Wikipedia talk:WikiProject United States/Hispanic and Latino Americans task force/Mexican-American task force

message: Moved from my talk page
Maybe you, me, Tony the Marine and  should think about making a Mexican American/ChicanoWikipedia:WikiProject? We have a template started, we have a series of articles and several of us are interested. Is this the next step? Please reply here, if you don't mind and we can point this discussion out to the others. Joaquin Murietta 03:59, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Totally.  Tony the Marine recommends I get in contact with Vizcarra, and there are a few others who consistently work on Mexican and Chicano topics we should invite. One concern: if we all have similar points of view, there may be danger of an underlying POV in the series.  It's just that some Chicano issues are touchy (the border, illegal immigration, police brutality, gangs, etc.) and we should try to be careful to adhere to NPOV.  Maybe we should invite some editors that can provide other perspectives, like contributors to the Minuteman Project article for example? I don't know if it's really that good of an idea, but I thought I'd run it by whoever is interested. But I'm definitely interested in a project. The template provides some organization, and I've got my list going, but it would do us some good to discuss some of the issues regarding writing on these topics.--Rockero 04:15, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: de acuerdo. Esp. the NPOV. We want to produce solid, well-written, encyclopedic articles. I posted on Tony's page and a few others just now. All these articles have gotten better due to the collaboration, and the DYK articles get more attention and improve. Joaquin Murietta 04:17, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Check this out: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ethnic_groups.--Rockero 09:15, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Is it time to make this a Wikiproject?

message: *Are we all cool with the name of this project? If so, ONWARD! Joaquin Murietta 21:13, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm actually partial to changing thename to Chicano/Mexican-American --Bfraga 02:32, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

text: I think so too. It's true that we use the term "Raza" in the United States to refer to ourselves as Chicanos or Mexican Americans, but in the rest of the world (English and Spanish-speaking), Raza means Latinoamerica.  Mexican-American/Chicano is better.--Rockero 03:40, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Maybe to match the  Template? --Bfraga 20:59, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to change the name in 2 days unless someone has objections. It seems that we're all in agreement on this, right? The new name I propose is Chicanos/Mexican-Americans. --Bfraga 21:36, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Mexican-American/Chicano is better.  The problems with the Chicano page show that there is a great deal of ambiguity and confusion regarding the term, and I think more people (worldwide) will be more familiar with the term Mexican American (and therefore put it into search engines).--Rockero 02:49, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: sounds good --Bfraga 04:01, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

text: We're both in favor, Joaquin says he doesn't care, Pozole hasn't said anything, and Antonio is somewhat deferring to our expertise on the issue, so I see no need to wait.--Rockero 04:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Mexican-Americans/Chicanos or Mexican-American/Chicano? --Bfraga 05:37, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

text: There doesn't appear to be any other WikiProjects on specific ethnic or minority groups yet, otherwise I would have just recommended following precedent.  As a result, I'd have to say go plural.  It just seems clearer and to make more sense.--Rockero 06:49, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved. I renamed some other things related to the project (such as the  Stub Template), but categories need to me merged too. --Bfraga 18:35, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Onward

message: Because of the slash in the name of the project, it makes it difficult to use a tool like the assement. :-( can we change the hypen in the name? User:Evrik
*Better yet, why don't we broaden it to something like Wikipedia:WikiProject Latino? --evrik 18:42, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The name ... again

message: Should I just fill it in (Goals, Tasks, etc.) or discuss additions here first?--Rockero 17:57, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Filling in the Project page

message: *First we need to define the scope of the project.  Are we concentrating on Mexican American topics?  Or are we including Mexico as well?  How about American and Mexican Indians?  And what about the rest of Latin America?  Is it going to be ethnically-based?  Or culturally- or historically-based?  Depending on what we decide, we should name the project accordingly, and then we can start filling in some of the tasks, etc.--Rockero 18:12, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I feel we need to concentrate on Chicano/Mexican-American topics, but I've already made that somewhat clear. This includes topics of Native Mexican culture, especially as manifested through Chicanismo (an example outside of Chicanismo would probably be curanderismo, which has heavy historical ties to Mexicans living in the U.S.). I feel it is valid to state that Mexican-American is an ethnicity distinct from Mexican and American cultures. I feel it can be both culturally and historically based, as history is a component of culture. What do you think? --Bfraga 07:16, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: OK it looks like you're with Joaquin and myself.  I agree with both of your points.  For one, lo chicano tends to emphasize the aspects of Mexican culture that are the most rasquachi, "folk", "authentic", and indigenous.  I'd add folklorico and the influence of "los tres grandes" on the aesthetic of the Chicano art movement to that list.  Secondly, Mexican American is a distinct minority in the U.S. with its own history, culture, art, literature, scholarship, and cosmology.  Good to see we see eye to eye on this.--Rockero 08:04, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

