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What is the nationalism?

Today in Mexico this word is too used and maybe is boried to talk about. Ernest Gellner (Sociedad y Desarrolllo en Mèxico, Guzmàn Nora, Mèxico: Edit. Castillo, 2002), says that someone belongs to a Nation if anyone has the same believes, the same culture, the same territory. Nevertheles this characteristcs don`t apply to some nations in the world. Particularly about Mexico, we are many Mexicos. Is not the same, a person who lives in the coast comparative with anotther who lives in the monuntain or in the Lacandona forest in south of Mèxico. Sometimes we think nationalism is love our national flag, o to sing the mexican Himn o to defend our borders. I don`t Know if someone in Mexico believes in, but in other nations the nationalism is to be a very good citizen and defend so the national believes.


Geographic Info-Box Project. First State: Zacatecas

Alixb and I are going to start a project of providing Info-Boxes for each municipality in Mexico. Alixb said that we should use the Template:Infobox Settlement to work on this project. To avoid overlapping, please enter the municipality that you are working on below.

Here is the page of all municipalities in Mexico, an idea of Richard: List of Mexican municipalities. It allows us to get an overview of how many municipalities we still need to work on. Thanks for the idea, Richard!

When you are done with a municipality, don't forget to document it by moving the line into the 'done' section.

Here is the link to the Municipalities of Zacatecas.

Currently working on:

Done:

--Hugo Estrada 01:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Borbotones Team!! Contribution

*GEOGRAPHIC INFO BOXES: We think that making geographical info boxes are a good option since they will help to organize information according to the different states of Mexico.

*A LITTLE TIP FOR WIKIPROJECT MEXICO:

1. Sometimes people search information by using keywords. For example “Cuisine”. We should start our articles with keywords in order to make access easier. 2. We would like to propose this kind of external link format in order to organize information a little more:


EXTERNAL LINKS

MAIN PAGE > GENERAL TOPIC > RELATED CATEGORY > NAME OF THE RELATED ARTICLE > LINK TO THE RELATED ARTICLE > REFERENCE (IF THERE IS ONE) EDGAR-ENCASTIN 05:20, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


TEAM PAGE:Wikipedia:School and university projects/ITESM Campus Toluca/Borbotonesteam

Help with Zhenli Ye Gon

Please take a look at article Zhenli Ye Gon. A Spanish-language source was given as a reference that Zhenli Ye Gon was born in Hong Kong. But according to both Washington Post[1] and New York Times[2], he was born in Shanghai. I don't read Spanish, so can a Spanish-reading editor please verify that the Spanish-language source actually backs up the claim that he was born in Hong Kong? Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 06:27, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I read the spanish article that was provided and in it does not even state that he was born in Hong Kong or as a matter of fact it dosent even state where he was born, all it provides is a date for when he was born. So I would go with your other sources, they are really more reliable and at least state it. Alixb 16:02, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the prompt response. I'll be editing the article to change his place of birth. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 16:24, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
No problem, hope all goes will with the article. Alixb 17:23, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

""Contribution by Lirdoco"" ****Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects/ITESM_Campus_Toluca/Lirdoco****

According to an important newspaper of Mexico (EL Univeral), Zhenli Ye Gon was born in Shanghai. He moved to Mexico in 1990 and get the Mexican nationality in 2002. When he moved to Mexico he created an important company called Unimed, this company was specialized on the selling of pseudoefedrina. He begun to appear on the news because the government found an important amount of money in his house, the government suspected that he was a drug trafficker, this is because the pseudoefedrina is also used to made metanfetamina (drug). I hope you find this information useful, there were many other things you can find about Zhenli Ye Gon like his relations, his business, his hobbies etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lirdoco (talk • contribs) 18:21, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Join?

Can I? --Louis Guel 08:56, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Sure the more help the better, all you have to do is add your name to the list in the WikiProject Mexico page and start contributing. Alixb 16:02, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Welcome aboard! Do you have any questions? What areas are you interested in working on? --Hugo Estrada 23:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Quality scale

I'm not a member of this wikiproject but I had a question. Why don't you have a Quality scale to rate articles?Bewareofdog 04:37, 8 August 2007 (UTC)"

Cause for some reason we are not very well organized, I see that you have listed on your user page that you are working on the Mexico Portal page, well if you have time and wish to help us out and you can we would gladly appreciate your help. Alixb 18:12, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Borbotones Team!! Contribution

*TESTING QUALITY OF ARTICLES: Hi BEWAREOFDOG! Hi ALIXB! According to quality of articles, it’s going to be too difficult to check all the ongoing articles. What we should do is to encourage participants to use reliable sources and put references in their articles. EDGAR-ENCASTIN 05:14, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

TEAM PAGE:Wikipedia:School and university projects/ITESM Campus Toluca/Borbotonesteam

Wikipedia project Toluca Mexico

As my students will be coming in here in about 2 weeks... I was wondering if/how to update the list of things that need doing? One of their assignments is to find a page that screams "oh man, this needs help" and work on it (add info, revise info, update info, add citations, reorganize info...etc) they will print the page and propose the changes to me. (Im looking for informational editing changes, not technological ones). If you need to know more about my class project, see the navigation bar that is on my user page. It links to the pages associated with the projects my students are doing.

I see that the Mexico City Metro page, for example, has a template requesting work be done on it. Can we make a list here of pages like that? Thelmadatter 16:46, 17 August 2007 (UTC)Thelmadatter

Sorry it took me such a long time to get you back, but with the hurricane down here and all that stuff I got sidetracked. Well there is a page that might help out its the Mexico stub page Mexico stubs. Tell me if that helps you out or if you want something more specific. Thanks Alixb 18:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
The stub page helps but what I am looking for are pages that need serious editing. The stubs are fine for when they need ideas for writing a full article but Im looking for articles they will want to update, reorganize, elaborate on ideas - things like that. Like what is requested for the Metro page. You are in the Yucatan? How did you fare? Thelmadatter 22:08, 31 August 2007 (UTC)Thelmadatter

I would just like to make a small change to the main Mexico page in English in the Geography:Biodiversity section - Biosphere Reserves are not "not altered" by humans - they may have been extensively altered or still used for sustainable activities - eg. fishing, wood extraction. The are cited by CONANP (National Park Service) as being important for representative species and habitats, especially endangered and endemic species. I can't seem to edit the Mexico main article page. Thanks for any help with this. Alyssa

Alyssarosemartin 18:00, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Machine translations?

I recently read several articles on former political parties and politicians, and I'm under the impression a lot of them are machine translations of Spanish. I've corrected several of them; sometimes I had to leave out pieces that had become incomprehensible. I'd like to call on everybody here not to use machine translations and if some people can look out for them and try to correct them into proper English that would be nice as well. Mixcoatl 21:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Will look out for them, have not ran across them. Thanks for the heads up though. Alixb 23:15, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Borbotones Team!! Contribution

Hi Mixcoat! *SPANISH WRITING? NEED SOME HELP?: We are native Spanish speakers and we all are from Mexico. If you need some help contact us in our user page or go to miss Leigh Ann user page to know a little more about us. Be sure we will help.

TEAM PAGE:Wikipedia:School and university projects/ITESM Campus Toluca/Borbotonesteam

MISS LEIGH ANN PAGE:User:Thelmadatter

Answer Machine translations? Los Boogeys

Hi, we are in the wikiproject Mexico, so we are spanish native speakers. If you need some help just let us know. You can put a comment in our project page and we will help you. Also we think that machine translations are very bad, the translation sometimes doesnt have meaning. We as foreign speakers sometimes did machine translation because we havent the enough knowledge of the language. Now we can help to people with the same problem that try to make a aricule. Diego Callejas 01:20, 24 September 2007 (UTC) Team Page: Wikipedia:School and university projects/ITESM Campus Toluca/Los Boogeys

Proposed deletions (WP:PROD)


About Geographic Info-Box Project

I have a lot of doubts about this project. I dont understand the meaning of an info box clearly but i would like to help. The project started with municipalties of Zacatecas, but what if we want to contribute with information about municipalties from other states?. I would like to help as I have a lot of books and researches of municipalties of the State of México (Or at least i know where i can find them) but how can i join the project? ..Does anybody knows if that information can help? Thanks for your time. --Flea 1100962 20:55, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi, well there isnt really a join page, its just kind of a project me and Hugo Estrada were doing, but if you would like to help, basically use this template for the infobox: Template:Infobox Settlement and look at the list of Municipalities in Mexico: List of Mexican municipalities. Any questions let me know. Alixb 17:48, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

New articles

The "bot" looking for new Mexico-related articles is working now; you can see the results here: User:AlexNewArtBot/MexicoSearchResult.--Appraiser 23:24, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Borbotones Team!! Contribution

*ONE TOPIC: We know that Mexico is known because of its traditions and folklore so that we would like to make an article about the legends of Mexico. We investigated about legends in Wikipedia and there are just two articles that give us the definition of “legend” but they aren’t related to Mexico. What do you say? Shall we start?

TEAM PAGE:Wikipedia:School and university projects/ITESM Campus Toluca/Borbotonesteam

Portal:U.S. Roads or North American Roads?

Please see the discussion at Portal talk:U.S. Roads. --NE2 23:33, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Borbotones Team!! Contribution

WIKIPROJECT MEXICO!

