Talk:Caracas/Archive 1

Archive 1

older entries

"it is pride of Caracas by its functionality and cleaning. Account with four lines and more than 40 stations, it covers great part of the city, it has an integrated ticket system, that combines the route of the Metro with the offered by the Metrobús, a service of buses of the Caracas Metro, and that arrives at zones with the same quality and excellence. "

This entry reads like a poorly translated travel brochure.

The history part should be extended somewhat.

aesthetic judgement?

"View of Caracas in 1839; once a beautiful, colonial city of red-tiled roofs, the city is now a jungle of skyscrapers"; this should not be a place for making personal remarks one the city's beauty or absence of it... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.45.170.211 (talk) 19:23, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

motto

Ave María Santísima, sin pecado concebida, en el primer instante de su ser natural.

This seems a bit long for a city motto. can someone verify this is the actual motto? --Revolución (talk) 03:05, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

It is. Trust me, I live in this city. Alex Coiro 05:01, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

This motto seems to be sort of bull. I'm sure no-one in Caracas considers that to be a motto.

I live in Caracas and have studied it's history. That is not Caracas Motto, that is what you say when you go into a confession stand before a priest on a Catholic Church. Please remove that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vizoso (talk • contribs) 03:30, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

BTW.... I would like to know how you do to add new pictures. I have crazy pictures of Caracas that show way more about the city as a city than the pics already posted.

We should add info about the barrios and ranchos, it´s really impressive for someone who doesn´t live there

Lowest gas prices

According to CNN Caracas has the lowest gas prices in the world.

Caracas (Apr-06): $0.12/gallon

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/09/news/economy/global_gas/index.htm?cnn=yes

// Tony H

---

That will be Venezuela as a whole, not Caracas.

Location within the country/ Ubicación en el país

we need to add a map of Venezuela in which we point out the location of the city./ Necesitamos añadir un mapa de Venezuela donde señalemos la ubicación de la ciudad. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Daebello (talk • contribs) 15:39, 10 December 2006 (UTC).

I agree. I am using it for a project and must leave the site because it does not have the information I need. -Annonymous

map

there should be a map showing the location of the city within the country...

metro area

Is there an authoritative source for the extent and population of the metropolitan area? The definition I know has a population of only 3.3 million. I will try and find official sources. Polaron 05:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Here is a definition of the official metropolitan area, which is called Distrito Metropolitano, created in 2000 and composed of Libertador, Baruta, Chacao, El Hatillo, and Sucre. From here and here, the total for the five municipios comprising the Distrito Metropolitano is 2,762,259 (2001 census provisional). From here we find yearly census estimates. The calculated 2005 estimate for Distrito Metropolitano is 3,172,957. I will incorporate this into the article later unless someone can cite an authoritative source for the 5.1 million figure. Also, the surface area is 1,930 sq. km if we exclude Dependencias Federales. Polaron 06:50, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

The only way I could get to 5.1 million is to include the entire states of Miranda, Vargas and D.C. (5.17 million as of 2005). Polaron 17:35, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

The official Met Area is counting only Distrito Metropolitano but the urban agglomeration (including La Guaira, San Antonio, Guarenas-Guatire, etc ) population is 4.7 Million accordingly to citypopulation.de. If the source is considered reliable, we could add this figure JRSP 04:10, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

citypopulation.de seems to be reliable, similar articles use it as a reference already accordingly to this search. JRSP 18:31, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Re-write

No offense to those who have worked hardly on improving this article, it is in a much better shape than before, but it still sounds like a touristic article and not like an encyclopedic entry. The best way to get in the right track is to use the structure suggested at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities:

• Introduction:
• History
  • major historical events that occurred in city
• Law and government
  • Mayor or City Executive-- current, previous executives
  • representative body?
• Geography
  • Physical geography (area, unique features)
  • Major Parks
• Economy
  • Major industries/products
  • taxes
• Demographics
  • city population
  • racial/ethnic makeup
  • religious makeup
• Sites of interest
• Colleges and universities
• Sports teams
• Notable natives
• (Miscellaneous topics and similar lists)
• External links

I will go ahead and introduce these sections and mark them as stubs. Then we can all work together in inserting the proper information. It would be great to get Caracas to good article status at least.--enano ^(Talk) 22:56, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

---

History section cleaned up a bit

I have tried to clean up the 'History' section. Some sentences were so badly written that the meaning was not clear, and I may have been a little brutal in chopping bits out. The 'History' section still needs more work to bring it up to standard, but it is hopefully more readable that it was! Lammy 21:00, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Reality: Poverty and Crime

I think this article needs more reality.

