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Wikiproject Wikiproject LOC Country Studies

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

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team cooperation

Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Titoxd(?!? - help us) 18:34, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Quote

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

Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 16:10, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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

Stamps

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

Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

New articles

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

Catedral de Sal

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

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

New templates

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

WP:ACID nom of Simón Bolívar

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

Organizing geography

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

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

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

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


  • I do not know why the article talks about four regions. First, eastern Colombia is not a defined Colombian region. There are six regions defined as Andean, Amazonian, Caribbean, insular, Orinoco and Pacific regions. If the articles refers to eastern Colombia region he must specify. If he is talking about Cúcuta he must specify it is located in the Andean Region.

--Sofía —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.139.211.214 (talk) 04:19, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Bolívar's War,South American wars of independence

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

South American wars of independence

Bolívar's War

American Revolutionary War

American Revolution

Saludos desde Venezuela :)

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


Oye muchaos... ok I know very very little spanish, anyways though I am not part of this wikiproject I will be working on Maria La Baja article a bit, because I read about it in the economist. Please feel free to comment and help me out. It will probably still remain a stub though. To see what it might end up looking like check out Arawala and Hongliutan both articles I created alone. cheers.TotallyTempo 05:30, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Bilateral relations discussion

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Colombian Civil War (1860-1862)

I've just started an article on the Colombian Civil War (1860-1862) which has been alluded to in the Grenadine Confederation. I have expanded it as much as I can at the moment, but please know that I have no knowledge of Colombian history and am finding it very difficult to find any sources. Another user (presumably from your project) came a long and tagged it as high importance, and seeing that it seems to be the event that ended the Grenadine Confederation and created the United States of Colombia I thought I might ask this project for some help? Many thanks SGGH 21:27, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Terrorist attacks in Colombia

Hi everyone. I have noticed that there is very little information about terrorist attacks in Colombia in Wiki, other than possibly about El Nogal. Considering this has been an important and ongoing issue in our country, I have decided to take it upon myself to contribute in this category. I have added many entries to the Terrorrist Incidents list and now I intend on expanding on most of them. If anybody is already working on this, I'd appreciate if you can tell me how you'd like me to contribute. This is my first attempt on Wikipedia and I have created a stub on the DAS Building Terrorist Attack, which I will use to create the rest, as more imformation becomes available. Jealonso 21:32, 13 May 2007 (UTC) Jealonso

Coat of arms

Continuing from a discussion at User_talk:Zscout370#WP:COL, there seems to be an issue with some of your members of the image of the state arms. I began to replace all instances with the SVG version I uploaded due to issues of copyright. I wonder what is exactly wrong with that image? I know the condor looked funny to one user, but is it due to color or some other factor. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 08:25, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

The color and shape are not right.. look here: Andean condor, the bird is black and the shape of your's sincerely looks like a cartoon.--F3rn4nd0 (Roger - Out) 19:42, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Articles for deletion: Atrabilioso

Atrabilioso at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Atrabilioso (8 October 2007)

--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 15:01, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

New Page

Hi. I wasn't really sure where to play this on the WikiProject Colombia page. I just created the page List of FARC Political Hostages. It is still being written but all the names are in... I think. Please help out filling out the empty spaces or making any formatting changes. Thanks, Colombiano21 (talk) 03:55, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Ataco

The Ataco page says the town's name is Ataco Ataco. If this is correct, then I would request the page be renamed, as there is a Salvadoran town named simply Ataco, in the department of La Unión. If this is incorrect, it would be helpful if someone from WP Colombia would correct the error. Muchísimas gracias ... Lawikitejana (talk) 23:18, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

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Articles flagged for cleanup

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English translation of Colombia's Law 70

An english translation of Law 70 of Colombia (1993): In Recognition of the Right of Black Colombians to Collectively Own and Occupy their Ancestral Lands can be found on the web here: [1]

--Ramsey2006 (talk) 07:31, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Colombia

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Latin American cinema task force

A Latin American cinema task force has been proposed at WP:FILMS, which would include the cinema of Colombia. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 20:29, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

453 Colombia-related articles needing geographical coordinates

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

  1. El Playón
  2. Florián
  3. La Victoria, Boyacá
  4. Litoral del Sanjuán
  5. Salazar de las Palmas
  6. San Cristóbal (Bogotá)
  7. San José de la Fragua

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 453 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

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Please let me know if this is useful, or if there is any way I can help! -- The Anome (talk) 09:55, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

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Coordinators' working group

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FAC

I have nominated Nevado del Ruiz for FA. Those interested can comment here. Ceranthor 17:53, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Departments of Columbia

Help is needed renaming the 32 departments of Columbia. See Talk:Department of Caquetá. In particular do any have well known names in English? 199.125.109.126 (talk) 12:37, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Illustration of articles

I've uploaded in Commons what I believe to be an interesting collection of quality pictures from a recent trip in Colombia. You might find some of them to be useful to illustrate some articles related to this country. --S23678 (talk) 07:58, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

mormon temple in bogota

There is a Mormon temple located in Bogota, Colombia. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? LDS-SPA1000 (talk) 03:12, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest

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GA Sweeps invitation

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Bogotá and Bogotá Capital District

What's the difference between the two? Are they the same? I cannot tell by reading the two articles, although there are a lot of repetition between them. If they are the same (like Washington D.C. and District of Columbia), perhaps they should be merged? Chanheigeorge (talk) 04:47, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

FARC or FARC-EP

I raised this issue on the FARC talk page. I believe the name should be standardized in all articles. The question is should we call the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC or FARC-EP. For what it is worth according to the main article: "The group added “-EP” (Ejército del Pueblo) to its official name during its Seventh Guerrilla Conference in 1982". But of course the international media usually refers to them as "FARC." Shall we vote on it or what? --Phil5329 (talk) 20:38, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Image uploading

Hola. Is anybody here familiar with copyrighting and image uploading? I want to get an image uploaded onto the Serranilla Bank page that is crucial to its factual status as Colombian. If anybody can help, the image URL is on the article's talk page. Thankyou!!! Rennell435 (talk) 15:08, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Liliana Lozano