Our team (BORBOTONESTEAM) finds WIKIPROJECT MEXICO very interesting and creative. It gives us the opportunity to show Mexico to the whole world. Everyone is making an effort to make this possible and we will not be the exception. It’s good to know that people from different countries is contributing to the project and are interested in Mexican culture.

*SPANISH WRITING? NEED SOME HELP?: We are native Spanish speakers and we all are from Mexico. If you need some help contact us to our user page or go to miss Leigh Ann user page to know a little more about us. Be sure we will help. EDGAR-ENCASTIN 05:00, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

TEAM PAGE:Wikipedia:School and university projects/ITESM Campus Toluca/Borbotonesteam

MISS LEIGH ANN PAGE:User:Thelmadatter

Potential Collaboration: Indian Slavery

I've nominated the very short article on Indian Slavery for the Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive. The article covers two continents and some 420 years of history, but lacks basic organization and a lot of relevant information. It deserves to be brought up to the caliber of other articles on Slavery, Slavery in the United States, and so on. You can vote for it at the improvement drive page. --Carwil 14:09, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar templates

Hi, there are efforts to delete several barnstar templates, I think you might be interested and add your opinion here [3]. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 08:50, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Two articles on natural disasters need expansion

I created 2007 Tabasco flood today. Please help expand the article. Thanks, Johntex\talk 17:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

Also, the October 2007 California wildfires article includes a brief mention of the fires in Northern Mexico, but this section needs expansion. Could someone please help add information to that part of the article? Best, Johntex\talk 14:55, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I gave this to my students as an extra credit assignment. They will give me proposals tomorrow (Mon Nov 12) and will make their changes after that.Thelmadatter 15:52, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Mexican municipality template

On my talk page User talk:Thelmadatter, I proposed a template to use as a kind of "cheat sheet" to allow my students to contribute to Wikipedia in a timely way. Richardshusr, Wikipedia god that he is, has made my outline into a template at Template:Mexican_municipality. I would like the community to take a look at this template and tweak it so I can start using it with my student in the coming semester (January). We can also put in an infobox to it so all Mexican municipalities can have one without my students having to learn how to do it from scratch (just fill in the information). (I teach English as a foreign language, not computers). Any and all help is appreciated! Thelmadatter 00:50, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Names with and without accent marks/name variants

As my students were looking for topics to write for their assignments, we ran into a problem finding articles that truly didnt exist. This was problematic particularly with biographies as many Spanish names have accent marks and names of foreigners are changed slightly when written about in Spanish. An example of the first problem is Raúl Velasco and of the second Maxim Gorky known as Máximo Gorki in Spanish. In both these cases, my students thought they had found a topic only to be corrected by myself or another Wikipedian. Generally, we do not use accent marks in English and I do not understand why these names would have them in the English language Wikipedia. Most native speakers and non-Spanish-speaking non-native speakers would never think to include them. The alternatives that appear below as a search are not terribly obvious. For cases like Raúl Velasco, I recommend that the variation without the accent mark be the English language form and the form with the accent mark work as a redirect. In cases like Maxim Gorky, the solution is less obvious.Thelmadatter 16:00, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

I think the solution is simply to create an empty article for the unaccented name and reditrect it to the accented version.·Maunus· ·ƛ· 22:08, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Amecameca

Hola soy miguel rodriguez y quería comunicar a la comunidad de wikiproject mexico que mi grupo y yo From The South todos de diferentes países (Peru, Ecuador and Venezuela) hemos escrito un articulo completo sobre wikipedia, sería interesante que lo leyeran. Thank you for your time, From The South —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lmiguelrd (talk • contribs) 16:39, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

El Salto, Jalisco

Most or all of the pages that link to El Salto intend to take readers to an article about the municipality in Jalisco, not El Salto, a climbing site. It would be helpful if someone would create an El Salto, Jalisco stub and then correct the linking. ✤ JonHarder talk 13:52, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

It looks like Aille is working on this. Thanks! ✤ JonHarder talk 03:29, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Toluca article

The article on Toluca is classified as a B category.... which I take to mean barely acceptable. But this was assigned to it before my students made improvements. I would like to know how to get it re-evaluated. I will also have my January students go over it for more improvements. Who knows? Maybe we can get this to something appoaching featurable. I would love suggestions. Thelmadatter (talk) 18:37, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Emiliano Zapata

There is currently a claim on the Afro-Mexican article that Zapata was Afro-Mexican. They don't cite this claim and until I saw it there I had never heard anyone even mention Afro-Mexican and Zapata in the same sentence let alone make the claim that he was one. Can anyone shed light on this? DeathRattle101 (talk) 05:31, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

I have started looking into it. It seems the same claim is being made for José María Morelos - something that I am also not convinced is true. ·Maunus· ·ƛ· 14:29, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Mexican flag image

Got a use for this? If other flag photos are needed, I can take a few. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 07:17, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Mass tagging of Mesoamerican articles with WP:Mexico banners

The recent bot-assisted mass tagging of (it would seem, all) articles that are related to Mesoamerica in some way (and that are identified in any case with WP:MESO banners) has resulted in a number of "false positives". That is to say, there are now quite a few articles tagged with WP:Mexico banners that are only distantly, or not at all, related to Mexico. For example, there are a fair few languages not spoken in Mexico that are now so tagged, articles on sites and historical personages (eg Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil) from points in the Mesoamerican region that are well-outside of any connection with Mexican geography or history, etc.

I would suppose that there ought to be some further round of rationalisation to go through these newly added WP:Mexico banners and double-check that they really apply to the scope of WP:Mexico. Otherwise, the project scope is likely to become unmanageable and diluted. Is anyone planning to do such a clean-up exercise?

Not sure if the tagging efforts have completed yet. If there are still others from the Mesoamerican article set to be processed, perhaps the remaining list could be checked beforehand before processing, just to save double-handling further down the track....?--cjllw ʘ TALK 00:46, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Stumbled across this message by accident.... Assuming you're talking about my bot completing this task, the original request can be found here. As soon as the bot's done with the current category (which, will likely take a bit), I'll stop it for you, and give you the remaining list, if you'd like to check it over. While I'm not an expert on Mexico, the request seemed reasonable enough to me... Not complete yet, by the way, probably has a good 8 hours to go (I'm running it slowly), I believe there are some 300 categories left to process. SQLQuery me! 08:35, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
While we wait, here's the remaining cats: User:SQL/Sandbox SQLQuery me! 08:37, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
After a quick look through that list of the remaining cats, most would seem to be apt ones, and so will leave it up to John whether the bot can be reinitiated to complete the job. One that did stand out in a quick scan, as being unlikely, is Category:Venetian language— of the few articles in that one, only Chipilo Venetian dialect would have relevance for Mexico. Cheers, --cjllw ʘ TALK 04:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I wish it would use the nested banner shell option though.·Maunus· ·ƛ· 21:56, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
AFAIK it does, I had to go in and do a few by hand, however. Wasn't editing some for some reason or another. SQLQuery me! 10:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Partial list of stubs/short articles created or rewritten by Adv A students

I know there are a lot here but many are very short stubs. If there are a lot of grammar mistakes, just tag it with a clean up tag. I did not require that they wikify the articles due to time. Final versions for grading purposes are due Tue Feb 5 so any help you can give would be appreciated.

Santa Clara del Cobre, San Felipe del Progreso, Villa de allende, Ixtapan del Oro, Zumpahuacán, San Juan del Río, Nautla, Santo_tomas_de_los_platanos, Tejupilco, Saint Vincent (island), Jilotepec, Tlacotepec, Palizada, Santa Gertrudis (This student wrote about the town in Oaxaca State but it redirects to Misión Santa Gertrudis in Baja California. The student´s stub is under the information about the mission), Álvaro Obregón (municipality), Zentla, Bernal, Querétaro, Temoaya, Acambay, Xpu Há, Chapa de Mota, Pasorapa, Huasca_de_Ocampo, Malinalco, Mexico State, Almoloya de Júarez, Polotitlan, Córdoba, Veracruz, Mexicaltzingo, Lagunillas, Michoacán, [Ixcateopan]], Benito Júarez, Quintana Roo, Jocotitlan, Ixtlahuaca, Temascaltepec, Teapa, Tabasco, Huandacareo, Zualcapan, México, Capulhuac, Xalatlaco, Boca del Cielo

I will add more here tomorrow. Thelmadatter (talk) 00:19, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

More stubs!!! (the last major batch, I promise!)

