Talk:Uruguay/Archive 1

message: There is nothing about the politics of Uruguay. Could anybody rectify this? unsigned comment
:done. Grunners 15:37, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politics 

message: Sometimes a direct or literal translation is not exactly what is being felt in the original. I was impressed with this fact when I watched a documentary on the Falklands/Malvinas war. The English translation was not nearly a word-for-word translation of what the Argentine pilots were saying, but the intent was dead on. (Try translating "dead on" into Spanish ad what do you get?) I have edited the text to what I believe the actual translation should be. The name of the country is The Republic East of the Uruguay (el Rio Uruguay, of course) and Banda Oriental should be (but never is)translated as Eastern Strip. Equivalent areas in the United States of America are the Cherokee Strip and the Nueces Strip.
My heartfelt thanks to all who contribute and comment on this most welcomed website.  ~~Tex
:Hmmm. Have just noticed your post. I've thought it over and I think you're right about "Republic East of the Uruguay". I'll change it back. And about Eastern Strip as well. Mona-Lynn 04:23, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Grrr. Just thought about it again and I think that change doesn't work after all, otherwise wouldn't the name of the country in Spanish be "Republica al Este del Uruguay?" I think our original conclusion was probably the best one after all. Will change back. Sorry for the confusion. Mona-Lynn 04:26, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  You're almost there Valentino and Mona Lynn 

message: A controversy has erupted over the choice of map for this article. The two candidates are shown here, along with any others that other Wikipedians may choose to enter. Feel free to make any comments. The lower map may also appear in the corresponding Geography article for this country. Kelisi 16:54, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: South America is currently nominated to be improved on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive. You can support the article with your vote.--Fenice 12:14, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvement Drive 

message: In Reply to I, RalphG2SL answer:
Without being impolite i want to complain about removal of several important URLs from the External Link Section.
There were a lot of highly official URLs to public services which were removed the 17 of October.
I see that there was a lot of spam too, but while cleaning-up you just removed EVERYTHING.
e.g.
Government resources
    * (Spanish) Portal del Estado Uruguayo - Uruguayan State portal
    * (Spanish) Presidencia de la República Oriental del Uruguay - Official presidential site
    * (Spanish) MEF - Official site of the Uruguayan Ministry of Finance
    * (Spanish) Poder Judicial - Official site of the Uruguayan Judiciary
    * (Spanish) Poder Legislativo - Official site of the Uruguayan Parliament
    * (Spanish)/(English)/(Portuguese) Ministerio de Turismo del Uruguay - Government tourism information site
    * (Spanish) INE - National Statistics Institute.
Sports
    * (Spanish) Asociación Uruguaya de Fútbol - Uruguayan Football Association
    * (Spanish) Federación Uruguaya de Basketball - Uruguayan Basketball Federation
    * (Spanish) Unión de Rugby del Uruguay - Uruguayan Rugby Union
    * (Spanish) Asociación Uruguaya de Golf - Uruguayan Golf Association
    * Club Nacional de Football
    * Club Atlético Peñarol
At this occation you removed the URLs to my Gallery too.
Well, all the last years i had tons of forward-links to international wikipedias,
because i want to support Wikipedias.
We have a non-commercial website thats 90% about News & Fotos from Uruguay and that offers a
unique collection of about 4.500 Pictures of Uruguay
- in uncomparable resolution and because of thus in quality, too.
When i realized you removed my URL, i added it again,
because its really non-commercial apposed to many others which were there.
I had success with that - for more than one week.
Even while having some Google-Adsense there.
Well, i reread the Guidlines over and over again and removed all Google-Adense from my Gallery.
Hope, this page finds its way back to en.Wikipedia again.
I´ve spent the last week translating more and more into english,
even if i consider this not so very important for pictures.
Btw: There are a lot of URLs i have in Wikipedia-Pages concerning Uruguay,
Provincias of Uruguay, Cities or Villages of Uruguay.
I cannot see that i brake your rules on
External_links or WikiProject_Spam
Please make up your mind.
I think you don´t obey to your own rules.
Please check out the article i wrote today concerning this discussion:
En.Wikipedia.Org deletes useful Information - here are the missing Links  —Preceding unsigned comment added by RalphG2SL (talk • contribs) 03:30, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Link Clean-Up Project 

