Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spain/Archive 6
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Problems with stub templates for Spanish regions
Hi all -
there have been some problems recently with a few stub templates relating to Spanish regions. A stub template for the Canary Islands ({{CanaryIslands-geo-stub}}) was upmerged to the main Spain geography stub category, even though they were big enough for their own categories (which is, of course, a subcategory of the Spanish national equivalent). Similarly, generic and geo stub types for Spain's Plazas de soberanía were turned into redirects to the equivalent Spanish national templates. In this case, this didn't remove articles from specific Plaza de soberanía subcategories, as the templates were upmerged. The templates were, however, doubly-upmerged, and though the articles remained in the Spanish stub categories, they disappeared from the equivalent North African ones. The editors who did this were anon IP editors.
Also, at some point earlier this year a large number of spanish regional stub templates were converted from the standard boilerplate text to use the asbox template. The asbox template was only ever an experiment, intended to be used on just one or two stub types. As it happens, asbox was largely abandoned as a system for making stub templates, since it proved to be less useful than the former coding. Again, the editors whoi did this were at anon IPs - ones in the same range as the recent changed (a series of IPs indicating the location was in Spain).
It seems very likely that the anons involved may be regular contributors to the Spanish language Wikipedia. If anyone here has any idea who they may be, please can you gently tell them that the changes are not appreciated. In the case of the changes to the Canary islands stubs, the very slow server queue in recent times means that null edits were necessary to get all the articles back in the right category - something I've just spent the last three quarters of an hour doing. A tiny template change can take a long time to undo... Grutness...wha? 08:38, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
AfD of School Day of Non-violence and Peace
The article DENIP about "School Day of Non-violence and Peace" has been nominated for deletion here. Could any Wikipedians in Spain offer information on how notable this holiday is (or is not...I don't know anything about it)? Politizer talk/contribs 17:09, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Just letting you know that I have created an article on the ongoing storm that has hit parts of France. Thanks, D.M.N. (talk) 14:23, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Can someone do a quick translation from the Spanish article? It's pretty basic, but so's my Spanish, and my time's limited. Also, a little extra monitoring never hurts. Thanks. --KP Botany (talk) 06:26, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.
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Personal Names question
Sorry guys, is there a way to know if a person was born with a Spanish name or a regional name or a combination of both? I mean, e.g., ... Ricardo Zamora Martínez or Ricard Zamora i Martínez or Ricard Zamora Martínez; Xabier Alonso Olano or Javier Alonso Olano or Xabier Alontso Olano... --necronudist (talk) 13:13, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Given Names can be changed to any language as for example: Miguel, Miquel and Mikel.... or Eugenio, Uxio, Eugeni... depending on the use given by the person, it is even legal to change from one name to the other in the registry. On the Other hands surnames are not change whatsoever (at least in this times) thus you can find someone called Miguel Echevarria (Correct Basque Etxeberria) going to live to the Basque Country and just changing his name to Mikel Echevarria.
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Asturian language name
I've noticed that some users have removed the Asturian language name from Asturian geo articles. Examples include: Besullo (Allande), Gedrez, Prahúa, etc. Is it inappropriate to include it within the article, especially when the Asturian language wikipedia article spells the place name differently than the English language and Spanish language wiki articles? --Rosiestep (talk) 23:06, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
- I would say it's completely appropriate to add it since that's a local name and Astur-Leonese has some degree of legal recognition in the relevant communities. Valenciano (talk) 22:18, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
Valencia historical trains/trams
I have uploaded several scanned slides on the regional meter gauge trains around Valencia. These pictures where taken in 1981 and 1987. See (Commons:Category:Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana). These pics where taken partly in the FEVE period. (With the FEVE logos) There are several issues:
- These where taken at the narrow gauge station on the North side off the city. I dont know the name of it. Now the trams make a U-turn at the same location.
- I dont know anything about these types of train. A description would be usefull. Some may even be from pre FEVE times.
- I dont know any Spanish, but a Spanish description would be usefull.
- I added some links to pictures in the Spanish Wiki article. Maybe this will trigger some action from our Spanish friends.
