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Number of Finns in Sweden

In the article Sweden, the following appears in the language section:

"Sweden Finns are Sweden's largest linguistic minority, comprising about 3% of Sweden's population and Finnish is recognized as a minority language."

However, the infobox of the same article states that 5.1% of the population are Finns. The citation is simply

"See Sweden Finns".

If one visits this article, they will see that the infobox says

"estimated c. 470,000 (c. 5.1 per cent of the population of Sweden)"

... but there is not one source for this in the entire article. The article Finns also claims 470,000, but, of course, Sweden is the only country unsourced in the infobox (in a list of sixteen countries). Demographics of Sweden presents similar figures, but none of them are sourced. Statistics Sweden and Google are not turning up any results. Does anyone know where this information can be found? Thanks, Hayden120 (talk) 09:39, 15 August 2010 (UTC)

Very complicated since there are recently (after WW2) imigrated Finns, Finns who imigrated several hundreds of years ago, and Finns who are natives in nothern Sweden (where the swedes are imigrants). All of them are a part of this minority, and official statistics can only count the first category. -- Lavallen (talk) 09:33, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

And official statistics in Sweden do not include information about language, if I've understood correctly, out of privacy reasons. There should be ways to estimate the numbers, but it is tricky. --LPfi (talk) 10:50, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the replies. Yeah, it doesn't seem to be an easy statistic to come by. However, as I wrote on the talk page of Sweden, a nice friend of mine was able to find this, which seems adequate, but any other sources would also be appreciated. Cheers, Hayden120 (talk) 11:29, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

But the figure from SCB includes also the many Finland-Swedish immigrants, so it all depends on what you mean with Finns. Someone with Finnish citizenship or someone who speaks Finnish. Närking (talk) 14:23, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

AFAIK, official statistics are normally based on where people was born, or where their parents was born, not citizenship. -- Lavallen (talk) 14:32, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Just one example. A relative of mine is a son of a Finland-Swede and he in fact still holds Finnish citizenship but neither he or his late father could speak a word Finnish. They both are ethnic Swedes, but I guess he is included in that statistics.Närking (talk) 14:44, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Swedish municipalities

I have constructed User:Lavallen/Infobox Kommun2 to replace {{Infobox Kommun2}} in Swedish municipalities (kommuner). The visual design is exactly the same, but there is a possibility to write the magic word "automatic_update" in parameter "area" and "population". This makes the template collect this information from {{Area Swedish municipality}} and {{Population Swedish municipality}}. A number of parameters become obsolete when this is done, including "arealand", "areawater", "populationdensity", "population_as_of" and "area_as_of". Two references are automatically added and some text in the footnote.

Opinions? -- Lavallen (talk) 17:08, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

There does not seem a need to keep parameters "area" and "population", i.e., to allow deviation from the data in the data files.--Patrick (talk) 09:36, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

On svwp we have articles about former municipalities (who has been merged) and proposed new municipalities (splits and new mergers). We do not have statistics for such articles in the Data-templates and SCB has no such numbers. I have not found such articles here (yet), but I guess that will come any day. Then it would be usefull to have a template that looks the same as in all other swedish municipalities. -- Lavallen (talk) 12:22, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

In that case {{{population|..}}} is perhaps more convenient than {{#ifeq:{{{population}}}|automatic_update|..|{{{population}}}}}.--Patrick (talk) 12:50, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I have done like that in User:Lavallen/Infobox Kommun now. If the parameter "area" is missing: all of areatotal/arealand and areawater will be automatic Data-template-numbers. If you write "area=" the line for areatotal will be empty and the lines for arealand and areawater will be optional. For population and density will the missing of those parameters, result in Data-template-numbers. If they are given an empty line (i.e. "population="), the template will show nothing. -- Lavallen (talk) 16:15, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

If population and area parameters are given, but populationdensity is undefined, I would expect to get the quotient, not the value computed from the data template.--Patrick (talk) 07:06, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

I have thought of that but has no good solution yet.

I have written a table below. opt=optional, Data-tl=from the Data-template

			area	landarea	waterarea	population	density
"area" def	"pop" def	"dens" def	opt	opt	opt	opt	opt
"area" def	"pop" def	"dens" undef	opt	opt	opt	opt	calc if possible out of (pop/(arealand(or area if missing))
"area" def	"pop" undef	"dens" def	opt	opt	opt	Data-tl	opt
"area" def	"pop" undef	"dens" undef	opt	opt	opt	Data-tl	calc if possible out of (pop-Data-tl/(arealand(or area if missing))
"area" undef	"pop" def	"dens" def	Data-tl	Data-tl	Data-tl	opt	opt
"area" undef	"pop" def	"dens" undef	Data-tl	Data-tl	Data-tl	opt	calc if possible out of (pop/(arealand-Data-tl)
"area" undef	"pop" undef	"dens" def	Data-tl	Data-tl	Data-tl	Data-tl	opt
"area" undef	"pop" undef	"dens" undef	Data-tl	Data-tl	Data-tl	Data-tl	calc if possible out of (pop-Data-tl/arealand-Data-tl)

Is this a good solution?

A problem is that the template expects you to write a unit together with the numbers. The #expr:-function cannot calculate (12,345 inh/1,234.5 km2)

Maybe it is time to redesign that part of the template to? -- Lavallen (talk) 08:08, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

The dens parameter does not seem useful, so the template can ignore it, and compute the value. Alternatively, if it is supplied together with area but without population, the template could compute the population from the two, and similarly if it is used together with population but without area. Producing inconsistent figures seems confusing.

