User talk:GringoInChile

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Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week

I would like to revive this project. I noticed that you've added yourself to the list of available Spanish-to-English translators. Are you interested in working on Spanish Translation of the Week? — J3ff 06:29, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Untagged Image?

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Sign Your Comments Please

Dude, don't forget to sign your comments on talk pages such as Talk:Puka (animal) (I added it for you there). Just press the signature-looking icon above the text window and it will add it for you. --Hoovernj 04:49, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Reply ex Conce

Hi GringoinChile, Got your message. Sorry about delay in replying. I had spotted you on Wikipedia previously and was going to contact you but you beat me to it. Yes, I would love to meet up. Will contact you shortly.

Paul. Conce 01:14, 2005 August 31 (UTC)

New SPATRA

You showed support for Spanish Translation of the Week. This week Capernaum was chosen to be translated from es:Cafarnaúm. Hope you can help.

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Inverse SPATRA

You showed support for Spanish Translation of the Week. This week es:Ataque a Pearl Harbor was chosen to be translated from Attack on Pearl Harbor. Hope you can help.

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Monterey Pine

Out of curiosity - don't people in Chile call it "Pino radiata", rather than "Radiata Pine"? (interestingly, for comparison, it is "Pino insigne" or "Pino de Monterrey" in Spain) - MPF 17:04, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Wiki Birthday!

Award

Wiki birthday to you! Wiki birthday, dear GringoInChile! Wiki birthday to you! Congratulations on your first Wikibirthday at Wikipedia (December 8, 2005.). On behalf of the community, we'd like to thank you for your countless edits in the past year! Keep it coming!. This Wiki Birthday Balloon was awarded to you by: SoothingR

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Gurubrahma 14:39, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

WikiProjects

Hi GringoInChile, I saw your userboxes and noticed that you ahve a interest in Rugby and Cricket. There is always help needed at WikiProject Cricket and WikiProject Rugby union. Wikipedia is especially weak in the New Zealand areas. Thanks DaGizza ^Chat (c) 10:53, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Image:Cueca.jpg has been listed for deletion

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--WonYong 10:48, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Yay!

Are you watching the cricket series against Sri Lanka. New Zealand's winning 3-0 so far. We're halfway through the 1st innings.... Bye. Spawn Man 01:41, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Grand Slam (Rugby Union)

Thanks for all the disambigs, much appreciated.GordyB 09:58, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week

You showed support for the Spanish Translation of the Week. This week es:Acueducto de Segovia was chosen to be translated to Aqueduct of Segovia.
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Image Tagging Image:MonumentRodriguez.jpg

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Tri Nations Aggregate

Hi Gringo, I just want to clear up the ituation regarding the template. I submitted the champions page to the FLC, and a reviewer suggested that the template should be deleted as it is only in that article. So I went through the steps of nominating it for deletion as the reviewer suggested. But, I then realised it was on the ABs page, and I then saw your message on the main talk page about using it on other pages and how it only has to be updated once. So I removed the deletion tag quickly!! Sorry about that! Hope its all good. Cvene64 11:25, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks I'm glad you like it, another user (from the Featured List Candidate) changed the one on that page, so I though I'd give the colspan look a try on your template as well. Nice work on all the tables in the individual tournaments, the Tri Nations articles are shaping up quite nicely in time for the 06 Series! Cheers. Cvene64 14:45, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

User:MILH

Hi there. User MILH is really a case study. He's spreading his POV throughout several articles related to Chile (Augusto Pinochet, Paulina Lyon incident, Juntas de Abastecimientos y Precios and Machuca) and adding irrelevant information to Michelle Bachelet. Can you help me out on this one? Thanks. ☆ CieloEstrellado 23:14, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

"Squashed" image

Thanks for putting in the English names on the Mesoamerica caption, that looks great. I'd be happy to help you with your "squashed" image problem, but I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Could you enlighten me? - Draeco 17:33, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Please do not edit or remove the signed comments of other users, as you did on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ice Age 3. Some users consider this to be a failing in etiquette at best, or vandalism at worst. Thanks you. 81.104.165.184 19:01, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article 2006 student protests in Chile, which you recently nominated, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

--Cactus.man ✍ 10:15, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your support