message: I´am big fan of this country, when i saw the photos of this guy i booked me a flight, now i wanted to show those fotos to a friend and they are gone, so why you cleaned it up? i am of the same opinion as RalphG2SL, cleaning up like this is no clean up - it is vandalism and is agains the project-rules.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.64.220.177 (talk) 17:16, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos Uruguay

message: Ive noticed that in the political section there was the link only to one party, not the rest (I added them) and the only two pictures are (of course) of only that one political party. I consider this a rather important bias in this section of the article.
Edit: Also, what are the church of san carlos and the rio de la plata in 1601 images doing in that section?
Immortality 14:05, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political bias 

message: In the 1st paragraph: "The nation is the third smallest country in South America, larger than only Suriname and French Guiana"
Under geography: "Uruguay is the second-smallest country in South America, after Suriname. "
Is this an issue on one beign worng or the 1st paragragh refering to population and the otehr geography article refering to area? Pattersonc(Talk) 10:19 AM, Sunday; January (EST)
:I s'pose that's because French Guiana is not a country. —Nightstallion (?) 21:44, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting or ambiguous info 

message: I've inserted some much needed images which have given more life to the page. Jaw101ie 22:04, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Me están jodiendo??? dónde está la evidencia empírica. No puede ser que las contrastaciones para probar la creencia del 50/50, o la mejoradísima y conciliadora del 40/40 sean "mi vieja es italiana y mi perro también". Lo que es peor, la investigación del INE citada en el artículo especifica que "este informe presenta los resultados del estudio llevado a cabo por el INE durante 1996 y 1997, sobre las razas en el Uruguay, en base a la declaración explícita de los entrevistados sobre la raza a la cual creen pertenecer". Entonces, tenemos una investigación con 10 años de edad, al filo de una nueva generación, y que, a su vez, difunde datos de creencias.
Lo cierto es que, aunque a los suizos del sur no les guste, una buena parte de los uruguayos es mestiza. Prometo borrar all the bullshit with genuine data.
Les pido un poco de verguenza, acuérdense que no le ganamos a nadie.
(pasate botinelli)
still  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.235.132.166 (talk) 03:03, August 23, 2007 (UTC) 
 
I don't think half of the population has Italian origin, could you (XGustaX) please provide evidence of that? --Muñata 15:10, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm Uruguayan too. That sentence needs a confirmation from a reliable source, since it is very subjective. I could say that may be 25% of population is of Italian origin, but I can't put that on the article without an objective and reliable external source. (Perhaps in Montevideo the number is near 50%, but that's certainly not the case on the other departments). --Muñata 19:01, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Half of population of Italian origin? 

message: I think this thing about estancia tourism, agritourism and dude ranches needs to be clarified. The trouble is that I don't understand what exactly goes on in estancia tourism so I can't decide whether dude ranch or agritourism is closer to estancia tourism. Can a bit of detail be added? I have read both dude ranch and agritourism and it looks to me like dude ranch is actually a subset of agritourism, so should the link go to agritourism only? The other thing is that the way dude ranch is currently written it makes it look like a historical phenomenon and not a contemporary one. Mona-Lynn 04:21, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a starter, I don't know a whole lot about it either http://www.estancias-uruguay.com/ Gene Nygaard 13:59, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've read both articles and agritourism is definetely more appropriate. Dude ranch is not the same. --Muñata 15:31, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That Web site is somewhat helpful but I wouldn't put it in this article itself. Basically you can have asado, ride horses, rest and relax, and maybe go fishing or swimming in the river. I'm going to remove the "dude ranch" link now. Mona-Lynn 20:49, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Estancia tourism 

