Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chile/Archive 1

Archive 1

Archive 2

Rating in quality scale and importance

Articles related to Chile needs to have a rating on the quality scale and importance. I propose that in this section we should vote for the importance and quality Chile-related articles. Please read the articles before voting and read about the quality scale and importance below in this page.

Quality

Note: This quality scale is identical the one in WikiProject Argentina, if you think this WikiProject Chile could have a better scale please write about it in the discussion page.

Pages progress grading scheme
Featured article	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status after peer review. Articles are placed in Category:FA-Class Chilean articles.
A	The article provides a well-written and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a Great Article. It includes a complete article and an appropriate series of headings to break up the article. It should have sufficient external reliable references, and properly illustrated. It should be at the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status. Articles are placed in Category:A-Class Chilean articles.
GA	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received Good Article status after peer review. Articles are placed in Category:GA-Class Chilean articles.
B	The article is "almost there" but it may be missing secondary information and details. Alternatively, the English may need a comprehensive rewrite to make it flow. Articles are placed in Category:B-Class Chilean articles.
Start	The article has a good amount of content, but it is still weak in certain areas. Articles are placed in Category:Start-Class Chilean articles.
Stub	The article is either a very short article or a stub that will need a lot of work to bring it to A-Class level, although there may be a significant amount of material in the article. Articles are placed in Category:Stub-Class Chilean articles.
Needed	The article does not exist and needs to be created. Articles are listed in Category:Needed Chilean articles.

For further details, see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment.

Importance

Note: This importance scale is identical the one in WikiProject Argentina, if you think this WikiProject Chile could have a better scale please write about it in the discussion page.

There are 4 grades for importance as defined in the WikiProject Chile article's importance. Please note that the importance of an article is independent from its quality.

Pages importance grading scheme
Top {{top-importance}}	Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopedia. Articles are placed in Category:Top-importance Chilean articles.
High {{high-importance}}	Subject is exceptionally important. Articles are placed in Category:High-importance Chilean articles.
Mid {{mid-importance}}	Subject contributes a depth of knowledge. Articles are placed in Category:Mid-importance Chilean articles.
Low {{low-importance}}	Subject fills in important details. Articles are placed in Category:Low-importance Chilean articles.

I believe we would do it following the instructions indicated here. Please feel free add or change the rating of an article. Voting only in the case of serious discrepancies. Jespinos 02:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Project Move

I think it's time for moving the project to its definitive location. Jespinos 01:42, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Agree Dentren | ^Talk 05:27, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Articles rating

How do we add articles to Needed Chilean articles if such page doesn't exist? Any guidelines? Should we move the "Requests" list from the Wikipedia:Chile-related regional notice board to this new category? Can I just go around searching for very small articles and tags them as Chile-stub (or specifics Chile-bio-stub/Chile-geo-stub)? Is this kind of behavior correct? Kilroytech 20:49, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Photos / images submission

I have literally thousands of hi-res (3000x2008) pictures taken by me which I'd gladly upload if anyone requests a copy of one of them for a specific article, as there are so many I'd like to expose the link where I have them posted, feel free to request from amongst them, they are at Flickr. NOTE: Some of them are from other countries where I've been, but those are just a few compared to Chilean ones, most are from either Magallanes or Santiago and its surroundings, including Torres del Paine, Puerto Williams, Antarctica, Punta Arenas, Parral, Rancagua, and many central Andes Mountains such as Pochoco, La Cruz, Manquehue, Provincia and El Morado. Kilroytech 20:55, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I saw photos for the articles Nevado de Longaví, Laguna del Laja and Sierra Velluda. Have you photos of Cordillera Darwin? Jespinos 23:26, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of Sierra Velluda, but you are right. About Cordillera Darwin, I guess I might have some, I'll check. Meanwhile I'll upload the ones you noticed.

Article Tracking

After a while of participating in Wikipedia, I think there are a bunch of tools which may be useful for of Chile Project, mostly bots, but as I'm absolutely clueless about them (which do exist, and where can I add new bots), is that I raise this issue as a public matter of discussion, trying to improve our "performance" ;)

We should have some "article size bot", and "missing articles bot", attached either to categories or to an article list, the first one will tel us which are the least developed articles and the later would give us information about which articles we should create, I think this will really help us. Are bots for this already in Wikipedia? If not, where can I attach a self-made one? Are there any tutorials about it? If not needed, is there any particular Wikipedia function that solves any of these issues?