Yes, I would change the template to expect numbers without units or formatting as parameter values, if any.--Patrick (talk) 10:51, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Derive population and area out of density looks a little strange to me. It is always calculated from somethings else. (With a few exceptions.) -- Lavallen (talk) 13:23, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Been working on this in User:Lavallen/Infobox Kommun3 now with more simple code. I have not done the density-problem yet. But the Area and Population seemes to work correctly. As long as You give the "area/arealand/areawater" a number that #expr: can interpret, the template will add a unit and calculate the "sq mi" for you. The "total" in pop and dens is removed and "NN out of 290" has been removed in all three positions. -- Lavallen (talk) 13:13, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

The word inhabitants is missing when population is supplied; you can use {{#if:{{{population}}}|inhabitants}} (put the word if population is defined and non-empty, or undefined).--Patrick (talk) 22:50, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

The case that areawater is undefined does not work.--Patrick (talk) 22:50, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Solved and solved, the inhabitants-problem was the last thing I worked with yesterday before I gave up. When this is over, I do not want to see a { or } for months...

I have introduced some _note-parameters, since the area/pop/dens only accepts numbers now. The Data-template-notes are automatically introduced when the templates are in use. -- Lavallen (talk) 06:33, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Are we ready to replace the current template with this new code? I have ended my agreements with my ISP, so I will be disconnected from Internet August 30, and it will take the new ISP ~ a week to reconnect me again. (Does the aux-templates, has to be categorised?) -- Lavallen (talk) 06:42, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Transition from a system where a template is called with "population = .. inhabitants" to one where one of the options is "population = ..", where there are too many articles to change the calls at once, is tricky; without special precautions the word "inhabitants" may appear twice in some cases, or not appear at all in some cases. In this case, since the latter is not serious, the word can better not be produced by the template, at least not in the case that the parameter is defined, until all calls are fixed.

For area the same applies: we want to avoid that km² occurs twice or is missing. The latter is somewhat more serious than for population, since other units are possible. For the time being we can continue to require the unit if the parameter is specified.

Checking whether the parameter value is just a number (using #iferror and #expr or #ifexpr), or using different names for parameters with different usage requirements (i.e. using a new name for the parameter with the new use) are also possible.

Template:Infobox Kommun2/doc needs to explain the use of the new version, especially which parameters are not needed because the values can be taken from the data templates, the effect of specifying an empty value, and whether units are needed if a value is specified.

Perhaps the aux-templates can be put in Category:Conversion subtemplates.--Patrick (talk) 09:06, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

For documentation and testing it is useful to replace {{PAGENAME}} by {{{pagename|{{PAGENAME}}}}}.--Patrick (talk) 09:11, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

(unindent) The "pagename"-parameter is introduced and the inhabitants will never occurs twice and will not occur if population is left empty. The municipal code is now optional. (all current and historical since 60 years has/have one, but not allways older and suggested new.)

Now there is a bug if the area-parameter is left empty, I will check that. -- Lavallen (talk) 10:04, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Bug solved. No Unit will be introduced in any of the parameters, if not #expr: recognice a number. An alternative is to introduce a new template: {{Infobox Kommun3}}. Then we can solve the problems, when the new template is introduced. - I have AWB access, and changing templates is a simple standard procedure, but it takes some time, since every edit has to be checked carefully. -- Lavallen (talk) 10:19, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Sources for density are not needed, it is clear that it is found from population and area, for which a source is given, if applicable. Moreover, there are cases where correctly no density is given, but where a source is given anyway.--Patrick (talk) 11:01, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Removed both automatic and manual density-notes. -- Lavallen (talk) 11:10, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

What is the meaning of "total" for population and density?--Patrick (talk) 12:07, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Good question!

And a new one: Who is interested in which is number 127 of 290 in density/area/population-rank? And who will update those numbers? -- Lavallen (talk) 12:20, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

It seems hard to automate. To avoid the need of updating them manually these could be left out. It is sufficient to make the List of municipalities of Sweden update automatically.--Patrick (talk) 13:25, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I will remove the rank-lines. The "total" in density and population it probably a note that the population/density is for the whole of the municipality, instead of only the city with the same name. (Normally the city is much smaller than the municipality. But for Stockholm and a few others, the city is larger than the municipality. I some cases, there is no city with the same name.) -- Lavallen (talk) 16:15, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

The article name and the infobox header both mention "municipality"/"kommun", so "total" seems out of place here.--Patrick (talk) 07:36, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Do You think the list will still be sortable with this change? -- Lavallen (talk) 18:25, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes, that should work; as long as a column contains just one number in each cell nts is not needed. By the way, if area is given in two units, it seems that density should be given in two units too, for uniformity.--Patrick (talk) 07:36, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

The Boy with the Leaking Boot statue - in Stockholm? Can anyone help?

Hallo, unreliable sources say that the The Boy with the Leaking Boot statue presented to Cleethorpes in England in 1915 was a copy of one which stood at the Hasselbacken Restaurant in Stockholm, and also that a copy of the statue currently stands in Stockholm. Can anyone shed any light on either claim? I'd like to the the article up to GA, but the sourcing is a bit difficult. PamD (talk) 17:33, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

I would recommend You to ask the question on sv:Wikipediadiskussion:Projekt Stockholm, one of the most active projects on sv:Wikipedia. Do not be afraid to write in English! -- Lavallen (talk) 17:46, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

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Skåne County vs Scania

Over the last couple of months, there has been a number of edits to the articles Skåne County and List of governors of Skåne County, changing the use of "Skåne" to "Scania" and moving the article. Mostly by a single editor, John Anderson (talk · contribs). As to the actual issue, I believe it has been established quite clearly that Skåne län officially uses the English translation Skåne County, despite the province of Skåne usually being translated into English as Scania. One can have whatever personal views one wants on this, but by virtue of WP:RS, this means that Skåne län should be called Scania County in English Wikipedia. I think the issue has been covered sufficiently at Talk:Skåne County, and my impression is that any objection primarily stems from an inability to differentiate between landskap/provinces and län/counties. I have just -again- moved back the two articles to their names as given by reliable sources, but I think I have now done so a sufficient number of times to notify the project about this issue, e.g., to have additional editors putting the articles on their watchlists. In principle, if I react as I have done previously, it would now be called for to warn the user a {{uw-error3}} template, but given the previous reactions, I would like to leave this to other editors who may look very differently upon the issue. Tomas e (talk) 19:19, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm afraid my current assessment is that the disruptive editing of John Anderson (talk · contribs) will not stop until he is blocked. He has again moved three articles to names that he thinks is right, again showing disregard for reliable sources or consensus. Sigh Tomas e (talk) 12:17, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting or ...?