text: It should go under "Tasks", I believe.  Only the Mexican American section, please.--Rockero 01:56, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: To Do

message: Can we better define the separate meanings of these two categories? They seem to be treated now as synonyms, with both applied to many articles. :Category:La Raza is a subcategory of :category:Mexican Americans then articles should not be in both categories. My initial impression is that :category:Mexican Americans should be for Mexican American people and groups or people, and :category:La Raza should be for concepts, dialects, institutions, etc. Relevant guidelines would be Wikipedia:categorization policy and Wikipedia:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality. Any thoughts? -Willmcw 22:45, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I was meaning to ask Joaquin about that.  What say, bandit? Will's got a point, but I kinda wonder why the categorization is being applied whil we're still considering renaming the project?--Rockero 02:33, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories: La Raza & Mexican Americans 

message: Where can we place additional suggested articles on the project? There are a couple that I think would warrant inclusion such as:
*Sal Castro
*Raul Ruiz
*Royal Chicano Air Force
*Pedro Gonzalez
*Lemon Grove Incident
:There is already an RCAF article, but it is stubby (unless it got deleted).  I've just been adding all the red links to the Tasks list, even those from articles others have started. (Pedro Gonzalez is already on it- I think he has his middle initial on the list).  If you like, we can either take my name off the top or make a separate list, but I see no reason to break it up by contributor.  Maybe we should rank the list in order of priority though?--Rockero 16:11, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your constructive criticism.  We'll look into this.--Rockero 06:14, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Ditto to first person. Question is, do we really want people from the world to know our criminals as bad as our image is in front of everyonie else? 've come to question that mysel-f a lot, unless the criminal has had historic significance about changing a law, for example.  Like some guy in Puerto Rico I am thinking about writing about, his death may change a law. "Antonio RexSex Martin" 2:24, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Lists

message: *See relevant discussion at Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion
You may vote on the Project stubs up for deletion here:  Joaquin Murietta 14:18, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I should inform you that I've relisted ,  and  at WP:SFD. Please comment. Conscious 14:30, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub templates and categories up for deletion

message: Check out Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 January 11#Mexican American singers.  I wish someone would let us know when they nominate a category that obviously falls under our project like this.  Lucky I found it.  Please, express yourselves.--Rockero 03:04, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cantantes

message: I'm purporting to translate Xicano related articles to the Korean Language Wikipedia. At the very start of the translation, an admin started changing 멕시칸-아메리칸 (just a korean phonetical transliteration of "Mexican-American") to 멕시코계 미국인 ("United States Citizens of Mexican Branch")
I am of the opinion that American hyphenated identities should not be translated in the korean language as "US Citizens of X Branch". (Yes, I do have a beef with "Korean-American" being translated as "한국계 미국인", meaning "US Citizens of South Korean Branch", as it shows a terrible lack of understanding about the interrelations of race, identity politics and distinction of nation and ethnicity on behalf of peninsular koreans.. but that's for later)
Anyway, the reason the korean admin is suggesting the change to "US Citizens" is because they already have a series of "US Citizens of X Branch" for a bunch of nationalities. (Bulgarian, Russian, Japanese, and so on) And I responded that even when "Mexican American", without the hyphen, may correpond to "US Citizen..", it was not the case for "Mexican-American", which was a hyphenated identity, for godsake. Then, the admin pointed out the in the english wikipedia, from which I'm translating, Mexican-American redirects to Mexican American. Ugh.
So what does this come to? Let's either have a section under Mexican-American that explains differences between the hyphenated and non-hyphenated ones, as well as other terms that outsiders may wrongly apply over the group. It would also be great to stick with either one of the usages, hyphenated or not hyphenated. As I'm not as familiar with Mexican-American identity politics as with their latino counterpart, I'm submitting the request here.
En solidaridad, --Yonghokim 05:11, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All right, this is a little bit tough.  It looks like all the "Ethnic-American" articles are unhyphenated.  This appears to be a Wikipedia convention.  I think the designation of "United States Citizens of Mexican Branch" is particularly problematic, because of the sheer quantities of us who live here who are not actual citizens (undocumented immigrants, permanent residents, people on temporary visas, etc.)  As you can tell from the content of just this page, the question of race/ethnicity, nationality, and identity is a contentious one even within the Mexican American community.  May I suggest leaving the title of the Korean article "United States Citizens of Mexican Branch" in order to maintain consistency there, and then adding in a paragraph that explains the relationship between ethnicity and identity in the U.S., and that also explains the problems with the use of the word "citizen" and the reason the article remains titled so.  As far as hyphenation consistency throughout the wikipedia, it appears that it is going to be problematic.  It seems to me that, when used as an adjective, grammatically, it should be hyphenated.  Likewise, when used as a noun, the hyphen isn't grammatically necessary, but may be politically so.  I don't think there's an easy answer to this one.  Finally I want to thank you for translating these articles.  It would probably take me a long time to learn Korean, so if you didn't do it I don't know who would.  Just out of curiosity, do you know if they have access to Wiki in North Korea?--Rockero 17:50, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  hyphenation: Mexican-American vs Mexican American 

