User talk:LaNicoya

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Thank you
Thanks for remaining cool and being a model Wikipedian while working on the Nicaragua article. Hopefully we can get it up to to A-Class status soon! I willing to help as much as I can, though I am busy as a bee with other things. I'll do my best though :) JeffreyN 23:55, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello
Thanks for getting in touch. I'm always glad to see more people interested in Cambodia and Khmer-related articles. First of all, about my comments, I was by no means suggesting that contributors who aren't (or aren't yet) college graduates don't produce valuable content. That couldn't be further from my beliefs. However I was expressing my concerns that, because of the lack of academics who are specialists in the area, the articles here are prone to POV commentary and inaccurate or misleading edits based on propaganda, myth/legend and cultural biases. One doesn't have to be college-educated to be NPOV and contribute verifiable facts. Anyway, my interests in Cambodia are mainly linguistics, history and socio-cultural issues.--William Thweatt Talk | Contribs 22:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Keep Up the Good Work
Hi LaNicoya, I was reviewing some of your recent Nicaragua/Managua edits. Thanks for all the great contributions! I am glad you are able to transcend some of the critisisms of people with closed minds.--Agrofe 15:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Re Template:Nicaragua topics
Hi Amy,
 * ''Thanks for fixing up the Nicaragua-related topics template, i had sort of a hard time trying to get it to look passable but you made it perfect. =)

Thanks to you for all the work needed to assemble it; I only added a few touches! It certainly looked more than passable when I happened to wander by.

Moving the flag to the top righthand corner and using the space below it might benefit smaller-sized broswer windows, but I think that can be tricky to achieve with Navbox generic at present (unless the first group of topics happens to use a few lines). Perhaps, though, Navbox generic could be edited to make this an option for any template. Any thoughts...? Best wishes, David (talk) 02:46, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Constitution of Nicaragua
Hi, I've nominated an article you worked on, Constitution of Nicaragua, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Did you know. You can see the "hook" for the article at Template talk:Did you know where you can improve it if you see fit. Regards,  howcheng  {chat} 21:32, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

.ogg recording
If you record using Audacity you can avoid the whole convert MP3 to OGG thing when you make your own recording. (It can probably convert too). You can find some help at WikiProject_Spoken_Wikipedia/Recording_guidelines with specific settings at User:.V./Audacity. I've done several pronunciations with Audacity, so feel free to ask if you need any help. - Mgm|(talk) 08:54, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The effects menu has an option that turns up the volume (I have no idea what they've called it in English as I have installed the Dutch version). Once it has the right volume, you can remove noise which the enhancement of the volume probably caused. - Mgm|(talk) 11:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I've added a template, but I noticed a problem. You say "this is released in the public domain", but you put a GFDL tag on it. Which is it? Also, why not upload to the commons? That way all the projects can use the file. - Mgm|(talk) 12:02, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Help please!
Hullo Amy, if you have the time could you have a quick look at my user page and tell me why I cannot get my name to up in a pretty box like your does? I have copied your and amended but it still doesn't seem to work. Thanks, Geoff. SmokeyTheCat 14:30, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your help Amy but I what I really want to get my username to come up in a neat box (like yours does) when I sign my name. (And other clever people here). I copied and pasted what I thought was the relevant section from your userpage but it still does not work. Am I just being stupid? Could you look at this please? If you have the time. The relevant section is at the bottom of my user page. Thanks. SmokeyTheCat 13:14, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to trouble you again Amy but am I missing something obvious? I can only get my name to come up in the nice little box if I copy and paste the whole thing into the talk pages. Surely it should appear when I just sign with four tildes? SmokeyTheCat 11:25, 19 June 2007 (UTC) You see? I have to paste in all this to get the desired effect?  SmokeyTheCat   •TALK• Surely that is too clumsy to be right? SmokeyTheCat 11:25, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Yah!  SmokeyTheCat   •TALK•  10:13, 20 June 2007 (UTC) Thanks!  SmokeyTheCat    •TALK•  10:13, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Para Tí, con mucho respeto: un ¡dorado y divino jazmín!
Thank you for the "Pisco Sour" after one of those I felt entirely anew. Now for you something from one of the best poets on the whole earth, one to whom José Santos Chocano would accompany in his lasts minutes right there in Nicaragua and goes like this:

VENUS(Dos estrofas) por Rubén Darío "El Príncipe de los Ingenios" Nicaragüense


 * En la Tranquila noche mis nostalgias amargas sufría.
 * En busca de quietud bajé al fresco y callado jardín.
 * En el oscuro cielo Venus bella temblando lucía,
 * como incrustrado en ébano un dorado y divino jazmín.


 *  ♥


 * A mi alma enamorada, una reina oriental parecía,
 * que esperaba a su amante bajo el techo de su camarín,
 * o que, llevada en hombros, la profunda extension recorría,
 * triunfante y luminosa, recostada sobre un palanquín.

La amistad es un divino tesoro, pero este "Jazmín" escrito por tu compatriota, es una joya que nunca jamás se marchitará ◙JMK◙

List of mammals in Nicaragua
In case you're interested. Yomangani talk 02:00, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

DYK
Thankyou LaNicoya for flying the Nicaraguan flag across WP. Keep it up! Blnguyen (cranky admin anniversary) 06:37, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Arnoldo
Can you serve as mediator in the Arnoldo Alemán article. Some editor has been doing some serious POV pushing, as stated by me and one other outside editor. Since it is not a popular page for editors, it is hard to get more than one voice on the matter. You seem respectable, NPOV, and knowledgeable about the topic. Thanks (note, editor has been warned about 3RR), Brusegadi 20:43, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Archive
Sorry for the delayed response. I have been taking an unintended wiki-break. See Help:Archiving a talk page for info on how to do it. As for when, I would encourage you to use your judgement. You are frequent contributor and have a good sense of proper edicate. Trust your judgement. SRICE13(TALK 05:26, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Managua Aug 11 edits
Hi LaNicoya:

I'm not completely clear about the verification rules so I thought I'd just kick this back to you.

I wanted to learn more about the two earthquakes that are said to have destroyed Managua. Once in the 30's and one in 1971. There were some edits on Aug 11th that left some information dangling without its original references. (Please forgive me if I read it incorrectly and am talking to the wrong user)

In the History section, the edits deleted the original references to both earthquakes. (To learn more about the earthquakes was the reason I visited the page). Without the original information, there is now a reference that no longer has it's precedent.

"The city was cleared, however it never returned to its previous state. The earthquake caused many of Managua's residents to find refuge in the outskirts of the city, and for fear of future earthquakes the centre of the city was never entirely rebuilt.but because the earthquake information is deleted, the reference to what it was rebuilt after no longer exists."

This is not meant to be a negative criticism - you seem to be an experienced and valuable contributor to Wikipedia. I very much appreciate all the people who work to maintain this great resource.

Thank you, SFHndymn 03:51, 18 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for responding so quickly and helping me understand Wikipedia. Now I know to click on the edit button and check the code. I know how to code - that makes it worse that I didn't send a link! I'm looking forward to exploring the links. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SFHndymn (talk • contribs)

Sockpuppets
If disruptive edits continue, you can ask for pages to be protected at WP:RFPP--semi-protection will stop IPs and newly registered accounts from editing an article. That often stops a sockpuppet attack. --Akhilleus (talk) 03:12, 23 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Not really--page protection will slow down the pace of the disruptive edits because registered accounts can't edit until 4 days after signing up, and it's also pretty easy to identify sock edits most of the time. Of course, the vandalism/disruption has to reach a certain level before admins will protect the page, and I haven't looked at the affected articles to determine if the problems are severe enough. Are there any articles besides Nicaragua that are being affected? --Akhilleus (talk) 03:20, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