About categories: can categories be hierarchically related? i.e. parent categories list articles included in child categories. Can one create such a category tree? For example we could create a branch like this: Chile => Magallanes Region => Geography of Magallanes Region, similar examples with, flora & fauna are possible, and other themes like those, this hierarchies could be particularly helpful when finding relates articles while doing the revision process.

I suggest that we should also be very thorough at coordinate templates use, I have an Excel file from NIMA (US National Imagery and Mapping Agency) with all the places they have about Chile, it included both name and coordinates, as well as some other extra information that I've never used. This file was created by me using public data downloadable from NIMA's web site, so I think we could share it to use it as a basis for our work.

• I've created a list which is nearly a comprehensive list of all articles pertaining to chile which may serve this project. see Wikipedia:WikiProject Chile/Article list. I've suggested how the list might be applied, but perhaps other people might have additioal ideas.JAXHERE | ^Talk 15:18, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

The bot User:Snowbot can do WikiProject tagging. --GentlemanGhost 13:01, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

town/city naming

I'm not sure if you've all noticed, there's a discussion on the current naming convention at Wikipedia talk:Chile-related regional notice board#Settlement naming conventions' Change Proposal. --Scott Davis ^Talk 08:56, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

In the absence of clear agreement in any direction, I've opened a poll to help to develop clarity. Please express an opinion at Wikipedia talk:Chile-related regional notice board#settlement article naming poll. --Scott Davis ^Talk 12:57, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Nest your project banner?

You may wish to add nesting capability (see {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}) to your project's talk page banner. This allows banners to be hidden and, hence, the TOC to be closer to the top of the talk page when an article is within the scope of several WikiProjects. In particular, there is a lot of overlap in the articles of Category:Chilean cuisine. --GentlemanGhost 12:55, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Osorno

Hello all. The Osorno, Chile article awaits review! I have been working on the article for some time now, and I think I have done as much as I can for a non-Chilean, non-Spanish speaker who has never been there. Most of the article is translated from the original Spanish [1], and I think it is pretty good, except it needs citations. Would anyone know where to find these, and how much of it needs it? Thank you! Korossyl 17:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

A model to follow

I've just recently discovered an article which, in my opinion, is an excellent example of what an article about a place should be: Sale, Greater Manchester. If we can bring most articles about Chilean topics (places especially) even half-way as good as this one, we will have done a job to be proud of. --JAXHERE | ^Talk 16:31, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Barnstars

I have created the following two Barnstars for the use of Wikiproject:Chile. What do you think? I like the one with the plain background on the right. Korossyl 20:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I would add a copihue to the star. Otherway the red-blue-white colours seems too common. Dentren | ^Talk 00:01, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Dentren's idea would be a nice touch. --JAXHERE | ^Talk 15:35, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Well.. who will do a new star? Dentren | ^Talk 10:38, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

• I will in a few hours. --Diego Grez (talk) 17:46, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Cautín Province

I did a little work on Cautín Province last night, mostly making links. How does it look to you? I believe the article needs a bit of polish. Brian Pearson 00:27, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

An anon, with some kind of agenda, replaced completely an old version of the article. A portion of the content is, apparently, a machine translation from the corresponding Spanish article. The History section is information from other sources, which I have not understood. What is the better way of fixing this, to revert to the old version or copyediting? Jespinos 02:13, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure. I'm a bit new at this, myself, but I'd lean towards copyediting. Maybe some others will chime in with their thoughts. Brian Pearson 23:47, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

The article is much longer now, but the quality is lower than before. The article is full of opinions and thing needing citations and sources, but also needed to wifified and explained.. I dont like to eliminate info, so I will try to fix the article a little. Dentren | ^Talk 08:19, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that sounds good. I was thinking this article could be a nice blueprint for the other province articles -- some of which haven't been developed nearly as much. Brian Pearson 01:14, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, now I'm confused. My confusion arose when I thought I'd take a stab at a bit of editing, myself. First, there was the second paragraph which didn't exactly match the last one re Economy. Then, after I began looking for what they meant by the word, "silvoagropecuaria", I thought, well I'll go to the Spanish Wikipedia for Chile [2] and see what they have, only to learn that they have a completely different name for Cautin: "Coihaique" [3]. Brian Pearson 01:31, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

