Talk:Scandinavia/Archive 3

message: Hey folks. I have now taken the liberty of removing the "disputed accuracy & neutrality" label from this article for the time being. Put it back if you can substantiate that it is really warrented.
Refer to this talkpage's archive for insights on past disputes.
Also, do review these pages at your own leisure:
*Nordic music
*Nordic
*Nordic Passport Union
*Indigenous definitions of Nordic countries (Norden, i.e. "The North")
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*Scandinavism
*Scandinavian Airlines System
*Scandinavian folklore
*Scandinavian defense union
*Scandinavian Monetary Union
*Indigenous definitions of Scandinavia:
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Cheers! =] //Big Adamsky 12:40, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Dispute tag gone for now

message: Hm.. the more I click my way around on these pages, the more I come to realize that perspectives and understandnings on all these exotic regions and continents vary and are highly subjective and even biased. Perhaps the English usage is much more inconsistent, unprecise and overlapping than the native-speakers' usage. If so, this is similar to other vaguely-defined regions that are found in the minds of distant groups of people and mean different things to them. See also Talk:Siberia, Talk:Latin America, Talk:Middle East and Talk:Balkans, and also exonym versus autonym for similar discussions of namings and meanings. //Big Adamsky 18:01, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: well said. the terms are fuzzy. It is up to us to document this fuzziness with exactitude :) dab (ᛏ) 16:15, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Defining the extent and limits of an exotic [[region]]

message: I won't go into whether Greenland should be considered part of Scandinavia (or Greater Scandinavia, or Norden), but it should definitely be included in the Scandinavia#Historical_political_structure table.  It was settled from Iceland in the 10th century, became a part of Norway in the 13th, and followed Norway's fate until 1815, when Denmark ceded Norway to Sweden but kept Iceland and Greenland.  Unlike Iceland, it did not gain independence in WWII, and it is now an autonomous province of Denmark. 80.232.36.160 09:50, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greenland 

message: Well, I can see that quite a bit of chatting has been going on since the last time I checked this page. I can also see that the definition and location of "Scandinavia" has been up for debate before in here (btw, I think it's time for this talk page to be archived again, but not sure where to make the "cut"?). If I remember correctly, it all began when User:J.R. Hercules screamed that the whole article must be rewritten and almost demanded that it be merged with the Nordic region article, since he felt they were coterminous with one another. So... has any progress been made thus far? 
 
It might be a good idea to model this article on other region articles on WP and give the reader a multi-layered definition, i.e. from "core" to "periphery". It could look something like this:
#Always considered "Scandinavian": Norway and Sweden
#Usually considered "Scandinavian": Denmark and Svalbard
#Occasionally considered "Scandinavian": Åland, Faroes, Finland and Iceland
#Rarely considered "Scandinavian": Estonia, Greenland, Hebrides, Holstein, Ingria, Karelia, Kola, Latvia, Lithuania, Normandy, Orkneys, Schleswig, Shetlands, Sutherland, ... ?
Any thoughts? Well, good luck. =J //Big Adamsky 21:50, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Progress?