Naming issues related to Swedish universities & colleges on English Wikipedia have mainly focussed on the issue of the use of "university" for university colleges (högskolor). However, when I went through the list of English names as published by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education I found a very large discrepancy for Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm or the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting (current Wikipedia name), or perhaps I should write Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts (their website version) or Stockholm University College of Acting (the Agency's version). Here it's not just a matter of differing views of "status" - the names are completely different! If you have a view of which one to choose, share it at Talk:Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting. Tomas e (talk) 18:17, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

As long as these institutions only list a HEI without explicitly mentioning that the OFFCIAL name (or english translation) of each HEI is used, you cannot consider it as the official name/tranlation of this HEI at all. Indisputably, the name/translation used by the HEI ITSELF (for example on websites) is much more "official". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Miljösweden (talk • contribs) 21:34, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Considering the long disputes surrounding högskolor calling themselves "universities" in English (which has long been discussed here), that is very much not indisputable! But as I mentioned, I've never seen this kind of discrepancy before! Tomas e (talk) 16:31, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

The use of "university college" for anything that isn't a proper university seems unidiomatic and like a case of bureaucratic over-standardization. If there is a problem, it is with institutions calling themselves "universities", when they are not, in fact, recognized as such. If something that the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education calls a "university college" prefers to call itself a "college", "academy", "institute" or "seminary", I see no issue with that. In most cases that probably reflects the kind of institution they are better and more idiomatically than the term "university college". --Hegvald (talk) 14:46, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Swedish general election, 2010

Many editors would welcome help in improving the article on Swedish general election, 2010. Thanks/TACK! Best regards/mvh, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 22:26, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Naming of a concrete högskola in the English Wikipedia

Certainly, in the English Wikipedia a högskola should be referred by the English translation of its official name. In the case of Sweden, almost every högskola translates its name into English with the term "university" instead of "university college", as it is evident from its corresponding English website. So far, these websites are the only reliable source for obtaining an "official" translation of a concrete högskola. There are English lists of HEIs in Sweden, but none of those assures that the official translation of a HEI is stated. Previously, particularly the HSV List of higher education institutions has been considered as a source for "official" translations. Though, this cannot be taken for granted implicitly due to the official nature of the HSV. The translations differs further besides the question "university" vs. "university college", and thus revealing them as obviously inofficial, incorrect, or obsolete translations. For example, Högskolan i Jönköping is stated as "Jönköping University" on its English website while stated as "Jönköping University Foundation" in the HSV list, and Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan is translated as "The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences" on its English website while stated as "University College of Physical Education and Sports" in the HSV list (November 2010). For distinction a högskola should be described as university college in the text of an appropriate article, as this is the commonly accepted translation of that kind of HEI. However, this should not be an issue handled in the naming of the HEI by falsifying the translated name that is used by the HEI itself.

See also Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sweden#Swedish_National_Academy_of_Mime_and_Acting_or_....3F

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Winter of 2010–2011 in Europe

I encourage this WikiProject to help update that article with regional data and incidents. Winter of 2009–2010 in Europe#Sweden isn't much to brag about, so you might want to be a bit proactive for the current season of anomalous winter weather. __meco (talk) 15:23, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Kungsholmens gymnasium

Does this project want to patrol the article for Kungsholmens gymnasium? There has been massive serial vandalism going on there for several months now, and while I've repaired as much of the page as I can for now, I don't know enough about the topic to really help out. Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 00:11, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Stockholm

Just to let you know, there's been a proposal to create a WikiProject Stockholm. Mlm42 (talk) 17:14, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Football taskforce proposal

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Extreme points of Sweden at WP:FLRC

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Request that material from a WP English article be incorporated into a WP Swedish article

Not sure if this is the appropriate forum, but in the WP English article BioInitiative Report there is a large body of criticism that does not appear to be reflected in the WP Swedish article on the same topic. I do not have any Swedish language abilities to do the work or make a request directly. --papageno (talk) 05:50, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Scandinavian diaspora

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The heads-up is appreciated, but I think most people who have this page watchisted also watch Wikipedia:WikiProject Sweden/Article alerts where all Sweden-related deletion nominations pop up :-) --bonadea contributions talk 08:26, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

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Proposed merge

It is my feeling: The season 2010-11 Riksserien probably does not merit his own article, and such content as is appropriate should probably be merged into the Women's ice hockey in Sweden article. I invite discussion, --Charlesquebec (talk) 12:30, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

In the reading of your comments, I remove my proposition of merger. I only wanted to improve the Wikipedia encyclopedia but the ice hockey is not my domain of specialization. Thanks and happy editing. --Charlesquebec (talk) 12:44, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Sofi Fahrman at DYK

Someone submitted a hook at T:TDYK about Sofi Fahrman. I supplied an alt hook, any chance someone who can read Swedish could verify the hook statement from the supplied Swedish source? Gatoclass (talk) 08:51, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Link to DYK discussion here. Gatoclass (talk) 10:28, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Livonian War

The previous A class review was inconclusive, and suffered from a lack of input. I really hope to get the article to A class soon, and therefore if you'd like to comment on the current review (here) then please do so. The A class criteria, of which there are only five, can be found here. Even if you only look at one aspect, that would be great. Thanks, Grandiose (me, talk, contribs) 16:26, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Metapedia

Hi! I want to add to the article about Metapedia (a pro-Nazi Swedish wiki) There are two articles:

• "Propagandapedia." Kristianstadsbladet. 20 February 2007
• "Judeförföljelser på internet." Dagens Nyheters. 8 February 2007.

