Portal talk:Cuba

message: The current page is a start. takethemud 01:12, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Have added Cuba-United States relations to the list, and Cuba and democracy which was needed to take the heat off the main Cuba page (see international coverage ) --Zleitzen 14:34, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Misc

message: The Norwegian wikipedia had this photo - http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilde:Celia1.jpg - do you think we can use that ? I think it's a much nicer photo than the bizarre big-hair one. It also appears http://www.radiomoron.cu/2006/01/11/celia.asp - without a copyright note (compare the other photo on that page). -- Beardo 03:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it is more natural depiction of Sanchez than the weird Adams family big-hair pose. Go ahead.--Zleitzen 04:06, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just wait for the copyright police to hit that. I think that would look nice on your women in Cuba article, too. -- Beardo 06:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Celia Sanchez 

message: Is his visit newsworthy ?  "HAVANA -- Celebrated American writer Gore Vidal slammed the four-decade-long U.S. trade embargo against Cuba on Sunday, saying during a visit to the island that he hopes recent changes in U.S. politics will help end the sanctions." - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/10/AR2006121001149.html
And I must say he looked healthier on TV a few minutes ago than in that 2003 file photo. Especially as he's older than Fidel. -- Beardo 06:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gore Vidal 

message: OK - I've made a start. Feel free to improve. --Beardo 05:01, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great work Beardo. --Zleitzen 07:17, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Banking in Cuba]] 

message: Hello everyone. The Cuban Portal has not been edited since early June, and has only received main contributions from one user, User:Zleitzen, who has stated that he/she is inactive for the foreseeable future (last edit on September 29, 2007, after no edits since July 23, 2007). The News section is completely outdated, although articles, pictures, and quotes are in a random quotation, so those aren't affected much. We need a dedicated user(s) who will take a little time of his/her week and update the page, by adding current news every few days and presenting articles, pictures, and quotes when good ones are found.
If the Portal isn't updated regularly, it may be automatically de-featured, since it may fail the FPO criteria #3(4): Featured portals that require maintenance and are not updated for three or more months are summarily demoted.
I'd offer myself for the job, but I'm already maintaining the Portal:Puerto Rico, and I'll be working on featuring other Portals soon. So, any volunteers? - Mtmelendez (Talk) 23:12, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What all is required to keep this portal updated? John Carter 23:29, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your interest. The news section should be updated with current news, which is right now the most critical part of the portal, and new Cuban articles should be added in the DYK section. I've just added a hidden message at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cuba/New articles so users will post the information when they create new articles. Other than that, include articles and biographies every now and then in the Selected series templates, preferably when articles reach GA or FA which the community likes to present. - Mtmelendez (Talk) 23:57, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For the interim, I can try to get it updated at around the same time I update the Saints portal. I do think that we'd be better off with someone else though, if they want to come forward. My memory isn't all it could be. John Carter 00:09, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid I can't maintain it permanently either. I'll contribute a few news stories and update the DYK while we search for a user willing to take the task. But thank you for your time and effort. - Mtmelendez (Talk) 01:20, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Portal:Cuba]]

message: There's no article on the technological and scientific contributions Cuba has made! Someone, anyone please wright an article on this subject since I can't due to the fact I can't access the information necessary to writing the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rainboqer (talk • contribs) 23:24, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The technological and scientific contributions 

message: This portal hasn't been updated in 13 months. I'm afraid that it will undoubtly fall victim to a FPR if it continues unattended. - Caribbean~H.Q. 21:08, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You may be right in that it hasn't been updated, but so far as I can see everything is on autorotation, the news is a link to the wikinews portal, which is updated regularly there, and there haven't really been any substantive changes in the quality of any articles to add or remove them from the portal, so, basically, it has been more or less allowed to continue as is. If there were to be any significant improvement in any articles, that would be different, but there hasn't been recently. John Carter (talk) 21:13, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I figure that Che Guevara's demotion halted any possible improvement since early 2008. But still, this portal is lacking some featured content that actually covers Cuba itself. The membranophones and drums lists seem collective to me, possibly more related to the Caribbean project than this one. I find it curious, mostly because my role in Puerto Rico's portal has focused in sorting the selected content, yet including collective articles has never passed through my mind. - Caribbean~H.Q. 21:34, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the related project hasn't been very active, so there hasn't been that much positive change. You're right about the non-inclusion of the 2 FLs. Personally, I've never figured out how to include FLs, or even regular Lists, into portals, so I think that's why I didn't. If you do know how to, though, by all means tell me, so that they can be included. John Carter (talk) 21:48, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: FLs would probably fall into "selected content", yet I have never included one in the portal myself. My point was the scope of the lists, we need more material directly discussing Cuba here. If the project is inactive, I figure that an innovative approach can be tried, the GAs can be included as well, serving as some sort of override to the shortage of FAs or FLs. - Caribbean~H.Q. 21:57, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Abandoned

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thread_title:   Proposed deletion of [[Hotel Vedado]] 

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thread_title:  Notice from the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals|Portals WikiProject]] 

message: I have tagged Portal:Cuba/Selected articles and pictures, a page "to list Cuba-related material that may be considered for use on Portal:Cuba" as , because the page has not been used since April 2011. North America1000 20:25, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Subpage tagged as historical

message: The portal has been expanded with the addition of new Good- and Featured article sections. The article selections listed below were added. Additional expansion, updating and cleanup was also performed. If anyone is interested, please feel free to discuss these changes here. North America1000 14:44, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal expanded