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.
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
Categories for discussion
- 26 Feb 2025 – Category:Historical events in El Salvador (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Aidan721 (t · c); see discussion
- 18 Feb 2025 – Category:Salvadoran people of Sephardic-Jewish descent (talk · · hist) CfDed by Omnis Scientia (t · c) was closed; see discussion
A-Class review
- undated – Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (talk · · hist) was put up for A-Class review
Good article nominees
- 25 Feb 2025 – 1935 Salvadoran presidential election (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by PizzaKing13 (t · c); start
- 22 Feb 2025 – 1919 Salvadoran presidential election (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by PizzaKing13 (t · c); start
- 06 Nov 2024 – 2024 Salvadoran general election (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by PizzaKing13 (t · c); start
Peer reviews
- 28 Oct 2024 – Nayib Bukele (talk · · hist) has been put up for PR by PizzaKing13 (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 16 Feb 2025 – Migrant detentions under the Trump administration (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to Migrant detentions under the first Trump administration by Theaxeisaxe (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 18 Dec 2024 – Draft:State of Exception in El Salvador (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by JuanP3rs (t · c)
Articles to create
- Pipil mythology
- Joint Group
- Treasury Police (El Salvador)
- Frente Democrático Nacionalista (FDN) (Nationalist Democratic Front)
- 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
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
Featured articles
Former featured articles
Good articles
1979 Salvadoran coup d'état
2012 El Salvador earthquake
2020 Salvadoran political crisis
2021 Salvadoran political crisis
Acelhuate River
Gómez de Alvarado
Buenos Amigos
Nayib Bukele
Central America under Mexican rule
Cerrón Grande Reservoir
El Salvador at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
El Salvador at the FIFA World Cup
Final offensive of 1981 (El Salvador)
Leonel Gómez Vides
Rafael Antonio Gutiérrez
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
Hurricane Paul
Hurricane Joan–Miriam
La Matanza
Nuevas Ideas
Spanish American wars of independence
Spanish conquest of El Salvador
Tropical Storm Arlene (1993)
Tropical Storm Larry (2003)
Former good articles
Did you know? articles
1979 Salvadoran coup d'état
2003 Salvadoran legislative election
2012–2014 Salvadoran gang truce
José Salvador Alvarenga
Anastasio Aquino's rebellion
The Beast (book)
Charles Beirne
Bitcoin Law
Buenos Amigos
Nayib Bukele
Cabañas Department
Cara Sucia (Mesoamerican site)
Central America under Mexican rule
Cerrón Grande Reservoir
Cihuatán
Coffee production in El Salvador
Kidnapping of Abilio Diniz
El Salvador–Manchukuo relations
El Salvador at the Olympics
February 28 Popular Leagues
Final offensive of 1981 (El Salvador)
Leonel Gómez Vides
Headless priest
Emerson Hernández
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
Migrant detentions under the Trump administration
Mothers of the Disappeared
One Day of Life
Quelepa
Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele
Salvadoran Civil War
Sensuntepeque
Esteban Servellón
Spanish conquest of El Salvador
Sumpul River massacre
Tazumal
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)
Former members
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
- Buaidh (talk · contribs) 14:11:01, 19 July 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.
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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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
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.