Wikipedia talk:Swedish Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 2

message: :I think using Swedish language in discussing here, will not be so popular among the other Wikipedians. /
Habj 02:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I find it unfortunate that the title of the page says it's a place for Swedish people. Let's make it a space for people generally interested in things Swedish, and let its title mirror that. Wikipedia:Swedish stuff notice board, or something similar. Let's not be exclusive. /Habj 02:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem. Perhaps like this: Wikipedia:Taiwan-related topics notice board? Or we could also just write it in the intro of the page that it is about all Swedish topics, not only for Swedish people, and stop using Swedish when writing... :-) --Fred-Chess 10:27, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia:Sweden-related topics notice board would be OK. Uppland 11:02, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It mainly seems to be a consistency thing. I think of the first similar notice boards was Wikipedia:Irish Wikipedians' notice board (which even has a "mission statement" saying "This page is a notice board for things particularly relevant to Irish Wikipedians"). Most others have been named in a similar fashon, although :Category:Regional Wikipedian notice boards lists several, mainly Asian ones, that have the form Wikipedia:X-related topics notice board. I think the latter form is better, but I would prefer a general discussion at the Village Pump, aiming to achieve a general naming consensus across all similar projects. / Alarm 12:15, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like a good idea. If the issue is taken up at the Village Pump, will a notice of that be posted here? for those of us who don't regularly check the VP. /Habj 12:21, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  The name of this page 

message: ::I moved this section here from the "Suggestions and requests" section of the project page, since it is a question rather than a request for specific articles to be created. / Alarm 12:15, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Runes

message: I'd like to point you in the direction of Wikipedia:Swedish Wikipedians' notice board/Terminology, which I've just created. I have had the idea to create a kind of dictionary for some time, and now it's done! I hope that it will be useful to anyone writing about Swedish topics and that it can help standardize the terminology used on Wikipedia. The page lists English translations of some common Swedish terms used in articles relating to Sweden and Swedish issues and provides links to more specialised lists. I welcome fact-checking and review as well as further additions. However, please avoid bloating the page by adding whole lists, e.g. translations of all military ranks. I think it works much better to link to a page which already has a list of the terms in both languages. / Alarm 15:18, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oh no! Not another subpage! 

message: If anyone happens to be an expert on hitchhiking in Sweden, you could help out with a question at the Reference Desk. / Alarm 18:13, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hitchhiking in Sweden? 

message: I don't really want to be negative, but I have noticed some Swedish contributors writing one-line substubs. The Swedish Wikipedia, where article count is the reigning principle, is full of those, most of which give about as much info as anybody looking up the topic can already be expected to know. I would like to recommend contributors to write a decent stub from the start, maybe two or three paragraphs of 5-10 lines altogether, preferably with at least one reference which points at where the info came from. It is easier for whoever starts the article to do so from the beginning, than for someone else to do it later. It better invites further contributions by others if the article has had a decent start, rather than if it looks as something the original author just wanted to get out of the way with minimal effort. I wouldn't support actually deleting such substubs, if the topic is notable, but it would be better if they weren't created in the first place (unless necessary for disambiguation purposes or something, of course).
I think this is particularly important if you pick something from the list of requested articles. I just added Bror Hjorth there. I would see a substub saying "Bror Hjorth was a Swedish sculptor" or something to that effect as less than useless, as it will make it a blue link and give the impression we have an article on the subject, which we still won't have at that point. Uppland 10:41, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully agree with all you are saying, and I have added a note on this in the introduction of the "Requested articles" section, as well as a "Substubs" section under "Requests for improvement/expansion", where any such articles can be listed. I suggest that we limit the list to the most glaring substubs, with three sentences or less of main article text. / Alarm 19:57, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Swedish substubs

