Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cuba/Archive 1

Archive 1

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team cooperation

Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Places WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 18:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Baseball in Cuba

If anyone knows anything about baseball in Cuba, get yourself over to the above page and add a fact or two. Thanks!--Zleitzen 22:32, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

FYI: Tourism apartheid in Cuba

Some people have been working on documenting issues related to South African apartheid. One major theme that developed is tourism apartheid. It has an article section here: Tourism apartheid in Cuba. Thoughts are invited. (Most people working on the apartheid related material are not experts in Cuba-related topics.) --Ben Houston 00:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

This happened in the USSR and happens in China too. It's how Communist governments handle foreign tourism for security/cultural exposure reasons. I think its a bit overboard with loadedness to call it apartheid though it does seem to go against the Cuban Constitution Bwithh 07:51, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Jorge Más Canosa

I was surprised to learn that Wikipedia didn't have an article on Jorge Más Canosa, a man who was arguably one of the most important Cubans in the United States. Right now the article is just a stub, but any contributions would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure somebody must know more about this man than me (I was too young to have met or heard of him). -- Luigi22 17:47, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Project directory

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 16:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Project banner

I noticed you didn't have a project banner, so I made one. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit, or, if you want to added assessment criteria or anything else to it and don't feel confident in your own ability to do so, let me know and I'll do what I can. Thank you. Badbilltucker 22:22, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Articles

I am not sure what that list is supposed to represent - it clearly isn't a complete list. -- Beardo 03:29, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm in the process of trying to create this Wikipedia:WikiProject Cuba/Cuba site map. Which I hope will contain links to many of the relevant articles. I hope to turn it into template to go on numerous project pages, user pages and maybe even articles.--Zleitzen 03:46, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

As usual you're ahead of me, Z ! -- Beardo 04:19, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Cinema of Cuba

This includes lists of names. Should they be alphabetical by forename or (first) surname ? Currently, directors are the latter, and actors are the former. -- Beardo 03:29, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Suggestions?

Does anyone have any suggestions on how we could improve this page?--Zleitzen 21:33, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards

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 20:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Jimbo to visit Cuba ?

See User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Greetings_from_Cuba.21.21.21 and User_talk:ZorphDark#It_would_please_me_greatly_to_visit_Cuba. -- Beardo 22:49, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Correct, I'm doing many negotiations in my university CUJAE and Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Universidad de La Habana for future Jimbo visit. He tells me that in few months, perhaps 6, he might visit us through an humanitarian project invitation. Possibly he performs a conference to students and cuban's wikipedians at university. ZorphDark ^<talk>

Cuba portal

I'm at present restricting my participation on this site but I've checked and noticed that Portal:Cuba needs a good looking at from other users. It was entered as a featured portal by me, but received a pasting by critics Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Cuba/archive1. Whatsmore a new user and apparently some sort of political activist for Oscar Elías Biscet seems to be changing things to his liking - removing Jose Marti quotes they don't like as "too Marxist" and making a substandard article the selected biography article.--Zleitzen 01:37, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Havana Club

Please see discussions about the future of the Havana Club page.--Zleitzen 08:56, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

External link

Here is an excellant [external link] about the Cuban rafters. Certainly worth a view and should be added to relevant pages.--Zleitzen 18:03, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Naming convention

Should we have a naming convention for cuban communities? Different countries have different standards throughout wikipedia, with "City, Country" or "Town, Province" being the more common. Many cuban communities have been moved form Community, Cuba to Community about six months back (where editors felt there was no need for disambiguation), but we never had any discussion about this. I would favour Community, Cuba, it has the advantage that articles are easily recognisible when they show up in broader categories. --Qyd 15:27, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Could you give examples to demonstrate. I'm not following you, Qyd.--Zleitzen 02:05, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about the delay. For example, Matanzas, Cuba would be easier to detect (by someone interested in Cuban topics) when browsing Category:Missing Encyclopedic Articles requests for expansion. Matanzas not so much. Other such categories would be those related to WP:GA, WP:FA, or those related to wikiprojects such as Category:WikiProject Lakes and so on. --Qyd 01:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Casa de las Américas

I have an interest in expanding the Casa de las Américas article. If anyone one could please provide me with sources from which to expand this article (Spanish language sources would be much appreciated as well) I would appreciate it.--Jersey Devil 05:31, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Will hopefully contribute at some point in the future Jersey.-- Zleitzen^(talk) 09:01, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Sorting Assessment of articles