The corresponding article is es:Provincia de Cautín, I don't understand what you are referring to. Jespinos 16:57, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

If you checked the links, you'd see the Chile article[4] which shows the various regions. Region IX (under Organización territorial) is shown as La Araucanía, with Temuco as capital. I can only guess that there are different names for different versions of Spanish, possibly from different countries -- one which gives Araucanía and another which gives Cautín. BTW, I see you've done some work on Cautin, since I last saw it. Brian Pearson 20:32, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

I do not understand you. Temuco is capital of Región de La Araucanía that is composed by two provinces: Provincia de Cautín (capital: Temuco) and Provincia de Malleco (capital: Angol). Bye. --Lin linao 23:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC) PS: You can use internal links: [[:es:Chile|Chile]] gives Chile.

Understanding has dawned, thanks! Brian Pearson 00:25, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

New project banner

Hi all! I just joined the project as I'm interested in contributing (I'm part Chilean) and took the liberty of creating a new project banner based off of the banner I created for Wikipedia:WikiProject Greece - {{WPGR}}. The new banner is located here: User:Kimon/WPChile. I don't want to modify the project's banner before obtaining the membership's consensus. Let me know. --Kimon^talk 20:34, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

As there wasn't anyone against this, I took the initiative to make the change. I've created a new template called {{WPChile}} and redirected {{WikiProject Chile}}. I also created the documentation section to it under this project. --Kimon^talk 01:43, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Can you please show the 2 project banners in this section? I dont see any mayor difference between the old one and the new. Can you create a barnstar also? Dentren | ^Talk 08:07, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

This is the old one and this is the new one: {{WPChile}}. Some of the differences:

1. Nesting
2. Criteria for B class
3. "listas" option
4. "peer review" option
5. "attention needed" option
6. Check to see if placed in talk page
7. "infobox needed" option
8. "auto" option (automatically assessed by bot)
9. parameter values are not case sensitive (more complete now) and more flexible

As for a barnstar, I'll give it a try. Can't promise though since I'm not a graphics guy. --Kimon^talk 13:47, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Outreach

It looks like this is a pretty small/dormant project. We only have 8 participants and it's not very clear how many of them are active. I propose starting an outreach project by inviting Wikipedians who identify themselves are Chilean, of Chilean origin or living in Chile. We can approach the users listed in the categories Category:Chilean Wikipedians and Category:Wikipedians in Chile. I've created an invitation template to be used for just this purpose here: {{WPChileInvite}}. --Kimon^talk 17:56, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

When the project started there was about 5-6 active editors but now most of them are not specially active. There is a good to search for new members among Category:Chilean Wikipedians and Category:Wikipedians in Chile. There are also a lot of Chileans editing in the Spanish wikipedia. I will invite more people. Dentren | ^Talk 08:35, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I will try doing something with AWB or somesuch tool. Who knows, we may be successful and get this project going. Hopefully, we get enough traction to help create a portal too. --Kimon^talk 16:57, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

I created an outreach section for the project and have completed the first edition of the project's newsletter. I'll be using AWB to deliver it to all the current members and from then on, only to those who subscribe to it. --Kimon^talk 17:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Advertising for the project

I've requested from Andrew Hampe to create an ad for {{Wikipedia ads}} in order to recruit more people for this project. I'll post updates here as I get them. --Kimon^talk 13:59, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

• go ahead, we need to have as much members as we can. user:andesmucician —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.42.233.135 (talk) 02:01, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Chilean-Australian: request for comment

Hi! A vigorous - and now somewhat nasty - debate has emerged over the article Chilean Australian over the size of the Chilean-Australian population. The sole protagonists are myself and User:TeePee-20.7, and much of the discussion is on Talk:Chilean Australian.

TeePee is referring to an essay, written by a student intern and published on the website of the Chilean Embassy in Australia, that details the history of the Chilean-Australian population. Much of the article is quite informative and reasonably well written. However she estimates the Chilean-Australian population to be 45,000 without explaining how she arrived at this number.

In other articles that look at ethnic groups in Australia, Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006 Census data is used to present the number of persons (a) born in a particular country, and (b) declare to have ancestry to a particular country (either alone or in combination with one other ancestry).