TE gustaria colaborar en el Wikiproyecto Nicaragua?
Vi que muchos paises latino americanos tienen un "wikiproyecto" y dije yo, " porque no hacer uno sobre Nicaragua??" Lo cree hace dos horas pero no he agregado nada, porque trate de crear el WikiProject Nicaragua en ingles, pero no se porque siempre termina en un articulo y no en un proyecto asi que le pedi a un moderador que lo borrase.... Este es el link del Wikiproyecto|Wikiproyecto Nicaragua. Espero tu colaboracion y si puedes tambien invitar a otros usuarios para que colaboren ya sea en la version inglesa o espanola. (perdon por no poner los acentos, pero estoy en mi laptop).. Gracias! Alex 21:03 Hora del Pacifico 25 de agosto de 2007 —The preceding  signed but undated.

Hugs
My comments were directed to the IP, hence the indentation. I would not tell you that, If anything, you are too nice! Keep up the great work, Brusegadi 14:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Soy de Managua. Ahorita no estoy aya porque estoy estudiando aqui en gringolandia.  Si queres una historia mas elaborada avisame.  Ciao, Brusegadi 14:25, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Right now I am moving, so I have not spent much time here in the last few days. I'll write more soon. :) Brusegadi 04:07, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

QQ
Tell me, do you keep up with the current events in Nicaragua? Y, estas en la universidad? Brusegadi 05:21, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Hey, I never attended a university in Nicaragua. I attended High School in Nica, but I am attending college in the US. I prefer this because the quality of education here is much better and the degree much more marketable. My college advisers told me to apply to schools in the states. It was a dream to begin with. So I got lucky and was able to come here! Hope this answers your question and satisfies curiosity! Brusegadi 23:58, 4 October 2007 (UTC)


 * This is my senior year! So, I am stressed out with applications to graduate school.  Oh, its so stressful!!!  Hope everyhting is fine and that you are ok with my lag in responding... Brusegadi 23:26, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks for writing all the superb articles about Nicaragua topics. Griot 16:12, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Chinatowns in Latin America
Hi. First of, Thank you for editing off the extra information on the section. I do agree (partially) that there is excess information for the specific article. "Partially" because I consider that there are not enough references and information on the specific subject of Chinese in Panama to open a new article (IE: I have not seen any history book on Chinese in Panama). In fact I was waiting for someone to add more details with more references to do just that. To justify, much of the information provided on previous posts are debatable politically (Taiwan Biased), thus I tried the best as possible to leave the factual portions of the previous information and add some neutrality. I did leave the political situation, because I consider that the political role was/is important in the shaping of the socio-political-economical situation of Latin American Chinatowns.

I do wonder if you would reconsider adding back facts taken at face value: "Immigrants from Hong Kong and Guangdong province of China make up the majority of Chinese and Asians living in Panama." Mostly ethnic Hakka population anyways... Maybe a suitable change like "Immigrants from the South-east provinces of China make up the majority of Chinese and Asians living in Panama." is required

As to the other information on Politics and Statistics, where would you put them? would you reconsider relocating the information to another existing article? is there such article? Is there a bin where you can put the information meanwhile? <<-- I'm new editing Wikipedia. My background I've lived in Panama for more than 18 years, the fact above has been lived. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexlamf (talk • contribs) 02:06, 7 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Let me clarify something I had, previous post, read the POV and the OR terms on Wikipedia. And I also know that any user can delete (or tag something with ) if it has no source.
 * But then we are missing an important point. How can one question the lack of fact of the information, if one cannot find information online (besides Wikipedia) supporting it?
 * BTW all information (except for the last line posted "debatable" and the population of 200,000) is fact checked. It might not be online, but it is in my elementary school history books. Other facts like the majority of Asians are Southeast Chinese, is proven by the fact that I live in Panama since childhood and most of my acquaintances are of that heritage. (Biased? I belong to both Chinese social groups; Mainland and Taiwan, and participate actively in this community)
 * Note: If you check the historical of the page, you will see that most if not all the information hidden is from previous posts.