Hi all. I've just made a page for Liliana Lozano. However, I am sadly unfamiliar with the history of Colombia and I don't speak Spanish very well, so I was hoping someone wouldn't mind giving it a quick CE. Most of my sources are Spanish and I've done the best I can in putting the article together from them, but there are some parts I fear I may have fumbled (particularly about her beauty pageant winnings). If someone wouldn't mind taking a look I'd appreciate it! — Hunter Kahn (c) 22:34, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

I can give you some pointers, but as you may be able to tell I am new to being an editor in Wikipedia and prefer to point them here than trying to go into the article. First, there is not such thing as the "Carnival of Colombia" there are many carnivals in the country, and "The National Bambuco Festival and Pageant" is just one of them. I would assume that is where Liliana was crowned as the national queen of Bambuco in 1995. The articles don't make a direct mention of this mostly because -I believe- they assume the readers to be familiar with it. Along the same lines, she would have been crowned Caquetá's Bambuco queen at the department's regional pageant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crozo7 (talk • contribs) 05:43, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

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Municipalities of Colombia

Please have a look at Talk:Municipalities of Colombia#Individual articles Schwyz (talk) 12:51, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Colombia articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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Tairona and Kogi pages

Hi, I have added bona fide references to the Kogi page (which is spelled weird here, Kogui possibly to avoid confusion with the Nigerian Kogi) but the page is still saying it has no references. Also, I have tried to remove Alan Ereira's work wherever possible and replace with less biased sources like National Geographic and the Federal Country Studies information. Dianarama (talk) 20:02, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

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Internet sources on Colombia

Hi, project members may know this, but Virtual Library of the Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango Banco de la República is an online library with a wide array of books and other material available. You can check translated versions through Google; sometimes these are rather rough, but in other cases are quite good. Covers history, archeology, arts and culture, etc. It's a great resource, whether or not you speak Spanish.Parkwells (talk) 20:00, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Morales Pino Trío

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A search for references found 2 minor mentions in published WPRS, fails WP:N

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template:Republic of Colombia

{{Republic of Colombia}} has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.14.196 (talk) 05:13, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Nadaism

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Archives

I've set this page to be archived since scrolling through threads dating back to 2006 is silly. -Mabeenot (talk) 03:46, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

"Cundinamarca" disambiguation pages with links

Greetings! This month, we have a large number of links to disambiguation pages about Cundinamarca. The Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links project would appreciate any help you could give in fixing ambiguous links to the following pages:

Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 20:40, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Done. Please keep an eye on it. Cheers! bd2412 T 05:42, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Indian Reservation

Are there indian reservation in Colombia? Or something like indian reservation? Indian territory? Where I get information about them?--Kaiyr (talk) 14:36, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Colombia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Colombia's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 00:46, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

New article idea

I notice the Spanish Wikipedia has es:Economía de Bogotá, but the English does not. Has anybody thought about writing an article for it? WhisperToMe (talk) 19:58, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Reassesment of Article Ratings and Contributions to Existing Articles

Frankly I think the Article Ratings on a few Articles in this Wikiprojects scope are a bit low. Also I don't see a reason why Juanes is rated GA at all. If anything it is B. We should work towards reassesment of some of these articles and reworking all articles to START status. I have already started on Colombia-Peru War and hope you guys can help contribute sources to continue filling that article out. I feel it has reached START status and I want to get it to at least B status. Considering it is the only war against another nation Colombia has fought since her indepence I beleive it is a very important piece. Lets get together and work on this. I have already listed a large amount of sources and I want them to stay on that page even if most of them are not valid. Albeit; they took a heavy amount of google digging and they have a great amount of information in them. What we need most is confirmed sources of the articles and images posted in those threads. Hopefuly together we can get this running. If you got a question or need to contact me all my info is on my user page. Electronicmaji 12:35, 10 July 2007 (CET)

New articles

From es.wiki I have written some articles on Colombian television and its programadoras. All of them are in the category Category:Television production companies of Colombia, including a new article Programadora. Problem is that the reference shape of the es.wiki sources may not be so great. In addition, some existing articles that were misclassified have been fixed and improved. Raymie (t • c) 06:09, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Assistance is requested

Can the editor associated with this WikiProject please help to secure sources for Colegio Técnico Comercial Santa María Goretty? This article recently faced an AfD discussion, and help is needed in expanding and referencing the article. Thank you. And Adoil Descended (talk) 01:06, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Colombian American Article

Can Someone clean up the grammar in the Colombian American article. It looks like it was written partially by someone with a poor handling of English grammar. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.251.81.227 (talk) 07:01, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

Spanish MOS Needed?

I noted three months back to a couple of IPA pronunciation expert editors that Category:Wikipedia_Manual_of_Style_(regional) has:

but not:

Is there really nothing at all that could benefit by giving guidance? For instance:
  1. Like when to use a Catalan place name, when to use a Spanish one?
  2. Like whether to use accents on capitals, like Oscar or Óscar?
  3. IPA pronunciation?
  4. Spelling between Iberian and American varieties of Spanish?
  5. How to treat Quechua (Runa Simi) and other articles?
  6. and so on?

In ictu oculi (talk) 07:41, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

Requested move "Colombian armed conflict (1964-present)" to Colombian civil war

There's a proposal to move the article Colombian armed conflict (1964-present) to Colombian civil war. Please see: Talk:Colombian armed conflict (1964–present)#Requested move FiachraByrne (talk) 21:02, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

help improve articles in other languages of Colombia

someone please commit to Improve, even a little. editions in Turkish, Portuguese,Italian and german.Koldorogollo (talk) 00:14, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

File:Logo MinInterior.png

File:Logo MinInterior.png has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 06:10, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Shakira (2nd nomination)

Comments for this proposal are greatly appreciated! WikiRedactor (talk) 19:28, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Todays Cereal

Ok, this is stupid. I needed the history of Colombia for a stupid Social Studies presentation and now i'm screwed. So I hope you r happy wikipedia! Because u just screwed me over! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.95.82.252 (talk) 23:20, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Presidencia Colombia logo.png

image:Presidencia Colombia logo.png has been nominated for deeltion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:51, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Issue addressed mijotoba (talk) 22:00, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Project banner

Could something be done to improve the display of the WikiProject Colombia banner: the "t" at the end of WikiProject does not appear in the display.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 15:23, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Need some help finding a good place to crosslink

