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.

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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

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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)

Popular pages tool update

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Web tools, to replace the ones at tools:~alexz/pop, will become available over the next few weeks at toollabs:popularpages. All of the historical data (back to July 2009 for some projects) has been copied over. The tool to view historical data is currently partially available (assessment data and a few projects may not be available at the moment). The tool to add new projects to the bot's list is also available now (editing the configuration of current projects coming soon). Unlike the previous tool, all changes will be effective immediately. OAuth is used to authenticate users, allowing only regular users to make changes to prevent abuse. A visible history of configuration additions and changes is coming soon. Once tools become fully available, their toolserver versions will redirect to Labs.

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Latin peoples article deletion

Article Latin peoples has been nominated for deletion. Please discuss. Diego (talk) 11:52, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

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Wiki Loves Pride

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

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Category:Latin Americanists, Category:Latin American international experts

There are two categories, Category:Latin Americanists, created 13:19, 8 May 2007 by Jbmurray (talk · contribs); and Category:Latin American international experts, created 04:29, 8 August 2015 by Danalber (talk · contribs). Are they the same thing? If so, should they be sent to WP:CFM; if not, what parents should Category:Latin American international experts be put in? Currently it's only in itself, which causes it to show in Wikipedia:Database reports/Self-categorized categories. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:20, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

I'd say they are the same thing... Simon Burchell (talk) 16:33, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Latin Americanists are people who study Latin America. It looks as though the category of "Latin American International Experts" is designed to designate "experts," in whatever field, who are internationally-known, and who happen to be Latin American. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 20:18, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

It's been taken to CFD, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 August 30#Category:Latin American international experts. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:20, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Latin America Portal

I created the Latin America Portal. I am seeking help with its maintenance. And, it still needs more work. Feel free to help out. --JuanMuslim ^1m 04:38, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

I am now maintaining the portal. It is featured, and could use someone else to help with the news and Did You Know's, as I have less time these days than I used to. All welcome. --Estrellador* 19:58, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

I request the creation of a Central America portal. This would cover all countries on the mainland south of Mexico and north of Columbia, possibly including the adjacent areas of Mexico and Columbia proper. There have been several shipping canals proposed in this area. Panama was built in 1910s, whereas Nicaragua is moving ahead on their plans. Another was proposed for the Tehuantepec isthmus across southern Mexico. Dtvjho (talk) 15:53, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

Wikiproject Wikiproject LOC Country Studies

I have started a Wikipedia:WikiProject Library of Congress Country Studies, Wikiproject that involves taking the public domain LOC Country Studies and incorporating them into Wikipedia. Go to the Colombia subpage to participate or observe progress on the Colombia section. Many other Latin American countries are involved in this project.--Bkwillwm 19:56, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

WikiReader: History of Latin America

Hello. I have launched Wikipedia:History of Latin America Wikireader. Comments, critics, suggestions and help are welcome.--Youssef 10:32, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Article in need of cleanup

I'm not sure if this is your department (I posted this on the Islam project page too) but Islam in Suriname could probably use cleanup, categorization, etc by somebody who's a bit knowledgeable. Thought I'd let y'all know. Fightindaman 01:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Tamarindo (drink)

This article is extremely biased towards just Mexican cuisine. I know it's a small article but, my parents are from Guatemala and Tamarindo is popular there. I also wanted to know if there was a stub for Latin American cuisine so I could put it on there. If you have this information please let me know on my talk page. Lighthead ^þ 04:11, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Improving the history section of Latin America

If you go to the article, you will note it is a bit sparse, and has a strong focus on US relations. Also, about 130 years of history is missing completely. This needs to be improved very badly and I would say should be a current priority. Zazaban (talk) 20:36, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot

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Salvador Allende

Can someone knowledgeable help out at Salvador Allende? There are two naming disputes. one is whether his middle name is isabelino or isabelina. another is if his name has del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús attached to the middle. --Profitoftruth85 (talk) 19:48, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

Latin American music task force

Hello, I'm propsing a taskforce dedicated to the music of Latin America. Since it's part of the culture, I decided to bring the proposal here and you guys think. Magiciandude (talk) 23:16, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

UPDATE: I've just created the task force now. It can be found here. Magiciandude (talk) 15:57, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Barnstar

I think we need to make a barnstar for those who keep making this FA and GA articles....What do you guys think..something like bellow? Moxy (talk) 00:47, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

		The Latin American Barnstar
		{{{1}}}

Idea for Wikiprojects

Hi! I found:

• es:Wikiproyecto:WP Lenguas indígenas de América

I wonder if one could make a Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous languages of the Americas WhisperToMe (talk) 18:34, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

Street Children in Latin America

I am currently a student at Rice University pursuing a minor in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities (PJHC). One of the minor's projects is to improve the quality of Wikipedia articles on issues related to social inequality. I have chosen to improve the Street Child article by creating a related article about "Street Children in Latin America." Because my article discusses Latin America, I thought I would post on this page to invite you all to read and possibly contribute to my page.