Just wanted to Clarify this, since your response seemed to say that I'm being biased (POV)
 * On the POV there is quote I think you should notice: "Of course any article can be "unbalanced" because contributors have more knowledge of, or are more interested in, particular aspects of a subject than in other aspects. This is not "wrong", but making such an article more balanced is encouraged. For example, suppose there is an article about highways that is mostly about the US. A German who encounters this should not complain about Americocentrism, but alter the article to approach the subject from a wider perspective: what can be said about highways in general, that applies worldwide? Begin the article with this, and then discuss the specific variations in different countries. "
 * This is what I was trying to explain to you in the first note, That I was balancing out the facts.

Thankyou Alexlamf 04:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Nicaragua
Hi. I really like what you did with the Nicaragua article, but I thought I should let you know that six of the external links do not resolve properly and appear to be dead. If you would like more information, please let me know. Danny (talk) 12:06, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

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(♠ Taifar ious1 ♠) 02:04, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Report at AIV
Hi. I have removed the following report from AIV, since the two accounts stopped editing some time previously. If Frank mad starts up again perhaps you should try WP:ANI, since that isn't so time critical (in both senses of the word) and there would be more eyes on the situation. FYI, I suggested that if the ip were Frank mad then the blocking of the ip would serve as an unambiguous warning to the Frank mad account. If someone questions lack of warning you could always take that approach. Cheers. LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:12, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 *  and I.P. are the same person. Both users have contributed to the same articles, vandalizing them repeatedly by removing sourced information and pushing POV. This can be seen in their contributions page. The I.P. has just been blocked for 3 months but the user is now using their user account (Frank mad) to continue vandalizing. Edits pushing POV on White Latin American by deleting the exactly same information by Frank mad  and the I.P.   are identical. This user will not communicate with other users who have tried to talk to them, including myself. This makes it hard to try to come to a mutual understanding, but in this case erasing info. is considered vandalism. The user and I.P. have been repeatedly warned and told to not remove the info; they still do so, and it is reverted, however, they come back hours later to do it again. I don't know what action should or can take place but this reverting every day has to come to an end. --  LaNicoya  •Talk•   LaNicoya (talk) 19:21, 27 December 2007 (UTC) 

Thanks for the concerns
However, there is no original research on the articles Panama and Economy of Panama. These are facts published by reliable sources. If you are speaking about Extreme Poverty, it is not my research, but just a comparison to a similar examples. Panama in 1999 wasn't a high development country, it had an HDI] 799 or less aas I can remember from a shut down source. Now, any country which enters the category will just count extreme poverty, a lame, yet real, example is [[Costa Rica (guess you have visited it)¡. It has 18% of poor habitants, compared to a higher number, another, more accurate example is Mexico which, as described in the article itself has a high level of relative poverty (similar to Panama, calculated when Mexico was medium developed) compared to today's one, which was calculated the same time but calculated extreme poverty. The development and internationla standards forced Mexico to omit the relative poverty since when a nation reaches a high level of HDI its relative poor population living standards upgrade along with those of standing medium and high class and it turns stronger, High class people become millionaires or elites, while medium class get high class or medium high class (or in the weakest example, stay like that) while relative poor people upgrade to a medium low class and therefore, are not poor anymore, that happened to Costa Rica, Mexico and Panama and standards now make Panama's population less poor by its "considered" part of the population in which just extreme poverty is counted.

