User talk:LaNicoya/Archive

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Asian Latin American

Hi, LaNicoya. In the body of the article you indicated that there are 8000 Asian Nicaraguans, but in the Composition box you entered 16000 (8000 Japanese and 8000 Chinese). Was it by accident? SamEV 20:17, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

LaNicoya 01:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC) Yeah. Sorry i didnt know how to distribute the numbers. 8,000 was a couple years back but it was 8k for all Asians.

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Copy vio

Please dont copy material from other sites as you did at El Gueguense. Its copyright violation and could bring lots of problems to wikipedia, SqueakBox 21:20, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Apology

I apologize for labeling your edit to Afro Latin american as valalism, but you now know that the links were not correct. I half suspected you made an error based on the other contributions you'd made to wiki, but one can never be sure.

One thing I did note, however, in your other edits is that you haven't become accustomed to entering anything into the edit summaries. These comments are very useful to other editors, and give a clue to what your intentions were. If you make an error, but your summary indicates that your intentions were positive another editor might even make the correction if they know enough about the subject. --JAXHERE | ^Talk 13:19, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

• My mistake. I should've checked before editing. I will enter summaries from now on, i'm still new to all this.

LaNicoya 20:31, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Bacanaleranica

The user had not been warned for his personal attacks and for removing comments. I will put the Nicaragua article on my watchlist. If he violates policy again, let me know ok? Honestly, I would've blocked him if he had been warned about NPA on his talk page. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 11:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Your VandalProof Application

Dear LaNicoya,

Thank you for applying for VandalProof! (VP). As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. The reason for this is that at this time you do not meet the minimum requirement of 250 edits to mainspace articles (see under main here). Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank you for your interest in VandalProof. Daniel.Bryant 02:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

User:Bacanaleranica

Hi there. This isn't really vandalism. If the user has been reverting repeatedly, you might report it at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/3RR or involve the Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee. Hope this helps. TimVickers 03:06, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Edits on Panama

Sorry I mischanged some very old edits with one that I will apply later. Edgeweb 00:55, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: Nicaragua

I don't know what to tell ya. I'm tempted to protect the article but I'm not sure that'd help. It seems to just be a never ending battle. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 08:41, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

If this continues beyond the next 2 or 3 days, I will protect the page. --Woohookitty^Woohoo! 09:51, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry Case

I suggest you give more evidence that Matteo747, Holand and Guacamaya are sockpuppets. I doubt that PA's makes a very convincing case. Consider going to WP:RFCU to prove your evidence. Thank You. --K.Z ^{Talk • Vandal • Contrib} 09:02, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

About Sock puppet case 190.53.15.171

Sorry! It's pretty clear that they are sockpuppets - the checkuser sees to that, but I wanted other opinions before I made my first ever block to all of them, but I think a week to a month would suffice. Adam Cuerden ^talk 09:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Right. I've done what I think was fair. Adam Cuerden ^talk 14:20, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Corrección

En ningún momento estaba hablando mal del gallo pinto nicaragüense, simplemente estaba apuntando un hecho cierto en Costa Rica. La verdad en ningún momento me pareció que se pudiera tomar a mal mi comentario, pues pensé que quedaba explícito que me refería al gallo pinto tico. De todas maneras me parece de muy muy muy muy mal gusto borrar mi contribución, completamente ajeno a la razón de ser de esta página. Simplemente puede haber corregido mi texto para que quedara más explicito que se refería a la versión tica. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sitsi (talk • contribs) 03:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC).--Sitsi 03:54, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Bird lists

The lists were produced from a script with a bit of manual input here and there. You'll probably see some errors, but I figured it was easier to correct some oddities than have to do the lists from scratch. Cheers, Yomangani^talk 17:28, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

You should put it up as a featured list candidate once you've finished adding the photos. Two others I nominated look like they'll pass and they are pretty much the same text with some photos. Yomangani^talk 00:30, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Alphabetization

