Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Colombia#Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project

Please see this new stub and its talk page, Talk:Héctor Gutiérrez Pabón. Is his last name Gutiérrez Pabón or Pabón? My understanding is that Gutiérrez is his patronymic and Pabón is his matronymic. Also, please rate his importance. Please ping me. Bearian (talk) 17:39, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

File:Information.svg There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Kuna language#Requested move 25 February 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 09:33, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Hello. First of all sorry for my English. I am currently writing my thesis on this subject, and I have trouble switching to a different style than my usual one, so I can't improve the subject myself out of fear of being wrongly accused of plagiarism (or of simply using Wikipedia instead of doing my own research on current academic consensus). However, I can provide the necessary sources for the improvement of pages relating to the Muisca confederation: All of them are publicly accessible and I hope a devoted editor has the time and energy to read them, and then to change the Wikipedia page(s) on the Muisca for the better. Indeed, there have been many changes in Muisca scholarship recently (this does not mean that the traditional historical narratives are necessarily wrong). Here are the sources, they will contextualise everything and are fairly easy to read: https://www.banrepcultural.org/biblioteca-virtual/credencial-historia/numero-44/los-senores-muiscas (for this link you will have to refuse options for it to work); https://www.academia.edu/22398553/Mercados_poblamiento_Muiscas ; and https://sites.pitt.edu/~ccapubs/pdfdownloads/PITTmem09-Langebaek_1995.pdf (the last one will take some time loading). I know this demand might be bizarre, but it comes from the heart. It hurts seeing niche subjects cite almost only short museum pages/blogs/tourism pages instead of the detailed studies that exist about the muisca just as they do about the Aztec and Inca. I don’t have much time to argue about it a lot, and as I said I am not able to do the changes (big) myself (though believe me, I would love to, and I will probably one day). If a devoted user speaking basic Spanish and English with the time and energy necessary would have the kindness to read the three sources, I will be eternally grateful. There is MUCH more to this than 2 studies and a short article, but this can be a good way to improve Wikipedia by being informed about the muisca. After having finished, I am sure the editor in question will have the exact same eagerness as I have to improve Wikipedia pages related to the muisca. Maybe other editors with knowledge of niche subjects know what I am talking about. Kind regards, 80.187.115.196 (talk) 05:06, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

:Thank you so much for the sources. I empathize with your sentiment; I also edit Wikipedia with a goal of improving content and source quality for Colombia-related articles specifically. Language barriers and undercoverage sadly contributes to poor quality on subjects focused on non-english speaking/global south countries. I am a committed editor, native english speaker, and decent spanish speaker. Your comment is well-timed, as I am a current student who will finish the school year soon, so I have the time to go through these. I hope others will join me. ♥ Mason7512 (talk) 13:57, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Hello. Project members are invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It will be held from Monday June 16 - Sunday July 13. There is $3338 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning some vouchers to help you buy books for future content, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for your project, sign up if interested.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:35, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

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WikiProject Colombia, the Developing Countries WikiContest will be returning for a second year, and sign-ups are now open! The contest will run from 1{{nbsp}}July to 30{{nbsp}}September, and the objective remains the same: improve as many articles relating to developing countries as you can to help fight systemic bias on Wikipedia.

In other news, we have a new face on the coordinator team this year: last year's sixth-place finisher, {{user|Arconning}}! The coordinators would like to extend a sincere thanks to {{user|Ixtal}}, who is leaving the team, without whom the contest would not exist. After feedback from contestants last year, the scoring rules are undergoing some modifications; the new rules and a summary of the changes made will be posted to the contest talk page shortly.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page, use the {{tl|@DCWC coordinators}} template, or contact one of the coordinators: {{user|Arconning}}, {{user|sawyer777}}, or {{user|TechnoSquirrel69}}. (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove this talk page from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 12:15, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

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