THANKS AND HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR - FELIZ AÑO NUEVO! 201.218.82.97 (talk) 00:11, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Bacanalera
I think she is back, judging by the hostility of the edit summaries of the IP that used sources to include Nicaragua in the crime sections... and the sources did not even mention Nicaragua! You did a good job in catching that. Also, what is the IP above this section talking about, in reference to what article? They seems confused about what the HDI actually does... Take care, Brusegadi (talk) 07:23, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Did you see we went up on the HDI? Good thing. I hope we can keep things up despite the fact that we have been fighting each other (Nicaraguans) for the past four years. Politics over there is disgusting! Brusegadi (talk) 23:34, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Pedro Joaquin Chamorro
I totally missed that vandalism and just fixed the mispell. I'll pay more attention Next time. As always, thanks for the help.--Agrofe (talk) 00:39, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Nicaragua. Yes
Hola, Nicoya. Que habido? Nunca me imaginaba que era usted, pero es que tampoco puedo ver como el codigo suyo sale en la pagina que vemos los lectores. Pensaba que era alguien diciendo como "Viva, Niocaragua", Nicaragua, yes" pero la segunda vez chequeaé los editos de su IP y asi veía que era alguien en serio. Pues mirá esto. Vaya puesññ, SqueakBox 03:02, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Help
Hi I just wanna ask you for some advice, let me explain, recently I have looking for sources for Panama City, I`m working in the Cental America Project, and I have been citing some info, but there is an user that states that some (a few) of my references are wrong, I just cite as sources serious magazines, web pages and newspapers. So I don`t understand why he saids that certain references are wrong, anyway, the real problem is that instead changing the references or erase it, he or she just erase the whole section without care if the info the erase is actually true. I don`t have any problem if someone tell that my references are wrong, but I think that he should not erase the whole section especially if that section is actually kind of large. So I want to ask you if it right to erase a whole section just because some references maybe are wrong (I don`t know why they could be wrong, but if they are i will just look for better references). And if just have time could you check the Panama City references and give you opinior if they are wrong or not. Some refereces are in spanish as for example the City offficial page, but doesn`t mean that it is wrong, true? thanks Nando Cdl (talk) 04:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I award you with a Barnstar
Cocoliras (talk) 03:44, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Why are you modifying the poverty percentage in Panama
As a rule, a country with a high Human Development Index that falls over 0.8 is advanced, not industrialized but advanced only, since these countries have now basically developed, their poverty rate falls to include just Extreme Poverty, this is, again, since most highly developed countries slums and poor rural population have "industrialized" their households and standards of living to comply with that of the country. Since now it is basically "in another league" its poverty is just counted that ones that were in Extreme Poverty.

EN OTRAS PALABRAS, SI UN PAIS ES DE UN ALTO DESARROLLO HUMANO, LA GENTE VA A SER LO MISMO, LOS QUE FUERON CLASE MEDIA SE VUELVEN CLASES MAS ALTAS O AUMENTAN SUS PERTENENCIAS PARA INCLUIR LUJOS MIENTRAS QUE LOS QUE FUERON POBRES ALFIN TIENEN CASA, COMIDA, Y EDUCACIÓN (obvio que mala) PERO ASI ES.

Cocoliras (talk) 15:01, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

See: Poverty threshold to see that Panama's relative poverty is gone by now.

An example, most of what where slums and population earning less than 2100 USD's a day, is considered poor since most Panamanians earn 5000 or more. If you consider the quantity of 2100 several people do earn such and that takes at least 20% of the population another example (do not take as insult) is Nicaragua which earns only 800 USD's, if you compare it to Panama, nearly 70% of the population in Nicaragua would be considered poor. Since Panama compares itself with high developed countries and since it has a very uneven income distribution, Panama, when comparing to (e.g.: Costa Rica) in result Panama's population compared to minimun income of a highly non industrialized country gives Panama an almost undifferenced population, with the fact that most of the population in Panama's urban areas do not live in slums and in most provinces, rural population is even richer since Livestock is sometimes "federalized" and used just for themselves and since Omar Torrijos land redistribution program, most rural population in the provinces are sustainable, but comapring it to the Urban population, the Urban ones would go losing.

