Talk:Spanish Wikipedia

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Is Spanish wikipedia written in Mexican spanish or Spain style Spanish~??

Mexican Spanish is only one variety of the Latin American Spanishes, and standard written Spanish prose doesn't seem to be particularly different in the Hispanophone world. Nevertheless, the question is interesting, information from the corresponding Spanish article:
Los artículos se nombran según el uso más común del español y, en su redacción, se tratan de evitar localismos 
para que cualquier hispanohablante pueda entenderlos sin dificultad.

(I don't know Spanish perfectly, but an estimated rough translation would be:)

The articles are named according to the usage most common in Spanish, and in editing, it's attempted to
avoid "localisms" so that each Spanish speaker may understand them without difficulty.

As a digression, the Portuguese Wikipedia appears to follow local standards indiscriminately and varyingly depending on who happened to wrote the section:

Portuguese articles can contain small variations of writing, as European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese 
have minor variations in vocabulary and usage. Articles can contain written characteristics of 
one or the other variant depending on who wrote the article.

惑乱 分からん 00:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

It seems to me they do it the same way that the English Wikipedia is done. Eran of Arcadia 16:13, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Neutral?

Please read Wikipedia:Neutral point of view.

A few excerpts that explain why the tag was put in place:

Assert facts, including facts about opinions — but do not assert the opinions themselves A good way to build a neutral point of view is to find a reputable source for the piece of information you want to add to Wikipedia

An article, whose name is the Dictators of Wikipedia, is too biased to be considered a serios reference. It's not fair to state that people are "not happy" if you don't include the reasons why the Spanish Wikipedia has adopted some policies which are more strict than other languages. Also, is there a published statistical study of how many people have left the Spanish wiki because of this? I'm sorry to tell you that the number of articles does not necessarily reflect the level of satisfaction with the Wikipedia (unless, as I said before, a study is made and published by a reputable source). Just my two cents. --Forgotten736 14:33, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

It is more neutral now. The "best" attempts for criticism on es.wp are things such Dictadores de Wikipedia... Neutrality of an article is it not the same that neutrality of their source, moreover, that link is clairly marked as an oppositor site. Bye. Lin linao 14:49, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
How can it be neutral if it has been written not only by wikipedians of the Spanish Wikipedia, but also by Administrators of the Spanish Wikipedia. What kind of NPOV is this?. It's biased. This should be as in WP:BLP using WP:VER, not autobiography.--62.57.161.72 12:31, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Semi-protected

Article has been semi-protected for two days due to Colbert-related vandalism. P.S. Jimbo was right, we do watch Colbert.--Jersey Devil 04:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Criticism section by Antur lacks logic

The criticism section by Antur is incoherent. What is the logic of saying that Spanish wikipedia bans bots for the creation of stubs when 40% of the articles are stubs? It seems that the policy has failed to achieve the aimed quality. Yet, having 40% of stub index is presented in this article as a success.--tequendamia 11:58, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

It is not incoherent, it is just incomplete. It fails to mention that in spite of the informal policy against the massive creation of stubs, many users are creating semi-automatically thousands of stubs of cities and towns via template substitution. ---- Fernando Estel · (Talk: here- commons- es) 14:37, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Who will put END to Spanish administrators arbitrarity???" & "Is that O.K.or it's WP:COI?" sections removed

I am removing this thread and endorse the removal of the previous thread. They not directed towards making edits to the article on the Spanish Wikipedia. Talkpages should not contain extended discussion (even on-topic) discussing the merits of the article subject. This is not the place to discuss conduct issues on es.wiki - that should be done as part of the appropriate dispute resolution process on that wiki. Please restrict yourselves in future to discussing the content of the article and potential additions/removals/changes in its content. Protracted discussions about users' conduct on es.wiki will be removed. WjBscribe 17:55, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Thaks. They're posting links to yet-to-be processed arbitration cases, as if there was already a final veredict. -- drini [meta:] [commons:] 19:49, 14 July 2007 (UTC)