Talk:Stieg Larsson

message: This was set up after his death. How can it be his website? Should be changed to "Posthumous website about him"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.26.136.71 (talk) 13:30, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: How?  Quite easily.  If it was set up by, or under the authority of, his estate.  Now, I don't know that to be the case, but that is an obvious way in which an official site can come into existence posthumously, and often does.  Rags (talk) 08:29, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  His "official" website 

message: Please find the facts, not opinion.  Larsson must have done actions which support or deny allegations.
After death, anyone can have a perception they want to air in public.  Question rather, the agenda
of the opinion giver.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.234.203.109 (talk) 21:03, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Facts

message: A movie on The girl with the dragn Tattoo has been made, and it was released in sweden and other countries (I only know about Spain... because I'm spanish and just saw it). There should be some sort of mention about this  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.39.3.85 (talk) 01:28, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Movie adaptation

message: As far as I can see, the relationship between Lisbeth and Modesty Blaise is so tenuous as to be nonexistent.  If no one objects within a week, I intend to delete this sentence. Paul Magnussen (talk) 00:19, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If you Google for the two names, you will find that reliable sources notably disagree with you. Whether you're right or not, the comparison is made frequently. Dylan Flaherty (talk) 14:49, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modesty Blaise 

message: "Activist" is actually a weasel word, a euphamism for communist or left-wing activist. It is never used to mean right-wing activist. I have not been able to find a single instance in Wikipedia where a conservative, libertarian, or right-winger was referred to as an "activist". Weasel words and euphamisms violate Wikipedia style guidelines, and should be replaced. If there are no good arguments during the next week for keeping the current wording, I would like to edit this article and replace "Activist and journalist" with "Communist activist and journalist". Thanks.
Wmoran9550 (talk) 22:00, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Does the source call him a "communist activist" ?  If no, then please don't make your changes.  Even if everything you say is true, it amounts to original research.  Just keep to what the sources say, and summarize them to fit them into the article.  I hope him being sympathetic to "communist" causes doesn't push too many buttons, let's just leave it at "activist". cojoco (talk) 11:59, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

text: That's an absurd assertion; there are plenty of conservative and reactionary activists covered in Wikipedia. --Orange Mike  |  Talk 05:45, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, and let's call him what he is: a communist activist. Don't weasel word the thing by trying to hide what he was, which is a supporter of an anti-freedom ideology that murdered and killed more people in the 20th century than any other political ideology, including German National Socialism. JettaMann (talk) 22:03, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

text: No, it may just indicate that he never got around to changing that ancient will. It happens. --Orange Mike  |  Talk 05:45, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

text: The way to resolve this would be to find some sources that indicate how he was described. His biography says "activist," so I am going with that for now. I don't think it is up to WP editors to determine. Sunray (talk) 20:37, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

text: "someone who spent a year training guerrillas in Africa"???? Oh, really? Where did you get that assertion? And what kind of guerrillas is this sedentary science fiction fanzine editor supposed to have trained? Are we talking :African National Congressor :SWAPO or who? --Orange Mike | Talk 20:49, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The "assertion" came from the article itself and cites an news report in the Guardian that in turn quotes a life-long friend of Larsson. The African guerrillas he was training were the Marxist Eritrean People's Liberation Front. The same newspaper article quotes his friend describing him as a "revolutionary socialist". I realize this only one part of a very busy life, but how many guerrilla revolutions does one need to participate in to qualify as a revolutionary? He clearly was a revolutionary early in his life (I don't regard this as a derogatory observation, by the way) before falling back to a somewhat milder left-wing activism. I think the best compromise is to include "revolutionary" and "activist" as separate items in the title, to indicate that his revolutionary work was as distinct from his activism as it was from his writing. Geoff NoNick (talk) 12:24, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Activist 

message: What does "1979" mean exactly under "education" in his bio facts box?Cookiehead (talk) 17:12, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Education

message: Is he currently the second best selling author (behind Khaled Hosseini)?
If so, I will change the article to reflect this (or someone else is welcome to).   Ormewood (talk) 03:15, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Status? 

