Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Central America/Archive 1

Time to Begin?
Is there some other "formal step" that we need to go through to begin, or can we get this project started?
 * Thanks Badbilltucker Srice13 04:44, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

I took a crack at and. I'm not emotionally connected to the icon, colors, etc. so please feel free to modify. I do like the notion of sorting the importance and quality through the project template. This seems like a reasonable way to make a quick first pass at rating articles. I realize this adds some overhead to tagging a page, but I think it reduces the overall labor requirement, as a page can be tagged and rated in a single pass.

I propose we get started with the tagging. Once we have a better idea concerning the count and quanlity of the existing set of articles, we should develop a plan of attack. Any comments? Srice13 01:58, 16 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Good to see this starting up on a region with a lot of patchy coverage, at present.


 * Just to note, geographically at least there is considerable overlap between this project and WikiProject Mesoamerica, ie would include all bits of Mesoamerica not actually in Mexico, presumably. That's not a bad thing- many hands, etc- and WP:MESO has a primary focus on pre-Columbian/conquest-era history, peoples, langs, &c., while WP:CAMERICA I guess would look firstly at more contemporary topics. I'm just wondering whether in some cases, eg arch. sites or pre-Columbian cultures, it might be redundant and/or duplicative effort for both projects to tag, assess, etc certain of these articles...?


 * Inviting any comments or thoughts; in any case it should not be a problem to coordinate standards, guidelines and activities between the two.--cjllw | TALK  07:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree that it may not make sense for both projects to aggressively work the same articles. There are even a few members common to both projects. As for the tagging, it still may be worth while to "double tag" for the same of completeness. I suppose we could WikiProject Central America ¬ WikiProject Mesoamerica, but we would then risk having some articles fall through the cracks. What if we set the WikiProject Central America/Assessment criteria so that articles covering topics contained within the Meso project are assigned a low priority? This would serve to ensure that articles are identified, but given much focus. I've been on a tagging spree, and don't mind hitting all of the articles. I think I will be able to complete tagging within the next week, so the extra work is not a big deal. Srice13 01:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Fair enough, that sounds reasonable if you're happy to carry on with the tagging. Equally there are some generalist Cent.Am articles (eg History of Guatemala) where the pre-Columbian aspect is only a portion of the article's scope, and from a WP:MESO point of view there'd only be the need for some fact and consistency checking on the relevant paras. The rest has pretty much been left alone, and I think it would make sense for WP:CAMERICA to have priority and focus in those other topics. Combined, and with as you point out some dual participation we should have all bases covered. Speaking from experience keeping a wikiproject going particularly at the start is a lot of work, but I think keep going and it'll soon develop its own meter. Nice work so far!--cjllw | TALK  03:23, 26 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I think double tagging is a bad idea. It already takes an entire screen page to see those project tags and some pages now have three or even four tags already. Alternatively isn't there a small or invisible way to tag articles that have already ben tagged?·Maunus· tlahtōlli  09:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm fine with a small tag. My interest is defining the scope and boundaries of the project. I believe there is a valid overlap between the two projects, as evidenced by the varying levels of importance between the two. I don't know enough about the software to create multiple templates that point to the same project, or a way to make the visual presentation of a banner change based on a tag variable (e.g. class=stub|importance=mid|size=small). If someone does, and the group thinks that is the right way to spend volunteer energy, then let's do it. Personnaly I don't banner covered talk pages is a big deal. Most casual users don't know that talk pages exist. Most users that frequent talk pages know how to quickly skip past banners.Srice13 16:45, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm one of the people who has their name down for both this project and the Meso-American one (although currently sitting on the sidelines of both, I'm afraid). On reading the above discussion, I thought I should chip in with a thought of my own. To quote cjllw a little way up the page: WP:MESO has a primary focus on pre-Columbian/conquest-era history, peoples, langs, &c., while WP:CAMERICA I guess would look firstly at more contemporary topics... cjllw is talking about overlap between the two projects here, but in that case we had better also be on the lookout for cases of non-overlap - we don't want things slipping through the cracks and ending up ignored. One example already mentioned would be the parts of the Guatemala article covering contemporary history. Okay, but let us also not forget "pre-Columbian/conquest-era history, peoples, langs, &c." for parts of Central America not within Meso-America, i.e. basically the southern half of CA.