message: In regards to the sport of football in Uruguay, it is well known that the general population regard it as their divine right to play in the World Cup purely because they won the first one. This is despite the fact that they  have consistently failed to perform on the world stage in the past half a century. Just like the way the Uruguay football supporters live in the past, the country itself both economically, socially and politically is also rather backward.
: Uh?? What??? I'm uruguayan, so I can tell you that what you've said is nonsense. No-one in uruguay thinks that way...
:: I guess if your only understanding or knowledge of a country stems from who they play football against , then you are not a historical or economic knowledge giant are you? So Perhaps when your country actually wins the worldcup you may be able to comment on whether it should be a honourary priviledge or not as to whether you should have to qaulify against a nation who still calls football - soccer. As for being backward your knowledge of football truly astounds me , the only reason your country was able to play a world champion football country like uruguay came only after  playing against teams in the pacific islands. Thankyou for acknowledging that uruguay has a history of football and untrue of your current circumstance. Perhaps what wounds you more is that uruguayans all over the world celebrate with pride every aspect of our countrys wins and refuse to forget our history, is that something that your country can claim it does, well I guess we will have to wait and see whether your country will maintain its history in the memory of its people for generations to come. Good Luck because I know you will need it, by going up against another South American country called BRAZIL.
::: This discussion is totally nonsense. You guys better go a chat room or forum to talk about that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.126.22.39 (talk) 20:17, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flame war! 

message: Can someone look at the last sentence of the economy section and try to figure out what "a crash jobs programs" is? Thanks, Mona-Lynn 05:24, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy section 

message: Is Libertad o Muerte the national motto? My Spanish is sketchy, to say the least, but from what I understand of this page on the website of the presidency, it has something to do with commemorating a battle in 1825. Does anyone know more about this subject? I am unagle to find another reference, but that might be because i don't speak Spanish. Pruneautalk 21:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motto 

message: Who the hell wrote that Jose Artigas led the fight to independence in 1825, rather than Juan Antonio Lavalleja? Wesborland 19:01, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are you kidding me? 

message: I'm Uruguayan, but I certainly don't think that Uruguay is the "Switzerland of America." That was an expression to describe Uruguay between the 20's and 30's, but now Uruguay is anything but the "Switzerland of America." I'm taking it out, it's an outdated expression, and I hope they don't add it again. 
:Indeed, but I think the article should still mention that Uruguay was once dubbed "Switzerland of America" (in the 50's, not 20's) --Wesborland 14:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switzerland of America? 

message: === Press Freedom ===
I added references, sorry for the multiple edits, regarding the press freedom in Uruguay.  I tried to add the info so that whomever will 'own' the article in the future can find the info and keep it up-to-date if desired. JT Pickering 16:39, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politics 

message: I added references, sorry for the multiple edits, regarding the press freedom in Uruguay.  I tried to add the info so that whomever will 'own' the article in the future can find the info and keep it up-to-date if desired. JT Pickering 16:39, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Press Freedom 

message: I have a web link to a feature story on "unexpected" Uruguay, from the view of one American tourist wrote on his adventures (two pages) in the country. Other information not stated in the article are found here. 63.3.14.2 09:17, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Check out AOL Travel: Uruguay 

message: Note that any statement featured by an encyclopedia should be rather neutral. Terms such as "most pleasant" and "most friendly" appearing in this article are very subjective and may not be factual. My humble suggestion is that you remove these terms. I do understand that one can be very proud of his heritage or his girlfriend's heritage, it's actually truly praiseworthy, but it doesn't  fit an encyclopedia. Verblyud
I have removed some of them.
- - - -
Agreed. Came here to express the same concern. Not only terms, but also the cherry-picked comparisons and over-all tone of promotion. I don't know enough about formats & editing to contribute much; just spelling & punctuation as yet. This is the first time using a talk page so forgive if I am doing it wrongly. Tickerhead 08:25, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please Remove Peacock Terms 

message: Population 
 - 2006 estimate 6,431,932 ?
 - 2002 census 3,399,237
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.112.80.220 (talk) 03:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

message: This article has been vandalized way too many times. Therefore, I've protected it from being edited by anons or noobs. Please don't remove the protection tag without discussing it here first. Thank you. --~ ~ James Hetfield (previously Wesborland) ~ ~ 17:11, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed the tag as article was not protected. Protection of articles requires Admin access. You can request page protection at WP:RFP. WjBscribe 17:20, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That explain why the tag wasn't working :) I'll request the protection there then. --~ ~ James Hetfield (previously Wesborland) ~ ~ 17:49, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! The article is now protected. --~ ~ James Hetfield (previously Wesborland) ~ ~ 16:38, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected 

