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I just wanted to say welcome to the project. --Kumioko (talk) 22:26, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Greetings, It was recently suggested that WikiProject United States History might be inactive or semiactive and that it might be beneficial to include it in the list of projects supported by WikiProject United States.

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Thanks for your editing and contributions to the Pedro de Ibarra page. We were pleased to find it and link it to our page. --Alvaro_Mexia (talk) 00:46, 29 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 19:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but the instructions clearly state that "each addition to the list must also provide a reliable verifiable source which cites the person's notability and/or the person's link to Puerto Rico, otherwise the name will be removed." There are no exceptions and the rules apply to everyone. Therefore, the names of Deborah Aguiar-Vélez and John Rodriguez have been remmoved. You may add them once more with the references that are required. Tony the Marine (talk) 14:20, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have noticed you are the major contributor the article Rudy Pérez. I have found two major problems with this article in that it is not written in a neutral point of view, and some of the text is copied and pasted, with only very slight alterations to the wording. I would very much appreciate it if you can help me improve on the article. I would also recommend reading WP:NPOV and WP:C-P. Thanks! Kinkreet^{~♥moshi moshi♥~} 23:55, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Isinbill. You have new messages at Kinkreet's talk page.
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Kinkreet^{~♥moshi moshi♥~} 01:49, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Peoples of the world has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Night of the Big Wind _talk 12:41, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Isinbill! I've noticed your works on articles related to Latin American music. I would like to invite you to the Latin American music task force a collaborative effort which aims to create, expand, and maintain Latin American music-related articles. If you'd like to join, please sign up here. Thank you. Erick (talk) 23:21, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I posted a message on WP:Latin music about a future collaboration between all members to bring Latin music to FA status. Please join in the discussion :) Best, Jonayo! ^{Selena 4 ever} 22:47, 27 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add infoboxes to articles on Classical musicians per Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes. Thank you.MisterCSharp (talk) 12:29, 15 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for editing the pages: Nicaraguan American and Yemeni-American. I will try to help making them better. Biol. Cons. (talk) 00:01, 31 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

wikipedia has many references that is not an excuse because all information must be referenced and verified as this is an encyclopedia. Just the fact that the history section needs references is what made that the label of references be placed in the article. All the information of wikipedia should be referenced. Meanwhile, Ethiopian students, most could have returned to Ethiopia but who emigrated because of war and poverty in their country are living in the United States until the situation in their country change, and are their descendants basically who founded the community of Ethiopian Americans. --Isinbill (talk) 02:09, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Correction: all information must be reliably and neutrally referenced. The fact remains, however, that everyculture.com is not a reliable source. It is self-published source, just like Wikipedia. As such, it makes no difference if the webpage is appended with references. Self-published sources in general are discouraged, especially with regard to material on living people (which would include Ethiopian Americans). Per WP:SPS:

Anyone can create a personal web page or pay to have a book published, and then claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason, self-published media, such as books, patents, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, personal or group blogs, Internet forum postings, and tweets, are largely not acceptable as sources. Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the topic of the article, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications.^[1] Take care when using such sources: if the information in question is really worth reporting, someone else will probably have done so.^[2] Never use self-published sources as third-party sources about living people, even if the author is an expert, well-known professional researcher, or writer.

Regards, Middayexpress (talk) 13:55, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Isinbill - perhaps I can interest you in Jean de Kindelan as you have been the main editor of the Sebastián Kindelán y O’Regan article ?? Also, I have a need for an editor with excellent Spanish and perhaps good French to explore items that can be found via google but which I cannot understand well!! Jean de Kindelan (or Juan) was a Spanish Army Officer who served Napoleon in the Division of the North and was excluded from the plans to escape from Denmark in 1808 because of his pro-French opinions. ( We can easily read the Danish accounts!) Are you interested? or do you know of another Spanish speaker on English Wikipedia who might help? Thanks in advance Viking1808 (talk) 09:56, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, it was just a random adding sources to bios. Sure, happy to help add more info In ictu oculi (talk) 14:31, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Kindly stop revert warring on the Eritrean American article. Your unjustified removal of the collage and images is unacceptable and smacks of WP:GOAT. Please desist from this. I would also like to discuss with you the validity of the so-called "North African American" neologism. If we cannot come to an agreement on this, I will nominate the page for deletion. Regards, Middayexpress (talk) 19:32, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I do not think I'm doing any vandalism. I provided information that you deleted it and sustituiste other. However, one of the references that you used was the one I used for my information. You deleted it my information, and changed by another, using, among your sources, which I had used, when you could simply have deposited your information with mine without removing anything (why remove my information for re-inclusion you with your words?). I do not eliminated your contributions, which you you included after me, I just ask you to accept my contributions. You also say that my images are unacceptable, even having left three of the five that I included in the article. I really do not know what happens. And as the article of the North African Americans, I've just thought to call it North African in United States(this is just a topic that interests me and which I wanted to do an article).--Isinbill (talk) 19:44, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you changed the text to indicate that most Eritreans arrived in the 1980s, when they actually arrived in the 1990s. It was specifically during the 1965-1991 period when most Eritrean immigrants in the 1980s. The bulk of Eritrean Americans as a whole actually arrived later, following the civil Eritrean/Ethiopian conflicts. Regarding the images, you removed the collage I created and replaced it with individual images, including some of people who are only distantly of Eritrean ancestry, are not born in Eritrea, have never lived there, and are not really a part of the Eritrean community abroad either. You also removed the community center and restaurant pics. That said, I agree that renaming the North African American page would be an adequate solution. Regards, Middayexpress (talk) 19:56, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Now I'm not sure if I Should leave the answer here or on my page for you to read ... Qwanell Mosley and Nipsey Hussle, whose photos I included in the article, are people who have a parent Eritrean each. And I I repeat, you deleted it all the information I included to rewrite most of them with your words, basing on the same reference that I used. For that, it would have been better to accept my information, at least for the most part.--Isinbill (talk) 20:06, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, what you indicated in several instances differed from what the link says. The most conspicuous example of this was when you wrote that most Eritreans arrived during the 1980s, when the link actually states that most who arrived during the 1965-1991 period specifically came during the 1980s (as opposed to the 60s, 70s, or 1990-91). This was probably a mistake, but an error all the same. Also note that the link is on the Eritrean population in one city, not everywhere. The wiki English was also sub-par, so I rendered it more encyclopedic. As for those two gentlemen, they are only partially Eritrean, were not born in Eritrea, have never lived there, nor are they really part of the Eritrea community abroad. The purpose of the infobox image area is to show notable representatives of the community, not just any person, famous or otherwise, who happens to have some Eritrean ancestry. Middayexpress (talk) 20:22, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures of people that are only partially descended ethnic group speaks of an article (in the case of the pictures I got, 50%), located in the data box of the article, is something that is repeated in almost all wikipedia articles that talk about ethnic groups. That yu can see on items such as English American or German American. Furthermore, the fact that I've made ​​some mistakes does not mean you have to remove all information that I included and re-write it for the most part, in the item, in other words.--Isinbill (talk) 20:35, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kindly stop arguing for the sake of arguing. Several bits of that material was actually wrong, as already explained. And yes, per WP:COMPETENCE, material should be written in proper English, and in a neutral, encyclopedic register, which I saw to. The fact that you didn't spell "North Africans in the United States" correctly only further demonstrates that proper English is an issue here. As for the pics, I never stated that peoples of partial ancestry should not be included on that basis alone. I said in my last line above that despite the fact that the gentlemen in question have some Eritrean ancestry, they are not representative of the community because they were not born in Eritrea, have never lived there, and are not really part of the Eritrean community abroad either. Ella Thomas, on the other hand, is representative because she was born in Eritrea and is an active part of the Eritrean diaspora as well. Also, please post your response if any here so that the discussion is all in one place. Middayexpress (talk) 20:49, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