Would anyone mind helping me summarize the main points of the sources so I can establish a stub? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 00:40, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Koster Islands

Hi! I'm new to the Wiki' and have edited the article about the Koster Islands located in Västra Götaland County along Sweden's west coast. Anyone care to comment? Seeing as I'm new please let me know if I haven't followed policies or standard procedure. Scottmdejong (talk) 19:41, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

Category:Sweden articles missing geocoordinate data

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List of national parks of Sweden

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Help needed naming articles

Please see this. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:35, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Diacritics RfC

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Calle Jonsson

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Malmö University College

Several user accounts that most probably come from the university college's marketing department constantly try to hide the fact that Malmö University College is not a full university. While this might certainly become a lesser scandal if brought to the papers, for now someone more active on enwp than me should probably watch the page... /Grillo (talk) 13:59, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

The really problematic part to me is that Hanna Holm (talk · contribs) deleted references from the article (the list from Högskoleverket, which uses consistent translations for all Swedish universities and colleges). This goes beyond simple COI editing by communication department employees, which usually is just a matter of ignorance of the WP:COI policy. However, since it was several months ago and since it was not repeated, it does not merit any retroactive user warning templates, but I did point out the issue on her talk page just in case. In fairness to the college in Malmö, this type of thing has happened several times with other Swedish university college, but offhand I don't think we have usually connected communications/marketing employees with it. Tomas e (talk) 12:24, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

I/we tried to streamline the naming of Swedish universities and university colleges about a year ago, and the only one I've seen that has not respected this is Malmö. Then again, since I used to be a Lund university student, maybe I'm a little biased (from university film 2006: "let's store this artifact in a location that is known for anything other than higher learning" *cut to image of Malmö University College main building*). I looked through the archives and noticed that it was you that raised the question the first time around :) /Grillo (talk) 03:06, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

An alternative approach is to name the article Malmö högskola. The boards of many Swedish university colleges have decided that their english name is "x university", but that they should use the Swedish name also in English texts. If the board of Malmö university college has taken such a decision, we may include that source in the article lead as an explanation. Mange01 (talk) 16:18, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Swedish elections 2010: Mention Nazi party?

A far-right party received 2.8% in one community, and now there is a section in the article on the 2010 election in Sweden. Please comment at Talk:Swedish_general_election,_2010#Municipal_elections_and_National_Socialism:_Expo.

Thanks!  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 11:32, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Piteå - History - erroneous century reference

From the History section of the Piteå page: "In July, 1666, the entire town burnt down. Afterwards it was rebuilt in the 17th century."

Since 1666 is in the 17th century this should read "later in the 17th century" or perhaps the author meant the 1700's (the 18th century AD)? I don't know when it was rebuilt, I just know the grammar is wrong or at best unclear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.113.222.38 (talk) 21:37, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Computing

Anything for here: Supercomputing_in_Europe? Thanks. History2007 (talk) 17:22, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Regarding libel on Wikipedia

I request the cessation of the unverified use of my name Ulf Sandmark on the list of "Nationalism or fascism in Sweden" in the template Template:Swedish nationalism and fascism It is reference from Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, which means that my name appears at the bottom of most the 29 pages of the worst fascist organizations and leaders in Swedish history, like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_People%27s_Party_of_Sweden, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Aryan_Resistance_%28Sweden%29, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Reich_Party, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger_Furug%C3%A5rd, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Olov_Lindholm,etc. etc.

First of all it is not a truthful reporting, as I have been fighting politically against fascism all my life. Because of that it is the worst libel that can be invented about me. For all the people who know anything about me, and the movements I have worked with, it brings distrust over the whole Wikipedia project.

There is is no documentation whatsoever supporting this outrageous libel. The original reference, Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, has not my name on his list of fascists on the link. It is simply added on the reference to Philip Rees which appears on most of the 29 home pages of the Swedish fascists on the template.

My name appears on the "post-1945" list together with three other persons. They are Jackie Arklöv, Hampus Hellekant and Klas Lund. These three persons have personal pages listing the neonazi organizations they have worked with. Furthermore, all three are convicted murderers sentenced to long imprisonments. These three persons' murderous activities have represented some of the worst crimes neonazi organizations have perpetrated in Swedish history. In connection with my name, the only reference is a link (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulf_Sandmark) to a libelous page about the "European Workers Party" (which allegedly describes the European Labor Party - EAP). Even this page has only one reference to fascism. A government report is cited, saying that "it became increasingly common in the media to characterize the party as 'fascist' or 'right-wing extremist' ". However, such a reference means that this government report has found no proof of such a characterization and can only report about such media statements. The quote also falsely claims that the EAP has an "anti-Semitic jargon", but even this libelous statement is far from claiming that I or the EAP have made any fascist or anti-Semitic statements .

The allegations, on the page of "European Workers Party", that I or the EAP should have gone underground after the unfortunate and tragic murder of Olof Palme, is also a libelous insinuation of complicity or criminal behavior, as I have continued non stop open political organizing from 1969 until today. I have participated in all national parliamentary elections from 1976 until today, regularly participating in very public street organizing in Sweden also directly after the murder of Palme and further on. The party has continuously since 1975 maintained one or more offices in Stockholm. I have never gone underground but maintained a position as a public political person.

This libel of me will go down in history as one of the most outrageous libels in Swedish political history and has already stained the reputation of Wikipedia. [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by USandmark (talk • contribs) 17:46, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello someone, There is an ongoing libel of me of the worst kinds in Swedish history and noone on this project answers or even bothers to comment my letter. The only thing that was done, was to undo my editing, with complaints about messing. I am new on Wikipedia as a writer and if you do not like how I edited it, please explain how Wikipedia should be edited in the right way. As my name should not stand without verification on this list of the worst nazis in Swedish history and as there was no "new" verification and no answer to my letter from Norvegia Suecia or anyone else, I have eliminated my name again. USandmark (talk) 18:11, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Concerning consensus about removing my name: Norvegia Suecia claims there is no consensus for removing my name. My checking on the Revision history of Template:Swedish nationalism and fascism logs for this page, makes it is clear that my name Ulf Sandmark was on the list from the beginning together with the organization I belong to "European Workers Party" (again misnamed). However, there was evidently consensus to remove the "European Workers Party" on November 9,2008, as you can see from the the following excerpt of the Revision history:

(cur | prev) 17:40, 9 November 2008‎ Apoc2400 (talk | contribs)‎ (2,229 bytes) (European Workers Party is not clearly nationalist or fascist) (undo)

As my affiliated organization was removed with consensus, also my name should be removed, as there is no verification that I belong to any other of the mentioned organizations in the Template:Swedish nationalism and fascism. This check should have been possible for Norvegica Suecia to have done, as he is very much more experienced, than I am, on how consensus and verification on Wikipedia is organized. USandmark (talk) 18:50, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Apoc2400 appears to have had no consensus with others, making his edit by original research/personal ideas. You claim that the EAP "allegedly describes the European Labor Party" - European Workers' Party is a far more accurate translation. The EAP is a part of the homophobic, anti-semitic and by many considered outright fascist LaRouche Movement, and the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service, SOU and media (media commonly accepted as sources here on Wikipedia) places the party quite firmly in the right-wing extremist/fascist political scene. As the former leader of a party fitting the template, you (I might add that you have presented no evidence as to your identity) certainly deserve a place of your own, if you had only had your own page. This page was however removed and replaced with an EAP redirect due to being a, I quote, "completely unknown person - not notable at all". I have therefore placed a direct link to the EAP, rather than a fruitless redirect. Norvegia suecica (talk) 19:37, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you both for answering. However, there is no consensus about reinsertion European Labor Party (EAP), here called "European Workers Party", in the Template:Swedish nationalism and fascism. The consensus has been there for now two years to keep it out and the change appears to be an arbitrary replacement of the three years libel against Ulf Sandmark. Furthermore there is no verification for the reinsertion.

First of all, no one has been able to verify that the European Labor Party (EAP), here called "European Workers Party, is included in the cited reference for the template: Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, pp. 233-234.

None of the Swedish government report SOU sources, Norvegia suecica refers to, claim that the EAP is fascist or Extreme Right, actually the sources claim that EAP is part of the "Left". (See "Källor" at the bottom of the Swedish Wikipedia page Europeiska arbetarpartiet.) One quote from the 1987 Military intelligence report speculates using the words "could rather be signified as Extreme Right". However, it is taken out the context in a government report about the "Left", called "SOU 2002:91: The threat from the Left", which overrides the statement by putting EAP in the left with clear statements. Like the one from the Swedish national security service (SAEPO) 1994: "SAEPO does not consider EAP as a Extreme Right party." The SOU 2002:94, about Nazis and Extreme Right, has only one quote about EAP saying, an informer usually reported about the "Extreme Left, including Europeiska arbetarpartiet (EAP) and its predecessor European Labour Committees (ELC)". Here are the quotes in Swedish:

SOU 2002:94. Övervakningen av nazister och högerextremister. Säkerhetstjänst, nazism och högerextremism 1946-1980 Här nämns Europeiska Arbetarpartiet bara en gång och det är som extremvänster på följande sätt på sid 101: ”'F' rapporterade normalt om kommunisterna, Clarté och extremvänstern inklusive Europeiska arbetarpartiet (EAP) och dess föregångare European Labour Committees (ELC)."

SOU 2002:91. Magnus Hjort: Hotet från vänster. Säkerhetstjänsternas övervakning av kommunister, anarkister m.m. 1965-2002 Här nämns EAP, som utredningens namn visar, som en del av vänstern och utredningen slår fast att EAP inte betraktas som högerextremt parti, vilket är utredningens slutsats. Utredningen skriver Sid 277: “Liksom beteckningen 'kommunistiskt' ett årtionde tidigare är epitetet 'fascistiskt' vid mitten av 1980-talet i stort sett missvisande. EAP har t.ex. aldrig framstått som rasistiskt eller invandrarfientligt” Utredningen har också med följande citat ur Militära underrättelse- och säkerhetstjänstens "Specialorientering nr 7/1987": "Väsensskilt från den revolutionära vänstern, men likafullt med rötterna i kommunistisk ideologi, har Europeiska Arbetarpartiet (EAP) det senaste decenniet etablerat sig i Sverige. Partiet är ett lika märkligt som svårgripbart fenomen, som knappast låter sig beskrivas i vanliga politiska termer. Från början socialistiskt har EAP under 80-talet gjort helt om och intagit en position som snarast kan betecknas som högerextremistiskt." Denna ospecifika beskrivning, som ingår i ett längre resonemang om EAP finansieras frå CIA, KGB eller Kinesisk underrättelsetjänst, kan inte tas som intäkt för att EAP är "högerextremistiskt" eftersom SOU 2002:91 sammanvägt placerar in EAP i sin rapport "Hotet från vänster, där man också citerar ett SÄPO-PM på sid 297: “1994 konstaterades i en PM upprättad inom författningsskyddsroteln att 'SÄPO betraktar inte EAP som ett högerextremt parti'” SOU 1999:88. Granskningskommissionens betänkande i anledning av Brottsutredningen efter mordet på statsminister Olof Palme har överhuvudtaget inget uttalande om att EAP skull vara "fascistikt" eller "högerextremistiskt".

Norvegia suecica also claims, that the LaRouche movement is "homophobic, anti-semitic and by many considered outright fascist LaRouche Movement". First of all, the LaRouche movement and EAP have also members, who happen to be Jewish or homosexuals. The campaign against aids was to save all people, including homosexuals, against a political faction of the Gay Movement, who propagated a suicidal policy to allow the HIV virus to spread freely without the standard precautions against contagious diseases. LaRouche and the movement´s members have in speeches and articles appreciated and highlighted the Jewish religion and Jewish renaisance, including the by others most slandered Jewish person, Moses Mendelsohn. The reference used by Norvegia suecica Views of Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement does not verify his claims, as the page shows that the derogation "fascist" or "Extreme Right" is at best, from his standpoint, contested. It includes for instance one quote, from Civil Rights leader Amelia Boynton Robinson, describing "the movement as following in the footsteps of Martin Luther King".

