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Moved from my talk page Maybe you, me, Tony the Marine and should think about making a Mexican American/Chicano Wikipedia:WikiProject? We have a template started, we have a series of articles and several of us are interested. Is this the next step? Please reply here, if you don't mind and we can point this discussion out to the others. Joaquin Murietta 03:59, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Sure, count me in. I'm willing to help in whatever I can. I won't worry to much about NPOV's because those participating must do so under Wiki's NPOV's guide lines. Get in touch with my son, User:AntonioMartin, he's written many articles about Mexicans and as I, a firm believer in the Latino unity. Gracias Tony the Marine 04:43, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
This just in: I'm in. - Bfraga
Orale, amigo, count me in!- " Antonio Sonora-Santurce Martin"
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Thanks for contacting me regarding putting together some Chicano related articles. Where can we start? I can gather info regarding Arte. Peace! Pozole 23:33, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Yeah. Next step: "Create the main project page at Wikipedia:WikiProject projectname. (See Starting a new page)" What do we call it? Mexican American/Chicano Wikiprojector La Raza Wikipedia Project Joaquin Murietta 22:40, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I like "La Raza Wikipedia Project", it seems the most practical choice. You may want to get in touch with User:AlexCovarrubias and User:Hajor, especially Hajor. He's a good friend and one the best contributors in Mexican related articles. Tony the Marine 02:40, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
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Because of the slash in the name of the project, it makes it difficult to use a tool like the assement. :-( can we change the hypen in the name? User:Evrik
-- Migdiachinea 16:42, 28 October 2006 (UTC) CAP. I don't know how to enter this discussion and/or if I'm doing this properly. I'm Cuban-American. My background is mixed with Italian and Spanish, some French, too, my mom has just told me. There are all these different surnames (apellidos) in my family, Chinea. Suarez de Lillo, Maimo, Gomez, Rosell (had been shortened to Ros or Ross by some relatives), Figueroa, Dossina. I need to make a history of this because she's worried that we're losing our identity. The CAP next to my name below refers to my being called, on occasion, a Cuban-American Princess -- which I also use as a joke. It's just the way I look. Light-haired, thin and standoffish. But I'm very hard-working and have had a lot of tumbles in my life. My father was a Cuban political prisoner who in the end became very quiet and methodical. He passed away not too long ago and I dream about him a lot. Our politix are conservative like those of most Cuban-Americans or Cuban exiles. I often do not understand the Latino moniker (although I've been forced by circumstances to use these designations). Lately I've preferred to go back to the term my father used for us, namely, "Latins." I often feel that Hispanic doesn't really describe me, and Latino even less -- it's like addding an innapropriate and ungrammatical "o" or "a" -- e.g., I hate hearing words like Truck-a or Lunch-e, and use camion and almuerzo. Well, that's it. I'm a writer with a sense of social justice and a hot-tempered big mouth to go with it. I'm not sure if I'm doing this right and don't understand all the Wikipedia requirements. I tend to be a rebel when it comes to rules.
Should I just fill it in (Goals, Tasks, etc.) or discuss additions here first?-- Rockero 17:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Can we better define the separate meanings of these two categories? They seem to be treated now as synonyms, with both applied to many articles. Category:La Raza is a subcategory of category:Mexican Americans then articles should not be in both categories. My initial impression is that category:Mexican Americans should be for Mexican American people and groups or people, and category:La Raza should be for concepts, dialects, institutions, etc. Relevant guidelines would be Wikipedia:categorization policy and Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality. Any thoughts? - Willmcw 22:45, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Some guy took it upon himself to edit our template. He said that Chicanos are not representative of Mexican Americans. I reverted the template back. Please see Template talk:Mexican-American and Template:Mexican-American Joaquin Murietta 15:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
The menso went and changed a bunch of articles. For example see Chicanismo, he has a new template called Chicanos. How shall we address this? Joaquin Murietta 15:08, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
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These two sources come highly recommended:
And these might be good:
I haven't read them, but they may be worth checking out.-- Rockero 06:27, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
2. I also propose we do the Chicano Blowouts article. Might be good practice for the Chicano Movement article? Even if it's a stub? -- Bfraga 02:01, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Where can we place additional suggested articles on the project? There are a couple that I think would warrant inclusion such as:
== FELIZ NAVIDAD == Joaquin Murietta 14:21, 22 December 2005 (UTC) !