message: We now have  horizontal and vertical infoboxes Some articles look better with one or the other. Not both! Joaquin Murietta 12:18, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like the idea of having two templates. It allows some flexibility. If you guys would take a look at my new horizontal one here to seee if you approve--I was a little hasty last time in switching and I apologize.--Rockero 00:00, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Infobox Templates 

message: What do you guys think about implementing a rating system like they're using at Wikipedia:WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America?
:complicated Joaquin Murietta 06:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True, but we would be able to gauge the progress on the articles, identify stubs for expansion and identify what needs to be done. I guess if we're going to do all that work, might as well just expand them, but...--Rockero 06:39, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ratings 

message: :We have had some categorization issues, and I wanted to discuss them here before nominating any of them for deletion.  One is :Category:La Raza, which is currently a subcategory of :Category:Chicano.  Since the term "raza" is used in different ways depending on its context, I don't think it is the best way to name the category (I'd like to nominate it for deletion).  Recently, someone created Category:Chicano, which I think may be helpful for Chicano- (politics, art, and culture) -related articles.  One problem (and I am guilty of this) is that :Category:Mexican Americans was applied to articles that were not biographies.  So Cat:Chicano may be a good way to group non-biographical articles together.  But I also think we need another (non-subcat) category for people who identify (-ied) themselves as Chicanos, so confusion may arise between the singular (for culture, etc.) and plural (for people).  So maybe Cat:Chicano should be renamed?  Any suggestions?  Finally, there are six subcategories under Category:Mexican American artists, which is currently populated by both visual and musical artists.  I think we need a :Category:Chicano art, of which :Category:Chicana art may be a subcategory, and we can use for Chicano art-related terms and concepts (such as Home altar and rasquachismo), but I am just getting started untangling this categorization issue, so I would appreciate any input, suggestions, or objections.--Rockero 23:58, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out the result of a recent debate on the matter.--Rockero 07:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Categoryization

message: Please see discussion at   I removed the template for now Should we have a disambiguation page? Joaquin Murietta 05:31, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it was just the image they were objecting to, bandit. It's just that-- with a few exceptions, everything on the template has to do with Mexican Americans, and among the articles linked, there is a heavy emphasis on Chicano stuff. While in theory, the template should appear on every article it links to, I too wonder about its appropriateness on this article. Just because the U.S. Census calls Mexican Americans "Latinos" doesn't mean that we all identify as such, nor does it mean we should try to monopolize the term to refer only to us.--Rockero 06:23, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism of template on [[Latino]] article 

message: Here is something that I just noticed on the Manuel Antonio Chaves page: a new category has been created: Category:Mexican Spaniards.  I don't know what to think about that category all around.  I mean Chaves was a New Mexican of Spanish descent -- two centuries previous.  Pretty much any native New Mexican Hispano can make that claim, but it seems to me disingenuous to call Chaves a Spaniard, since his family had been in New Mexico since 1598.  A look at some of the other people under that category raises similar questions to me.  Anybody have any thoughts on this? - Murcielago 18:27, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Topic up for discussion 