Malinalco, Valle, Tlalpujahua, Xonotla, Otumba, Aculco de Espinoza, Lerma, Tonatico, Luvianos, Tarimoro, Guanajuato, Tambopata - Candamo, Donato Guerra, Angangeo, Huixquilucan, Tlatlaya, Jiquipilco, Juchitepec

Again thanks! The students are taking your tagging their articles to heart. Thelmadatter (talk) 20:43, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Four more stubs

Otzoloapan, San Jose Villa de Allende, Temascalcingo, El Oro Thelmadatter (talk) 23:53, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Burrito

Input from active WikiProject Mexico members is requested on the Burrito discussion page, particularly in the topic Talk:Burrito#Breakfast_Burrito. Thanks. —Viriditas | Talk 07:31, 4 February 2008 (UTC) ==Hi I am new in wikipedia but I would like to join the project Mexico I would be glad if you add me to the list of participantsGuillermo7777 (talk) 01:08, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

About the energy reform

It would be honorable that a political party no matter who would defend the national affairs, but here is not the case, is only a political behavior to be seen well by the radicals, they are not defending Mexicans by doing that they are trying to sell a story and make controversy so they can stay on the political actionGuillermo7777 (talk) 01:13, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey, when you're answering to a certain topic put your reply inside of the == ==, I don't wanna move it so you can see my reply but just put it right at the end, before the next "==". Also, I noticed you signed your name all the way at the top. I've removed it, if you want to add yourself as a member of wikiproject mexico, you have to do it on it's page, not on the talk page and on the appropriate section. If you have any more questions contact me at my talk page, have fun!! -Solid Reign (talk) 01:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Archiving messages and help with town/municipality pages

I am an English teacher in Mexico who is trying to work on pages with my students to better coverage of Mexican geography. I had students choose a town and write about it, but we have run into some problems. One of most confusing being the (lack of) distinction between "town/city" and "municipality" (municipio). There is lack of standardization as to how to name the articles to make the distinction clear.. (see the discussion between User:Aille and myself on my talk page. As these articles are sorely lacking, I would like to make this an ongoing project with my Adv A classes. Any help would be appreciated. By the way, the Municipalities of Querétaro seem to be done well... would like to make the other states just as good.

I also started an archive page for this talk page.... Thelmadatter (talk) 14:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Student rewrites of certain town/municipality pages

I am having students rewrite the worst and/or the most confusing of the town/municipality pages

The assigned work is not linked and the pages that currently appear in Wikipedia are linked

Chapa de Mota (municipality), Chapa de Mota(town) (pages deleted)
Otzoloapan (town),Otzoloapan (municipality),Otzoloapan
Otumba (municipality),Otumba (town), Otumba (municipality)
Lagunillas (municipality), Lagunillas (town),Lagunillas (municipality)
Quiroga (town) Quiroga (municipality), Quiroga, Michoacán
Almoloya de Juàrez (municipality),Almoloya de Juàrez (town),Almoloya de Juárez and Almoloya de Juárez (municipality)
Ixtapan del Oro (town),Ixtapan del Oro (municipality)Ixtapan del Oro
San Felipe del Progreso (municipality), San Felipe del Progreso (town) San Felipe del Progreso
Santo Tomàs de los Plàtanos (municipality), Santo Tomás de los Plátanos (town), Santo Tomás, Mexico State and Santo Tomás de los Plátanos
Temoaya (town) Temoaya and Temoaya (municipality)

I would really like to standardize the naming of these articles.

I am having them rewrite these articles a little at a time, with me checking them each step of the way before we do any more damage in Wikipedia! However, I would like to set up the pages so that students know exactly where to put their information when the time comes. So far I have had my students write tables of information and "stubs" and the quality of the writing is MUCHO MEJOR (a lot better!) However, I would like some suggestions, help in how to set up these pages and get students to put in their information so that we have good results... Anyone? Thelmadatter (talk) 14:57, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Who's active, really?

Im a teacher of advanced English here in Toluca Mexico. I have my students work in varying degrees with Wikipedia (depending on the class). One requirement is to work with other Wikipedians so I was wonder which of all those participants on the main page really do participate. That page hasnt been edited well in so long (Ive seen the same suggestions for participation since last July) that I dont trust that list. Who would be interested in working with us? I have a small group of teachers here taking a class with me that heavily works with Wikipedia. They would certainly appreciate your input. Thelmadatter (talk) 17:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I'm active and I edit Mexico related articles, and sometimes add my additions to the WP. I try to work mostly on culture related articles, and some human rights articles, for example Danza de los Viejitos, Albur, Danza de los Voladores de Papantla, Kamel Nacif, Aguas Blancas massacre and some others. I've been around in wikipedia for about four years and am familiar with the rules, etc. If you want to bring back to life the wikiproject mexico section or need anything let me know and I'll be glad to help. -Solid Reign (talk) 18:41, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Mexico

I have nominated the portal at featured portal candidates please vote.Bewareofdog 02:23, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Mexican Peso

Does anyone have any current Mexican banknotes they can upload to Wikimedia Commons and realese them under a free licence ? The Mexican Peso article needs some images.Bewareofdog 01:35, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

As in scanning them and putting them up? If thats the case I'm game. Alixb (talk) 00:04, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Willing to help

Hi people, I think I can help with this proyect, bilingual and Im living in both Countries, to be exactly in Tamaulipas & Texas ; anything I could help please tell --Vik.sanchez (talk) 16:44, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Barnstar

Does this project have a barnstar ? Bewareofdog 05:01, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Cabalgata

Cavalcade could use some photos of cabalgatas in Mexico. Also, more content and sources. --Una Smith (talk) 23:47, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Willing to help

I would like to help contribute to food of mexico aswell as salsa variants, also mexican inspired dishes. Sickero (talk) 03:40, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

How can I Join

? Sickero (talk) 03:42, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Just sign your name http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Mexico#Participants Bewareofdog 01:31, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Mexico: Articles of unclear notability

Hello,

there are currently 24 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)

I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:03, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Battle Casualties

I want to know about the actual battle casualties of some of the major battles of US-Mexican War 1846-1848. It seems that there are some questions about the casualty numbers in the American sides of the battles. For instance, I have been reading that in the Battle of Contreas the American casualties were 60, but in the recent Wilkapedia section it was 300. I wondered why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.99.0.56 (talk) 18:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

ERROR ON BIOGRAPY OF FERANANDO ARCE

HI, I JUST WANTH TO REPORT AN ERROR ON THE BIOGRAPY OF FERNANDO ARCE (SANTOS LAGUAN FUTBOL PLAYER, MEX.) HI BORN IN TIJUANA BAJA CALIFORNIA MEXICO, NOT ENSENADA BAJA CALIFORNIA, ENSENADA IS 100 MILES FROM TIJUANA, THANK YOU.

OSBALDO V. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.170.11.5 (talk) 00:04, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested

Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 13:32, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

FritzBot and ongoing attempt to document Mexican municipalities

There is a lively discussion about the proposal to have a bot create articles for all of the worlds documented towns and villages, see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/FritzpollBot. There are already a LOT of responses on this page and I have only scanned the various comments. I tend to be in favor. However, this may affect my use of Wikipedia for my English classes as such a bot would create a ton of articles about Mexican towns and villages... whether such have municipal status or not. If such bot does go forward and do this, I would really like to see some kind of consensus about whether to combine town/municipality articles or not. After struggling with the issue and with my students, I really do think that in most cases, especially dealing with central and southern Mexico (which I am more familiar with), combining the two is the most logical choice, as for many, either the town is the only community of any real size (like most cases in Oaxaca) or conversely, the city and the municipality are co-extensive. As for naming convention, naming such combined articles seems to be best done under the town/village's name (most have the same name, at least partially but where the are different, the town name would be more distinctive in most cases... and the bot is going to create a page with the town/village's full name anyway. For towns/municipalities that have the same common name (like Atizapán or Acatlán), disambiguation pages will serve.

Another issue is standardizing infoboxes... I would like to see one for towns with municipal status and towns/villages without such. Ive made a first attempt at such at the Acambay, Mexico State page, though you will have to see it in edit mode to see all the information I think needs to be in there. I have not created one for non-municipal towns/villages but such should include a line stating which municipality it belongs to. As much as I would like my students over the following semesters make a large contribution to documenting all of Mexico's 2500 some-odd municipalities (and then go on to non-municipal towns/villages) I really need a set of examples for them to follow. My experience with the past semester strongly convinced me of the need for this!

As the proposal is looking for feedback from the various Wikiprojects that would be affected, we should know what we are in for.

I am posting a similar message to Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes.Thelmadatter (talk) 14:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

City naming discussions

Please note that there are current move requests for Cancún, Mexicali, and Torreón. Please share your opinions if intersted. Thank you. --Polaron | Talk 01:32, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup

Currently, 1534 articles assigned to this project, or 18.9%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 12:19, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics

This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist 10:13, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.

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Regions?

Are there officially-defined, commonly-used (or dare I say) useful regions of Mexico? Above the state level, that is. Category:Mexico geography stubs is somewhat oversized, but it doesn't look like a by-state split would quite work yet, as it'd be rather fine-grained. Going some google-grade research, I've seen north/centre/south split, but also splits by coast, and assorted variants. If you have any thoughts, please comment here. Alai (talk) 23:04, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Need etymology assistance

Can we get some help regarding an etymology question at Talk:Andrés Quintana Roo? Thank you, Badagnani (talk) 23:33, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Need help from fellow Wiki Mexican

Hi, I am one of the main authors for Plácido Domingo and I need help from any of you to take a photo of his statue in Mexico City (http://www.elpais.com/articulo/gente/Mexico/rinde/homenaje/Placido/Domingo/estatua/bronce/elpepugen/20070821elpepuage_1/Tes). You can e-mail me the photo. Thanks in advance - Jay (talk) 02:40, 31 July 2008 (UTC) (A member of Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera)

Anyone, please? - Jay (talk) 11:39, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Good morning. Perhaps try to ask on the project in Spanish. es:Wikiproyecto:México. If you need a translation, you may ask me--Youssef (talk) 14:28, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
I can do it once I figure out where the Plaza de los Grandes Valores is. Thelmadatter (talk) 15:38, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks guys. If Thelmadatter could help, I dont need to ask for a help from es:Wikiproyecto:México. - Jay (talk) 04:57, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Lost in translation

Tornel is labored with atrocious translation, such as,

"When these enterpises closed, put it beards to soak and still the bussines together specialization in the niche sales to retail to vehicles and trucks. This movement it allows still force in the market."