I've made some changes to the template to allow for sorting and assessment of articles. You do it by adding |class=A|importance=Top}} to the {{WP Cuba tag on the talk pages, depending of course on whether the article is any good (which it probably isn't) or important (which it probably is). Get judging, scrutinising and assessing guys - further details are on the template.-- Zleitzen^(talk) 09:01, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Alejo Carpentier

• Hello, I added more info on the Alejo Carpentier article. More info needs to be added. I also tagged the article as part of the WikiCuba Project. The footnotes in the article need to be fix so they don't appear as repetative, but not removed since I borrowed a lot from a book and the writer needs to be referenced.Charleenmerced ^Talk 05:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)Charleenmerced

Great work, Charleenmerced.-- Zleitzen^(talk) 22:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

New Province infobox

(This was copied from my talk page.)-- Zleitzen^(talk) 22:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello my fellow WikiProject Cuba colleague! New infobox for administrative subdivisions is available and I am planning to implement it on Provinces of Cuba. Would you like to help me with adding it ? You can see new infobox in use e.g. in Midtjylland article. P.S. Only negative thing is that a clickable map of Cuban provinces can't be implemented to the infobox. - Darwinek 21:53, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Request for comment needed

I've initiated a request for comment here on one of our articles, Elian Gonzalez. Please add your thoughts.-- Zleitzen^(talk) 15:41, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Rumba and Rhumba

Whoever has written the article Rumba, an afro Cuban form of music based on drumming and chants, has got it confused with Rhumba a 1950s Cuban American form of jazz that is not the same thing, (Check this to confirm). The article Rumba therefore mixes the two in a way that is too difficult to extract on first glance. It needs to be rectified fast because its a major error on the part of wikipedia. Help would be welcomed.-- Zleitzen^(talk) 19:27, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Peer review

Hello. Editors are welcome to peer review an article I have written : Buena Vista Social Club which I hope will shortly be a candidate for Featured article. All comments are helpful.-- Zleitzen^(talk) 15:35, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to see peer review on Che Guevara. The argument has recently been made that because it's a featured article, it is illegitimate to place an NPOV dispute tag on it. Where does it say that FA status renders an article immune to criticism? --Uncle Ed 17:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Articles are not immune to criticism. That is what the talk page is there for. Adding a POV tag to any article without discussion is illegitimate, Ed. You should know that by now.-- Zleitzen^(talk) 17:38, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Bilateral relations discussion

I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ^{¿Cómo estás?} 18:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Latin cultures

Hello everyone! You may want to go to Latin cultures an participate in the article and discussion. There are a lot of disputed statements... The Ogre 12:31, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

List of Cuban birds

List of Cuban birds is a candidate for a featured list. Follow the links on the talk page.-- Zleitzen^(talk) 04:06, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Proposed merger

It has been proposed that the article José Martí as a translator be merged into the article José Martí. Any parties interested in participating in the discussion should feel free to do so here. John Carter 19:52, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

José Martí's place of birth

I have just returned Sr. Marti to Havana fro Mexico, where he had been born since 14 May, due to vandalism. That page is semi-protected at present, but I suspect that won't last much longer. (Three anons had pointed this error out on the talk page.) -- Beardo 05:22, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

El Senador

I think this should be moved to reflect its new name - but I am not sure what name to choose. See Talk:El Senador. -- Beardo 05:22, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Lista de Espera

What do you think - Lista de Espera or The Waiting List ? -- Beardo 03:25, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Remember your roots, but forget your language? For shame.

OK, folks, I've had it up to here with that. The title of the Marielita page is driving me nuts! Am I the only person, aside from the geezers at Domino Plaza, who remembers the actual term for the Mariel refugees anymore? Let's not humiliate the entire language on Wikipedia just because out parents didn't speak enough Spanish to us at home. Marielita (translation: Marielite) is a genderless noun, dammit! You don't give it a sex-change operation! I bet you all are the same ones who go to "el psiquiatro" when you're feeling blue, and who are just itching for the next election so you can finally get to vote for "la proxima presidenta"... lol *rolls eyes* --Succubus MacAstaroth 16:42, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Article request