Although Latin America is a fairly broad region to study, many researchers have been able to adequately assess and study street children in certain Latin American regions (i.e. Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala) and then generalize and apply their research to all of Latin America. Most researchers have grouped street children in Latin America into two categories: home-based street children and street-based street children. The former refers to children that spend their days on the streets but have physical homes and families to return to--but are forced to search for work on the streets because of poverty. The latter refers to children without physical homes, children who work, sleep, eat, and play on the streets. Although it is difficult to determine just how many street children currently exist in Latin America, some sources such as UNICEF estimate that as many as 45% of children in Latin America are, will be, or have been street children at some point (home-based or street-based). These numbers are debatable, but the underlying issue of street children remains.

Once I'm done with the article, I'll post a link to it. Meanwhile, if anyone has any suggestions for sources or is interested in collaborating with me on the article, please let me know.

Avw1 (talk) 17:25, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

2014 Venezuelan protests

Since some changes have been made, the 2014 Venezuelan protests article should have its quality and importance looked at again. --Zfigueroa (talk) 05:44, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

w:es:Wikiproyecto:Wikimedia en langues régionales de España

I invite to participate. And create table for wikipedia of Hispanoamérica.--Kaiyr (talk) 12:54, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention

This is a notice about Category:Latin America articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 03:26, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Banners for Brazilian articles

Please do not add the {{WikiProject Latin America}} or {{WikiProject South America}} templates to articles that are exclusively about Brazil or Brazilian topics; these templates will be removed by WP Brazil members during assessment of the articles. Instead, use {{WikiProject Brazil}}, either alone or in conjunction with other appropriate templates. Thank you. giso6150 (talk) 19:45, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

The page needs to be protected

The Latin America article page needs to be protected from vandalism from unregistered editors.

B575 (talk) 13:45, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to an online editathon on Black Women's History

Invitation
	Black Women's History online edit-a-thon 1 to 15 February 2016 Hosted by Women in Red Sponsored by AfroCrowd Supporting Black WikiHistory Month

--Ipigott (talk) 10:22, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

UNASUR flag is not Latin American flag

There is too many articles that have the UNASUR flag placed when refering to Latin America, and that is a big error.

= UNASUR (~=South America)
= Member States of UNASUR
= Latin America

The error of placing UNASUR flag to represent latin america is somewhat widespread across wikipedia, since there is no Latin America flag and probable ther will not ever be one (because there is no reason for one, we need to change when UNASUR flag its used as "Latin America flag" and replace it with something like that represent way better or just delete the UNASUR flag when is wrong placed as latin america flag.

Most of the problem is visible when articles include info regarding broadcasting rights on articles related to events, (sport events as example) i replaced some i came across, but there must be some way to identify this problem and fix it faster then manually search every instance of articles that link to UNASUR flag looking if it reference is about latin america or not.--WiZaRd SaiLoR (talk) 16:26, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

Help with an article?

I'm going to post this in a few places just so it gets a good amount of people looking at the article in question. The article for Animal World, the first published book by Antonio di Benedetto, is up for deletion. It looks like there should be coverage out there, as there is mention here and there about the book getting various accolades including a national prize, but I can't really find much. This is partially because of the language barrier, as most coverage is going to be in Spanish, but it's also likely because most of the coverage predated the Internet and as such may not be on the Internet as a whole or in places that we'd all know to check.

Anyone here want to see what they can find? It might be a good chance for a WP:HEY rescue. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:00, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

Greetings WikiProject Latin America/Archive 1 Members!

This is a one-time-only message to inform you about a technical proposal to revive your Popular Pages list in the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey that I think you may be interested in reviewing and perhaps even voting for:

• Fix and improve Mr.Z-bot's popular pages report

If the above proposal gets in the Top 10 based on the votes, there is a high likelihood of this bot being restored so your project will again see monthly updates of popular pages.

Further, there are over 260 proposals in all to review and vote for, across many aspects of wikis.