I just created Operation Christmas and was hoping to find a few places to link to it, but I'm not really an expert on Colombian history or the conflict with FARC. Most of the places I've read include a bunch of soldiers or civilians killed and it kind of seems inappropriate to link to the article there. Any ideas? PraetorianFury (talk) 22:46, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Maritza Rodríguez

The article on a Colombian actor called Maritza Rodríguez makes lots of claims but presents almost no evidence for them. A couple among the (very few) "references" don't even mention her. AfD? -- Hoary (talk) 11:12, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Leo Matiz and Casa del Telegrafista

I created articles on these subjects. Assistance would be most welcome. Chao. Candleabracadabra (talk) 18:32, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Piqueteadero

Could I have some help with this subject please? I am not clear on the word's etymology. Does it mean picnic or "pinch"? Thanks. Candleabracadabra (talk) 01:34, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

This is not a word, this should not be in wikipedia, this should be deleted as it is not in widespread usage, not if any significant value or purpose. -eadero is a Spanish noun/verb-forming suffix, similar to -ery in English, like tannery. But just like in English, just because you add the suffix to a word doesn't automatically make it a valid word. piquet- apparently comes from the word piquete, which means picnic, whether it derives its root from the English word is less certain as most dictionaries don't even include it. Now, I am from Colombia, and this word is most definitely not in the common usage, and at most is a regionalism. From the sound of it, and the current description in the article, it just seems like an appropriated word akin to the word eatery in English to describe an informal place where one gets informal and bite size forms of food. I will be moving to place this article up for deletion though as it does not meet the criteria for inclusion as Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. mijotoba (talk) 16:27, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Piqueteadero mijotoba (talk) 16:59, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

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Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 05:43, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

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Paulina Vega

I believe Miss Universe & Colombia 2014 has a lot of room to shine here to help the country. By giving international attention to the platform & through WikiProject, it can bring in more investors aware & contribute to Colombia's growth, fix streets & construction projects (to make more 2-4 way roads like up mountain passes). Also to bring attention to government corruption at the highest level. Such as the court system, where you need a high paid lawyer to move your case along (which isn't justice at all) especially in manslaughter or attempted murder cases in which the thief or killer sues the person who acted in self-defense (when it should be the other way around). And I'm sure the justice system needs help amongst the police & politicians as well, both who may accept/provide bribes to get out of legal matters or steal donations used to fund projects for the cities inside the country's to make the quality of life higher. I believe the mail system is full of fraud too, as I have had to mail packages that couldn't be picked up without paying around $200 US. Sorry if any of this sounds emotional, but I love this country a lot as part of my family is from there too. So progress in the World Cup 2014 is one thing to be proud of, but a actual figure head that deals with politics can help move mountains and bring a even greater source of attention that Shakira and Sofia Vergara command. It's how you say, the ball is in your court. Will you try to score with it? Will you kick it away & crumble afterward? Perhaps pass it, while building a lead, allowing each member to contribute to the team work, and keep the ball moving around to keep it from others who want to taking advantage to defeat you would be a good strategy. Jeydo (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 17:42, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

"Patasola"

The usage and primary topic of Patasola is under discussion, see talk:Patasola magdalenae -- 65.94.43.89 (talk) 05:00, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Templates for cities

Hi guys I am adding infobox templates to the cities. I don't know spanish so fix anything you see needed--Cs california (talk) 04:04, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

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Does Latin Grammy Award for Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album fit under the project scope?

I know that cumbia and vallenato originated in Colombia and so far, all the artists that have won are from Colombia, but I wanted to make sure it's okay if I tag the Colombia project banner in the talk page for Latin Grammy Award for Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album. Thanks. Erick (talk) 14:15, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

I don't see why not – the project needs all the publicity it can get! Richard3120 (talk) 15:28, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
 I've added the Colombian project banner into the talk page. Erick (talk) 18:03, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Inactivity?

Guys, on jun 7 2015 our wikiproject was tagged as "inactive". Did anyone else noticed it? What should we do about it? --Forich (talk) 02:26, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

@Forich: to be blunt, it's because there is almost nobody involved in any part of this WikiProject. Magiciandude and Luisnh1210 have been doing some very good work on aricles relating to Colombian musicians and records, but I don't think anybody is really working on articles related to history or geography, which are the main topics of the project. I contributed quite a lot to Colombian presidential election, 2014, but to get this project moving again, there needs to be input from more people and discussion about which are the most important topics to work on. I live in Bogotá, speak English as my native language, and have access to the Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, so I am happy to help. But I will probably need some help from Colombians, to direct me to which published books or articles may be useful for research, or where to find certain statistics regarding population (DANE, I know), weather, etc. Richard3120 (talk) 01:45, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
WikiProject Brazil has going through a similar problem with activity as well. Last month, Giso6150 created several task forces for the Brazilian project in an attempt to revive activity for the project. I don't know if doing similar for this project would be beneficial, but it is something to consider. Erick (talk) 01:52, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Our past two months in WikiProject Brazil have been more active than it has been in years. A small group of us have had a number of productive conversations and this collaboration has been possible because of the seven new task force groups that we created. We have reduced the number of unassessed articles by a third and have a much more organized way of improving the existing articles that already have been assessed and categorized. I would definitely recommend creating task forces as a way to revive interest in your WikiProject. Alternately, you could partner with an existing task force in other WikiProjects that overlap with this one. (I would start with the category tree tool from wmflabs.) giso6150 (talk) 02:28, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
Thank you for your input, guys – fortunately there are only 733 unassessed articles (the 21 articles in the NA-class category are redirects), so it should be relatively easy to go through these. If you think 733 articles is a lot, I should tell you that I am also a member of WikiProject Albums, and there are 13,000 unassessed articles there... Richard3120 (talk) 02:52, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
These are nice suggestions. I am not familiar with "Task forces" but I'll catch up and try to create ones for Wikiproject Colombia. As @Richard3120: said we need to emphasize the entries on colombian history, unfortunately I am no historian so there is little I can do there. I think the more important thing right now is to try to bring more people on board to revive the Wikiproject.--Forich (talk) 19:03, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
@Forich: I am not a historian either, but hopefully by reading a few books I can improve some articles... my main problem will be understanding the books properly if they are in Spanish! I had a look at some of the articles in the importance/quality tables last night, and I think the thing to do would be to concentrate on the ones that will be easiest to find information for, which will probably be:
(1) articles relating to the history of Colombia – the creation of Gran Colombia, Battle of Boyacá, important figures like Bolívar, Nariño, Santander, Ricaurte, etc.;
(2) articles on presidents;
(3) articles on major cities – Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Cartagena, etc.;
(4) articles relating to the war against the guerrillas – La Violencia, the FARC, the Havana dialogues, etc.
I think if we look at these four groups, they will cover many of the most important topics related to Colombia, and there should be a lot of books and articles for references.
Many of the articles that are in the Low-importance category, especially at Start-class and Stub-class levels, are really not worth having... most of them have no references (or only use references from primary sources) and could easily be incorporated into a wider-ranging article. For instance, why is Flag of Magdalena Department a separate article with no references, and not included as a paragraph in Magdalena Department instead? And I don't think any of the pages in the Category:Neighbourhoods of Bogotá should exist at all – they should all be included in the articles for the relevant localidad in Bogotá, especially as most of these neighbourhoods are not notable. Richard3120 (talk) 19:22, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
I'd suggest a task force dedicated to Colombian arts as well just like the Brazilian arts task force. Erick (talk) 19:35, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Magiciandude, I had left that to one side because I thought that many of the articles in the arts had already being promoted to GA status, like albums and songs by Shakira and Carlos Vives. But you are right, for example looking at the Music of Colombia article it needs a complete overhaul – it's badly written, badly organised, and out of date (no mention of current Colombian artists like Monsieur Periné, Esteman, Bomba Estéreo, etc.). And obviously there are major figures in other areas of the arts, such as writer Gabriel García Márquez and sculptor Fernando Botero, who are worthy of decent articles. Richard3120 (talk) 20:12, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
Plus the Latin music project only covers recordings in Spanish and Portuguese, so the Colombian arts task force can get the rest of the Colombian music-related articles that aren't covered by the Latin music project. Erick (talk) 20:32, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Government and Politics