This one is needed-*Germán Pedro Ibáñez, 79, Cuban guitarist and director of the Septeto Habanero. [1] (Spanish) Chris 20:05, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Castro, today's flavor of the day

Just letting you guys know that rumors of his apparent death have resulted in a massive content dispute, so any help with this is appreciated. - Caribbean~H.Q. 22:36, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

A nitpick for the Assessment page

A small nitpick for the Assessment page: I propose changing the description of "mid" importance to change the word "relatively" to something along the lines of "somewhat". While people often use "relatively" in this manner, the word actually implies that the item has that quality when compared to other typical items in the same category. That is, "relatively important" implies that, when compared to a typical article in this project, the article is important. But seeing as there are about as many Mid articles as there are Low articles, this isn't really the case.Mbarbier 17:19, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Top-High-Mid-Low-NA is the standard/established importance grading for wikiprojects. --Qyd 19:56, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Merge of Tourist apartheid into Tourism in Cuba

Opinions are welcome. Thank you. --victor falk 00:36, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Portal:Cuba

Hello everyone. The Cuban Portal has not been edited since early June, and has only received main contributions from one user, User:Zleitzen, who has stated that he/she is inactive for the foreseeable future (last edit on September 29, 2007, after no edits since July 23, 2007). The News section is completely outdated, although articles, pictures, and quotes are in a random quotation, so those aren't affected much. We need a dedicated user(s) who will take a little time of his/her week and update the page, by adding current news every few days and presenting articles, pictures, and quotes when good ones are found.

If the Portal isn't updated regularly, it may be automatically de-featured, since it may fail the FPO criteria #3(4): Featured portals that require maintenance and are not updated for three or more months are summarily demoted.

I'd offer myself for the job, but I'm already maintaining the Portal:Puerto Rico, and I'll be working on featuring other Portals soon. So, any volunteers? - Mtmelendez ^(Talk) 23:19, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Afd on an incorrectly titled article?

Please see:

• Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pilar Pili
• Pilar Pili

In trying to figure out if this person is notable, it appeared as if we should be searching other names besides "Pilar Pili" but I'm not a Cuba expert nor am I familiar with Spanish-language sources. Please feel free to join the AfD discussion and help us make the correct decision. Thanks, --A. B. ^(talk) 16:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Things that make me sad

While doing recent work on a Cuba related article, I noticed that that there are so many red links in List of colonial heads of Cuba while this exists. It made me really sad. Murderbike (talk) 13:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Raúl Castro

Raúl Castro has become a popular vandal target. Can you please add this article to your watchlists? Thanks. DoubleBlue (Talk) 17:55, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

1905 Cuba book on the internet

The 1905 book Standard Guide to Cuba: A New and Complete Guide to the Island of Cuba is available in its entirety on the internet and has some great public domain photos and text. Bebestbe (talk) 23:51, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Animated gif flag in project banner

Not seeing any consensus for adding the animated gif Cuban flag to this WikiProject's banner, either here or at Template talk:WP Cuba, I have restored to a non-animated version. If there, was indeed, consensus of which I was unable to find for this, by all means restore it. — Bellhalla (talk) 21:09, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Begin moved comment originally posted at Template talk:WP Cuba

I think the animated flag looks good, why put the other one ?  iDosh!  talk? 01:39, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

End moved comment.

Is there a project-wide consensus for this addition? I don't see it. I am not aware of any other WikiProjects with animated gifs in their project banners. The de facto consensus, if not an explicitly written one, seems to prefer non-animated images in WikiProject banners. Unless there is a project-wide consensus, I feel very strongly that it should be removed. My personal opinion is that it is tacky and cheapens the appearance of Wikipedia. Save this kind of stuff for MySpace or Geocities pages. — Bellhalla (talk) 03:47, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

• En wikipedia has a tradition of keeping things sober. I would vote for the non-animated svg. Additionally, a gif rendered larger than the original image (38 px) looks pixelated and choppy. --Qyd (talk) 01:05, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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Articles flagged for cleanup

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oh yes, that would be great. i have been trying to asses all the articles i can and the list is down to 183 i think. i would be very helpful if someone self helped me. -- iDosh!  talk? 20:14, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Havana busses

Is there anyone here who knows about Havana's busses. The section needs updating following the removal of the camellos, but I suspect that routes have changed as well. -- Beardo (talk) 03:51, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

www.guije.com

A lot of the geographical articles refer to this website. However, the website is talking about former municipios (pre-1976 ??), not the current position. For example, the Morón article listed 12 barrios, most of which are no longer part of Morón municipio. (Oddly, the source listed 13 - including Chambas - I guess someone spotted that is now separate). -- Beardo (talk) 04:32, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Formatting WikiProject Cuba

I had made some changes on format. Shall we contribute to give a best style to this project? Thanks... ZorphDark ^<talk>20:29, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

PLEASE HELP

To anyone who may know Comrade Granado / Cuban Govt.