- The Category is unclear: Does the "FGV" refer to railway company running these trains now -or- To the railways in the Generalitat Valencia? In the first case I would put these pictures under the FEVE category (and maybe create a FEVE subcategory) In the second case I can leave things as now.
- I created a new cat "FEVE rail in Generalitat Valencia" for the pictures from that period.
Greetings,
Smiley.toerist (talk) 22:18, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
- Note The above copied from WT:TWP Mjroots (talk) 17:31, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
- The station at the tram loop is now Pont de Fusta (would translate as Wooden Bridge) but would have been 'Valencia Central' then. FGV runs all the railways in the Generalitat - that includes the tram in Alicante. Valenciano (talk) 17:58, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Moors # Seensawsee's edits # The facts
Hi! You might be interested in the discussion at Talk:Moors#The_facts. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 14:43, 26 April 2009 (UTC) The Ogre (talk) 14:43, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Beltran de Cetina
Anyone care to review the Beltran de Cetina article and give an opinion/suggestions for improvement. Thanks.--72.221.92.43 (talk) 02:08, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
User calling himself WikiProjectSpain
Hi! You might be interested in the discussion at User talk:WikiProjectSpain#Your username. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 11:02, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello, this is the "user" The Ogre mentioned at User talk:WikiProjectSpain#Your username. I was not aware there was a group with this name. I thank The Ogre for letting me know. I will request a change of username. Congratulations for the nice work, keep it up my friends! (qwerty (talk) 04:24, 29 April 2009 (UTC))
I'd like to draw your attention to these two articles. Roman Catholicism in Spain has existed for some time but is rather anemic and could use some expansion. History of Roman Catholicism in Spain is a new article that I have just created. I invite you to look at it and improve it or leave comments for further improvement at Talk:History of Roman Catholicism in Spain. Muchas gracias.
TVEi on Sky Digital (reference main TVEi article)
On May 15th 2009, TVEi (which is usually found at channel 795 on Sky Digital) had disappeared. Harry Hayfield (talk) 18:29, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
AFD on (real? hoax?) Spanish families
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Order of León-Sable
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/House of Lemavia
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Manuel Joseph Martín López de Prado Rodríguez Díaz de Armesto y Varela, X Baron of Lemavia
- Please review/comment. NVO (talk) 08:21, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.
GA Sweeps invitation
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.
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You are invited to join WikiProject TRANSWIKI and join the Spanish language transwiki project. The aim is to draw up a full directory of missing articles from Spanish wikipedia and build a team of translators to work at bridging the gaps in knowledge. We need your help, so if there are any Spanish speakers here please join up as your language skills are crucial. We want to improve our coverage of Spain in English right? Dr. Blofeld White cat 17:44, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
FAR of MSF
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Naming convention for churches in Spain
Not all churches in Spain follow a naming convention. Many articles are named "Church of Foo" and I think it would be appropriate for most/all to follow this naming convention. Some are grammatically incorrect. Some are misleading.
- Some put the word "Church" at the end, without the possessive apostrophe, like naming an article "Saint Patrick Cathedral":
- San Pablo Church vs. San Pablo's Church (grammatically correct but poor choice) vs. Church of San Pablo (good choice).
- San Isidro Church, Madrid vs. San Isidro's Church (grammatically correct but poor choice) vs. Church of San Isidro or Church of San Isidro el Real (either are good choices).
- Some church articles just go by a saint's name + town. This is like naming an article "St. Patrick of New York" vs. "St. Patrick's Cathedral".