I'd fix it, if I had more than the vaguest notion of what it's supposed to mean. I'm cross posting this hoping somebody with Spanish & decent sources can address it. TREKphiler hit me ♠ 12:04, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Mexico's National Opera and Palacio de Bellas Artes - Are they the same?

Can someone confirm that Mexico's National Opera and Palacio de Bellas Artes are the same? I couldn’t find any article about Mexico's National Opera on the internet, all the references at the end pointing to Palacio de Bellas Artes. If they are the same, I have been thinking to redirect “Mexico's National Opera” to Palacio de Bellas Artes. Thanks. - Jay (talk) 08:41, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Mexico CONACAF football templates nominated for deletion

Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 September 1#CONCACAF Gold Cup templates — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 20:27, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Today in the Congress of Mexico the congesists are discussing about the Energy Reform, specially those about the PEMEX, but the left brand in the congress is preparing a very big protest in the streets with unique goal to defend the national affairs. What tdo you Think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Filiberto022 (talk • contribs) 11:01, February 1, 2008

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Mexico

Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.

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We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:30, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Ageratina adenophora

Hey, I was wondering whether anyone familiar with plants of Mexico could embellish this article on a native plant Ageratina adenophora? Got plenty of info on how it is a weed here in Australia, but may be good to get some info on its ecology in its home country? It is currnetly at DYK waiting list. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:29, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Image needs replacement

Hello all...

An image used in the Leonardo Pereznieto article, specifically Image:23apasionado1total.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.

You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.--Jordan 1972 (talk) 00:37, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Mexican War of Independence

I was surprised how poor this article was. Can we work to expand this a bit? Grsztalk 03:19, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Latin American cinema task force

A Latin American cinema task force has been proposed at WP:FILMS, which would include the cinema of Mexico. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 20:18, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Peer review for Battle of the Alamo

I've initiated a peer review for Battle of the Alamo. I am especially interested in making sure that the current structure makes sense, that it flows well, and that the article is neutral. I welcome any comments. Karanacs (talk) 14:50, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

At the peer review, someone pointed out that the Battle of the Alamo article does not mention how the battle is now perceived in Mexico. I can read only cursory amounts of Spanish. Would someone be willing to volunteer to search for appropriate books or journal articles (reliable sources only - no websites) that could address this gap in the article. If the volunteer does not want to translate the works, that is fine - I have a few friends who would by able to do this for me. The hardest part for me is finding the articles. Thanks! Karanacs (talk) 19:59, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Mexico, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Mexico, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Mexico articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:

  1. Altavista petrogylph complex
  2. Huautla, Morelos
  3. Las Torres
  4. Nuevo Laredo Municipality
  5. Nuevo Morelos, Tamaulipas
  6. Plaza Sendero
  7. Progreso-Nuevo Progreso International Bridge

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 480 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

Why add coordinates?

By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?

The articles are all marked with {{coord missing}} tags, which need to be replaced with {{coord}} tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members.

Please let me know if this is useful, or if there is any way I can help! -- The Anome (talk) 11:36, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Article on Porfirio Díaz

A new editor, Reillydowd1 (talk · contribs), has added (and removed) a very large amount of content to the article on President Díaz. I'm not terribly knowledgeable about the subject (was taking a look at it during my university class on the History of Mexico), so editors from this Wikiproject ought to have a look at that and see if it's up-to-snuff. Some of it seems kinda slanted, and there's no inline citations, so I'd be somewhat cautious about what I see there. Just thought I'd let everyone know. MalikCarr (talk) 01:03, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Er, go ahead and nix that, it looks like another editor decided to revert that stuff. Still, should give it a look and see if any good information was contained in there. MalikCarr (talk) 08:43, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Dont ask, do it!

There is so much work that needs to be done on Mexico-related articles. Its kind of useless to ask someone to do work on an article... please participate!Thelmadatter (talk) 17:00, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

Further reorganization of state, city and municipality articles for Mexico

In a nutshell: (1) Rename all Mexican cities and towns to [[Cityname, Statename]]. (2) Rename all Mexican municipalities (similar to US counties) to [[Municipality of Municipalityname, Statename]].

All Mexican states are divided into municipalities, similar to US counties. Usually the city that is the seat of government for that municipality has the same name as the municipality. Also, there appears to have been consensus some time ago to name state articles as [[Statename]], and cities as [[Cityname]], unless there is a conflict in which case it is [[Cityname, Statename]]. There has not been a consensus as to the naming of the municipality articles. So I propose the following:

  • States: [[Statename]]
    • Municipalities: [[Municipality of Municipalityname, Statename]] or possibly [[Municipalityname, Statename (municipality)]]
      • Cities, towns etc: [[Cityname, Statename]]

This would accomplish several things. First of all, when creating much-needed templates and lists of cities, capitals municiplities etc, all the redlinks can be created in a uniform fashion, so that when the article gets created, the link is correct. I don't think it's a good idea to leave cities and towns as just [[Cityname]], because there will invariably be many conflicts which can be hard to find as people link to things and it shows up as a blue link, but it's actually the wrong city/town. It may seem now that there aren't many conflicts, but that is because there are thousands of city/town articles to be created. There are also many conflicts that simply haven't been detected. See Metepec and look at what links here, and you'll see that some links are intended for the municipality in the State of Mexico, some for the city in the State of Mexico, some are intended for the municipality or the city in Hidalgo, Mexico.

So what I'm proposing is (1) for all cities and towns in Mexico to be [[Cityname, Statename]], with proper redirects from [[Cityname]] for the most popular cites where possible. The second proposal is for all municipalities to be named [[Municipality of Municipalityname, Statename]] to differentiate from the municipal seat which is almost always named the same. Also, in Spanish they are referred to as Municipio de XXX, so calling them Municipality of XXX in the English Wikipedia makes sense.

For example, in the state of Hidalgo there is a list of municipalities. Mouse over some of the links to see what a mess the naming is. For example there is Acatlán, but that's a municipality in more than one state and there is more than one city with that name as well. My naming scheme above would take care of all of this. If you're afraid the names would be too long, all appropriate redirects can be put into place to redirect from shorter names to the longer ones, if there are no naming conflicts in those individual cases.

Also see the new Hidalgo template for all the municipalities and their seats Template:Hidalgo for another example of the naming mess. Most of the municipalities are named: [[Municipalityname (municipality)]] and the municipal seat either [[Cityname]] or [[Cityname, Statename]] in the case of conflicts.

I am willing to go through all the Hidalgo article and rename pages and create redirects, and can probably start working on other states as well.