Hi. I am new to Wikipedia. I have noticed several troubling inaccuracies in the Colombia page dealing with government and politics and thus I would like to start contributing to Wikipedia.

I don't know much about the technical aspect of this webpage for the time being. i would like to join this group but I dont know how. I would also be happy to create articles about judicial matters both in the Spanish and English Wiki.

So if anyone could offer me help I would be happy to take it :) --Colombianpubliclawcontributor. (talk) 18:41, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello Colombianpubliclawcontributor.: I am a native English speaker living in Bogota who is also interested in this WikiProject. However, there are not many people involved in it these days, so any contributions you can make will be gratefully received.
The important thing to remember when you are making changes to an article is that the information you add must be verifiable... in other words, it should have a citation to a reliable independent source that can be used to check your facts. This can be a published book, a newspaper (El Tiempo, El Espectador, El Pais, etc.) or another acceptable source. In general Wikipedia does not like to use blogs or personal websites, or any social media such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. as a source because these usually only have the point of view of one person and therefore may be biased. Were there any particular existing articles that you wanted to work on, or something that you wanted to create? I will be happy to help when I have the time. Y si no entiendes algo, puedo responder en español... Richard3120 (talk) 19:56, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
Yes it seems to be a bit dead. We could work on it! I think we could do a clean up of who is active? Also do some quality control on articles specially about municipalities and political candidates. The spanish wiki also needs some work. Currently I am working on the page of the Judiciary of Colombia.--Colombianpubliclawcontributor. (talk) 18:49, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Well, I am not sure that we should start changing the list of participants, because we don't know who is active or not, and anyway it is not that important – I think it is better that we do not change it. If you have a look at the section 'Inactivity?' on this talk page you can see some ideas that we have talked about, and what I consider the four priority areas.
I guess you are also studying in Bogota? I have access to the Luis Angel Arango library so I can use their books and resources. I certainly think the articles on Uribe, Santos, Peñalosa, Petro, etc. should be improved. I agree about the municipalities – I have argued that articles like Chapinero Alto are useless and will never be improved, because it is just a residential neighbourhood with no important features... it would be better to delete them and use the information to improve the articles for the localidades of Bogotá instead. Richard3120 (talk) 22:37, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
Actually I live in Medellín. One of the things I was thinking is the need to get pictures that we can use. Are "official" pictures allowed? I would like to add pictures of magistrates for the high courts and those of elected officials. As for the municipalities we should merge an eliminate ones like Chapinero Alto, you are right. By the way we can get a lot of information from Chapinero if you look at the Plan of territorial Ordination (plan de ordenamiento territorial) and in the Communal Plan of Ordination. I've found some detailed information about seemingly boring neighborhoods from such sources. Also we could look at the Communal Action Boards (Juntas de Accion Comunal). I found this for example I would also like to ask what is the Wikipedia policy on translating articles from the spanish wiki to use in the english wiki. I rather not deal with physical sources since Medellin libraries are not that great. I have access to University library for judicial sources but there are plenty of law journals published online. So anyway tell me what articles you would like to work on and I would be glad.--Colombianpubliclawcontributor. (talk) 04:06, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Unfortunately Wikipedia can only use pictures if they are not under copyright and in the public domain - please see Wikipedia:Image use policy. As a law student I am sure you understand the legal problems of using pictures that belong to someone else!
I am pretty sure that there is no problem translating articles from Spanish Wikipedia to English Wikipedia, as long as the sources are still there. Thank you for directing me to that information about the communal plans, I did not know it existed. Richard3120 (talk) 04:30, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
I understand. Sometime I will get around sending a written petition (something akin freedom of request petition/ Derecho de peticion) to see if the Government provide them. If I state the licence under which to publish the pictures and they agree and specify which pictures they will allow for use then I guess there should be no problem. I am currently working on the page for the Superior Mayor of Bogota, I've also noticed there is no information whatsoever about the existence of local mayors in Bogota. Anyways please let me know the articles on which I could lend a hand.--Colombianpubliclawcontributor. (talk) 05:51, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Yes, if you can get permission to use any official photographs it is usually OK, but you still have to state this permission in the fair use rationale when you upload the photograph, otherwise an automatic bot will post a notice on your talk page and the photo gets deleted after seven days if you don't provide the information. Richard3120 (talk) 01:41, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

History of South America

I've been working on History of South America. Any assistance with copy editing would be much appreciated. -- Marek.69 talk 22:37, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Confusion about Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

Hi fellow Colombia writers, I just added a comment on the talk page of the Spanish conquistador as there are multiple confusions, see my addition here. Anyone here (Staticshakedown, Richard3120 ?) knows more about him and can help out? Cheers, Tisquesusa (talk) 22:01, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Revamp of main page

I'm not sure if anyone but me is working on this WikiProject nowadays, but nevertheless I am moving on with some admin work, trying to go through all the currently unassessed articles, looking for obvious PRODs to reduce the number of articles, and so on. I know when we discussed the inactivity on the project last year with giso6150, Magiciandude and Forich we talked about setting up task forces, but that hasn't happened yet – have they been successful on WikiProject Brazil, Giso?