Petare is said to have the highest population density of Latin America, since it is estimated to have about 3 million people (not 1 million as referred in article) [citation needed, BID].

I do not have numbers yet, but if someone could help me find the socio-demographic data for Caracas, that indicates how many people are estimated live in Ranchos and Barrios, and the conditions they live in- it would add a lot of reality to the article, and would be more accurate.

Also, Caracas is ranked 2nd in the most dangerous cities in Latin America. (The first one is Recife, Brazil). The CICPC (Cuerpo de Investigaciones Cientificas, Penales y Criminalisticas) affirms that in the country there are 13,400 homicides for every 100,000 habitants. [Citation needs to be confirmed]

Do you mean 134 homicides for every 100,000 habitants. 13400 would be impossible. the highest ever recorded was somewhere around 400 in medellin, but definitely not 13,400.

---

Yes, a friend of mine from Venezuela tells me of Caracas's crime-ridden reputation. It should definitely be included if anyone has sources.--Loodog 17:38, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Emblema.gif

Image:Emblema.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 04:43, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

can't add interwiki

I tried to add zh:卡拉卡斯 to this article, but failed. someone can help me ? -Kakoui 02:13, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Location

The longitude of Caracas is specified as 66º 55’ 70’’ W -- degrees, minutes, seconds. I thought that these were all specified in base 60 (Sexagesimal), so 70 doesn't make any sense. What is the correct value?

"More than five hundred years ago, the area was populated by indigenous peoples and Caracas did not exist." How exactly did it not exist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.66.86.219 (talk) 21:16, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Caracas crime

I found this http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4480 from foreign policy magazine

Yeah I read in the news that a ratio of 100 per 100.000 get killed daily!! - 9 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.234.104.81 (talk)

Should I make a new section? WhisperToMe (talk) 05:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

apparently venezuela has one of the highest murder rates per capita in the world. a section concerning the cities criminology would be interesting —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.69.249.202 (talk) 02:20, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

I have added some crime details —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.161.53.111 (talk) 08:37, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

If you need a reliable source, just cite the US DoS page http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1059.html. Crime is something that should be noted, as it's an extremely dangerous city to live in, not to mention to any potential visitor. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.78.171.130 (talk) 17:33, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

The above ref is tertiary, quoting other unnamed sources. We need something inbetween this and raw crime statistics.Student7 (talk) 13:09, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

(can't remember now, the previous entries). The current entry looks okay after editing. the question is why the rate has gone up? Is there any documentable link to lax law enforcement or what? Or political problems between the federal and city level which led to lower funding of policing? Student7 (talk) 14:46, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

According to a recent article by AFP [1], Ciudad Juárez has a higher murder rate so the "highest murder rate in the world" is a WP:PEACOCK, not supported by *multiple independent* reliable sources. Additionally, these studies only include cities within a population range so I think the peacock terms should be removed and the 130/100,000 figure should be replaced by a range showing different independent reports. JRSP (talk) 15:11, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

For the record, they weren't exactly low before! See 1997 crime stats].

Plenty of statistics though. The inflammatory sentence "murder capital" refers to Caracas being a national capital and having the highest crime rate. Ciudad Juarez is not a national capital. So are we supposed to drop an adjective here? The sentence is accurate but maybe needs restructuring. 2006 statistics. No lack of crime stats here. Higher than DC, lower than Bagdad in 2003. no date on this one. How many do we need? There are hundreds of articles, all reliable, none of the above from .com sites. Have had years to study this. About time it wound up in an article. All carefully censored up until 2009. Student7 (talk) 20:46, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

High crime rates are notable enough to be mentioned, but we can do this without peacock terms. Also we have to be careful with sources; even reliable newspapers often mix up things, sometimes they use "murder" to refer to homicide or even violent deaths in general. This kind of information should better be based on scholarly publications instead of news outlets that often tend to be sensationalistic. JRSP (talk) 02:47, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

This, of course, is patently untrue. The Associated Press has long been considered a reliable source, as has Reuters and serveral other news sources. Only one of these is necessary, not two or more. Wikipedia should be WP:NOTCENSORED.Student7 (talk) 11:04, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