message: ::Please help with the  Latino template.  --JuanMuslim  1m 18:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latino template 

message: Saludos y Asalamalaykim, Juan Muslim! I notice you signed on as a participant in the Mexican-American/Chicano WikiProject, and I want to extend you a warm welcome. I also notice you started . What were you planning on doing with that? That is, what is your vision for it? What do you want it to accomplish? The project members and I may be able to help you with it, but I need to know in what direction you want to take it.
I also notice that you have been editing Islam-related articles. If there way you can share your knowledge about Islam in the Mexican American community, it would be greatly appreciated. Most of our religious articles have been focused on Roman Catholicism, and some diversity in the religious experiences of Mexican Americans needs to be represented. There are many articles that need to be written (see the tasks list), and a long-term project goal is to elevate Chicano Movement to featured article status. If you'd like to help with these or any other projects, please dig in. Also, if you have any questions or suggestions, please discuss them on the Project talkpage or on my talkpage.
Good to have you aboard, --Rockero 16:33, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't been as active on Wikipedia recently. I am however floored by the fact there is no template for latino/hispanic, so I just wanted to start something and get some dialogue. The template definitely needs lots of work. But at the same time its definitely needed. The template called AfricanAmerican is excellent, and that's kinda like what I'd like to see for the Latino template. As for Latinos and Islam, that's my specialty. lol. I recently started the Latino Muslims article. You can help with that. The link to HispanicMuslims.com/articles has plenty of reference material. --JuanMuslim  1m 17:53, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One issue with the template is that several articles that should exist (example: Latino history or Hispanic history )don't or are essentually part of other articles.--JuanMuslim  1m 13:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Project etc.

message: I created the El Sombrero Barnstar Award to recognize any editor who has made exceptional contributions to articles about Latinos and/or Hispanics in the United States as well as articles about Latin America. Anyone is welcome to use it. --JuanMuslim  1m 04:59, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SombreroBarnstar.png 

message: OK, it is time to get serious about our intended goal of elevating Chicano Movement. It seems to me that the best way to divide up the work is to divide up the reading. I have a list of books that can serve as resources, unless you have a work you are reading/want to read as part of the collaboration. I'd like to give each participart one book to read over the summer, with the goal of having the article ready for peer review by September. Please reply here to indicate whether you have a text you would like to read or if you need a recommendation. ¡Adelante!--Rockero 09:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is the entire list posted somewhere? Joaquin Murietta 22:34, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have the "Contested Homeland -- a Chicano History of New Mexico" text, and I'd be willing to read another book if you assign me one, Rockero. - Murcielago 04:18, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I take it you've read it already? I've put up a (partial) list under the resources section on the project page. I don't know what kind of access you guys have to these works, so I would suggest choosing one that looks interesting or that you know little about and starting there. My sister gave me the Vicki Ruiz book, so I'll read that one.--Rockero 21:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Hi, first the disclaimer - I'm a Wikignome active at WP:AFC with no particular knowlege of Mexican-American topics. I reviewed and passed a biography of the Tucson, AZ based artist David Tineo. The article contains a number of Redlinks which look like they should be quite high priority articles for this project: Chicano art, the Chicano Art Movement which seems to be an adjunct of the socio-political Chicano movement, and the Chicano Mural Movement a "child" of the Art Movement related to Mexican muralism. Just thought I'd bring this to your attention. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:49, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Chicano Movement

message: Please comment on new template.   Joaquin Murietta 18:42, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Who do you want this template to include? Because so far it has an Hispano priest, a Mexican Purepecha musician, a Chicano labor leader, and two lists. Are you going for leaders? Mexican-Americans, Chicanos, Mexicans, and Hispanos? What are the criteria for inclusion? I wonder about the title "People of interest to Chicanos", too. I'm interested in Ron Karenga. Should he go in there? (Playing devil's advocate) Maybe a different title would be better? And are you worried about template overkill?--Rockero 21:18, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I like the idea of it, but speaking from experience, I just put the Sisters of Loretto into a "Catholic Orders" template and the template got deleted. (correlation or causation?  I don't know . . .)  I think the Template title is pretty good, but I think we could limit it to lists (and include Chicano authors, for example), and I also think we could use a list of Historic Chicanos, for whom the term "Chicano" would be anachronistic (like Padre Martinez et al), but who were precursors of the Chicano spirit -- i.e. I don't think the people of Rio Arriba would have listened to Tijerina without a man like Martinez in their history. Murcielago 02:19, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nuestra Historia

