Talk:List of lists of Swedes

message: There has to be some criteria to distinguish which people who belong on the list and those who don’t. It is simply not sufficient just to be known only in a specific field or merely in Sweden or that matter. To be placed on the list there has to be at least some kind of international recognition and the limit should be set at an appropriate level to limit the list of becoming unwieldy. I have introduced a structure where less significant names may be placed in separate articles relating to specific fields and where the standards should be at a lower level. Currently I feel that the list for “Sports” might be quite long but the names generally have sufficient recognition to warrant a listing.
It could be the case that some of the names that have been weeded out actually belong on the list and the opposite that some names left in the list does not belong there. The current reject candidates, whom of which many might qualify to a list of lower dignity were:
Actors
Dolph Lundgren
Victor Sjöström
Åke Söderblom
Ingrid Thulin
Artists
Elsa Beskow -- painter 1874-1953
Carl Oscar Borg 1879-1947
John Fabian Carlson -- painter 1875-1945
Michael Dahl -- painter, 1659-1743
Per Hasselberg -- sculptor
Carl Fredrik Hill -- 1849-1911
Eugène Jansson - 1862-1915
Elias Martin -- 1739-1818
Claes Oldenburg -- sculptor (born 1929)
Carl Gustaf Pilo -- painter 1711-1793
Oscar Gustave Rejlander --photographer 1813-1875
Kent Ullberg sculptor (born 1945)
Carl Fredrik von Breda -- painter 1759-1818
Adolf-Ulrik Wertmuller -- painter 1751-1811
Music
Anders Glenmark – singer
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad -- composer
Kurt Magnus Atterberg -- composer
Håkan Hagegård – baritone
Tommy Körberg -- singer
Tomas Ledin -- singer
Joseph Martin Kraus -- composer
Lars-Erik Larsson – composer
Agnetha Fältskog -- ABBA
Anni-Frid Lyngstad -- ABBA
Per-Uno Undertun -- guitarist
ABBA -- pop group
S.P.O.C.K -- space pop group
Science
Johann Arfvedson -- chemist
Elias Magnus Fries -- taxonomist
Johan Gadolin -- chemist
Aristid Lindenmayer -- biologist
Nils Gabriel Sefström -- chemist
Peter Nilson – astronomer
Svante Arrhenius -- scientist
Svante Pääbo -- biologist, geneticist
Sverre Sjölander  --  zoologist
Erik Waller -- historian of medicine
Martin P:n Nilsson -- historian of religions
Sports
Gert Fredriksson -- canoer
Gillis Grafström -- figure skater
Ove Kindvall - football player
Jonny Nilsson - speed skater
Writers
Wilhelm Ekelund – poet
Torgny Lindgren – novelist
Marianne Fredriksson -- novelist
Other
Jan Berglin -- journalist
Jan Troell  -- director
Arvid Carlsson -- medical researcher
Percy Barnevik – business leader
Also added Finland-Swedish people under a separate headline to the list. These people are not of Swedish, but of Finnish nationality. They are however Swedish speaking and culturally Swedish.
/ Mic 21:28 Mar 27, 2003 (UTC)
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I agree with your idea and the ones selected for rejection are mostly good choices. The following are the only ones (of those rejected) that I feel are relevant in an international context,
ABBA, possibly ABBA members too
Torgny Lindgren
Percy Barnevik, Håkan Hagegård, Wilhelm Ekelund are next in line but should probably be left out of the main list. In a topical list, they're all given.
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Keep:
Victor Sjöström - internationally acclaimed, mainly because of his works with Ingmar Bergman
Elsa Beskow - also internationally acclaimed, at least in Europe and especially in Germany
C. F. Hill - he's a friggin' giant for crying out loud! Probably bigger abroad than in Sweden.
I agree with the above post about ABBA.
Jan Troell - has any Swedish director been nominated for an Oscar more often than him lately?
Arvid Carlsson - Oh, he's only the man behind some of the medical/neurochemical sciences' most important discoveries of the last century and the latest Swedish Nobel Prize laureate... ;)
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I appreciate the difficulties of inclusion/exclusion criteria involved here, Mic, but do you reckon Fredrik Reinfeldt (recently appointed conservative party leader) has any "international recognition"? Even a little bit? 
Another point, maybe nitpicking, on the politicians list: I'm all for making an effort to include eminent Swedish women, but, still, if Alva Myrdal is there, oughtn't Gunnar Myrdal to be as well? He's a lot better known internationally than she is, in the US especially. --Bishonen 23:27, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shortening the list 

message: Mic? I'm not sure about the edit I just made, changing singer/songwriter to singer-songwriter in four places, in order to be able to wikilink. I understand that my version doesn't go so well with musician/composer, and also that singer-songwriter is subtly different in meaning, being one word - it's more Bob Dylan than Bellman. (I've used the word, I think appropriately, about Cornelis in the article about him.) Perhaps getting a link isn't worth all that - you're absolutely free to revert, of course. Bishonen 16:56, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Music section

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message: This list needs shortening. Every single person who ever played in a band need not be on here, especially when there are SEPARATE pages for Swedish musicians, athletes, etc. I'm going to do a broad clean up, I'm sorry if I go too far in any instance. 
For future reference, this page needs some form of criteria for what should or shouldn't be on here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.182.59.88 (talk) 12:41, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  THIS LIST IS ABSURD 

message: removed :)  --67.222.192.96 (talk) 03:49, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't be so quick to pat yourself on the back yet. I'd recommend a temporary lock on the page. Jasper420 03:51, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Colbert Report reference 

message: With it being empty like that it looks like it was ripped apart by a vandal. Gatemansgc (TɅ̊LK) 03:40, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Empty?