Wiki143:WikiProject Cuba

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The Cuba WikiProject is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Cuba.

Some goals of the project

• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of Cuba.
• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Cuba by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
• To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Cuba in Wikipedia.
• To create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Cuba and Cubans.
• To standardize articles on Cuba or Cuban subjects. They should have similar layouts, formatting, etc.
• To present relevant information that takes into account the voices of women, the poor, the indigenous, and all other aspects of Cuban society, in tandem with the ongoing goals of Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias.
• To standardize the use of Spanish-language terms, names, and translations into English across the series.

Our scope

The project generally considers any article related to Cuba to be a valid topic.

Assessment of articles

Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of Cuba articles. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Cuba/Assessment. The stats are generated automatically every 24 hours or so.

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Templates

For the range of templates related to Cuban articles, see WikiProject Cuba/Templates {{wikipedia:WikiProject Cuba/Participants}}

Participant survey

It would be good if writers concerned about Cuba would write to each other or post here and get to know each other better. Please add any details about yourself to the participant survey page.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Cuba/Participant survey

Tasks

Urgent!

• Cuba article needs a massive amount of work (clean up, npov, fact checking, source checking etc.)

Permanent tasks

• Add the project template Template:Tlx to the talk pages of all relevant Cuban related talk pages. This will encourage participation, and make users more aware of this project.
• Comment on Cuba-related articles up for deletion.

Ongoing

• July 2008 Contribute to development of Havana's International Book Fair.
• June 2015 Fill in Timeline of Havana.
• June 2022 Add sources and content to Consolidation of the Cuban Revolution

Image requests

In addition to posting your image requests here, on the talk page(s) of the subject(s), and on the Wikimedia Commons (Commons:Commons:Picture requests), please also post them at es:Wikipedia:Imágenes solicitadas on the Spanish Wikipedia. If you do not know Spanish, you can ask someone at es:Wikipedia:Embajadas to help you.

Other tasks

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New Wikipedia articles related to Cuba and Cuban Topics

Please feel free to list your new Cuba related articles in the box below (newer articles at the top). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Cuba portal - see the Cuba portal selection box to the right for more information.

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Recognized content

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Conventions

• In biographies, identify the subject as either a Cuban, Cuban-American, or of Cuban ancestry, depending on how that person identifies him/herself.
• Accentuation: In biographies, use accents if the subject him/herself used them in when spelling their name.
• Spanish words/orgs with Spanish names: Should be italicized and followed by an English translation and approximation the first time they appear in an article.

Other articles related to WikiProject Cuba

On the below link is a list of articles that do not strictly come under the remit of Wikiproject Cuba, but that are related to Cuba, or have particular details or issues that may interest Wikiproject Cuba members. Please watchlist these pages.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Cuba/Other articles

Related WikiProjects and Wikiportals

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Caribbean
• Portal:Cuba
• Portal:Caribbean
• Portal:Latin America
• Portal:Communism

Resources

You can access resources related to Cuba here:

• Image:Habana P.jpg
• Hotel Nacional de Cuba and its Main garden
• Face of John Lennon Sculpture at John Lennon Park
• Don Quixote sculpture in Vedado
• Inhabited deteriorated building in Centro Habana
• Guanabo Beach in Habana del Este
• Brasil street in Havana
• The "zafra"
• Cienfuegos's forest
• Look from a flat roof in Havana Vieja

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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