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Hey, I saw that you blanked the page for Rosa Amelia Guzmán. While we do have a policy that says Ignore All Rules, that is usually not applied to article content in this way. There are policies which require consensus for merging text or deletions, which if you do not follow tend to be seen as disruptive. If we knew more about you, like you speak Spanish; you are an expert on Salvadoran sourcing; you have verified with all the major archive, library and university repositories that there are no other sources (since digitization in Central America is rare); or that you have authoritative knowledge in the women's rights movements of Latin America, specifically in El Salvador, your decision to blank the page without discussion might not be viewed as disruptive.
But, since we don't know that, sticking to policy and gaining consensus is the way to go. At the very least, posting on the talk page to start discussion is required. I've asked a couple of admins to review your action to verify that they concur that the blanking of the page and failure to properly merge the information into the file you redirected it to is problematic. Typically women who fought for voting rights and then were elected to national office are considered notable in their own right and not dependent on someone else's notability to have an article in the encyclopedia. If you need help in evaluating women's articles, please join us on the talk page at Women in Red. We're a group of men and women working to improve the content about notable women in the encyclopedic record. It's a very helpful group and you will usually get a faster response posting there than posting on the talk page of a single article. You can also ask the other projects listed on the article talk page for their input. SusunW (talk) 14:12, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
@SusunW Yes, but there is a genuine concern about Wikipedia creating articles on people for whom so few reliable, independent sources exist. The only even remotely substantive source of information on Rosa Amelia Guzman explicitly says that she is only noted in the scholarly literature as being the wife of Arturo Araujo. If we have a source that expressly says she is primarily notable for being the wife of Arturo Araujo, my view is that we should simply wait until historians write more substantively about her, rather than pre-emptively adding the Wikipedia article before historians have gotten around to actually completing her biography. As I mentioned before, a lot of really good and comprehensive dictionaries of Salvadoran history have been published, which include tens of thousands of biographies, and my personal view is that Wikipedia should limit itself to these historical figures, i.e. the biographies that have already been written by historians. I'm sure that Women in Red does good work in general, but I still maintain that it goes too far to pre-empt the historians. Newspapers are unfortunately a weak link when it comes to digitization of sources in Central America. You mentioned earlier that there isn't much digitization, but when it comes to El Salvador, there's actually quite a lot when it comes to books, theses, and academic journals. The large majority of those three types of sources are available online(see, to cite just a few, www.cialc.unam.mx, https://lamjol.info, http://www.redicces.org.sv, https://dialnet.unirioja.es, https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr, rd.udb.edu.sv, ri.ues.edu.sv, revistas.ues.edu.sv, and of course Library Genesis), but unfortunately not newspapers. I'm not in El Salvador right now, so I can't directly access physical newspaper archives, but if you want a specific article that you know the title of, I could always ask the university to which I'm affiliated to send me a copy to give to you. When it comes to digitized newspaper archives, here's what little I know of.LoosingIt (talk) 00:48, 21 September 2019 (UTC) -Almost every copy of the government's bulletin Diario Oficial is available online here http://www.diariooficial.gob.sv -There are about a hundred old copies of La Prensa Grafica (mostly from 1992-1995) here cinc.ansp.gob.sv -You can find many editions of El Diario de Hoy from the year 1975 here https://dds.crl.edu/crldelivery/20029
Hello. Consensus is for merge as proposed. And you can read my closing statement. One reason I am notifying you is, I won't be doing the actual merging. I have no competence with the subject other than passing knowledge. I would not be able to effectively merge the articles. So, I am hoping you or someone else will do it. Sorry to say, I wouldn't even try. Regards. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 14:29, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
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