== 'LIVING IN A DREAM WORLD' == Someone add more criminals, because we are LYING if there is only one mexican notorious criminal. Come on now, lets get real about this. This criminal list should number in the dozens of famous criminals, hundreds of thousands (per year) for common ones!--(the preceding unsigned comment was placed by
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You may vote on the Project stubs up for deletion here: [3] Joaquin Murietta 14:18, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Check out Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 January 11#Mexican American singers. I wish someone would let us know when they nominate a category that obviously falls under our project like this. Lucky I found it. Please, express yourselves.-- Rockero 03:04, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm purporting to translate Xicano related articles to the Korean Language Wikipedia. At the very start of the translation, an admin started changing 멕시칸-아메리칸 (just a korean phonetical transliteration of "Mexican-American") to 멕시코계 미국인 ("United States Citizens of Mexican Branch")
I am of the opinion that American hyphenated identities should not be translated in the korean language as "US Citizens of X Branch". (Yes, I do have a beef with " Korean-American" being translated as "한국계 미국인", meaning "US Citizens of South Korean Branch", as it shows a terrible lack of understanding about the interrelations of race, identity politics and distinction of nation and ethnicity on behalf of peninsular koreans.. but that's for later)
Anyway, the reason the korean admin is suggesting the change to "US Citizens" is because they already have a series of "US Citizens of X Branch" for a bunch of nationalities. (Bulgarian, Russian, Japanese, and so on) And I responded that even when "Mexican American", without the hyphen, may correpond to "US Citizen..", it was not the case for "Mexican-American", which was a hyphenated identity, for godsake. Then, the admin pointed out the in the english wikipedia, from which I'm translating, Mexican-American redirects to Mexican American. Ugh.
So what does this come to? Let's either have a section under Mexican-American that explains differences between the hyphenated and non-hyphenated ones, as well as other terms that outsiders may wrongly apply over the group. It would also be great to stick with either one of the usages, hyphenated or not hyphenated. As I'm not as familiar with Mexican-American identity politics as with their latino counterpart, I'm submitting the request here.
En solidaridad, -- Yonghokim 05:11, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
We now have horizontal and vertical infoboxes Some articles look better with one or the other. Not both! Joaquin Murietta 12:18, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
PLease see the discussions and various merger tags. Do you feel that Latino should be mergerd with Hispanic? Or that Hispanic should be merged with Hispano? Joaquin Murietta 12:26, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
What do you guys think about implementing a rating system like they're using at Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America?
Please see discussion at [4] I removed the template for now Should we have a disambiguation page? Joaquin Murietta 05:31, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
In the meantime I made a third infobox without the Aztec calendar. Please let me know what you think.
Joaquin Murietta
05:51, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
Here is something that I just noticed on the Manuel Antonio Chaves page: a new category has been created: Category:Mexican Spaniards. I don't know what to think about that category all around. I mean Chaves was a New Mexican of Spanish descent -- two centuries previous. Pretty much any native New Mexican Hispano can make that claim, but it seems to me disingenuous to call Chaves a Spaniard, since his family had been in New Mexico since 1598. A look at some of the other people under that category raises similar questions to me. Anybody have any thoughts on this? - Murcielago 18:27, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
I think the questions of colors and images are secondary at this point. Right now we should be trying to determine whether or not the template is merited. Are there enough articles to add into it to make it useful? What articles should it be placed on? What benefit will it provide to readers of the encyclopedia? What are its parameters? Will it apply to all of Latin America or just Latinos in the United States? These are the questions we should be discussing right now. And to be frank, it doesn't seem like it will do much good at this point. Once the parameters are determined, then we can get started on writing articles that pertain to Latinos as a whole. The template should be like a finishing touch to enhance to a body of articles, not an outline to determine what needs to be written.-- Rockero 20:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Saludos y Asalamalaykim, Juan Muslim! I notice you signed on as a participant in the Mexican-American/Chicano WikiProject, and I want to extend you a warm welcome. I also notice you started {{ Latino}}. What were you planning on doing with that? That is, what is your vision for it? What do you want it to accomplish? The project members and I may be able to help you with it, but I need to know in what direction you want to take it.
I also notice that you have been editing Islam-related articles. If there way you can share your knowledge about Islam in the Mexican American community, it would be greatly appreciated. Most of our religious articles have been focused on Roman Catholicism, and some diversity in the religious experiences of Mexican Americans needs to be represented. There are many articles that need to be written (see the tasks list), and a long-term project goal is to elevate Chicano Movement to featured article status. If you'd like to help with these or any other projects, please dig in. Also, if you have any questions or suggestions, please discuss them on the Project talkpage or on my talkpage.