What does this discussion have to do with censorship? My point is that, if we are going to report exact figures, we'd better cross-check multiple reliable sources –especially scholarly publications– and try to keep an encyclopedic language away from sensationalistic catch-phrases like "murder capital". Stating the mere fact that Caracas has a high crime rate is an easily verifiable fact but if we are going to report precise figures we have to be more careful.JRSP (talk) 11:25, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

May a single Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post, New York Times, or other commonly-used news gathering organization be used to report murder rates in Caracas?Student7 (talk) 11:04, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

RFC Response: Major newspapers are not a credible source for demography, criminology or statistics. Journalists are not demographers, criminologists or statisticians. Journalists are reliant upon the demographic, criminological and statistical reports of others, in particular governments and NGOs. US Based Media Services are not reliable when it comes to the situation within countries that are in a politically antagonistic relationship with the United States. Rely on multiple non-US media sources of high credibility (Guardian/Observer + BBC) that name their sources, or seek academic / policy analysis statistics from peer reviewed sources. Without detailed statistics, rely on colour-impressions from high quality sources, such as named NGOs with highly respected independence (Lawyers without Borders for example). Fifelfoo (talk) 14:27, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

I disagree. This may be true with a nation with which there is a belligerent status, but the Washington Post and NY Times are left-wing and would have been quite delighted to say anything prejudicial to the Bush administration if they could have found anything. The murder problems of Caracas pre-date the current antagonism (and Venezuelan administration) and even that can't be reported, even when it is reported by non-US sources which has been attempted. Student7 (talk) 12:26, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

"the Washington Post and NY Times are left-wing" This is a surprising piece of news; I've not noted them advocating the socialisation of production. The revolution proceeds apace, comrade. Fifelfoo (talk) 12:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

What is meant by "politically antagonistic?" The US still has an embassy in Venezuela. Does this then mean if Obama says something that the Japanese Prime Minister takes umbrage to, we can no longer quote American newspapers on any topic relating to Japan (and vice-versa, to be sure)? How long does this information blackout persist? Until Obama apologizes? Until he physically embraces the Prime Minister? Or what?

Another little cutsie which I just learned and somebody knew but didn't say anything: "The government stopped issuing regular statistics several years ago – when, if anything, things were even worse – and Interior and Justice Minister Tarek El Assaimi is proving no less reticent than many of his predecessors."

That from the running dog of US imperialism, the Latin American edition of the Herald Tribune.

Wow! Pretty easy to keep out of the news when statistics stop being counted "officially." The report went on to say that the weekend count was 60. Sixty! This is exceeded by one of the Mexican border communities which runs drugs, but by no other place and no other capital.

Anyone have different information?

Will the censor allow us to publish statistics on the prior administration when the count was still be made? Or is that under censorship as well? Student7 (talk) 23:43, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Local government section

This section mentions a decree from 2000 creating the Metropolitan district and the following paragraph says that in 2009, "the mayor objected to these decrees". This makes no sense. JRSP (talk) 01:10, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

What doesn't make sense? Is it not footnoted? Student7 (talk) 13:15, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

First paragraph mentions a decree from 2000 creating the met district. You added that the mayor "objected to these decrees". Apart from the plural (previous paragraph only mentions one decree) there is no mention to any decree in the Reuters report[2] and it really makes no sense that the mayor was complaining about a 9 year old decree creating his own jurisdiction. JRSP (talk) 13:37, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Crime

I am not going to edit this article because I have a previous Conflict of Interest that is not currently an issue but it might be revived in the future. However, I hope someone will correct the absurd statement in the Crime section that "visitors are advised to register with their embassy and avoid travelling without an armed escort". Advised by whom? Registering with your embassy is a good idea in most countries but the advice that visitors should only travel around Caracas with an armed escort is ridiculous. In addition, unless it is backed up by a reliable reference, it is a personal opinion that has no place in an encyclopedia. Yes, it is appropriate to let people know that there is a great deal of crime in Caracas but equally they should also know that most of the homicides take place in the ranchos high up in surrounding hills, far away from anywhere that visitors would go, and that there are also areas where crime is not a serious problem. I visit Caracas from the UK regularly and keep an apartment in the Chacao municipality, an area where I regularly take my laptop to my favourite cafe to work. As I said, I will not edit this article but I do urge everyone who is editing it to respect the NPOV policy and remember that Venezuela is a highly polarized country politically and other countries have agendas that are strongly biased for or against the present Government. Please keep political opinions out of Wikipedia. If anyone wants more information about which parts of Caracas are safe for visitors I would be happy to provide it but it would not be backed up by verifiable references so this kind of information is more appropriate to travel websites than Wikipedia. James T Phelan (talk) 20:41, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

Murder capital?