message: The entire name change section is unsourced, and I have so marked itTjoeC (talk) 21:25, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced section(s), references, citations 

message: Shouldn't it be mentioned many people in Sweden believe his death may have been a conspiracy? Its nearly impossible it was but a lot of people believe this. Maybe should add some stuff on this? 209.173.186.216 (talk) 16:35, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can find reliable sources on this subject, it can be included. Philip Cross (talk) 16:42, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Rumour is not an authority for anything. The facts are that he died of a heart attack. There is nothing to suggest that this was not a death from natural causes. No doubt he had many enemies, being a Communist, terrorist and opponent of far right wing groups. But how many people from the far left or far right are murdered by their political opposites? To say very few exaggerates the numbers!122.59.67.48 (talk) 08:50, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It is accurate to discount rumors, and they are no basis for inclusion of information in an encyclopedia.  That said, I have had the same thoughts.  A heart attack is a particularly easy death to cause artificially, and has been.  How often is hard to say.  As he was concerned for his own and his partner's safety, and as they were somewhat in the public eye, and particularly, as they as a couple had taken action through official means to protect their privacy and maintain their safety from  very real right-wing movement, I am inclined to believe that due diligence was given to his inquest.  If not, the case is a bit cold.  But the existence of the BELIEF of foul play, if it is truly widespread, as in the Kennedy, MLK,Jr, and even Lincoln assassinations, might be notable, if suitable secondary sources can support it.  Just sayin'.  Rags (talk) 08:01, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Many people in sweden believe he was murdered/assassinated

message: The explanation for why Larsson and Gabrielsson never married doesn't make sense to anyone who has lived in Sweden. Everyone's address is public information under Swedish law - http://www.thelocal.se/discuss/index.php?showtopic=58131 - so it can't simply be that they didn't marry in order to avoid their address(es) becoming public. It seems that foreign journalists unfamiliar with this system, including Nick Cohen in the article cited, have misunderstood the significance of comments by Gabrielsson. For example, in this interview - http://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/health-wellness-articles/eva-gabriellson-on-steig-larsson - Gabrielsson refers to the publishing of Larsson's address by a Swedish hate group. The significance of this is not that the address would previously have been unpublished, but that he was named as a target. So presumably their reason for not marrying was that he didn't want her to be associated with him in the public records, with the likelihood that she would also become a target. This is my attempt to interpret the information in the light of how things actually work in Sweden - I don't have a link to a source that would clear up the point - so I'm leaving this as a comment here, in the hope that someone else can provide a reference.
: This seems a legitimate reason to change the article.  I don't know when the abovve was written, but today, 7 Sept. 2021, the article  still speaks of  fear of address being public as the reason for not marrying. Kdammers (talk) 00:22, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Reason for not marrying

message: Eva Gabrielsson was his "long-term partner", and found the DRAFT will of 1977. It is true that she had "no legal right to the inheritance", but this did not spark "controversy between her and his father and brother". She may have expressed a wish to benefit from the estate, but this is not a controversy 'between' her and the family.122.59.67.48 (talk) 08:46, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy with father and brother? 

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message: This is part is referencing two different works, the unpublished work of Stieg Larsson, which has problems with rights and other legalities, and the continuation by a new author (David Lagercrantz), which got published in August 2015. The book published is not meant to be the 5th book in chronological order, at least not to my knowledge. But the unpublished book written by Stieg, was meant to be the 5th installment chronologically, just as the reference states.
NbOpposite (talk) 01:38, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The fourth book referenced in the CBS interview 2010 is not talking about the book written by Lagercrantz and published in 2015 

message: "his grandfather, Severin Boström, died of a heart attack at age 50. In 1974" : in 74, Stieg was 20 years old, not 9 ! And the grandfather, 50 in 1974, was 30 yeaurs old when Stieg was born ! 
I suppose the right year is 1964, but anyway the grandfather must have been older than 50 (even 40 in 1954 is young for a grandfather, although not impossible).
J. Richard--92.91.74.18 (talk) 12:51, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chronology mistakes ? 

message: Unfortunately Lagencrantz is a worse writer. His dialogs are heavy. He hasn’t reached Larsson’s talent.
Hopefully his wife will realease his manuscripts one day.....  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.192.104.196 (talk) 03:23, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Larsson better