I am trying to contact the Cuban Government / Comrade Fidel or Comrade Alberto Granado,

I am a 25 year old doctor from Kolkata, West Bengal, India and I consider Communism to be my relegion.

I am searching for this for long, but couldn't get any proper and valid , working email id or anything such.

I shall be thankful if anyone kindly informs me any valid contact information of any of them. Please convey my warmest wishes and regards to Comrade Alberto Granado on his birthday on the day after tomorrow.

Thanks and regards,

Dr. Kushal Banerjee

kushalb@no2ragging.org

Chekushal 15:42, 06 August 2007 (IST) 20:29, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Che Guevara Feature article review notice

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Article Cuba

Shouldn't we create a task force to make the Cuban article a FA? Right now, IMHO, is a big mess full information that is irrelevant or that belongs to other Cuban related articles. I am willing to help, but this topic can be hot since I can easily see that keeping the neutrality will be difficult. We will have people from the left and from the right, but if we respect each other's opinions this could be a great sample of cooperative team work. Anyone out there willing to participate? Miguel.mateo (talk) 02:39, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Cuba

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Help request: 65 Cuba-related articles needing geographical coordinates

Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Cuba, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Cuba, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Cuba articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:

1. Cotorro, Cuba
2. La Mansion
3. Los Cayuelos
4. Mausoleo Che Guevara
5. Meliá Cohiba Hotel
6. Nipe Bay
7. Plaza Mayor, Trinidad, Cuba

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 65 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

Why add coordinates?

By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?

The articles are all marked with {{coord missing}} tags, which need to be replaced with {{coord}} tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Please let me know if this is useful, or if you have any questions! -- The Anome (talk) 11:37, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

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New articles on ministers

There has been a flurry of new articles on the newly promoted ministers. Is someone automatically notable just by being a minister ? Are we aiming to have articles on every current (and former ?) minister ? -- Beardo (talk) 23:54, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletions (WP:PROD)

• 26 August Cuban Democratic Directorate (Directorio) (PROD by User:131.94.162.180; "...a non-governmental organization that works for freedom, democracy and human rights in Cuba ....") —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ceyockey (talk • contribs) 03:31, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

Corruption in Cuba AfD

Corruption in Cuba is up for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Corruption_in_Cuba. So far it's just me (the nominator) and the article's creator. More input would be appreciated. Cosmic Latte (talk) 11:00, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest

A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

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WP 1.0 bot announcement

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Cuban football team

There is a question at Talk:Cuba national football team about its World Cup participation. Specifically, the article says FIFA didn't accept Cuba's applications in 1954 and 1970, and the team withdrew in 1994. Does anyone here know why? -Rrius (talk) 20:26, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Internet in Cuba

Someone needs to start a copy of this article on the Spanish Wikipedia. WhisperToMe (talk) 21:50, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Cuba articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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Assesment

You have stated in your main wikiproject article, that you have assesed all cuban articles. Must of the cuban volleyball player, haven't been assesed, and some haven't been started. Check it out. Cuba women's national volleyball team Osplace 03:44, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:08, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

D.J.C.?