Thank you for your consideration. Please note that voting for proposals continues through December 12, 2016.

Best regards, Stevietheman — Delivered: 18:03, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Thoughts about merger?

Colleagues, please, let me know your thoughts about this possible merger. Thanks. Caballero/Historiador ^⎌ 19:05, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Police of Panama

Please see the above AfD discussion which is within the scope of this project. TimothyJosephWood 21:21, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

Rare drawings of Brazilian animals by 17th-century Dutch painter Frans Post now on Wikimedia Commons

Frans Post (1612-1680) was a Dutch painter from Haarlem belonging to the Dutch School. Between 1636-1644, he received a commission from John Maurice of Nassau, then governor of Brazil, to travel to Brazil and document its people, nature and landscape. During his time in Brazil, Post made drawings and sketches of animals, which he probably used as studies for his paintings. Thirty-four of these drawings were recently discovered in the Noord-Hollands Archief. The archive has graciously made the digitised drawings available for re-use on Wikimedia Commons. Regards, --AWossink (talk) 08:34, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Improving the Religion in Latin America Page

Hi everyone! A quick glance at the page mentioned above proves that much can be added. What would you all think of including a general history of how religion has evolved in Latin America, or perhaps including more pictures and charts to add more visuals? Thanks! Cyan Vincent (talk) 22:00, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Latin American economy

Would someone mind taking a look at Latin American economy and assessing it? It's a newly created article by a member of Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Northeastern University/Advanced Writing in the Technical Professions--ONLINE (Spring 2017). It did not go through WP:AfC, so it has not really been reviewed yet. Personally, the first part seems fine, but I do have a few concerns about the second part per WP:RECENTISM and WP:CRYSTAL. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 21:24, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

I've done this. All the best, Simon Burchell (talk) 00:00, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Chile

Hoping that someone is here on this "semi-active" project page!

There are a number of issues with the Chile article which I have listed here, namely: POV, promotional content, unsourced content, content that is either hardly comprehensible or meaningless. As the article is semi-protected, it would be great if some registered user might have a look. (I don't think I want to register at this point in time).

As this article appears to have a pretty high rating on several project importance scales, it seems too bad if these issues are left sitting in there. Thanks, --93.212.232.58 (talk) 08:16, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America/Archive 1/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Latin America.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

• The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
• The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
• The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Latin America, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:15, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Scope

I am truly mortified by the inclusions of Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana (and possibly Suriname), as having not only a scope within this project but cleanup aspects and privileges, while Haiti, a legitimate Latin American country does not. Who is in charge of this project? Please ping me back in response. This is unacceptable. Savvyjack23 (talk) 19:40, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

@Savvyjack23: Huh? Haiti is clearly listed under the Latin-America-related WikiProjects... (no, I'm not in charge, btw) –FlyingAce^✈hello 20:02, 27 June 2017 (UTC)

FlyingAce, thank you for a response. In regards to the "scope" however, I could have been fooled. On this "Latin-America-related WikiProjects" list, I had included Haiti [1], as well as the Spanish-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean that were left out (Cuba etc.) [2] I had recently removed Belize, Guyana, and Suriname (all English speaking nations and obtained independence from the UK in the second half of the 20th century) while keeping the disputed territories of Argentina and the UK (Falkland Islands etc.). [3]

To date, there are 7 articles pertaining to Haiti that are tagged by this project. [4] I had tagged 4 of 7 of these articles. [5], [6], [7], [8]. That is a total of 0.0018% that weren't tagged by me. I will say it again, virtually 0% is the coverage for Haiti-related articles. 5 are covered for Belize [9], 5 for Guyana [10], 5 for Trinidad and Tobago, 2 for Suriname [11] and although a low percentage as well (0.0097), it is still higher combined than an actual Latin-derived speaking country in the region.

People may argue, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana etc. were once occupied by the Spanish "and so by association etc." -but then again who wasn't? Name a country below the United States that wasn't once controlled by the Spanish, Portuguese or the French. Even California, New Mexico, Florida, Texas, and Louisiana were all one time controlled by Spain.