Take (southern) Central American indigenous peoples and languages, for example. Since there is already a "mainstream" attitude in Central American society generally (apart from Guate, maybe) in which most people care f**k all (excuse me) about the indigenous people's present or past culture, languages and identity (except for "folkloric", "token" and largely insincere purposes), I emphatically hope that such an attitude is not going to be simply repeated and reflected by the set of interests and general focus of WP:CAMERICA because of a decision to "look firstly at more contemporary topics". By the way, I consider that indigenous peoples ARE a "contemporary" topic, but anyway... Any comments? Cheers, Alan--A R King 06:58, 5 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Even is we're overlapping with WP:MESO in terms of tagging, there is a LOT of actual page editing to do before we have to worry about any turf wars. Not to put down the important organizational work you guys are doing, but I'm eagerly awaiting some help on some of our top priority articles that need to be heavily edited, sourced, and expanded. Feeeshboy 17:14, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed!!! Instead of a battle between Meso and CA, we should unite against our common enemy. Oops, I meant to link to our real enemy. Srice13 17:18, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * LOL. The Judaean People's Front!?!?Feeeshboy 02:50, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I officially declare (at least in my own mind) this entire talk section to be wiki-closed, and the Meso / CAmerica overlap thread to be wiki-moot. For better or worse I have wiki-tagged more than 4,000 articles in the name of WP:CAmerica, and I am wiki-tired. As I mentioned on the Assessment talk page, if you disagree with my assessment of an articles quality or importance, please feel to change it. If you have quastions about my rationale or think that I would benefit from some additional education or points of view, please feel free to contact me (here or on my talk page). If you just want to complain or tell me that I suck, please start a new thread here. SRICE13(TALK 17:18, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Well done on a good effort, SqueakBox 17:18, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Gracias SRICE13(TALK 17:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

What's Next?
Now that the start-up stuff is done (populate /Articles page, & tag articles), it is time for some real WikiProject magic. Where should we begin? SRICE13(TALK 17:18, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Our top-priority pages need a lot of work, so why not start there? Of the main pages for the nations of Central America, not one is rated higher than a B class (and Panama is listed as a start class article). Also, Central America itself is listed as a start class. These pages need a lot of clean-up, but most of all, they need referencing. Some of that work would be best done for multiple pages at a time, i.e. good sources on the Mayans are needed for several different articles. We also would do well to translate some content in from the Spanish wikipedia versions of some pages, as they are generally far more developed than ours. I don't speak Spanish, so I'm going to be wikiworthless on that front.
 * Many wikiprojects use a "collaboration of the week" (or of the fortnight or whatnot) format to concetrate efforts on one page at a time, and I have seen that work well. An organized wikiproject is a motivated wikiproject. If the collaoration of the week is agreed upon, I suggest that our flagship page, Central America, should be the first area of focus. Feeeshboy 22:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Sounds good to me. The Collaboration of [Time Period] concept is certainly worth a shot. A week may not be enough to get much done, but a month seems as though it would only limit the number of article that recieve focus. Perhaps a Collaboration of the Quincena? SRICE13(TALK 00:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I have invited the readers of Talk:Central America to weigh in on this discussion. Based on the early returns, the vote regarding Feeeshboy's nomination appears to be a landslide. If there are not any dissenting opinions by the end of the week, I think it is safe to say that silence = consensus. SRICE13(TALK 05:17, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Head of State Request for Input
After looking at some of the head of state articles for other countries and saw a couple things that could be done to improve the HOS artcles for central american countries. I would really like to get some feedback before I put more effort into this, as it was more time consuming that I originally thought :-p.

1. Develop and include a navigation template appropriate for each country. I created a sample version for guatemala that can be found here: User:Srice13/Template:GuatemalanPresidents. It is based on a similar template used for US Presidents

Questions for the group:
 * Does this seem like a reasonable thing to do?
 * The US template uses last names only; should the same be done for Central American heads of state?
 * If so, could someone please check my usage, and either correct the names that I butchered, or leave me a message and I will do it?

2. Update of the infobox templates on the few articles that use it, and add one for the pages without a box. I created one here for Óscar Berger using the InfoBox President format (a derivative of Infobox Officeholder). The one on the Berger page is already using that template, so the effort would be focused on spreading to the rest of the templates.

3. Add sucession boxes / migrate existing boxes to the format supported by WikiProject Succession Box Standardization e.g.


 * Template:s-start to start the wikibox
 * Template:s-bef to list predecessor
 * Template:s-ttl to show politcal office
 * Template:s-inc to show incumbent status
 * Template:s-aft to show successors
 * Template:s-non to show fields lacking predecessor and / or sucessor
 * Template:end to end the wikibox

sample for Óscar Berger:

Questions:
 * Does this format seem reasonable?
 * How should we handle interruptions in the flow of leaders (e.g. President of Guatemala has 3 lists or Presidents interrupted by juntas)?