Good to have you aboard, -- Rockero 16:33, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
A problem, Juan, is that some of the articles you recommend for creation are on such broad topics. Latino history, already exists as History of Latin America. However, it is mostly just a collection of links to more specific articles. For culture and religion, it might be possible to create an article by copying and pasting subsections from other articles, but if that information is available elsewhere, why bother? What I meant about finding out your aim was do you want the template to cover Latinos in the US? Or all the peoples of Latin America? Have you seen our Mexican-American template? What do you think of it?-- Rockero 15:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I created the El Sombrero Barnstar Award to recognize any editor who has made exceptional contributions to articles about Latinos and/or Hispanics in the United States as well as articles about Latin America. Anyone is welcome to use it. -- JuanMuslim 1m 04:59, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
OK, it is time to get serious about our intended goal of elevating Chicano Movement. It seems to me that the best way to divide up the work is to divide up the reading. I have a list of books that can serve as resources, unless you have a work you are reading/want to read as part of the collaboration. I'd like to give each participart one book to read over the summer, with the goal of having the article ready for peer review by September. Please reply here to indicate whether you have a text you would like to read or if you need a recommendation. ¡Adelante!-- Rockero 09:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Please comment on new template. {{ Nuestra Historia}} Joaquin Murietta 18:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Several weeks ago I started an article about a Mexican-American heroe US Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta(please see) in Wikipedia in espanol, some people did no like it saying is about war propaganda, and that I removed some irrelevant signs he placed before, or that this article is not different from anyone who died in combat,etc. Now the article is under voting to be erased.The guy who proposed the removing of the article is Cinabrium, who is pro arab/islamic and resents the war in Iraq, and I believe there is a anti-American feeling in most of these guys who supports Cinabrium. If you are registered in Wikipedia en espanol, you can help me making changes, adding info, photos, an infobox too, and your vote if you may. There is only 15 days left. I am still learning and need all the help you can give me. Tell some other people you know who might be willing to help. Thank you familia, un abrazo, -- Cefaro 03:57, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
I think all 40-something Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients should have a page on Wiki. Ditto wiki español. Our raza has served with pride in every military conflict America has found itself in. I've read over the comments on the Spanish wiki and Cefaro is right. The detractors' feelings on the war are clouding their reasoning on whether Peralta is encyclopaedic worthy. -- Murcielago 15:46, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
{{ WikiProject Mexican-Americans}}
Wanted to touch base with you guys and let you know of WikiProject Biography and let us know whenever you guys are working on a collaboration, or have FACs or GA noms so we can let the Biography group as a whole know. It would be great if we had a liaison from your group that helped monitor the Biography project so we can better coordinate efforts. Good luck with your project! plange 16:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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Count me in to help out on this project. Also I would like to become a major contributor to Rockero's article on "Chicano Art". I have already added my name to the list of participants. I am new to Wikipedia and looking forward to contributing. Chicaneo 15:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I notice there is no wiki article on the strikes of last May. I have some resources on the movement's impact in LA/SoCal, if anyone would be interested in working with me on an article covering the strikes from national and/or nationalist perspectives.-- Amerique dialectics 03:26, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
The alphabetization of the " To Do / Tasks list" of the "To Be Written" section is complete. Your help is needed in providing short descriptions behind each entry. For example:
In the case of entries that are self-explanatory, such as Mexican-American Bar Association or Chicano literature, no descriptive information is necessary. Thanks,
Chicaneo
00:10, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I believe a couple of you have already participated in the SFD discussion regarding {{ Chicano-stub}}. I have summarized the discussion and put forth a suggestion for a solution. Please voice any more opinions on SFD page, so we can come to an agreement and finish the discussion. Thanks. ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 21:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
An edit war has begun on César Chávez. The other day a copyedit was done to this article without discussion. I cited that fact on the article's talkpage which the copyeditor disputes on my talkpage. I recommend someone from this project look at the comments on César Chávez 's talkpage, the edits and provide comments on how to improve the article. Ronbo76 17:00, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Please look at the new entry for Ysleta Texas. Ysleta is/was more Native American than Hispanic but there is so much entwined history. As usual, When I drop a new article I just kind of dump it, so there may be much nuance that should be expanded upon.—Preceding unsigned comment added by TigerPaw2154 ( talk • contribs) on 03:18, February 21, 2007
Hyphenating "Mexican-American" is very outdated and is seldom used, improperly if so, by Latinos. The term of preference is just "Mexican American."—Preceding unsigned comment added by Chamaquito ( talk • contribs) on 02:01, April 26, 2007
I just joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias. I believe that our project team works to counter systemic bias daily and also counters systemic bias by simply working on the articles on our to do list. But I'm sure that most of you come accross articles that do not have neutral POV - these articles would be good candidates for the Countering Systemic Bias Project to tackle. Do any of you know of any articles that you would like to have listed on WikiProject Countering systemic bias to do list?? If you don't have time to list them I'll list them for you, just send me the names on my talk page.
Here is an excerpt from their project page: "The average Wikipedian on English Wikipedia (1) is male, (2) is technically-inclined, (3) is formally educated, (4) speaks English to an extent, (5) is white, (6) is aged 15–49, (7) is from a nominally Christian country, (8) is from an industrialized nation, (9) is from the Northern Hemisphere, and (10) is more likely to be employed in intellectual pursuits than in practical skills or physical labor (see Wikipedia:User survey and Wikipedia:University of Würzburg survey, 2005). To contribute to Wikipedia, a user must have access to a computer, the Internet, and be able to use them. Most of the world's population does not and their views and experience are not directly represented........".