Reading in the Wikipedia guidelines What Wikipedia is not "Scandal mongering, something 'heard through the grapevine' or gossip", I cannot see how Norvegia suecica could use a phrase like "by many considered outright fascist" and still claim to keep up to the Wikipedia standards.

The designation "European Labor Party" is a name of the party in English with a historical background within the LaRouche movement from the "US Labor Party" and the "European Labor Committees (ELC)" (not with the British English "Labour"). The ELC is the forerunner, that existed inside Sweden, to the party EAP. "European Workers' Party" seems to be some homegrown retranslation from Swedish. USandmark (talk) 17:35, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

If you believe EAP to European Workers' Party to be a faulty translation, you are by all means welcome to appeal for a renaming of the page. If the LaRouche movement and the EAP are by many considered to be the things claimed, and there are proper sources for this, then it is by all means worthy of a place on the template. No point in arguing against it. There has been no "reinsertion" without consensus, merely a revertion of your faulty removal, with a redirect changed to a direct link. Your arguments are faulty, and this debate - which I have no reason to engage in - will go nowhere. If you wish, you may bring it up somewhere for mediation or some such, it is none of my concern. Norvegia suecica (talk) 20:48, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

How can you claim to have consensus? At least Apoc2400, who took off European Workers' Party from the Template:Swedish nationalism and fascism two years ago, as well as myself are not in consensus to keep it there. How can claim European Workers' Party is "fascist" or "Extreme Right", using a source, Views of Lyndon LaRouche and the LaRouche movement, claiming that "Civil Rights leader Amelia Boynton Robinson, describing 'the movement as following in the footsteps of Martin Luther King'"? Was Dr King "fascist" or "Extreme Right"? How can you use a source, called "SOU 2002:91: The threat from the Left", classifying something as "from the Left", to be "fascist" or "Extreme Right"? Yes, renaming is a good idea, but how can I do it? USandmark (talk) 14:38, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

I have no intention of doing anything to make your life easier. Norvegia suecica (talk) 16:18, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Swedish capital ships

Some issues have cropped up with List of battleships of the Royal Swedish Navy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and List of ships of the line of the Royal Swedish Navy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), see Talk:List of ships of the line of the Royal Swedish Navy and Talk:List of battleships of the Royal Swedish Navy .

70.24.244.248 (talk) 09:44, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Swedish heraldry FAC

I recently nominated Swedish heraldry for WP:FAC, and we need knowledgeable editors to comment on the article, so please feel free to look it over and leave your comments at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Swedish heraldry/archive1. Thank you for your time and your contributions! Wilhelm Meis (Quatsch!) 14:07, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Sweden will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Sweden's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:58, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

SAS head office - When and why did it move?

I found out the Scandinavian Airlines head office moved from Solna (Frösundaviks Allé 1 SE-195 87 Stockholm) to Arlanda (Stockholm-Arlanda Kabinvägen 5 SE-195 87 Stockholm) - But when did this happen? Why? I have been unable to find news media reports and/or SAS press releases about the head office moving. If you do find any, please let me know WhisperToMe (talk) 02:02, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Hej! The earliest mentioning I can find is from June 2007, in Affärsvärlden. They decided to move the headquarters to cut their costs and increase profits. In this September 2007 article, Mats Jansson revealed SAS' plans to move the headquarters to Arlanda. I haven't found any articles that mentions that they actually have moved, but this February 2010 article, in Dagens Industri, says that the move [was] scheduled to take place in the autumn of 2010. According to this February 2010 article, the Frösunda office was too large. jonkerz ♠talk 21:49, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! I'll make notes of those website on the SAS talk page WhisperToMe (talk) 21:54, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

New article: Rural parliament

I have started a new article which deals with the Swedish rural parliament, among others. Please review, contribute and expand. Additional quality refs highly welcome.Mais oui! (talk) 04:40, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

New article: Pelle Svanslös

Hi. I've just created the Pelle Svanslös article, and wondered if anybody could help to get it up to WP:DYK standard? The hook could be something to do with the anti-Nazi theme in the early, WWII-period books? We would need some solid academic refs and to get the article beyond Stub-class. --Mais oui! (talk) 05:53, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Arlandastad

Hi! Skyways once had its head office at Arlandastad (Swedish: sv:Arlandastad). Is it a shopping mall? WhisperToMe (talk) 17:55, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Shopping mall + offices, judging from the Swedish article. Tomas e (talk) 10:05, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

New article: Åke Hammarskjöld

I have started the article for the above subject who was involved with Swedish diplomacy and the Permanent Court of International Justice. He was also a son of a prime minister of Sweden and the second Secretary General of the UN. The article is currently what I could comfortably translate from the German Wikipedia article. I don't generally put in banners of a Wikiproject that I don't participate in, but as a citizen of Sweden, I would think this subject falls under you scope. Please improve it as you can. IMHO (talk) 06:21, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Reading the above again, I realize I should clarify: as the subject (not myself) is a citizen and was a member of Sweden's foreign service, I think the subject should be included in this WP. IMHO (talk) 17:18, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Parliament of Sweden

I have requested comment at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics regarding the proper capitalization of the word 'parliament' in the phrase '(P/p)arliament of Sweden'. Comments and suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 01:32, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Photographer Lena Bryngelsson

Hi. I wonder if someone here may be able to help. In connection with an ambiguously licensed image at Commons I'm trying to contact the photographer, Lena Bryngelsson. If someone reading this is able to offer any help, that'd be great. Thanks. -- Trevj (talk) 11:43, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Abortion in Sweden

If anyone is familiar with Swedish abortion law, please contribute at that article on the situation post-22-weeks. 84.203.34.111 (talk) 20:13, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

I added a bit about the 22 week limit, with a ref (in Swedish, though). Sjö (talk) 08:06, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

New article on film One Hundred Years of Evil

• One Hundred Years of Evil

I've created this new article. If you've got additional input for secondary sources, please feel free to suggest them at the article's talk page, I'd really appreciate it. :) Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 01:29, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Style of Eye

I tried to create an article for Style Of Eye but it got deleted. I see that there are a number of other articles in category:swedish house musicians.