It's a pretty minor thing, I know, but are you sure about your re-alphabetization of the Nicaraguan writers in List of Latin American writers? To take one example, Emilio Alvarez Montalván suggests that this writer is referred to as "Alvarez" (which is after all a common Spanish-language surname), yet you've listed him under Montalván. --Jbmurray 07:48, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem. I'll go in and change back. Incidentally, it seems as though you're doing a fine job on Nicaraguan-related articles generally. --Jbmurray 08:21, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Analysis of your deletion

Relax: The warning states for the next time you will be blocked, please examined the time of the reversion and the time in which your last warning was applied. It took almost all day. Since you have apologized, I am explaining you this.

There was a discussion about it, and you know if something like this, for whatever reason, would had happened with any content or Patriotic symbols of your country as it is the National Flags and Coat of Arms, you would have acted the same and even more promptly. Therefore, as you love and respect your country and want your country be respected in the world and in Wikipedia, as you need to be very careful when you impulsively decide to do some of your editions. It is very understandable and very sensible information and images for not having enough care. Try to delete the United States Flags or England’s and you see what I mean.

I assume your good faith but in this case, you need to agree with us, that what you did by deleting a Flag and Coat of Arms, given your experience in Wikipedia seems as act of vandalism. You knew and know that there are talk pages, you could alert or write something before you just act and judge something as biased. By explaining and clarifying everything can be fixed, i.e. collaboration, it takes time but always works. For instance, there were some comments made about it and some discussion took place, as you can see in the talk page of the List of Peruvians page.

Far away from wishing you or doing something wrong to you, I am making a waking-up call. I need to let you know that I acknowledge the fact that we all make mistakes no matter what we are humans collaborating voluntary in the “Wiki Way”, aren’t we? Neglecting is one of the worst sins, because you can hurt a lot of people with only one tiny little action, and any of this is "revertible" at all. Therefore, I am taking my time to ask for you awareness over this sensible areas, I hope you will treasure it somehow. Therefore, lets continue, I know that you will not do such a thing again, and that next time you will suggest changes or indicate mistakes with respect and without hurting the feelings of any one because, we do not need to bite new users you can be surprised by how fast they do learn. Let us cooperate for that “next time”.

Deleting entries from your talk page is not a positive action either; you cannot hide diffs as I cannot reverse this last warning to you. I know that for the profound respect and love that you seem to be professing for your country, you will not do it again, either intentionally or unintentionally. Please have a good edition time.

The whole event is not a big deal in anyway other than if it were to be escalated by a repetition or by other vandalic activity from another user encouraged as a result of your deletion, thing that I doubt it very much to happen, but it is plausible to consider its possibility to occur. Anyway, I thought important to give you an analysis because the transparency of your presence on Wikipedia demanded. Enjoy the journey. -"-Todos Llegan de Noche, todos se van de día" 00:41, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

List of schools in Costa Rica

Hi. Just to let you know that I took the speedy tag off this article since it is part of a series which has been through AfD, and been decided as "kept" together. I guess I should try to dig out the list of schools by country AfD and put it on all the relevant pages but I think once it has been through AfD even as a list it becomes ineligible for SD (the AfD has to be repeated). Not that there is any way on earth you could tell this by looking at the article of course.--BozMo talk 14:46, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Grammar and spelling

Would you please refrain from Americanizing Commonwealth spellings? It is not necessary. Wikipedia accepts both conventions. Wikipedians are free to write "colour", "neighbour", "honour", "travelling", "metre", "worshipper" and so forth. By the way, spelling and grammar are two very different things. Kelisi 19:21, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Link to TicosLand.com

I got this message:

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Costa Rica. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. LaNicoya •TALK• 03:34, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Well it's very important note as TicosLand.com it's the main business directory of all the country. We are not posting the link for SEO or something like that. TicosLand offers more than 12k listers and the option to send free text messages to all cell phones into the GSM network. So, please wont remove it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Larryhans (talk • contribs)

