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Montevideo Friend

I have been to Uruguay 3 times, and the more I go, the more I love it. I currently have a wife who lives there along with her lovely 7 year-old daughter, and I plan in some time to finally move there and stay with them the rest of our days. I can think of nothing better than to keep the smiles on their lovely faces. I had always wanted to move away from the US, and always thought I would wind up in London, but I just find myself at total peace of mind with them in Montevideo (and Parque De La Plata as well). Do you miss home? I know I do! Chau por ahora!Brasseye 05:00, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Uruguyan

I do live in Australia, my parents are from Uruguay... and frankly i hate uruguay... It's a very poor country that really needs to save itself...

augrunt 12:31, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Uruguay is middle income country for your information. If you want real poverty then go to africa or central america. Regarding your feelings towards Uruguay, it is your personal reaction to it,so that's fine, hope you can feel happy and integrated in Australia, and in a consumer society.

martin1homas

RE: Greetings

Sure! I'll help you. We can keep in touch. I'm here all the time too, so i'll always be easy to find! Cheers! GeorgeMoney (talk) 20:31, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

lol. Tengas una buen dia.--Clyde Miller 14:42, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I'll send you an invitation to the knighting ceremony.

Buffy nomination restarted

Since you have were involved with discussion before at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you might appreciate knowing that the nomination for the Buffy articles has been restared at the same wiki page. I am letting everyone know who might not be aware (whether they were for or against the article becoming featured). Cheers -- Buffyverse 22:35, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dulce de leche

Hi Gustavo! Good thing you've chosen to participate in the project. Regarding dulce de leche, note that I'm only saying that Argentina is home to dulce de leche, not the birthplace of it, although in fact the dulce de leche article cites an Argentine origin as the main legend. Anyway, the two countries were once part of a single land and were separated merely due to a series of political accidents... like every country in the world, really, since borders are an invention of military men and politicians. :). Saludos. —Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 00:15, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Portal review volunteers

Hi, based on your previous good deeds, please consider becoming one of the portal review volunteers and adding your name to the list. :-) Regards, Rfrisbie^talk 18:29, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Americas or America?

I copied you post on my talk page to Talk:Americas to keep the entire discussion in one place. say1988 22:38, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Uruguay

Saludos, Gustavo. Agradezco vuestro elogio, que es generoso. Trato ayudar en algo. Bhumiya (said/done) 21:10, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image:PenarolLogo.GIF

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Thanks for the help

Thanks again. Voseo is completely new to me (I learned by listening to Mexican Spanish), so your corrections are very helpful. See you around! Bhumiya (said/done) 16:11, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uruguayan cuisine

There does appear to be an article on the subject, but it isn't nearly as extensive as the one you wrote. I'll probably translate each of the Spanish subsections and graft them onto the existing English intro. Bhumiya (said/done) 21:56, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Paul Groussac translation

Hi, Gustavo. This guy isn't a Uruguayan, but I wonder if you would mind looking at my translation of Paul Groussac. It's no work of art, but I figure it should at least be free of grammatical errors. Thanks! Bhumiya (said/done)

Thanks! I think when I was writing the English article, I was using a paraphrased quotation which omitted "who was French". When I wrote the Spanish translation, I found a direct quotation in an interview. Bhumiya (said/done) 23:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tokoblue

I believe he's violating copyright at the commons as well. Someone uploaded a fair use image to the commons, and he used it all over. Es.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 07:20, 16 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Uruguay towns

Hola amigo thanks. I did intend going through each department and creating some templates. I only did one or two. Quisiera añadir todos de los pueblos! I know they were stubs but I thought there might be some info avilabale in spanish to expand them or if there are any Uruguayans on here!! Best regards, I'll try to start some more later. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 09:50, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Email

Hi Góngora,

Please email me at bretthillebrand@internode.on.net so i can email you some info about the wikivoices event. Thanks «l| Promethean ™|l» (talk) 18:08, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Signpost

Thanks. Please post your answers whenever they are ready.--ragesoss (talk) 23:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject TRANSWIKI

You are invited to join WikiProject TRANSWIKI and join the sub language project of your choice. The aim is to draw up a full directory of missing articles from other wikipedias by language and build a team of translators to work at bridging the gaps in knowledge between other wikipedias. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah sure, I'll need your help though! I'll start those later! Welcome! If you know anybody else interested, spread the word. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 18:55, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could you have a look at Diego Traibel