Gracias. -- Chicaneo 07:10, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
although notable, Chicana feminism has no inline referencing - I am unable to help it. Could any one with expertise in this area please review the page and if possible reference the claims it makes in its 'history' section-- Cailil talk 13:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
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Saludos! Just a short note to say I would like to join the wp:mexam. It is not totally clear to me how this happens, but I guess an introduction is in order. I'm a coyote from New Mexico living in Europe. You can call it cheesy, but my Chicana politics started in Farmington in the 3rd grade parallel to Navajo struggles for social justice. My internet work started with MeChA organizing in the early 90's. Since then, I work with new media, politics and theory. A decent researcher when I have the time, my interests are mostly in the politics of new media and contemporary art. I would like to spend some time adding to articles on Chicano artists and writers. I am still learning how wikipedia works and testing the waters and am not really serious about wanting to be a feminist admin, but I would like to put my feminist Chicana politics into practice. Input and advice is welcome. Diastar ( talk) 02:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)diastar
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Project participants: Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexican-Americans was tagged as inactive in April 2010 - Did we all get burnout or just really busy? Anyway, I have removed the tag. WhisperToMe also removed the project tag that Evrik & Rockero worked really hard to create which was posted at the Template:WikiProject Mexican-Americans page & I reverted the page to the previous format. I know that POV and vandalism were almost unmanageable at one point and burned me out - but I'm back. You guys come back when you're ready. Evrik - enough with the semi-retirement already! ¡Vamanos! Chicaneo ( talk) 11:38, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Some good discussion took place above regarding the Chicano Movement article under item #7-Projects and item #21-Chicano Movement. Writing this article is daunting. I disagree with the general premise that the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement should be directed to the Chicano Movement. Personally, I would like to see the Chicano Movement as a separate article, but part of a larger article on the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, which does not exist. If anyone out there has the expertise, time and dedication to devote to this project it is a daunting task, but it deserves an article or two and would be worth the effort. Chicaneo ( talk)
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Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chicano vendido. Jaque Hammer ( talk) 10:12, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.
The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:14, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF ( talk) 14:35, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.
I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.
Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages
Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.
If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.
Regards, RichardF ( talk) 02:27, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Please join in the discussion on the talk page to help expand the article to its fullest potential. AJona1992 ( talk) 19:46, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
It was recently suggested that this project might be inactive or semi activeand it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the last content update was back in September of 2010 so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:46, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion here for a Bot to do an assessment run through the 3500+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. If you do not want the bot to autoassess the articles for your project or if you have any comments or concerns please let us know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 14:15, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
The September 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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WP:NRHP is having a Fall Photo Contest running from Oct. 21-Dec. 4, 2011. I'd like to encourage anybody who enjoys photography, and anybody who is interested in historic places to participate as a photographer, a sponsor, or both.
One way that an individual editor or a project can participate is to sponsor their own challenge. For example, somebody here might want to include a challenge such as "A barnstar will be awarded to the photographer who adds the most photos of previously non-illustrated NRHP sites related to Mexican-American history to the NRHP county lists." To sponsor a challenge all you need to do is come up with an idea, post it on the contest page, and do the small bit of work needed to judge the winner(s).
Any and all contributions appreciated.
Smallbones ( talk) 15:19, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
As an FYI I started History of the Mexican-Americans in Houston WhisperToMe ( talk) 01:49, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
If anybody wants to start History of the Mexican-Americans in Texas, I found sources:
WhisperToMe ( talk) 06:38, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:42, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
The December 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Mexican-Americans will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in within Mexican-American society. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch ( talk) 19:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I am creating a new entry titled “Second Generation Immigrants in the United States.” My article will consist of statistical data showing education and income levels of second generation immigrants in comparison to first generation immigrants and US citizens born to US natives. A large portion of my article will focus on the theories of immigrant assimilation, with emphasis places on the theory of segmented assimilation and notable criticism to this theory. I will devote a section on the unique assimilation experiences of second generation immigrants that are Mexican American as they constitution the largest percentage of second generation immigrants in the United States. Do you know of any resources that may aid me in developing this section on assimilation of second generation immigrants that are Mexican American? I would greatly appreciate any suggestions you may have. Thank you. Marymorales291 ( talk) 05:10, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
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There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko ( talk) 02:11, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko ( talk) 18:43, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
Is anyone interested in expanding History of the Mexican Americans in Los Angeles? WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
If anyone cares about either of these projects, this project should be merged with Wikipedia:WikiProject Latinos. we dont need this narrower project if both are moribund. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 21:41, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
these sections are not being used. add them in if they become active again.
