Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/Hispanic and Latino Americans task force/Mexican-American task force

Overview and Scope
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Mexican-Americans and Chicanos. This page and its subpages contain their collaborative efforts and projects; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. See the To Do List for current tasks that need attention. ¡Gracias!

This project encompasses all aspects of the experience of Mexican-Americans in the United States, such as culture, history, politics, and the arts. It covers the experience of the Hispano people, the descendents of the original Spanish and Novo-Spanish settlers of the Southwest, as well. Biographies of all people identified as either Mexican-American or Hispanic should always be included.

Goals

 * 1) Create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Mexican Americans and Chicanos in the United States.
 * 2) Correct misinformation and bias found in Mexican-American and Chicano related articles. Many existing articles need expansion or complete rewrites, with many more sources, especially academic sources.  Simply using good sources would counteract a great deal of the problems with these articles.
 * 3) Standardize articles on Mexican-American and Chicano subjects.  They should have similar layout, formatting, etc.
 * 4) Include all relevant information, making especially certain to include the often underrepresented voices of women, the poor, indigenous peoples, and all the rest of the chusma (provide the information is properly sourced: Wikipedia cannot use information that is not recorded and readily accessible to scholars, no matter how vital it may be).
 * 5) Standardize the use of Spanish-language terms, names, and translations into English across the series.
 * 6) Promote Chicano, the Chicano Movement, and Mexican-American to featured article status.
 * 7) Add your goal ideas here, or discuss them on the Talk page.

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Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Latinos, inclusive of Mexican Americans, and also including all Americans of Hispanic or Latino descent and their culture.
 * WikiProject Ethnic Groups
 * At the Spanish language Wikipedia: es:Wikiproyecto:Estados Unidos is a good place for bilingual editors to get information on Mexican American topics under-represented here.

Associated Portals

 * Portal:Hispanic and Latino Americans
 * Portal:United States
 * Portal:Mexico
 * Portal:Latin America

Hispanic Wikipedians

 * Category:Mexican-American Wikipedians
 * Category:Puerto Rican Wikipedians

Participants

 * See also: Hispanic and Latino American task force members

Member userbox
You may place  on your user page to display the following userbox:

This template will add your user page to: For other United States user templates, please see:
 * Category:Mexican-American task force participants
 * Userboxes/Location/United States

To Do List

 * To Do List – This is our "to-do" list of tasks to be completed. The list includes requested articles, a complete list of Stub articles to be expanded, and other lists of articles which need attention.

Conventions

 * /Conventions – Direct link to page detailing the above conventions

Assessment

 * /Assessment – Our rating system

Project statistics

 * Project statistics – direct link to page of statistics for our rating system
 * User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Mexican-American, even more direct link

Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
 * To list an adopted article here, add  *Article name: User:User name (dd/mm/yy)  below this line

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Navigation templates

 * Chicano and Mexican American topics horizontal navigation template to place at the bottom of articles
 * Chicano and Mexican American topics sidebar vertical navigation template, to place on the right hand side of articles
 * Chicano and Mexican-American series vertical navigation template, to place on the right hand side of articles
 * Chicano Language language navigation template

Related navigation templates

 * Hispanic and Latino Americans vertical navigation template, to place on the right hand side of articles

Stub templates

 * Chicano-stub

Talk pages
Type: on an article's talk page to create an infobox identifying this project. It will generate the following:

Userpages
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New Wikipedia articles related to Mexican/American and Chicano Topics
Please feel free to list your new Mexican-American/Chicano-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

New article announcements:
 * May 2015
 * María Guillermina Valdes Villalva


 * April 2015
 * Maya Christina Gonzalez
 * Barbara Carrasco
 * Jacinto Quirarte
 * Mel Casas
 * Victor Ochoa
 * Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation


 * March 2015
 * Santa Barraza
 * Yreina Cervantez
 * Nepantla

Resources

 * Mexican American bibliography
 * Handbook of Texas Online
 * Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art