4. Attempt to break apart the Head of State with a List of Heads articles into seperate articles. The current articles are:


 * Belize - List of Prime Ministers of Belize - Prime Minister of Belize redirects to the list.
 * Costa Rica - List of Presidents of Costa Rica - President of Costa Rica redirects to the list.
 * El Salvador - President of El Salvador - This page is currently little more than a list.
 * Guatemala - President of Guatemala - This page has a list, and the most recent election results.
 * Honduras - President of Honduras - This page is currently little more than a list.
 * Nicaragua - President of Nicaragua - This page is currently little more than a list.

The President (PM) of X articles would begin as stubs with the information currently posted, but there should be plenty of good information to add regarding the office itself. Questions:
 * Does this idea seem reasonable?
 * Is there a preferred structure for President (PM) of X articles?

5. Update the List of (Insert Country) (Insert Title) pages to use a common list format. I'm a fan of List of Presidents of the United States and created something similar for Guatemala here. The sample is missing a lot of information, specifically party affiliations, Vice Presidents, and images; therefore it would require more work before it is ready for deployment.

Questions:
 * Does this format seem reasonable?
 * Is there a better one out there?
 * Are there columns that should be added / removed / altered?
 * How should we handle interruptions in the flow of leaders?

Just a few thoughts in my spare time. Feedback is greatly appreciated. I don't want anyone to think that I am pushing an agenda, just following my interests. Srice13 22:36, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism and Recent Changes
Just a heads up to the group, please check recent changes from time to time. I haven't been able to monitor the page faithfully, but every time I do I find a fair amount of vandalism that is not caught by the standard vandal monitors. I would guess that most of the vandalism is sponsered by the CIA in an attempt to keep this project from making any real progress. Srice13 14:58, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I found some vandalism on the Costa Rica National Anthem page, someone added the lyrics to Kelis' song Milkshake, removed them and took a screen cap. I didn't know where to post it so I posted it here. Here's a link to the screencap. http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b167/Ogrim_Doomhammer/milkshake.jpg

Avyfain 04:45, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

San José de Colinas
I copied over the text from the Spanish language version of the article on San José de Colinas and ran it through a translator. Most of it came out as garbled nonsense but I took what I could and made it into the beginnings of page with some information. Needs a lot more work, however. --Ozgod 23:16, 14 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't bother translating the article anymore anyways. The Spanish version is VERY biased and its language sounds like Honduran slang instead of proper Spanish, which may be why the translator was so garbled. I agree new content must be added but I don't think the Spanish article has more to offer.Bernalj90 (talk) 20:17, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Indigenous peoples of central America
Almost all of the articles on central american countries south of Guatemala lack any kind of information about indigenous groups and their cultures and languages. And no thats not because they don't exist. I would appreciate it very much if some of all our project members would help me add articles on indigenous peoples and languages and add sections about indigenous peoples to the relevant articles such as the main country articles and articles about culture, history and demographics of the central american countries. ·Maunus· ·ƛ· 17:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure about other countries but Nicaragua has pages for almost all of the Indigenous groups. Miskito (along with Honduras) Garifuna (Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize) Sumo aka Mayangna, and Rama. I've also seen some for Honduras (see Category:Ethnic groups in Honduras) and Costa Rica's indigenous people but those are merely stubs (see Category:Ethnic groups in Costa Rica). Guatemala has a far higher number of Indigenous people than the all of the other countries in C.A.  LaNicoya    •TALK•  09:49, 12 May 2007 (UTC)


 * And have you checked out Category:Mesoamerican_cultures? There's quite a lot on the Pipil, for instance.  In general, the Mesoamerica Project has done a pretty impressive job on indigenous peoples and cultures, I think. Perhaps it's just a matter of putting in the appropriate links. --Jbmurray 10:40, 12 May 2007 (UTC)<

Very impressive. I posted a link to an interesting article about Miskito healers in the discusion page but it looks like no one put any effort into it. I really want to make it a sub-topic in the Miskito article so ill be working on that when I'm done with the Protected areas of Nicaragua. I can't seem to find a complete list of all the 78 protected areas, too bad. The pipil article is pretty long, looks good but unfortunately is unsourced, I'm sure there are many sources that can be found online and through a google book search. I'm mostly working on Nicaragua-related articles, this wikiproject page is the only thing that seems to have Nicaraguan-topics in its scope.  LaNicoya   •TALK•  10:58, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

