:FAC, I would like to know what the different regions in South America marked in File:America-1705.jpg are. One of the green areas is likely the Viceroyalty of Peru, another maybe the New Kingdom of Granada, but I cannot make sense of the other regions nor of the color scheme used. (Colors might not have a meaning and are maybe chosen in a way not to have regions of the same color border each other.) Can somebody identify the other areas in South America? Are they political areas at all or rather geographic? bamse (talk) 19:28, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Deletion discussion for voseo

Voseo has been nominated for deletion. Please contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Voseo and help find a consensus. Thanks! +Angr 06:46, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Anti-clericalism in Latin America

I have concluded that Wikipedia does not cover the topic of anti-clericalism in Latin America very well. To remedy these deficiencies, I have done some very basic research and created an article titled Anti-clericalism in Latin America. This is really just a somewhat longish stub. It is not even a start as it only covers the subtopics that have been discussed in Catholic Church and other related Wikipedia articles.

The article needs to be expanded to provide a more comprehensive treatment of the topic.

Your assistance is solicited to improve this new article.

--Richard S (talk) 10:59, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

I have now added History of Roman Catholicism in Latin America History of Roman Catholicism in Hispano-America which, at the moment, focuses on anti-clericalism in Latin America and Liberation Theology. More needs to be added to make this article a more comprehensive treatment of the topic. Your assistance is solicited to improve this new article. --Richard S (talk) 23:15, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Update - the article History of Roman Catholicism in Hispano-America now covers the period from the Spanish conquest through Liberation theology. --Richard S (talk) 01:15, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Countries

I'm now going around and adding templates to all the Latin American country articles. Zazaban (talk) 21:30, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

OK. I wanted to talk about the focus of the project though. I think it would be best to focus on "Latin America-level" topics, where there are regional or cross-country issues, rather than tagging every article at all related to Latin America, which in theory we could do. The theory is that the more specific articles are already well-covered by the regional or country projects. Of course, many of these are not very active, so it would make a sense if the project evolved a wider focus over time; but I don't think we should force it. For now, I've added Category:Latin America articles to the regional wikiproject templates (South America, Central America, Caribbean), so articles with those will show up as well. (This is mainly for the Article Alert feature.) Also I want to make a "Latin America project invite" template (like WP:VEN has). How does that sound? Rd232 ^talk 08:15, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Sounds fine. I wasn't planning on getting more specific than the summary country articles. Zazaban (talk) 08:41, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Historiographical discussion at Platine War

People with knowledge of History may feel interested with the ongoing discussion at Platine War article. Salut, --IANVS (talk) 17:04, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

Montserrat Caballe

A bot added a tag for your project on Caballe's talk page here. Why? She's not from Latin America.--Bbb23 (talk) 20:50, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Latin America articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Latin America articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:14, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 21:03, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Popular pages

Would anyone be opposed to adding this project to the Popular pages project? This will cause a list of the most popular (based on pageview statistics) pages within the scope of the project to be created monthly. This is a useful tool to identify frequently-viewed pages that are not up to par, quality-wise. For a project like this one, it may also help to clarify its current scope and so assist in the refining of the scope. See for example Wikipedia:WikiProject Argentina/Popular pages. Regards, Rd232 ^talk 12:30, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Salsa music's FAR

I have nominated Salsa music for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. GamerPro64 (talk) 03:55, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Morales Pino Trío

The article Morales Pino Trío has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

A search for references found 2 minor mentions in published WPRS, fails WP:N

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Jeepday (talk) 01:23, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

I did a quick Google on "Trío Morales Pino" (Spanish word order) and it returned over 13,000 hits, I think that makes the subject notable even though I know nothing about Colombian music. They seem to have been quite influentual in the early 20th century, so I've removed the deletion template. Simon Burchell (talk) 12:54, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Latin America to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 00:47, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Template:Latin America

Note, {{Latin America}} was nominated for deletion. 65.93.14.29 (talk) 04:45, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Task force

I think we should have a Latin American monarchies task force. There would be many articles under this scope and there are editors interested. Spongie555 (talk) 20:54, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Are there any other regional taskforces like this related to Wikipedia:WikiProject Royalty and Nobility? I don't see any. It seems a very specialised topic, and I'm not sure it's been discussed at that wikiproject, which it surely should be. Rd232 ^talk 21:24, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

There is a task force for Japanese monarchies, Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Royalty and nobility task force, which itself is a task force for WikiProject Japan and not WikiProjct Royalty and Nobility. Spongie555 (talk) 08:39, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Portal:Bolivia

I have started a featured portal candidate for Portal:Bolivia. Please participate. ~~EBE123~~ ^talk_Contribs 18:38, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Mfd notice of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mercosur

I have nominated Wikipedia:WikiProject Mercosur for deletion at WP:MFD. Please comment here for any concerns. Thanks. JJ98 (Talk) 01:08, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Translating and correcting

Jus add a few stuff and corrected some grammar, also added some info about their videos, but need some help.--::(kickdrums):: (talk) 03:04, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

RfC notification

A new discussion on wording changes to the current guideline to clarify the use of diacritics for subjects whose native names contain them has been initiated. It can be found at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)/Diacritics RfC Ohconfucius ^¡digame! 08:52, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Selena discussion

Please join in the discussion on the talk page to help expand the article to its fullest potential. AJona1992 (talk) 19:45, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

FAR notification

I have nominated Héctor Lavoe for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:40, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Latin America will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Latin America's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 23:29, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Spanish conquest of Guatemala FA nom

Hi all. I've just posted Spanish conquest of Guatemala as a Featured Article Candidate and invite any comments on its review page. Thanks, Simon Burchell (talk) 23:09, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Perth requested-move notification

A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation)#Requested_move, which proposes to move:

• Perth → Perth, Western Australia
• Perth, Scotland → Perth, Perthshire
• Perth (disambiguation) → Perth

Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June. There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case. There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 03:18, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

May Revolution

There's a FAC open for the article May Revolution at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/May Revolution/archive5. All comments are welcomed. Cambalachero (talk) 00:35, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Alerts

I put in requests for Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexico/Article alerts, Wikipedia:WikiProject Colombia/Article alerts with the owner of the bot. When they go blue they are active. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:33, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

"America"

The usage of "America" is up for discussion, see talk:America -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:58, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Americas

FYI, there's a proposal to create a western hemisphere coordinating project above NA/SA/etc. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Americas -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:46, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

{{Latin Union}}

Template:Latin Union (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:51, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

"Boomerang (Latin America)"

The usage of Boomerang (Latin America) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is up for discussion, see Talk:Boomerang (Latin American TV channel) -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:04, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Latin American templates up for deletion

See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 August 31 where several have been nominated -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 00:50, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Spanish / Lat Am MOS

Are there any editors interested in getting Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Spain & Spanish-related articles improved to the status were it can be RFC-ed for a formal guidelina as WP:FRMOS is? If so please comment on Wikipedia Talk:Manual of Style/Spain & Spanish-related articles. Thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:04, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Spanish conquest of Petén FA nom

Hi all. I've just posted Spanish conquest of Petén as a Featured Article Candidate and invite any comments on its review page. Thanks, Simon Burchell (talk) 21:31, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

RfC: on including PR status dispute

At Puerto Rico, there is an RfC Can the existence of the PR status controversy be admitted to the article? The DRN put forward by another editor was closed due to no volunteer. An RfC was recommended there. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 17:02, 6 February 2014 (UTC)