User:Letcreate123/Guide for Spanish Wikipedians

If you have been targeted here is because you recently came from the Spanish Wikipedia and you may need familiarization with our policies because there are some differences.

General

 * In the Spanish Wikipedia, users are not allowed to remove comments or blank their user talk pages, however in the English Wikipedia this is allowed (with a few exceptions stated at WP:BLANKING).
 * In the Spanish Wikipedia, sysops are reffered as bibliotecarios (librarians in english), but here they are reffered as administrators (administradores in spanish).
 * In the Spanish Wikipedia, there are two deletion processes; speedy deletion and deletion discussions. Here, on the English Wikipedia, there is an additional process called proposed deletion (usually stylized as PROD), in which an article can be deleted after a PROD tag remains in an article for 7 days, then an administrator can contest the PROD or delete the article. Non-admins may contest the PROD too, and it may also be done before the PROD expires.
 * Technically, in the Spanish Wikipedia, the "WP:" prefix does not redirect to the "Wikipedia:" prefix but it is still used for redirects to Wikipedia pages. On the English Wikipedia, the "WP:" prefix does redirect to the "Wikipedia:" prefix and as such things are a lot easier.
 * The highest sanction level in form of a block, in the Spanish Wikipedia, is permanent, which means that the user is not allowed to edit the Spanish Wikipedia and is not a community member anymore there. In the English Wikipedia, however, that level of sanction is a ban, which may be imposed by the community or the Arbitration Commitee, the highest sanction level in form of a block is instead indefinite, meaning the user is unable to edit Wikipedia but they are still a member of the community and may request an unblock later.
 * Compare the Spanish Wikipedia's way of formatting vandalism reports to the English Wikipedia's. You may have noted a radical difference. That is, that when a user reports a vandal at the Spanish Wikipedia, they have to make a sub-section to report them, with 4 bullets, named after "Possible vandal", "Reason for report", "Reporting user" and "Administrative action" (only for administrators), which can be a little bit complex compared to the English Wikipedia's way of doing so, all it takes is to add a bullet under the "User-reported" sub-section, use IPvandal or vandal, put your reason for reporting and put your signature. Also, when the vandal is blocked, the report is automatically removed by a bot, and the reports are usually contested using AIV, and the bot may remove them after a considerable amount of time.
 * On the Spanish Wikipedia, consensus was gained near the end of 2008 to delete the templates "Esbozo" ("Stub"), "Miniesbozo" ("Ministub") and "Expandir" ("Expand", or looking at the purpose of that template, "Empty section"), altrough "Esbozo" was retained for historical reference. But look here. There is stub, which differs radically from the Spanish Wikipedia version because it is just plain italic text, while the Spanish Wikipedia version was a green Ombox, making it pretty much annoying. That template was never nominated for deletion, altrough the Ministub template never existed. The empty section template was nominated for deletion twice, the first one being closed as Delete, but later overturned to No consensus per this deletion review, and the second one closed again as No consensus.

User warnings
In the Spanish Wikipedia, user warnings are prefixed with "Aviso foo" and written like this:
 * ''Commons-emblem-legal.svg Hola, Aviso prueba 1. Estamos encantados de que Wikipedia haya atraído tu atención y de que te hayas interesado en aprender a editar en ella. La prueba de edición que has hecho en «es:Foo» funcionó; sin embargo, deberías tener en cuenta que el objetivo de este proyecto es desarrollar una enciclopedia fiable y completa que todos puedan consultar. Tu edición afectaba al contenido, por lo que ha sido retirada.
 * ''Commons-emblem-legal.svg Hola, Aviso prueba 1. Estamos encantados de que Wikipedia haya atraído tu atención y de que te hayas interesado en aprender a editar en ella. La prueba de edición que has hecho en «es:Foo» funcionó; sin embargo, deberías tener en cuenta que el objetivo de este proyecto es desarrollar una enciclopedia fiable y completa que todos puedan consultar. Tu edición afectaba al contenido, por lo que ha sido retirada.


 * Si quieres aprender a editar en Wikipedia, la zona de pruebas está a tu disposición. Si tus comentarios eran específicos a un artículo el sitio correcto es la página de discusión del mismo. Estaríamos encantados de contar contigo como colaborador del proyecto; consulta el artículo sobre es:Wikipedia y nuestra página de bienvenida para más información. Gracias.''

On the English Wikipedia, they are prefixed with uw- and written like this
 * Information.svg Hello, I'm ToonLucas22. An edit that you recently made seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!

Noticed the differences? The enwiki warning used File:Information.svg and the eswiki warning used File:Commons-emblem-legal.svg, which is currently being used for arbitration notices in the English Wikipedia.

User warnings for other problems such as unreferenced do not exist on the English Wikipedia, altrough deletion notices do exist.