There also indigenous peoples on the western or Pacific Coast side of Nicaragua. Although they may appear to be substantially more assimilated than the Maya peoples of Guatemala or the peoples of the east coast of Nicaragua that are listed above, they are still self- and externally-identified as "Indian." Anthropologists and historians have begun to add more to the literature on Indians. For ancient Mesoamerica, consult William R. Fowler Jr (1989) The Cultural Evolution of Ancient Nahua Civilizations: The Pipil-Nicarao of Central America (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press). For the colonial period, see Linda Newson's 1987, Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press). For an excellent historical anthropology survey of Indians of Central America and Mexico (also known as Mesoamerica) from the pre-Hispanic period to the present, consult the edited volume by Robert Carmack et al (1996), The Legacy of Mesoamerica (Prentice-Hall). Jeffrey L. Gould has written extensively on the "myth of mestizaje," i.e. the false notion that there are no longer any Indians on the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua because "race mixing" has produced a mestizo population. One especially important and accessible reference is Gould's (1998) To Die in this Way: Nicaraguan Indians and the Myth of Mestizaje, 1880-1965 (Durham: Duke University Press). Elizabeth Dore's (2006) Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua (Durham: Duke University Press) is a superb historical study of the indigenous community of Diriomo, located near Granada, Nicaragua. Harder to locate are books in Spanish by Nicaraguan anthropologist Mario Rizo's 1999 Identidad y Derecho: Los Titulos Reales del Pueblo de Sutiaba (Managua:INHCA-UCA), which is a detailed study of the indigenous community of Sutiaba, located as a barrio in Leon, Nicaragua, or Spanish anthropologist Javier Garcia Bresó's 1992 Monimbó: Una Comunidad India de Nicaragua (Managua:Editorial Multiformas), which is an ethnography of the indigenous barrio of Monimbó in the city of Masaya. Folklorist Katherine Borland has several articles about Masaya and Monimbó, especially the way that marimba dances were contested by indigenous dancers marginalized by town center middle-class folklorists and national-level performers in Managua during the Sandinista decade (1979-1990) and beyond. See, e.g., Borland's Marimba: Dance of the Revolutionaries, Dance of the Folk in Radical History Review, Issue 84 (Fall 2002), pp. 77-107. I don't have time to write all that could be written on this vast topic--plus I am writing my dissertation in cultural anthropology on religion and politics in Nicaragua during the neoliberal period at the end of the century (1999-2000) from the point of view of my ethnographic study in Monimbó and Masaya, Nicaragua. submitted by Cstanford55 18:39, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Antigua Guatemala
I know in thelate 1980's there was an event called "The Rose Parade and arathon de Volcan de Auga. Can you find out more about it please? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.9.7.195 (talk) 22:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC).

Someone who is familiar with El Salvador government ministries
A new article, Conculture is AfD at Articles for deletion/Conculture. From the article, it seems to be refering to the culture ministry in El Salvador, CONCULTURA, which stands for Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. Stop by if you have an interest in helping out or have an opinion. Thanks. Smmurphy(Talk) 07:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

2001 El Salvador earthquakes
I was awed to see an article about that was missing. So I created 2001 El Salvador earthquakes, please join in editing -- TheFE ARgod (Ч) 19:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

WP:ACID nom of Simón Bolívar
Hello WP Central America, I just realized I never alerted the relevant WikiProjects to the fact that Simón Bolívar is a current ACID nominee. I'm not trying to votestack, I just want all of you to be aware of this and those that are interested can help out. Best, Fbv65 e del / ☑t / ☛c || 02:20, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject El Salvador
Please visit WikiProject El Salvador. Chris 22:36, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry to remove the tag, but it's backwards: WPES is within the scope of CAMERICA, not the other way around. -- Groggy Dice T | C 00:49, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Request for input re Central American Crisis
I've just opened up a discussion regarding the scope & title of the new article Central American Crisis, and I just want to be sure that folks who are interested in participating know it's happening. Cgingold 20:43, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Category:Nature reserves of Costa Rica
I have nominated Category:Nature reserves of Costa Rica at CFD for renaming to Category:Nature reserves in Costa Rica. The discussion is at Categories for discussion/Log/2007 April 5. Hopefully uncontroversial! Angus McLellan (Talk) 12:54, 5 April 2007 (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? 18:53, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Giant Cheese Day
Would anyone with knowledge of Guatemala like to weigh in on Giant Cheese Day?--Fisherjs 10:14, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Latin cultures
Hello everyone! You may want to go to Latin cultures an participate in the article and discussion. There are a lot of disputed statements... The Ogre 12:39, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Help with Battalion 316
I just started an article on Battalion 316, the Honduran Death Squad from the 1980s. Please come over and make additions.Notmyrealname 16:38, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Project banner modification
Just FYI, I've implemented (correctly, I hope) the code in the WikiProject Central America banner to make it compatable with WikiProjectBannerShell, which may be used to 'collapse' multiple project banners if a talk pg is becoming a little crowded with three, four, or more of these. See the doco at WikiProjectBannerShell for details on purpose and usage.--cjllw ʘ  TALK 06:41, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Latin American Studies
I've been creating a bunch of pages (mostly stubs) on Latin American Studies: see Category:Latin_American_studies. Would anyone be interested in helping me add to these and fleshing them out? Is there another good place to look for volunteers? --Jbmurray 18:40, 8 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if I should take the fact that I haven't heard any response to this suggestion to mean that this project is at least temporarily dormant? --Jbmurray 09:27, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Protected areas and conservation in Belize
I don't see a list of newly tagged articles, so I'll just drop a note here. There's what looks like a good new article by a brand new user at Protected areas and conservation in Belize. I'd recommend that anyone knowledgeable have a look and see how it could be further improved. ··coe l acan 08:06, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