Please feel free to list your new Mexican-American/Chicano-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 02:10, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Thomas E. Sheridan wrote Los Tucsoneses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941, published by the University of Arizona Press in 1986. It may be a good source. There are book reviews if you want to write the article on the book itself. WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes is at AfD. -- Djembayz ( talk) 02:23, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
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Moved from my talk page Maybe you, me, Tony the Marine and should think about making a Mexican American/Chicano Wikipedia:WikiProject? We have a template started, we have a series of articles and several of us are interested. Is this the next step? Please reply here, if you don't mind and we can point this discussion out to the others. Joaquin Murietta 03:59, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Sure, count me in. I'm willing to help in whatever I can. I won't worry to much about NPOV's because those participating must do so under Wiki's NPOV's guide lines. Get in touch with my son, User:AntonioMartin, he's written many articles about Mexicans and as I, a firm believer in the Latino unity. Gracias Tony the Marine 04:43, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
This just in: I'm in. - Bfraga
Orale, amigo, count me in!- " Antonio Sonora-Santurce Martin"
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Thanks for contacting me regarding putting together some Chicano related articles. Where can we start? I can gather info regarding Arte. Peace! Pozole 23:33, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Yeah. Next step: "Create the main project page at Wikipedia:WikiProject projectname. (See Starting a new page)" What do we call it? Mexican American/Chicano Wikiprojector La Raza Wikipedia Project Joaquin Murietta 22:40, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
I like "La Raza Wikipedia Project", it seems the most practical choice. You may want to get in touch with User:AlexCovarrubias and User:Hajor, especially Hajor. He's a good friend and one the best contributors in Mexican related articles. Tony the Marine 02:40, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
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Because of the slash in the name of the project, it makes it difficult to use a tool like the assement. :-( can we change the hypen in the name? User:Evrik
-- Migdiachinea 16:42, 28 October 2006 (UTC) CAP. I don't know how to enter this discussion and/or if I'm doing this properly. I'm Cuban-American. My background is mixed with Italian and Spanish, some French, too, my mom has just told me. There are all these different surnames (apellidos) in my family, Chinea. Suarez de Lillo, Maimo, Gomez, Rosell (had been shortened to Ros or Ross by some relatives), Figueroa, Dossina. I need to make a history of this because she's worried that we're losing our identity. The CAP next to my name below refers to my being called, on occasion, a Cuban-American Princess -- which I also use as a joke. It's just the way I look. Light-haired, thin and standoffish. But I'm very hard-working and have had a lot of tumbles in my life. My father was a Cuban political prisoner who in the end became very quiet and methodical. He passed away not too long ago and I dream about him a lot. Our politix are conservative like those of most Cuban-Americans or Cuban exiles. I often do not understand the Latino moniker (although I've been forced by circumstances to use these designations). Lately I've preferred to go back to the term my father used for us, namely, "Latins." I often feel that Hispanic doesn't really describe me, and Latino even less -- it's like addding an innapropriate and ungrammatical "o" or "a" -- e.g., I hate hearing words like Truck-a or Lunch-e, and use camion and almuerzo. Well, that's it. I'm a writer with a sense of social justice and a hot-tempered big mouth to go with it. I'm not sure if I'm doing this right and don't understand all the Wikipedia requirements. I tend to be a rebel when it comes to rules.
Should I just fill it in (Goals, Tasks, etc.) or discuss additions here first?-- Rockero 17:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Can we better define the separate meanings of these two categories? They seem to be treated now as synonyms, with both applied to many articles. Category:La Raza is a subcategory of category:Mexican Americans then articles should not be in both categories. My initial impression is that category:Mexican Americans should be for Mexican American people and groups or people, and category:La Raza should be for concepts, dialects, institutions, etc. Relevant guidelines would be Wikipedia:categorization policy and Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality. Any thoughts? - Willmcw 22:45, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Some guy took it upon himself to edit our template. He said that Chicanos are not representative of Mexican Americans. I reverted the template back. Please see Template talk:Mexican-American and Template:Mexican-American Joaquin Murietta 15:01, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
The menso went and changed a bunch of articles. For example see Chicanismo, he has a new template called Chicanos. How shall we address this? Joaquin Murietta 15:08, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
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These two sources come highly recommended:
And these might be good:
I haven't read them, but they may be worth checking out.-- Rockero 06:27, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
2. I also propose we do the Chicano Blowouts article. Might be good practice for the Chicano Movement article? Even if it's a stub? -- Bfraga 02:01, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Where can we place additional suggested articles on the project? There are a couple that I think would warrant inclusion such as:
== FELIZ NAVIDAD == Joaquin Murietta 14:21, 22 December 2005 (UTC) !
== 'LIVING IN A DREAM WORLD' == Someone add more criminals, because we are LYING if there is only one mexican notorious criminal. Come on now, lets get real about this. This criminal list should number in the dozens of famous criminals, hundreds of thousands (per year) for common ones!--(the preceding unsigned comment was placed by
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You may vote on the Project stubs up for deletion here: [3] Joaquin Murietta 14:18, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
Check out Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 January 11#Mexican American singers. I wish someone would let us know when they nominate a category that obviously falls under our project like this. Lucky I found it. Please, express yourselves.-- Rockero 03:04, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm purporting to translate Xicano related articles to the Korean Language Wikipedia. At the very start of the translation, an admin started changing 멕시칸-아메리칸 (just a korean phonetical transliteration of "Mexican-American") to 멕시코계 미국인 ("United States Citizens of Mexican Branch")
I am of the opinion that American hyphenated identities should not be translated in the korean language as "US Citizens of X Branch". (Yes, I do have a beef with " Korean-American" being translated as "한국계 미국인", meaning "US Citizens of South Korean Branch", as it shows a terrible lack of understanding about the interrelations of race, identity politics and distinction of nation and ethnicity on behalf of peninsular koreans.. but that's for later)
Anyway, the reason the korean admin is suggesting the change to "US Citizens" is because they already have a series of "US Citizens of X Branch" for a bunch of nationalities. (Bulgarian, Russian, Japanese, and so on) And I responded that even when "Mexican American", without the hyphen, may correpond to "US Citizen..", it was not the case for "Mexican-American", which was a hyphenated identity, for godsake. Then, the admin pointed out the in the english wikipedia, from which I'm translating, Mexican-American redirects to Mexican American. Ugh.