TeePee is strongly opposed to using this data, and instead insists on solely referring to the essay reference. I do not think the essay's estimate is accurate.

There is one limitation to the ABS data - somebody who has a Chilean ancestry might only choose to declare themselves according to their new Australian identity, or their European heritage. However I have included a caveat which draws attention to this minor flaw, as well as a statistic on how Chilean-born Australians defined their ancestral backgrounds in 2001.

I believe this version should be used.

TeePee has adopted a highly aggressive posture (and has been previously blocked), and has claimed I do not adequately cite references (even though six out of the seven references in the version above go to my ABS sources). No amount of compriming, humouring, reasoning or exercising of a time-out has worked. Wikipedia would benefit from a third party opinion on this page.

And by all means, seek his side of the story. Kransky (talk) 10:33, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorting through the Propaganda

1st point: True

2nd point: False, very vaguely True - I am not referring to the essay written by the intern who was at the Chilean Embassy. I am referring to the data published by the Chilean Embassy on their website! There is no indication that the intern provided this information as she is not credited to it on the page but Kransky fails to fathom this.

3rd point: True

4th point: False - This is completely false and once again Kransky is lying! If you read the discussions between us you will be able to see this and infact you can even certify that the data has been used so once again Kransky has chosen to act inappropriately and lie once more.

5th point: True - This one took him a while. I had to tell him this because he could not comprehend it before hand but then he adds the caveat trying to shut me up hoping I would not revert his edit where he sneaked in unreferenced information which he has constantly been doing. Only he is not able to comprehend that just because you're Chilean doesn't mean you will put down your ancestory as Chilean as Latinos in general are very multiracial and might wish to put down European, Native American or even specific countries such as Germany in which to indentify as their ancestory.

I believe the current version as of 20:41, 12 May 2008 should be used.

Once again he is disparaging me and behaving inappropriately. I will not even attempt to put into words the patients I have displayed with him you can see this when you intervine in our dispute.

Thankyou for your time and I hope we aren't too much of a burden on you. TeePee-20.7 (talk) 16:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Chile

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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 Chile. 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)

Animals?

Is there anything anywhere about animals and plantlife in Chile????????IAmTheCoinMan (talk) 11:48, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

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Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest

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Patagonian Expedition Race

This article needs some work. I think this race is probably notable (using Spanish-language media articles), but I did not find anything in English using Google News Archive search that meets the requirements of Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline other than this one article in a small-town newspaper. I don't read Spanish, so I can't check the other media references.

Links to the race's website were widely spammed across multiple Wikipedias resulting in its URL being blacklisting:

• meta:User:COIBot/XWiki/patagonianexpeditionrace.com

We now have a request to "whitelist" the link on this Wikipedia:

• MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist#patagonianexpeditionrace.com

If the article is worth keeping, we should probably whitelist the link; otherwise given its history, we should probably keep it blacklisted.

Can someone look at this article and see what you think?

Thanks, --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree with everything you said about needing work, probably notable, yet difficult to locate any English articles. It would probably be best to request some assistance from the Wikiproyecto:Chile on es.wiki. Although, their version of the page looks nearly identical to ours, right down to the same external links, so I'm not sure how much help they can offer. Looking at it on de.wiki and fr.wiki, it looks like the article is nearly identical everywhere and suffering from all the same problems (fr.wiki has flagged it orphaned, unverified, and promotional).

Maybe the best thing to do would be to try to coordinate a general cleanup across four languages: WikiProject Chile (en), Wikiproyecto Chile (es), Projet Amérique du Sud (fr), and WikiProjekt Argentinien (de) (if WP Argentina is willing to work on a Chilean article). Regardless of fr.wiki's and de.wiki's participation, I would say that es.wiki's help would be really beneficial. —Willscrlt ( “Talk” ) 06:54, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks very much for your insights.