I recognize that the articles were named in different ways on the es wiki, and that this probably influenced the selected name for the en wiki article, but I'd like to see article name conformity on the en wiki. Do you agree? I don't want to start on Redirects if this has been hashed out before. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:58, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
- I added a search box to the archives to see if this had been discussed before and it appears not. My personal preference would be for the form San / Santa [saint's name] (de{l/lla} [location name]) rather than Church of .... I think as direct a transliteration as possible should be made. The form San Isidro's Church sghould not be used as this is a mixture of a Spanish name with an English grammar convention. Jezhotwells (talk) 17:51, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments, @Jezhotwells. But at first glance, to me, your suggestion of San/Sant/Santa/Santo [saint's name] (de{l/lla} [location name]) appears to be an article about "Saint (name) of (location)", rather than an article about a church. As there are many "cathedral" articles that include "cathedral" in their name, I think "church" articles that include "church" should be acceptable. To better frame the myriad of naming styles (and the reason why I'm looking for some stability in naming convention), I updated some of what I wrote yesterday with these examples:
- Saint, name, building: San Pablo Church
- City, building: Jaén Cathedral
- Saint, possessive name, building, city in parens: St. Michael's Basilica (Madrid)
- Saint, name, building, comma, city: San Nicolas Cathedral, Alicante
- Building, of, city: Cathedral of Murcia
- Building, of, city, country: Cathedral of Zamora, Spain
- Building, of, city, municipality: Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo; Church of San Tirso, Oviedo
- Building, of, building, de, saint, name: Church of Monasterio de San Miguel
- Name with no indication of type of building: La Seu (cathedral); San Julián de los Prados (church); San Vicente of Oviedo (monastery); Santa Margarida de Sagàs (chapel)
- Variations on name "Saint Mary/St Mary/Santa Maria":
- Variations on location "Madrid":
- More examples of differing configurations can be found at: Category:Churches in Spain, Category:Churches in Barcelona, Category:Basilica churches in Spain, Category:Cathedrals in Spain, Category:Cathedrals in Catalonia, Category:Churches in Catalonia,Category:Churches in Asturias, Category:Churches in Galicia, Category:Churches in Madrid, Category:Churches in Toledo, Spain.
Thanks for looking at this with fresh eyes. Right now, I'm stumped. --Rosiestep (talk) 02:07, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Archiving
I took the liberty of archiving all discussions from Feb 2008 to Dec 2008 into archive 5 and adding a search box to the archive. Jezhotwells (talk) 18:00, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
GA Sweeps Reassessment of Lope de Barrientos
Lope de Barrientos has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. --Malleus Fatuorum 20:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Rewrite of List of viceroys of New Spain
Hola! I am thinking to rewrite the list of Viceroys in the article, that will appear like the one I did here. Any reaction? Am I still doing good so far (without conflicting history?) My list is still not done yet, but I want to know if the division of sections I made is valid.--JL 09Talk to me!msg 4 u! 16:05, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
The first theatre and the first actors
Hello! I am interested in theatre history, and I hope some one can answer my question. I wonder: which was the first theatre, with proffesional actors of both genders, in Spain? I am also interested in the first known actor and actress, or the most famous actor and actress, of that theatre's early years. I have heard that the first theatre in Spain of this kaind was built in 1640. What was it called, and who were the first actor and actress there? I hope someone can answer my question. I would be gratefull if You could answer on my talk page. Regards--Aciram (talk) 09:45, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
pronunciation of fútbol
A lot of football clubs have IPA for their names, and the word fútbol is usually transcribed [ˈfutβol]. This seems a bit dubious. Due to voicing assimilation, I'd expect either [ˈfudbol] (as in Catalan) or maybe [ˈfuðβol]. Can anyone say which? or are the transcriptions correct? kwami (talk) 08:10, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
- The third one. The 't' is a very soft, aspirated ð; the 'b' is quite soft too. The first one would be about right for a Bayern supporter looking for Camp Nou :-) --mikaultalk 09:51, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
- Since that's such a large part of our audience, maybe I'd better leave it alone.