Hi,

I see you're a contributor to various Uruguayan political topics, and wondered if you could take a look at Diego Traibel (if the article hasn't been deleted). It is supposedly about a Uruguayan senator.. but the history is full of nonsense, and I'm actually wondering if it isn't some hoax that has somehow managed to cling on for more than three years! But it could be a genuine senator who has had his article vandalized repeatedly. Any ideas? --Stormie (talk) 23:58, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking a look! I have nominated the article for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diego Traibel, we shall see if anyone else comes up with anything. --Stormie (talk) 04:46, 13 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

José Feans

Hi. I noticed that you created the Catalan article for José Feans, but had a birth date of April 12 instead of April 24 (as per the English Wikipedia and Sports Reference). Do you happen to know which one is correct? Canadian Paul 02:14, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Well, I've no idea how I could have put that instead of the English one, which obviously was the reference I used when I translated the article into Catalan. I'm going to correct it right now. Thank you very much for your observation. Regards, --Góngora (Talk) 18:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem! I was only curious because I noticed that Feans and Antonio Adipe have the same birth date on Wikipedia, in the reference, and even in the official Olympic starting lists, which is really strange since they're both upper weight class boxers from Uruguay who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. I thought maybe you had a source that said something different, but I guess it just really is just a huge coincidence! Canadian Paul 01:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Departments vs. Provinces

Estimado Góngora. Sé que al igual que yo sos uruguayo, por lo tanto te respondo en español. Bien sabemos que Uruguay se encuentra dividido administrativamente en Departamentos y no en Provincias, eso es así tanto en idioma español como en inglés. Lo lógico es que en la Wiki en inglés figuren como Departments y no Provinces, como debe ser. Saludos! --MauriManya (talk) 02:45, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Effort to revive WP Uruguay

Hi Góngora, I know that a project without active participants doesn't stand a chance, but anyway, I am doing an effort to bring back to life WP Uruguay. I haven't seen much activity coming from its parent WP South/Latin America, so I figured it is best to try it locally. Lots of general articles are missing and my spanish is just good enough to translate some few things from the spanish wikipedia. I see that you have been around for a while, so if you think there is anything I should know that would put some sense of priority in my efforts, I would appreciate it. Hoverfish Talk 13:14, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Well there now need some serious expansion... Actually I'm in the middle f translating Wikipedia:WikiProject Uruguay/Montevideo. Can you help? Once translated it can be further expanded with landmarks etc.♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:51, 15 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thank you!! I can't figure out how this happened. I was editing only a section!! What a shock! I'm glad you were watching. Hoverfish Talk 17:22, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nice shield, much appreciated, gracias!♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:28, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feeback, Góngora. I am very glad to be doing a service to Montevideo. Coming from Athens, this is a big a change to the calmer and simpler, which I love. Also the character here is a calmer and kinder version of the Greek one. Soon I will have my Exploring Montevideo website in German too. A friend who volunteered offered this. Have a nice Christmas in Catalonia. Cheers. Hoverfish Talk 00:38, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright issue in Peñarol

Hi Góngora, I had to remove a big amount of text that was added to Peñarol, Montevideo because it is an almost verbatim copy of the English version of the PDF of the IMM that is included in the external links. The username of the editor coincides with the writer of the PDF, but this does not make it any less of a copyright violation. Anyway, I write to you because the same was done in the Spanish article [1] and my spanish is not good enough to find the right warnings and give the needed explanations. Can you please check it out? Thank you. Hoverfish Talk 01:18, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Elena Zuasti is now available in German ;) or an offer to import stuff from en-WP to de-WP

As Losdedos still seems to be busy, I allowed myself to translate that article for the german wikipedia. Hope there ain't too many mistakes and stuff, but I got faith that our (in sense of german) wikipedians gonna correct the sh*t I did wrong lol... --Odeesi (talk) 13:01, 17 April 2011 (UTC) (even though de:Benutzer Diskussion:Odeesi is probably better as I barely check my international wikipedia-discussions ;))[reply]