Hey there....I'm pretty sure no one grows wine in the Coquimbo region....or the world. Wine is produced, grapes are grown. Just passing through...but seems like something to notice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.83.203.138 (talk) 20:56, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't speak Spanish -- could someone contact w:es:Wikiproyecto:Chile about this? Thanks, --A. B. ^{(talk • contribs)}

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Missing prisoners of Chile

This is to notify the Wikiproject that I have raised this AfD. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 08:28, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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FYI

Please see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_February_18#Category:Chile_articles_with_comments. Debresser (talk) 12:43, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Chile articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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Great selection! Noted that a recently promoted Chile GA isn't listed, 2010 Pichilemu earthquake. --Diego Grez (talk) 01:07, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Glad you're happy with the selection, and congratulations on getting a GA put together quickly on such a topical subject. I selected this version - can you confirm that it's good? Many thanks, Walkerma (talk) 21:09, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, that's good. Diego Grez (talk) 16:00, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

A-Class review for Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre now open

The A-Class review for Chilean battleship Almirante Latorre is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 05:31, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

Chilean anthropologist Wladimir Cárcamo Soto - can you help?

The article on Chilean anthropologist, Wladimir Cárcamo Soto has been tagged as an unreferenced biography of a living person since November 2008, which is the current focus month for the BLP Rescue Project. I have tried, and failed, to find reliable third party references to support the text in the article, so am posting here in the hope that someone with better knowledge of the field might like to take an interest and provide at least one source.--Plad2 (talk) 20:25, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Hmm. This is one of those cases where it just cannot be referenced. The article's only possible source is Cárcamo's blog. Additionally, I can't find anything on my very large collection of books related to this person. I find it funny that there is also a special blog for his book. I recommend nominating it for deletion, where Cárcamo's notability could be asserted or not. --Diego Grez (talk) 20:40, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the very quick response. I'll see whether the anthropologists come up with anything. If not, I'll send it to AfD. Could PROD but then one wouldn't get the discussion.--Plad2 (talk) 20:48, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Proposal for deletion: Manuel Gonzalez (Chile mine rescue)

I do not know if this individual is notable within the region for more then being a rescuer during the 2010 Copiapó mining accident. I stumbled across this article while searching for a more generic term and I personally never considered making an article about him. I am just bringing this to your attention in case he is more notable. Cheers, Veriss (talk) 16:51, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

No, he is not. Apparently, we could create an article on Yonni Barrios or Mario Sepúlveda, which seem to be the most popular miners, but Manuel Gonzalez... only notable for this event. --Diego Grez (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:54, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

A-Class review for Almirante Latorre class battleship now open

The A-Class review for Almirante Latorre class battleship is now open; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 05:53, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Featured article candidacy for Almirante Latorre-class battleship now open

The featured article candidacy for Almirante Latorre-class battleship is now open. Comments from reviewers are needed to help determine whether the article meets the criteria for featured articles; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 02:16, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Socialist Party of Chile

Template:Socialist Party of Chile has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Ruodyssey (talk) 12:06, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

FAR

I have nominated Cape Horn for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Arsenikk ^(talk) 17:46, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

It needs a lot of work in order to get up to FA, or even A for that matter. We'll need to get it to a solid B first then go for another push. Anyone who is interested, please help out! Thanks! - Ruodyssey (talk) 02:13, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Merger of Tucapel (commune) into Tucapel

Please see the merge discussion. Thanks. - Ruodyssey (talk) 12:15, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

1973 coup

Please see current discussion at Talk:History of Chile; the issue also touches on a range of other articles that mention the 1973 coup, so any project participants chipping in would be helpful. Rd232 ^talk 11:36, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Invitation for the celebration of Wikipedia's 10th anniversary

O.K., I guess it may be too late but if someone is interested, here it is. Tomorrow January 15th, Wikipedia will be celebrating 10 years. Probably, most of you already know that. The Chilean community of Wikipedians will be celebrating it in three different places: this Saturday in Santiago, on Sunday in Viña del Mar and next Saturday 29th in Concepción. It will be great if people from the English Wikipedia can come... after all, we are the same community :).

You can read about the meetings in Spanish Wikipedia (I don't have the translations, sorry) here. If you don't understand Spanish or you want to ask something special, don't worry... send us an e-mail to contacto@wikimediachile.cl and we'll be very pleased to explain everything in any language (well... in all the languages we know).

