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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Cougar
The naming of "Cougar" (should it be "Puma"?) is under discussion, see talk:Cougar -- 70.51.200.101 (talk) 08:02, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

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


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Paraguayan War listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Paraguayan War to be moved to War of the Triple Alliance (South America). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:31, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Move Request
Talk:Paraguayan War

The above move request may be of interest to this group. WCM email 23:00, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Word-by-Word copy / Plagiarism
Hello, I added a section to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Rupununi_savannah#Plagiarism because of plagiarism, but i don't know how to proceed further. Can someone please have a look? Thanks! Transmit-receive (talk) 22:29, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Banners for Brazilian articles
Please do not add the or  templates to articles that are exclusively about Brazil or Brazilian topics; these templates will be removed by WP Brazil members during assessment of the articles. Instead, use, either alone or in conjunction with other appropriate templates. Thank you. giso6150 (talk) 19:47, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Indentured servitude in the Americas
Input from anyone with any familiarity with the subject requested at Indentured servitude in the Americas to check for weighting and comprehensiveness.thanks in advance... Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 05:16, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

War of the Pacific
There is contention between three editors at War of the Pacific about whether the section on causes of the war should be tagged for undue weight, and as to whether the article needs a substantial rework to better reflect Chilean historiography, Peruvian historiography, and Bolivian historiography. This has been going off and on for a year or so. Formal mediation was recently reflected, but there was no agreement on mediation. Can editors who are familiar with the South American historiography but have not edited in the past please take a look at the article? Robert McClenon (talk) 20:08, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Insular Chile
In response to a request made at WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests by Marek69 for an editor who has some knowledge of Spanish to copy-edit Insular Chile, while referring to the Spanish WP article Chile insular (linked in the languages section at the left), I have done the best I can. I read the Spanish article carefully and worked to put the English article into standard English while ensuring it reflected the information in the Spanish WP article. However, there is one part that I could not figure out, so it still does not sound right in English (besides the fact that it seems tacked onto an already long sentence). It is the last part of the second paragraph of the lead. I wonder if someone who is really fluent in Spanish and English could fix this part and check the rest of the article for accuracy. – Corinne (talk) 02:38, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Great work ! A massive improvement. -- Marek . 69    talk  18:27, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

History of South America
I've been working on the History of South America article. Any help would be much appreciated, especially translation. ;-D Marek . 69    talk  08:55, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It needs a little more copyediting than I first expected. Are you available ? :-) Marek . 69    talk  00:37, 26 March 2016 (UTC)


 *  Well, I had already accepted an assignment to copy-edit Sarawak and just remembered today. I'll complete Sarawak first, and then, if no one else has accepted History of South America, I'll get to that one. – Corinne (talk) 01:32, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you :-)  Marek . 69    talk  01:34, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

10,000 Challenge
Hi, I was wondering if anybody would like to collaborate long term in trying to reach a 10,000 article improvement/creation drive for South/Latin America at WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge like we're doing for the UK at The 10,000 Challenge? Regional contests fuel the drive but it's a permanent goal now. Would South American wikipedians be interested in running a similar thing and some country contests/editathons to increase output?♦ Dr. Blofeld  15:55, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Missing topics list
My list of missing articles about places in South America is updated - Skysmith (talk) 20:29, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Media upload of historical photographs of various countries in South America
Dear editors,

I would like to draw your attention to a media upload that may be of relevance to this page:

The Temminck Groll Collection consists of 2,641 historical photographs taken by the Dutch architect and architectural historian Coen Temminck Groll (1925-2015). The photos were taken in regions with which the Dutch have had historical relations, including countries in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia (see the category description for a full listing). The photos were taken during Temminck Groll's travels and study of 'shared cultural heritage' (heritage of the Netherlands located outside the country’s borders) and mainly date to the 1960s and 1970s. The photographs were digitised by the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and made available to Wikimedia Commons in the context of the project The Netherlands and the world. If you have any questions about this upload, or have other media requests regarding Dutch shared cultural heritage, don't hesitate to leave a message at the project page!

Kind regards, --AWossink (talk) 14:33, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

February 2017 at Women in Red
(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Ipigott (talk) 14:22, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

Rare drawings of Brazilian animals by 17th-century Dutch painter Frans Post now on Wikimedia Commons
Frans Post (1612-1680) was a Dutch painter from Haarlem belonging to the Dutch School. Between 1636-1644, he received a commission from John Maurice of Nassau, then governor of Brazil, to travel to Brazil and document its people, nature and landscape. During his time in Brazil, Post made drawings and sketches of animals, which he probably used as studies for his paintings. Thirty-four of these drawings were recently discovered in the Noord-Hollands Archief. The archive has graciously made the digitised drawings available for re-use on Wikimedia Commons. Regards, --AWossink (talk) 08:36, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