Thanks for voting on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Super 12 Champions. Maybe you might be interested in voting on Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Super 14 champions?--Hamedog_Talk|^@ 13:27, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

new Spanish translation

You showed support for the Spanish Translation of the Week. This week es:Conquista de Hispania was chosen to be translated to Conquest of Hispania/Translation.
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thanks for your help on the trade agreements

much appreciated. todddc

Edit Count

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DYK

On 15 August, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article George William Smith (New Zealand), which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

Miss World winners list

I just created the article, no need to get excited over deleting it. I'm following the layout of the Miss Universe article, and hence, that article is necessary. Joey80 08:26, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

AfD

When you create a Wikipedia:Articles for deletion item, you must tag the article in question with {{subst:AfD}}. -- RHaworth 08:48, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

38 Acres and Speedy deletion

Hey -- I declined your speedy deletion request here and replaced it with a WP:PROD. Speedy deletion (for {{db-band}} and {{db-bio}}) applies strictly only to articles that don't even explain why the subject should be important. In this case, the band is described as having an album out, and having been on tour, and is described as "popular." That isn't much for a band, but it's enough that the accuracy of those statements could use verifying. We do have WP:BAND, but articles that don't describe how their subject meets that guideline are not necessarily deletable via speedy deletion. Speedy deletion is only for article with no description of importance whatsoever. Mangojuice^talk 13:37, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Tri nations

I am satisfied that the move request is going nowhere and therefore have no objections to you starting a new move request. Whether this is correct protocol or not is another matter.GordyB 12:37, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

You could contact an admin. I'd suggest one of the two who closed move requests one and two or somebody in the union project with admin status as Stormie has IIRC. Personally I'd leave it as it will get closed in a few days and it isn't urgent.GordyB 14:12, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Too quick on the move trigger finger

Just want to inform you that your move of Axel Rappe (born 1838) to Axel Rappe was not justified, as the person in question had a son with the exact same name (that info is included in the article). Please hold your horses for at least a few minutes before performing such a move to give me a chance to actually create the disambiguation page and describe why the (born xxxx) addition was needed. Best wishes – Elisson • Talk 19:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

New Page Patrol

Howdy! I'm patrolling new pages with you today, and wanted to remind you to leave a message on the creator's talk page when you nominate an article for speedy deletion. (Remember: don't bite the newcomers!) You can find a list of warnings at WP:TT. Keep up the good work! -- Merope ^Talk 19:58, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Manuel Rodriguez.jpg

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f Tahmesabi

Hi there; I hope you dont mind; I changed your {{db:nonsense}} to a {{db:repost}}, and put a final warning on his talk page.--Anthony.bradbury 22:40, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

John Frothingham

Might not meet speedy criteria if he worked on the Manhattan Project ? exolon 21:58, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Surrealtriad

Thanks GringoInChile, for your useful comments. About the Jacknife article, no problem, i would have done the same.

Attack pages

Howdy! I saw that you tagged an attack page for speedy deletion. The tag you want to use is {{db-attack}}, not {{db-disparage}}. The latter tag is used for templates that are "divisive and inflammatory." Not a big deal, since I zapped it right away, but I thought you'd want to know. Cheers! -- Merope 13:58, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

And you're doing fine! You might want to look at WP:CSD#Deletion_templates; there are a list of the tags used for each criterion. -- Merope 14:06, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Caroline Grigsby

Is Caroline Grigsby really a personal attack? It's a fictional character. Unless her negative comments were directed to the author herself, I don't see how it can be considered an attack page. -WarthogDemon 20:30, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the suggestions and help. I'm a bit new to this so I'm still figuring a lot of stuff out. Sorry if I'm causing any problems! ElentariAchaea 22:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Italian article

Of course! Be my guest.  :) - Lucky 6.9 06:37, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Survey Q

Have you ever been to the southern hemisphere, click here to reply.AstroBoy 01:46, 11 November 2006 (UTC) Deadline for entries is December 15th

NPWatcher

You've been approved to use NPWatcher. When you log into the program, wait a few seconds while it queries wikipedia before screaming at your PC for crashing (unless you see an error, of course). Please give me any feature requests, bugs, etc. Before you run the program, please check the changelog on the appliction page to see if I've made a new release. Finally, enjoy! Martinp23 01:36, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

New release - please download from the same link as before! Thanks Martinp23 20:51, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Is this information appropriate?