???
What's up with the and I quote, "I don't like Molly Todd P." ? --jessie&lt;3 23:42, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Cost of living...?
Hello!

Does anyone know what the current cost of living in Puerto Cabezas is?

Any information would help!

Thanks! Maroubra247 08:34, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

Héctor López
I got a failed GAC nomination review for Héctor López mainly based on the fact that I have no information on him from before age 23. Do you recommend a source for further information?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 04:58, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Task force?
I note that there is a proposal at WikiProject Council/Proposals which seems to have enough support to make a viable task force? Would the members of this project be interested in creating such a task force? John Carter 18:23, 14 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I have no objections, though El Salvador exists as a full WikiProject rather than a task force. However, I honestly have to say that this WikiProject has not really taken off. There was a great drive to banner and assess articles, but I'm pretty much working on the same types of articles I was before, without regard for their importance rating. There really hasn't been any central coordination or collaborative article writing. A few people have posted here to request input on entries, but generally haven't gotten any. Occasionally I may be alerted to an interesting article by watching the log of newly bannered/assessed articles, but pretty much that's the only benefit I can think of. I would prefer a task force to a new project, but don't think that they'd be joining a thriving project. -- Groggy Dice T | C 05:29, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree with that, this is not a thriving project, and the Salavador project seems to have been from a solitary user. Thanks, SqueakBox 05:37, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * At this point, I can't disagree with the statements myself. For what it's worth, at this point my own personal primary goal is to try to help get as many articles assessed or within the scope of a project as possible. I have comparatively recently found at least a few articles which qualify as at least B class which hadn't been tagged or assessed at all yet. I've even found at least one article with probably B-class content which was at the time completely uncategorized, and still have a long way to go to finish there. If you think merging this project itself into a larger Latin America or other project would work, I wouldn't have any objections myself. If and when I get closer to finished, though, it is my definite intention to work on improving as many of the most important articles of all projects as I can reasonably contribute to. John Carter (talk) 16:30, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Fantastic. I don't think merging to a larger Latin American project is necessary. I'll just keep working especially on Honduras but to a lesser extent on Guatemala, and yeah there is good work being done, certainly on Honduras related projects, but by people who tend not to be aware of the project and edit only these areas. Thanks, SqueakBox 16:37, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

LAFTA
The wiki entry on LAFTA is very limited and states very little about the actual organization, thus I have expanded it to make it more informative and have also added some very useful links to the existing page.--CarlosM123 (talk) 23:54, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello
I don't know how this works, but can I join this project, in the last few hours I created Somoto, Rationing in Nicaragua, Aubry Campbell Ingram, Joseph Harrison, and Municipalities of Madriz Template and I'd like to contribute more to this project. Zenofwar (talk) 04:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Entry
Jbmurray's entry seems to be in the middle of naomi's entry. Or maybe it's vice versa? I don't know. Someone may want to fix this. DO56 (talk) 20:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

I wanna join
Hi, well I has been watching this project and I would like to paticipate, especially with the demographics and Economy section.64.215.122.253 (talk) 21:48, 20 January 2008 (UTC) Oh sorry I forget to sign in Nando Cdl (talk) 21:49, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Just add your name to the WikiProject Central America section. We would be very grateful for your involvement. John Carter (talk) 21:53, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

thanksNando Cdl (talk) 03:53, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Comments
Hi I`m currently working into expand Panama City and I would ask everybody as a favor, please see Panama City, Panama page, and leave any comment or suggestion about how to improve it in the Talk page. If posible it would be nice if someone make a To Do List as a guideline. Thanks. Nando Cdl (talk) 03:51, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Hector Lopez picture
Can anyone tell me if this is Hector Lopez. Please drop a note on my talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 22:23, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Honduras national Anthem lyrics
Hi. We have articles claiming that both Rafael Coello Ramos and Augusto Coello were *the* author of the lyrics of Honduras' national Anthem. Himno Nacional de Honduras says it's Augusto Coello... which is correct? Enjoy! - Nabla (talk) 02:59, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

