Wikipedia:WikiProject El Salvador
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Welcome to Wikiproject El Salvador! This WikiProject's purpose is to extend, improve, organize, and coordinate the creation and writing of articles related to the people, history, wildlife and any other topics related to the glorious nation of El Salvador. To participate in the project, write your Wikipedia Username in the "Participants" section below.
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| Shortcut | WP:ELSALV |
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| Category | El Salvador |
| Portal |  El Salvador |
 El Salvador | |
Parent project(s) | Central America |
| {{WikiProject El Salvador}} | |
| Userbox | {{User WikiProject El Salvador}} |
| Assessment | /Assessment |
| CSB | Relevant for countering systemic bias |
Tasks to complete
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
- Place the {{WPES}} banner on the talk pages of related articles that do not have a tag.
- Articles relating to the country of El Salvador can be found here. This list was taken from the Wikipedia:WikiProject Central America page (last updated 21 January 2007). Update this list, and add the {{WPES}} banner to pages that do not yet have it.
- Monitor related changes to El Salvador pages here
- Comment on El Salvador-related articles up for deletion.
- Add municipal websites and expand articles using them as sources
- Add reliable sources to Unreferenced BLPs.
Portal:El Salvador
The portal needs to be updated regularly
General and miscellaneous
Article alerts
Did you know
- 01 Aug 2026 – Alirio García Flamenco (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by PizzaKing13 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 10 Sep 2026 – Michael Maniti (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by JTtheOG (t · c) was closed as delete by Dclemens1971 (t · c) on 17 Sep 2026; see discussion (3 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 10 Sep 2026 – C.D. Nueva Concepción (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by JoeNMLC (t · c) was redirected to List of football clubs in El Salvador#Defunct clubs (talk · edit · hist)
Categories for discussion
- 12 Aug 2026 – Category:El Salvador user templates (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Andrybak (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Aug 2026 – Category:2004 Salvadoran television series debuts (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Aug 2026 – Category:2013 Salvadoran television series debuts (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Aug 2026 – Category:2010 Salvadoran television series debuts (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
A-Class review
- undated – Menéndez's revolution (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review
- undated – 2020 Salvadoran political crisis (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review
Good article nominees
- 14 May 2026 – Hurricane Cesar–Douglas (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by GiftedIceCream (t · c); start discussion
- 08 May 2026 – Right of Salvadoran expatriates to vote (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PizzaKing13 (t · c); start discussion
Requested moves
- 06 Sep 2026 – Terrorism Confinement Center (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to CECOT by Szxq (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 21 Apr 2025 – March 2025 United States deportations of Venezuelans (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Voorts (t · c); see discussion
Articles to create
- Pipil mythology
- Joint Group
- Treasury Police (El Salvador)
- Nationalist Democratic Front (El Salvador)
- National Counsel for the Defence of Human Rights
- General offensive of 1982
Article Drafts
ONUSAL (pending review, see discussion under articles to be split)
Articles to expand and improve
- El Salvador
- Asociación de Muchachas Guías de El Salvador
- Asociación de Scouts de El Salvador
- Politics in El Salvador
- Salvadoran Civil War especially from a military history (battles etc.) perspective
- Government in El Salvador more on cabinet level
History of El Salvador
Articles to create
- Casa Blanca
- Tehuacán (there is a Tehuacán in Mexico, too)
- Chronology of El Salvador should be a section of History of El Salvador
- Greater mayorship of Sonsonate
- Greater mayorship of San Salvador
- Greater mayorship of San Miguel
- Berlin, Usulutan
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry of El Salvador
- Political Diplomatic Commission
Articles to expand and improve
People of El Salvador
Articles to create
- Roberto Eulaio Santivanez
- Francisco Mena Sandoval
Articles to expand and improve
- Demographics of El Salvador
- Pipil
- Lenca people
- Cacaopera presently just says: "Cacaopera is a municipality in the Morazán department of El Salvador." There should be a disambiguation page and a Cacaopera people article created for the ethnic group
Salvadoran Jewsnow known as History of the Jews in El Salvador- Salvadoran American
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.
