Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Latin music/Archive 5

La Gran Señora
It is currently a good article nominee, but the nominator is not very active. If someone wants to pick it up, and resolve all the comments at Talk:La Gran Señora/GA1, is free to do it. ©  Tb hotch ™ (en-2.5). 00:21, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I guess I can pick up the slack since I was the one that was tutoring him. Erick (talk) 02:14, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks Erick. If you need anything, contact me through my talk page, I have the ping option disallowed. ©   Tb hotch ™ (en-2.5). 03:25, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Discussion regarding terminology of singles
I have started a discussion regarding how Wikipedia should define singles. Please go here to discuss.-- 3family6 ( Talk to me   &#124;  See what I have done  ) 19:05, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 6
Newsletter • January 2016

Hello there! Happy to be writing this newsletter once more. This month:

What comes next

Some good news: the Wikimedia Foundation has renewed WikiProject X. This means we can continue focusing on making WikiProjects better.

During our first round of work, we created a prototype WikiProject based on two ideas: (1) WikiProjects should clearly present things for people to do, and (2) The content of WikiProjects should be automated as much as possible. We launched pilots, and for the most part it works. But this approach will not work for the long term. While it makes certain aspects of running a WikiProject easier, it makes the maintenance aspects harder.

We are working on a major overhaul that will address these issues. New features will include:
 * Creating WikiProjects by simply filling out a form, choosing which reports you want to generate for your project. This will work with existing bots in addition to the Reports Bot reports. (Of course, you can also have sections curated by humans.)
 * One-click button to join a WikiProject, with optional notifications.
 * Be able to define your WikiProject's scope within the WikiProject itself by listing relevant pages and categories, eliminating the need to tag every talk page with a banner. (You will still be allowed to do that, of course. It just won't be required.)

The end goal is a collaboration tool that can be used by WikiProjects but also by any edit-a-thon or group of people that want to coordinate on improving articles. Though implemented as an extension, the underlying content will be wikitext, meaning that you can continue to use categories, templates, and other features as you normally would.

This will take a lot of work, and we are just getting started. What would you like to see? I invite you to discuss on our talk page.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 02:53, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 7
Newsletter • February 2016

This month:

One database for Wikipedia requests

Development of the extension for setting up WikiProjects, as described in the last issue of this newsletter, is currently underway. No terribly exciting news on this front.

In the meantime, we are working on a prototype for a new service we hope to announce soon. The problem: there are requests scattered all across Wikipedia, including requests for new articles and requests for improvements to existing articles. We Wikipedians are very good at coming up with lists of things to do. But once we write these lists, where do they end up? How can we make them useful for all editors—even those who do not browse the missing articles lists, or the particular WikiProjects that have lists?

Introducing Wikipedia Requests, a new tool to centralize the various lists of requests around Wikipedia. Requests will be tagged by category and WikiProject, making it easier to find requests based on what your interests are. Accompanying this service will be a bot that will let you generate reports from this database on any wiki page, including WikiProjects. This means that once a request is filed centrally, it can syndicated all throughout Wikipedia, and once it is fulfilled, it will be marked as "complete" throughout Wikipedia. The idea for this service came about when I saw that it was easy to put together to-do lists based on database queries, but it was harder to do this for human-generated requests when those requests are scattered throughout the wiki, siloed throughout several pages. This should especially be useful for WikiProjects that have overlapping interests.

The newsletter this month is fairly brief; not a lot of news, just checking in to say that we are hard at work and hope to have more for you soon.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

Does anyone object to current Latin music project scope?
After the discussing with, I simplified the project scope even more to make it easier to understand what this project is about. We both agreed on using the Latin Recording Academy's definition of "Latin music" as the basis for our project scope a few months ago since they are more in tune with the Latin music industry altogether and because defining "Latin music" is a pretty complicated task. I didn't really change anything, but I just want to make sure everyone is alright with it. If you any oppositions to the current project scope, please feel free to voice your concerns. Again, nothing has really change, but I want to make sure everyone is comfortable with it. Erick (talk) 04:25, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Seems fine to me. Victão Lopes  Fala! 14:31, 24 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I agree, my only main concern was limitations in known regions versus an inclusion project but seeing as Erick pointed out that crossovers would not be changed, I can support the changes for the project. jona   (talk)   16:36, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