message: Several weeks ago I started an article about a Mexican-American heroe US Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta(please see) in Wikipedia in espanol, some people did no like it saying is about war propaganda, and that I removed some irrelevant signs he placed before, or that this article is not different from anyone who died in combat,etc. Now the article is under voting to be erased.The guy who proposed the removing of the article is Cinabrium, who is pro arab/islamic and resents the war in Iraq, and I believe there is a anti-American feeling in most of these guys who supports Cinabrium. If you are registered in Wikipedia en espanol, you can help me making changes, adding info, photos, an infobox too, and your vote if you may. There is only 15 days left. I am still learning and need all the help you can give me. Tell some other people you know who might be willing to help. Thank you familia, un abrazo, --Cefaro 03:57, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed  request. ViridaeTalk 04:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

text: The  is for help with editing the english version of wikipedia, asking questions about how to edit it etc. Please do no use it to collect suport for an article on this or any other language version of wikipedia. You are quite welcome to request help in updating an article but it would be preferable to so on the wikipedia version where the article is situated. ViridaeTalk 04:10, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hey guys, necesito su ayuda 

message: This article is part of WikiProject Mexican-Americans/Chicanos, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Mexican-Americans and Chicanos on Wikipedia.  This includes but is not limited to: arts, culture, sciences, politics or anything else related to Mexican-Americans/Chicanos. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
:enjoy. --evrik 17:34, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Talk Page Template

message: Wanted to touch base with you guys and let you know of WikiProject Biography and let us know whenever you guys are working on a collaboration, or have FACs or GA noms so we can let the Biography group as a whole know. It would be great if we had a liaison from your group that helped monitor the Biography project so we can better coordinate efforts. Good luck with your project! plange 16:58, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm probably the person you're looking for but at the moment I am not as active as I used to be in Wikipedia. Please let us know if there are any Biography-project-oriented issues concerning Mexican Americans, Chicanos, or Hispanics, and we will do the same for you. Thanks, --Rockero 03:48, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hello! 

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thread_title: Tagging talk pages and assessing articles

message: 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 20:33, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: Count me in to help out on this project.  Also I would like to become a major contributor to Rockero's article on "Chicano Art".  I have already added my name to the list of participants.  I am new to Wikipedia and looking forward to contributing.  Chicaneo 15:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would like to help 

message: I notice there is no wiki article on the strikes of last May. I have some resources on the movement's impact in LA/SoCal, if anyone would be interested in working with me on an article covering the strikes from national and/or nationalist perspectives.--Amerique dialectics 03:26, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: May 2006 immigration strikes

message: The alphabetization of the "To Do / Tasks list" of the "To Be Written" section is complete.  Your help is needed in providing short descriptions behind each entry.  For example:
*George Yepes - artist
*Culture Clash - Commedy Troupe
*Casa De La Raza - Santa Barbara cultural center
In the case of entries that are self-explanatory, such as Mexican-American Bar Association or Chicano literature, no descriptive information is necessary.  Thanks, Chicaneo 00:10, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need Help With To Do / Tasks List  (Housekeeping Issues) 

message: I believe a couple of you have already participated in the SFD discussion regarding .  I have summarized the discussion and put forth a suggestion for a solution.  Please voice any more opinions on SFD page, so we can come to an agreement and finish the discussion.  Thanks.  ~ Amalas rawr =^_^= 21:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SFD discussion 

message: 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 22:36, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards 

message: An edit war has begun on César Chávez. The other day a copyedit was done to this article without discussion. I cited that fact on the article's talkpage which the copyeditor disputes on my talkpage. I recommend someone from this project look at the comments on César Chávez 's talkpage, the edits and provide comments on how to improve the article.  Ronbo76 17:00, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit war to [[César Chávez]] 