What does the acronym D.J.C. stand for in Cuban Spanish? Is it like Juris Doctor?--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 11:01, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Salsa music's FAR

I have nominated Salsa music for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. GamerPro64 (talk) 03:55, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Active

Is this project even active, the most important Cuban related articles are out of date, that includes even the main article, Cuba. --TIAYN (talk) 12:16, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Cuba_Libre#Requested_move

All input welcome. Cheers. ^walk victor falk ^talk 00:10, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Racism in Cuba

This article is in urgent need of improvement. It was proposed for deletion, which I declined, but despite definitely being notable (books, scholarly articles) it appears to be non-neutral and to have sourcing issues. Fences&Windows 02:18, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Internet in Cuba

The body of this entry says essentially nothing. I just fixed two dates, added a citation and external links to a lot of information on the topic. Is anyone else interested in or following the topic? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lpress (talk • contribs) 07:05, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

A Pair of Nuts: The Comedy Duo

This article seems to me more like a promotional piece by the actual parties involved. Very few if not any of the claims that are stated are cited. The whole article is basically a copy/paste of the "about" section of their website, which can be seen here:

http://nutscomedy.com/about

I also question the relevancy of them even having any sort of Wiki entry. Since there is barely any mention of them at all outside a local magazine. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acorrales13 (talk • contribs) 07:27, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Cuba article

Was just reading this article. The History section occupies 7:9 (page down ratio) compared to the rest of the article, that's nearly half the article. I seriously do not think that a B-class rating is appropriate. The article contains a much-too-large History section, a historical timeline which is confusing, overlapping, with blanks and contradictory information located in different areas, therefore impossible to truly assess inconsistencies, a few nice pictures, and an inappropriately large amount of detail on how health and happiness were so 'good' pre-revolution. Within the first paragraphs we're presented with an undue weight fringe theory WP:FRINGE regarding etymology which all boils down to a single author, presented with the weasle words "scholars state", which is not revealed by any sources that are not recounting original author. As it stands, this fringe theory is given equal weight WP:WEIGHT to accepted history. The Demographics section is also contradictory within and is overly long, tedious and opinionated, as is the Heathcare section, which again goes on about opinions on historical claims. The Government section again starts with history weaseling. In fact the entire article is constantly bouncing back and forth in chronology. A glaring omission is the lack of a section on Media and communications which would go a long way to focusing people's current "issues" and bad sentiment. Such a section could relieve the rest of all the weaseling regarding freedom of speech from all the other sections. Another problem is the treatment of past and done issues as "current" such as the imprisoning of journalists. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a newspaper, and facts need to be portrayed in their proper historical context and not continuously brought up as actuality. The journalist imprisonment factoids are 10 years old and half dead linked.

Overall this article is practically a poster child for weasel words WP:WEASEL

I propose downgrading the article to C-class. A visitor to this page learns practically nothing about Cuba, as it's writing styles are overwhelmed with editor opinions.--Tallard (talk) 20:27, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Article on Afro-Cuban Revolutionary Juan Gualberto Gómez Needed

Black Cuban revolutionary Juan Gualberto Gómez is one of Cuba's founding fathers, serving as a general in the war of independence against Spain, an anti-slavery and anti-imperialist activist and journalist, the secretary of the committee of consultations that drafted the Cuban constitution of 1901 (which also deserves an article of its own) and a powerful figure in the Cuban Senate. He said of the Platt Amendment "it has reduced the independence and sovereignty of the Cuban people to a myth."

That the Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport has its own article but its namesake, a Cuban founding father, does not is just weird! I'll be creating a Juan Gualberto Gómez article in the coming days, please collaborate with me. There is certainly no shortage of sources about him and his incredible life. --NickDupree (talk) 05:45, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

1901 Constitution of Cuba Callelinea (talk) 17:59, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Here is a link to the Cuban government article on him - http://www.ecured.cu/index.php/Juan_Gualberto_G%C3%B3mez Callelinea (talk) 18:08, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

I created the Juan Gualberto Gómez article! Please contribute sources and comment on Talk:Juan Gualberto Gómez to help me out. --NickDupree (talk) 07:05, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Juan Gualberto Gómez made the DYK and en.wikipedia's Main Page for July 8th and now headed for GA! NickDupree (talk) 03:43, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Any Interest in collaboration on an article about the Cuban Liberation Army

Any interest in collaboration to create an article on the Cuban Liberation Army? It founded the Cuban republic with its 1890s independence struggle but has no article! I'm bringing people together to work on drafting it here User:NickDupree/Cuban_Liberation_Army. I hope some of ya'll can help out. :) –NickDupree (talk) 03:43, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

     uno de los que a parece en el bote es JOSE R LA ROSA y vive en Reading PA 19601.

