Talk:Scandinavian Peninsula

message: I tried to put the images inline with the text where they applied, but the "Scandinavia" template throws everything off if I do that, so I put them all in a gallery at the bottom of the page.  They should be reinserted later, specifically when there is more text on the page. J. Finkelstein 06:14, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Navbox is IMHO too long, can we just remove its obscure "sports" entry at the bottom? -- Omniplex 11:39, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images don't fit 

message: I think the discussion page needs a todo list... so users can colaborate Juan Scott 06:49, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What about Bornholm, mention it? Looking at the map I guess Gotland and Åland are good enough. -- Omniplex 11:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Fun stuff, a Scandinavian map as ASCII art, clearly showing "A" Åland, "G" Gotland, and "B" Bornholm. -- Omniplex 14:09, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  To do list 

message: From what I have heard, the snow on Glittertinden has partially melted, so Galdhøpiggen at 2469 m is now the undisputed highest mountain in Scandinavia. Orcaborealis 21:12, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glittertinden or Galdhøpiggen? 

message: * The article fails to mention the fact that the western coast of the peninsula north to Lofoten has a Marine West Coast Climate - Cool (see data for Svolvær at Geography of Norway, compare with reference section addition about climate).
* Substantial parts of Norway's geology are not dominated by the Baltic Shield, but by the Cambrian collision with Greenland creating the mountain range which mostly consists of marine rock 
* The reason why arable land in Norway is only 3% (could have been somewhat higher if economical feasible) is mainly due to elevation and, in the far north (Troms and Finnmark), short and cool growing season. Orcaborealis 09:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Add it ;-) Unfotunately I found no confirmation for the new highest mountain in the Nordic FAQ, their Norway Geo chapter is a bit short. That Norway's climate is related to the Gulf stream is a fact. -- Omniplex 09:50, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Depends, I'd trust some Usenet FAQs more than say Factmonster, whatever that's supposed to be. Actually I was too lazy to start a proper external links section with one entry, or to find out more about the new <references> footnote style chosen by somebody else for the article... ;-) -- Omniplex 10:35, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate and Geology 

message: What about the exact area of the peninsula? Probably there are several definitions of its borders, but nowhere in text did I see such numbers. Elsewhere I found some examples - 750 000 and 800 000 km2. Would like to add a number - whatever we decide - in the first sentence of Geography section: "Arguably the largest peninsula in Europe, the Scandinavian Peninsula is approximately 1,850 kilometres (1,150 mi) long with a width varying approximately from 370 to 805 kilometres (230 to 500 miles)." -Bobbylon (talk) 22:09, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Area

message: Please provide academic sources for the eastern border (Kemijoki, Lake Inari and Paatsjoki). The border seems to be one of the most plausible, but I could not find a reliable source for this fact.--Insider (talk) 06:22, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Over a year has passed since the request, and nothing has surfaced. I'm removing the eastern border claim. --Jmk (talk) 16:51, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eastern border 

message: TylerBurden, I don't think we have WP:DUE weight for saying Lapps is a common term for the Sámi people. The source for the paragraph is B & P Sawyer's book from 1992, which introduces the Sámi as "a distinct group of people often called Lapps", the only use of that term in the book. Funnily, they claim in the same paragraph that the Sámi speak a form of Finnish - maybe this is not the authors' area of expertise. The source for the introduction is apparently a book by Israel Ruong, called Samerna, from 1975. I would have to go to the library to see that book for myself, but I know the term was commonly used in the past and is now considered offensive. We can see this in Google ngrams where it looks like the 70's are the point where popular opinion changed to favor the endonym. In my opinion, we should remove the Lapp mention here and leave the discussion of the name of the group in the main Sámi article as it is off-topic here and extensively discussed there. HansVonStuttgart (talk) 09:53, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Due weight and exonym