Panama City

Excuse me, I saw a message that I think, you send me about a template in Panama City page, the template said that Panama City Page is advertising, I read the whole article and I erase the template because I consider that this article is not advertising, we must understand that Panamaá City economy is based heavily in tourism, so is logical to make references about this fact. What I agree is that maybe this article should have more information about other matters.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.75.218.196 (talk • contribs)

Ok I will follow your suggestion, thanks. Hey can you tell me how I can become an user and have an username. OK THANKS A LOT Nando Cdl 06:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Panama City

The problem is, Panama is central americas flights hub, no larger airport or aviation hub exist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.218.64.67 (talk • contribs)

All the references are on the external links pages, they should show you about what to remove or what NOT to remove. 201.218.64.67 22:09, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

I was just telling you that those links are source for info, and for references.201.224.24.192 03:21, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

re: inappropriate link

I don't believe the link I added to the Latin American Literature page is inappropriate. Not only does it not violate any of the so-called "inappropriate link guidelines" but I believe it is an invaluable resource for anybody interested in latin american literature. Rubbersoul20 19:43, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Monteverde's Bank Raid (again)

Section was readded again, with sources. This is not breaking news, this happened in 2005. It even has a BBC News source. Do not delete it again. Please check the sources --T0rek 10:14, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Guanacaste Province article

I saw your contributions to the Guanacaste Province article. There you added: "The Guanacaste province belonged to Nicaragua during the Colonial period. It wasn't until after the nations of Central America gained independence from Spain that it was annexed and incorporated to Cost Rica on July 24, 1825". That's partially true, because today Guanacaste province includes the cantons of Bagaces, Cañas, and Tilarán (of those, Tilarán didn't existed in Colonial times because it was part of Cañas, dunno about Bagaces). The point is that it wasn't the Guanacaste as exists today that was annexed to Costa Rica, the territory annexed was called "Partido de Nicoya" and it didn't include Bagaces, Cañas and Tilarán territories. You have a lot more experience gathering sources and improving articles than me, so I ask you to please check out on this issued. Thanks =) --T0rek 07:19, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: The thing is that easy to find sources about that in spanish, but such details are very hard to find them in english. I tried to find the sources myself, but I was unable to do it. I'll hold on...

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List of Latin American writers

Hi, I reverted your change to this page re. Belize, and tried to explain why on the talk page. I don't think it's a biggie, and I quite see your point in suggesting that Belize is a Central American rather than a Caribbean country. Of course, however, in fact it's both. And my suggestion is that culturally it's (perhaps marginally) better to think of it as the latter rather than the former. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 09:17, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Copied over from [User talk:Jbmurray]]: Hiya. When I wrote that, I was thinking about cultural rather than geographical region. (After all, "region" is not necessarily a geographical term.) I could clarify that if you felt it easier. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 09:56, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Copied over from [User talk:Jbmurray]]: Done. --jbmurray (talk|contribs) 10:29, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Panama economy

Percentages are different depending on each site, if you look in La Prensa in a google search engine, you'll find that percentages have changed, also, Nicaragua, el salvador and other countries have higher income inequality levels and more poverty and they don't have a poverty section, we just don't want to give people a bad look of Panama, if worser countries does not have poverty section, why should panama have one if it talks in a kinda obscuring way, note that the CIA speaks sometimes of comparison or estimates to larger countries, not the exact info, and La Prensa is a 100% Panamanian source so you should trust more it than the CIA factbook. 201.218.81.108

Ok

Ok, I shall give you the direct link when I have it. 201.218.81.108 22:08, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

here's the link, I guess you know how to read spanish, or use babelfish. http://www.prensa.com/hoy/negocios/1014175.html

well, Ok, I shall give you the link when I have it. 201.218.72.39 19:58, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

http://debates-politica.com.ar/estado-de-la-pobreza-en-panama —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.218.72.39 (talk • contribs)

Regarding edits to Los Zafiros

Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, LaNicoya! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the link you added, matching rule worldcircuit\.co\.uk, is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. Please read Wikipedia's external links guidelines for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! AntiSpamBot 10:57, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I re-reverted, sorry, the link 'worldmusic.co.uk' was on override due to ongoing coi spamming. Override is now turned off. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 11:02, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Nicaragua

Hi, I'm a user from the Hebrew wiki. I noticed a mistake in the article Nicaragua, that I pointed in Talk:Nicaragua#90%_in_the_pacific_lowlands?.

