Talk:Visby

message: power supply? an odd heading no?
Who cares, a person looking up visby is not looking for that kind of information.
--TheBigD 13:54, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I care. The mentioned power supply was the first windpark connected to a High Voltage Direct Current and thereby interesting. It even has its own page.  Fred-Chess
it's very peripheral information. People who look up Visby in general don't expect to find information about the electrical grid. If it got its own page let's keep it that way. 
--TheBigD 22:27, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

text: Wiki is full of peripheral information. But if you seriously think you have improved the article by removing the information, then I'm fine with it. --Fred-Chess 10:35, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

text: I've restored the line, and expect not to see it removed again. Deletion of valid information is very rarely permissible on WP, generally accepted only for redundant material or very ephemeral bits, such as phone numbers and home addresses. The power system however is quite a bit more important, and very much worth mentioning. Stan 18:29, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

text: Then WP has helped you to learn about the world around you, eh? We do aspire to be more than a travel guide. If you live in Visby, you ought to be able to add quite a bit of local info that is not just tourist stuff. Stan 19:26, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

text: Yes to all those, although restaurants tend to be ephemeral, so one would prefer  restaurants that have been around for a long time or have some other notability. If the inverter plant is more relevant to Gotland than to Visby, then moving the info about it is reasonable, sure. Visby is an interesting place, its article could easily be 20K in length. Stan 05:14, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  power supply? 

message: Do we really, really, really need to have a link to Visby class corvette up at the top? I think we could have it at the bottom instead, under See also. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 15:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The way the article about the corvette is worded, it seems people often refer to it as simply "Visby" and so that might well be wikilinked. In such cases it is standard to have a note in the top of the article, it makes people who click on such a link easily find the article they are looking for - they can not really be expected to find the note if it is placed at the bottom of the page. For someone who knows nothing about that boat it looks a bit silly, agreed, but I still think it serves a purpose. Probably this is described on Wikipedia:Disambiguation, or some page that links from there. // Habj 15:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Visby class corvette

message: The two sentences Some affectionately call Visby the "city of roses and ruins" and natives to the island often just say "town". Whether it lives up to that distinction among other old Swedish cities is debatable. are confusing to me. I am not sure if the second sentence refers to "rosornas och ruinernas stad" - a well-known slogan - or referring to the town as "stan" (town). People call their local town "town" everywhere, it has nothing to do with Visby being more of a town than others. // Habj 00:04, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Word. Delete the second part of the first sentence and the second sentence? Are you from around here (Visby/Gotland) by the way? Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 09:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, just average Swede. :) // Habj 15:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed the part of the sentence about "town". It is un-encyclopedic, un-referenced and not specific to Visby. It is just slang for the nearest major settlement in any part of Sweden. Locals may also refer to another locality such as Slite or Hemse depending on where they live. - W.carter (talk) 01:18, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Town - distinction 

message: might "sanctified" or "consecrated" place be a better translation of "Vi", than "sacrifical"? 4.242.174.83 (talk) 10:08, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  sacrificial? 

message: It's pronounced in Swedish as viz-bu (sort of like in bureau or Buchanan). Le Grand Bleu (talk) 13:30, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The pronunciation of "Visby" is already in the article, in the way of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), [ˈviːsbʏ], which is much more accurate than the description you provided. w.carter-Talk 21:10, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transcription 

message: I just revised wording in the article to say that Gotland was ceded in 1645 to Sweden, by the Second Treaty of Brömsebro (1645) without saying it was "conquered".  Using the word "conquered" would seem to imply that there was fighting on Gotland within the Torstenson War, but I think there was not.  If Gotland was conquered in battle, then the Torstenson War article should be revised, too.  Hope someone more expert here can review this.  I can't directly read the  Tacitus.Nu source that was cited at the end of the sentence that i revised. --doncram 00:46, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch. I agree that the wording is better. As far as I can tell no battles related to that were fought on Gotland during that time. w.carter-Talk 09:24, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  1645 events