El Senor Presidente
In case this project is keeping track of the status of Central American articles, I thought I would mention that El Senor Presidente, a book by Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias is now a Feature Article. On the article's talk page it mentioned that the article was in the scope of this project... so I just thought I would mention in. The novel will appear on Wikipedia's mainpage on Cinco de Mayo. Cheers!--Mfreud (talk) 17:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Nicaragua in the Dutch Empire
Hello everyone! There is a discussion at Talk:Dutch Empire, because user Red4tribe has made a map of the Dutch Empire (Image:Dutch Empire 4.png) that includes parts of Nicaragua. Would you like to comment? Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 16:27, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * New Map Image:Dutch_Empire_new.PNG http://www.colonialvoyage.com/ (Red4tribe (talk) 16:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC))
 * Still OR, POV and unsourced. Please discuss stuff at Talk:Dutch Empire. This was just a request for comment, not a discussion. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 16:34, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Colonial Voyage is the source (Red4tribe (talk) 16:35, 26 April 2008 (UTC))
 * Not a credible source. Please discuss stuff at Talk:Dutch Empire. This was just a request for comment, not a discussion. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 16:37, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Still OR, POV and unsourced (yours is not not a credible source). Please discuss stuff at Talk:Dutch Empire. This was just a request for comment, not a discussion. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 16:40, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

http://www.colonialvoyage.com/ http://www.colonialvoyage.com/biblioDAfrica.html (Red4tribe (talk) 16:42, 26 April 2008 (UTC))

Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested
Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 21:13, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 710 of the articles assigned to this project, or 13.4%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-06-18.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subsribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

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Spam
I just want to let the members of this project know that several people have started to include links in specific words or to write short phrases in articles about Costa Rica and other Central American countries to promote their commercial Web sites. This is a problem that I recently have detected and unfortunately is increasing in all of wikipedia. To be honest this is becoming quite annoying and can ruin this great Web site. I deleted the promotional links that were created on the article regarding the Culture of Costa Rica but these people are persistent and they may come back. I kindly ask the moderators to keep an eye on these spammers and to watch out for this kind of links. If you want you can check the kind of links the spammers created, just go to the article and use the history tab to compare versions.--196.40.38.118 (talk) 05:30, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Central America
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Latin American cinema task force
A Latin American cinema task force has been proposed at WP:FILMS, which would include the cinema of Central America. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 20:21, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Palmares Canton
I just want to advertice that this article is amazingly wrong, posibly due to vandalism, right now it's imposible for me try to fix it cause I don't have the necessary time. BR --Shamhain (talk) 20:26, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

I did what I could to remove all the vandalism and utterly absurd content of the article, but a serious cleanup and protection may still be needed. It's clear there's about three editors (ironically enough from Palmares) that like to mess with the page.--Bernalj90 (talk) 21:13, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

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Costa Rican expert needed
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Nicaragua–South Ossetia relations
Hi group, Nicaragua–South Ossetia relations is currently up for AfD at Articles for deletion/Nicaragua–South Ossetia relations. As this is article is within the scope of this project, editors are of course welcome to voice their opinions at the AfD page. Cheers. --Russavia Dialogue 10:04, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

List of indigenous artists of the Americas
I created this as a companion to Native American art. Even while reading scholarly works on Latin American art, it's a challenge to determine who is and who is not Native or Mestizo among artists from Latin America. I have some listed (Miguel Cabrera, Frida Kahlo, Rodolfo Morales, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Camilo Egas, Luis González Palma, Roberto Mamani Mamani, Oswaldo Guayasamín, the Mujeres Creando, Martín Chambi, Santos Chávez) Even some artists involved in Indigenist movements seem to be non-Indian (such as José Sabogal). Can anyone offer insight into additional indigenous artists from Latin America? Thanks so much!

