Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Norway/Archive 1

message: A bot could come in handy, so I've requested permission to use one at
Wikipedia_talk:Bots#Bot_for_maintaining_Municipalities_and_Counties_of_Norway. -- Egil 14:22, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you plan to use this page? -- Samuelsen 09:40, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Haven't really made that detailed plans, but that seems like a good place to start! As long as the ID number is in place, there may be other info that can be found elsewhere that is also suitable for a 'bot. -- Egil 16:57, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A bot

message: A couple of suggestions:
# That we enter a oneline blurb for each municipality listed; a nice enticement for the reader to learn more about the municipalities. See Møre og Romsdal for an example. (I leave it to the reader to figure out what "landscape" in M&R I hail from). :-)
# Correspondingly, I would like the county map to be placed so as to avoid horizontal crowding ("competing with the blurbs mentioned above), but I must admit I don't see quite how this might be done...
# If we're not able to resolve the problem with the horizontal crowding, or until then, perhaps the map could be made part of the county box? Might that be aestetically pleasing?
Finally, thanks to everyone involved, Egil first of all I guess, for putting in the work made so far "for King & Country" and The Quest to let People all over the World be Enlightened about the Kingdom of Norway. :-) --Wernher 07:26, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: County article format

message: Hi, sorry I haven't been very active after I put my name on the list of contributors... Anyway, I am concerned that the Demographics section of the Norway article is becoming a battleground. Since I've been editing the section myself and may be biased, I'll try to stay away from it, but I would like to ask your help to watch this section independently and intervene if necessary. Thank you, and I hope this wasn't totally the wrong place for this. --Eddi (Talk) 15:31, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Watching the Demographics section

message: Forskrift om målvedtak i kommunar og fylkeskommunar.
Is this information we can use? If so, what is a good English translation of "målvedtak"? Samuelsen 10:44, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It still lists Borre as a municipality. Oh well, the Nobot has begun working updating the infoboxes. Some suggestions: "Official language form" or "Language form"   -- Egil 13:31, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Målvedtak 

message: Hi Egil, thanks for your note. I think redirects in the form of ISO 3166-2:NO-10 to the counties would be nice, but maybe are not allowed. One thing that maybe is  less problematic is UN/LOCODE. In the US we made city redirects like UN/LOCODE:USLAX pointing to Los Angeles. How about doing this for NO-cities? Tobias Conradi 08:22, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Why would ISO 3166 redirect not be allowed. We are using them all the time. I will have a look at the UN codes too, although they are not commonly used afaik. -- Egil 09:09, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Geocodes / UN/LOCODE 

message: I hope nobody minds, but I have classed a lot of articles as Norway-bio-stub, which means that that category is now quite large (there were previously only 23 stubs actually in it). I really wanted to see how many national bio-stubs a relatively small country like Norway would actually have, since there is currently discussion about the need for more {[country]-bio-stub} categories, and it also let me reclassify some of the stubs away from {stub} and {bio-stub} which are currently overpopulated. I really hope that I haven't trod on anybody's toes! --VivaEmilyDavies 19:12, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite to the contrary! (That said, not all one-paragraph biographies are IMHO stubs. Stub-ness is always relative to the subject at hand). -- Egil 20:23, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I quite agree! Although if somebody makes an article and thinks that it is a "perfect stub" i.e. doesn't need stub-tagging, then it would be helpful if they indicated that in the talk page. Most of the articles that I tagged looked like bona fide stubs (I was certain that much more could be added to them) but a few may well have been "perfect stubs". Not being an expert on Norway I can't tell which are as long as they need to be, though! --VivaEmilyDavies 22:57, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Norway-bio-stub

message: Now that sounds grand Fornadan 18:07, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Palaces in Norway

message: I have written initial drafts for two articles:
* Norway in 1814
* Norway in 1905
Given the anniversary of Norway's independence, my goal is to make these, and other articles, as complete, accurate, and readable as possible.  So please feel free to read, edit, correct, etc.
I'm also hoping to expand and clean up articles on:
* Haakon VII - shamefully short at this point - when I visit Norway in late May, I'll be visiting a couple of libraries to get more information
* Johan Caspar Herman Wedel-Jarlsberg
... and others - suggestions?
--Leifern 10:29, Apr 28, 2005 (UTC)
::What happened to the article about Wedel-Jarlsberg? Punkmorten 09:57, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pivotal years in Norwegian history 

message: Should we set up a Wikiportal for Norway?  --Leifern 16:13, May 25, 2005 (UTC)
:Perhaps a portal for Scandinavia or the Nordic countries or something like that? Samuelsen 17:56, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's allready existing - Portal:Norway. I've done a little but I'd really like some help from you. Ehjort 18:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiportal? 

message: I know it's on the to-do-list, but the page itself needs extra attention right now, as it contains erroneous information. We intend to fix that, don't we? See its talk page or the actual article. Punkmorten 00:34, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Norwegian Prime Ministers 

message: Had a talk with Lars Wenaas at ABM-UTVIKLING and he confirmed that Wikipedia could link to the map services of Kulturnett.no
For an example check out Vågå and the link in the External links section.
Agtfjott 13:51, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linking to external sources