So what does this come to? Let's either have a section under Mexican-American that explains differences between the hyphenated and non-hyphenated ones, as well as other terms that outsiders may wrongly apply over the group. It would also be great to stick with either one of the usages, hyphenated or not hyphenated. As I'm not as familiar with Mexican-American identity politics as with their latino counterpart, I'm submitting the request here.
En solidaridad, -- Yonghokim 05:11, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
We now have horizontal and vertical infoboxes Some articles look better with one or the other. Not both! Joaquin Murietta 12:18, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
PLease see the discussions and various merger tags. Do you feel that Latino should be mergerd with Hispanic? Or that Hispanic should be merged with Hispano? Joaquin Murietta 12:26, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
What do you guys think about implementing a rating system like they're using at Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America?
Please see discussion at [4] I removed the template for now Should we have a disambiguation page? Joaquin Murietta 05:31, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
In the meantime I made a third infobox without the Aztec calendar. Please let me know what you think.
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Here is something that I just noticed on the Manuel Antonio Chaves page: a new category has been created: Category:Mexican Spaniards. I don't know what to think about that category all around. I mean Chaves was a New Mexican of Spanish descent -- two centuries previous. Pretty much any native New Mexican Hispano can make that claim, but it seems to me disingenuous to call Chaves a Spaniard, since his family had been in New Mexico since 1598. A look at some of the other people under that category raises similar questions to me. Anybody have any thoughts on this? - Murcielago 18:27, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
I think the questions of colors and images are secondary at this point. Right now we should be trying to determine whether or not the template is merited. Are there enough articles to add into it to make it useful? What articles should it be placed on? What benefit will it provide to readers of the encyclopedia? What are its parameters? Will it apply to all of Latin America or just Latinos in the United States? These are the questions we should be discussing right now. And to be frank, it doesn't seem like it will do much good at this point. Once the parameters are determined, then we can get started on writing articles that pertain to Latinos as a whole. The template should be like a finishing touch to enhance to a body of articles, not an outline to determine what needs to be written.-- Rockero 20:53, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
Saludos y Asalamalaykim, Juan Muslim! I notice you signed on as a participant in the Mexican-American/Chicano WikiProject, and I want to extend you a warm welcome. I also notice you started {{ Latino}}. What were you planning on doing with that? That is, what is your vision for it? What do you want it to accomplish? The project members and I may be able to help you with it, but I need to know in what direction you want to take it.
I also notice that you have been editing Islam-related articles. If there way you can share your knowledge about Islam in the Mexican American community, it would be greatly appreciated. Most of our religious articles have been focused on Roman Catholicism, and some diversity in the religious experiences of Mexican Americans needs to be represented. There are many articles that need to be written (see the tasks list), and a long-term project goal is to elevate Chicano Movement to featured article status. If you'd like to help with these or any other projects, please dig in. Also, if you have any questions or suggestions, please discuss them on the Project talkpage or on my talkpage.
Good to have you aboard, -- Rockero 16:33, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
A problem, Juan, is that some of the articles you recommend for creation are on such broad topics. Latino history, already exists as History of Latin America. However, it is mostly just a collection of links to more specific articles. For culture and religion, it might be possible to create an article by copying and pasting subsections from other articles, but if that information is available elsewhere, why bother? What I meant about finding out your aim was do you want the template to cover Latinos in the US? Or all the peoples of Latin America? Have you seen our Mexican-American template? What do you think of it?-- Rockero 15:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
I created the El Sombrero Barnstar Award to recognize any editor who has made exceptional contributions to articles about Latinos and/or Hispanics in the United States as well as articles about Latin America. Anyone is welcome to use it. -- JuanMuslim 1m 04:59, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
OK, it is time to get serious about our intended goal of elevating Chicano Movement. It seems to me that the best way to divide up the work is to divide up the reading. I have a list of books that can serve as resources, unless you have a work you are reading/want to read as part of the collaboration. I'd like to give each participart one book to read over the summer, with the goal of having the article ready for peer review by September. Please reply here to indicate whether you have a text you would like to read or if you need a recommendation. ¡Adelante!-- Rockero 09:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Please comment on new template. {{ Nuestra Historia}} Joaquin Murietta 18:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Several weeks ago I started an article about a Mexican-American heroe US Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta(please see) in Wikipedia in espanol, some people did no like it saying is about war propaganda, and that I removed some irrelevant signs he placed before, or that this article is not different from anyone who died in combat,etc. Now the article is under voting to be erased.The guy who proposed the removing of the article is Cinabrium, who is pro arab/islamic and resents the war in Iraq, and I believe there is a anti-American feeling in most of these guys who supports Cinabrium. If you are registered in Wikipedia en espanol, you can help me making changes, adding info, photos, an infobox too, and your vote if you may. There is only 15 days left. I am still learning and need all the help you can give me. Tell some other people you know who might be willing to help. Thank you familia, un abrazo, -- Cefaro 03:57, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
I think all 40-something Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients should have a page on Wiki. Ditto wiki español. Our raza has served with pride in every military conflict America has found itself in. I've read over the comments on the Spanish wiki and Cefaro is right. The detractors' feelings on the war are clouding their reasoning on whether Peralta is encyclopaedic worthy. -- Murcielago 15:46, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
{{ WikiProject Mexican-Americans}}
Wanted to touch base with you guys and let you know of WikiProject Biography and let us know whenever you guys are working on a collaboration, or have FACs or GA noms so we can let the Biography group as a whole know. It would be great if we had a liaison from your group that helped monitor the Biography project so we can better coordinate efforts. Good luck with your project! plange 16:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. If you still have work to do tagging talk pages and assessing articles, my AWB plugin might be of interest to you.