I also created the Category:Latin American artists of indigenous descent to help with this. -Uyvsdi (talk) 17:46, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Uyvsdi

History of Costa Rica expansion desperately needed
Dear all,

The History of Costa Rica is rich and long; however, the page itself is short and close to pitful; the History of Nicaragua is nearly 7 times longer. This article needs expansion in a very bad way.--TM 21:07, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
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Panama
nominated Panama Canal 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 "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKiernan (talk) 16:46, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Search for club play 2emedivision
hi has any interrser, I am jerome standard AKPONON I am a competent Beninese in football. recheche my voila, I had the uis rechreche club or a football team that needs good people to have are club or team I was available to any person. I was playing in a strong football clubs in my country benin.j 't play for 4 years with the club FC VOLCANO IN BENIN and we had 5 trophy in the club that I play and voila that problems are quiter and I start the team but coach n'accerpte not leave me and now I do not keep or there are problems and I decided to quite the team. that is why I urgently looking for a club to play in this club. I play midfield or atarquant leading the field. I am good at football I make. I pray everything anyone looking for a competent person are n'equipe please contact me by mail to get information about me —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.91.229.21 (talk) 11:15, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Daniel Chanis Pinzón
Stumbled across this article, seemed pretty sparse for the president of a country, so I'm half adopting it (it's also listed as a High Importance article in this project's scope). However, I will need help. The first and most important question is actually a little embarrassing for me ask, though, as I'm afraid it shows a little cultural ignorance on my part - what is his name? I'm asking this on the articles talk page, also. There are no references to the name as listed, nor to "Daniel Pinzon". Daniel Chanis, however, is very fertile ground. As I'm digging deeper, however, I'm seeing his name regularly listed as Dr. Daniel F. Chanis. It's all very confusing, and I want to get the nomenclature correct, so if anyone could help me out (on the article's talk page), I would be appreciative. Thanks. Vulture19 (talk) 22:28, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Request review of Daniel Chanis Pinzón - article listed as stub class, hopefully I got it to start class.
Uh, section header pretty much says it all. I am in no way done with the work, but as the holidays are passing, I may actually need to get back to my real job, so I have no idea how quickly I will get back to it. Vulture19 (talk) 15:01, 1 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I've reassessed the article as Start class, with a little expansion it should be good for C class. Regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 23:31, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Takalik Abaj FA nom
Hi all. Takalik Abaj is currently at WP:FAC and is in danger of being mothballed due to lack of interest. I'd therefore like to invite any comments at the review page. Thanks, Simon Burchell (talk) 23:09, 30 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Takalik Abaj has just been promoted. :) Simon Burchell (talk) 09:56, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 32,665 as of May 16. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

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2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
Hi, I wanted to bring to the attention of this WikiProject the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games Article. The games will be held in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, from July 17, 2010 to August 1, 2010. There is lots to be done, especially related to the following red linked articles; please see if you can contribute in any way:

Sports

 * Archery pictogram.svg Archery
 * Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg Artistic gymnastics
 * Athletics pictogram.svg Athletics
 * Badminton pictogram.svg Badminton
 * Baseball pictogram.svg Baseball
 * Basketball pictogram.svg Basketball
 * Volleyball (beach) pictogram.svg Baech volleyball
 * Bowling pictogram.svg Bowling
 * Boxing pictogram.svg Boxing
 * Diving pictogram.svg Diving
 * Equestrian Vaulting pictogram.svg Equestrian
 * Fencing pictogram.svg Fencing
 * Field hockey pictogram.svg Field hockey


 * Football pictogram.svg Association football
 * Handball pictogram.svg Team handball
 * Judo pictogram.svg Judo
 * Karate pictogram.svg Karate
 * Canoeing (flatwater) pictogram.svg Canoeing
 * Cycling pictogram.svg Cycling
 * Modern pentathlon pictogram.svg Modern pentathlon
 * Racquets pictogram.svg Racquetball
 * Gymnastics (rhythmic) pictogram.svg Rhythmic gymnastics
 * Speed skating pictogram.svg Roller skating
 * Rowing pictogram.svg Rowing
 * Sailing pictogram.svg Sailing
 * Shooting pictogram.svg Shooting


 * Softball pictogram.svg Softball
 * Swimming pictogram.svg Swimming
 * Synchronized swimming pictogram.svg Synchronused swimming
 * Squash pictogram.svg Squash
 * Table tennis pictogram.svg Table tennis
 * Taekwondo pictogram.svg Taekwondo
 * Tennis pictogram.svg Tennis
 * Triathlon pictogram.svg Triathlon
 * Volleyball (indoor) pictogram.svg Volleyball
 * Water polo pictogram.svg Water Polo
 * Water skiing pictogram.svg Water skiing
 * Weightlifting pictogram.svg Weightlifting
 * Wrestling pictogram.svg Wrestling

Medal table
not much can be done here since the games have not started but at least the article can be started;

for the countries use the following template Template:Infobox Country at the Central American and Caribbean Games

thanks in advance. El Johnson (talk) 18:34, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