The only ones I did not tag was Unification of Hispaniola, which also pertains to what is now the Dominican Republic (Latin American) and [[Category:Discographies of Haitian artists]], but hardly an admirable effort even for a project that is only now "semi-active", while pages such as Dear Land of Guyana, of Rivers and Plains is tagged; this is the target of my ire. Why on earth are pages like this tagged, while pages like Toussaint Louverture and Alexandre Pétion are not? If it weren't for the aid of Pétion, who knows if the creation of Gran Colombia would have happened. Simon Bolivar is even quoted saying, "Should I not let it be known to later generations that Alexandre Pétion is the true liberator of my country?" (U.S. Owes Haitian Gratitude, Not Abuse (Robert, Pascal), Huffington Post: The Importance of Haiti (Allen, Alexander))

There has always been a trilateral alliance between Cuba-Haiti-Venezuela. The music of Haiti also contributed greatly to Cuba and other countries in the region especially through the use of the drum. (See: Tumba francesa, Champeta etc.) One of Haiti's most renowned compas bands, had an album entirely in Spanish even. (See: Tabou Combo) This band was at one time the most crazed band in Panama. Yet Talk:Soca music, is tagged within the project via use of a bot! [12] --Arbitrarily0Bot

In the project's Collaboration#New articles cleanup, Trinidad and Tobago again gets some sort of validity and has a bot to perform this data, while Haiti (and even Cuba) are left off.

So I believe that I have a real valid argument. Moving forward, if this project ever becomes (or is) active, what are we going to do about this? There is no adherence to the map of Latin America whatsoever. If I am missing something, please stop me. Savvyjack23 (talk) 03:32, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest

Hi. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on Latin women during this month please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles for your project please add them to the appropriate sub list Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:07, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to edit

Hi, I invite you to edit and expand this article United States involvement in regime change in Latin America that would certainly benefit from more editors. Greetings. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 05:30, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Spanish land grants

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see Talk:Land grant#Spanish land grants. Summary: We need an article at Spanish land grants or some such, and a WP:SUMMARY section at Land grant. There used to be a Land grant#Latin America (or similar) section there, but it's gone missing. We seem to have just completely lost almost all our info on Spanish land grants in the Americas, but it's a very significant part of Spanish New World colonial history.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  08:09, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

New expert attention category

This is a notice about Category:Bolivia articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. There might be as few as one page in the category, or zero if someone has removed the expert request tag from the page.  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  00:55, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

University of New Mexico looking to sponsor a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar

Of possible interest to WikiProject members:

The University of New Mexico (UNM) is looking to sponsor a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar.

The University of New Mexico Libraries would like to work with a Wikipedian to explore themes related to following interdisciplinary areas:

• Intersections of science, design, art, and architecture in New Mexico
• Energy, water, and environmental policy in the Southwest and Latin America
• Healing and foodways in the high desert

The Visiting Scholars program connects Wikipedians with educational institutions based on shared interest in a topic. Any editor in good standing is welcome to apply. Professional experience is not a requirement. For more information, as well as the application, see the University of New Mexico’s Visiting Scholars page. If you have questions, feel free to reach out on my talk page. Will (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:20, 11 April 2018 (UTC)

Ending the system of portals

Hello, there's a proposal to delete all Wikipedia portals. Please see the discussion here. --NaBUru38 (talk) 14:03, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:45, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Nascent gender-neutral language approach in Romance languages

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see: Talk:Gender neutrality in languages with grammatical gender#Major update needed for Romance languages
 — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  05:15, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Relevant projects in Spanish

I was wondering why the listed related wikiprojects are from the Spanish Wikipedia and not the related English language wikiprojects, like WikiProject Guatemala. Thinker78 (talk) 21:02, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Please comment on 2018 Volcán de Fuego eruption

An editor has removed the wikiproject banner from the article 2018 Volcán de Fuego eruption. I opened a discussion in the talk page about it. Your input is appreciated. Thinker78 (talk) 08:43, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Re: Assessment requests for Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and Viva América

Ciao Fellow Wikipedian Editors - Perhaps when an editor has some extra time these two articles could be assessed for quality and importance. They relate to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempts to utilize his Good Neighbor policy to foster Cultural diplomacy and Pan-Americanism throughout Latin America and South America during World War II in an effort to promote international peace. Many thanks in advance for your kind and thoughtful interest!

• Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
• Viva América

Thanks again and best wishes for the continued success of the Latin America Project. 104.207.219.150 (talk) 23:02, 6 July 2018 (UTC)PS

 Done Thinker78 (talk) 04:14, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Possible move for disambiguation

A discussion is taking place concerning a possible move of Committee for the Defence of Human Rights to Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (Slovenia), which may affect the title of a Chilean article. Your feedback is welcome at WT:WPDIS#Committee for the Defense of Human Rights. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 07:44, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Latin music (genre), which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 October 2018 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Request for comment on Telesur at the reliable sources noticeboard

There is a request for comment on the reliability of Telesur at the reliable sources noticeboard. If you are interested, please participate at WP:RSN § RfC: Telesur. — Newslinger talk 02:50, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Credinka

See my post on WT:WikiProject Peru - this is a draft I'm abandoning. Qzekrom (talk) 16:39, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Consolidate WikiProjects

I noticed that a lot of the Latin America–related WikiProjects are inactive or semi-active. I really want to see more Latin American knowledge represented on enwiki, so it might be beneficial to consolidate these WikiProjects (e.g. as task forces under LatAm) so that the resulting community has the critical mass needed to sustain itself. Qzekrom (talk) 16:56, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

You would have to go to each WikiProject individually to seek consensus. I am in WikiProject Guatemala and in WikiProject Latin America. Right now I'm leaning on independence.--Thinker78 (talk) 19:55, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Women in Red focus

In April 2019, WikiProject Women in Red is focusing on Women in Portuguese-speaking countries.--Ipigott (talk) 07:40, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Request for help at Falkland Islanders

Hi, was wondering if anybody Spanish-speaking could come over to the discussion page there. I'm having a few problems getting sourced content added re. the right of Falklanders to Argentine nationality, and would appreciate a fresh perspective and evaluation of the quality and wikiability of the sources. Not sure of the etiquette here, so if this sort of invite is not kosher, please delete. Boynamedsue (talk) 14:10, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Is there a list of reliable Latin American sources please?

I am reviewing Disappearance of Federico Tobares and I cannot tell if the sources are reliable. Can you help?Chidgk1 (talk) 15:54, 8 August 2019 (UTC)

Chidgk1 I don't know about Latin America overall, but there is one for Venezuelan sources if any of those come up on the article. Kingsif (talk) 02:54, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

New editor disputing... something... at 2019 Latin American protests

The editor NewAngus is challenging the article on the 2019 protests. I'm not quite sure what they dispute, though I think it's the inclusion of some of the countries. I've encouraged them to respond in Spanish because it might be clearer. Talkpage discussions (finally) at Talk:2019 Latin American protests if anyone wants to discuss. Kingsif (talk) 22:11, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week

Hello there. This is an invitation to join the 50,000 Destubbing Challenge Focus of the Week. £250 (c. $310) is being given away in May, June and July with £20 worth of prizes to give away every week for most articles destubbed. Each week there is a different region of focus, including weeks dedicated entirely to the Caribbean, one to Brazil, and another to Central America, though half the prize will still be rewarded for articles on any subject. There's a potential £120 to be won in total for destubbing on any subject or region of your choice. Sign up if you want to contribute at least one of the weeks or support the idea! † Encyclopædius 12:17, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Help with Portuguese

(copy of discussion from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request#Search_help_needed)

This citation/URL is used in over 2,200 articles:

• "Divisão Territorial do Brasil" (in Portuguese). Divisão Territorial do Brasil e Limites Territoriais, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE). July 1, 2008. Retrieved December 17, 2009.

It is dead and there are no apparent archives. I'd love to be able to replace it with a new citation, URL or archive. Any help appreciated from REX search experts. -- GreenC 15:19, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

@GreenC: That ftp site is still active, and it's possible that that file has simply been moved or renamed. Anyone with a knowledge of Portuguese may be able to find it by navigating the site's directory tree. —Bruce1ee^talk 15:40, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

Confirmed it is possible to FTP into ftp://geoftp.ibge.gov.br .. once logged in, it appears the top-level directory might be /organizacao_do_territorio .. however I can not find the target file DTB_2008.zip .. there might another file from another date that resolves the citations. It will require help from a speaker of Portuguese. Any help to save 2,200 cites needed. -- GreenC 16:54, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

RfC about lack of global coverage in Racial bias on Wikipedia

More opinions are needed at [13]. The issues being discussed are that, despite the title, the coverage relates only to English Wikipedia, and that the coverage is US-centric. NightHeron (talk) 11:04, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

Name change from "Spanish colonization of the Americas" to "Spanish Colonial America"

See the question here. Tisquesusa (talk) 22:41, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

FAR for Mario Vargas Llosa

I have nominated Mario Vargas Llosa 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. (t · c) buidhe 06:56, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Latin music (genre), which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of the Articles for improvement. The article is scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 23:16, 30 November 2020 (UTC) on behalf of the AFI team