I can no longer be active in Wikipedia
I am going through a loss in my family and consequently, this means I can no longer be around in Wikipedia. Please keep this project going in my absence. Erick (talk) 00:35, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear Erick;
 * I am very sorry to hear of your sad loss, and would like to send my sincere condolences to you and your family.
 * Your nearest and dearest need your presence and support at this difficult time, so please don't worry about our encyclopedia in general, and this project in particular. I am sure the project's membership will nurture it in your absence, and we will be looking forward to your leadership once again when you will feel able to return, whenever that might be.
 * Until then, please know that your Wikifriends will keep you in our hearts and minds.
 * With kindest regards;
 * Patrick. Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 01:15, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm really sorry for your loss, Erick. I hope you return to Wikipedia one day to keep your great contributions going! Victão Lopes  Fala! 02:09, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Grupo Fuego
Would someone from this Wikiproject mind taking a look at Grupo Fuego? It's fairly promotional in nature and I'm not sure if the groups satisfies WP:BAND. It looks as if most of the content was added by an SPA with the username "Grupofuego" and a few IPs. There are references listed, but they all are dead links except one and their urls are apprently all to the group's website/press page or something. They might just be trivial mentions/concert listings or they might be reviews/newspaper articles. It's also possible that the band has received significant coverage in non-English sources. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:50, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 8
Newsletter • March / April 2016

This month:

Transclude article requests anywhere on Wikipedia

In the last issue of the WikiProject X Newsletter, I discussed the upcoming Wikipedia Requests system: a central database for outstanding work on Wikipedia. I am pleased to announce Wikipedia Requests is live! Its purpose is to supplement automatically generated lists, such as those from SuggestBot, Reports bot, or Wikidata. It is currently being demonstrated on WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health (which I work on as part of my NIOSH duties) and WikiProject Women scientists.

Adding a request is as simple as filling out a form. Just go to the Add form to add your request. Adding sources will help ensure that your request is fulfilled more quickly. And when a request is fulfilled, simply click "mark as complete" and it will be removed from all the lists it's on. All at the click of a button! (If anyone is concerned, all actions are logged.)

With this new service is a template to transclude these requests: Wikipedia Requests. It's simple to use: add the template to a page, specifying,  , or  , and the list will be transcluded. For example, for requests having to do with all living people, just do. Use these lists on WikiProjects but also for edit-a-thons where you want a convenient list of things to do on hand. Give it a shot!

Help us build our list!

The value of Wikipedia Requests comes from being a centralized database. The long work to migrating individual lists into this combined list is slowly underway. As of writing, we have 883 open tasks logged in Wikipedia Requests. We need your help building this list.

If you know of a list of missing articles, or of outstanding tasks for existing articles, that you would like to migrate to this new system, head on over to Wikipedia Requests and help out. Doing this will help put your list in front of more eyes—more than just your own WikiProject.

An open database means new tools

WikiProject X maintains a database that associates article talk pages (and draft talk pages) with WikiProjects. This database powers many of the reports that Reports bot generates. However, until very recently, this database was not made available to others who might find its data useful. It's only common sense to open up the database and let others build tools with it.

And indeed: Citation Hunt, the game to add citations to Wikipedia, now lets you filter by WikiProject, using the data from our database.

Are you a tool developer interested in using this? Here are some details: the database resides on Tool Labs with the name. The table that associates WikiProjects with articles and drafts is called. Pages are stored by talk page title but in the future this should change. Have fun!

On the horizon


 * The work on the CollaborationKit extension continues. The extension will initially focus on reducing template and Lua bloat on WikiProjects (especially our WPX UI demonstration projects), and will from there create custom interfaces for creating and maintaining WikiProjects.
 * The WikiCite meeting will be in Berlin in May. The goal of the meeting is to figure out how to build a bibliographic database for use on the Wikimedia projects. This fits in quite nicely with WikiProject X's work: we want to make it easier for people to find things to work on, and with a powerful, open bibliographic database, we can build recommendations for sources. This feature was requested by the Wikipedia Library back in September, and this meeting is a major next step. We look forward to seeing what comes out of this meeting.

Until next time,

Harej (talk) 01:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

The Big Latin Music Summer Edit-thon
Since summer is vastly approaching and summer vacation is upon almost everyone, I think the time is right to formulate the first annual big Latin music edit-thon (comically the BLME); a competition amongst the Latin music community and any other user who wants to join in to bring related articles to GA, FA, and FL status using a point-system—while any edit to related articles are counted as well. I think it'll be a fun competition similar to the Wiki Cup and last all summer with awards given out. So, who would be interested in creating the first BLME? – jona  ✉ 19:32, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note I made an example list of the point-system. – jona  ✉ 20:10, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.