message: Hyphenating "Mexican-American" is very outdated and is seldom used, improperly if so, by Latinos. The term of preference is just "Mexican American."—Preceding unsigned comment added by Chamaquito (talk • contribs)  on 02:01, April 26, 2007
:¡Hola Chamaquito! I suppose this vieja loca has ceased to be jiggy-with-it because I didn't know that.  I tried looking for "rules" on the net so I started with the UT Austin, Center for Mexican-American Studies webpage  and there it was.  All throughout the site (except for the title page) - NO HYPHENS.  Ay dios mío I don't know when I slipped into oblivion, but it happened.  Probably somewhere between the kids, grey hair, wrinkles and sagging ... uh ... well ... you know!  Thanks for educating us. (I can only speak for myself though.)  Chicaneo 10:11, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyphenating Mexican American 

message: I just joined Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias.  I believe that our project team works to counter systemic bias daily and also counters systemic bias by simply working on the articles on our to do list.  But I'm sure that most of you come accross articles that do not have neutral POV - these articles would be good candidates for the Countering Systemic Bias Project to tackle.  Do any of you know of any articles that you would like to have listed on WikiProject Countering systemic bias to do list??  If you don't have time to list them I'll list them for you, just send me the names on my talk page. 
Here is an excerpt from their project page: "The average Wikipedian on English Wikipedia (1) is male, (2) is technically-inclined, (3) is formally educated, (4) speaks English to an extent, (5) is white, (6) is aged 15–49, (7) is from a nominally Christian country, (8) is from an industrialized nation, (9) is from the Northern Hemisphere, and (10) is more likely to be employed in intellectual pursuits than in practical skills or physical labor (see Wikipedia:User survey and Wikipedia:University of Würzburg survey, 2005).  To contribute to Wikipedia, a user must have access to a computer, the Internet, and be able to use them. Most of the world's population does not and their views and experience are not directly represented........".  
Gracias.  --Chicaneo 07:10, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Countering Systemic Bias 

message: although notable, Chicana feminism has no inline referencing - I am unable to help it.  Could any one with expertise in this area please review the page and if possible reference the claims it makes in its 'history' section--Cailil  talk 13:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicana feminism 

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thread_title: Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

message: Saludos! Just a short note to say I would like to join the wp:mexam. It is not totally clear to me how this happens, but I guess an introduction is in order. I'm a coyote from New Mexico living in Europe. You can call it cheesy, but my Chicana politics started in Farmington in the 3rd grade parallel to Navajo struggles for social justice. My internet work started with MeChA organizing in the early 90's. Since then, I work with new media, politics and theory. A decent researcher when I have the time, my interests are mostly in the politics of new media and contemporary art. I would like to spend some time adding to articles on Chicano artists and writers. I am still learning how wikipedia works and testing the waters and am not really serious about wanting to be a feminist admin, but I would like to put my feminist Chicana politics into practice. Input and advice is welcome. 
Diastar (talk) 02:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: q-vo

message: Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.
We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations. 
A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible. 
We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:31, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Mexican-American 

message: North of the Rio Grande is an ongoing school project dedicated to improving select articles on Latino and Chicano literature.  Among the articles we're working on are Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, and Tomás Rivera.  We'd welcome any advice or help that members of WikiProject Mexican-Americans may be able to offer.  Please come drop a note on our talk page.  Many thanks.  --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 08:32, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latino/Chicano Literature project 

message: I nominated Gulfton, Houston for featured article status - I want to see if I can make a Houston neighborhood make FA. If anyone is interested, please help it make FA :) WhisperToMe (talk) 19:09, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nominated [[Gulfton, Houston]] for featured article status

message: I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks!  - Jarry1250 (t, c) 22:06, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Milestone Announcements

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thread_title:  Coordinators' working group 

message: This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. — Carl (CBM · talk) 03:36, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP 1.0 bot announcement 

message: nominated Selena 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 "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. --BelovedFreak 20:46, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Selena]] FAR 

message: --Kumioko (talk) 03:21, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Invitation to help with [[Wikipedia:WikiProject United States|WikiProject United States]]

message: Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone.  Articles were selected based on their assessed  importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.
We would like to ask you to review the Mexican-American articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details.  You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Sunday, November 14th. 
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If you have already provided feedback, we deeply appreciate it. For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 16:34, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mexican-American articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release 

message: I have started a conversation here about the possibility of combining some of the United States related WikiProject Banners into . If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please take a moment and let me know. --Kumioko (talk) 19:55, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: A consideration for cross project consolidation of talk page templates

message: Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chicano vendido. Jaque Hammer (talk) 10:12, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Related AfD