Other differences between warnings include:

Speedy deletions
On the Spanish Wikipedia, the criteria is written like this (taken from eswiki "Destruir" template documentation):


 * General:
 * G1. Vandalismo.
 * G2. Violaciones de etiqueta. Véase es:Wikipedia:No hagas ataques personales.
 * G3. Página de promoción, autopromoción, publicidad o que contiene muchos elogios innecesarios que no le permiten tener una redacción neutral.
 * G4. Páginas de pruebas de edición.
 * G5. Páginas con información falsa aparentando tener un contenido confiable. Véase es:Wikipedia:No crees bulos
 * G6. Plagios obvios. (Categoriza en es:Categoría:Wikipedia:Plagios obvios)
 * G7. Páginas de discusión huérfanas.
 * G8. Borrado para dejar sitio para traslado.
 * G9. Recreación de material borrado.
 * G10. Mantenimiento elemental.
 * G11. A petición del autor.
 * Artículos:
 * A1. Violación de la política de lo que Wikipedia no es.
 * A1.1 Sólo enlaces externos o internos, listas innecesarias o galerías de imágenes sin texto.
 * A1.2 Página movida a otro proyecto de la es:fundación Wikimedia.
 * A1.3 Investigaciones originales.
 * A1.4 Ensayos de opinión.


 * A2. Infraesbozo.
 * A3. Páginas sin traducir o traducciones automáticas.
 * A4. Artículos sin interés enciclopédico.
 * A5. Duplicados.
 * Redirecciones:
 * R1. Redirecciones a páginas inexistentes.
 * R2. Redirecciones desde un espacio de nombres a otro.
 * R3. Redirecciones automáticas innecesarias.
 * Categorías:
 * C1. Categorías vacías.
 * C2. Categorías trasladadas o renombradas.
 * C3. Categorías que violan la política de categorías.
 * Páginas de usuario:
 * U1. A petición del propio usuario.
 * U2. Si el usuario con dicho nombre no existe.
 * U3. Uso indebido de páginas de usuario.
 * Plantillas:
 * P1. Plantilla de navegación que viola la política.
 * P2. Subpágina de documentación de plantilla huérfana.
 * P3. Plantillas de un solo uso.

Here is the list of differences with the Spanish Wikipedia:
 * G1 on eswiki is G3 here.
 * G2 on eswiki is G10 here.
 * G3 on eswiki is G11 here.
 * G4 on eswiki is G2 here.
 * G5 on eswiki is a G3 variant here.
 * G6 on eswiki is G12 here.
 * G7 on eswiki is a G8 variant here.
 * G8 on eswiki is a G6 variant here.
 * G9 on eswiki is G4 here but only for material deleted per a deletion discussion. Material that has been speedily deleted may be retagged only if it meets specific criteria here.
 * G10 on eswiki is G6 here.
 * G11 on eswiki is G7 here.
 * A1 on eswiki is not a speedy deletion criteria here. If you believe a page here violates what Wikipedia is not, nominate it for deletion.
 * A2 on eswiki is A1 here. There is also a related criteria called A3.
 * A3 on eswiki is A2 here but a page will only be deleted as such if it is in a foreign language already on a project (e.g. the French Wikipedia). Pages not translated that are not in another project may be tagged with not English
 * A4 on eswiki is A7 here, and has some brother criterias called A9 and A11.
 * A5 on eswiki is A10 here.
 * R1 on eswiki is a G8 variant here.
 * R2 on eswiki has the same name here.
 * R3 on eswiki is not a speedy deletion criteria here, but has a related criteria also called R3.
 * C1 on eswiki has the same name here.
 * C2 on eswiki has the same name here.
 * C3 on eswiki is not a speedy deletion criteria here. If a category violates the policy on categories, nominate it for deletion.
 * U1 on eswiki has the same name here.
 * U2 on eswiki has the same name here.
 * U3 on eswiki is not a speedy deletion criteria here, but there is a related criteria called U5.
 * P1 on eswiki is not a speedy deletion criteria here. A navbox violating policy should be nominated for deletion instead.
 * P2 on eswiki is a G8 variant here.
 * P3 on eswiki is not a speedy deletion criteria here. These may also be nominated for deletion instead.

There are also some new criteria here not noted on the Spanish Wikipedia:
 * G1 - Patent nonsense. Basically a page consisting of entirely incoherent text or gibberish with no meaningful content or history may be speedily deleted.
 * G5 - Creations by banned or blocked users. A page created by a banned or blocked user in violation of his ban or block with no substantial edits by others may be speedily deleted.
 * G9 - Office actions. The Wikimedia Foundation Office reserves the right to speedily deleted a page temporarily in some circunstances. Such deletions should not be undone without permission from the foundation.
 * G13 - Abandoned Articles for Creation submissions. An AFC submission not edited in over 6 months may be speedily deleted. If you wish to retrieve an abandoned submission, request undeletion at WP:REFUND/G13.
 * A5 - Transwikified articles - Certain types of articles already transwikified to another project may be speedily deleted.
 * A11 - Obviously made up. An article that plainly indicated that the subject was invented, discovered or coined by the creator and does not credibly claim the significance of the subject may be speedily deleted.
 * U3 - Non-free galeries. If an userpage contains non-free images, these images are usually deleted, but if the userpage consists of a gallery of non-free images, it should be speedily deleted instead.
 * Speedy deletion criteria for files and portals also exist.