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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:
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- 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)
- I do not know why the article talks about four regions. First, eastern Colombia is not a defined Colombian region. There are six regions defined as Andean, Amazonian, Caribbean, insular, Orinoco and Pacific regions. If the articles refers to eastern Colombia region he must specify. If he is talking about Cúcuta he must specify it is located in the Andean Region.
--Sofía —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.139.211.214 (talk) 04:19, 20 September 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
Saludos desde Venezuela :)
--Andres rojas22 19:37, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Oye muchaos... ok I know very very little spanish, anyways though I am not part of this wikiproject I will be working on Maria La Baja article a bit, because I read about it in the economist. Please feel free to comment and help me out. It will probably still remain a stub though. To see what it might end up looking like check out Arawala and Hongliutan both articles I created alone. cheers.TotallyTempo 05:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bilateral relations discussion
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:59, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Colombian Civil War (1860-1862)
I've just started an article on the Colombian Civil War (1860-1862) which has been alluded to in the Grenadine Confederation. I have expanded it as much as I can at the moment, but please know that I have no knowledge of Colombian history and am finding it very difficult to find any sources. Another user (presumably from your project) came a long and tagged it as high importance, and seeing that it seems to be the event that ended the Grenadine Confederation and created the United States of Colombia I thought I might ask this project for some help? Many thanks SGGH 21:27, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Terrorist attacks in Colombia
Hi everyone. I have noticed that there is very little information about terrorist attacks in Colombia in Wiki, other than possibly about El Nogal. Considering this has been an important and ongoing issue in our country, I have decided to take it upon myself to contribute in this category. I have added many entries to the Terrorrist Incidents list and now I intend on expanding on most of them. If anybody is already working on this, I'd appreciate if you can tell me how you'd like me to contribute. This is my first attempt on Wikipedia and I have created a stub on the DAS Building Terrorist Attack, which I will use to create the rest, as more imformation becomes available. Jealonso 21:32, 13 May 2007 (UTC) Jealonso
[edit] Reassesment of Article Ratings and Contributions to Existing Articles
Frankly I think the Article Ratings on a few Articles in this Wikiprojects scope are a bit low. Also I don't see a reason why Juanes is rated GA at all. If anything it is B. We should work towards reassesment of some of these articles and reworking all articles to START status. I have already started on Colombia-Peru War and hope you guys can help contribute sources to continue filling that article out. I feel it has reached START status and I want to get it to at least B status. Considering it is the only war against another nation Colombia has fought since her indepence I beleive it is a very important piece. Lets get together and work on this. I have already listed a large amount of sources and I want them to stay on that page even if most of them are not valid. Albeit; they took a heavy amount of google digging and they have a great amount of information in them. What we need most is confirmed sources of the articles and images posted in those threads. Hopefuly together we can get this running. If you got a question or need to contact me all my info is on my user page. Electronicmaji 12:35, 10 July 2007 (CET)
[edit] Coat of arms
Continuing from a discussion at User_talk:Zscout370#WP:COL, there seems to be an issue with some of your members of the image of the state arms. I began to replace all instances with the SVG version I uploaded due to issues of copyright. I wonder what is exactly wrong with that image? I know the condor looked funny to one user, but is it due to color or some other factor. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 08:25, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
The color and shape are not right.. look here: Andean condor, the bird is black and the shape of your's sincerely looks like a cartoon.--F3rn4nd0 (Roger - Out) 19:42, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Articles for deletion: Atrabilioso
Atrabilioso at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atrabilioso (2007-10-08 –)
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[edit] New Page
Hi. I wasn't really sure where to play this on the WikiProject Colombia page. I just created the page List of FARC Political Hostages. It is still being written but all the names are in... I think. Please help out filling out the empty spaces or making any formatting changes. Thanks, Colombiano21 (talk) 03:55, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Ataco
The Ataco page says the town's name is Ataco Ataco. If this is correct, then I would request the page be renamed, as there is a Salvadoran town named simply Ataco, in the department of La Unión. If this is incorrect, it would be helpful if someone from WP Colombia would correct the error. Muchísimas gracias ... Lawikitejana (talk) 23:18, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