message: Casliber recently posted a suggestion on the talk page for WikiProject United States about getting the US Wikipedians Collaboration page going again in an effort to build up articles for GA through FA class. See Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM. After several days of work from him the page is up and ready for action. A few candidates have already been added for you to vote on or you can submit one using the directions provided. If you are looking for inspiration here is a link to the most commonly viewed articles currently under the scope of Wikiproject United States. There are tons of good articles in the various US related projects as well so feel free to submit any article relating to US topics (not just those under the scope of WPUS). This noticeboard is intended for ‘’’All’’’ editors working on US subjects, not just those under WPUS.
The next item I intend to start updating is Portal:United States if anyone is interested in helping. Again this is not specific to WPUS and any help would be greatly appreciated to maximize visibility of US topics. The foundation has already been established its just a matter of updating the content with some new images, biographies and articles. Please let leave a comment on the Portals talk page or let me know if you have any questions or ideas. --Kumioko (talk) 19:14, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: US Collaboration reactivated & [[Portal:United States]] starting next

message: Portal:United States is a current featured portal candidate. Please feel free to leave comments. -- RichardF (talk) 14:35, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured portal candidate: United States 

message: A very interesting tool of the Wikimedia Toolserver is called WikiProject Popular pages lists. These lists are similar to project-related article lists like U. S. article lists used for generating assessment statistics. The Popular pages lists include the rank, total views, average daily views, quality and importance ratings for the listed articles.  Here is the full list of projects using popular pages lists. An FAQ also is available at User:Mr.Z-man/Popular pages FAQ. 
I recently added links to lists of popular pages as shown below to the U.S. Portal - WikiProjects box and the nominations sections for each of the selected articles boxes.
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Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages
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Because this project was not included, I am bringing up the popular pages tool here. This tool makes it very easy to track three of four balancing dimensions when selecting articles for showcasing at a portal - quality, importance and popularity.  When tracking the fourth dimension, topic, the related article lists tool (such as for U.S. article lists tool) also might be useful by filtering on categories of interest.
If you do decide to use this tool, feel free to update Portal:United States/Projects/Popular pages as well.
Regards, RichardF (talk) 02:27, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding "Popular pages" to U.S.-related projects 

message: Please join in the discussion on the talk page to help expand the article to its fullest potential. AJona1992 (talk) 19:46, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selena discussion  

message: It was recently suggested that this project might be inactive or semi activeand it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States. After reviewing the project it appears that there have not been any active discussion on the talk page in some time and the last content update was back in September of 2010 so being supported by a larger project might be beneficial. This discussion is intended to start the process of determining if the project members are interested in the project being added to the projects supported by WikiProject United States. --Kumioko (talk) 20:46, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest getting the input of the person who founded the group.--LatinoMuslim  13:45, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. I left messages on the talk pages of all of the active members of the project. --Kumioko (talk) 13:49, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Since its been 8 days I am going to go ahead and add this project to the list of Project supported by WikiProject United States. --Kumioko (talk) 17:45, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Its now been 16 days so I am going to go ahead and ask the bot to replace the WikiProject Mexican Americans banner with WikiProject United States/Mexican American. --Kumioko (talk) 14:33, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion to pull this project under WikiProject United States 

message: There is a discussion here for a Bot to do an assessment run through the 3500+ Unassessed articles that currently fall under WikiProject United States and the projects supported by it. If you do not want the bot to autoassess the articles for your project or if you have any comments or concerns please let us know. --Kumioko (talk) 14:15, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bot run to auto assess some of the Unassessed articles

message: --Kumioko (talk) 03:17, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: September 2011 Newsletter for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject United States|WikiProject United States]]

message: WP:NRHP is having a Fall Photo Contest running from Oct. 21-Dec. 4, 2011.
I'd like to encourage anybody who enjoys photography, and anybody who is interested in historic places to participate as a photographer, a sponsor, or both.  
One way that an individual editor or a project can participate is to sponsor their own challenge.  For example, somebody here might want to include a challenge such as "A barnstar will be awarded to the photographer who adds the most photos of previously non-illustrated NRHP sites related to Mexican-American history to the NRHP county lists."  To sponsor a challenge all you need to do is come up with an idea, post it on the contest page, and do the small bit of work needed to judge the winner(s).
Any and all contributions appreciated.
Smallbones (talk) 15:19, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Fall 2011 Photo Contest]]