Thank you very much, Odeesi. Well done! :) --Góngora (Talk) 17:01, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I saw that you requested that translation on a userpage and as I had sum spare time, I thought I should give the import to de-WP a try... if you got any other suggestions for importing en-WP-articles to de-WP, just holla ;) --Odeesi (talk) 17:24, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, again. Yes, I do have a lot of ideas, but I don't want to abuse. ;) --user:Góngora 19:33, 17. Apr. 2011 (CEST)

Shush... as I offer it, it ain't an abuse, fella ;) So gimme sum names and I'll try my best to get them from here to there ;) (and if you now refuse to coz I told you to shush... roflmao)--Odeesi (talk) 17:37, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As I've never been to Uruguay (even though my girlfriend came from brazilian-uruguyan border (but Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul)), I don't have too many ideas where to start on de:Montevideo. But what I saw is that we got sum redlinks, so I guess I gonna start there if that's what you meant ;) --Odeesi (talk) 17:49, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Wikipedia is about gathering knowledge, and even e.g. Leyes de Indias (my first bluing of a redlink hopefully) won't be read by anyone... at least de-WP gathered that knowledge lol --Odeesi (talk) 17:57, 17 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Uruguay articles translation

Hi and thanks for the notice. I saw some of Losdedos german articles and thought they are good material to translate. As for the maps, I have downloaded a whole series of official maps in pdf and did my first steps in using Inkscape to work on svg format. I still plan to make more maps when I learn more about the software. Good going. I will keep track of your work for translations. You may have noticed that I have been adding street maps to all the barrios of Montevideo lately. Is there a template in the catalan wiki for barrios/settlements/whatever that takes more than one map (plus image)? I didn't have time to check. Hoverfish Talk 18:14, 23 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. I was looking into "Geography of (subdivision)" right now. It looks like in the English Wikipedia most such topics have been merged or redirected to the "(Subdivision)" main articles. But I do find many exceptions. The issue I see is how much we can develop the articles of a series of "Geography of (Uruguay) Department". I will start a separate article for the Geography of Canelones, but I do see the posibility of having to merge it to the Canelones Department if suggested. Hoverfish Talk 12:17, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You are right about the relative size of the infobox to the stub. My hope, of course, was that soon the barrio articles would be developed to a fair size. Some have the material it takes in the external links, some can be translated from the spanish or german wikis. But I see your point. Also I see now that for the arrondissements of Paris it is as you say (2nd arrondissement of Paris, 7th arrondissement of Paris, etc). And it is a useful idea to mark some important points in the map and have an index of them in the caption, like it is in the above examples. So, yes, thanks for the suggestion. Hoverfish Talk 13:44, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have a question about the status of the subdivisions of the Ciudad de la Costa. Someone has categorized Shangrilá as Category:Neighbourhoods in Uruguay. I know that before Ciudad de la Costa became officially recognized as a "city", all its parts were "balnearios". I hear them still named as such today. Is there any indication that now they are considered neighbourhoods of the new city? I don't see any other wikipedia doing this distinction, but of course all these articles are still in development. Otherwise it does make sense that the parts of a city are called neighbourhoods. The only thing I am worried is that we don't invent things we are not sure about. Hoverfish Talk 01:53, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Góngora, I have copied our discussion to Talk:Ciudad de la Costa and I will refer to it to remove the neighbourhood category from Sanglilá. Hoverfish Talk 14:05, 2 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Fabio Zerpa

The problem with sourcing some articles is the sheer number of copies of Wikipedia articles that are out there. In this case you obviously found one, although perhaps not a copy of en.wiki. It's structured as a Wikipedia article, even has a citation request: "reconocido en todo el mundo [cita requerida]" which would wouldn't find in a source meeting our criteria. I've reverted this because as you probably know we don't use wikipedia articles as sources. The information isn't really that vital to the article but if it's to be in the article it is important to source it reliably. Dougweller (talk) 20:47, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Map of Ciudad de la Costa