Central America articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Isthmo-Colombian and Intermediate Area
Aren't both of them the same cultural areas of the Chibcha people? So why the need for two separate pages? 82.58.28.139 (talk) 23:51, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Maps of Nicaragua
Hi everyone, I'm not in this project but I thought that you might be interested in some maps, well, I created all 17 Nicaraguan departments maps, and Im planning to create every single maps of every municipio (township) in Nicaragua, so feel free to use it now, you can find them here. --Vrysxy! (talk) 16:56, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Indio Viejo


The article Indio Viejo has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A search for references found lots usage of the term, usage as dish is limited and seems to fail WP:N and WP:NOT

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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 WikiProject Argentina/Popular pages. Regards, Rd232 talk 12:29, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Monostatic radar
The article Monostatic radar has a project tag for this project, not sure why... Jeepday (talk) 23:26, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks - I don't see how it is relevant, marked as subproject Costa Rica but no mention of the counrtry in the stub, so I've removed the project banner and dropped in a couple of more relevant projects. Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 12:38, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of National Conservative Unity Party


The article National Conservative Unity Party has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A search for references found two minor mentions in published works (gBooks), was unable to verify the article content beyond "it exists", fails WP:N and WP:V

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Joining
Will be joining to improve information and statistics on Central American Sports (Mainly Guatemalan Soccer) any help or advise is appreciated  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Borgesdelcarmen (talk • contribs) 06:42, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Not joining, but ...
I have no time and not enough knowledge to participate in the group. But I would like to improve or correct the mistakes and errors of the RAMA people page of this project. Should I do this here? Send it to somebody in charge of this page or what? Gerd Schnepel (talk) 05:53, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't know which page you mean, but in any case the best thing would be to either attempt the corrections yourself, or to leave a note on the relevant talk page. Hopefully you hvae some reliable sources to back things up. cheers, Rd232 talk 07:02, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Mfd notice of WikiProject Mercosur
I have nominated WikiProject Mercosur for deletion at WP:MFD. Please comment here for any concerns. Thanks. JJ98 (Talk)  01:09, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

"American Indians"
See Talk:Native Americans in the United States where it is to be renamed to a term that uses "American Indian" without any mention of the United States. As "American Indian" has been used to describe aboriginal peoples of Central America in the past, this might be of interest to you. 65.93.15.213 (talk) 05:26, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

DYK nomination of "Gang of Four"
Hi!

I wrote a short article for the "Gang of Four", for four Democratic Party activists who advocated Congressional funding of the Nicaraguan Contras. Please add references. (I live in Sweden and have very few resources.)

The Did You Know? nomination for the "Gang of Four" needs to be reviewed.

The article is very short and I estimate that reviewing the DYK would only take 5 minutes. Kiefer .Wolfowitz 08:41, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

New to project, Need help
Hello, I am a Maya Archaeology graduate student. I would love to contribute to this forum between term papers. Pleas let me know how to make this happen

Also, I need help with two page I have created, both of which are important to Central America. The first is Dennis E. Puleston. It is tagged for cleanup and my biases are limiting my ability to cut any further from the article. The second is Colha, BelizeI am working on the Colha Project section, but I will not finish it until Friday, due to the holiday. Any contribution, clean-up, or removal of tags would be awesome. Thanks (Cakerkela (talk) 00:47, 24 November 2011 (UTC))
 * If you haven't already signed up, Wikiproject Mesoamerica may be of interest to you, and you may want to post there. Best regards, Simon Burchell (talk) 11:59, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Central America will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Central American 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) 21:19, 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) 23:07, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

RfC regarding the official language of Mexico
I have started an RfC regarding the question of whether Spanish should be mentioned as an official language in the infobox recognizing its de facto official status in spite of the fact that it is not legally given that status in Mexican law which simply mentions it as a National language along with the indigenous languages, and does not specify an official status. Please give your input. ·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 12:56, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Old list of pages
Hi, I came across WikiProject Central America/Articles when checking red links. This seems to be obsolete, so please tag it for deletion if it is no longer required. – Fayenatic  L ondon 12:01, 18 June 2012 (UTC)

Perth requested-move notification
A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation), 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) 03:28, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Recordación Florida by Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzman
I've just uploaded a scanned copy of the Recordación Florida by Fuentes y Guzmán as a PDF and I've started transferring it over to the Spanish Wikisource; it needs an enormous amount of page transcription, if anyone has the time and inclination; see the Wikisource Recordación Florida page, which has links to the book's individual pages. Any help would be welcome. Simon Burchell (talk) 11:43, 12 November 2012 (UTC)