Talk:Norwegian Armed Forces

message: Definetely should - as of now, it fails to give the whole picture, at the same time at the Norwegian defence forces are so small that more than one article is not practical - better coverage in one article is my recommendation Endrelunde 12:28, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree--jrleighton 11:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

text: NOTE: I have also added recommodations that all four existing pages on the Norwegian military, army, air force, navy and home guard are added into this page. I imagine this new page to include the main sections of each of the existing ones, while putting listings, such as listings of vessels, units and ranks in special pages that would be linked. This would improve coherence in the text, and, as mentioned, give a much better impression of the whole of the defence force. Endrelunde 12:28, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Oppose. This is against precedent, and the solution is to merely expand the articles. There's so much history from the past couple hundred years, specifically under World War II. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 00:46, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Oppose. This is against precedent. Each branch should have their own page. A merger will only result in a split later on when each section gets too big.Inge 14:45, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Agree with Endrelunde.--jrleighton 14:00, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I still don't agree. It is better to keep each article and expand them.Inge 17:10, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Right. Merging is the cop-out path here. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 14:21, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no way we reached a consensus here! —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 03:17, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging

message: Just about every single defense force article on Wikipedia is split up according to its' branches - no matter how small each article may be. The suggestion is moot as Wikipedia guidelines encourage consistency and to follow the manual of style. Joffeloff 17:49, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. What we have here are people making a suggestion, and receiving at least as may negatory responses as they did positive responses, and still acting on it. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 18:16, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consistency 

message: The Norwegian Army has no longer Brigades. After 2008 will all units in the norwegian army only be battalions. The Norwegian Army has no langer Brigades or Divisions, only battalions.
: Well, this month's issue of RAIDS, a French language military review, dedicates an article to Norway's military. Here are some scans, with translations, of the tables:
:Norwegian Army - according to the article, the 6th reserve brigade shall be dismantled under the reform plan. ISTAR stands for "Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance".
:Norwegian Air Force
:In both cases, sorry for the bad quality of images, but I am not really skilled in using skanners and Photoshop. There is also a table of the Navy, but it says that the near entirety of the Navy is regrouped at Bergen and that a Battalion of "Rangers" is under the Navy command. The Coast Guard is said to have 21 flotillas (based at Harstad and Haakonsvern) and a battalion of "Coastal Rangers".Russoswiss 15:36, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The list of Army Structure is wrong. 

message: what about listing what weapons and equipment the norwegian army uses?
: Hm. I think that would belong on the page about the army (or battalions) not on the Defence Force pages. --GunnarRene 03:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  equipment 

message: I guess this might be worth mentioning when more information surfaces: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1753031.ece - BsL 00:09, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iceland 

message: Instead of the edit warring going on, it might be best to see – and cite – what the NDF's own website says its force levels are.  Askari Mark (Talk) 17:39, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NDF force size 

message: "Norwegian defence force" should be renamed either "Norwegian armed forces" or "military of Norway". This is the norm for every other military articles on Wikipedia, and this should be no exception. 30. October 2007  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wingsforsheeba (talk • contribs) 04:51, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename it 

message: Article has now been renamed to follow consistency with other country specific military articles on Wikipedia. Wingsforsheeba (talk) 14:40, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article renamed 

message: The article should be named correctly. There are no armed forced in Norway, but defence force only. 85.77.99.18 (talk) 11:09, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Norwegian Defence Force]]

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:Hvlogo.png

message: "...som igjen leverte fanen videre til sjefen for spesialstyrkene, oberst Torgeir Gråtrud. "
The above quote signifies that all the (Norw.) special forces, had one commander, as of " 17. oktober 2007"
Source: http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fd/aktuelt/nyheter/2007/arverdig-avslutning-for-lingeklubben.html?id=486257 --FSK tweeker (talk) 16:02, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The chief of the special forces" ("''sjefen for spesialstyrkene''") 

message: ===Outdated text?===
"The Norwegian armed forces will be reorganised between 2005 and 2008. The planned structure after 2008 is as follows. Note that much of the listed units are still under procurement and are years from being operational." --FSK tweeker (talk) 16:11, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text moved to discussion page: 

message: "The Norwegian armed forces will be reorganised between 2005 and 2008. The planned structure after 2008 is as follows. Note that much of the listed units are still under procurement and are years from being operational." --FSK tweeker (talk) 16:11, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Outdated text?

message: The Norwegian Armed Forces recently updated their websites, and as a result most of the links on wikipedia are now dead.
--95.34.224.37 (talk) 11:33, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead Links 

message: I just want to point out that FSAN is completely missing  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.48.50.234 (talk) 18:27, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  FSAN is missing 

message: I created two articles with the structure of the Norwegian Armed Forces as they were assigned to NATO in 1989:
* Allied Forces North Norway
* Allied Forces South Norway
I am sure the info about the Coastal Artillery, the Air Force and the Army is correct. However there is no info about Home Guard units and the assignment of ships in the Navy. I.e. the only info about the Navy I did find: 22nd Fast Attack Craft Squadron was based at Olavsvern Naval Base. But what about other squadrons? What ships were assigned to which squadron? And which Home Guard units existed in which districts? I have a complete list of ships in the Norwegian Navy in 1989, but would need to know which ships belonged to which flotilla or squadron as i.e. in this article: Commander German North Sea Subarea. If anyone has information, please feel free to either add it directly to the articles or leave it on my talk page. Thanks, noclador (talk) 17:16, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norwegian Armed Forces in 1989 

message: Support. Some years ago there was a similar merge proposal that had no consensus. However, the current state of Conscription in Norway, which is of comparable size to the existing section here, suggest that a merge is now appropriate. Klbrain (talk) 10:35, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 19:47, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  2017 merge proposal 

message: Should probably mention Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces (Forsvarets stabsmusikkorps = FSMK) somewhere. Not sure where to put it. - dcljr (talk) 21:44, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  FSMK 

message: The left one is the current infobox:
It uses a template called Tree list to illustrate that the Coast Guard is a part of the Navy, and not its own branch.
It uses several full names unnecessarily, which I've shortened.
But primarily, I think this list is too tall, and I've tried to shorten it using the template Image array (on the right).
This is where I could use some help. The image array is not centered like the primary or secondary infobox images would be, making the whole infobox wider. I've tried using a line break, but it doesn't help in this case. 
The infobox in the lower right is pulled from Infobox/doc, and it illustrates that when the label, in this case , is defined, then the data is placed on the right side of the infobox. I haven't found an override for this.
I have come up with three imperfect options:
It's technically also possible to leave the infobox widened or set the image array  to 2, but both of these options partly defeats the purpose of the edit.
Any thoughts? BucketOfSquirrels (talk) 09:42, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trying to improve the infobox "Service branches" entry