Also, I would like to invite you to be a part of the future Chilean local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. If you want to be a part of us, send as an e-mail also... Thanks a lot and good luck --B1mbo (talk) 04:25, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Project-related AfD

Members of the project might be interested in knowing that Anti-Chilean sentiment has been nominated for deletion. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 22:32, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Category:Places affected by the 2010 Chile earthquake

Category:Places affected by the 2010 Chile earthquake, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:42, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Mfd notice of Wikipedia:WikiProject Mercosur

I have nominated Wikipedia:WikiProject Mercosur for deletion at WP:MFD. Please comment here for any concerns. Thanks. JJ98 (Talk) 01:16, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

2011 Puyehue eruption flight disruptions

I was wondering whether a Air travel disruption after the 2011 Puyehue eruption article for the 2011 Puyehue eruption should be created? This would be analogous to the Air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption article.

Please discuss at: Talk:2011 Puyehue eruption

65.94.47.63 (talk) 10:14, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

If you have sources, by all means do it.

Scene on mural

Hello. Last year I uploaded on Commons a photo made in the Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, in 1987; you can see it here. On the right side of the mural we see what I believe to be a Chilean flag and two persons (one of them with a Bible, so probably a clergic) that might have to do with Chilean history (left of the sun there's someone bearing the flag of Friesland, the Dutch province of which Leeuwarden is the capital). Does anyone know who the depicted Chilean men are? Regards, Apdency (talk) 11:40, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Of the two Chileans about whom you ask, the one to the left is Salvador Allende, a former president of Chile. The other is likely not a very good likeness of Raúl Silva Henríquez.Ccox csc (talk) 03:41, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. I figured out Allende, too. But I didn't find any picture of Raúl Silva Henríquez wearing glasses, so maybe it's someone else. Apdency (talk) 10:49, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Category:O'Higgins Region geography stubs

Greetings! A stub template or category which you created has been nominated for renaming or deletion at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. The stub type most likely doesn't meet Wikipedia requirements for a stub type, through failure to meet standards relating to the name, scope, current stub hierarchy or likely size, as explained at Wikipedia:Stub. Please feel free to make any comments at WP:SFD regarding this stub type, and in future, please consider proposing new stub types first at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals! This message is a boilerplate, left here as a courtesy, and should not be considered personal in nature. Dawynn (talk) 18:28, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Featured article candidacy for South American dreadnought race now open

The featured article candidacy for South American dreadnought race is now open. Comments from reviewers are needed to help determine whether the article meets the criteria for featured articles; all editors are invited to participate, and any input there would be appreciated! Thanks! Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 09:37, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

Template Chile topics

I updated the Chile topics template with the Arts category under the Culture section. — Sctechlaw (talk) 21:02, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

Foodguatita.png

file:Foodguatita.png has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 00:51, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Battle in Chile in 1550

• — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miss Brenda Lee Gertman (talk • contribs) 10:11, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

I want to be a member wikiproject

I'm Chilean, I live in Quillota.- User:Rafaxpedia —Preceding undated comment added 00:49, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been featured

Hello, Please note that Henry Kissinger, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by Theo's Little Bot at 00:08, 5 August 2013 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Collars of the Order of Merit (Chile)

category:Collars of the Order of Merit (Chile) has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 10:30, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2013 September 23#File:El Chacal.jpg

You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Files for deletion/2013 September 23#File:El Chacal.jpg. -- Trevj (talk) 09:37, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Re-rating articles?

Hi there. I have just extensively rewritten the page for Los Huasos Quincheros and noticed that the article is still classed as a 'stub'. Am I allowed to change this or must it be reviewed by someone else? I am pretty new to editing so I apologise if this sounds like a stupid question or is in the wrong place. Thanks, Joneso007 09:07, 10 October 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joneso007 (talk • contribs)

The article still needs some work (external links section, references need to be correctly formatted, etc.). I have reassessed as C-class; it ain't no more than that. Regards, Küñall (talk) 02:31, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox government cabinet

Template:Infobox government cabinet has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox cabinet. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Frietjes (talk) 21:11, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Final words of Balmaceda

Many years ago I got an MA in Latin American Area Studies, and Chilean history was my area of interest. At that time I read somewhere that Balmaceda's last words were, "There are two kinds of problems in the world. Those that solve themselves and those that have no solution." I probably picked this up from an obscure history book, in either English or Spanish, and I foolishly forgot the citation. anyone out there know if this is true or if there is a citation for it? Thanks 76.21.179.10 (talk) 01:33, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in the Americas may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer _(Talk) 21:06, 5 June 2014 (UTC)