No need to have been born or raised in the United States to be an Eritrean American, just that he descends from Eritreans, but has always lived in the U.S., as you put it in the introduction of the article.--Isinbill (talk) 20:57, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

With respect, that's a strawman. And for the second and last time, please remember to post any future responses here where the full discussion is found. No need to double post. Middayexpress (talk) 21:06, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. If it is true the that you said, I think it's good for article, delete the information I adhered on it, if that information was bad spelling and should be corrected it, so as to enhance the interpretation that I made on some points of the source on which I relied. While the source, although basically it speaking of Chicago, the beginning of the article talked about the reasons for the Eritrean emigration and showed some data on their migration in the United States in general. These data were the ones I took (not the data of Chicago, because before you said that the references only spoke of a place). As for the photos, although I accept them as they are now (as thou put it), I do believe that an American that is 50% Eritrean can also feel very connected to Eritrea and joined the Eritrean American population (many Americans that descending only a partial origin still feel part of that origin, even some celebrities). Just want to ask you a favor: When you delete the information that I include in an article, do you can send me a message telling me and explaining the reasons for the removal please?, because this should not take me by surprise and disappointment, to see how my contributions (if are many) are removed without explication. Regards. --Isinbill (talk) 23:38, 29 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I did inform you of what was the problem in my edit summary, and was the only one to do so. I also started this talk page discussion, so I don't see what there is to be surprised about. At any rate, most of that link was on Eritreans in Chicago. Your redaction of it was incorrect in spots, as already explained, and I fixed that. There were also grammar and tone-related issues which I adjusted. Lastly, I never said that someone of 50% Eritrean ancestry cannot feel very connected to Eritrea. If that had been my argument, Ella Thomas obviously wouldn't have been included since she too has a non-Eritrean parent. The difference is that she is nonetheless representative of Eritreans in the States because she was born in Eritrea and is an active part of the Eritrean diaspora as well. She's not just someone who happens to have some Eritrean ancestry. Regards, Middayexpress (talk) 14:04, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to clarify that I meant that I only used the information from the beginning of the article Eritreans of Chicago, from the source of the Encyclopedia of Chicago, where he talked about the reasons for the emigration Eritrean and some general information about your precensia in the U.S., I did not use more data from that reference. Although that was the only one I used (I understood how you thought I was saying have used various sources and you just saw that). As for the correcting my spelling and sentences of the article based on that reference, I said that I´m agree in your made changes in the article to that it can be understood better and have a better spelling in it. So I have nothing more to object to that effect. Regards,--Isinbill (talk) 17:30, 1 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The issue is that in the Dominican Republic is inconceivable to say that "Afro-dominicans" are an ethnic group. The article was written to portrait the North American point of view of the races and ethnics, following the "One drop rule", which claims that all offspring of an African will always be African, but not all offspring of an European is European. That has nothing to do with the Dominican situation, and is nonsense to apply that in this article. I found remarkable that just 3 days ago, Listín Diario, the major Dominican newspaper, published about this issue: ¡Dominicano, no seas un color!

This article is about a Dominican ethnicity and it must be about what is for Dominicans that ethnic, because ethnics are a social contruct, not like races that are a scientific and a genetic construct. There must be an article about black Dominicans and another one about multiracial Dominicans. ★ Nacho ★ ★ 21:24, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]