Hey, I'm trying to get information about the company I work for on Wiki. It's been deleted twice and I have read the guidelines of Wiki postings (and I do agree that my first post was "blatant advertising" However, I would like to see our company listed in the Wiki, so can you please take a look through the following text and let me know if it is appropriate for posting?

Thanks

Here's the info I would like to post:

MTS Driver Recruiters LLC was founded in January of 2000 by Ken Walker (CEO) and Greg Walker (CFO) to meet the growing needs of transportation companies for qualified, commercially licensed truck drivers.

MTS has placed many thousands of drivers throughout the U.S. Clients range from small private fleets to large commercial trucking companies throughout North America.

Categories

Hi, I was wondering if you could give me some help with categories, since you've been such a big help in the past. I was trying to make a subcategory for the Category:National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology schools called 'The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science,' pages to include MSMS and Southern Voices. It didn't work out quite like I'd planned. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks! ElentariAchaea 15:39, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Untagged image

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All Blacks and announcements template

Hey, several editors have been contributing to All Blacks lately, was wondering if you could help look over it for any problems with regards to submitting as WP:FAC. As well, I've created a template {{WPRU Announcements}} for WP:RU members userpages. You may want to take a look? Thanks. - Shudda ^talk 05:14, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to the entry for "empanada"

Could "carmelated" have been a misformulation of "caramelized," do you think? Just curious - I'm only familiar with the Panamanian variety of empanada. - HiramShadraski 16:23, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Super 14 peer review

Hi, I was wondering if you could comment on the Super 14 page at it's peer review here. I would really appreciate the input. Thanks. - Shudda ^talk 22:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

All Blacks copy-edit

Hey, thanks for your copy-editing. The lead has been redone, could you have a look at it? Are you going to do a thorough copy-edit of the article? If so, could you please post something in the FAC review page when done. That may sway some people to post their support for FAC. Thanks a lot! - Shudda ^talk 10:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that, I really appreciate it. Getting it to FA was a group effort, I know I was the main one pushing it, but I would never have been able to do it alone. I'll read over the article later tonight. Thanks again. - Shudda ^talk 02:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Just stole sumthin

As another gringo in chile I stopped by to say Hi and stole your places idea to which I added a few modifications. If you're curious you can see them on my user page. --JAXHERE | ^Talk 14:02, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

In reply to your note, I'm usually around Villarrica. Been around here since '97. Actually I guess I should have put NZ on my list. We made friends with a student Dr. who came to Chile from there to do part of her internship here in the mid '80s. Afterwards she went to practice in northern Australia and it's been a long while since we've heard from her. Which University do you teach at? Do you also hold workshops to understand the NZ accent?  ;-) I think the most fun part of knowing Raewyn (the Dr.) was trying to figure out what she was saying.

What do you think of the Chilean Universities' practice of charging graduates to get a certificate of their degree? I have a daughter graduating and was appaled when I was informed of this. I'd never heard of anything like this in Canada. Do they do anything like that in NZ? --JAXHERE | ^Talk 12:56, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I rather suspected that you'd be working for San Sebastian. That's the same Uni. which my daughter is graduating from but in Puerto Montt. Well, it's nice to make your acquaintance. We'll probably bump into eachother from time to time ... I am doing a lot of work on chilean articles, too. If you're ever visiting Villarrica, let me know and I'll treat you to a coffee, in the meantime it will have to be a virtual cup JAXHERE | ^Talk 17:24, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Original All Blacks

Hey, yeah I'm going to work on it a little bit. The great thing about this article is that there are many books on the subject, a lot of them publisher last year. I am also looking at the 1981 Springbok Tour and the 1995 Rugby World Cup, however both of those have less resources out there. I'm trying to get a collaboration at WikiProject New Zealand together for the 81 Tour, need more votes though (go here and vote!). My aim at the moment is GA status for all of them, FA is still a wee way off. Any help on any of these would be greatly appreciated! - Shudda ^talk 19:09, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Fiji Rugby

Hi I was interested in asking you if you would like to be part of a project WP:RUFR, started by me but revamped with the help of Shudda. Its basically a workgroup regarding Fiji Rugby and it would be a great pleasure 2 have you Abroad.Just click on the above link and sign up..Thanx..ø~Cometstyles~ø^(talk)

Chilean edits

Hello, GringoInChile, since you have made several edits to articles about Chile, you may be interested in looking at the Wikipedia:Chile-related regional notice board to pick up on other topics that need attention, or to express needs which you perceive pertaining to Chile. JAXHERE | ^Talk 01:29, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Crusaders peer review