message: As many users have expressed a wish to join up to create Featured Article about Swedish topics, I think we really should try and do that, especially since I think it would be fun. Of course, I am still pissed that all my dedicated hours of Swedenborg will never become a featured article, having being up for peer review twice even, so I haven't cared much about the debacle of featured articles, but I assume it must work in theory. 
(I personally don't know why an article has to be "featured" to be good, I'd much rather prefer two excellent but non-featured articles than to spend the time creating one article and putting it through a time wasting nit-picky peer review. I'd rather dedicate the time expanding both Stockholm and Gothenburg, for instance)
It seems to be a lot of work to create and maintain a Portal, as Alarm suggested, but if you do it Alarm, I'd surely join that party.
In the meanwhile we could work on something here. Although I cherish such dedication as Swedish hip hop, IFK Göteborg, and the Swedish alotment system, I think it would require too much extra study for most of us others to get acquainted with the topic to be able to contribute -- and I'm not even sure everyone is interested in, say, Swedish hip hop. So if we were to make a combined featured article I think it would be best for the editors, and for the readers, to write about something more general Swedish. 
I'd agree with Alarm about something like Stockholm. Of course, I have only been there once myself, and the thing I liked the most was a  computer game at the Vasa Museum, but I'd still think it would be worthwhile to learn more about. 
Other suggestion might be Gothenburg, Visby, Drottningholm, Sigtuna, or some other city maybe? (I know them very well by know, and it never fails to impress girls when I tell them that Umeå is known as the city of birches ;-)
Fred-Chess 13:31, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
:See below for comments on the Wikiportal suggestion. As for a collaborative effort to improve the quality of one or more articles, I'd do what I can to contribute. I'd suggest that we try the informal road, to see how it works, before we set up a formal "Swedish collaboration of the week/fortnight/month/quarter". I think we should go for very well-known and general topics. Mainly because that would make most of us able to contribute without having to do major research, but also because I find the quality of such articles more important than the quality of specialist subjects. Following this reasoning, I'd say that even Sigtuna might be a tad to narrow a subject. I'm going to be bold here, and put up a quick "show of hands" below in order to check support for some suggestions. / Alarm 17:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about some joint work then? 

message: Users prepared to contribute (to a smaller or larger extent) to an informal Swedish collaboration, add your signatures below it. New suggestions can of course be added.
====Sweden====
# Alarm 17:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Quick show of hands - Informal Swedish collaboration

message: # Alarm 17:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Sweden]]

message: # Alarm 17:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Stockholm]]

message: #  -- Elisson • Talk 17:41, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Gothenburg]]

message: # Alarm 17:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Culture of Sweden]]

message: # Alarm 17:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Music of Sweden]]

message: # Alarm 17:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Postwar history of Sweden]]

message: Very off topic, but you might like to know that a bunch of American neo-nazis have set up their own wiki by downloading and importing the entire Wikipedia database. This includes user pages. That's right, you all now have user pages on a Nazi wiki. I have registered there, under the same username, and erased my stuff from my user talkpage. You may consider doing the same (remember to use another password than the one you use here). Another thing: It seems Å, Ä, and Ö don't work there. The article Hermann Göring is only accessible through the redirect Hermann Goering and it looks like Hermann G�ring. I can't help finding Nazis with such problems handling German orthography particularly contemptible. Uppland 20:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: At this moment, their Main Page article is in Hebrew. LOL. I noticed some people on #Wikipedia today coordinating subversive efforts like that. Bishonen | talk 20:25, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Nazi Wiki (off topic)

message: Some section of the notice board have, since the notice board was started in June 2005, proved more successful than others. This likely is related to users willingness to contribute to them. As the notice board should be serve a purpose, it is probably better to focus on the sections that works and cut off the rest. 
The notice board will serve its purpose best if it encourages constant contributions. So all assitance-request will be moved to a sub-page, where discussion on the articles will take place as well a section one can enter his name when finished working on it. // Fred-Chess 14:11, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outlining the scope of the notice board 

message: * The request for improvement / expansion sections  often require knowledgeable people to spend quite a lot of time. Nobody has also been been interested in maintaining the sections, checking if they have indeed been expanded or improved on. 
* Other sections that have not been maintained includes requested translation and requested images. 
* The to-do list is confusing since there are also sections with the same content. It has proven difficult to maintain both of them, adding/removing article as necessary.
// Fred-Chess 14:19, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Conclusion on various section:

message: If a member of this notice board would like to invite other members to check his translation of a Swedish article, where is the proper place to do so?
I just finished an article on the personnummer which includes not entirely universally official English translations of Swedish government bureaus.  --Adamrush 14:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Adamrush. I guess here is as good a place as anywhere else to ask other editors to cast their eyes over translations! I've had a quick copy edit of your translation. I'm guessing that you're referring particularly to the translation of Skatteverket? Funnily enough, a translation I've been working on today referred to Skatteverket, which I translated as the Swedish Tax Agency just as you did. http://www.skatteverket.se/ don't seem to be particularly consistent - I found both Swedish Tax Agency and Swedish National Tax Board in the English section of their site and preferred the former. CLW 17:19, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Please see the  "Utrikes Namnbok ", according to which the name should be "National Tax Board". // Fred-Chess 17:56, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You'd think the Skatteverk could read that! --Adamrush 18:02, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see the /Terminology subpage for that and other useful glossaries from sweden.gov.se. Bishonen | talk 18:06, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy of translations from sv Wiki 

message: Thanks, Fred, for the list of quality articles you mentioned here.  That's very helpful to the WP 1.0 project, thanks, we'll probably be including those articles in WP 1.0. Walkerma 21:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks for the list 