The plugin has two main modes of operation:
As of the current version, WikiProjects with simple "generic" templates are supported by the plugin without the need for any special programatic support by me. I've had a look at your project's template and you seem to qualify.
For more information see:
Hope that helps. If you have any questions or find any bugs please let me know on the plugin's talk page. -- Kingboyk 14:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 20:33, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Count me in to help out on this project. Also I would like to become a major contributor to Rockero's article on "Chicano Art". I have already added my name to the list of participants. I am new to Wikipedia and looking forward to contributing. Chicaneo 15:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I notice there is no wiki article on the strikes of last May. I have some resources on the movement's impact in LA/SoCal, if anyone would be interested in working with me on an article covering the strikes from national and/or nationalist perspectives.-- Amerique dialectics 03:26, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
The alphabetization of the " To Do / Tasks list" of the "To Be Written" section is complete. Your help is needed in providing short descriptions behind each entry. For example:
In the case of entries that are self-explanatory, such as Mexican-American Bar Association or Chicano literature, no descriptive information is necessary. Thanks,
Chicaneo
00:10, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
I believe a couple of you have already participated in the SFD discussion regarding {{ Chicano-stub}}. I have summarized the discussion and put forth a suggestion for a solution. Please voice any more opinions on SFD page, so we can come to an agreement and finish the discussion. Thanks. ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 21:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
An edit war has begun on César Chávez. The other day a copyedit was done to this article without discussion. I cited that fact on the article's talkpage which the copyeditor disputes on my talkpage. I recommend someone from this project look at the comments on César Chávez 's talkpage, the edits and provide comments on how to improve the article. Ronbo76 17:00, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Please look at the new entry for Ysleta Texas. Ysleta is/was more Native American than Hispanic but there is so much entwined history. As usual, When I drop a new article I just kind of dump it, so there may be much nuance that should be expanded upon.—Preceding unsigned comment added by TigerPaw2154 ( talk • contribs) on 03:18, February 21, 2007
Hyphenating "Mexican-American" is very outdated and is seldom used, improperly if so, by Latinos. The term of preference is just "Mexican American."—Preceding unsigned comment added by Chamaquito ( talk • contribs) on 02:01, April 26, 2007
I just joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias. I believe that our project team works to counter systemic bias daily and also counters systemic bias by simply working on the articles on our to do list. But I'm sure that most of you come accross articles that do not have neutral POV - these articles would be good candidates for the Countering Systemic Bias Project to tackle. Do any of you know of any articles that you would like to have listed on WikiProject Countering systemic bias to do list?? If you don't have time to list them I'll list them for you, just send me the names on my talk page.
Here is an excerpt from their project page: "The average Wikipedian on English Wikipedia (1) is male, (2) is technically-inclined, (3) is formally educated, (4) speaks English to an extent, (5) is white, (6) is aged 15–49, (7) is from a nominally Christian country, (8) is from an industrialized nation, (9) is from the Northern Hemisphere, and (10) is more likely to be employed in intellectual pursuits than in practical skills or physical labor (see Wikipedia:User survey and Wikipedia:University of Würzburg survey, 2005). To contribute to Wikipedia, a user must have access to a computer, the Internet, and be able to use them. Most of the world's population does not and their views and experience are not directly represented........".