Hi, I've requested a peer review for Crusaders. Could everyone please take a look and help out? I'm trying to get the article up to Featured Article standard, and would like any feedback I can get. You can add any comments here. Thanks a lot! - Shudda ^talk 03:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

commons:User:GringoInChile

I assert to be the same user as commons:User:GringoInChile GringoInChile 13:47, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Crusaders copy-edit

Hey, was wondering when you would be able to do the copy-edit of Crusaders (rugby)? I think that the article is better written then All Blacks was, but it's the minor things that need looking at. Thanks. - Shudda ^talk 02:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, really appreciate your work! - Shudda ^talk 01:37, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Hey, if this is a pain feel free to tell me to bugger off. I know you havn't been contributing much lately, but if you have some spare time would you mind a copy-edit of Waisale Serevi? Most of the important info is there, just needs another pair of eyes to look over it. Thanks. - Shudda ^talk 14:04, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Chile city naming convention poll

You are invited to participate in a poll at Wikipedia talk:Chile-related regional notice board#settlement article naming poll. Please express your opinion there. Jespinos 17:27, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

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France national rugby union team FAC

As of time of posting there have been no comments at the France national rugby union team's FAC even though it's been an FAC for over a week. So i'm asking for some comments from some people that have commented on Rugby union FAC's before. Please comment here. A support or oppose (with reasons) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. - Shudda ^talk 00:30, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Ken Catchpole

A "{{prod}}" template has been added to the article Ken Catchpole, suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. All contributions are appreciated, but the article may not satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and the deletion notice explains why (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy). You may contest the proposed deletion by removing the {{dated prod}} notice, but please explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion in your edit summary or on its talk page. Also, please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Even though removing the deletion notice will prevent deletion through the proposed deletion process, the article may still be deleted if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria or it can be sent to Articles for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached. KenWalker | Talk 18:47, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Rugby union national team Improvement Drive

For the 2007 Rugby World Cup WikiProject Rugby union is launching an Improvement Drive for national rugby union teams; specifically those participating in the Rugby World Cup.

We need your help! Here is what you can do:

• Adopt a national rugby union team article and collaborate with other members to improve it.
• Find, create and upload free images that will help improve these articles.
• Copy-edit, reference, and expand articles when and where you can.
• Promote the project and encourage others to join.

The World Cup is fast approaching and these articles are going to get a lot more hits during the tournament. It would be great if we could have them at a high standard!

For more information see the discussion on the WikiProject Rugby union talk page here.

Shudde ^talk 05:14, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

England national rugby union team

How far off do you reckon this article is from FA? - Shudde ^talk 01:26, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I think it's best to use 9–3 instead of nine to three. You may want to have a look at WP:DASH as well. I think the main thing is that it's consistent. I've probably got to add one more section on club vs country which I'm going to get done asap, but after that I think she'll be ready to go to FAC. - Shudde ^talk 02:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I have now added a section on club versus country. The only other thing I can think to do is better reference the Six Nations Championship section. That won't take very long though. Let me know when you are done copy-editing it. Thanks. - Shudde ^talk 04:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I have now nominated it (nomination page here). Thanks a lot for the copy-edit. Makes my life much easier. It's very hard to copy-edit your own writing (its possible, but takes ages). Thanks again. - Shudde ^talk 02:53, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

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Could you please explain?

Could you please explain to me why you thought the article Wonderland Resort was spam? I believe that it may help me make the article better. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben Boldt (talk • contribs) 14:16, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation. I'll do my best to make this article better when I can find some time to do a little research. Ben Boldt 01:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		For your work in copy-editing articles; especially at my request! Shudde talk 01:15, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

All Blacks versus France at rugby union

This article is now a Good Article and I've put it up for peer review. I would like to nominate it for Featured Article some time in the next few weeks, and would appreciate any feedback. Please have a look then comment on the peer-review page! Thanks. - Shudde ^talk 03:10, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Would you be able to copy-edit this article? Please let me know. Thanks. - Shudde ^talk 04:24, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