message: All the pictures are clogged up in different parts of the article, rather than equally distributed. Anyone care to give me a hand with that? --~ ~ James Hetfield (previously Wesborland) ~ ~ 18:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: Nothing drastic, but the IPA guide needs a slight alteration for the Spanish variation of the name. In Oriental, the lettering appears to be /rj/. I'm no expert on this but this combination is rare and its inescapable sound may well be represented by another lexeme. /j/ is different from /i/ in that it is a frictionless consonant (ie. pronounced quickly) and when it follows a number of letters, it softens them. The Czech language features this sound and the letter is /ř/ - pronounced by trilling an R and raising the back of the tongue simultaneously, often explained in phrase-books as a /rʒ/ sound (rzh). Indeed in oriental, there is more emphasis on the /e/ but if there is not to be a 'rzh' sound, then there would be a glottal stop sign (like the Russian hard-sign). I suggest the sign /j/ be changed to /i/ which I know to be correct. I would prefer to read suggestions first. Evlekis 20:04, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Uruguay receives the worlds first order of OLPC. This may demonstrate the nations commitment to improvement and education. 
*http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/14/uruguay-youngsters-receive-batch-of-olpc-xos/ via Engadget —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.126.236.103 (talk) 07:07, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uruguay Receives the Words First Batch of OLPCs 

message: Why does the location of uruguay SVG file in the country info box not
visible like it is with other countries (chile, argentina, etc...)?
On this page you need to click on it to see it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.64.30.26 (talk) 13:20, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of uruguay SVG file 

message: I have removed the lengthy annotation in the Demographics section (i.e. after the asterisk) because I feel that it is unsourced, non-encyclopedic, and quite opinionated. Furthermore, the validity of the claim at the beginning of the section (i.e. "strong blood roots") is not hindered by the removal of the annotation. If the annotation were to be kept at all, it should be moved to an article on ancestry or genealogy. Xinophiliac 00:00, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics section 

message: First you put in demographics that the population is 94% european...and then u changed it to 88%..My Question is, How is the population 8% mestizo??? i think u mean AFRO-URUGUAYAN being there is 290,000 afro uruguayan in Uruguay...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Piatti908 (talk • contribs) 14:48, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  8% of the population is mesitzo???? 

message: According to the quick-fail criteria of the GA process, any article that, ...has any cleanup banners, including but not limited to , , , , etc, or large numbers of , , , or similar tags. must be failed immediately and does not require an in-depth review. As I see multiple fact tags and one expansion banner, this article must be quick-failed. Other major issues include, but are not limited to,  the complete lack of inline citations in the History section, and the length of the lead section. When these issues have been addressed, please feel free to renominate the article. If you feel this decision was in error, you may seek a reassessment. Thank you for your work so far, VanTucky Talk 23:48, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quick-failed Good Article nomination 

message: Who put the penis comment on uriguy? Fess up please!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.254.120.116 (talk) 00:13, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The one with the vandalism identified in the edit summary? I thought that was friggin' hilarious! --Matthew Proctor (talk) 21:33, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who put the penus comment in uruguy? 

message: That must be pure statistics!
I live in Uruguay ,and the revenue difference is way important.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.64.189.143 (talk) 02:53, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gini coef 

message: The article states that Spanish is the official language.  However, the
Wikipedia article in Portuguese http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguai
states, "Língua oficial Não há língua oficial, de facto o espanhol; o
português é o segundo idioma mais falado."  Translation:  "Official
language There is no official language, although in practice it is Spanish;
Portuguese is the second most spoken language."
Neither the English nor Portuguese article gives references, and I
personally do not know which is correct. 207.172.220.155 (talk) 10:25, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does Uruguay have an official language? 

message: What are "state pickles"? Or is this a mistranslation of a Uruguayan term?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.154.153 (talk) 01:17, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  State pickles? 

