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[edit] What is the nationalism?
Today in Mexico this word is too used and maybe is boried to talk about. Ernest Gellner (Sociedad y Desarrolllo en Mèxico, Guzmàn Nora, Mèxico: Edit. Castillo, 2002), says that someone belongs to a Nation if anyone has the same believes, the same culture, the same territory. Nevertheles this characteristcs don`t apply to some nations in the world. Particularly about Mexico, we are many Mexicos. Is not the same, a person who lives in the coast comparative with anotther who lives in the monuntain or in the Lacandona forest in south of Mèxico. Sometimes we think nationalism is love our national flag, o to sing the mexican Himn o to defend our borders. I don`t Know if someone in Mexico believes in, but in other nations the nationalism is to be a very good citizen and defend so the national believes. Today in the Congress of Mexico the congesists are discussing about the Energy Reform, specially those about the PEMEX, but the left brand in the congress is preparing a very big protest in the streets with unique goal to defend the national affairs. What tdo you Think? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Filiberto022 (talk • contribs) 11:01, February 1, 2008
[edit] WikiProject Mexico: Articles of unclear notability
Hello,
there are currently 24 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:03, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Battle Casualties
I want to know about the actual battle casualties of some of the major battles of US-Mexican War 1846-1848. It seems that there are some questions about the casualty numbers in the American sides of the battles. For instance, I have been reading that in the Battle of Contreas the American casualties were 60, but in the recent Wilkapedia section it was 300. I wondered why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.99.0.56 (talk) 18:46, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] ERROR ON BIOGRAPY OF FERANANDO ARCE
HI, I JUST WANTH TO REPORT AN ERROR ON THE BIOGRAPY OF FERNANDO ARCE (SANTOS LAGUAN FUTBOL PLAYER, MEX.) HI BORN IN TIJUANA BAJA CALIFORNIA MEXICO, NOT ENSENADA BAJA CALIFORNIA, ENSENADA IS 100 MILES FROM TIJUANA, THANK YOU.
OSBALDO V. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.170.11.5 (talk) 00:04, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested
Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 13:32, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] FritzBot and ongoing attempt to document Mexican municipalities
There is a lively discussion about the proposal to have a bot create articles for all of the worlds documented towns and villages, see Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/FritzpollBot. There are already a LOT of responses on this page and I have only scanned the various comments. I tend to be in favor. However, this may affect my use of Wikipedia for my English classes as such a bot would create a ton of articles about Mexican towns and villages... whether such have municipal status or not. If such bot does go forward and do this, I would really like to see some kind of consensus about whether to combine town/municipality articles or not. After struggling with the issue and with my students, I really do think that in most cases, especially dealing with central and southern Mexico (which I am more familiar with), combining the two is the most logical choice, as for many, either the town is the only community of any real size (like most cases in Oaxaca) or conversely, the city and the municipality are co-extensive. As for naming convention, naming such combined articles seems to be best done under the town/village's name (most have the same name, at least partially but where the are different, the town name would be more distinctive in most cases... and the bot is going to create a page with the town/village's full name anyway. For towns/municipalities that have the same common name (like Atizapán or Acatlán), disambiguation pages will serve.
Another issue is standardizing infoboxes... I would like to see one for towns with municipal status and towns/villages without such. Ive made a first attempt at such at the Acambay, Mexico State page, though you will have to see it in edit mode to see all the information I think needs to be in there. I have not created one for non-municipal towns/villages but such should include a line stating which municipality it belongs to. As much as I would like my students over the following semesters make a large contribution to documenting all of Mexico's 2500 some-odd municipalities (and then go on to non-municipal towns/villages) I really need a set of examples for them to follow. My experience with the past semester strongly convinced me of the need for this!
As the proposal is looking for feedback from the various Wikiprojects that would be affected, we should know what we are in for.
I am posting a similar message to Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes.Thelmadatter (talk) 14:43, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