One thing that has struck me is that I am not a fan of the current layout of the main page: to me it seems badly organised and confused and not clearly separated out so that you can find what you are looking for. For instance, the "Core articles" section should jump out at you, and yet (1) it is collapsed, (2) it's actually just a list of almost every topic area you can think of, there's nothing specific. Wouldn't it be better to split them under five headings related to the five areas we talked about in the previous discussion, and list actual article titles that need work under each one?

Next we have a list of members: I'm not sure this is necessary at all, and I doubt that any of the listed members are still active with the project, so we could probably get rid of this list. I think it would be good to have article alerts, newly created articles, etc. right up near the top of the page so that people can see immediately what work is being done on the project and that it is active. It might also be good to list the FA and GA articles by name, to show the project's achievements.

I'm not sure how you go about making these changes: does it need to be approved by an admin, or can it be done by a project member following discussion? I'm not a very good coder/programmer, so I might need some help making any changes... Any thoughts and comments welcome. Richard3120 (talk) 21:50, 26 April 2016 (UTC)

Addendum: With perfect timing, the bot has just archived the discussion from last year that I was talking about... for new readers, please look in "Archives: 1" above and read the conversation under the post titled "Inactivity?" Richard3120 (talk) 03:55, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Going to invite Staticshakedown, Tisquesusa and Dougwash to share their opinions, if they have any, as they seem to be the editors most active on Colombia-related articles at the moment. Richard3120 (talk) 20:03, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Hi Richard3120, thanks for the invite. I am mainly working on getting the Muisca, the most important civilization of Colombian history up to a better level. Feel free to revamp main pages and so on, I think it's indeed confusing and a mix of edits over the years creating a badly organised page, on various topics. For now I have nothing more to add, as said first getting the Muisca done which is already quite some work as I want to use orginal sources (no translation from es:wiki) and there's a lot to do... All the best and good luck with getting the messy pages to a better standard! Tisquesusa (talk) 20:08, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
@Tisquesusa: yes, i've seen your work on Muisca articles and applaud it – most editors understandably want to work on more recent subjects, but I always felt pre-Columbian history was an area lacking on this project... I really should get to the libraries in Bogota more and do some research about history! Thank you for your comments. Richard3120 (talk) 20:15, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Thank you and I agree, the pre-Columbian history is underrepresented, especially compared to the Incas, Mayas and Aztec. I bought some books by Javier Ocampo López who I also described as you have seen. He's a great historian and his style is very accessible. Cuídate, Tisquesusa (talk) 20:22, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
Hey everyone! Thank you for the tag. Yes, I am definitely still involved with the WikiProject in terms of adding and editing Colombia-related content although I do so sporadically. I agree that the main page is a mess and has been for a while. In addition, the lack of updates on the main page gives the appearance that this WikiProject is not very active, which is not good for newcomers to the project to see. I'm not exactly sure either if any permission is needed to revamp it. I think as long as it's in good faith it should be fine. And if you need any help with the changes feel free to let me know how to help. Maybe we can model it after a better looking WP? static shakedown ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ 00:02, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
Thanks Staticshakedown, personally I agree entirely with your comments: I look at the main page and I think it just looks "old" and dead and gives the impression that the project is a ghost town, which is why I wanted to revamp it and a more attractive, fresh new front page might encourage new editors to join. I've been looking at a few other WikiProject front pages to get a few ideas and I might try drawing something up in my sandbox over the next month. Richard3120 (talk) 15:41, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Pinging @Luisnh1210: to see if he might be interested as well. Erick (talk) 16:40, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Erick, most of the 38 GAs and FAs related to this project are for music articles you and Luis have worked on - it would be good if we could get Shakira, Juanes and Carlos Vives to GA as well. Richard3120 (talk) 17:46, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Merger proposal

Feel free to comment at Talk:Valley of the Statues#Merger proposal – I think this article and San Agustín Archaeological Park are about the same subject and should be merged. Richard3120 (talk) 23:28, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Assessment completed (nearly)

After a busy few weeks I have finally cleared the backlog of unassessed articles related to WikiProject Colombia. If you look at the assessment log under the "Things to do" section, you'll see there are only 23 unassessed articles left in it: three "timeline" articles relating to Bogotá, Cali and Cartagena, which I'm not sure are better classified as articles or lists; and 20 stub articles relating to neighbo(u)rhoods of Bogotá – I think most can be put up for deletion or merger into their respective localidades as they are unlikely to expand further, but Tisquesusa and other members of the project may want to have their say first. There is still work to do: I've found the most of the 860 players in Category:Colombian footballers are not tagged with the project, so I am slowly working my way through them (even though most are badly-written and out of date stubs that won't expand much further).