message: As an FYI I started History of the Mexican-Americans in Houston
WhisperToMe (talk) 01:49, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History of the Mexican-Americans in Houston

message: If anybody wants to start History of the Mexican-Americans in Texas, I found sources:
*De León, Arnoldo. Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History. Harlan Davidson, Jan 31, 2009. Third Edition. , 9780882952680.
*De León, Arnoldo. "MEXICAN AMERICANS." Handbook of Texas.
WhisperToMe (talk) 06:38, 23 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History of the Mexican-Americans in Texas

message: One or more articles relating to this project have been nominated to be a future United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month. All editors interested in improving these articles or voting for next months collaboration are encouraged to participate here. --Kumioko (talk) 19:42, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Nomination as a [[Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTM|United States Wikipedians' Collaboration of the Month]] candidate

message: --Kumioko (talk) 01:42, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: December 2011 Newsletter for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject United States|WikiProject United States]]

message: --Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 18:14, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: January 2012 Newsletter for [[Wikipedia:WikiProject United States|WikiProject United States]] and supported projects

message: Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Mexican-Americans will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in within Mexican-American society. 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) 19:10, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiWomen's History Month 

message: *Navarette, Ruben Jr. "A Texas mayor, a mural and a Mexican stereotype." CNN. Friday March 23, 2012.
WhisperToMe (talk) 17:25, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: More stuff

message: There is a proposal at WikiProject United States to start an A-Class review process for United States related articles. Please stop by and join the discussion. Kumioko (talk) 02:11, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal for United States A-Class review process

message: Greetings, there is a discussion regarding removal of the logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories from Template:WikiProject United States. Most of the categories (over 220 Wikipedia wide) were deleted in February 2013 because they were empty. These categories were previously populated by a bot that hasn't run since 2011 and the categories aren't used. Removal of this uneeded/unused logic will greatly reduce the size and complexity of the WikiProject United States template. Any comments or questions are encouraged here. Kumioko (talk) 18:43, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Lest there is any confusion for people who don't speak the same language, the words "logic used to populate Automatically assessed article categories" refer to the feature that was supposed to allow this WikiProject's template to "inherit" class and importance ratings from other WikiProjects. Kumioko says that there are no longer any bots performing the function that formerly copied those ratings. --Orlady (talk) 23:18, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion to remove the Automatically assessed logic from the WikiProject United States template

message: Is anyone interested in expanding History of the Mexican Americans in Los Angeles? WhisperToMe (talk) 05:56, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request to expand History of the Mexican Americans in Los Angeles 

message: If anyone cares about either of these projects, this project should be merged with Wikipedia:WikiProject Latinos. we dont need this narrower project if both are moribund.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 21:41, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: A good compromise name would be Wikipedia:WikiProject Hispanic and Latino Americans, as part of WPUS. "hispanic and latino american" is the most common form on WP for this group.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:15, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge projects

message: these sections are not being used. add them in if they become active again.
===New Wikipedia articles related to Mexican/American and Chicano Topics===
Please feel free to list your new Mexican-American/Chicano-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page.  DYK has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.
===Article improvement drive===
===Collaboration of the week===
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====Featured picture candidates====
===Featured lists===
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===Ongoing Wikipedia surveys===
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Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:10, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Unused sections

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Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:10, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

message: *Articles for deletion (Article deletion):
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Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:10, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion

message: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting
Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:10, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject Deletion sorting

message: Thomas E. Sheridan wrote Los Tucsoneses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941, published by the University of Arizona Press in 1986. It may be a good source. There are book reviews if you want to write the article on the book itself.
WhisperToMe (talk) 17:00, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for book 

message: Shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes is at AfD. --Djembayz (talk) 02:23, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes at AfD 

message: https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:29, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please See - Submissions 

message: ---Another Believer (Talk) 22:08, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject United States - The 50,000 Challenge 

message: You are invited to join a discussion at Talk:Primos (TV series)#Controversy section about how much emphasis to put onto the "controversy" surrounding the series' following release of its opening sequence on social media and YouTube. This WikiProject received this message because Primos is an upcoming animated series which centers on a multi-cultural Mexican-American family. Historyday01 (talk) 02:42, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion at [[Talk:Primos (TV series)]]