League of Copyeditors roll call

Greetings from the League of Copyeditors. Your name is listed on our members page, but we are unsure how many of the people listed there are still active contributors to the League's activities. If you are still interested in participating in the work of the League, please follow the instructions at the members page to add your name to the active members list. Once you have done that, you might want to familiarise yourself with the new requests system, which has replaced the old /proofreading subpage. As the old system is now deprecated, the main efforts of the League should be to clear the substantial backlog which still exists there. The League's services are in as high demand as ever, as evinced by the increasing backlog on our requests pages, both old and new. While FA and GA reviewers regularly praise the League's contributions to reviewed articles, we remain perennially understaffed. Fulfilling requests to polish the prose of Wikipedia's highest-profile articles is a way that editors can make a very noticeable difference to the appearance of the encyclopedia. On behalf of the League, if you do consider yourself to have left, I hope you will consider rejoining; if you consider yourself inactive, I hope you will consider returning to respond to just one request per week, or as many as you can manage. Merry Christmas and happy editing, The League of Copyeditors.

Melon‑Bot (STOP!) 18:32, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Highlanders (rugby) peer review

Hey. I've been struggling to get any comments at my requested peer-review of Highlanders (rugby). I was wondering if you would be able to spend a few minutes reading through the article and adding any comments or suggestions here? Thanks. - Shudde ^talk 06:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Encuentro de Wikipedistas en Concecpión

Hola. Este sábado 23 de febrero, a las 11 de la mañana, realizaremos un Encuentro de Wikipedistas en Concepción, en el edificio del Gobierno Regional del Biobío. Los detalles se encuentran en la página del encuentro, pero te anticipo que conversaremos sobre diversos temas relacionados a Wikipedia y Wikimedia y a la hora de almuerzo realizaremos un asado para poder desconectarnos un poco de los wikis :-) ¡Sería muy bueno que pudieras asistir a este primer wikiencuentro en el sur de Chile, así que te esperamos! --Zuirdj (talk) 15:49, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

WP:AUK

This is an invitation to WikiProject Auckland, a WikiProject which aims to develop and expand Wikipedia's articles on Auckland. Please feel free to join us.

Taifarious1 09:32, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

NZFlag Userbox

Kia Ora! I've recently done an update of userboxes relating to NZ Politics. I've noticed several users, including yourself, have included a userbox displaying a desire to change to NZ Flag (a belief I share with you) by including raw code rather than a template. I've used this raw code to create Template:User_NZFlag, so for ease of use feel free to use {{User NZFlag}} instead of the entire raw code. Cheers! =) Gialloneri (talk) 02:36, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

The Latin-American Wikipedia Meeting

"Latin-American Wikipedians,unite us!"

Latin America:one world,one dream!! Hi wikipedian!Today I'm going to talk you about a new proposal that can to advantage you and many other users of Latin America. You,that is from Latin America (or write about it),already shall to have observed the importance of the Wikimedia Frojects in the region.Only Wikipedia represent 40% of the internet access.With every this importance,why don't we make a big meeting? Of this idea,was borned the proposal for a Latin-American Wikipedian Meeting.Various Wikipedists has Latin-American users and this is a proposal of a culture and ideas interchange,that can be help all projects.Above this,comtemplate to help in the formation of new WMF chapters in Latin America. The main page and the talk page is originally in English,with translations in Dutch,French,Portuguese and Spanish.

Tosão (talk) 20:00, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

super rugby

Hello, i would like to inform of a discussion on in the WikiProject Rugby Union discussion page about the format to be used through the season articles of the super 12, super 14 and super rugby seasons. Please click the link below and have your opinion, thank you. JaFa 01 (talk) 05:24, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Link: Discussion

SPATRA reactivation

Hello GringoInChile, I notice that you were involved in the project Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week a few years ago. However I also notice that here has been very little activity since 2007. This is a project I'm particularly interested in and would love to see it revived. I've taken the bold step of identifying an article requiring translation and I'm in the process of inviting collaboration. The article History of Puerta del Sol could really use your help. In addition, I'd welcome any ideas you may have to help revive this project so that there is greater collaboration among ES>EN translators on en.Wikipedia. I'm identifying various contributors from whom the SPATRA project may benefit. If you have any recommendations then feel free to contact them directly or submit there usernames to me via my talkpage. I look forward to your participation. Gratefully - EagerToddler39 (talk) 02:29, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:55, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Argentina etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Latin American content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon. If you would like to see this happening for Latin America, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Latin America, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant!♦ --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 00:34, 27 October 2016 (UTC)