Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dominican Republic/Archive 2

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Archive 2

Mirabal sisters

Hi all. I added the Mirabal sisters to the project page because I think it deserves some attention. It has serious POV issues and almost no sources. I try and fix pages like that myself but I can't find any reliable sources and know nothing about the subject. Anyone interested? Thanks --PatrickFlaherty (talk) 02:05, 5 July 2008 (UTC) (Note: User Osplace responded to this message.

Help request: 95 Dominican Republic-related articles needing geographical coordinates

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

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

1. Azua Province
2. Cap Cana
3. La Cueva
4. La Isabela International Airport
5. María Trinidad Sánchez Province
6. Monte Plata Batley Juan Sanchez Airport
7. Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 95 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 you have any questions! -- The Anome (talk) 11:41, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Non existing province

Theres is a problem with Provinces of the Dominican Republic, because the Matías Ramón Mella Province do not exist. Even with congressional aproval, the president returned the project. There is NOT any official information about this province. Please can someone remove the province and revert all the maps? Oscar987 03:48, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Work needed on Miss Dominican Republic articles

Hi all, I noticed some time ago that there's a lot of issues with the articles on the Miss Dominican Republic pageants, particularly those since 2004. See for example Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2006, which says "The Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2006 will be held on December 18, 2005". This detail should be easy to update, but there is a bit of research legwork involved to confirm all these details that would require an interested party. There's also the question of whether images such as File:MDR06Mía.jpg are not copyvios and whether contributions is the actual copyright holder of these images. I'd tagged these articles with {{update}} some time ago, but that template was almost immediately removed without the article being fixed. Thanks! —/Mendaliv/^2¢/_Δ's/ 23:35, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Santo Domingo and Distrito Nacional

It appears they are the same nowadays? If they are the same (like Washington D.C. and District of Columbia), perhaps they should be merged? P.S. There are also separate pages for Greater Santo Domingo Area and Santo Domingo Province. Chanheigeorge (talk) 04:53, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot

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Guayabal, Azua

I cleaned up the Article, yet, it is still very subjective and appears to be a first person account of Guayabal.

Also, the article's content is on the town of Guayabal, in the municipality of Guayabal, in the province of Azua. So perhaps the article name should perhaps be changed? Especially if someone were to create a page about the municipality.

--El Mayimbe (talk) 22:00, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

I don't know if anyone is here but...

User:Indiobandida recently tried to post what I believe was an attempt at a new article on Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons about a band of the same name as the user from the Dominican Republic. It had quite a number of wikilinks, which made me think it had been copied from another wiki, but now I'm not as sure. The content was removed from the wikitalk page. I left a note on the user's talk page, but in English since I don't know Spanish. In any event,the user has now posted the same "article" (without wiklinks) on his/her userpage. Running it through Google Translate shows that the "article" is a PR piece, probably self-written. I have no idea if the band itself meets our notability requirements. If anyone is active here, and knows Spanish, it might be helpful if someone left a note for him on his/her talk page, possibly a translation of what I wrote in English plus an explanation of how s/he can't just put up the personal info on their own userpage. There's obviously more issues here, too (the username, for example, implies a strong COI), but I'm not sure if we can actually get that far. If the user isn't actually capable of editing in English, then this just isn't the place for them. Any help you can provide will be appreciated. Qwyrxian (talk) 02:25, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

(Note: User Osplace responded to this message. SamEV (talk) 19:55, 31 October 2010 (UTC))

Bachata Rosa

If anyone is interested in helping, I'm working on the album Bachata Rosa by Juan Luis Guerra for featured article and since there isn't a single FA for the Wikipedia Dominican Republic, I think this might help out. It's being done on my sandbox and if you would like to help out let me know. Erick (talk) 04:59, 22 October 2011 (UTC)

It would be great to have a FA. I am a little bit busy, but I will try to take a look later this week. Oscar 04:12, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

K cool, my sandbox can be found here. Erick (talk) 04:37, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

Article needed on diplomatic crisis between the Dominican Republic and Haiti in 2013

On the Spanish Wikipedia, I discovered: es:Crisis diplomática entre República Dominicana y Haití de 2013. I realized there is no English article. Is anyone interested in starting it? WhisperToMe (talk) 01:30, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses

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

Expert attention

This is a notice about Category:Dominican Republic articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 19:59, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Deletion discussion in Spanish Wikipedia

Hi. Not sure if anyone here is interested, but there's a discussion regarding the notability of an article I started on Spanish Wikipedia. It's an article on Dominican plastic surgeon Edgar Contreras (Spanish article here) I'm not sure if you contribute there, but feel free to add your 2 cents, regardless of whether you agree or disagree with my opinion to preserve the article. Thanks! Thief12 (talk) 01:32, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

New member

On the Dutch Wikipedia I have contributed a lot to the pages of the Dominicaanse Republiek.

On commons is of the Dominican Republic a lot to find what is not categorized correctly, I now try to improve this.

I have a lot of pictures of the Republica Dominicana and place as it can be complementary. --Jos1950 (talk) 20:59, 2 August 2016 (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) 05:32, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

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AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because your portal is related to Africa, the Carribean, Cinema or theatre.

This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

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For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)

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)

Abandoned Portal?

Portal:Dominican Republic has been categorized in Category:Abandoned country portals. If the members of this WikiProject are interested in "un-abandoning" it, please do so by adding additional content to the Portal. UnitedStatesian (talk) 12:59, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• Diversity winner
• Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.

Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)

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Wiki Indaba 2021 is here!

Hosted by the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, the first ever virtual Wiki Indaba conference is taking place online from the 5th to the 7th of November 2021 under the theme Rethink + Reset : Visions of the future.

Wiki Indaba 2021 is a unique opportunity to come together to build the capacity of African Wikimedians both within the continent and the diaspora to foster the growth of the coverage and our involvement in Wikimedia projects.

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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

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  • 3rd - $100
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Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

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