Hi, I did a png map of the Ciudad de la Costa. I hope you can use it in other wikipedias. It is also made so that some main street names can be added later, if needed. Also I plan to make a simpler version which can serve as a locator map for the resort articles, because to place the Canelones locator map on each resort is not so useful, I think. Hoverfish Talk 19:28, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Most unfortunately I just learned that the way I did it makes be derivative work from Google maps, which is not permitted, so I have submitted it for deletion. But I will soon work on another one. Sorry for the confusion. Hoverfish Talk 00:20, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Inspite of the above and all the issues brought in the discussion page, the nomination ended with "keep". So we have the above map free to use, plus the series of lower resolution location maps of the balnearios here: commons:Category:Maps of cities of Uruguay (I must still do the El Bosque location map). Saludos. Hoverfish Talk 17:09, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Meanwhile I am working full speed in completing the missing area (from Solymar to El Pinar) in OpenStreetMaps. So my thought is that we can use the smaller location maps in all the resort articles, but on the main article of Ciudad de la Costa we can use a much bigger (and 100% free) OpenStreetMap, where also names of streets will be visible. Hoverfish Talk 17:23, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Municipios of Montevideo

Hi Góngora, yes, thank you for the links, I am aware of the new division. It is even stated in the main Montevideo article. But this does not influence the series of articles about the barrios. It will be an additional series about the municipios with completely different content. Do you plan to change the barrio articles as per municipios in the Catalan wikipedia? Hoverfish Talk 17:17, 19 May 2011 (UTC) The reason I have not focused on the new divisions is that I am mainly interested for the history and cultural side of Montevideo, whereas the new system is a local government issue. Hoverfish Talk 17:19, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I will follow suit as soon as I get some of the other things in the queue done. Hoverfish Talk 17:31, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well Wikipedia is at odds with Google Maps because of copyright issues, so we have to use OpenStreetMaps to do our mapping. I'll do a similar map, but it will not be a satelite hybrid, just the usual street map thing. I will let you know when I upload. I did lots of work arranging all the Montevideo photos in commons yesterday: commons:Category:Montevideo. Check out subcategory Barrios of Montevideo. It's a work in progress. I add to every photo a barrio category, so soon we will have additional separate categories with all the photos from each barrio. Hoverfish Talk 14:06, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed it would have to be OSM. Hoverfish is much better equipped than me to draw these up! Actually Hoverifsh you can create larger maps on the website Maps for Free which also features OSM, I use it to create maps like File:Paris 1st Arrondissement.png which are larger than can be acquired on OSM itself. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:07, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I just gave the example of Google Maps as a model to know about the subdivisions, but OSM is the appropriate tool for this purpose too. --Góngora (Talk) 14:17, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, here is what I came up with: File:Municipios of Montevideo.png. I don't know how clear it looks in, say 260px thumnail version, so let me know. Hoverfish Talk 16:56, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if you saw the exchange I had with Dr.Blofeld about moving "neighbourhood" articles to "barrio" ones. I did so, mainly because of the outer barrios that are not really neighbourhoods but rural sectors. So "barrio" remains a better definition, plus it has an english use and article. But i am not sure about how to go about the "municipios". Should I use the spanish "official" version or do they fit the generic definition of municipality well enough? If so, we should add to this article a section about the use in Uruguay and the use in Montevideo. Hoverfish Talk 13:30, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Its usually those who contribute nothing to wikipedia itself but run about brandishing tags and policies and claiming other editors are rubbish that say such things anyway. Its complete ignorance and contrary to what wikipedia is about. I remain confident that 99% of the content I add to wikipedia meets requirements and if anybody challenges something I'll rework it into another form so the context is right. Like Irish Uruguayan, more work than Mauno has done all year.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:50, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Museums of Montevideo

In case you need resources, I made a list here: List of museums in Montevideo. I hope it's complete but not sure whether all the entries are currently active. The Descubrimiento/Apostadero seems to be in a ruinous state. Hoverfish Talk 19:14, 26 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

National Routes of Uruguay

Hi. Can you translate the rest of this and clean it up to it clearly displays which road the city starts in and ends in. Once that is done I will start them, although gradually as I'm starting the main towns by department at the moment.Tibetan Prayer^᧾ 20:29, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent job thanks, will resume with more tomorrow.Tibetan Prayer^᧾ 21:13, 1 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I noticed the Hipódromo error earlier and intended looking into it later. Tibetan Prayer^᧾ 14:34, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've created List of populated places in Uruguay. Can you wiki link them and add settlements which are missing but have articles on Spanish wiki> You'll spot a few for each I think.Tibetan Prayer^᧾ 20:29, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion on importance

Hi Góngora, not that this is of crucial importance, but I would like your opinion as WikiProject Uruguay member. I would like to set an importance standard for all departments, cities, towns and villages. In general terms, I think departments, capitals and cities above 50.000 should be "high", then from 8.000 to 50.000 they should be "mid" and all below 8.000 "low" unless there ia some stated reason, like an important historic place or like containing something of big importance. What do you think? Hoverfish Talk 17:18, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Defaultsort