Searching "murder capital" redirects here. Doesn't seem right.-FM (talk) 20:31, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Not sure what that is all about. I have redirected it to List of countries by homicide rate as the most appropriate article. Green Giant (talk) 21:54, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Am I right or am I right? Caracas city proper is 'Distrito Capital' administrative division

I'm pretty sure I'm right on this. The population is dead on two million. Power Society (talk) 23:36, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Even after reading through the article, I'm still confused, and many different population figures are given throughout the article for for the same two bodies. Either the city proper government is paramount or the metropolitan government is paramount and that needs to really be clarified. If the metropolitan government is the most powerful body, than it is the so-called city proper. If the Federal District (apparently, one of five municipalities within the metropolitan government) is really just one among equals, then its population doesn't really needed to be listed in the infobox as the "city" population, at all. --Criticalthinker (talk) 06:28, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Wait, is the "Metropolitan District of Caracas" a local government or simple a statistical division? Again, if it is indeed the highest level of local government for the urban/metro area, it is, indeed, the "city proper." If the Venezuelan Capital District/Libertador Bolivarian Municipality is now only a statistical division without a local government of its own, it's not the "city proper." --Criticalthinker (talk) 06:41, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

File:Caracas City.jpg Nominated for Deletion

An image used in this article, File:Caracas City.jpg, has been nominated for deletion at Wikimedia Commons in the following category: Media without a source as of 9 December 2011 What should I do? Don't panic; a discussion will now take place over on Commons about whether to remove the file. This gives you an opportunity to contest the deletion, although please review Commons guidelines before doing so. If the image is non-free then you may need to upload it to Wikipedia (Commons does not allow fair use) If the image isn't freely licensed and there is no fair use rationale then it cannot be uploaded or used. This notification is provided by a Bot --CommonsNotificationBot (talk) 17:03, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

The "Tower of David"

No mention of this symbol of urban decay and poverty. Shouldn't this appear somewhere?

Here's something from The New Yorker about it: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/01/sebastian-listes-photographs-of-caracas.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.149.75.88 (talk) 06:55, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Population of Caracas Proper

What is the population of Caracas proper? It noticed that the 'city' population listed in the info box is actually the population of the entire urban area, and that is not how we list things. Caracas's borders are those of the Capital District, correct? If that is the case, what is the population of just the Capital District?

Agreed. I have no idea why the core city's population is being put at late 2 million/early 3 million. Power Society (talk) 23:30, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Caracas City or Gran Caracas (how is usually called) exceeds the borders of the Capital District, It also covers parts of Miranda State and Vargas State. The capital district is one thing and the city of Caracas another, so i think the entire population of Caracas should be listed, not only the population of the Capital District. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.20.3.186 (talk) 13:59, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Timeline of Caracas

What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content. Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 15:03, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Metropolitan District of Caracas