message: woe means to eat cheeseMedia:tiffiny window pians  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.220.90.66 (talk) 18:22, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  woe 

message: I added this but it was deleted and then, reverted again and deleted. But it remains in the other article. 
:Hi, I want to submit hard evidence that my Uruguay edit on barbecue is notable: a) here it still stays this hour,Culture of Uruguay the Uruguay edit of mine was deleted by IP address, but was reverted by: 03:32, 17 November 2008 User:Commdor Commdor (Talk | contribs) m (49,824 bytes) (Reverted edits by 203.26.38.39 (talk) to last version by Florentino floro) (undo)--Florentino floro (talk) 08:29, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've removed it from Culture of Uruguay as well.  We don't support trivia in such articles; it might just about be acceptable in the Barbecue article, but certainly isn't important enough for major country articles. Black Kite 11:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barbecue record 

message: Why is the name "Uruguay" being made fun or mistaken by saying "You are gay", "You're a gay" or similar? --Master of the Aztecs (talk) 22:30, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comedy against Uruguay 

message: I was just looking at the Uruguay page to find out when the dictatorship was and what the main events were during that time and was very surprised to discover that the Hhistory" section ends in 1828, and that the dictatorship is not mentioned anywhere in the article. I'm not qualified to summarize the rest of Uruguay's history but thought I'd point it out in case anybody wants to go for it. I guess the history section that's currently in there could also be made more brief and the detail left for the History of Uruguay page, should anybody feel inspired. Mona-Lynn (talk) 01:36, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, I also find it very strange that this period is missing. It must be the most important historical period. And beside that it is also very valuable to have some knowledge from that period available since the Uruguay economic declined very rapidly during that period. A lesson that could be valuable now. Anyone with better knowledge than me of the details want to add it? Nopedia (talk) 18:37, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section 

message: Please stop reverting my edit.  It is extremely biased of Wikipedia to even mention Uruguay's recognition of Homosexual relations as legitimate, but I've come to expect that here.  As a compromise I linked to an article hosted on Wikipedia and had it immediately reverted.  I demand that both points of view be represented or no sides be represented and the passage be removed. -68.185.89.209 (talk) 00:41, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: We don't allow individual editors to make demands like that. We work on consensus here.  Toddst1 (talk) 01:29, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homosexual relationships recognized as legitimate 

message: Wikipedia is getting too full of these non encyclopedical comments, how can in an encyclopedical introdcution of 4 paragraphs it be even relevant that Uruguay "was the first Latin American country, and the second in the South American Continent, to legalize same and different sex civil unions at a national level in the year 2007." Uruguay was among the firsts countries in the world in many many other relevant things like 8hr work day, labor rights for preagnant women, women voting, and many other things that could perfectly also be there... it´s a valid comment, but absolutely not encyclopedical to place it in the first 4 paragraphs of a country with almost 200 years of "being the first" in many relevant things...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.134.201.72 (talk) 19:00, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  IRRELEVANT and unencyclopedical in first 4 paragraphs: Homosexual relationships recognized as legitimate 

message: It's the first ranking country in LA for Human poverty index and the second in the world.
It's the 1st in the corruption perception index in latin america. 
It will no doubt be the first country in the world to fully implent to all it's populatoin the OLPC program.
First south american country to compete in soccer olympics, and it won, it was the host and winner of the first soccer world cup.
we either start adding all these things in the intro or we remove that comment and move it to the "modern Uruguay" section...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.134.176.198 (talk) 04:09, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  more... IRRELEVANT and unencyclopedical in first 4 paragraphs: Homosexual relationships recognized as legitimate 

message: *The first paragraph of the 'history' section ends with 'elsewhere shit.' Clearly this isn't legitimate, makes me wonder about the rest of the article.--Arran4 (talk) 06:44, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism? 

