Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dominican Republic/Archive 1

Stub templates?
I stubbed out a couple of articles on Dominican baseball teams but could not find a stub template to show those articles as Dominican stubs. It looks like the stub templates/categories listed in this Wikiproject don't exist. In any case, the articles are Águilas Cibaeñas and Estrellas Orientales. Rolando (talk) 13:49, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 16:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Banner and userbox
I noticed the project has neither a banner nor a userbox. Please feel free to use either or both of these if you see fit: WP DR and User WP DR. Badbilltucker 17:39, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Proposed merger with WikiProject Caribbean
For the purposes of centralized discussion, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Caribbean. Thank you. John Carter 22:02, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Anyone alive?
I've added some stuff to the Portal:Dominican Republic page, which had absolutely no content, but it still needs a lot of work! Where are the Dominican editors!?!? ~ RayLast  « Talk! » 18:01, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Define "alive". There unfortunately aren't that many editors involved, unfortunately. I'm going to try to some more work myself in the near future, but I'm probably committed for at least the next week or two. John Carter (talk) 18:17, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Alive = not dead. Are you the only user active in WikiProject Dominican Republic? ~ RayLast  « Talk! » 20:58, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe, until and unless some of the others answer. It might work to ask for some help at either WikiProject Central America and/or WikiProject Portals, though. John Carter (talk) 21:04, 10 April 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.
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Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  21:59, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Dominican Republic
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:08, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:17, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts
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WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Dominican Republic articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Dominican Republic articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 22:23, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:57, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Los Bolos


The article Los Bolos has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A search for references found no published (gBooks) in English supporting the content of this article. It has been tagged to add references since October 2006. Without references and unable to find support the article fails WP:V, if WP:RS are added to support the content it would seem to pass WP:N but without references (any language is fine), and no cross language wiki links; it can not be shown to pass WP:N or WP:V.

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Proposed deletion of Los Colús


The article Los Colús has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A search for references found no published (gBooks) support for the primary word combination in this article in any language, fails WP:V.

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WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Dominican Republic will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in the Dominican Republic's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 23:23, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Project dead?
Is there anyone here? :) In ictu oculi (talk) 02:00, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Should I help you? Osplace 03:08, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Osplace, thanks I clarified the source I needed... thanks for speedy response though. And good to see project isn't dead :). In ictu oculi (talk) 23:49, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
 * You are welcome! Osplace 02:17, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Real or fake?
Is Taquito Juarez real or a hoax? Can anyone verify the claim that he played for the national team, or find the books used as refs? The-Pope (talk) 21:55, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Was a Hoax, thanks. Osplace 02:49, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Number-one singles in the Dominican Republic
Monitor Latino has released music charts for the Dominican Republic based on radio airplay which is only available to subscribers. However, the number-one singles are posted on the main page. I thought this might be of interest to anyone. Erick (talk) 06:21, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Afro-Dominican (Dominican Republic)


The article Afro-Dominican (Dominican Republic) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * "Afro-Dominican" is not considered an ethnic group in the Dominican Republic. This article was created and developed mostly by a user (User:Isinbill) who may not have sufficient knowledge about the Dominican Republic, its culture nor ethnicities. The article is full of misconceptions, and has been developed to portrait the US/American point of view of the races and ethnics, by the matching the African-American concept and definition with a alleged Afro-Dominican ethnicity, following the "One drop rule", which claims that all offspring of an African will always be African, but not all offspring of an European is European. A person with an African-descent parent an a European-descent parent is considered not as mulatto, not as "European American", but an "African-American", denying to them their European heritage. The US situation has nothing to do with the Dominican situation, and is nonsense to apply that in an article about what Dominicans considered to be their ethnics, as ethnicities are defined as a social construct. The Afro-Dominican article is heavily biased and is abundantly about how "African Dominicans" reneged on their "blackness" and that 'prefers' their "white side". The only ethnics groups recognized by their Dominican government are the blacks, the mixed-race (mestizo) people (or specifically mulatto [with Negroid and Caucasian ancestry]), the yellow [sic] and the whites. I send to that user a message in his/her talk explaining some changes that I made, after that user undid my changes, later I discovered that that user created that article... I thats wwhy

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 * Inhakito, this is not the place to post a Proposed deletion template, it should be placed at the top of the article itself; but I suggest that you do not do that, because PROD is only for uncontroversial deletion proposals, and it is clear that this one is not uncontroversial, so the PROD template would simply be removed. If you seriously think the article should be deleted, you should nominate it at WP:Articles for deletion; but it seems to me (who know nothing about the subject) that this is a content dispute, which should be settled by discussion on the article talk page rather than by deleting the article. Please read WP:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle. I hope that other members of this WikiProject will join in and help to achieve WP:Consensus. JohnCD (talk) 10:13, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Is Formula, Vol. 1 within the scope of this project?
I just want to know if Formula, Vol. 1 falls under the scope of WikiProject Dominican Republic as it's already GA and I'm having it peer reviewed before submitting it to FAC. Erick (talk) 23:10, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

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

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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Wiki Loves Pride!
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


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"Dominicans"
The usage and primary topic of is under discussion, see talk:Dominican people (Dominican Republic) -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 09:40, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

"Dominicans"
The usage and primary topic of is under discussion, see talk:People of the Dominican Republic -- 67.70.32.190 (talk) 11:43, 17 July 2015 (UTC)