Shouldn't the Metropolitan District of Caracas be what is listed in the infobox for the city population and land areas? It's the local government of the city. Libertador/Capital District is only one sub-district making up the local government that is the Metropolitan District. It may have made sense to have the figures of Libertador before the creation of the Metropolitan District, as that was the only city proper at the time, but the Metropolitan District is now the "city" government of Caracas. --Criticalthinker (talk) 04:53, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to one external link on Caracas. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/20121009164814/http://www.ine.gov.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/distrito_capital.pdf to http://www.ine.gov.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/distrito_capital.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Y An editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers. —^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 12:23, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Caracas/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Rated Start Well written, inclusive article with images. Lacks source citations. Cite sources please, atleast 1 / section. WP:CITE Use citation templates WP:CITET Remove px sizing and left placement from images, allow thumbnails to assume default size as it increases readability. Sites of interest, is way out of control, consider branching to a separate article or just deleting the content. Watch the lists, the article should be 80% written paragraphs, if you feel a list is needed, create a list article. Remove wikilink tags from broken (red) wikinlinks. Alan.ca 10:47, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Last edited at 10:47, 9 February 2007 (UTC). Substituted at 10:52, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 7 external links on Caracas. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added {{dead link}} tag to http://caracas.eluniversal.com/2008/09/03/ccs_art_el-apagon-dejo-sus-s_1027497.shtml
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20091224200725/http://icsc.un.org/resources/pdfs/2009/pp/Venezuela-09.pdf to http://icsc.un.org/resources/pdfs/2009/pp/Venezuela-09.pdf
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140112225819/http://www.eluniversal.com/2007/06/13/en_eco_art_venezuela-with-the-h_13A884453 to http://www.eluniversal.com/2007/06/13/en_eco_art_venezuela-with-the-h_13A884453
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130615065531/http://www.inameh.gob.ve/documentos/ESTADISTICOS_BASICOS_TyHR_EXTREM.pdf to http://www.inameh.gob.ve/documentos/ESTADISTICOS_BASICOS_TyHR_EXTREM.pdf
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130615085231/http://www.inameh.gob.ve/documentos/ESTADISTICOS_BASICOS_TyHR_MEDIAS.pdf to http://www.inameh.gob.ve/documentos/ESTADISTICOS_BASICOS_TyHR_MEDIAS.pdf
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20121009164814/http://www.ine.gov.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/distrito_capital.pdf to http://www.ine.gov.ve/documentos/Demografia/CensodePoblacionyVivienda/pdf/distrito_capital.pdf
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140111012601/http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1059.html to http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1059.html
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20130510114810/http://www.munimadrid.es/UnidadWeb/Contenidos/EspecialInformativo/RelacInternac/RRII/HermanamientosyAcuerdos/Files/hermanamiento_UCCI.pdf to http://www.munimadrid.es/UnidadWeb/Contenidos/EspecialInformativo/RelacInternac/RRII/HermanamientosyAcuerdos/Files/hermanamiento_UCCI.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 23:00, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

duplicate text

the last paragraph of the introduction is the same as the first paragraph in the 'crime' section. Daisy134 (talk) 21:23, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

"Crime"

I deleted mentions of crime in the lede as well as the "Demographics" subsection. It certainly does warrant mentioning, but the refs in all cases did not support claims made. It's puzzling that in the eight years since this issue first came up on this very page, nobody has bothered to fix this. I mean, unless people have tried and had their edits obliterated by editors with a certain ideological bent. 70.30.100.138 (talk) 03:32, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Map requested

Map of Caracas

The map in this section should be used to create a map for Caracas that can be used for coordinates in infoboxes.--ZiaLater (talk) 11:02, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Caracas. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://archive.is/20091102195745/http://www.vtv.gov.ve/noticias-ciencia-y-salud/22024 to http://www.vtv.gov.ve/noticias-ciencia-y-salud/22024
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160728145308/http://www.alcaldiamayor.gob.ve/ to http://www.alcaldiamayor.gob.ve/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 16:16, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Added new Caracas collage 2018

Added new Caracas collage 2018 QuinteroP (talk) 08:08, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Time zone

The abbreviation on the time zone section of the info box is incorrect, the official abbreviation for Venezuelan Standard Time is VET, not VST. Metric Supporter 89 12:47, 3 April 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MetricSupporter89 (talk • contribs)

Almost all the Images

Almost all the images, also two colonial, added by me.--BrugesFR (talk) 05:07, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:

• Caracas Venezuela.png

Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. —Community Tech bot (talk) 21:08, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 7 October 2021

I am reading about sovereign countries ImChessFan21 (talk) 09:13, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:18, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 19 February 2022

Section Demographics: 4th Paragraph, after first sentence. There’s a incomplete sentence, probably a leftover from an earlier edit: “urban, mainly from Caracas.”

Fix it! 77.119.200.99 (talk) 15:04, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

 Done I took care of that while copyediting the entire paragraph. Largoplazo (talk) 16:41, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 30 March 2022

Under EDUCATION subheading, the motto of the USB Simon Bolivar University is incorrect. The motto should be "The University of the Future" per the website citation http://www.usb.ve/home/node/44 I attempted to make this edit to participate in 1lib.ref.org Thank you, Suelehigh211 Suelehigh211 (talk) 15:56, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

 Done Verified and done. However, the motto seems a digression, an arbitrary detail to give about that university in an article that's about the city it's in, so I considered removing it. Largoplazo (talk) 16:08, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

I realized I'd forgotten to add the source. Then I looked again and decided to remove the mention after all. Largoplazo (talk) 16:10, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for speedy deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for speedy deletion:

• Nuevo escudo de Caracas, Venezuela.jpg

You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 11:21, 19 May 2022 (UTC)