- (I added this word as an example in Spanish phonology. Perhaps there are better ones, such as compounds where it's clear that underlying the [ð] is truly a /t/?) kwami (talk) 10:31, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
- What about Fútbol Club Barcelona : does the gemination of the bs cause them to harden to [b], or are they still [β]? kwami (talk) 10:33, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
- I'd say that was the case for "Barcelona", but not for "club", although you do have a bit of occlusion between the two words which complicates things a little... --mikaultalk 10:54, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
Images requested
I apologize for not sending this sooner, but if anyone in the project attended the 2009 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships that just concluded today in La Seu d'Urgell, please put images in the article. I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. Chris (talk) 18:30, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
Guys, would you please take a look at contribs by Camelotescorial (talk · contribs) and, if necessary, fix contents. I just tagged for speedy a bunch of partisan proclamations posted by Camelotescorial and related to Escorial; AGF but they don't belong to encyclopedia. Regards, NVO (talk) 19:01, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
Spanish locations in Kerry Slug
Buenos dias folks, there are alot of redlinks in the Distribution section of the Kerry Slug article. Given I know very little about Spanish geography, if some locals could either create some stubs, or alternately some might warrant subsections of other geographical articles or exist under another name, this'd be very helpful. :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:55, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Salvador Dali at Featured Article Review
I have nominated Salvador Dali 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 "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. miranda 18:49, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
Attacks to EADS-CASA article
I have a problem which a pair of American users, what for an inexplicable reason they disliking the fact of EADS-CASA is building the Eurofighter Typhoon in Spain.
This users, User:Dave1185 and User:BilCat was deleting repeatedly some references and pictures about the Spanish Eurofighter that I write in the EADS-CASA article. I don’t understand the reason of that attitude… In spite of being a fact confirmed that EADS-CASA makes these planes for the Spanish Air force, these American users insist that the plane is not a product of EADS-HOUSE and erase everything related with this fact.
anybody can help me with the EADS-CASA article, and to stop that guys?.
Greetings for all
Tengo un problema con un par de usuarios Americanos, que por alguna extraña razón no les gusta el hecho de que EADS-CASA está construyendo el Eurofighter Typhoon en España.
Estos usuarios User:Dave1185 y User:BilCat han borrado repetidamente algunas referencias, y imágenes sobre el Eurofighter español que yo había puesto en el articulo de EADS-CASA. No entiendo la razón de esta actitud. A pesar de ser un hecho contrastado que EADS-CASA fabrica estos aviones para la fuerza Aérea Española, estos usuarios americanos insisten que el avión no es un producto de EADS-CASA y borran todo lo relacionado con este hecho.
Alguien puede ayudarme con el articulo de EADS-CASA y a parar a estos tipos?
Saludos a todos Bielasko (talk) 18:00, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
Popular pages
I have requested a list of popular pages for this project at [1]. --Ysangkok (talk) 15:40, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Before starting a edit war with User:Venerock about the Salamanca article, I would like to post here. I've added some info from the Spanish wikipedia, and worked a bit on the article, but this work has been bluntly undone, withouth explanation. As members of the WikiProject Spain; do you feel the article is worsened by these additions, to the point that they must be reverted as vandalism? I am open to suggestions and collaboration. Knights who say ni (talk) 22:40, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
- I looked over a comparison and thought the bits you added, which fleshed out the lede considerably, were good progress. Have you discussed this with User:Venerock? --Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû 23:38, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Template:Spanish comarca 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. Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû 18:54, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
- Discussion is ongoing. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:38, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Spanish city 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. Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû 20:50, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
- Result and replace with infobox settlement. This action will be undertaken by bots. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:36, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Deletion discussion for voseo
Voseo has been nominated for deletion. Please contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Voseo and help find a consensus. Thanks! +Angr 06:46, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
- The result was keep. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:32, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Article alerts
I have been bold and added an Article Alerts template to the Project main page. This will take few days to update. If others feel we should not have this or it should be somewhere else, please discuss. Jezhotwells (talk) 23:18, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
- It is up and running now - section headed Article alerts. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:30, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Peer review humbly requested!
To all interested persons :P
I've listed the Monarchy of Spain article for peer review because…
My eyes have been on it too long and not enough views that have generated comments! lol. I have watched the page for a year looking to see if there were improvements, but none. So, this past summer I started editing the artical answering questions that I myself would have for the Spanish monarchy. There are other sections I wish to add (such as the Monarchy, media, and the people), but before I go further I wished to get comments on what is present.
Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Spain to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spain/Popular pages.