Hi Góngora, I noticed that you often add the defaultsort template, even when the name of the article is the same with the one you assign to the Defaultsort parameter. The thing is, I always erase such templates when they simply repeat the article title, or when the difference is so small as to make it utterly improbable to become misplaced in sorting, as for example "Tacuarembó" being defaultsorted as Tacuarembo, since no other name could start with "Tacuaremb-". So just to save you time, I thought I let you know, and maybe hear from you if you have another reason for adding them. Hoverfish Talk 16:57, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see. I have been wondering why this template is always present in other wikipedias. Here it is only optional. Thanks for letting me know. Regards. Hoverfish Talk 17:13, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, can you please find a source for my concern in Talk:C.A. Progreso? Hoverfish Talk 16:04, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks you for the link, I changed the text accordingly. All best. Hoverfish Talk 17:45, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just corrected and referenced another little geography article that needs correcting in the other wikipedias: Costas del Tacuarí. Hoverfish Talk 20:18, 19 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A wiki of Canelones

Hi Góngora, I just came across this 2007 rarity and wonder if you already knew about it: http://vivaelsur.a.wiki-site.com/index.php/Portada . It seems to specialize on Canelones department. Hoverfish Talk 18:30, 25 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see you did a Costa de Oro template in the catalan wiki. Looks great! I will soon follow suit here. I have a problem. I measure distances with the ruler tool in Google Earth and come to impossibly smaller numbers for the balnearia than the ones stated by the INE pages. Measuring from the edge of Montevideo Department (the bridge of Carrasco) and via Giannattasio, I reach Pinamar at 20km or 22km via Interbalnearia. But in the INE (http://www.ine.gub.uy/biblioteca/toponimico/TOPOletraP.doc) it states "ruta Interbalnearia Km. 36,5 aproximadamente". Now this is a huge difference and I wonder how they come to such numbers. Where do they count zero on the IB? If the Google Earth ruler comes to such huge differences, I have to stop using it and correct or delete hundreds of measurements I have done till now and used in articles. Any clues? Hoverfish Talk 01:47, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this is a great relief. I counted from Plaza Cagancha, via Av. Italia and it comes to exactly 36.5 km. I added a translated section for Uruguay in Kilometre Zero. Thanks for the tip. Hoverfish Talk 11:00, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Horqueta, Uruguay in Colonia

Hi again, this time it's about an article you started in the english and catalan wikipedias. I see the spanish one precedes them by 3 years, so I assume you took it from there. The problem is that there is no such populated place. There is a nearby Los Cerros de San Juan and then there is a locality about 6 km east of it called Paso de la Horqueta, but it is not populated. The stated population of 200 is not based on anything I can find. I am for deleting it if you agree. Any suggestions? Hoverfish Talk 18:14, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

If you think it is worth keeping as a locality, do so. The problem is that we might open the door for any locality stubs, which is not a rewrding area for us or for the readers, unless of course there is something significant in a locality. This said, I leave it up to you. Cheers. Hoverfish Talk 18:46, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I am sure that the football club you are referring to is in one of the surrounding populated centers. If Horqueta is the name of a region then it has a sports club, but I have scanned the area over Google Earth for enough hours to be sure there is neither a settlement nor a football field. The other possibility is that what the article names Horqueta, appears officially under another name. But then its location is not around the coordinates of the Paso de la Horqueta but further out north or east of Paso Antolín 34°11′57″S 57°47′11″W / 34.19917°S 57.78639°W / -34.19917; -57.78639. Anyway, if there is sport club named after this place, it is good you keep the stub, as we might be able to write something, after all. Hoverfish Talk 20:09, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have located the Autódromo Pilón Banchero del Club La Horqueta Wánderers, which the search for Horqueta Wánderers Club gives. It is in Tarariras at 34°15′44″S 57°37′27″W / 34.26222°S 57.62417°W / -34.26222; -57.62417 and next to it is a football field (I presume of the same club). The interesting thing I found in the searches is that there is also a football team called Miguelete Nationál, which seems to refer to the Arroyo Miguelete, which is in the same area. Hoverfish Talk 12:00, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Categories of populated places