If you think auto-assessment might benefit this project, consider discussing it with other members here. For more information or to request an auto-assessment run, please visit User:BU RoBOT/autoassess. This is a one-time message to alert projects with over 1,000 unassessed articles to this possibility. ~ RobTalk 01:12, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

Years in Latin music
Latin music now has categories for every year right back to 1989, see Category:Years in Latin music Hugo999 (talk) 01:04, 8 June 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject X Newsletter • Issue 9
Newsletter • May / June 2016

Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, featuring the first screenshot of our new CollaborationKit software!

Harej (talk) 00:23, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

New update (8/2016)
Hello everyone. First, let me start that saying my life is stable right now since I wrote my last message on this talk page. During my free time, I have made some specific categories just for the Latin music genre namely:, , , , and. In addition, I would like to talk about the image on the front page of the WikiProject. Yes Enrique Iglesias is a very popular Latin pop singer, but he is not the sole representative of what Latin music. In fact, it's not possible to have one artist represent all of Latin music. That's why I'm proposing this weekend that we make a collage of artists who are very popular and influential in the Latin music universe. Feel free to come up with any artists and I'll add my input this Saturday. In regards, Erick (talk) 02:47, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

A new photo montage for the front page of the project
On the last discussion, I mentioned about wanting a new montage of artists to show the diversity in Latin music, because there isn't a single artist or sound that can represent of all Latin music. The only thing Latin music has in common is language, which is how we are united. Since there's too many forms of Latin music, I'd say we use a montage of the most popular and influential Latin artists of all time. Here is a suggested list of artist we should have the montage as well as the rationale for it:


 * Carlos Gardel – pioneer of Tango (Argentina)
 * Mercedes Sosa – influential folk (nueva cancion) singer) (Argentina)
 * Gustavo Cerati – influential rock en español musician (Argentina)
 * Caetano Veloso – influential MPB singer (Brazil)
 * Jorge Ben Jor – popular samba singer (Brazil)
 * Antonio Carlos Jobim - influential musician of bossa nova (Brazil)
 * Carlos Vives – Popular tropipop singer who also brought back vallenato's popularity (Colombia)
 * Shakira – popular Latin pop singer (Colombia)
 * Celia Cruz – popular and influential salsa singer (Cuba)
 * Cachao – influential mambo musician (Cuba)
 * Arturo Sandoval – Latin jazz (Cuba)
 * Juan Luis Guerra – popular merengue musician and brought bachata into mainstream media (Dominican Republic)
 * Vicente Fernández – popular ranchera singer (Mexico)
 * Los Tigres del Norte – popular norteño group (Mexico)
 * Juan Gabriel – famous and influential singer-songwriter of Latin pop and ranchera songs (Mexico)
 * Carlos do Carmo – famous fado singer (Portugal)
 * Daddy Yankee – singer who popularized reggaeton (Puerto Rico)
 * Julio Iglesias – famous Latin balladeer and the bestselling Latin artist of all time (Spain)
 * Paco de Lucía – influential flamenco musician (Spain)
 * Selena – influential Tejano singer (United States)

I'm open to any suggestions to any additions or changes that could done to the list. Erick (talk) 14:51, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

Query
Hi, can someone here untangle this query?  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  11:01, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Dear ,
 * Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I've relocated the content to the article's talk page for now, so as to preserve it until someone can work on it.
 * With kind regards;
 * Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 12:12, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

PISO 21
Would someone mind taking a look at PISO 21? It's a new article and the only source cited is to the group's own website, so it's not clear if it staifies WP:BAND. It possible that more sources may be found to show WP:NEXIST in the Spanish press, but I don't speak Spanish so I'm not sure where to look for them. Thanks in advance. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:34, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Grupo Fuego


The article Grupo Fuego has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * Fairly promotional article with no evidence provided that group satisfies WP:BAND. Most of the content was added by an SPA with the username Grupofuego and a few IPs. All the references listed all are dead links except one and the urls all look they are to the group's website/press page or something. Asked about this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Latin music, but got no response and have been unable to find any better sources.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. -- Marchjuly (talk) 14:49, 21 December 2016 (UTC)