message: I have recently created an article on the Swedish military bicycle.  I needs to be translated by a competent Swedish speaker for use on the sv wikipedia.  Does anybody want to step up to the plate? --Adamrush 16:06, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation from en to sv 

message: I recently made a surname-dab at Nordenskiöld, in preparation for my writing a stub at Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskiöld. In the process of googling, I found a bunch of other Nordenskiöld with entries in the Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon, so I added redlinks for them.  Could I ask someone to check my characterisations of the occupations of each of the entries with SBH exlinks. Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:59, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nordenskiölds

message: Template:Succession Swedish monarchs has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. (I was intending to notify User:Mic, but apparently he is gone, so I am saying this here just in case.) Ardric47 00:37, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  TfD nomination of Template:Succession Swedish monarchs 

message: There is a Swedish-language page on Ben oil at She net whose content I would love to see incorporated into the Ben oil page. Would a Swedish speaker be interested in taking a look? Waitak 12:00, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for incorporating some content 

message: Requests for Swedish-English translations has been moved to the sub-page at Wikipedia:Translation into English/Swedish. --Ezeu 18:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sub-page for Swedish-English translations 

message: Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Regional notice boards#A uniform naming scheme. Zocky | picture popups 00:52, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standard naming scheme 

message: The discussion on Christopher Gillberg has been heated. Third opinions are welcome.
Fred-Chess 19:37, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for comment on [[Christopher Gillberg]] 

message: Could someone have a look at the Kubb article. It seems to be getting lots of unsourced additions. --Mais oui! 10:26, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, this would need references. I'll see what I can find. / Fred-Chess 10:36, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ta. --Mais oui! 11:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kubb 

message: There was just an other undiscussed move by User:John Anderson of Skåne to Scania (region) followed by a flurry of renaming in various articles , some of which I have reverted for now. I think we might have to have another discussion about this at and I've started a thread to get a dialogue going.
Peter Isotalo 15:37, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Again with Scania/Skåne. 

message: The DYK section featured on the main page is always looking for interesting new and recently expanded stubs from different parts of the world. Please make a suggestion.--Peta 02:11, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: DYK

message: There is a dispute going on at the article of Syndikalistiska Ungdomsförbundet. The dispute in question is about sources, and as a Swedish organization, most sources are Swedish. I though I'd list it here as dispute resolution may as thus require knowledge of the Swedish language. Tack på förhand, Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 01:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for comment on [[Talk:Swedish Anarcho-syndicalist Youth Federation]] 

message: I have started a WP:RM for Frölunda HC to be moved to the standard, official name of Frölunda Indians.
Please contribute at Talk:Frölunda HC. --Mais oui! 16:08, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frölunda HC - Requested move 

message: Hello. I'd just like to mention I've begun some kind of a one-man wikiproject on our MPs: members of the Riksdag. See User:Jobjörn/Riksdagsledamöter and feel free to help out. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 20:14, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of members of the Riksdag|Members]] of the [[Riksdag]] 

message: Well, this is one dull notice board. The WikiProject isn't too active either. Anyone want to cooperate on something? Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 22:44, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the project is better suited for cooperative tasks? But, to reply here, I can think of many things we can cooperate on. It depends on what you are interested in. Do you want to write lists, GA:s, FA:s, comprehensive stub articles, or B-class articles to cover larger topics? For example, one could create an article for every member of the Riksdag. Pia wanted to create articles of all Scanian castles. And some people like to write GA:s or FA:s, but they would take a lot longer time to write. / Fred-Chess 15:15, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Well, this is dull 

message: has been formed. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 21:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Norse history and culture]] 

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thread_title:  Swedish language 

message: Disputes over contents in Swedish language don't appear to be approaching any reasonable consensus, and the discussion is pretty much in a stalemate with accusations of personal attacks. The discussion could really use input from other editors. Please see talk:Swedish language#Strindberg for the current discussion.
Peter Isotalo 13:29, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swedish language (again) 

message: Over at the Zoroastrianism article, we have a tendentious anon editor who has repeatedly inserted incorrect information. It appears that he/she has pulled the same stunt over at
sv:Zoroastrism (this edit of 14 March), and has perhaps mangled a cited statement in the process. A speaker of Swedish might wish to check if the cited source backs up that change. Regards. -- Fullstop (talk) 00:53, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since I do not have the book I can not check if it is correct or not, but even if it is, it would not be a strong source, the source is a pocket book collection of statistical numbers, so it is a very general source, only relying on other source for its data and can easily have added a extra zero by misstake when printing, my guess is that he ignored the source and just edited. --Stefan talk 02:11, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: *nod*, I suspect the anon just ignored the source as well. The previously sourced figure of 270,000 was added to the sv.wiki on 18 June 2006 by sv:Anv%C3%A4ndare:Flinga. Could you please post a note of the discrepancy on that editor's talkpage? Thanks. -- Fullstop (talk) 22:08, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  OT: possibly incorrect info at the sv. wiki 

