AlexR.L.

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Welcome

Welcome to Wikipedia! I work almost exclusively with Mexico related articles so if you need advice or help, let me know!Thelmadatter (talk) 15:39, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Demographics of Aguascalientes

Hello. I've just seen the above-named article you created and thought you might find this template useful. Even though that template is for countries rather than subdivisions, I can't find any reason why it can't still be used here. LordVetinari (talk) 02:04, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

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Check on Spanish translation

The article National Autonomous University of Mexico has had the English translation of the university's motto changed several times recently; I think wrongly. The motto is "Por mi raza hablará el espíritu". The translation currently there is "The spirit shall speak for my race". I think it should be something like "The spirit shall speak through my people". Surely "through" not "for", but the exact sense of "raza" here needs an expert! Could you change it if you think it's currently wrong? Peter coxhead (talk) 18:49, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Edit summary

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• Alex, please consider using an edit summary. It facilitates surfing through peoples' watchlists. Be considerate. Cheers, ComputerJA (talk) 18:44, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Guaviare department

On 14 February 2013, you changed the area of Guaviare department from 53,460 sq.km. to 42,327 sq.km. without citing a source. The Colombian web page for Guaviare department still gives the area as:

Extensión total: 53460 Km2

as does the 2009 "Datos y Cifras del Guaviare" document, and other official Colombian documents.

On what basis did you make the change? I realize that in the 1990s that several unofficial sources listed 42,327 sq.km., but I understood that the number had been officially revised upwards, but I do not have a source for when that happened or the exact circumstances. --Bejnar (talk) 03:10, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

• I note the same thing for the Vaupés department. You changed 54,135 sq.km. to 65,268 sq.km., while the official Colombian number, from, for example here, or in this spreadsheet, is:

Extensión total: 54.135 Km2

What's up? --Bejnar (talk) 03:28, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I see the problem. Your source is a secondary source that used 25 year old published data for the areas, those areas have since changed. Guaviare department was listed as 42,327 sq.km. when it was created as a national territory in 1977. Guaviare was formed by presidential order in December 1977. Its 16,342-square-mile (42,327-square-kilometre) area incorporated the majority of Vaupes' inhabitants when it was formed. 1993 Encyclopedia Britannia, Micropedia page 538. Then there was a transfer, prior to 2009, of 11,133 sq.km. from Vaupés department to Guaviare department, and some sources have not updated their records. Secondary sources that have updated their records include the 2012 Historical Dictionary of Colombia which indicates 53,460 sq.km. for Guaviare department (page 248) and 54,135 sq.km. for Vaupés department (page 291). I have restored the current figures to the articles in question. --Bejnar (talk) 20:07, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

I think that I caught all of the changes, including the changes in rank by area. I have also provided several of the infoboxes of the Colombia department articles with proper citations for area, including, I hope, all of the problematic ones. That still leaves about 24 departments lacking citations for area. See Talk:List of Colombian Departments by area#Sources for stated areas. I've done: Amazonas, Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Boyacá, ‎Cesar, Cundinamarca, Guaviare, Magdalena, Putumayo, Vaupés, and Vichada. --Bejnar (talk) 02:59, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of 1900 Mexico Census

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Speedy deletion nomination of 1910 Mexico Census

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Speedy deletion nomination of 1921 Mexico Census

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Speedy deletion nomination of 1930 Mexico Census

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Mexico Census

I've deleted all the iterations of the mexico census except for the first one, as they all consisted only of {{MXCensus}}. The first one is tenuous but I'll let it exist for you to make expansions. Please add some content before recreating them. You may wish to develop them in userspace. Thanks for your contributions, I am only deleting them as they currently have no substantive content. NativeForeigner ^Talk 06:42, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Mexican States Flags

Hello AlexR.L. I think your proposed flags for the Mexican states are very interesting proposals but I would like to know if there is any motivation behind them like some symbology or meaning for the designs. I know some have a historical background like from the old republics of Baja California or Yucatan but for others I don't know. Please let me know since I was thinking on the same idea and to make a convincing proposal I think you should add meaning to the flags, justify the designs based on symbols and history. Fermin (talk) 18:25, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

             Hello Ferminx, I will put why the reason for my proposal, but I've been quite busy. --Alex 18:51, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

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Mexican States Flag

Hello AlexR.L., I’ve been reviewing your proposed flags for the Mexican States and I’d like to know if we could talk about the Baja California flag. I’m a fellow Mexican interested in vexillology. Thanks, Coiki (talk) 14:50, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

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