Talk:Municipalities of Sweden

message: The articles covering Swedish municipalities are currently not possible to distinguishe from articles covering cities from which they have received their names. Even if many of the municipality articles still are little more than stubs, there is a value in being able to distinguish between the city and the geographically larger, political entity, that is the municipality. The intention is to achieve this by moving all of the 290 municipality articles from the current naming format "Karlshamn" to "Karlshamn Municipality". Links relating to the municipality will need to be disambiguated, but the majority of the links will need no disambiguation as they refer to the city rather than to the municipality. There will be a process where by the articles are moved and the cities and towns  separated to their own articles. During the stages of this process it will not be possible to continously update the municipality lists and because of this the will be suspended and replaced by the :Category:Municipalities of Sweden, which always will contain an updated list of the process.
The lists affected are:
*List of Swedish municipalities (Old revision)
*List of Swedish municipalities by county (Old revision)
*List of Swedish municipalities by population (Old revision)
*List of Swedish municipalities by wealth (Old revision)
The Municipalities of Blekinge County have been converted and can regarded as a form of display case of the conversion. -- Mic 14:50, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Conversion process

message: 03-Sep-2007: Many people are asked to edit articles, without an intro session explaining formatting of images + text. An image reference ("right|thumb|170px|My caption") can have screen placement "right" or "left" or "center" to control text-wrapping alongside the image.  When tall, vertical navigation-boxes appear in an article, then using image-parameter "left" will allow text to wrap between the image and righthand nav-box; however, standard Wiki format tends to avoid squeezing text between images, so try to keep side images very small (such as 170px) when wrapping text along a nav-box.  When placing map images in an article, there is a tendency to want the map large to cross-reference against the text; however, maps can be a nuisance to experts who don't even need the map at all, so embed maps as smaller images and allow "click to enlarge" as a separate window, for other users to switch between the article & map windows for cross-checking.  Putting giant maps in an article can be less informative than encouraging side-by-side windows of article against click-enlarged maps, as a technique of cross-referencing data against maps.  Outsiders who've never seen the map might prefer a giant map, but balance that against local people who don't need such maps at all, and keep maps as "click to enlarge" smaller size.  -Wikid77 08:58, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting maps-images

message: Some editors STILL confuse the populations of municipalities with the populations of the seats. As an example: Kungsbacka Municipality has a population of about 71,000, but in the town Kungsbacka only some 18,000 persons live. That might sound odd to some, but nevertheless it is the fact. The cities, towns and other localities of Sweden are NOT local government units, but parts of municipalities which include several loacilities and also rural areas. There are 1940 localities, but only 290 municipalities. --Muniswede (talk) 23:10, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Municipal populations

message: Someone has proposed that the article Stad (Sweden) should be merged into this one. I don´t think that's a good idea. Since 1971 a stad (city or town in Swedish) is NOT a type of municipality, but a non-administrative built-up area. Therefore the article could just as well be merged into Urban areas of Sweden. As this fact still seems to be hard to understand for some, I think a separate article describing it is necessary. --Muniswede (talk) 23:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I certainly do not know why the above unsigned user attacks me. I did certainly NOT say that "kommuner" are urban areas. Just the contrary. Urban areas in Sweden are non-administrative. Up until 1971, however, one type of "kommun" was called stad (which is the Swedish word for city or town). The fact that many of the städer included large rural areas (Kiruna was the ultimate example, called the largest "city" of the world) was one of the reasons why the system with different types of municipalities was abolished alltogether.--Muniswede (talk) 21:32, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger ?

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