Talk:Malin Akerman

message: If and when an actress has "exposed her nude upper body" is simply not relevant in a biographic article in an encyclopedia. This is not a matter of withholding "truth" - there are a wide number of equally irrelevant albeit true facts that I would remove in the same fashion (e.g. what brand of shoes she was wearing in the latest episode of The Comeback). Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Furthermore, statements like this reduce the credibility of Wikipedia, by making it look like "Beavis and Butt-head's guide to naked flesh in movies". There must be more relevant things to mention about Malin Akerman's acting than the fact that she's once taken her shirt off in front of the camera. / Alarm 12:37, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would support you Alarm, but for erotica-fans like me, it is somewhat interesting. Now I can look her up here: . //Fred-Chess 20:58, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia is not a viewer's guide to naked flesh in movies

message: While the above link is interesting, I think this would make for a much better picture, though I'm not exactly sure it's fair use:  Those copyright laws are a bitch; but someone can try uploading it since I don't know all the rules and criteria, etc. --Wikiwøw ­­ 20:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I know the subject of the spelling of her last name has been mentioned before, but I think it has be done spelled as it was originally. Since she is Swedish and her name is Swedish spells with Å and not A in Swedish media, therefore it should be moved to Åkerman.
In the movie "27 dresses" and others,  she is credited as Åkerman. 
http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=235&a=410640
http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=257&a=482372
True, it spells with an A on "her" website, but I doubt the reliability of her site just for the fact it has a link to IMDB right on the main page and the very first page seems like an advertisement for the watchmen movie.
Norum (talk) 20:37, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Norum, the most obvious point to make is that both your citations are in Swedish.  She may be Swedish, and the Swedish media may spell her name with Swedish diacritics.  This is not, however, the Swedish wikipedia.  It's the English wikipedia.  And the established fact is that her name typically drops the diacritic in English, and that is rightfully the name of the article.Erudy (talk) 22:43, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

text: It's an interesting issue. According to Wikipedia policy you should use the version of the name found most commonly in the English language sources used for the article. However, this would mean that we would have to rename all articles about Swedish people, whose names contain å, ä, ö, é or è; for example Alexandra Dahlström or Tomas von Brömssen. English speaking media rarely to never use these letters, since they simply don't have them on their keyboards. Does this mean that they rename people? That there is an English language "version" of the name? Does miss Å/Akerman have two different names in the public records of Sweden and Canada? It's interesting philisophically, but this is Wikipeda and as I mentioned there is policy on the issue - Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English): "Follow the general usage in English verifiable reliable sources in each case, whatever characters may or may not be used in them.", "The references for the article should themselves be reliable sources; if one name is clearly most commonly used in the English-language references for the article, use it. If (as will happen occasionally) something else is demonstrably more common in reliable sources for English as a whole, and this is not a question of national varieties of English, use that instead." and "The native spelling of a name should generally be included in the first line of the article..." -Duribald (talk) 14:55, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

text: I think you make some interesting points, and there is certainly no consistency on Wikipedia in the application of policy - which is seen in the actual article, where she is called "Akerman" three times and "Åkerman" sixteen times. But there's actual policy on this one, and perhaps that policy should be discussed in general, rather than in the context of one article. In such a discussion I would probably agree with you - there's really no reason not to write people's names "properly", as long as it is in the latin alphabet and redirects are made from common English transliterations. -Duribald (talk) 01:46, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Try the talk page of the policy itself: Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(use_English). -Duribald (talk) 11:39, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

text: Interesting fact: The discussion on the page move of Libingan ng mga Bayani actually resulted in no move being done - because of the policy you're advocating. English is an official language of the Philipines, and consequently most English speaking sources refer to the place as Libingan ng mga Bayani - including the official act that renamed the place. Absurd? -Duribald (talk) 22:33, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

text: This is a borderline case. If she still had Sweden as her base, it would be totally clear that she should be moved to Malin Åkerman, since that's her "real name". However, it seems she has emigrated more-or-less permanently to Canada, which could mean that she is naturalized under this spelling. If she works under "Akerman" there, it's probably better to list her under that spelling. Tomas e (talk) 22:17, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The same could be said for Swedish hockey players who've more or less emigrated to North America, someone like Nicklas Lidström (lived there for 20+ years) will probably never be referred to as Lidström in the US, just Lidstrom (as I think it says on his jersey), still doesn't change the Swedish name on the English wikipedia. chandler 20:03, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Åkerman 

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message: Åkerman has a Swedish passport and became an American citizen in October 2018. She lived in Canada for most of her life, but says she never was a citizen. So, should all the categories involving Canada, such as "20th-century Canadian actresses", be removed? Pancake (talk) 17:16, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove Canadian categories? 

message: I frankly don't care either way, but the article should:
* mention and explain the issue.
* be consistent.
Currently it looks amateurish.  --91.5.109.82 (talk) 14:45, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Her Name again