Some people might not agree with my assessment of importance, but we can argue about that later: at least the articles are now tagged and we have an idea of which are the priority ones to work on... we can discuss whether the importance should be raised or lowered for some articles. One thing that puzzles me is the original WikiProject rating for cities/towns/corregimientos, as stated here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Colombia/Assessment/how to assess WP:COL articles#Geography: (rate as top). With very, very few exceptions corregimientos will be extremely difficult to find any sources for, and 90% of towns/municipalities will remain stub articles with just basic information about climate and population, so I'm not sure why they were all allocated high or mid-importance. It seems bizarre to me that Inírida, a town of fewer than 20,000 people, has the same top-importance rating as Bogotá (and ranked above Buenaventura) simply because both are departmental capitals – it makes more sense to me to rank importance based on population, which would put the most obviously high-priority cities at the top: Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, and maybe adding Cúcuta and Bucaramanga to the list. Obviously some smaller towns punch above their weight in terms of importance – Mompós, Villa de Leyva – but in general it seems to me a better way of classifying importance. Richard3120 (talk) 16:06, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the hard and unpleasant work, Richard. Indeed, I must say I don't agree with many categories, but that is not your fault, you are just using the "consensus" established before by others. IMHO an article should be assessed individually and relatively. A "stub" is a page that lists just the most basic facts and nothing more. So the many municipalities. As soon as there is something to read, some decent informative text, it is not a stub anymore. And it cannot be both ways; if an article with only an unfilled infobox is a "stub" then an article that lists much more cannot be also a stub.
On the relative side; I (in)tend to write articles as completely as possible, using original sources, not es:wiki, and for most of them there are no other sources to find with Google. So to call that a "start" (or even a "stub", like I am some kind of bot) is unfair. E.g. Taganga. I researched all of the available information, made it into a long and -I hope- interesting article, added 19 (!) new photos of my own to it and referenced it heavily. You called it a "start" -and I guess that is based on absolute criteria- which I think do have no relevance. An article of that length and content about let's say London, UK or New York City indeed would be a "start", because there is so much more to write. About a village of 5000 people it actually is much more than a start. It's not the amount of characters/bytes that count, but the amount of content relative to the available information/possible content. Same for the Muisca bitaeniata (a beetle where there was only 1 (!) specimen found, ever!), where I even read the old (1844) French text and compiled it into a short but complete article. If it is called a "stub" while at the same time a bot-generated infobox-only article is also a "stub", you can imagine I feel a bit offended.
But as long as the articles themselves (yet on the Talk page) are not spoiled with ugly tags that are useless anyway (any article on Wikipedia should be falling under "this article is a stub, you're invited to expand it", not just those deemed a stub, it's ok. The Talk page is a good place to organise those articles and categorise them to have a list of "to-do" work.
But as said, this is no criticism to you or your hard work, I know the autism of many of the mods and admins here who have "defined" those tight-ass "rules", "norms" and "guidelines". I just don't respect them, which is not to say that I don't respect your work, I do.
Yesterday I found quite some really really crappy articles and I deleted a lot of machine translation shite. I am a bit amazed they were allowed for so long on Wikipedia, while at the same time decent articles are labeled and tagged to death with ugly and often irrelevant templates. Sogamoso, Duitama, the Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá etc. are pages that should have been much better already by now. Cheers, Tisquesusa (talk) 16:30, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Adding to this some more musings; I find it quite sad that most of the GA articles about Colombia are about Shakira and her records and other entertainment stuff. Some of the cities (e.g. Cúcuta) should be made GA at least, and other interesting stuff too. I realise this is my POV but I am far from the only one who likes to read about "encyclopedical" things and not so much about the huge entertainment industry that doesn't need Wikipedia anyway. The Colombia task force unfortunately seems very small, especially compared to other countries of similar size. For the Muisca it works in my favour because there's lot of white space to fill and I like to do that, but if you compare Colombia to other countries as a whole it's quite poor. Even with the "Ibero-American contest" there's not much on Colombia and what is there is not too relevant either. I hope we get more contributors like you and me who are taking up some work and time and effort. It's worth it, I guess. Tisquesusa (talk) 16:41, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
No offence taken :-) I just wanted to get *some* sort of rating onto each article as a starting point: you and other editors are quite welcome to uprate them to a "start" or "C-class" if you feel they pass the criteria. It was just that I had to make a quick decision and estimate for the class/importance for the articles... if I'd spent time assessing each one carefully against the assessment criteria I'd be here until 2017...
I don't want to be dismissive of the good work Magiciandude and Luisnh1210 have done on getting music articles to GA, but I understand what you are saying when you say the list of GA articles looks top heavy with Shakira records, but that's not their fault nobody is working on other aspects of Colombian culture. Like you I also feel very strongly that the main cities and various aspects of Colombian politics and politicians should be the focus of GA work – the five major cities are Wikipedia Level-4 vital articles, after all. I also looked at the Ibero-American contest but it seemed to be focused on creating translations of articles on the Spanish Wiki that didn't exist on other language Wikis, and most of the Colombian articles are already on the English Wiki in some form (although I'd love to expand the Jaime Garzón article sometime).
Regarding "really crappy articles"... there are a LOT of these on Wikipedia across all subjects, and unfortunately trying to salvage them or putting them up for deletion takes up a huge amount of time of many dedicated editors. I am involved with WikiProject Albums as well, and currently there are nearly 35,000 unassessed stub-class articles on that project... I can guarantee that the majority are for completely non-notable albums and consist of basically a track listing and little else. Erick (Magiciandude) and I have recently been trying to deal with a batch of editors who have been creating album and singles articles by not particularly notable Colombian pop stars, all badly written and poorly sourced and really not worthy of a place on Wikipedia. And then you get articles like V E N T U S which was created by the artist's manager and serves as nothing more than a promotional piece. Richard3120 (talk) 17:47, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