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Cuba will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Cuba's history, society and culture. 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) 23:22, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Merge needing comment

Please comment on a merge here: Talk:Radio y Televisión Martí D O N D E groovily Talk to me 06:09, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Category:Paralympic athletes of Cuba

Help please. I have fixed/improved names and sources in a few articles. Needs some more kind attention. In ictu oculi (talk) 16:49, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

2005 USPostal ChaChaCha Stamp.jpg

image:2005 USPostal ChaChaCha Stamp.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 03:41, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been featured

Hello, Please note that Coffee production in Cuba, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by Theo's Little Bot at 02:52, 24 July 2013 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

John Lennon Statue in Cuba.png

image:John Lennon Statue in Cuba.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 03:51, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Evangelina Cosio y Cisneros

The above article has been waiting in the Afc for more than two weeks. Would anyone like to review it? —Anne Delong (talk) 16:42, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Aymée Nuviola

Dear Cuba experts: Here is a submission at Afc which has been waiting a long time for a review. Can anyone here help? —Anne Delong (talk) 19:16, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Looks like it was a copyright violation anyway. Sorry! —Anne Delong (talk) 04:19, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Havana the only one?

English_exonyms#Cuba. Is Havana really the only "English" name given to any Cuban town? Can someone check this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:41, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Tony Cortes

A large chunk of an article on a Cuban in the US, Tony Cortes, is about the misadventure of his wife in Cuba in 2011. Has the misadventure ended? We're not told. It's all very exciting, or then again perhaps not. Maybe somebody who's interested and who can read Spanish sources can take a look at this. -- Hoary (talk) 14:14, 28 January 2014 (UTC)

Nelson Villalobo Ferrer

Could somebody please look at this stub and improve it? It's been heavily tagged for various issues for years now. Bearian (talk) 21:32, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 29/04

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Freedom Flights. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 12:48, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses

Pleas add information about this country to this articles. --Kaiyr (talk) 17:08, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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WikiProject X is live!

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Valeriano Weyler, 1st Duke of Rubí listed at Requested moves

A requested move discussion has been initiated for Valeriano Weyler, 1st Duke of Rubí to be moved to Valeriano Weyler. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:33, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!

• What? Wiki Loves Pride, a campaign to document and photograph LGBT culture and history, including pride events
• When? June 2015
• How can you help?

  1.) Create or improve LGBT-related articles and showcase the results of your work here

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Draft:Alejandro Gortazar

Hello Cuba experts. Here's an old draft about a Cuban photographer. Are the references in Spanish appropriate? Is this a notable subject?—Anne Delong (talk) 14:51, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Get Cuban Thaw featured!!

The Cuban Thaw is an event of singular historical import, for Cuba and possibly the world. Surely this can get whipped up to featured quality in time for the July 20 embassy opening extravaganza, when it'll be in Wikipedia's front page, in the "in the news" section. Blessings!! Pandeist (talk) 06:14, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Created new article - Cuban-born musician Israel Kantor

I've created a new article on the Cuban-born musician Israel Kantor.

Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Israel Kantor.

Thank you,

— Cirt (talk) 01:16, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Coffee production in Cuba, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:28, 23 November 2015 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

List of islands of Cuba

I just started List of islands of Cuba and am looking for documents that show things like coords, area, population, etc. Can anyone help? Many thanks. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:05, 22 August 2015 (UTC)

Anna Frodesiak Please consider using Garmin Bluechart products, NOAA navigation charts, or any number of commercially available charts.Nemo Impune (talk) 14:05, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you kindly, Nemo Impune. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:53, 2 December 2015 (UTC)

Review of Havana Club?

Havana Club was tagged as start-class in 2007, and hasn't had a review since then, with pretty much a complete rewrite since then (a lot of it by me). I think it is something closer to B-class (and maybe even a GA candidate if the "Grades" section were better), but I'm admittedly not an expert in article grading/review. Would anyone like to work with me on it to review and grade it on the quality scale? Thanks in advance. —Luis (talk) 06:44, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Talk:Elian Gonzalez custody battle#Requested move 22 April 2016

I invite you to the ongoing RM. --George Ho (talk) 19:41, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

FLC for Latin Grammy Hall of Fame

I nominated the article for Latin Grammy Hall of Fame for FLC. The Latin Grammy Hall of Fame contains several recordings done by Cuban artists inducted into the hall of fame. I'd appreciate thee feedback! Erick (talk) 01:38, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Merge discussion at Talk:Premiership of Fidel Castro

Please see the discussion concerning whether Premiership of Fidel Castro and Presidency of Fidel Castro should merged together into a single article. Thanks.--Nevé–selbert 02:00, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Should it be split or renamed?