 LinguistAtLarge  23:48, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Hidalgo is a terrible example to use because neither I or Aille have got around to sorting out ther dabbing for them yet let alone, starting and seperating the municipalities from the seats. The reason why we have done so on many of them is because often the municipality is several thousand square kilometres and eventually there should be enough sufficient information to write articles about both, Spanish wikipedia has illustrated this. However for smaller municipalities, particularly those in the centre and south merged articles would seem more appropriate. By all means join in and help but if you study Template:Chihuahua for example you'll see we know exactly what we are doing and will get around to fixing all of Mexico given time. Already Aille has done a lot of work fixing double links and dab sorting with a consistent naming, I doubt we will want to change the naming convention at this date. However I have no objections if you want to change the naming convention yourself as long as you make it ALL consistent and it doesn't require any further unnecessary work for myself. But please note Mexico is not the United States and few other countries on wikipedia follow the naming convention where every towns MUST have the state after its name. If there are no other towns with the same name it seems pointless redirecting to ..., state just so it is like America. Also when people are searching for the municipality or town it is highly likely the will type in the actual name first rather than typing Municipality of... However if you were to sort out the redirects and fix the links in all of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexico/State templates I won't stop you. I'd like to hear what Aille thinks first though. Thankyou. Count Blofeld 12:18, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
I too thought that municipalities run similar to the way US counties but got an education when I used municipality pages as a project for my students in Toluca. It may be feasible or desirable to separate town and municipality pages for the northern states where many municipalies are very large social entities, even if politically the government of the municipality and the seat are one and the same. This is the main difference with counties. The county government is NOT the goverment of the city where the county government is located. Politically, a municipality (at least in Mexico) is simply an extension of the town. When another settlement in the municipality becomes large enough, it splits off to form a new municipality as no two towns in the same municipal area can be equal. I believe this just happened with Puerto Escondido in Oaxaca State. Even with articles about the "cabeceras" (seats) in the north where the territory that that the town has contol over is so vast, some mention should be made about the municipality on the town page and then link to a municipality page if there is enough info to warrant a second page. However, in cases where the city and municipality are co-extensive (such as Ciudad López Mateos) or where the town is the only real entity with the rest of the municipality being a collection of haciendas or groups of homes at intersections like many in Oaxaca, it just doesnt make sense to separate them. Besides that, many English speakers will find the major town name on a map but not the municipality. So the municipality should be treated as secondary. Ive worked extensively with the municipality articles associated with the State of Mexico (see Municipalities of Mexico State) and this works pretty well. I have run into some naming problems tho. Generally, I have chosen to name the town/municipality page after the legal name of the town. I did this primarily to avoid duplications of names, esp. of common names (there are two town/municipalities commonly called Atizapan and Atenco in Mexico State) and I figure the city name is what would appear on maps. However, this is not perfect either. I had a really tough time doing this with Ciudad Lopez Mateos because NO ONE in Mexico State or Mexico City knows this city in this way... it is always called by its municipal name Atizapan de Zaragoza (to distinguish it from (Santa Cruz) Atizapan. Of course, a redirect helps with those searching with this page. One last thing... Oaxaca state would prove VERY problematic with the separation of town and municipality. There are 571 municipalities there (just about every dip in the mountain range counts as a municipality) and even with combining them, finding enough info for more then a stub with one or more lines is almost impossible... not to mention the fact that you will wind up with two articles with essentially the same information. Lastly, the Enciclopedia de Municipios de Mexico (available online), from which we are likely to get most information, combines town and municipality information without clearly marking what is what, as they consider the entities igual. I understand the need for a standard naming practice and we clearly need one, but simply spliting town and muncipality into two separate pages isn´t going to work.Thelmadatter (talk) 17:15, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Both of you raise good points. I see various issues here:
Municipalities aren't always important enough to separate from the main city (the municipal seat), but considering all of Mexico, the municipalities that shouldn't have an article are in the minority. So I think we should work on the assumtion that there will (eventually) be an article for each municipality. Municipalities that would never be more than a stub should redirect to the municipal seat city article.
I would still like to see a convention for naming Mexican municipality and city articles. I realize it doesn't have to follow the convention to name US cites and counties in a certain manner, but I think it would be worthwhile to establish and follow a convention for Mexican cities and municipalities. For example, looking at Template:Chihuahua, (good job on filling out all the articles by the way), I really note the lack of standardization:
municipality                          municipal seat
------------                          --------------
Ahumada (municipality)                Villa Ahumada
Aldama (municipality)                 Juan Aldama, Chihuahua
Allende, Chihuahua                    Valle de Ignacio Allende
Aquiles Serdán                        Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua
Ascensión (municipality)              Ascensión [this is a redirect by the way]
Juárez (Municipality of Chihuahua)    Ciudad Juárez
Some of the municipalities have a trailing (municipality), but in the case of Juárez, it needs a more specific suffix. Other municipalities are Name, State, which I find inconsistent.
This is why I would be inclined to go with:
municipality                                municipal seat (or any city)
------------                                --------------
Municipality of Ahumada, Chihuahua          Villa Ahumada, Chihuahua
Municipality of Aldama, Chihuahua           Juan Aldama, Chihuahua
Municipality of Allende, Chihuahua          Valle de Ignacio Allende, Chihuahua
Municipality of Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua   Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua
Municipality of Ascensión, Chihuahua        Ascensión, Chihuahua
Municipality of Juárez, Chihuahua           Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua
If there is no article or any other meanings for "Aldama" for example, then add a redirect to either the municipality or the seat, whichever is more important. If a given municipality doesn't warrant it's own article, then let it be a redirect to the municipal seat.
For important Mexican cities, we would need to make sure there were redirects in place, or allow a few exceptions. I think allowing a few exceptions is fine for important cities to satisfy WP:PRIMARYTOPIC.
This is not an attempt to make Mexican settlement names follow the conventions for US settlement names. The reason for establishing a convention with bring order to the caos. It will also help immensely when creating templates or articles because it will allow linking directly to the correct article without having to guess at the name.
I would be willing to undertake the enormous task of renaming articles and creating redirects for all of Mexico, with the exception of cities such as Cancún, Puerto Vallarta, or Mexico City, which should stay where they are.
What do you think? Count Blofeld has stated that he wouldn't oppose the change. I would like User:Aille's opinion too, before starting such a large project. Thelmadatter seems to agree that there are naming problems.
I'm ready to get started, but I want to make sure this is the right thing to do before starting.
 LinguistAtLarge  23:36, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
Linguist, just be sure to let me know when you want to come to a consensus. I will need to know what we decide upon so I know for future dabbing work. Count Blofeld 19:01, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi, everyone. Basically, what Blofeld said. And what Thelmadatter said with respect to co-extensive municipalities. I think, with the exception of tiny fragmented cases (Oax) and totally urbanized munis (edomex), the long term aim should be cover both the seat and the muni. As for the naming scheme, I prefer "Juarez (municipality)" -- and "Juarez municipality of Chihuahua" when dabbing is necessary -- because (1) it's easier to link to (automatic filling in after the pipe) and (2) "Municipality of " isn't really part of the official name in the way that "County" is in, eg, "Dade County". The inconsistencies in the Chih. template are largely because it was the 1st (or 2nd?) that Blofeld got round to doing, and we hadn't really ironed out the wrinkles. "Allende, Chihuahua" in particular probably deserves getting moved to a "(municipality)" form, if only because I suspect most people talking about Allende, Chihuahua, mean the city.¹ After all, we're all much more aware of cities than we are of munis. Aille (talk) 04:46, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

¹ As is most certainly the case for "Juárez, Chihuahua". Aille (talk)
"City, State", as a rule for Mexican cities has ben proposed before, and rejected, although I'm not sure it's not a bad idea in and of itself. (see the archives of the city naming conventions page). Don't know, maybe this time we could make it stick, particularly with the volume of articles recently created (and the consequent need for dabbing). I would suggest that for exceptions we allow only one (ie, Mexico City), otherwise it'll be an endless fight on where to draw the line. Hermosillo? Pachuca? Zihuatanejo? Aille (talk) 04:55, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
How would we go about proposing and getting a consensus on a City, State naming convention for Mexican cities? I think for munis we shouldn't start changing things just now, since trying to add "municipality" to the name of each and every one would make the name longer and I'm not even 100% convinced my idea of "Municipaly of Name, State" is the best idea. I'm not sure about the official names of municipalities, but they are usually referred to as "Municipio de ___", especially when the name is the same as the seat of the muni. I would love for us to make a proposal of some sort for both cities and municipalities to establish a convention that we can run with.  LinguistAtLarge  15:53, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure how you'd go about proposing that. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (settlements) is the obvious place, but take a look at the "Mexico" section on Archive 18, which is when it was last proposed. It didn't fare too well, particularly in light of the ongoing campaign those who appose the "comma convention" for the USA. And it does violate the standard naming practice. If you want to push your point, though, why not spend a little time creating the Actopans, the Acatláns and the Metepecs (etc, etc, etc)? One of the more compelling arguments last time was on the need for pre-disambiguation, and articles like those only serve as evidence. If half the towns in Category:Hidalgo have the state as part of the name for disambiguation purposes, then it's easier to argue that they should all be named like that. Aille (talk) 17:22, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Very good advice and I thank you for it. I think I will hold off and not formally propose such a change at this time.  LinguistAtLarge  08:03, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Notice

The article Miguel Hidalgo, father of the Mexican Independence Movement, needs a lot of fixing up. I added tags concerning the problems I found including the accuracy and amount of references. So, I leave th job at the hands of the wikiproject most responsible for it. I will be glad to help in the process, but i just wanted to inform the members of this project about this issue    Juthani1   tcs 02:30, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Peer Review Mexico City Cathedral and History of Mexico City

Ive put in two peer review requests so far with Mexico City Cathedral and History of Mexico City. Im sure both still need some good copyediting work still. Someone already rated the cathedral article as a B but Id like to get it to Good or Featured status. One problem I know it has is with the names of saints and religious/architectural terminology. I did the best I could given that Im a native English speaker and I was using mostly Spanish language sources. I left a number of saints' names in Spanish as I didnt know their equivalent in English. As for the History of Mexico City article, please look at it as well for content. Its a bit long but I dont know if it too long. I dont think I left out anything important but please let me know if I did.Thelmadatter (talk) 18:52, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I'll take a look at them tomorrow to see if there is anything I can contribute. The first thing that occurred to me for History of Mexico City, is that it would be nice to see a picture (vintage if possible) near the top of the article.  LinguistAtLarge  00:03, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
I've made some changes to Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, and left some ideas for further improvement on the talk page.  LinguistAtLarge  18:58, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Linguist! I expanded the section on the crypt. I was told by some other Wikipedian TO wikilink dates... oh well. Just less work for me when I go overboard expanding an article! Ill look into the bell tower problem too. By the way, what kind of photo do you recommend for the History of Mexico City page?Thelmadatter (talk) 18:12, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Himno Nacional Mexicano

This has a lot of dead links, can yall help fix them? User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 10:16, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean there are many redirects/ double redirects?  LinguistAtLarge  18:40, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