I'd be greatfull if you can approve or disapprove my remark there and correct the article if I'm right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.72.45.107 (talk • contribs)

White Latin American

Chile is not a 90% white country. The Chilean census merges "White, and Mixed Aboriginals" into the same category. Independent studies like the source you deleted previously, put the number at around 30% of the population.

Please correct this information and make sure to check your facts before editing encyclopedia articles. Thank you.

--190.31.233.131 18:46, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

The official Chilean government statistics department (from where the CIA factbook gets its data), combines the mestizo and white categories into one:

http://www.ine.cl/canales/menu/indice_tematico.php

Independent studies (in Spanish, sorry), put the number of unmixed people of European descent (aka "white") at ~30%

http://backintyme.com/admixture/sans02.pdf

http://www.medwave.cl/ciencia/11.act  ::http://mazinger.sisib.uchile.cl/repositorio/lb/ciencias_quimicas_y_farmaceuticas/medinae/cap2/5b6.html

Anyway, sorry for messing up the article, I didn't notice you had made edits in other sections.

--190.31.233.131 19:12, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Crime

ill change the words a bit but the information is valid and up to date i have good sources and its based on facts. i didnt vandalize the ethnic latin america i fixed it grab a calculator and do the math the numbers on there before where wrong and i fixed it i didnt vandalize it check with the cia.gov that is where i got my percentages from. okay so this was a contribution you are welcome and maybe next time you will check before you post unecessary messages. thank you.66.161.18.212 23:34, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

first of all everything in my article is related and is about managua wether you like it or not that is why the title of the article is "Managua armed robberies" so wether you like it or not its goin in there okay. my ip address does not match your sock puppet crap so leave me out of your crap in other words. my article is relevant this is an encyclopedia i have a good source you dont own this website so quit trying to act like its yours im doing and going about this as i see the rules im not interested in your personal opinions.66.161.18.212 00:42, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

66.161.18.212, Please read WP:CIVIL and WP:AGF. Brusegadi 14:09, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Panama edit in External Links

Hi Lanicoya, Just wanted to leave you a note about an edit you did on the Panama page on the new section about Search Engines I added. Did you remove it because there the section is not allowed or for another reason? Would it be possible to leave it in there? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Magamaga (talk • contribs) 01:34, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your prompt reply LaNicoya. I just read the guidelines what to avoid linking on number 10, but I interpret it to be say linking to a result from a search engine. I understand that link to be unreliable because the content might change and thus really means nothing to the readers. The link I added was made to a site that exists to provide information and serves as a Search Engine only for information about Panama. All of the results a user may get after entering a search string will be for information about Panama only. After this explanation, do you think the link and subsection to the External Links should stay? Magamaga 12:19, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Edit on Caliche- El Salvador

I edited the article on caliche because I felt that the examples given portrayed it in a negative light, as they were vulgar slang. There are many examples of other caliche words that are used in normal speech. The list I inserted gave many such words. I think that these should replace the current examples in the article, so that it doesn't portray caliche as nothing but vulgar slang. I would like for my changes to remain or, at least, to be included in the original article with the mention that caliche is not all vulgar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anaiglesias (talk • contribs) 04:26, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Venezuela

Hi. You sent me a message saying you "reverted" my last edit on Venezuela. In fact, all I did was remove the 'Italic' formatting which had been mistakenly applied to an entire paragraph, not change any of the content. On a second look at the page, it seems that the edit stands, so I'm not sure why I received that message since you don't appear to have done anything. Cheers. 86.132.218.204 10:16, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