I believe Jineterismo should either be split and have a solo article called Prostitution in Cuba or renamed Prostitution in Cuba to discuss this please go to Talk:Jineterismo. Dwanyewest (talk) 16:50, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

Cannabis in Cuba?

Are there any project members who are interested in creating Cannabis in Cuba as part of the upcoming 420 Collaboration? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 04:09, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

Added Cuban coup d'etat of 1933

I added Cuban coup d'etat of 1933 as a translation of es:Golpe de Estado en Cuba de 1933, but the original is very weak, and misleading or wrong in places, so the English version needs a lot of work. Collaborators are welcome to join in. Mathglot (talk) 10:25, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Added One Hundred Days Government

I added One Hundred Days Government as a translation of es:Gobierno de los Cien Días, but the original is weak, unreferenced, incomplete, and doesn't measure up in style and encyclopedic quality, so the English version needs a lot of work. Collaborators are welcome to join in. Mathglot (talk) 10:30, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

People might also be interested to review the new article ABC (Cuba) and the expanded article Directorio Estudiantil Universitario, as well as the mostly unchanged but rather important article Republic of Cuba (1902–1959). Meanwhile, if I can summarize a question asked at Talk:Sergeants' Revolt: which is the best page for a detailed description of the overthrow of Machado, the mediation of Sumner Welles, and the installation of a coalition government headed by Céspedes? Thanks, groupuscule (talk) 23:30, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to edit

Hi, I invite you to edit and expand this article United States involvement in regime change in Latin America that would certainly benefit from more editors. Greetings. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 05:32, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

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Castro's Havana Declarations

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see Talk:Fidel Castro#Havana Declarations
All Havana Declaration, First Declaration of Havana, etc. references to them are redlinks, and this should be fixed.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:07, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Why is Tupac and his mother on the political asylum list?

What proof or evidence is there that Tupac Shakur and his mother were granted political asylum in Cuba? I only see references/sources for his Aunt Assata Shakur. Why are they on this list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CJBay (talk • contribs) 00:38, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
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For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:35, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Cuba libre vs Rum and Coke

Please comment on the move discussion at Talk:Rum and Coke#Requested move 5 November 2018. Kendall-K1 (talk) 03:39, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Double map in infoboxes

I noticed that the infobox of every municipality has 2 maps: a locator map and pushpin map. The locator map more than adequately indicates its location (actually better than the pushpin map). There is no additional benefit to the pushpin map and I propose to remove them from the infoboxes.

Also, I propose to standardize the map size to the default 250px value, which is more than sufficient. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 13:10, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

• If no comments, I will start implementing this in November. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 13:54, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

 Done, and removed Cuban flag in infobox as well, per WP:INFOBOXFLAG. -- P 1 9 9  ✉ 18:06, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

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Discussion on historyofcuba.com on the reliable sources noticeboard

There is a discussion on the reliability of historyofcuba.com on the reliable sources noticeboard. If you're interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § historyofcuba.com. — Newslinger talk 08:00, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

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• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• Diversity winner
• Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

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Plaza del Vapor, Havana RFI

If this is not right place to post this notice please advice!

Anybody in this group was a resident in or know the Plaza del Vapor? Knowledge of the floor plan-section of the Plaza del Vapor? How did the circulation work, at what level was the courtyard (vertically) located, how deep were the vendor's stalls, how many stairs and their locations to the residences, etc? It appears the stalls were shallow (15 feet?) and what were those balconies above, to the residences? If you have ANY INFORMATION regarding the building I would really appreciate if you could contact me. Why was it razed? Do you have any picures? Thank you!!! ovA_165443 (talk) 01:02, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Article tagging and assessment

I'm going to be working on migrating the existing WikiProject Caribbean/Cuba tags to {{WikiProject Cuba}} where appropriate and adding assessments. Any help is appreciated. See Category:WikiProject Caribbean articles using Cuba parameter for articles that need to be migrated. Kaldari (talk) 04:46, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.

Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
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• Language Winners - up to $100*

We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)

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Cuban culture and yank tanks

I have started an article in my sandbox and I am getting ready to publish it on November 19th. It pertains to pre 1960 American made automobiles in use in Cuba. The article shows a direct correlation to Cuban culture and the current economy through these automobiles."wesselm3" (talk) 22:58, 14 November 2020 (UTC) WESSELM3

Plaza del vapor

Plaza del Vapor vendors. 1904

I am interested in the layout (plan/section) of the Plaza del Vapor, Havana: interior circulation (stairs, halls, etc), size of apartments, connection between the commercial and residential, etc. How did the circulation in plan work, at what level was the courtyard (vertically) located, how deep were the vendor's stalls, how many stairs were there and their locations to the residences, was there a connection between the businesses and the courtyard, was there a basement, etc? It appears that the stalls were shallow (15 feet?), what were those balconies above? Please, you can either contact me through Wikipedia or my personal email: architecture10009@gmail.com I am also interested in the types of businesses that were in the Plaza. Thank you. ovA_165443 (talk) 20:52, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

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Church of San Francisco de Paula (Havana) Alameda de Paula

Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus 2019KB (talk) 16:19, 11 April 2020 (UTC)

I wrote an article on that church a couple of years ago Iglesia de San Francisco de Paula, Havana. :: ovA_165443 (talk) 21:04, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana

Demolition date of La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana? If anyone has been inside of the building and can document with a sketch, I'll be glad to do an Autocad plan. ovA_165443 (talk) 21:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

Charles Edward Magoon at FAR

I have nominated Charles Edward Magoon for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. RetiredDuke (talk) 13:40, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Cyclura nubila

I have nominated Cyclura nubila for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 15:45, 5 July 2021 (UTC)

Feedback requested at Talk:2021 Cuban protests

Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:2021 Cuban protests/Archive 4#RfC on Authoritarianism as a cause of protests. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 16:40, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Indaba 2021 is here!

Hosted by the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, the first ever virtual Wiki Indaba conference is taking place online from the 5th to the 7th of November 2021 under the theme Rethink + Reset : Visions of the future.

Wiki Indaba 2021 is a unique opportunity to come together to build the capacity of African Wikimedians both within the continent and the diaspora to foster the growth of the coverage and our involvement in Wikimedia projects.

The call for submissions is open, please submit your session proposal either as a presentation, panel discussion, lightning talk, or workshop before September 24th 2021.

Most importantly, we would like to have you at the conference, please register here to get your free ticket and spread the word to your community members.

Looking forward to seeing you and hearing you speak at the conference.

Geoffrey Kateregga (talk) 23:45, 16 September 2021 (UTC) - On behalf of the Wiki Indaba 2021 Local Organizing Committee

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

You can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

RFC on Modern Taino Identity

I'd appreciate your input on this topic to resolve some long disputed issues about modern Taino movements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Taíno#Request_for_Comment_on_Modern_Taino_Identity Poketama (talk) 22:53, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

Recent edits by MrDarygo1343 (talk · contribs)

Several Cuba-related articles have been edited recently by MrDarygo1343 (talk · contribs) (and there are similar edits by 47.201.35.199 (talk · contribs · WHOIS)). Some of the edits seem like unobjectionable tidying, but others (see, for example, the histories of José Antonio Aponte and Aponte conspiracy) involve major unreferenced changes that seem to be introducing false material that doesn't align with reliable sources. I have reverted some of these edits, but I was hoping that someone with more familiarity with the subject matter could take a look at these contributions and decide what else, if anything, needs to be reverted or fixed. The same editor has also edited the Spanish-language versions of some of the articles. —ShelfSkewed Talk 17:05, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Well, as I was writing this, the editor I named was blocked and all their edits reverted—so, never mind, I guess? Some of the IP editor's edits are still current, though.—ShelfSkewed Talk 17:11, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani#Requested move 25 September 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani#Requested move 25 September 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 10:50, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

That probably was cryptic... why do we care about that? This RM involves about 50 state funeral articles, including at least one that is related to this WP. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:09, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:55, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Angolan Civil War

Angolan Civil War has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:41, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Elections in Cuba

An RFC is running at Talk:Elections in Cuba on whether to change the lede sentence. You are encouraged to take part in this RFC. Robert McClenon (talk) 05:11, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon

Hello WikiProject Cuba:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 12:54, 21 September 2023 (UTC)