Talk:El Salvador

History Section

The history section of this article has very little citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarmstrong (talk • contribs) 23:46, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Tours

"Contact a Responsable Tour Operator and design your own travel itinerary! Salvadorean Tours: www.salvadoreantours.com Hotel Reservation, Tours, Transfer, Tourism Packages, Transport, Travel Insurance[1]" This seems to be an advertisement. I might have just deleted it, but instead I wanted to bring it to the attention of those who are more knowledgeable than I am about El Salvador. Tumblecat (talk) 03:44, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Salvadoran or Salvadorean?

I see both terms in the article. Is one correct or more preferred over the other? Lbbzman (talk) 16:04, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

In spanish is Salvadoreño so in english should be Salvadorean... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pekaxmon (talk • contribs) 04:19, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Balance of content, quality of citation, strong points of view

This article seems rather unbalanced in both its format and quality of content, which shows in the quality of the sources in the citations. More importantly, the article vents strong points of view - especially with regard to politics - without this being supported by sources of an academic character. This needs to be amended. Michel Doortmont (talk) 22:08, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Colón being legal tender.

Just a small thing regarding the introduction of the article. I am Salvadorean and although I don't have any source but my experience as being born and lived all my life in El Salvador, I have to say that claiming that the "colón can still be used as legal tender" is a misguiding concept. It is true that you can still take colón currency to banks but only for it to be exchanged to dollars. It is not as if you could go walking around with your wallet full of colón currency and be able to buy things on the street or in stores. Most salaries are still paid in colones BUT they are converted to dollars automatically when you withdraw from the bank, meaning you lose a certain amount because of fluctuations regarding the value of the dollar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.93.138.58 (talk) 17:40, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Issues

Three main issues with this article:

Photos: these are all over the place, and make the article hard to read. I would recommend sticking all the photos at the bottom of the article, and just have a few representative pictures accompanying the text. Otherwise the text itself gets shifted down the page in favor of pictures of San Salvador, Miss El Salvador, and Monica Lewinsky (!).

General Editing: I only looked through the demographics section, but I noticed that statements about the indigenous population are repeated twice, and that overall the grammar and writing style is very weak. It would help if someone with a good command of writing in English could edit this section (perhaps others?).

Basic facts: again, all over the place. I will take one example: the population figure for El Salvador. In the introduction the population is listed as 5.7 million. In the infobox, the 2009 population is again given as 5.7 million in 2009, but 6.1 million by July 2009 (strangely this is from a UN source dated 2008). So apparently 400,000 Salvadoreans were created in 6 months? Then the text in the demographics section states that the government estimated a "surprisingly low" population figure of 7.1 million! Can we try to get more accurate and consistent figures? For the record, the CIA (admittedly historically not the best friend of many Salvadoreans) says that the 2010 population of El Salvador is a little over 6 million. 209.6.89.252 (talk) 01:02, 3 January 2011 (UTC)