message: The article is about a Swedish painting and the references provided are Swedish. I, as the GA reviewer of the article, wanted two of references verified. Can someone please verify if the references are translated perfectly in English? Thanks.--Redtigerxyz (talk) 07:33, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Talk:Midvinterblot]] 

message: The chemist Lars Fredrik Nilson who discovered Scandium has only a stub article with a link to a swedish orbituary. It would be nice if anybody could add some content from the biography! By the way there is no swedisch article at all for him!!--Stone (talk) 17:23, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: DONE Thanks for your help and the instant response! --Stone (talk) 05:04, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lars Fredrik Nilson 

message: There is ongoing discussion on the talk page for the Manual of Style (including a series of polls) aimed at achieving consensus on presenting dates in American (June 6, 1523) or International (6 June 1523) format on an article by article basis. The poll gives full instructions, but briefly the choices are:
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thread_title:  Date format poll confirmation 

message: A Nordic cinema task force has been proposed at WP:FILMS, which would include the cinema of Sweden. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 18:20, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nordic cinema task force

message: I came across claims in the article Jämthund which I suspect could be hoax: it is supposed to be "...the National Dog of the Swedish Marines, and the Swedish Air Force's official service canine..." and they "...were mobilised during wartime for sled pulling". You can chime in at the talk page if you have anything to add. Tomas e (talk) 16:04, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Jämthund and the Swedish Armed Forces 

message: Please see my question about a strange toponym used on de and sv wiki at Talk:Battle of Warsaw (1705).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  19:30, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rakowitz

message: Please see my post at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sweden#A hacker/hackare can be a short Swedish farmer without a computer?. I'm cross-posting it here because I assume there could be people here who are not signed up for WP:SWEDEN who could know this subject. Tomas e (talk) 10:34, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A hacker/''hackare'' can be a short Swedish farmer without a computer? 

message: I'm currently working on an article about a ship, the . This webpage appears to mention her, possibly in connection with a captain who served on her at one time. I'm not really sure as I don't speak/read Swedish. Once the article has gone live, I'd appreciate it if an editor could expand the article from that source if possible. Mjroots (talk) 18:05, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's an article from the newspaper Nya Åland about Kurt Eriksson, a retired sea captain. Penelope is only mentioned in passing as one of the ships Eriksson commanded, and Eriksson himself doesn't seem to be notable. Bo Lindbergh (talk) 22:04, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation request

message: Hi! Could someone help with the correct Swedish pronunciation with IPA of the names Robert (Robin) Sanno Fåhræus and Johan Torsten Lindqvist? It would make a lot of help for the article: Fåhræus–Lindquist effect and later in the biographical articles of the two scientists. Thanks, Timur lenk (talk) 21:39, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation request 

message: You may be interested in my proposal here. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  20:41, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should diacritics be encouraged or discouraged in article's titles? 

message: Someone please look at astronomical calendars in Gotland. The grooves undoubtedly exist and are probably worth writing up. But is their interpretation as a calendar accepted? — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 21:51, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Ask User:Mrund. He is a professional archaeologist (who has done work on Gotland, although perhaps not on this specific topic) as well as an active debunker of fringe archaeology. --Hegvald (talk) 06:41, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grinding grooves in Gotland 

message: A requested move survey was started at Talk:Perth_(disambiguation)#Requested_move, which proposes to move:
* Perth → 
* Perth, Scotland → 
* Perth (disambiguation) → 
Background: There was a previous requested-move survey which ran from late May to mid June.  There was a great deal of controversy surrounding the closure and subsequent events, which involved a number of reverts and re-reverts which are the subject of an ongoing arbitration case.  There was a move review process, which was closed with a finding that the original requested-move closure was endorsed; however, the move review process is relatively new and untried. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 04:15, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perth requested-move notification 

message: There are some users hunting Swedish historic geography articles. They say parishes are generally not notable. But there are even disambiguation pages for parishes, e.g. Saint George Parish. See the deletion attacks at Sollentuna Hundred, Sollentuna Parish, Bromma Parish. ChemTerm (talk) 00:51, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parishes of Sweden 

message: Feel free to expand, I can't find any more English sources. Would make for a fun hook. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:51, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Erik Gottfrid Christian Brandt]] for DYK? 

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