Talk:List of Estonians

message: I have added individuals back to the list who have Wikipedia articles written about them. Whether they are relevant or no is probably debatable. However, it would seem rather pointless to erase them in light of someone actually taking time to write an article on them. Case in point - Kristiina Ojuland. Who is, in fact, a rather well known individual even outside of Estonia. As is Jane Salumäe, who although has no article written as of yet, is a well known athlete abroad. Perhaps whoever is deleting names should consider these factors and leave names already appearing on the list and concentrate on on adding new names instead of deciding who should and should not be excluded. I scanned the list and certainly have no objections to most of the individuals appearing. Several I would not have added myself, but see that they at least have a modicum of success for someone to place them. I think it isn't appropriate to delete those who already have articles on Wikipedia.
:Thanks for raising a valid point. The number of Wikipedia articles about Estonia/n-connected individuals is already quite large, getting larger every day and, one could argue, already exceeds the number of people that should be included in this list. In other words, many notable Estonians still do not have Wiki-articles, but there are already more not-so-notable ones who have. Therefore, we could either concentrate on adding new names in, as you suggest, essentially making it the ever-growing extremely long "list of all Estonians with Wikipedia entries", or concentrate on the consistency of names in this list. I would tend to support the latter approach. 
:As for Kristiina Ojuland, I left her out because she is a former foreign minister (not a former prime minister or president), and as such no more notable than other current and former cabinet ministers (of whom there are very many). It also so happens, that she is one of the many relatively young former ministers who have not (yet) accomplished anything notable in other, non-political domains, e.g., business, art, science, journalism, or even entertainment. The good thing about Wikipedia, as of now, is that one can relatively easily look up the lists of former government members - so links abound to the article about Ojuland even without her making this list. When it comes to marathon-runner Jane Salumäe (whose best accomplishment in her field, according to sources, is the 4th place in European championships), there are many other Estonian athletes with better records of success. However, since entries and links for Estonian athletes have not yet been as well organised in English Wiki compared to the politicians, then let her be in for the time being (and hope she can add an Olympic or world championship medal to her collection in the meantime). Cheers, --3 Löwi 18:19, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletions 

message: I would delete the interwiki link here to japanese wikipedia. it seems to me it is not correct link. but maybe i'm wrong. Avjoska 07:13, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Interwiki link

message: Does anyone know, is that Swedish commander and administrator of the Swedish Gold Coast 16 - 22 April 1663 Tönnies Voss with Estonian heritage. I added it also to the Estonian heritage forum (in Estonian) Jaanusele (talk) 09:57, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Tönnies Voss

message: Is this list about ethnic Estonians or about citizens of Estonia? E.g. Patriarch Alexius II is of Baltic-German/Russian descent and Paul Felix Schmidt is Baltic-German too. Mena Suvari and Ornella Muti on the other hand are of (partially) Estonian descent but not from Estonia. It doesn't seem plausible to have all these people in the same list. --::Slomox:: >< 22:32, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually have the same issue. Baltic Germans or Swedish/Russian etc. statesmen, who were just in Estonia at some point of their lives (even if from birth to death) should not be included if they were first and foremost of another ethnicity. Some examples here are Alfred Rosenberg and de la Gardie, who should be excluded from this list. H2ppyme (talk) 21:14, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnicity vs Nationality