1985 Mexico City earthquake

I had this article peer reviewed and I got to admit, Im a bit confused. I know Im bad at editing my own stuff, esp. after putting a lot of hours into it... kinda get attached to my baby there! ha ha ha Id like more feedback on the article tho. I dont understand what problem the reviewer had with the sentence with "but" and even more curious is that he says I used a peacock term in the first sentence (I assume he's referring to the word "devastating" but then tells me that my initial paragraph has to get the reader's attention. I cant think of another way of describing this quake that relates its significance. oh .. one other thing. Another critique was that I used a bit of jargon without explaining what it means. I assume that has to do with the part about describing its geological aspects. I thought about describing terms like "subduction" but then thought that it would be distracting and that a link to the relavant article would be sufficient. Whaddya think?Thelmadatter (talk) 18:23, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Peacock language is promotes or tries to give importance to something without giving real information. What the reviewer is most likely referring to is for example:
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake was one of the most devastating earthquakes in the history of the Americas.
To avoid peacock words, try rewriting it like this:
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake was a large earthquake that killed approximately XX people and caused an estimated XXX pesos of damage, including damage to irreplaceable historic structures, in Mexico City.
The difference is you give facts and you allow the reader to make their own judgement as to the importance of the article's subject, in this case the reader gets to decide for herself whether or not this was the most devastating earthquakes in the Americas or not.  LinguistAtLarge  18:39, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
I knew what peacock language was, as I knew which word was the sticking point. But my brain was stuck in neutral. Your suggestion helped it go in another direction. Check out the change and tell me what you think.Thelmadatter (talk) 23:13, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
Got a message in my inbox suggesting that I nominate 1985 Mexico City earthquake for Good Article status...so I did. Anyone want to make a comment over there to see if it can get that Thelmadatter (talk) 03:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Agrarian Reform

I will be updating the Agrarian Reform page with new information and cited resources. I have found several quality resources I have researched to update this page. I will be adding small bits of information to each of the subheadings for this page. Please let me know if there is a problem with any of my additions. I will add a list of my sources at the bottom of the page in case anyone has an issue with its credibility. Thanks! VeeToronto (talk) 18:28, 24 November 2008 (UTC)VeeToronto

Can you be more specific which page you are referring to? And hop to it! BTW, you seem new so please dont just list your sources at the bottom of the page. Wikipedia require in text citations. Best way to see how these work is to find a page like Agustín de Iturbide (shameless plug there for my own work) and go into "edit this page". You will get a sense of how the coding works. If you need help dont hesistate to ask!Thelmadatter (talk) 19:30, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

I am referring to the Agrarian land reform blurb on the Mexican Revolution page,as well as the main article linked paged titled Agrarian Land Reform in Mexico. I am about to post it now. I will be inserting in text citations, just as soon as I figure my way through that. I noticed that all the information on the agrarian land reform page was copied directly from a random internet link therefore it really needs to be cleaned up. I'll definitely take a look at your work though to see how the coding works. Thanks for the advice. I'd love any feedback once I've posted up the information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by VeeToronto (talk • contribs) 21:24, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Can you put a link to your work? Makes it much easier to find it. Put the name of the article between double square brackets like this... [[Agustín de Iturbide]]Thelmadatter (talk) 16:08, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

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Mexican Federal Highways

Hey amigos I've stubbed the highways of Mexico. Could anybody please help expand any of them when you have a moment as nationally they are quite important for the country's infrastructure and are a bit stubby. The Bald One White cat 21:05, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Battles of the Mexican–American War

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Municipalities of Mexico - Naming - Abc Municipality

Sweden, Denmark, Venezuela, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro use the form "Abc Municipality" ( compare Category_talk:Municipalities_by_country#Naming ). This scheme is in harmony with "Abc Province", "Abc District", "Abc Region", "Abc Department" used for other geographical entities. Maybe Mexican municipio articles could join the scheme. Currently only ca. 20 countries have municipality articles clearly labeled in the title as such. It's all very fresh and I think maybe a good moment to agree on common naming scheme, so that later change-work is minimized. LocodeMaster (talk) 14:03, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

User Boxes

Hello all. I recently noticed that there's a lack of organization of user boxes regarding Mexico related wikipedian's Ethnicity, Country of Origin, Nationality and Residence, so I would like to propose the creation of a set of uniform and properly categorized userboxes that are accepted and related to Mexico WikiProject. I'm writing this proposal because I'm not sure if this kind of work is under the scope of the project and I could not find this topic in the project's main page. Ccristoo (talk) 23:18, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal

Hola a todos. I'm seeking comments on a proposed merger of Battle of Santa Fe and Battle of Cañoncito. You can comment here. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 18:12, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Coin images

what are the rules that Mexico uses for coin images? I'm curious about what, if any, legal issues there would be with uploading a picture of a (Carranza) 100 peso coin. The Mexican Peso article doesn't have one.--Marhawkman (talk) 10:17, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Our servers aren´t located in Mexico. I´m no lawyer, but I think that if there is nothing contrary to US law, one might be safe.-Flaquito (talk) 04:57, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


Western Pacific Cordillera

I've initiated a move request for Western Pacific Cordillera, because this name does not appear to have ever been used to refer to what is usually called the Western Cordillera or Pacific Cordillera, and the scope of the article is more than just the western part of the Pacific Cordillera. Please leave your opinions at Talk:Western Pacific Cordillera 76.66.198.171 (talk) 00:09, 10 January 2009 (UTC) It means beaners will not rule the world.Im sorry about that coin topic but bronze was all the beaners can afford. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RockStar-Asian (talk • contribs) 21:01, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

New article - take a look?

Would somebody please take a look at Dzidzantún? An IP editor created the article on the talk page, so I moved it to the mainspace but as I know nothing about the subject, I can't do much to improve it. Thanks, BencherliteTalk 10:02, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Charro

I am interested in rwwriting the Charro article, and would like it to be renamed Mexican Charro. I think it would remove some of the extraneous material and there coould be a dismambiguation page made for "Charro" to list the other uses and link to them where indicated. I hope to list the various suertes and discuss charrería as well. I would like any feed back about this suggestion and any offers of sources that one would be interested in seeing used would be appreciated. Gracias. -Flaquito (talk) 04:55, 21 February 2009 (UTC)

Nao de China

Looking for an article about the Nao de China, as galleons to the Philippines from Acapulco were named in Mexico (Nueva Espana) and all Spanish speaking countries, I found "galleon to the Philippines", and I edited the page. I added that the name of these vessels as called in Mexico and Spanish speaking countries was Nao de China. I did it twice. I was threatened and told that I was vandalizing the page. That I had no idea what I was talking about. I am a Mexican historian working at the Colegio de Mexico doing a fellowship at Columbia University. The English page describing the Nao de China is wrong, and whoever thinks he/she owns it needs to know that the name was Nao de China. Maybe somebody in the Mexico project can illuminate those people. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.44.93.16 (talk) 14:51, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

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Perhaps someone should edit this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo_Nuevo,_Guanajuato

131.128.100.212 (talk) 20:27, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Foreign relations of Mexico

Not sure if this is the right place to discuss this, but for the past two weeks I have worked hard to improve the Foreign relations of Mexico article. However, I need some help to keep improving it and check whether it has any orthographic mistake or if it's incoherent. Besides, I think it might have some potential to be considered a well-written article. Thanks in advance. Kraft. (talk) 20:02, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

CNN article about drug lords: Which Camargo?

This CNN article, " Hitmen's bloody reign all about logic, trafficker says" (Karl Penhaul, April 15, 2009) refers to Camargo: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/15/mexico.gangs/index.html But which Camargo is it? WhisperToMe (talk) 19:02, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Ranchos of California

Kindly visit the above page, then go to its discussion page to help decide whether the lists of California ranchos should be moved from the main article to their own pages. Thank you very much, GeorgeLouis (talk) 04:39, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

serious question here

even if it seems stupid. Is Gitmo US Naval Base (in Cuba) legitimately a part of project Mexico or is that a result of someone's idea of humor? 72.0.187.239 (talk) 07:28, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Re: Swine influenza

I have tried to structure the article as per MOS:MED. Also, I added a bunch of review articles under "Further reading" incase someone wants to read through them and add some facts. ---kilbad (talk) 14:51, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in Hermosillo

There is a Mormon temple in Hermosillo, Sonora. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 21:31, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in Oaxaca

There is a Mormon temple in Oaxaca. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 21:33, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in Tampico

There is a Mormon temple in Tampico. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 02:33, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in Villahermosa

There is a Mormon temple in Villahermosa. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 02:40, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in Merida

There is a Mormon temple in Merida. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 03:15, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in Veracruz

There is a Mormon temple in Veracruz. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 03:23, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in Mexico City

There is a Mormon temple in Mexico City. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 18:55, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

good morning mr pridentent,my name is Emezie Ejiofor.am from nigeria.this is my number 08064801096

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.225.62.43 (talk) 09:58, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

el Lic Javier barba

Javier lic de profesion,dueno de la bocasional"preparatoria de guanatos. Un hombre muy inteligente! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thecontac (talk • contribs) 01:24, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest

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Valle de Chalco Solidaridad

I'm concerned about the redirect from Valle de Chalco Solidaridad to Xico. I lived in Valle de Chalco for approximately five years, and absolutely NO ONE refers to it as Xico. In fact, if you say you live in Xico, and unless you make it very clear that you live in the part of Valle de Chalco that is known as Xico, most Mexicans will assume you live in the town of Xico in the state of Veracruz. If you refer to the list of municipalities on the website of the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografica http://mapserver.inegi.org.mx/mgn2k/?s=geo&c=1223 you will, indeed, see Valle de Chalco listed as the municipality and Xico listed as the municipal seat. We don't have the exact equivalent of municipality and municipal seat, at least not in the U.S. But the closest concept would probably be something like the relationship of township to town. You will also note, in Spanish Wikipedia, that Valle de Chalco Solidaridad has its own article, with no redirect to Xico. I believe this redirect should be removed. By the way, once this error is corrected, I can add a little more information about Valle de Chalco, e.g. how and when it was split off from the municipality of Chalco. P.S. This is my first contribution to Wikipedia. I hope I am doing this correctly. Please let me know if I'm not! Escuincla (talk) 00:54, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

about the massacre

my name is Noe Reyes Andrade and i writted the article "Tula massacre" login as totonaco
my New username is Noe Reyes Andrade and
i live at las vegas, NV for any concerns Noe Reyes Andrade (talk) 21:57, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Appearance

Well, I think I'll change the look of WikiProject Page with noble reasons, please vote here if you're happy with it, and if not, then I'll revert all myself, but please let me finish it first. Regards.--TownDown How's it going? 07:54, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Finally done. Regards. --TownDown How's it going? 07:57, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire

Is there anyone locally familiar with the 2009 Hermosillo daycare center fire of Friday June 5, 2009?SriMesh | talk 20:19, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Article added on clipboard to request helpers. --TownDown How's it going? 21:02, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Jorge Torres

There seems to be two articles about the same person: Jorge Torres and Jorge Torres Nilo. Which one should be deleted?Ricardoread (talk) 04:42, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

Norman Borlaug

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Wikipedia:WikiProject TRANSWIKI

You are invited to join WikiProject TRANSWIKI and join the Spanish language transwiki project. The aim is to draw up a full directory of missing articles from Spanish wikipedia and build a team of translators to work at bridging the gaps in knowledge. We need your help, so if there are any Spanish speakers here please join up as your language skills are crucial. We want to improve our coverage of Mexico in English right? Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:45, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

POV b.s. on Commission for Environmental Cooperation

Please see Talk:Commission_for_Environmental_Cooperation#Bullshit.2FPOV_nonsense. Also, anyone with information or links to the ecozone/ecoregion system used within Mexico, whichy is a related subject, please contaact me, or start Ecozones of Mexico or Ecoregions of Mexico (CEC) (NB the current Ecoregions of Mexico article is the WWF system only). ThanksSkookum1 (talk) 14:25, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Mexican railroad article up for deletion

The article for the Mexican railroad Línea Coahuila Durango is up for deletion for notability reasons. See discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Línea Coahuila Durango. (Copied from WP:Trains talk page.) EdJogg (talk) 20:37, 15 September 2009 (UTC) NB -- not watching this page

Category:WikiProject Mexico members

Why was Category:WikiProject Mexico members deleted? That is now creating a red link on the 2nd user box. Rlendog (talk) 14:31, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Dunno but it sure feels like this project doesnt really have active members. Just saying... Thelmadatter (talk) 18:44, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

The name is Atocpan, not Actopan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.181.6.231 (talk) 17:47, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

Oaxaca cheese

There is a discussion here regarding the styling of the title of the Oaxaca cheese article. Input would be appreciated. --nsaum75 ¡שיחת! 07:39, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

GA reassessment of Rancho Camulos

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Jorge Cerdán Lara

Just restored an article that I deleted (as it was created by a known vandal), but I have been informed that the person does exist. I have restored it, and marked it as unreferenced. Would someone mind popping over to the article and doing some clean-up on it? Cheers! Stephen! Coming... 14:12, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

The article was prodded in the past as a hoax. The current article may well be a hoax, but according to the Adolfo Ruiz Cortines article there was a person of that name who was a Governor of the state of Veracruz. He has an article on the Spanish language Wikipedia at es:Jorge Cerdán Lara. Can members of this project bash the article into shape please? Mjroots (talk) 14:25, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Not a member of this project, but I stubbed the article with my best attempt at translating from the article on Spanish Wikipedia (learned from 4 years of high school Spanish + having a Mexican mother-in-law). Hopefully someone can add more info about this guy in either language, as he is certainly a notable individual. KuyaBriBriTalk 04:18, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Queso flameado/fundido

Related to Chili con queso, I have started a spin-off article about queso flameado aka queso fundido, here. The new article would be much improved by a photo. Does anyone have one? Please post it to Wikimedia Commons and drop a note on my talk page. Thanks! --Una Smith (talk) 04:21, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Just saw this. I'll try to take a photo over the next few days. --nsaum75 ¡שיחת! 05:38, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Started stub on Tragic Dozen

I started a stub on Tragic Dozen, since a few articles seem to confuse it with the Decena trágica. Would appreciate any help in fleshing out the former. MatthewVanitas (talk) 02:14, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Melquisedet Angulo Córdova?

Hey all. My name's Hunter. I don't normally edit articles that fall under WikiProject Mexico, but I had been considering writing an article about Melquisedet Angulo Córdova. He is the Navy ensign who was killed during the raid that killed drug lord Marcos Arturo Beltrán-Leyva. From what I've read, Córdova was hailed as a hero and buried at a big funeral, and then a few hours later, gunmen broke into his family's house and killed his mother and three other relatives. (See [4], here and here, among many other news articles). I had been considering making a page about Córdova, which I figured could entail what happened to his family too. But then I also figured it could be challenged as per WP:ONEEVENT and other notability-related guidelines. I figured you guys are the experts, so what do you think? Does it warrant its own article? If so, perhaps you guys could direct me to some other sources about him? Thanks... — Hunter Kahn (c) 00:03, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Nuevo Scandinavia

I saw there is an article on a supposed Mexican town with name Nueva Escandinavia. It is supposed to be home town of a Mexican "Mennonite" rocker, Martin Thulin. However, being born into a Mennonite community, I have no knowledge of such a places, as well as the Scandinavian Mennonite community is not known to anybody. Is Mr. Thulin perhaps recurring to lies to try to get some attention? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.155.211.172 (talk) 04:34, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Old fort in Ortiz, Sonora. I have not been able to find information on that location. Ortiz is in the Guaymas area, and the Guaymas history refers to a fort build in late 1700s with four towers, which not longer exists. The fort at Ortiz does have four towers and was oringinally made of adobe and then covered in brick. Does anyone have any information on this. Thankyou BajaBlue —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.92.30.201 (talk) 20:40, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Old Fort in Ortiz, Sonora, MX

Old fort in Ortiz, Sonora. I have not been able to find information on that location. Ortiz is in the Guaymas area, and the Guaymas history refers to a fort build in late 1700s with four towers, which not longer exists. The fort at Ortiz does have four towers and was oringinally made of adobe and then covered in brick. Does anyone have any information on this. Thankyou BajaBlue —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.92.30.201 (talk) 20:43, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

inconsistency

There are inconsistency in the article Fernando Castro Pacheco: In the ref:“...color e imagen de Yucata̱n, 1.th ed. (Mérida, Yucatán, México...” 1th is not the truth. It may be 1st or it may be 4th, 5th ... It is possible that the number is wrong, or the “th” is wrong. I do not know what of that is wrong or true. Please check it. --Diwas (talk) 13:45, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

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English translation of “Secretaría”

The translation of Secretaría, the term denoting Mexican government departments (ministries), as Secretariat seems to me to be an unfortunate false friend.

It does not automatically follow that a ministry headed by a “Secretary” should be referred to as a “Secretariat” in English. In fact, I can’t think of a single example in English that would justify this translation. Other “secretariats” (such as the United Nations Secretariat, Commonwealth Secretariat) are not comparable, as they are single bodies performing an essentially expanded secretarial role for a large organization, rather then functioning as government departments on an equal footing with other such departments.

In contrast, both the United States and the United Kingdom, whose Cabinet-level ministers are designated “Secretary” (or “Secretary of State”), have “Departments”. Thus, the United States Secretary of State is the head of the US Department of State and the British Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is the head of the Department for Work and Pensions.