A good example of what I've been saying above is: 1 - Battle of Pasca (4434 bytes), 2 - José Domingo Duquesne (5443 bytes), 3 - Taganga (25,229 bytes), 4 - Arcabuco (2391 bytes). 1 is labeled "stub", yet when you search on Google for "Batalla de Pasca" there is nothing more to find than already linked. There is some aftermath information but that is written in the article about Saguamanchica already and I don't want to unnecessarily duplicate that. There is only 1 "primary" source (De Piedrahita) who wrote 3 pages about it in 1688/1676, more than 200 years (!) later. 2 is labeled "start", while about Duquesne the relative content is less than about the Battle. There is more to write and find in older chronicles for sure as this fellow was living in the late 18th and early 19th century and church records tend to be very complete and thorough. 3 is almost 5 times the absolute size of 2, but is labeled in the same category, while about Taganga there is not 20 k bytes more to write (while for Duquesne there is) if you don't want to end up in tourist guide talk, as is well done on the linked Wikivoyage and Wikitravel pages. 4 is labeled "stub" and indeed that is a stub; only the most basic information is there (yet still not well written; the provinces are part of the larger departments, not the other way around as is written in all the "bot-generated" or bot-generated municipalities). But how can the Battle of Pasca and Arcabuco be in the same category? Arcabuco has no references while the Battle has all the references that are there to find online? IMHO the "stub" category should be reserved for "Arcabuco"-like "articles". Or Techo (Bogotá) etc. Anything that has some information more than just an infobox and the most basic of content should be labeled "start". And any article that lists multiple points as Taganga does should be in a higher category than "start". Also, if the number of bytes is the defining factor, it's possible to trick that using a full infobox with just a lot of empty fields, still not producing more interesting content but may make labeling of "start" instead of "stub" possible... Tisquesusa (talk) 17:56, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Sure Richard, I understand your position, no worries about that and the "consensus" type of defining as well. I have 13 years of wiki experience... ;-) just not here.
And of course, not downgrading any of the Shakira work, after all it's about the interests of the writers. If they like those records and write enthusiastically about them, I would be the last person to discourage them.
But on the pretty important cities and sites (Zipaquirá) I don't agree. There is a lot of activity in the history of those articles with small edits, but nobody really read the texts as they are obviously crappy machine translations, clear for an en-2 or even en-1 speaker... To go into it and rewrite it is a lot of dirty and unpleasant work, but then rather remove the parts than keep it on the article, I'd say.
Promo I found also with the Sandra Bessudo article, that listed she has 5000 dives, which is nice and admirable but not notable for an encyclopedia. Capitalisation of words that shouldn't, very promo language how great she is and all of that. Of course it's much more rewarding to write new articles and improve older ones into GAs and so, but those kind of cases are numerous enough to have some work done too. There was not even a "this is promo talk, please improve this article" tag placed and it seems those tage are not working anyway as I found articles with tags of 8 years ago ("no refs" and others), untouched through time... Then a tag doesn't serve its purpose. This is all more part of the general review process than of a WikiProject I think, but maybe we can wake up some earlier contributors to help with this work? Tisquesusa (talk) 18:09, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
Re: Sandra Bessudo. Until the editor Johnsonienses added WikiProject tags on 22 April, just over a month ago, the only WikiProject tag attached to the article was one for WikiProject Biography. So as far as WikiProject Colombia (and other projects) were concerned, we had no idea of the existence of this article until a month ago. This highlights what I was saying about it being important to tag the article with any relevant WikiProject, even if it means I get the class/importance ratings wrong: at least it then notifies members of the relevant WikiProjects that the article exists, and they can get to work improving it or re-rating it. Which is why I thought the admin was a place to start: knowing what's part of the project, we can then see what needs to be worked on. Richard3120 (talk) 18:32, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

What to do with Nem-Catacoa Festival?

This 'article' was added in 2011 by "Colombiannews", an obvious promo stunt to boost the ticket sales for the later cancelled event. It was a once-in-a-lifetime edition held in 2010 with some old 90s rock bands. I think it's not notable (anymore), also because the link to the website and reference is dead. I've cleaned it up a bit, but in essence there's not much left and it won't be happening soon I guess. And if it does, an admin can retrieve the old page? What do you think? Tisquesusa (talk) 09:03, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

I don't know about "old 90s rock bands" – the majority of artists on that line-up are still very much active. That aside, I think if we can't get hold of any sources, it should probably be deleted... whether sources can be found will probably be the defining issue as to whether it's kept or not. I'm in the process of tidying up the article on Estéreo Picnic, which is the one Colombian article currently in draftspace: it was started but abandoned by a now non-active editor in 2013, but as Colombia's main music festival I think it's certainly worth keeping and there are reliable sources available to reference the article. In the case of this festival though, I'm not so sure. Richard3120 (talk) 14:53, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
Edit: I think we can safely say that this festival will not take place again in the future... Estéreo Picnic is now firmly established as the major festival for rock/alternative music in Bogotá, and with the Colombian version of Lollapalooza debuting in town this September, there's simply no room for a new name festival to try and start up in the capital. Richard3120 (talk) 15:05, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

Requested move

Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Security issues in Colombia#Requested move 14 June 2016, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks,  What's in your palette? Paine  12:54, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite

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List of current members of the Senate of Colombia

Hi, Just letting you guys know that I have updated the List of current members of the Senate of Colombia for the 2014-2018 period. Maybe you can help me clean up a little more the list. That would be great. Have a nice day. --Ospination (talk) 19:07, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your efforts Ospination – I've put in a basic reference to confirm the current senators, the rest of the references either need deleting or updating as they refer to the previous senate term; there's also a few spelling corrections and tidying up needed. Richard3120 (talk) 19:40, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming

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which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017!

The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion.

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Common Alternative Revolutionary Force

These are some sources that may be helpful in expanding this page, or any other FARC related pages.

Borch, Guri Waalen and Kirsti Stuvøy. “Practices of Self-Legitimation in Armed Groups: Money and Mystique of the FARC in Colombia.” Distinktion: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory 9, no. 2 (2008): 97-120, http://0-web.b.ebscohost.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=5&sid=32678cb3-905f-4bd2-95a4-f348a407004b%40sessionmgr102

Flores, Thomas Edward. “Vertical Inequality, Land Reform, and Insurgency in Colombia.” Peace Economics, Peace Science, & Public Policy 20, no. 1 (January 2014): 5-31.

Galvis, Juan Pablo. “Developing Exclusion: The Case of the 1961 Land Reform in Colombia.” Development and Change 40, no. 3 (May 2009) 509-529. http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=66b4e209-ae2e-4cff-9c72-1646a2106ec5%40sessionmgr4007

Sanin, Francisco Gutierrez and Francy Carranza Franco. “Organizing Women For Combat: The Experience of the FARC in the Colombian War.” Journal of Agrarian Change, 2017.

Tate, Winifred. “Chronicle of a Peace Foretold.” NACLA Report on the Americas 48, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 18-21, http://0-web.b.ebscohost.com.dewey2.library.denison.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=25&sid=e74a4c07-8e48-45a4-8862-923f67538ff4%40sessionmgr104

Anderson, Jon Lee, “Colombia’s Guerrillas Come out of the Jungle.” The New Yorker, May 1, 2017.

