Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/de

message: I've corrected a few of the suggested titles.
- "Die Brüder Löwenherz" is a book by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Its English title is "The Brothers Lionheart".
- "Emil in Lönneberga" is another book by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Its English title is "Emil's Pranks" or "Emil in the soup terrin". The latter is actually only the title of one of the stories but sometimes used about the entire book. However, this is a collection of a large number of stories about the prankster Emil, so the appropriate title is "Emil's Pranks" (I don't know if the P should be capitalized or not.)
- "Liste der Kommunen auf den Färöer Inseln" is a list of municipalities in the Faroe Islands. Since the corresponding article regarding Denmark is "Municipalities in Denmark", I suggest the title "Municipalities in the Faroe Islands". The administrative system is almost identical, since the Faroe Islands is an autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
- The "Johannistag" is more problematic, and I don't known an appropriate English name. This is a festive day celebrated in Denmark, Germany, Sweden and other countries around the Baltic. The Danish name is "Sankt Hans" (i.e. Saint John).  It is effectively a midsummer festival, but - despite its name - has no religious content at all. In Denmark, it is an evening in which people light a great bonfire topped with a figure of a witch, sing a few traditional songs and drink a beer or two. It has no religious context anymore. An appropriate title would be either "Saint John's Day" or perhaps "Sankt Hans", the title of the festival in both Danish and Swedish. It is very popular amongst Danish children. I believe it is a very minor festival in other countries, but haven't studied the issue. Its relative importance in Denmark is probably because we don't celebrate a separate Midsummer Festival like in Sweden.
--Valentinian 21:12, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Scandinavian name corrections

message: For calculation of progress page
*147 added - June 18, 2005
*42 remain - Jan 20, 2006
*956 added - Jan 23, 2006
*1103 total added
*832 remain as of Feb 7, 2006.
Feel free to add/edit as needed. --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 20:45, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 780 remain as of Feb 21 --Mmounties 05:22, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

text: 424 remain as of Jun 8 Rigadoun 18:12, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of page 

message: I have recently removed some articles that already exist or I've just created. The next time an iw comes around there should also be a complete list of interwikis (I didn't copy all of them). --Tone 15:42, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing existing articles 

message: A number of these links are to articles on first names - which English wikipedia does not generally allow. Shouldn't these be removed? Rmhermen 20:46, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: English Wikipedia does allow disambiguation pages on first names, especially if there's some encyclopedic content about the origin and meaning of the name. Angr (talk • contribs) 05:34, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: While we do have disambigs for people known only by one name - the other pages were deleted and people were refered to an appendix of Wiktionary, last time I recall one coming up. Rmhermen 00:53, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing articles about names

message: Perhaps its time. its two years now. DGG (talk) 16:09, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, who do we speak to to update this list?Calaka (talk) 02:29, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: redoing this list