message: I just put in the  template near the bottom. I don't understand why it wasn't there. I guess someone removed it by mistake. Heroeswithmetaphors (talk) 08:59, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template 

message: The history section is a direct copy of History of Uruguay...revision/simplification needed? Ansh666 (talk) 07:35, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section 

message: In fact, the first settlement was Santo Domingo de Soriano founded in 1624.--Izmir2  Let's talk 22:58, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colonia del Sacramento not the first European settlement 

message: uruguay has allot of water pollution !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lrb701 (talk • contribs) 19:40, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  uruguay 

message: I recall that Uruguay took an interesting role in WWII and was a hotbed for espionage by both sides. There is also the Battle of the River Plate. All this is omitted from the history section, is there someone more knowledgeable than I who could improve this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Yowser (talk • contribs) 12:39, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  WWII 

message: What is a taxmarketer?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dajanes (talk • contribs) 12:59, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy 

message: The CIA World Factbook, which cites Uruguay as having "political and labor conditions being among the freest on the continent", is not a neutral source. The CIA is anything but neutral. -- N-k (talk) 18:16, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: My understanding is that the CIA World Factbook is considered a reliable source of data about different countries, irrespective of the biases of the CIA itself.  - Regards, PhilipR (talk) 16:25, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  CIA World Factbook 

message: [I've reorganized a couple of comments, one that was out of sequence, to clarify the flow here. - PhilipR (talk) 16:33, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  I agree -- it's subtle but it's asserting a connection between the two.  WP:NOR - Regards, PhilipR (talk) 16:33, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Not unrelatedly..." 

message: "Not unrelatedly, Uruguay is one of the most economically developed countries in South America". The "not unrelatedly" suggests a link between corruption and development, which is probably true, but would require some citations outside the scope of an intro. I think it should be changed to simply "Uruguay is one of the...".  --Deeceeo (talk) 03:22, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  I agree -- it's subtle but it's asserting a connection between the two.  WP:NOR - Regards, PhilipR (talk) 16:33, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV Development-Corruption Link 

message: In the international rankings table, there are items for "Human Poverty, HPI-1" and "Poverty below $2 a day".  The reader finds the rather remarkable claim that Uruguay is 2nd and 3rd in the world, respectively, in these two metrics!  Only after looking at footnotes does the reader find that this data is filtered for developing countries only.  Yet it's presented in parallel with other world rankings among all countries.
A more NPOV presentation would be to add a separate column for ranks among developing countries (and maybe a second column with number of developing countries measured).  Pending some consensus about how to present this data, I'm going to comment out the current presentation and also copy it here.
|-
| style="background:#f0f0ff;"|Human Poverty, HPI-1 (2005)(3)|| United Nations (UNDP) page 240 || 2007–08 || 108 || style="background:#fff3f3;"| 2º || style="background:#fff3f3;"| 1º
|-
| style="background:#f0f0ff;"| Poverty below $2 a day (1990–2005)(4)|| United Nations (UNDP) page 238–240 || 2007–08 || 71 || style="background:#fff3f3;"| 3º || 2º
Regards, PhilipR (talk) 15:26, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased presentation of poverty metrics 

message: /ˈjʊərəɡwaɪ/?
Not exists r in English, exception for some accents in Great Britain I think. The correct IPA representation is ɹ, /ˈjʊəɹəɡwaɪ/.
I'm brazilian-born, my mother language is Portuguese, I speak Spanish and know fully French and Japanese pronunciation, and the pronunciation of most accents of English is really much different. 189.106.45.97 (talk) 01:28, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA for English 

message: Could some info be put in the article about this? Many people want to know. It is certainly notable. And it is in the news now due to the government possibly selling marijuana. See: 
*Uruguay government reportedly plans to sell marijuana to registered users. June 20, 2012. The Washington Post. 
*Uruguay Marijuana Legalization: Government Proposes Selling Weed Law To Fight Crime. June 20, 2012. By Pablo Fernandez. Huffington Post. "There are no laws against marijuana use in Uruguay. Possession of the drug for personal use has never been criminalized, and a 1974 law gives judges discretion to determine if the amount of marijuana found on a suspect is for legal personal use or for illegal dealing." --Timeshifter (talk) 21:07, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simple marijuana possession never made illegal in Uruguay 