I was trying to responsibily & carefully use some bio info from facebook- styleofeyeofficial . I was even adding wikilinks, which I thought was helpful. but I since I didn't have a legit third party reference it got speedy deleted.

can someone help me find like 2 reilable outside references to create this article?? also, btw, there is already an article for him on Danish Wikipedia -- da:Style Of Eye. let me know what I can do next.

I just got the old content restored here!

thx skakEL 15:49, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Here's one: Winner of the 2009 sv:P3 Guld award (handed out by Sveriges Radio P3) in the category "Dance [artist] of the year", [2]. Rough translation of justification by the jury: ”Behind clever kazoo samplings and charmfully polished production, a timeless house beat of highest class is pumping." Tomas e (talk) 16:32, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Rename proposal for Parliament of Sweden

See: Talk:Parliament_of_Sweden#Requested_move_.282012.29 RicJac (talk) 06:59, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Flo Parish, Sweden

I made a stub article for Flo Parish, Sweden because it is the namesake for theFloian stage. Can somebody look over the Swedish article and do a little bit of translation? --Tobias1984 (talk) 19:18, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Carin Göring a.jpg

file:Carin Göring a.jpg has been nominated for speedy deletion -- 70.24.247.127 (talk) 06:52, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

SALT (quartet)

The SALT (quartet) article is being considered for deletion. Please help improve the article or register your thoughts about the quartet's notability at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SALT (quartet) (2nd_nomination). Thank you. —ADavidB 23:06, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Swedish 20 Krona Obverse.jpg

image:Swedish 20 Krona Obverse.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:54, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Translation of patronymics

An editor has requested comment at WT:MOS, which may affect the way some biographical articles within the scope of this Wikiproject are styled. The discussion is at WT:MOS#Translation of patronymics. Daicaregos (talk) 11:26, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Gustaf Flink

Gustaf Flink has an article on the swedish Wiki. Anybody up for some translating? He did many first descriptions of minerals. e.g. (Synchysite-(Ce)) --Tobias1984 (talk) 19:05, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

and has a mineral named after him: Flinkite: http://www.mindat.org/min-1558.html. --Tobias1984 (talk) 19:07, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Y Done. Tomas e (talk) 13:58, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

That was fast. Thank you very much! --Tobias1984 (talk) 14:06, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Bolon

Is the flooring company Bolon AB notable enough to meet Wikipedia's notability requirements? davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 01:57, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

After having checked Swedish online sources, I'd say it's a borderline case. They are not too large (214 MSEK turnover acccording to 2011 sources, some 30-35 MUSD), but they did receive coverage in major national media after having received a 2011 business award due to fast expansion, and they do have a rather long history. I'm leaning towards yes. Tomas e (talk) 13:08, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Based on this and the lack of other responses I am going to accept BUT I will note that this is a "weak" acceptance and that this article may fall to WP:AFD if its notability is challenged. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 20:36, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

I agree, in a AfD i would probably vote "weak keep" or something like that. Tomas e (talk) 12:39, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

File:Fredrikstrom.ung.jpg

File:Fredrikstrom.ung.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 04:25, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Searching for a good biographical article on Swedish Wikipedia

Right now I have problems to find a good biographical article with a considerable amount of information for translation. The article in mind must be about any notable Swede. The article should come from Swedish Wikipedia so I can translate it to English and upload it here. I am open for suggestions from my Swedish colleagues on English Wikipedia. --AddyFBG (talk) 19:35, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I suggestion could be to look at some leading Swedish politicians. If memory serves me, many ministers from a couple of decades past are missing, and many prime ministers and party leaders have rather short articles. So there should be rather many to choose from. Tomas e (talk) 12:38, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

Proposed merger of Snus and Naswār

Contributors to this project may be interested in proposed merge of Snus and Naswar at Talk:Snus/Archives/2013#Merge discussion. Cnilep (talk) 03:19, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

File:Ducele de Halland.jpg

File:Ducele de Halland.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 01:44, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Fredrikstrom.ung.jpg

File:Fredrikstrom.ung.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 01:50, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Krona and translation

Hi

A reference used in this DICE article uses an abbreviation I do not understand.

It talks about the companies profits in (TKR). What does this mean? Is it "Trillions of Krona"?

If so; do Swedish financials use the correct (1 million x 1 million = 1 trillion), or the American method (1000 x 1million = 1 trillion)?

I normally use €/£ 1:10 krona for my own workings out - the page reports:

Revenue 535.338 million kr

the ref uses:

Nettoomsättning (TKR) 535 338 (is this the same as 535,338?)

Any help much appreciated Chaosdruid (talk) 17:09, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Not trillion, but thousand;). So T here is the same as "K" in English. And yes, 535 338 = 535,338. Regards, Iselilja (talk) 18:01, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

It's a bit weird to see "TKR" written in capital letters, "tkr" would be more common. To be more specific 535 338 = 535338, the space is just used to separate groups of three for readability. In Swedish text, the comma is a decimal mark (that's by the way the ISO standard, but it seems to be ignored in North America). So the statement "535 338 = 535,338" looks weird, but I guess "535 338 (Swedish style) = 535,338 (US style)" is correct. In summary, this company's turnover in 2012 was 535 million SEK. Tomas e (talk) 10:08, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

And 1000 x 1 miljon = 1 miljard. 1 miljon x 1 miljon = 1 biljon in Swedish. 1000 x 1 biljon = is a subject for editwar, 1 triljon = 1 miljon³ = 10¹⁸. -- Lavallen (talk) 18:45, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Norwegian brothel keeper/drug smuggling facilitator/prostitute

In Bente Lyon's book there is mention of activities in the relevant neighboring country. There is a deletion discussion going on, and since Sweden has no combined brothel keeper /drug smuggling facilitator/prostitute at the same level, it would be nice with relevant input on the discussion page. --Normash (talk) 20:35, 26 April 2013 (UTC)

I see no need to reduce the celebrity status of Doris Hopp in her time, just because she didn't get involved in drug smuggling as well... Tomas e (talk) 08:49, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Swedendippassport.jpg

file:Swedendippassport.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 00:27, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Who is this Swedish ambassador?