The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 01:04, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
2 massive expansions
Just to let you know, I've recently massively expanded Castile-La Mancha and Castile and León, mainly by translating material from es-wiki. The material seemed generally good, though woefully undercited. As I've remarked on the respective talk pages, the statistical information in particular could use a good going over and better citation. - Jmabel | Talk 03:30, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Popular pages
I have requested a list of popular pages for this project at [2]. --Ysangkok (talk) 15:40, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Before starting a edit war with User:Venerock about the Salamanca article, I would like to post here. I've added some info from the Spanish wikipedia, and worked a bit on the article, but this work has been bluntly undone, withouth explanation. As members of the WikiProject Spain; do you feel the article is worsened by these additions, to the point that they must be reverted as vandalism? I am open to suggestions and collaboration. Knights who say ni (talk) 22:40, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
- I looked over a comparison and thought the bits you added, which fleshed out the lede considerably, were good progress. Have you discussed this with User:Venerock? --Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû 23:38, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Template:Spanish comarca 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. Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû 18:54, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
- Discussion is ongoing. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:38, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Template:Infobox Spanish city 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. Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû 20:50, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
- Result and replace with infobox settlement. This action will be undertaken by bots. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:36, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Deletion discussion for voseo
Voseo has been nominated for deletion. Please contribute to the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Voseo and help find a consensus. Thanks! +Angr 06:46, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
- The result was keep. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:32, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Article alerts
I have been bold and added an Article Alerts template to the Project main page. This will take few days to update. If others feel we should not have this or it should be somewhere else, please discuss. Jezhotwells (talk) 23:18, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
- It is up and running now - section headed Article alerts. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:30, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Peer review humbly requested!
To all interested persons :P
I've listed the Monarchy of Spain article for peer review because…
My eyes have been on it too long and not enough views that have generated comments! lol. I have watched the page for a year looking to see if there were improvements, but none. So, this past summer I started editing the artical answering questions that I myself would have for the Spanish monarchy. There are other sections I wish to add (such as the Monarchy, media, and the people), but before I go further I wished to get comments on what is present.
Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Spain to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Spain/Popular pages.
The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 01:04, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
2 massive expansions
Just to let you know, I've recently massively expanded Castile-La Mancha and Castile and León, mainly by translating material from es-wiki. The material seemed generally good, though woefully undercited. As I've remarked on the respective talk pages, the statistical information in particular could use a good going over and better citation. - Jmabel | Talk 03:30, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
Andalusia
I've now done a similar, even more massive, expansion of Andalusia. I've been translating a lot of Andalusia-related material, but the trove is well beyond what one person can possibly do. If anyone is interested in finding reasonably important topics that lack articles, as of this moment more than half of the recipients of the title Hijo Predilecto de Andalucía lack articles (or the articles are under variants of their names that I didn't find, and lack redirects for the name under which they received the award). Nearly all have articles in es-wiki, so a lot of this could be done as a translation exercise. - Jmabel | Talk 22:38, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
- I went through and piped some links to existing articles you missed. For future reference, sometimes it's helpful to go to the Spanish wiki list page, follow the link there, and then follow the interwiki link back. --Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû (blah?) 23:38, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, I usually do that; this time I was heading out the door & planning to come back to it later. I take it you got the ones that were there to be gotten, so I won't bother trying that on this batch. - Jmabel | Talk 03:53, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
I've been doing a bunch of translations on Andalusia-related topics (see Special:Contributions/Jmabel if you want the list). The latest at this moment is Andalusian independentist conspiracy (1641), but I found quite a few problems with the Spanish-language original, which I've noted through various tags in my translation and by remarks on the associated talk pages in both the English- and Spanish-language wikis. If someone knows this history or has good sources, this really could use some work by someone more expert. Let me know if you are stronger in one language than the other, and would be fixing things only in the English (or only in the Spanish) and need help to bring your improvements to the other article. I can certainly help with any Spanish-to-English translation, and I'm at least close to adequate in the other direction. - Jmabel | Talk 01:24, 25 December 2009 (UTC)