Hi Góngora, I doubt I will find a straightforward solution for this, so I ask your opinion. As I have seen in the references of the parlamento.gub.uy, the rising order of categories from centro poblado upwards is Caserío, Pueblo, Villa, Ciudad. Now, for caserío, the term "hamlet" is quite fitting, but I am not sure if "pueblo" always corresponds to "village" and "villa" to "town". Some "pueblos" are town-sized and some "villas" are village-sized. Intuitively I feel there must be some requirements for the government to raise the statue from one category to the next, but I have no other clues. How should we go about translating these terms in English? Hoverfish Talk 14:48, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Góngora. I am glad you are enjoying your holidays over there. Over here I am enjoying such things as lighting the fireplace and cooking gisos. I wasn't thinking of (wiki-)categorizing them. I mention the "category" as this is the word used in the legislative decrees (ex. [2]). What I did is simply list the descriptions as given by the INE, in the List of populated places in Uruguay. Where it is stated poblado, I let it as populated place, though in the articles I sometimes play it by ear and give the terms "small town" or "village" with "populated place" in parenthesis. And btw, inspired by your Costa de Oro template, I did templates for all the coast: Template:Coast of Rocha, Template:Coast of Maldonado, Template:Coast of Colonia, etc. This way all the coastal geography is easy to find. Some of the official names may not be the popular ones. What helps a lot in this is the layer of photos on Google Earth, where I often get affirmation of the popular name of a location. Anyway, greetings and enjoy the rest of the summer. Hoverfish Talk 14:16, 22 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Input needed

Hi Góngora, if you are back from your wikibreak, your input is needed here: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Battle of Sauce. The AfD is for one article, but it is part of a whole series that needs attention. Thank you. Hoverfish Talk 23:43, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again and thank you for your input. You may want to add Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Uruguay to your watchlist, although there is no guarantee that all Uruguay relevant AfDs will be listed there. Cheers. Hoverfish Talk 22:37, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Could you help out on the Joan Pujol Garcia article?

Hi. Could you help out on the Joan Pujol Garcia article? He's a Catalan historical figure (although important in English and German history also - WWII), so we'd like to:

Get some info from the Catalan version of the article, which is rather more complete (whereas the Spanish version actually needs updating from either the Catalan version or the English one)
Have his name (Catalan pronunciation, of course) in IPA at the start of the article

If you could help out on this, or recommend someone else who could, we'd greatly appreciate it. Allens (talk | contribs) 13:47, 28 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Catalan independence

Hi Gongora, has for some reason Catalan categorization become independent from the Spanish one or is this 1 an isolated case? If so, please tell me how to proceed. Thanks. Hoverfish Talk 14:21, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey thank you, this was very enlightening info. I think that beyond politics, if Catalan culture transcends the borders of Spain, it should be only categorized as European. Cheers. Hoverfish Talk 18:06, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Credo Reference Update & Survey (your opinion requested)

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La Horqueta

I thought you might like this. It popped up during the 2011 census. Cheers. Hoverfish Talk 22:19, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I had asked (or had you asked for me?) for an admin to accept me using AWB in the Catalan wikipedia, but nothing even came out of it. Bots can't do this work unless you build a database (I would think) and even so they might make mistakes. The closest to a "database" is the List of populated places in Uruguay. I am still updating it. But some places have changed from the previous version.

Another thing to be especially carefull is that in Canelones they have named the municipios with the same name as the main cities and towns, and numbers are different. I had to add a second definition to these places (see Salinas, Uruguay for an example). There is not much to say to start articles for the municipios, like Salinas (municipality), and as I hear all this system might just evaporate if it is not implemented throughout Uruguay. Hoverfish Talk 21:25, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I forgot to say, I have communicated with Revista Raices and told them the problem we had with losing the refs every time they moved their URL, so now they have fixed it and we can use their articles as refs for the Barrios of Montevideo (in the Spanish wikipedia too). Hoverfish Talk 22:25, 2 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I started by updating population in Lavalleja Depertment in the Catalan wikipedia. I had to also update the template to take in the 2004 data. But I will not extend to other language wikis. I still have lots to do here (not only INE updates) that will never be done if I go too wide. Hoverfish Talk 11:55, 3 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