Gracias. -- Chicaneo 07:10, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
although notable, Chicana feminism has no inline referencing - I am unable to help it. Could any one with expertise in this area please review the page and if possible reference the claims it makes in its 'history' section-- Cailil talk 13:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
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Saludos! Just a short note to say I would like to join the wp:mexam. It is not totally clear to me how this happens, but I guess an introduction is in order. I'm a coyote from New Mexico living in Europe. You can call it cheesy, but my Chicana politics started in Farmington in the 3rd grade parallel to Navajo struggles for social justice. My internet work started with MeChA organizing in the early 90's. Since then, I work with new media, politics and theory. A decent researcher when I have the time, my interests are mostly in the politics of new media and contemporary art. I would like to spend some time adding to articles on Chicano artists and writers. I am still learning how wikipedia works and testing the waters and am not really serious about wanting to be a feminist admin, but I would like to put my feminist Chicana politics into practice. Input and advice is welcome. Diastar ( talk) 02:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)diastar
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North of the Rio Grande is an ongoing school project dedicated to improving select articles on Latino and Chicano literature. Among the articles we're working on are Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, and Tomás Rivera. We'd welcome any advice or help that members of WikiProject Mexican-Americans may be able to offer. Please come drop a note on our talk page. Many thanks. -- jbmurray ( talk • contribs) 08:32, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
I nominated Gulfton, Houston for featured article status - I want to see if I can make a Houston neighborhood make FA. If anyone is interested, please help it make FA :) WhisperToMe ( talk) 19:09, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
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I am going to propose making Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexican-Americans into a task force for Wikipedia:WikiProject Latinos (both seem to be inactive....) WhisperToMe ( talk) 12:58, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
Project participants: Wikipedia:WikiProject Mexican-Americans was tagged as inactive in April 2010 - Did we all get burnout or just really busy? Anyway, I have removed the tag. WhisperToMe also removed the project tag that Evrik & Rockero worked really hard to create which was posted at the Template:WikiProject Mexican-Americans page & I reverted the page to the previous format. I know that POV and vandalism were almost unmanageable at one point and burned me out - but I'm back. You guys come back when you're ready. Evrik - enough with the semi-retirement already! ¡Vamanos! Chicaneo ( talk) 11:38, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
Some good discussion took place above regarding the Chicano Movement article under item #7-Projects and item #21-Chicano Movement. Writing this article is daunting. I disagree with the general premise that the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement should be directed to the Chicano Movement. Personally, I would like to see the Chicano Movement as a separate article, but part of a larger article on the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, which does not exist. If anyone out there has the expertise, time and dedication to devote to this project it is a daunting task, but it deserves an article or two and would be worth the effort. Chicaneo ( talk)
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Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.
We would like to ask you to review the Mexican-American articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Sunday, November 14th.
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I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into {{ WikiProject United States}}. If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:55, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chicano vendido. Jaque Hammer ( talk) 10:12, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.
The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:14, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF ( talk) 14:35, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles. Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ.
I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.
Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages
Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity. When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.
If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.
Regards, RichardF ( talk) 02:27, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
Please join in the discussion on the talk page to help expand the article to its fullest potential. AJona1992 ( talk) 19:46, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
It was recently suggested that this project might be inactive or semi activeand it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the last content update was back in September of 2010 so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. -- Kumioko ( talk) 20:46, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
There is a discussion here for a Bot to do an assessment run through the 3500+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. If you do not want the bot to autoassess the articles for your project or if you have any comments or concerns please let us know. -- Kumioko ( talk) 14:15, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
The September 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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WP:NRHP is having a Fall Photo Contest running from Oct. 21-Dec. 4, 2011. I'd like to encourage anybody who enjoys photography, and anybody who is interested in historic places to participate as a photographer, a sponsor, or both.
One way that an individual editor or a project can participate is to sponsor their own challenge. For example, somebody here might want to include a challenge such as "A barnstar will be awarded to the photographer who adds the most photos of previously non-illustrated NRHP sites related to Mexican-American history to the NRHP county lists." To sponsor a challenge all you need to do is come up with an idea, post it on the contest page, and do the small bit of work needed to judge the winner(s).
Any and all contributions appreciated.
Smallbones ( talk) 15:19, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
As an FYI I started History of the Mexican-Americans in Houston WhisperToMe ( talk) 01:49, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
If anybody wants to start History of the Mexican-Americans in Texas, I found sources:
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One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. -- Kumioko ( talk) 19:42, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
The December 2011 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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The January 2012 issue of the WikiProject United States newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you.
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Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Mexican-Americans will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in within Mexican-American society. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch ( talk) 19:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I am creating a new entry titled “Second Generation Immigrants in the United States.” My article will consist of statistical data showing education and income levels of second generation immigrants in comparison to first generation immigrants and US citizens born to US natives. A large portion of my article will focus on the theories of immigrant assimilation, with emphasis places on the theory of segmented assimilation and notable criticism to this theory. I will devote a section on the unique assimilation experiences of second generation immigrants that are Mexican American as they constitution the largest percentage of second generation immigrants in the United States. Do you know of any resources that may aid me in developing this section on assimilation of second generation immigrants that are Mexican American? I would greatly appreciate any suggestions you may have. Thank you. Marymorales291 ( talk) 05:10, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:25, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko ( talk) 02:11, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko ( talk) 18:43, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
Is anyone interested in expanding History of the Mexican Americans in Los Angeles? WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
If anyone cares about either of these projects, this project should be merged with Wikipedia:WikiProject Latinos. we dont need this narrower project if both are moribund. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 21:41, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
these sections are not being used. add them in if they become active again.
Please feel free to list your new Mexican-American/Chicano-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 02:10, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
Thomas E. Sheridan wrote Los Tucsoneses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941, published by the University of Arizona Press in 1986. It may be a good source. There are book reviews if you want to write the article on the book itself. WhisperToMe ( talk) 17:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
Shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes is at AfD. -- Djembayz ( talk) 02:23, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions
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You are invited to join a discussion at Talk:Primos (TV series)#Controversy section about how much emphasis to put onto the "controversy" surrounding the series' following release of its opening sequence on social media and YouTube. This WikiProject received this message because Primos is an upcoming animated series which centers on a multi-cultural Mexican-American family. Historyday01 ( talk) 02:42, 11 July 2023 (UTC)