I hope I haven't twisted your brain to much, but that is, 20% of the population in Panama compared to high developed countries with the highest income (Panama guides basically from the US) was poor, however, taking what do people earn comapred to lower countries (Costa Rica) we would say, "Oh look at those indigents and look, their capital is a shantytown". Since Panama in the past had much more lower income its poverty was considered like it taking 20 percent since most of the population compared to higher countries of the same category was found to be very inferior to some. And when it ws turn of the weakest to compare, compared to us at the time, looked like crap.

Cocoliras (talk) 15:56, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Nicaragua group
I just changed the name of the Nicaragua work group to WikiProject Nicaragua. This was done so that, as a separate nation, it will be easier to list subprojects (which someone may very easily create later) and have them listed more easily as "subprojects" of this one. It should be noted that most if not all of the subprojects of WikiProject Australia are named in the same way. If you object to naming it as a separate project, however, please feel free to revert. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 00:10, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

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February 2008
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Demographic to Honduras
Wait im not doing vandalism though.Those edits are in the main pace for Honduras and look in the Afro-Latin American section youll see theve been there long before i did this —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.197.182 (talk) 04:18, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Women in Nicaragua
One editors of the Sandinista page insists on deleting all references to the improvements made to the lot of women in Nicaragua under the FLSN. Maybe you could look in on this page some time? Thanks  SmokeyTheCat </b>   •TALK•  09:30, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Category: Nicaraguan-Costa Ricans
I have notice your interest in articles about these two countries, then, I would like to make you a couple of requests:
 * (1) There is a brilliant Nicaraguan-Costa Rican scientist, Clodomiro Picado Twight (see the article in Wiki en Español), whose article in English was recently deleted by an administrator due to blatant copyright infringement. Can you help me to rescue this article, I already contacted the adm who did the speedy delete. I can start a new one from scratch by translating the article from Spanish, and you are welcome to joint in. The administrator is [User:Kurt Shaped Box]. Then we can add Dr. Picado to the category Nicaraguan-Costa Ricans.


 * (2) You have beem very active in both the articles about Costa Rica and Economy of Costa Rica, where you undit edits regarding sex tourism. I as commented in the Talk page, I do not think this is an issue to be included or expanded in the country article or economy article of any country. It belongs to the Sex tourism article, where the Costa Rican case is already discussed. Anyway, some weeks ago you undid my edit regarding this sentence "where it already amounts for 10% of the billion dollar tourism industry", which is follow by two references. The first one does not support that content, and I can not open the second one. I search through Google and was able to find the Tico Times article, but you have to pay to read it. So, since your argument for the undo was that proper reference exists, I kindly request to you the sources for that 10% figure, or can you provide an alternate access to the Tico Times article that presumably states that. Pura vida vecina, como muchos en CR, mi abuelos paternos son de origen nicaraguense y mi madre costarricense. Mariordo (talk) 21:08, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

I want to hear your opinions!
Dear LaNicoya! Nice to meet you!

I know that you are also a Chinese and I appreciate your contributions. In last days, in Religion in China has had controversies between me and Saimdusan (strong anti-Buddhism and Chinese religions). Please give us your opinions and let people know more about the truth of Asian culture. It's really needed!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Religion_in_China#The_heavy_influence_of_Buddhism_-_Chinese_religions_among_various_East_Asian_civilizations

Muchas Gracias!