message: Hi
A couple of things came to light:
Administrative divisions:
* "intendente municipal who is elected for five years" - what is this? is it a "capital city" of the departmento, or a person who is incharge?
I have got as far as Demographics, it has taken a while and I need to go off for the night and will continue tomorrow. Chaosdruid (talk) 04:05, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll try to explain a little better this paradigm, which only exists in the English language and product of the of translation desire.
The original name of the area where Uruguay and some Argentine provinces is located (before its foundation) was "Banda Oriental" or "The Eastern line", thats was the name that Spain chose (Viceroyalty of Peru) and so these territories were known by Portugal and England (english themselves did not bother to translate it).
The meaning of "band" in Spanish (apart from "group") is also "line", "strip", "side", "bank", etc.. and here lies the mystery... with time given, "Oriental" is used in the region as a nickname or gentilic for the people who born in this territory (sons of settlers, no natives, because were extinct) and that tradition continued over time, making people even forget that the word "oriental" meaning "eastern", adopting this word as "born on Eastern line" (actually "oriental" is used right now in some documents as gentilic, even in the national anthem, "orientales homeland or the grave") ... so, the name "Republica Oriental del Uruguay" would mean "Uruguay, the country that lies on the eastern line" because this country "born" inside the "Banda Oriental", thats why the gentilic of the Uruguaian Nation (for the country as well for the people) is "Oriental".
The country is "contained" inside the "east line" and the meaning of "Oriental" has nothing to do with cardinal points, the perfect way is "Oriental Republic of Uruguay" ("the worst case" s.i.c) or just "Uruguay",  I can not believe that an ambassador of Uruguay has been so poor on the answer.
My tip: follow the example of the English settlers, don't try to translate what you can't, because Uruguay will be named as "Eastern Republic of The colored birds" (thats the transalation) there is a story behind and we can't conveyed in a single word 
--Eduardo Vivona (talk) 04:25, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyedit 

message: Data regarding population density in the last paragraph of the Demographics section is inaccurate, this statement in particular:
"Uruguay is less densely populated than Argentina and Brazil although the neighbouring regions of southern Brazil and north eastern Argentina have roughly comparable population densities."
Even though Brazil is more densely populated than Uruguay (Brazil has 22 inhabitants per square km while Uruguay has 18.65), Argentina is not (with 15.17/km2). Furthermore, while population density in the neighbouring regions of Argentina is somewhat similar to that of Uruguay, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazilian southernmost state) is actually twice as dense as Uruguay (38/km2).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.52.58.174 (talk) 03:06, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics-Population density 

message: Since when is "yellow" an ethnic group?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.153.167.246 (talk) 04:51, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yellow is equivalent with "Mongoloid" East Asians; Black with "Negroid" sub-Saharan Africans; White with "Caucasoids", usually referring to Europeans. Afro-Eurasian (talk) 05:14, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of ethnic groups 

message: Suggest merge of Americans in Uruguay into Uruguay. There is not enough in the former to justify a stand alone article. Notability seems doubtful. Ad Orientem (talk) 20:06, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Article expanded. I think it deserves to exist on its own right. Regards, --Fadesga (talk) 11:06, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

text: Regardless of whether or not the topic is notable, there are obviously more appropriate merge targets than an overview article about the entire country, e.g. Emigration from the United States, Demographics of Uruguay, or some similar article. 61.10.165.33 (talk) 17:02, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Americans in Uruguay]] 

message: 81.31.120.81 (talk) 13:40, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: as you have not requested a change.If you want to suggest a change, please request this in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to any article. - Arjayay (talk) 14:03, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 16 June 2014 ajh \;ujh hjuemma tr darf d,bkd lfbfvg frbyifh rihy 

message: How does Uruguay plan to deal with the 6 terrorists (yes I know they haven't been convicted) released from Guantanamo into the care of Uruguay? Santamoly (talk) 05:40, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guantanamo terrorists 

message: The gini index figure in the infobox is outdated. It states "(2010) 45.3", but the current world bank figure corresponds to 2012 and it is 41.3. Other more recent estimates put it under 40.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dburstin (talk • contribs) 15:00, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated gini index