Recognised content
| El Salvador articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Total | ||
 FA |
1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
| FM |
2 | 2 | |||||
 GA |
4 | 16 | 17 | 24 | 61 | ||
| B | 5 | 11 | 17 | 25 | 58 | ||
| C | 8 | 28 | 53 | 119 | 208 | ||
| Start | 12 | 71 | 96 | 539 | 718 | ||
| Stub | 3 | 36 | 66 | 1,122 | 1,227 | ||
| List | 2 | 14 | 22 | 110 | 148 | ||
| Category | 2,129 | 2,129 | |||||
| Disambig | 6 | 6 | |||||
| File | 9 | 9 | |||||
| Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Project | 9 | 9 | |||||
| Redirect | 4 | 2 | 30 | 121 | 157 | ||
| Template | 147 | 147 | |||||
| Other | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Assessed | 34 | 181 | 274 | 1,971 | 2,428 | 4,888 | |
| Total | 34 | 181 | 274 | 1,971 | 2,428 | 4,888 | |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 12,080 | Ω = 5.31 | |||||
 | This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:El Salvador articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. |
Featured articles
Former featured articles
Good articles
1854 San Salvador earthquake- 1895 Salvadoran presidential election
- 1919 Salvadoran presidential election
- 1927 Salvadoran coup attempt
- 1931 Salvadoran coup d'état
- 1931 Salvadoran presidential election
- 1935 Salvadoran presidential election
- 1939 Salvadoran presidential election
- 1967 Salvadoran presidential election
- 1982 Salvadoran presidential election
- 2012 El Salvador earthquake
- 2020 Salvadoran political crisis
- 2021 Salvadoran political crisis
- 2024 Salvadoran presidential election
- Acelhuate River
- Airport of the Pacific
- Gómez de Alvarado
- Manuel Enrique Araujo
- Buenos Amigos
- Nayib Bukele
- Armando Calderón Sol
- Rafael Campo
- Central America under Mexican rule
- Cerrón Grande Reservoir
- Cuscatlán Battalion
- Francisco Dueñas
- Flag of El Salvador
- El Salvador at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- El Salvador at the FIFA World Cup
- Elections in El Salvador
- Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
- Federation of Central America (1921–1922)
- Final offensive of 1981 (El Salvador)
- Leonel Gómez Vides
- Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez
- Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
- Hungary v El Salvador (1982 FIFA World Cup)
- Hurricane Paul
- Inside CECOT
- Hurricane Joan–Miriam
- La Matanza
- Mejicanos massacre
- Carlos Meléndez (politician)
- Jorge Meléndez
- Meléndez–Quiñónez dynasty
- Francisco Menéndez
- Menéndez's revolution
- National Democratic Party (El Salvador)
- Nuevas Ideas
- Pupusa
- Alfonso Quiñónez Molina
- Red League
- Renovating Action Party
- Right to insurrection (El Salvador)
- Pío Romero Bosque
- 1917 San Salvador earthquake
- Fidel Sánchez Hernández
- Spanish conquest of El Salvador
- Terrorism Confinement Center
- Texis Cartel
- Tropical Storm Arlene (1993)
Former good articles
Did you know? articles
1854 San Salvador earthquake- 1927 Salvadoran coup attempt
- 1931 Salvadoran presidential election
- 1935 Salvadoran presidential election
- 1939 Salvadoran presidential election
- 1967 Salvadoran presidential election
- 1979 Salvadoran coup d'état
- 1982 Salvadoran presidential election
- 2003 Salvadoran legislative election
- 2012–2014 Salvadoran gang truce
- 2024 Salvadoran presidential election
- Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
- José Salvador Alvarenga
- Anastasio Aquino's rebellion
- The Beast (book)
- Charles Beirne
- Bitcoin Law
- Buenos Amigos
- Nayib Bukele
- Cabañas Department
- Rafael Campo
- Cara Sucia (Mesoamerican site)
- Central America under Mexican rule
- Cerrón Grande Reservoir
- Cihuatán
- Coffee production in El Salvador
- Kidnapping of Abilio Diniz
- Flag of El Salvador
- El Salvador–Manchukuo relations
- El Salvador at the Olympics
- Elections in El Salvador
- February 28 Popular Leagues
- Federation of Central America (1921–1922)
- Final offensive of 1981 (El Salvador)
- Victoriano Gómez Urrutia
- Leonel Gómez Vides
- Headless priest
- Emerson Hernández
- Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
- Hungary v El Salvador (1982 FIFA World Cup)
- Carlos Meléndez (politician)
- Jorge Meléndez
- Meléndez–Quiñónez dynasty
- Menéndez's revolution
- Migrant detentions under the first Trump administration
- Mothers of the Disappeared
- One Day of Life
- Pupusa
- Quelepa
- Alfonso Quiñónez Molina
- Renovating Action Party
- Right to insurrection (El Salvador)
- Right of Salvadoran expatriates to vote
- Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele
- Salvadoran Civil War
- Fidel Sánchez Hernández
- Sensuntepeque
- Esteban Servellón
- Spanish conquest of El Salvador
- Sumpul River massacre
- Tazumal
- Terrorism Confinement Center
- Samuel Toloza
- Tropical Storm Larry (2003)
- María Teresa Tula
In the News articles
Participants
Active members
To join WikiProject El Salvador, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
- Jarteaga05
- DovahDuck
- JGA2k
- Casa1090
- Juan Miguel
- Fuwikepedia
- Bohater
- Latinviking
- Mt. Pleasant
- Jorobeq
- Lawikitejana
- ELSUSA
- macandal
- TrUcO9311
- KTsuka
- Aetheling
- Guanako512
- Refriedbeaner
- ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 21:30, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- Gershonw
- Scarykitty (talk) 23:55, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
- Narok04 (talk)
- karlpopper91 (talk) 19:00, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
- Vami_IV (talk · contribs)
- ILoveCaracas (talk) 16:43, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
- Lespaulocaster
- americanthai
- AragonChristopherR17Z (talk · contribs) 05:18:55, 26 September 2019 (UTC) History and geography.
- PizzaKing13 (talk · contribs) 4:39, 18 August 2020 (UTC) – Salvadoran political and military history.
- 2020 Guatemalan (talk)
- Shari Garland (talk · contribs) 21:53:05, 8 February 2022 (UTC) - translation.
- ChocolateCharcuterieBoard (talk · contribs) 05:07:07, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
- Shsusbsvusbsvzjsb (talk · contribs) 01:04:54, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
Former members
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
Member identification
Members of WikiProject El Salvador should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject El Salvador participants.
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| [[Category:WikiProject El Salvador participants]] | none | linked pages | ||
{{Template:User WikiProject El Salvador}} |
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{{Template:User WP El Salvador}} |
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{{Template:User WP El Salvador |
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linked pages |
For other El Salvador user templates, see Category:El Salvador user templates.
Templates
Project banner
- {{WPES}} is the project banner, to be added to the talk page of articles that fall within the scope of the project
Stubs
- {{ElSalvador-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to El Salvador; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
- {{ElSalvador-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles relating to the geography of El Salvador; to be put on the bottom of each article page.
Navboxes
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Resources
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Tools
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. automatically to references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.