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To-do list for Mexico: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2020-10-02 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : public and private scientific advance Begin shortening sections that are too long or contain too many details about particularities - moving excess material to subarticles Begin improving sections on history and culture to give a more comprehensive view that doesn't dwell too long on particularities of certain musical genres or historical events

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The current coat of arms in the infobox doesn't match with the reference sheet for the Mexican coat of arms. It contains significant errors such as missing the eye of the snake, the claw is black instead of a gradient, the wings uses solid color instead of a gradient, the pedals has the wrong shape, etc.

The flag and coat of arms in the infobox should be temporarily changed to the raster version to ensure accuracy and bring attention of people that knows how to vectorize the coat of arms.

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  Cleaned coat of arms

Arwrarwrirwrarwro (talk) 20:21, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template. Arwrarwrirwrarwro You can do that either on the talk page on Commons or on either of the articles pointed out. This is a major change that ought to be discussed. You can also ask the author of the original svg files about the flag and raise concerns with them. Szmenderowiecki (talk) 16:35, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

'Skin tone' as a proxy for race

This is regarding this edit

I have removed this from the article:

According to 2017 and 2022 surveys by Mexico's Council to Prevent Discrimination 28-29% of Mexican people identified with light skin tones,^[1][2] more than 40% did so in a 2010 survey.^[3][4]

References

1. "Encuesta Nacional sobre Discriminación 2017" Archived August 10, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, CNDH, August 6, 2018, Retrieved on August 10, 2018.
2. "Encuesta Nacional sobre Discriminación (ENADIS) 2022". www.inegi.org.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved April 2, 2024.
3. "21 de Marzo: Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial" [March 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico: CONAPRED. 2017. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 25, 2017. Retrieved August 23, 2017. In the page 7 of the press release, the council reported that 53.5% of Mexican women and 39.4% of Mexican men identified with the lightest skin colors used in the census questionary, CONAPRED, Mexico, March 21. Retrieved on April 28, 2017.
4. "Visión INEGI 2021 Dr. Julio Santaella Castell" Archived January 21, 2019, at the Wayback Machine, INEGI, July 3, 2017, Retrieved on April 30, 2018.

The simple explanation is that "light skin tone" is too subjective and arbitrary to be presented as a simple fact. It looks like this was being used as a proxy for race. To put it another way, there is no simple cut-off point for how light is light enough to bump somebody from the 'medium skin tone' category to the 'light skin tone' one. Regardless of intentions, this was a misuse of statistics and wasn't a good summary of these sources. Grayfell (talk) 01:20, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gulf of America not Mexico

References need to be updated. 2600:100B:B027:B24F:7483:3A76:83DF:D3CA (talk) 21:22, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Donald Trump doesn't run the entire world, most of the gulf is outside any legal purview of the United States, and Wikipedia isn't an official US publication. Largoplazo (talk) 21:30, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@2600:100B:B027:B24F:7483:3A76:83DF:D3CA That was a unilateral change decided by Trump who does not dictate actual, mutually agreed, place names. Alec10345 (talk) 20:30, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Mexican coast" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Mexican coast has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 25 § Mexican coast until a consensus is reached. Thepharoah17 (talk) 21:21, 25 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Mexico

What's the meaning of the word Mexico does it as anything to do with music ~2026-66362 (talk) 05:38, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There's a whole article about the Name of Mexico. Largoplazo (talk) 13:48, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]