SPATRA reactivation

Hello Góngora, I notice that you were involved in the project Wikipedia:Spanish Translation of the Week a few years ago. However I also notice that here has been very little activity since 2007. This is a project I'm particularly interested in and would love to see it revived. I've taken the bold step of identifying an article requiring translation and I'm in the process of inviting collaboration. The article History of Puerta del Sol could really use your help. In addition, I'd welcome any ideas you may have to help revive this project so that there is greater collaboration among ES>EN translators on en.Wikipedia. I'm identifying various contributors from whom the SPATRA project may benefit. If you have any recommendations then feel free to contact them directly or submit there usernames to me via my talkpage. I look forward to your participation. Gratefully - EagerToddler39 (talk) 02:20, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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2016 storm in Uruguay

Hi Góngora. Hope you are doing fine. I have just created an article about the tornado that devastated Dolores: 2016 storm in Uruguay. If you consider it convenient, please, publish about this fact on the Portal:Uruguay. Regards, --Fadesga (talk) 19:06, 16 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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External links section at Language interpretation

Hello. Please see the message I left on Fadesga’s talk page. What do you think? ~ Itsused^{(Talk·Contribs)} 19:15, 22 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rollback granted

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@TonyBallioni. Thanks! I am not particularly active here but I revert vandalisms every now and then, and the rollbacker tools will definitely be a plus. --Góngora (Talk) 00:05, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. I figured since you're a functionary on another project, you could be trusted :). I also get that, I've always preferred generic rollback to Twinkle rollback personally, and thought you likely had something similar going on. Thanks for your help here. TonyBallioni (talk) 00:09, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Precious

Uruguayan of many languages

Thank you for quality articles in several languages, including here Elena Zuasti and La Paz, Canelones, and there es:Termas del Arapey and es:D. H. Lawrence, for service from 2006, growing to a "Wikiholic who is proud of his addiction", - Gustavo, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

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Thanks! :) --Góngora (Talk) 23:10, 4 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A year ago, you were recipient no. 1843 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:16, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

True. Time flies! Thanks again, :). --Góngora (Talk) 20:27, 3 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

indeed, two years --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:22, 3 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Translation into Spanish

Hi Góngora, I'm looking for someone to help me review a translation I worked on for American International Group, trying to expand the Spanish version with the information that's available in English. I've been having trouble getting anyone to take a look on the Spanish Wikipedia, but I found your name on a a list of translators. Do you think you could take a look over there? There aren't many Wikipedians with your skillset, so I'd really appreciate it if you can find the time!--FacultiesIntact (talk) 19:11, 24 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, @FacultiesIntact:. Thanks for your message. I made a few changes. In general, the translation is of a very good quality. Congratulations. --Góngora (Talk) 21:04, 25 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please comment on Help talk:IPA/Spanish

Hi. It would be great if you could comment on the discussions Possibly inaccurate or misleading and About R. Thinker78 (talk) 05:24, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation from Wikimedia Portugal

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Agradecemos desde já!

Hi! Wikimedia Portugal is the Portuguese chapter of Wikimedia, founded in 2009 and recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation. Our mission is to contribute to the general dissemination of knowledge and culture through the incentive to the collection and creation of content without restrictions on use, modification and distribution, and promote their difusion; we promote and support the Wikimedia Foundation projects, among which Wikipedia, with emphasis on projects in Portuguese and Mirandese.

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Photo request petition - please sign

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Isabelle de Charrière

Hello Góngora, Would write/translate the biography of Isabelle de Charrière at the Norwegian Wikipedia? My question to you originated from the existance of the Norwegian articles of Sissel Lie of Trondheim in 1988 among others Isabelle de Charrière. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissel_Lie Sissel Lie, ‘Kvinnerolle og identitet. 'Moderne' bevissthet i noen franske kjaerlighetsromaner fra Princesse de Clèves (1678) til Corinne (1807)‘ In: Edda. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Litteraturforskning / Scandinavian Journal of Literary Research, 4 (1988), p. 354-360. She also wrote about her ‘Sjelen har intet kjønn : kvinner og kjærligheten i franske romaner på 1600-tallet og 1700-tallet.’ Oslo: Aschehoug, 1988. Isabelle de Charrière is mentioned too in https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filosofi%C3%A5ret_1740 So I'll hope you do it or find someone to do it. Boss-well63 (talk) 15:44, 10 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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