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[edit] Wikiproject Wikiproject LOC Country Studies

I have started a Wikiproject that involves taking the public domain LOC Country Studies and incorporating them into Wikipedia. Go to the Colombiasubpage to participate or observe progress on the Colombia section.--Bkwillwm 01:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Note

Hi! I just wanted to let you guys know I just originated the Teresa Pizarro de Angulo article. Fix it as you deem needed.

Thank you and God bless you! Sincerely yours, Antonio Martino Martin

[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) 18:34, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Quote

Hi. I maintain the Latin America portal. Does anyone know of any good quotes by/about Colombians, or indeed anyone in Latin America, which I have not already added to here? I would like to have 31 quotes on a monthly cycle, but am getting stuck. --Estrellador* 20:31, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

[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 16:10, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Banner and userboxes

Hello, all. I just noticed that there didn't seem to be any userbox or banner for this project. Boldly and maybe a little recklessly, I created one of each which can be seen in Category:WikiProject Colombia. Please review them to see if they would be acceptable to you. Thank you, and good luck with the project. Badbilltucker 19:45, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stamps

Hey, I just noticed that my old list List of people on stamps of Colombia still has a great many red links to Colombians famous enough to get themselves on a stamp. Either we need redirects to the preferred form of the names, or project people need to get busy and write more bios. :-) Stan 14:37, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 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 20:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New articles

Just informing you I have created many stubs about volcanoes of Colombia, you can find 'em at Category:Volcanoes of Colombia. Regards. - Darwinek 19:32, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Catedral de Sal

About a year and a half ago I was in Bogotá for a couple of math conferences, and I visited an underground cathedral that was constructed in a salt mine near there with some friends who I was staying with. This seems like a good topic for a wikipedia article, and I have a number of photographs that could be used for illustration, if anybody here knows anything about it. I don't know exactly where it is, except that it is within driving distance of Bogotá. --Ramsey2006 07:05, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

The article already exist, is the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquira. It would be nice if u upload the pics to Commons, in order to use them for eswiki--ometzit<col> 05:07, 7 February 2007 (UTC)--ometzit<col> 05:07, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New templates

I suggest that we should have more templates, I think that we should steal those from WP:ENGLAND and use them with the wiki icon with the Colombian flag colors--ometzit<col> 19:56, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:ACID nom of Simón Bolívar

Hello WP Colombia, I just realized I never alerted the relevant WikiProjects to the fact that Simón Bolívar is a current ACID nominee. I'm not trying to votestack, I just want all of you to be aware of this and those that are interested can help out. Best, Fbv65edel / ☑t / ☛c || 02:19, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Organizing geography

There is an article that appears to have been computer translated from Spanish and then partially worked over entitled Orography of Cúcuta. Although the literal title of this article from the Spanish is Orography of Cúcuta, it seems to me that it is actually a discussion of the mountains and physical geography of the east-central part of North Santander Department. It seems to me that the mountains and physical geography of Colombia ought to be discussed in a comprehensive way based upon geographic and not political boundaries. If the orography (or geography) of each municipality is discussed in a separate article, then there will be much duplication. For example, much of this article would seem to apply to the surrounding municipalities such as Villa del Rosario, San Cayetano and Los Patios. In the article [[]] we have identified four regions:

1.1 Andean Highlands
1.2 Caribbean Lowlands
1.3 Pacific Lowlands
1.4 Eastern Colombia

where there is enough information that each could be their own article, and the individual mountain ranges, rivers, etc. could also have their own articles. The Cúcuta article could refer to the Andean Highlands article and to specific important features as it does now. All of the material in the current Orography of Cúcuta article would be retained. What do you think? --Bejnar 22:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

  • If we keep this current format, how about renaming the Orography of Cúcuta article to Geography of Cúcuta Municipality or something else? --Bejnar 22:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
I do agree with you that the article is way out of place.. especially because it is not describing Cucuta. But if you look at other articles that have been featured, the geography talks specifically of the area within its boundaries and does not scope on information about the neighboring areas, just look at Boston. An article like Orography of Cucuta I would merge into the Norte de Santander Department geography... and its corresponding municipalities geography sections. At this level Geography of Massachusetts style would be more suitable to the information in the orography of cucuta. Orography on the other hand is a term not used by the regular encyclopedia reader, so a merge into the N. Santander geography would be ideal. --((F3rn4nd0 ))(BLA BLA BLA) 05:25, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bolívar's War,South American wars of independence

Hello,i wanted to talk about the articles about this subjects,i looked at them recently and saw that besides being terribly small for the importance and relevance FOR DIFERENT COUNTRIES they want to merged them all in one article and do a melted pot whit it.So please i urge you to vote for the expansion of this articles rather than their merging.What logic does it have that a war of just one country,the USA,has several articles dealing whit it,some even reaching the 50 kylobites,while the wars of independence of South America that features different countries,ideologies,people is composed mainly of stubs and unreferenced articles.And now they want to merged them!please see whit your own eyes and vote:

South American wars of independence

Bolívar's War

American Revolutionary War

American Revolution

Saludos desde Venezuela :)

--Andres rojas22 19:37, 30 March 2007 (UTC)