Portal talk:Switzerland

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four out of four title images show alpine idylls? I mean, nostalgia is all very well, but how about balancing this away a little bit from folklore and stereotypes? dab (𒁳) 17:59, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

PORTAL SWITZERLAND

The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica, German: die Schweiz or Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, French: La Suisse or La Confederation Suisse, Italian: Svizzera, Romansh: Svizra) is a landlocked Alpine country in Central Europe with a strong economy in finance and banking, pharmaceutics, watches and micro-precision industry. Switzerland borders Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a confederation and has a long and strong tradition of political and military neutrality. This background allows Switzerland various international co-operations and organizations.

How about something like this? ---Sluzzelin 05:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

hm.. no. I'm sure we can settle for something between these extremens :) dab (𒁳) 17:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Novartis, looks too much like an advertising. What about "Bundeshaus" in place of Blocher and replacing Novartis with Aletsch. Look how we did that on :fr (well the layout has changed but there are some ideas if you want to replace your 4 pics). 85.2.79.72 22:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, the suggestion was a New Year's joke. I do like the look of French WP's portal of Switzerland, though the concept is different, featuring smaller images for each subcategory (politics, geography, history, etc.) Which ever way this portal goes, I agree with dab that the alpine idylls could be balanced out a bit. Specifically, more urbanity, at least some buildings or signs of civilization and/or technology, maybe a railway picture, maybe the Bundeshaus, as suggested by 85.2.79.72. I've been looking through Commons, but haven't found any clear winners yet. ---Sluzzelin 15:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

People... Much as I would like, but Albert Einstein was not Swiss although he assumed Swiss citizenship in the end. At the time of his death, he actually was a US - Swiss double citizen Tprosser 17:44, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Mosè Giacomo Bertoni‎ or Moisés Santiago Bertoni

Hi Portal:Switzerland and Portal:Latin America I have a question on the naming of Mosè Giacomo Bertoni‎ or Moisés Santiago Bertoni. He lived in Switzerland from 1857 til 1884 and in South America the rest of his life (1929). So what is the right name for the artile and which one will become the redirect?--Stone (talk) 10:02, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Project on swiss women biographies

Hi there we have a project running in Geneva on swiss women's biography to fill the gender gap. We have started to translate in collaboration with Women In Red and User:Rosiestep. Any volunteers welcome to help!

Here is the link to the french speaking project: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Suisse/Biographies_des_femmes_en_Suisse

--Nattes à chat (talk) 18:27, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

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I'm hardly active in the English Wikipedia only now and then with minor edits. Could someone please help me and explain me what I have to do if I believe that someone actually violates WP:HOUND? --MBurch (talk) 03:30, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

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Portal expanded

The portal has been expanded with the addition of new Good- and Featured article sections. The following article selections were added. If anyone is interested, please feel free to discuss these additions here. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 08:29, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Good articles

1 * Switzerland in the Roman era 2 * Swiss Bank Corporation 3 * Belinda Bencic 4 * Swabian War 5 * UBS 6 * Albert Einstein 7 * Credit Suisse 8 * Roger Federer 9 * Swiss peasant war of 1653 10 * Bovet Fleurier 11 * Zytglogge 12 * Werner Kaegi (composer) 13 * Ricardo Rodríguez (footballer) 14 * Xavier Mertz 15 * History of the Swiss Air Force 16 * Nico Hischier 17 * Switzerland and weapons of mass destruction 18 * Alpine Spaniel 19 * 2018 Zürich ePrix 20 * 2015 Tour de Suisse 21 * Maurice Rossel

Featured articles

1 * Huldrych Zwingli 2 * Battle of Winterthur 3 * Leonhard Euler 4 * Isabelle Eberhardt 5 * Nyon Conference 6 * Pierre Rossier

• Additional articles for the portal can be considered from those available in the table listed below.

Switzerland articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		4	1	7			12
FL		3	1	3			7
GA		5	13	41		1	60
B	20	57	87	199		30	393
C	20	104	246	1,049		156	1,575
Start	24	305	1,009	5,733		718	7,789
Stub	1	173	3,353	11,694		1,453	16,674
List		49	166	327	17	71	630
Category				10	8,714		8,724
Disambig				1	170		171
File					123		123
Portal					3		3
Project					16		16
Redirect	1	5	28	185	655		874
Template			1	11	999		1,011
NA					1		1
Other					41		41
Assessed	66	705	4,905	19,260	10,739	2,429	38,104
Unassessed			2	12		511	525
Total	66	705	4,907	19,272	10,739	2,940	38,629
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 146,558			Ω = 5.53

Selected articles

• In addition to the articles listed above, the following articles are presently being displayed in the Selected article section using transclusion from articles. Consensus at VPP has approved using transclusion templates in portals, which provides users with up-to-date content that is verbatim to that in articles. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:17, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Selected articles

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FYI: Request for comment regarding Swiss Standard German

Hi, I would like to call your attention to the following request for comment because it is relevant to Swiss Standard German:

• Help talk:IPA/Standard German#Should we use Austrian (or Swiss) Standard German pronunciation for topics related to Austria (or Switzerland)?

Thanks --mach 🙈🙉🙊 14:20, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

2020 portal updates

Added some B-class articles to the Selected article section (listed below), to round-out the portal to provide a more comprehensive topical overview. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:34, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

• Baden, Switzerland, Matterhorn, DJ BoBo, Contra Dam, Bruno Manser, Carl Rüedi, Fairmont Le Montreux Palace, Gotthard railway, Rudolf of Geneva, Maria Gobat, Beznau Nuclear Power Plant.