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[edit] Day of the Dead?

Is the Spanish-language translation "El Día de los Muertos" or "Día de Muertos"? BlankVerse ∅ 09:06, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

you can omit the article "El", and leave it as "Día de Muertos". Nanahuatzin 06:45, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I asked my wife about this, and she agrees Dia de muertos is correct. However, she also noted that 1 November is Día de niños and 2 November is Día de difuntos (adult dead). I'd also note that in Spanish only the first letter of a sentence and proper nouns are capitalized. Tubezone 03:45, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team cooperation

Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Titoxd(?!? - help us) 18:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] I would like to join

Hello, I've been a Wikipedian for most than a year, and I would like to join this project. I think that I could significantly contribute to expand it. User:Lufthmark


[edit] Mexican cuisine

1) the stub/category combination, {{Mexico-cuisine-stub}} / Cat:Mexican cuisine stubs, is currently listed for deletion at Stub types for deletion. My personal opinion is that it shouldn't be too hard to fill up the stub category just by creating articles for all the redlinks in the list in the Mexican cuisine article.

2) For the Mexican cuisine article itself, it would be very helpful to add some annotations to the list of Traditional dishes, and maybe even divide the list into various subcategories. BlankVerse 08:45, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mexican crime article nominated for deletion

User:Robert talan created an article on Mexican crime. That article has now been nominated for deletion. If that article is deleted, the content will probably be merged here. Please read the AfD and express your opinion.

--Richard 23:37, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

This article is no longer slated for deletion. It is getting some attention to make it into a serious article worthy of Wikipedia. Originally, the text was unsourced and tending towards a POV attack on Mexico. It is now a more objective treatment of the serious problem that Mexico has with crime.

--Richard 04:51, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

It's still got a serious POV problem, but mostly because of the difference between how crimes are reported in the USA vs. Mexico. For example, the bank robbery rate in Mexico is infintesimal compared to the USA, but there's few head to head statistical comparisons that I can find. The homicide rate in Mexico is going to include traffic accident deaths (all traffic deaths in Mexico are considered crimes) that don't get counted as actual violent homicides in the USA. AAMOF, the homicide rate reported in the USA is questionable because what qualifies as a homicide varies from state to state, for example, in some states a drunk-driving death is a negligent homicide, in others it may not be. Mexico follows the French model, thanks to Juarez, thus does not have the delineation between felonies and misdemeanors the English model contries like the USA has.
I did update the the crime statistics columns and added a column for comparable US statistics.Tubezone 04:07, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Juarez needs work

Ciudad Juárez needs a lot of work. There's a decent enough history but almost nothing about the city today. --Dhartung | Talk 07:12, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Human geography

Is Mexico part of North America, Central America, or what? And do we abide by the United Nations geoscheme, or conventional usage, or National Geographic?

Do the Spanish-speaking world and English-speaking world disagree over where to "place" this wonderful country? I tried to follow the dispute between Wikipedians over this matter, but it's scattered all over your web site. --Wing Nut 16:17, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mexico vs México

Now, is there a big reason for the México article redirecting to Mexico and not the other way? It's customary to name mexican cities, states, etc with the proper accented title, but the main article about the country is the opposite. Is there a good reason for that? Is there a problem if I switch them? -- Drini 00:29, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Mexico (without the accent) is how the country is known in English, so that's the name used as per the MoS. Other less known towns/places may keep the original spelling of their name. -- Rune Welsh | ταλκ 14:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Missing articles for places in Mexico with population > 100,000

The following appear to be places in Mexico with a population > 10,000 that do not have articles in the English-language Wikipedia: would anyone be interested in creating them, or creating redirects if they are mis-spellings or alternative names for places with existing articles? -- Gritted 12:52, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Note: you might want to try looking for these on the es: Wikipedia.

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia: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 18:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mexican American War

This article has lots of facts and background, but only for the American side. It needs more information on Mexican strategies, personalities, etc. I suggest peer reviewing it. Kevlar67 02:54, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

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