2017 dissolution of Venezuelan National Assembly
Extra eyes are kindly requested. Lots of heated editing going on here. -Ad Orientem (talk) 18:03, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_South_America

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 18:45, 3 December 2017 (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) 05:31, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

New expert attention category
This is a notice about Category:Bolivia articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. There might be as few as one page in the category, or zero if someone has removed the expert request tag from the page. &thinsp;&mdash; Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)&thinsp; 00:53, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  11:01, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta
Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 06:48, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Guyana articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. There might be as few as one page in the category, or zero if someone has removed the expert request tag from the page. &thinsp;&mdash; Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)&thinsp; 20:56, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Proposal for Expansion
I want to include Abortion in Venezuela as a part of this WikiProject because I feel it is within its scope of interest. Natsz72 (talk) 01:15, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Go ahead. You don't need to ask a WikiProject for permission to do stuff like this. &thinsp;&mdash; Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)&thinsp; 20:58, 13 April 2019 (UTC)

Notice
FYI. RfC available for comment:
 * Talk:Fabiana_Rosales

This is related to Venezuelan politics. --David Tornheim (talk) 09:49, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Request for help at Falkland Islanders
Hi, was wondering if anybody Spanish-speaking could come over to the discussion page there. I'm having a few problems getting sourced content added re. the right of Falklanders to Argentine nationality, and would appreciate a fresh perspective and evaluation of the quality and wikiability of the sources. Not sure of the etiquette here, so if this sort of invite is not kosher, please delete.Boynamedsue (talk) 14:22, 21 June 2019 (UTC)

Peer review from Coropuna
Greetings,

I am planning to bring Coropuna - one of the highest volcanoes in South America with a huge importance in Inka mythology - to WP:FAC and I've started a peer review to get some comments before there. A particularly problematic bit is the section about mythology, but comments are welcome on every part of the article. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:18, 5 September 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)

Copa Libertadores
Copa Libertadores, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 09:43, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

RfC on Argentina
There are a bunch of Argentina television station articles on the encyclopedia, and they've got title problems. I'm trying to fix that at a new RfC on Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (broadcasting). Please help me figure out the best naming scheme for these articles. Raymie (t • c) 06:04, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Category:WikiProject South America projects has been nominated for renaming
Category:WikiProject South America projects has been nominated for renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. —⁠andrybak (talk) 04:42, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Discussion regarding GEONet Names Server (GNS) at RSN
See here. Site is used as a source in about 43,000 articles related to various geographical locations world-wide, including in South America. FOARP (talk) 09:45, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

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.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 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.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:25, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Inca categories
It seems like the Inca categories are a bit of a dog's breakfast at the moment. Apparently, some things (straightforward things such as items of clothing) are in the top-level "Inca" category, some in "Inca Empire", some in "Inca society", and some in an "Inca culture" category within "Inca society" which seems redundant. I'm not sure I know a lot about the Incas, so I'm not sure whether there's any rhyme or reason to this that isn't immediately apparent, so I wasn't sure that it would be useful for me to start throwing things about. But if other people think it's a mess, maybe it would be useful for somebody to re-organise those categories. Wombat140 (talk) 09:22, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

About Draft:Hernán Vidal
Ciao tutti (in italiano, sparing you from my very basic Spanish and even worse Portuguese)

It would appear that Vidal might possibly have been born in Chile.

Could you possibly have a look into this?

Mille grazie Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:46, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Sun parakeet
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Sun parakeet that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 11:25, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Proposal to split History of Guyana article
There is an ongoing discussion at Talk:History of Guyana about splitting the article into two parts, one covering all of Guyanese history up to independence and another covering everything from Guyana's independence to the present-day. Comments would be appreciated. Historyday01 (talk) 00:43, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

Forced sterilization in Peru needs a lookover
The Forced sterilization in Peru page previously claimed as outright fact that USAID and other NGOs funded forced sterilizations. However as far as I can tell the academic consensus is that they didn't, and claims that they did come from right-wing organisations seeking to undermine birth control etc. I've cleaned it up a bit but it could really do with a full lookover to see if it reflects the academic consensus. There are probably quite a few other articles that repeat these claims as well. Eldomtom2 (talk) 19:59, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
 Hello WikiProject South America:

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) 14:21, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Notice
A merge proposal has been posted at Talk:Pan-American Highway. - w o lf  09:53, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Monarchies in the Americas
Monarchies in the Americas has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 23:45, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Draft article for the Climate of South America
Hi there. I recently worked on some of Wikipedia's articles for "Climate of..." various continents. I was surprised there isn't an article for Climate of South America, but rather one for a lot of the various countries. I think it's a worthy article, and I hope you do too, since it would be a lot to do on my own. I have posted about this on the talk page for the weather WikiProject as well. See Draft:Climate of South America. Thanks. ♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 00:36, 26 February 2024 (UTC)