In this context, would it not be more correct, therefore, to translate the term “Secretaría” as Department? Hence:

Secretaría de Gobernación = Department of Governance
Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores = Department of Foreign Affairs
Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público = Department of Finance and Public Credit

And so on… each headed by a “Secretary of …”


What do people think? John Pilgrim (talk) 15:04, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

FAR

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I have edited the article about Mulege on Feb. 25/10 and I do hope that I met all criteria Wikipedia is requesting. Thanks 1622AK (talk) 19:13, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Cerro del Quinceo

I found the article Cerro del Quinceo as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles where it is listed as one of the oldest articles on Wikipedia without references. It has been questioned Talk:Cerro del Quinceo if the subject meets notability. If any one here believes that Cerro del Quinceo meets the criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia, please add a reference or two to the article (see User:Jeepday/Cite if you need help formatting). 14:07, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I put the article on AfD. Discussion is at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cerro del Quinceo (2nd nomination).--RDBury (talk) 17:44, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

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Cerro Prieto Geothermal Power Station

Hello. Can someone have a look at this and see if you can help, (please reply there)? Thanks and regards. Rehman(+) 14:21, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Check edit please

Could someone check this edit, which changed the leader of Pinal de Amoles from Gustavo Bueno Vega to Jorge Enrique Resendiz? The IP has a history of vandalism, but the Pinal de Amoles article hasn't had substantive edits since 2007. Adrian J. Hunter(talk•contribs) 14:36, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

I have a similar favour regarding this edit. The wording also suggests the second reference poses a synthesis issue. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 11:52, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Saltillo Affair

The geography in the article is all messed up. It mentions that the Portuguese team wanted to train real close Mexico City so they picked the nearby city of Saltillo which isn't nearby at all. It then states that the city was right over the boarder from Laredo which is also grossly inaccurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.165.226.224 (talk • contribs)

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Aerounion – Aerotransporte de Carga Union Flight 302

The article Aerounion – Aerotransporte de Carga Union Flight 302 does not have an equivalent on the Spanish Wikipedia. Would someone mind creating an article about this on the Spanish Wikipedia? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 20:06, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (Mexico)

The English website uses "Ministry of Communications and Transportation" - Shouldn't the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (Mexico) article be moved there? WhisperToMe (talk) 20:33, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Aerounion – Aerotransporte de Carga Union Flight 302

The article Aerounion – Aerotransporte de Carga Union Flight 302 does not have an equivalent on the Spanish Wikipedia. Would someone mind creating an article about this on the Spanish Wikipedia? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 20:06, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (Mexico)

The English website uses "Ministry of Communications and Transportation" - Shouldn't the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (Mexico) article be moved there? WhisperToMe (talk) 20:33, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

"Historically correct" opposed to Polically correct.

We need to get the word out as to what makes for a "United" States. Not much has changed. Theodore Roosevelt under stood and cast a mold for a great nation. We need to pass the word to current leaders and citizens.


Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.' Theodore Roosevelt 1907

All institutions, especially governmental, need laws and rules which lead us to uniity. Divide (polically correct)and concur (current forign allowed)activities has been growing too long.

Larry —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.22.25.173 (talk) 16:29, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Republic of Yucatán needs an expert, or at least someone who knows Mexican history

This article, Republic of Yucatán, came up in the recent Guild of Copyeditors elimination drive as in need of "repair." Ater several hours working on it, I've done what I can to make it English, but it really needs additional help. I cannot clear up a lot of the issues it has with history, politics, and geography, and some parts of it are unintelligible to me. They appear to have been cut and pasted from the President Fox webpage into a translator, and then cut and pasted into Wikipedia. Actually, a lot of it looked like that, but much of it I could sort out. So when someone has the chance, or interest.... a project! Have fun. Auntieruth55 (talk) 22:18, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Aerounion – Aerotransporte de Carga Union Flight 302

The article Aerounion – Aerotransporte de Carga Union Flight 302 does not have an equivalent on the Spanish Wikipedia. Would someone mind creating an article about this on the Spanish Wikipedia? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 18:37, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (Mexico)

The English website uses "Ministry of Communications and Transportation" - Shouldn't the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (Mexico) article be moved there? WhisperToMe (talk) 18:37, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject North America

FYI, there is a proposal for a WikiProject North America, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/North America

76.66.193.224 (talk) 04:51, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Double entry

Tianguistenco and Santiago Tianguistenco refer to the same place. The given coordinates slightly differ though.--Emaster82 (talk) 16:38, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Yup, they need to be merged. Ill try to get to it once Im done with my current article.Thelmadatter (talk) 20:56, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
Merge doneThelmadatter (talk) 01:30, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

I have heard that Mexico's president is married to a relative of El Chapo, the drug lord. Is there any truth to this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.242.22.8 (talk) 19:11, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Unless you can find a reliable source saying so, assume it isn't true. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:56, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Centro de Ejecucion de Sanciones

Does anyone know much about Centro de Ejecucion de Sanciones (CEDES)? It is a prison a little bit south of the US border, according to [5]

"Inmates escape Mexican prison." The Brownsville Herald. March 25, 2010
Prison was formerly known as "CERESO" - In Santa Adelaida in the rural outskirts of Matamoros, 15 miles from Brownsville
King, Tim. "All Hell is Breaking Loose in Mexico." Salem News. March 25, 2010.
Also called the "Executions and Sanctions Center"

WhisperToMe (talk) 22:04, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Also: McClellan, John. "Four Days in the Oaxaca State Prison." Mexconnect. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:16, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Pe%C3%B1asco

Do you know which airline flies from LAX into Puerto Penasco, please? Gracias! kath —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.8.67.50 (talk) 16:25, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

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Hey

I noticed you need to expand the Liberalism in Mexico article and I'd be happy to write it and join the project, can I? If in fact I can, how do I join it (I'm new at this)? --RRV56 (talk) 22:23, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Done, thanks. --RRV56 (talk) 20:59, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Mexicana Flight 940

Mexicana Flight 940 needs an entry in the Spanish Wikipedia. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:17, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Turns out there already is one: es:Vuelo 940 de Mexicana de Aviación WhisperToMe (talk) 05:32, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Spanish pronunciation

Lots of articles on Mexico include a "Spanish" pronunciation. As far as I have ever seen, this is always a Castilian or Castilian-style pronunciation, and not the way anyone I know in D.F. or NL or Ags or Gro or Qro or Q. Roo pronounces it.
Why is that?
Varlaam (talk) 17:06, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

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WikiProject North America

FYI, there is a proposal for a WikiProject North America, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/North America
Jcmenal (talk) 21:31, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

As Canadians, we don't want to be grouped together with Gringolandia. Varlaam (talk) 16:58, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Vaarlam, as User:76.66.200.95 says, this is intended to be a project covering supranational issues like NAFTA, not a replica of the USA project. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:03, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Santa María la Redonda

Hello! I've read the article about Santa María la Redonda and I think it has a few mistakes, because it mixes two different topics: Santa María la Redonda, which is an old temple and by extension an area of Colonia Guerrero, and Santa María la Ribera, which is a very different neighborhood with a history of its own. Both places are west from the Centro Histórico of Mexico City, but thats all they share. Santa María la Ribera didn't evolve neither nominally nor historically from Santa María la Redonda. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fermadridmexico (talk • contribs) 20:52, 16 October 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to help with WikiProject United States

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--Kumioko (talk) 03:37, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Auditorio del Estado

Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and may be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:50, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Auditorio General Arteaga

Hello, my friends: A group of us are working on clearing the backlog at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_October_2006. The article in the above header has been without sources for the past four years and may be removed if none are added. I wonder if you can help do so. Sincerely, and all the best to you, GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:57, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Piñata

I am not a part of this WikiProject, but I noticed a serious problem with an article that falls within its scope. Piñata has two mutually contradictory sections on the section describing its history. I left a note on the talk page, but as it does not seem to be the most heavily visited of articles, I thought I would leave a note here describing the issue. Kansan (talk) 01:44, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

Colonia Cuauhtémoc

Are es:Colonia Cuauhtémoc and es:Cuauhtémoc, D.F. the same thing? WhisperToMe (talk) 08:52, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Practicing your internal monologue?? :-) No, they are not the same thing. Colonia Cuauhtemoc is a colonia in a larger borough of the same name...at least thats how it is presented in the articles. In general, its my experience that in Mexico many nahuatl (or zapotec) names that have a historic tie to the area, often get re-used extensively within the same geographic area. This can be rather confusing sometimes as street and highway signage (which is often lacking in the first place) doesn't always specify *which* entity is which. For instance near Oaxaca City there are at least six different entities called "Etla" in a 20 mile radius of each other. Some have specific names "Villa de Etla" or "San Agustín Etla" while others are "Colonia Etla" or just plain "Etla". However, all of them are casually referred to as "Etla" and to make matters worse, road signs often just say "Etla". My favorite sign is on the road to DF, where it has three "Etlas" listed with arrows pointing three different ways..hahaha.. Anyhow, maybe Themadatter can add a bit to the Cuauhtemoc pregunta, as I believe she is more familiar with "El D.F." than I am.. -- nsaum75 !Dígame¡‎ 10:58, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for clarifying things! Wow, so those names can be very confusing. If I encounter another set of confusing names, and can't tell what from what, I'll ask at the project page and/or the reference desk WhisperToMe (talk) 23:03, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Photo requests

Here are some photo requests in Mexico:

  • Mexico City:
    • Interjet headquarters: Prado Sur 230, First Floor, Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec, CP 11000, Mexico City, D.F. (Spanish address: Prado Sur 230, primer piso, colonia Lomas de Chapultepec, C.P. 11000, México, D.F.,)
    • Volaris headquarters: Prolongación Paseo de la Reforma 490 piso 1 Col. Santa Fe Peña Blanca México DF, Delegación Álvaro Obregón C.P. 01210
  • Nuevo Leon
    • VivaAerobus headquarters: Aeropuerto de Monterrey, Terminal C, Zona de carga Carretera Miguel Alemán Km. 24 Apodaca, Nuevo León, México

WhisperToMe (talk) 23:03, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Tamaulipas prison system

The Tamaulipas prison system has been in the news lately for the number of prison breaks

Would it be alright if I had help expanding Secretaría de Seguridad Pública (Tamaulipas) and talking about the breaks? I'd also like to get more info on each of the prisons in Tamaulipas. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:32, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

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