Feedback requested at Augusto Pinochet

Hello, there's a discussion going on about removing an honorific from the Infobox at Augusto Pinochet. Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:Augusto Pinochet#Honorific in Infobox. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:23, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Women in Red translation contest: April to June 2022

At the beginning of April, WikiProject Women in Red is launching a three-month translation contest focused on increasing our coverage of women's biographies. As the Portuguese and Spanish versions of Wikipedia are among the most popular sources for translation, members of WikiProject Latin America may be interested in participating.--Ipigott (talk) 09:25, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Notice of RfC on Marcelo Kohen

Hello everyone. RfC available for comment for Marcelo Kohen (Professor of International Law at IHEID Geneva and Secretary-General of the Institut de Droit International, the oldest international law association and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1904), for whom surprisingly there was no Wikipedia article. He is an Argentine citizen, founded the Latin American Society of International Law, and has represented several Latin American states at the International Court of Justice (including Argentina and Colombia).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_talk:Marcelo_Kohen

Thank you!

--Pugliese23 (talk) 13:19, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

RFC on Modern Taino Identity

I'd appreciate your input on this topic to resolve some long disputed issues about modern Taino movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Taíno#Request_for_Comment_on_Modern_Taino_Identity Poketama (talk) 22:54, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

I checked out the discussion and reflects my views. Cheers! Thinker78 (talk) 15:29, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani#Requested move 25 September 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani#Requested move 25 September 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 10:50, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

That probably was cryptic... why do we care about that? This RM involves about 50 state funeral articles, including at least one that is related to this WP. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:09, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Further info – the proposal is to move all articles titled "Death and state funeral of..." to "Death and funeral of...". As far as I can tell, the articles related to this WikiProject are Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro, Death and state funeral of Néstor Kirchner, and Death and state funeral of Raúl Alfonsín. –FlyingAce^✈hello 17:13, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Carla Vernón

Carla Vernón is my sister. She is the incoming Afro-Latina CEO of The Honest Company, with a start date of January 9 2023. I am trying to get someone else to create the article to avoid the strongly discouraged WP:COI editorial involvement. I am hoping someone will create the article soon so it can appear at WP:DYK on January 9. You can find source links at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Red#Carla_Vernón.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 17:17, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Afro-Latina

At Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Business#Carla_Vernón we are trying to determine the first Afro-Latina CEO of a publicly traded U.S. company-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:49, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Article request

There is a fairly in-depth article on the es:Conservatorio Nacional de Música (Guatemala) on the Spanish language wikipedia. If someone has the language skills to translate this to the English wiki, or write something of their own it would make a good addition to the English wikipedia's coverage of both Guatemala and the music of Latin America.4meter4 (talk) 19:15, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

I think it's a great idea. I'll see if I can start a draft. –FlyingAce^✈hello 21:53, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Forced sterilization in Peru needs a lookover

The Forced sterilization in Peru page previously claimed as outright fact that USAID and other NGOs funded forced sterilizations. However as far as I can tell the academic consensus is that they didn't, and claims that they did come from right-wing organisations seeking to undermine birth control etc. I've cleaned it up a bit but it could really do with a full lookover to see if it reflects the academic consensus. There are probably quite a few other articles that repeat these claims as well. Eldomtom2 (talk) 19:58, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Credibility bot

As this is a highly active WikiProject, I would like to introduce you to Credibility bot. This is a bot that makes it easier to track source usage across articles through automated reports and alerts. We piloted this approach at Wikipedia:Vaccine safety and we want to offer it to any subject area or domain. We need your support to demonstrate demand for this toolkit. If you have a desire for this functionality, or would like to leave other feedback, please endorse the tool or comment at WP:CREDBOT. Thanks! Harej (talk) 17:41, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Operation Gideon (2020)#2020 Venezuelan coup attempt round III

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Operation Gideon (2020)#2020 Venezuelan coup attempt round III that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. WMrapids (talk) 04:36, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

@WMrapids: for transparency, when dealing with contentious topics, please consider leaving a note in the RM page stating the Wikiprojects that you have contacted.--ReyHahn (talk) 10:35, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

@ReyHahn: Never heard of this before, but I'll keep it in mind for future reference.--WMrapids (talk) 14:54, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

Women in X

There are several articles in this two templates:

with radically different structure. If anybody wants to coordinate a common structure please let us know here. ReyHahn (talk) 18:55, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon

Hello WikiProject Latin America:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 14:04, 21 September 2023 (UTC)