Angelo De La Paz (talk) 11:52, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

= 67.86.197.182 =
Is at it again, I've gone through a large number of edits to Honduras, Hondurans, Demography of Honduras, etc. reverting unsourced changes to the statistics. However, I don't know how to get this person blocked. Can you educate me on how to do it? Thanks. Rsheptak (talk) 04:32, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey, I was going to ask you to take a look at User:67.86.197.182 but someone already came... To get him blocked, warning and then report to WP:ANI.  Brusegadi (talk) 08:10, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Hola
Hola, I finally meet someone from Central America on Wikipedia!--'' T r  U  C <font color="Black">o  -  X  01:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh probably because I edit in other areas. We live like so close to each other...El Salvador/Nicaragua.--'' T r  U  C <font color="Black">o  -  X  01:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Ok, gracias amiga.-- T r  U  C <font color="Black">o  -  X  03:34, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Backlog
Thanks for your message on my talk page. Unfortunately I probably cannot help you as I do not have checkuser access. --Kralizec! (talk) 20:08, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Afro Latin American
Hey, in the Afro Latin American article or section, can you list your source for the change in the Haitian population data. If you do not have a source, can you revert the changes or edit the section to leave out the information. I can look at the World Bank or other external sources (such as the CIA factbook) to see if there are any population breakdowns available that is recent (perhaps five to seven years) that may be useful. Without a source, any information that we place reflects are personal views and not the objective reality. My name is Chris and I am --Chriscarlos (talk) 08:37, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

SockPuppets == ==

Hi. I've been fighting the same sockpuppets who do the population demographics changes as you have. Do you know what's needed to file a Check User request on those IP accounts? They sure do look like Editor652 coming back from the banned. Rsheptak (talk) 21:47, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

References you requested for CRI
Hi amiga. I just provided the references regarding the assertion that one can view both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts from Costa Rica (and Panama, yes! you were absolutely right!). Please go to the Costa Rica Talk page. I hope the content on sex tourism in CR is settled as I noted you only included a wiki link. I will work a little bit on the Clodomiro Picado Twight articles very soon. Best regards Mariordo (talk) 18:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Chile edits
Please try to avoid flagging legit edits as vandalism, as you did with to my edit on Chile. I was actually reverting vandalism. ☆ CieloEstrellado 01:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Honduran72
This user has edited the numbers to 350,000 again on 2 articles and added an un referenced edit to another article.
 * Ethnic groups in Central America - Edited the population to 350,000 without references
 * Demographics of Honduras - Edited the population to 350,000 without references
 * Tegucigalpa - added an un referenced edit.

I understand that this user has made several acts of vandalism and this is a normal occurance with this user. AnnaJGrant (talk) 09:08, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello Is there anyone who will be able to tell me how to use the talk feature I got a message form juju and don't know how to respond. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Acaxual (talk • contribs) 11:04, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

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I need a moderator
Recently, a user called Cheeser1 has been editing in the San José, Costa Rica article, trying to undo the edits I'm doing to improve the quality of the article. I have tried to negotiate with him but he appears not to understand. I want you to look at both versions. The one made by me, and the other made by Cheeser1 and I want you to moderate the situtation so we can decide what version of the article stays in.

I would really appreciate your help here. 201.218.79.101 (talk) 16:15, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

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Nicaragua
We had an IP blanker in Nicaragua. It had gone unnoticed. Can you take a look at the article and see if something is missing? (you are more familiar with it than me :) ) Ciao,

Brusegadi (talk) 23:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

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Hello, Amy!
That's all! :) SamEV (talk) 08:30, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

The Latin-American Wikipedia Meeting
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Wikipedia Loves Art
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Costa Rica or Japan
Hi there. I thought you might be interested in participating in the discussion here--Mariordo (talk) 13:36, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

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hola nicoya me fue mujy imposible localirle, tenemos una imagen de la pagina de macua mas actualizada, y quisiera saber si es posible que la puedas actualizar — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.1.11.210 (talk) 00:05, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

hola que tal nicoya espero que estes muy bien soy fie seguidor de tus publicaciones. me comunico con usted para decirle que estaba leyendo la publicacion del macua y pues la fotografia que tiene en el perfil esta muy vieja, tengo una mas actualizada, me gustaria poder enviartela, regalame tu correo para poder poder hacer el cambio — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.1.11.210 (talk) 00:13, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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