FL Main page proposal

You either nominated a WP:FLC or closed such a nomination recently. As such, you are the type of editor whose opinion I am soliciting. We now have over 400 featured lists and seem to be promoting in excess of 30 per month of late (41 in August and 42 in September). When Today's featured article (TFA) started (2004-02-22), they only had about 200 featured articles and were barely promoting 20 new ones per month. I think the quality of featured lists is at least as good as the quality of featured articles was when they started appearing on the main page. Thus, I am ready to open debate on a proposal to institute a List of the Day on the main page with nominations starting November 1 2007, voting starting December 1 2007 and main page appearances starting January 1 2008. For brevity, the proposal page does not discuss the details of eventual main page content, but since the work has already been done, you should consider this proposal assuming the eventual content will resemble the current content at the featured content page. Such output would probably start at the bottom of the main page. The proposal page does not debate whether starting with weekly list main page entries would be better than daily entries. However, I suspect persons in favor of weekly lists are really voicing opinions against lists on the main page since neither TFA nor Picture of the day started as weekly endeavors, to the best of my knowledge. Right now debate seems to be among support for the current selective democratic/consensus based proposal, a selective dictatorial approach like that used at WP:TFA or a non-selective first in line/calendar approach like that used at WP:POTD. See the List of the Day proposal and comment at WP:LOTDP and its talk page.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 19:28, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Anthony Quinn

Please go to the Talk:Anthony Quinn page and say WHY you added the tags to the AQ article. Another user promptly removed them. IP4240207xx 20:39, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Danny Rivera

The text that was updated comes directly under the supervision of Danny Rivera's management staff. A copy of this biography is available at www.dannyrivera.com. Regarding the image copyright issue, we will proceed to upload an original and updated image. Please contact us if you have any questions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reiortiz (talk • contribs) 13:56, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

LaNicoya, please visit www.DannyRivera.com (make sure you spelled it correctly). It is our (Danny Rivera and staff) website. We appreciate your concern, but the information we are intending to update is correct and comes directly from us. Please, once again, contact us if you have any questions. This will be our last attempt to resolve this issue directly with you. Thank You. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reiortiz (talk • contribs) 14:13, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Featured List of the Day Experiment

There have been a series of proposals to initiate a Featured List of the Day on the main page. Numerous proposals have been put forth. After the third one failed, I audited all WP:FL's in order to begin an experiment in my own user space that will hopefully get it going. Today, it commences at WP:LOTD. Afterwards I created my experimental page, a new proposal was set forth to do a featured list that is strikingly similar to my own which is to do a user page experimental featured list, but no format has been confirmed and mechanism set in place. I continue to be willing to do the experiment myself and with this posting it commences. Please submit any list that you would like to have considered for list of the day in the month of January 2008 by the end of this month to WP:LOTD and its subpages. You may submit multiple lists for consideration.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:LOTD) 17:55, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the heads up--Zer0~Gravity ^{(Roger - Out)} 01:38, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

CIA Facts...

It was I who put back the figure of Black Cubans. You accused me of deleting tham... I think you should read things more carfeully. C.Kent87 (talk) 22:30, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't care what they have to do with the article... I made an honest mistake and tried to put back information that I thought was deleted by SamEv, because he's good for that. Case closed. C.Kent87 (talk) 22:49, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair enough. But, if black Cubans have nothing to do with this matter, don't mention them. The article is about White Latin Americans so i truly had no idea why you mentioned black Cubans. Hopefully this little incident will help you use the "preview" button and re-check what you ar doing. Either way, case closed. Have a nice day =) and a future merry Christmas.-- LaNicoya •Talk• 23:04, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

What I meant was the presence of more blacks means less whites in cuba..so to say, It was the wrong choice of words to use with you. I use my preview button, so stop preaching. This has never happend to me before and I regret that you were the one to find my mistake. Hopefully we won't need to discuss anything further. C.Kent87 (talk) 23:11, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

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