“Humans of New York’s Facebook Page.” Facebook.com. Last modified April 17, 2017. https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735.4429.102099916530784/1686372734770153/?type=3&theater

“Humans of New York’s Facebook Page.” Facebook.com Last modified April 18, 2017. https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735.4429.102099916530784/1688082774599149/?type=3&theater, https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735.4429.102099916530784/1688083331265760/?type=3&theater, https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/photos/a.102107073196735.4429.102099916530784/1688084367932323/?type=3&theater

Krawrght (talk) 14:21, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject

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

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

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 14:30, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Note

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Architecture of Colombia

Hi, I've just updated the article on Architecture of Colombia, writing a brief introduction on the subject. I also deleted things which I thing to be innacurate, especially the paragraph dealing with the nineteenth century, and tried to lay out the main topics, which are to be found in any serious publication on the matter. Unfortunately, I do not live in Colombia at the moment and thus do not have bibliography in order to properly enhance the article. Any of you guys out there who might want to help expanding it, I strongly suggest you to have a look at the work of architect and historian Germán Tellez. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cuervo.juan (talk • contribs) 05:10, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

Invitation to edit

Hi, I invite you to edit and expand this article United States involvement in regime change in Latin America that would certainly benefit from more editors. Greetings. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 05:36, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

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RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:35, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

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Template:WikiProject Colombia

I have made some changes to the sandbox of Template:WikiProject Colombia. You can view changes here Template:WikiProject Colombia/sandbox. Is there any problems with being replaced with the live version.___CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk (We are the champions, my friends) 12:12, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Notifying active member(s) @DovahDuck, Kingsif, and Bradford:.___CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk (We are the champions, my friends) 12:47, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Not sure the coat of arms is necessary, but I otherwise see no problem Kingsif (talk) 19:48, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
Kingsif, I have removed the coat of arms. ___CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk (We are the champions, my friends) 11:18, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
I have no problem with it either. Richard3120 (talk) 21:30, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

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First women in Congress

I've found several sources claiming that Anacarsis Cardona de Salonia and María Paulina Nieto de Caro were the first women to sit in the Chamber of Representatives. However, this official source of members of the Chamber (see pp6–7) lists nine women as principal members (Cardona, Margarita Córdoba de Solórzano, Bertha Hernández de Ospina, Alina Muñoz de Zambrano, Nieto de Caro, Carmenza Rocha Castilla, Teresa Santamaría, Isabel Vall-Serra and María Luisa Velásquez). Does anyone have any idea why the two mentioned above are considered the first and not the other seven? Cheers, Number 57 19:48, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

No, no idea... the 1958 election was the first one where women were allowed to be elected to Congress, so obviously it was all nine or none at the same time. The only thing I can think of is that they wee the first two to be sworn in. Richard3120 (talk) 17:02, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
I found an article about Córdoba de Solórzano that stated she was a second substitute who only took her seat after the principal was appointed to another position and the first substitute died. I wonder if the 'official list' is that at a certain point after the election, by which time several of the substitute had become principles? I found another rather confusing source, this article, which backs up the list of nine (p40), although it goes on to state 8 on p45 and then only lists seven of them on p46 (excluding Cardona de Salonia and adding Cecilia Lince). Hmmm Number 57 18:13, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Colombian House of Representatives

The article on the Colombian House of Representatives states that there are 172 seats in the infobox along with showing the breakdown of to whom those seats belong. However in the subsection for Electoral System, the chamber is described as "currently composed of 166 representatives serving four-year terms." The table in the bottom of the section breaks down the parties represented and their respective number of seats, with a total of 166 listed.

I don't know anywhere near enough about the body to know which is accurate (or are both somehow accurate, e.g. 166 voting members and 6 nonvoting members, for a total of 172, certainly no clarification like this is described in the article), but I figured I would bring this to the attention of the fine volunteer editors who may be able to fix this discrepancy.

link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber_of_Representatives_of_Colombia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:580:C200:1B0:88B8:4C46:4AE4:C3BC (talk) 04:33, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

See note (b) next to the number of "172" in the infobox – it's complicated, and still disputed, but basically there are 166 elected members, and then as part of the current peace process the FARC automatically got five additional seats, and the President got to choose an extra seat. Richard3120 (talk) 19:03, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

A related query as I've been trying to add more detailed results of Congressional elections – one thing that's unclear is how the indigenous and Afro-Colombian seats are elected. Do eligible voters have to chose between voting for a candidate in the general seats and one in the minority seats, or can they vote for candidates in both? The way the results are presented by sources is inconsistent – the RNEC presentation in some cases suggests a vote for the minority seats is an additional vote (as they don't include votes cast for the minority seats in the total figure used to calculate voter turnout), and in others suggests that it is a standalone vote (by including them).

I also can't find anything that explains how voters qualify to vote for the indigenous or Afro-Colombian seats. Cheers, Number 57 19:18, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

I live in Colombia, and voted in the last Congressional elections... and there wasn't an option for me on the ballot paper to vote for an indigenous party, as far as I remember. I need to look into this, because I find it very difficult to follow the histories of the smaller parties – apart from the half dozen or so major parties, the smaller ones often seem to only be in existence for one set of elections and then disappear, or they get renamed, or they merge with another party, or they form an alliance with a different name from any of the parties in the alliance. Richard3120 (talk) 20:39, 10 September 2021 (UTC)

Hi

Hi. I just checked the page White Colombians and I see user Merchancano has completely vandalised the page. It was complete and full of information last time I checked.

This user has been inflating the number of Afro Colombians and apparently reducing the number of White Colombians. Don't know what's the motive behind this.

According to him, anybody who is part African or have a fraction of Sub-Saharan ancestry even if it is as low as 15% of their ADN, counts as 'Afro-Colombian' but then again, he says people who are 60% or more European (genetic-wise) can't be 'white Colombians'. Check the page's history, that's what he says. So he has double standards for the figures he wants to impose.

He's been editing all pages related to Colombian ethnic groups (English and Spanish) and selling the idea of an Afro Colombia. Crazy thing.

I don't know if you could please help me out raise awareness about this and take some actions if possible. I'm no expert at Wikipedia but I think this user has an agenda. He's not happy with inflating Afro Colombian numbers, he also goes and vandalises other ethnicities' pages, like the one dedicated to White Colombians.

He also deletes content instead of asking for references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Opita garzon (talk • contribs) 02:19, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

I haven't checked, so I don't know what figures he is using. The only official figures are the ones from the 2018 census by DANE – I think the black and Afrocolombian population was given as about 6.6% of the population, but if you include "raizales" and "Palenqueros" then this rises to 9.34% of the population. Anything else is original research, i.e. the editor's own opinion, and not based on verifiable evidence. Thanks for letting us know. Richard3120 (talk) 02:38, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

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