Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dominican Republic/Archive 2

Mirabal sisters
Hi all. I added the Mirabal sisters to the project page because I think it deserves some attention. It has serious POV issues and almost no sources. I try and fix pages like that myself but I can't find any reliable sources and know nothing about the subject. Anyone interested? Thanks --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 02:05, 5 July 2008 (UTC) (Note: User Osplace responded to this message.

Help request: 95 Dominican Republic-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to the Dominican Republic, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in the Dominican Republic, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Dominican Republic articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Azua Province
 * 2) Cap Cana
 * 3) La Cueva
 * 4) La Isabela International Airport
 * 5) María Trinidad Sánchez Province
 * 6) Monte Plata Batley Juan Sanchez Airport
 * 7) Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 95 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

Why add coordinates?
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?
The articles are all marked with coord missing tags, which need to be replaced with coord tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Please let me know if this is useful, or if you have any questions! -- The Anome (talk) 11:41, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Non existing province
Theres is a problem with Provinces of the Dominican Republic, because the Matías Ramón Mella Province do not exist. Even with congressional aproval, the president returned the project. There is NOT any official information about this province. Please can someone remove the province and revert all the maps? Oscar987 03:48, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Work needed on Miss Dominican Republic articles
Hi all, I noticed some time ago that there's a lot of issues with the articles on the Miss Dominican Republic pageants, particularly those since 2004. See for example Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2006, which says "The Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2006 will be held on December 18, 2005". This detail should be easy to update, but there is a bit of research legwork involved to confirm all these details that would require an interested party. There's also the question of whether images such as File:MDR06Mía.jpg are not copyvios and whether is the actual copyright holder of these images. I'd tagged these articles with update some time ago, but that template was almost immediately removed without the article being fixed. Thanks! &mdash;/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 23:35, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Santo Domingo and Distrito Nacional
It appears they are the same nowadays? If they are the same (like Washington D.C. and District of Columbia), perhaps they should be merged? P.S. There are also separate pages for Greater Santo Domingo Area and Santo Domingo Province. Chanheigeorge (talk) 04:53, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  01:05, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Guayabal, Azua
I cleaned up the Article, yet, it is still very subjective and appears to be a first person account of Guayabal.

Also, the article's content is on the town of Guayabal, in the municipality of Guayabal, in the province of Azua. So perhaps the article name should perhaps be changed? Especially if someone were to create a page about the municipality.

--El Mayimbe (talk) 22:00, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

I don't know if anyone is here but...
User:Indiobandida recently tried to post what I believe was an attempt at a new article on Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons about a band of the same name as the user from the Dominican Republic. It had quite a number of wikilinks, which made me think it had been copied from another wiki, but now I'm not as sure. The content was removed from the wikitalk page. I left a note on the user's talk page, but in English since I don't know Spanish. In any event,the user has now posted the same "article" (without wiklinks) on his/her userpage. Running it through Google Translate shows that the "article" is a PR piece, probably self-written. I have no idea if the band itself meets our notability requirements. If anyone is active here, and knows Spanish, it might be helpful if someone left a note for him on his/her talk page, possibly a translation of what I wrote in English plus an explanation of how s/he can't just put up the personal info on their own userpage. There's obviously more issues here, too (the username, for example, implies a strong COI), but I'm not sure if we can actually get that far. If the user isn't actually capable of editing in English, then this just isn't the place for them. Any help you can provide will be appreciated. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:25, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

(Note: User Osplace responded to this message. SamEV (talk) 19:55, 31 October 2010 (UTC))

Bachata Rosa
If anyone is interested in helping, I'm working on the album Bachata Rosa by Juan Luis Guerra for featured article and since there isn't a single FA for the Wikipedia Dominican Republic, I think this might help out. It's being done on my sandbox and if you would like to help out let me know. Erick (talk) 04:59, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It would be great to have a FA. I am a little bit busy, but I will try to take a look later this week. Oscar 04:12, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

K cool, my sandbox can be found here. Erick (talk) 04:37, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Article needed on diplomatic crisis between the Dominican Republic and Haiti in 2013
On the Spanish Wikipedia, I discovered: es:Crisis diplomática entre República Dominicana y Haití de 2013. I realized there is no English article. Is anyone interested in starting it? WhisperToMe (talk) 01:30, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 05:43, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Dominican Republic articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 19:59, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Deletion discussion in Spanish Wikipedia
Hi. Not sure if anyone here is interested, but there's a discussion regarding the notability of an article I started on Spanish Wikipedia. It's an article on Dominican plastic surgeon Edgar Contreras (Spanish article here) I'm not sure if you contribute there, but feel free to add your 2 cents, regardless of whether you agree or disagree with my opinion to preserve the article. Thanks! Thief12 (talk) 01:32, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

New member
On the Dutch Wikipedia I have contributed a lot to the pages of the Dominicaanse Republiek.

On commons is of the Dominican Republic a lot to find what is not categorized correctly, I now try to improve this.

I have a lot of pictures of the Republica Dominicana and place as it can be complementary. --Jos1950 (talk) 20:59, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

Invitation to edit
Hi, I invite you to edit and expand this article United States involvement in regime change in Latin America that would certainly benefit from more editors. Greetings. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 05:32, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:35, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:35, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Abandoned Portal?
Portal:Dominican Republic has been categorized in Category:Abandoned country portals. If the members of this WikiProject are interested in "un-abandoning" it, please do so by adding additional content to the Portal. UnitedStatesian (talk) 12:59, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
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Wiki Indaba 2021 is here!
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User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

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RFC on modern Taino people
I'd appreciate your input on this topic to resolve some long disputed issues about modern Taino movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Taíno#Request_for_Comment_on_Modern_Taino_Identity Poketama (talk) 22:49, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

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Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
 Hello WikiProject Dominican Republic:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there! Grnrchst (talk) 12:57, 21 September 2023 (UTC)