On Arab Radio and Television there was a program called (in its English subtitles) "An Interview with: The Former Swedish Ambassador, Knut Burnstrom" (I think the Arabic is Arabic: مقابلة مع سعادة السفير السويدى كنوت بيرنستروم) where it said there was a former Swedish Ambassador named "Knut Burnstrom". Professor Adly Abu Jabar is the presenter of this program and Mohamed Qablawi is the director.

However when I google "Knut Burnstrom" I only get two Google hits, so I assume the subtitles didn't spell his name correctly. The Arabic "كنوت بيرنستروم" doesn't seem to return much either. Does anyone know what the actual spelling is?

Some hints: The program says he became "Sayed Mohamad Knut" once he converted to Islam. It said he had important positions in Sweden, Europe, and the U.S. In 1963 his first post was the Ambassador to Venezuela. He became the undersecretary of Scandinavian Affairs of the Swedish Foreign Ministry in 1966. He became the Swedish ambassador to the United Nations in 1971. He became the Swedish Ambassador to Spain in 1976. He later became the ambassador to Colombia, Mauritania, Morocco, and Senegal. He said he saw Muslims practicing in Morocco and that inspired him.

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 16:49, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Mohammed Knut Bernström is the person you are looking for. --Hegvald (talk) 17:19, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Thank you :) WhisperToMe (talk) 18:04, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

ASTRID LINDGREN´S NÄS

What is Astrid Lindgrens "Näs" (welcome to ALN) in or near or at Vimmerby, where the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award committee finally meets—most recently, 2013-03-26 (coverage begins in this year's English-language blog at ALMA.se).

If I understand correctly, there is an amusement park Astrid Lindgrens Värld. Does "Näs" name a village or a neighborhood or a family property where she was raised? IIUC, at least a family house is now open as a museum.

• In my English-language experience family property comes to be known by a proper name only when it is grand, such as Downton Abbey or Tara (plantation), but I guess the tradition is different in Sweden, at least for people who become exceptionally famous.
• While the English-language writings from Sweden consistently say "at Näs", our biography Astrid Lindgren now says "in Näs", which implies a neighborhood or other populated place, so I also guess 'at' may be a subtle error in translation.

Primarily this is for minor expansion of the award article but I will tweak the biography Astrid Lindgren if appropriate.

P.S. Google translate detects Estonian language and when forced to interpret Swedish gives "Astrid Lindgren's nose". --P64 (talk) 18:01, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

It is a farm whose actual name is Näs, where AL grew up. I guess that, for marketing purposes, they call it "Astrid Lindgren's Näs". As for the issue of names for "family properties", I don't quite understand what you mean. Surely farms in England usually have names, don't they? --Hegvald (talk) 21:23, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

JAS 39 Gripen

I've raised issues about the lack of info about the political controversies surrounding the JAS-project at talk:JAS 39 Gripen#Neutrality regarding bribery, crashes, etc.. I think the discussion would benefit from input from users who are familiar with the project in a Swedish context.

Peter ^Isotalo 05:10, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Standing at 34 K of discussion on this topic only including 28 entries by you. Sigh. Not worth my while. Tomas e (talk) 11:37, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Guðrún

The usage of Guðrún/Gudrun is under discussion, see talk:Guðrún -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 00:30, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

I need some translation help

Hello,

I'm sure that you've noticed the new WP:VisualEditor software here at the English Wikipedia, and I hope you've tried it out. I have just been assigned to help the Japanese, Polish, and Swedish Wikipedias with this software, which will probably be turned on for all their users in a few weeks. I want to make sure that these communities have the important help and information pages translated and that the software developers hear about their concerns as feedback and with bug reports on Bugzilla, so that any problems they find will get fixed.

The problem I have, is that I don't speak any of these languages! From what I can tell with Google Translate, the Swedish Wikipedia is doing the best of these three communities with translating help pages. I am leaving this note here in the hope of finding a few people who understand Swedish and are interested in helping me support the Swedish Wikipedia. I need people who can:

• help finish the translation work at sv:WP:VisualEditor and its subpages, and
• help translate or summarize bug reports into English so the developers can fix the problems.

If you'd like to help, please let me know. I would really appreciate it. Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 06:12, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Update: VisualEditor was deployed at the Swedish Wikipedia one or two hours ago. So far, most users do not seem to have noticed (it's the end of the workday in Sweden, so people aren't very active just now). Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:12, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

The Name, Svante

I recently browsed the Wiki about the lineage of the name "Svante," and even without citations, it feels very accurate. I'm only hoping for an elaboration.

My name is William Svante Jonassen IV. I'm an American, with my great grandmother being the one to emigrate the family to the US from Norway. As I understand it, Jonassen is a distinctly Norwegian name, but if Svante is a typical and ancient name from Sweden, where might the crossover or passing on to another family/clan might have happened? Are they unrelated, or had it also been common for the Slavic language to influence speech in Norway, as well?

71.99.152.92 (talk) 02:39, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Since Sweden and Norway are neighbouring countries, there have always been movement across the border. Also remember the Union between Sweden and Norway (1814–1905), which perhaps was in force when your great grandmother emigrated. For example, they might have named someone Svante (for example as middle name) after they read or heard about some famous Svante and they liked the name, and it may have been kept on? Tomas e (talk) 16:26, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Wonderful, Tomas. Thank you. This opens an avenue for research to me, because I have not been very familiar with this union between neighbors. History, it seems, becomes a never-ending challenge to navigate, but ultimate challenges are always best.

72.187.35.250 (talk) 10:23, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Jägar = Ranger?

In a military context "Jägar" means "Ranger" in English. However, in Sweden, the word "Jägar" has a larger scope than "Ranger" does in English as it also gets applied to more general light infantry units. Whereas, in English, "Ranger" tends to refer to, in a modern context, more specialist, elite, form of light infantry such as the US Rangers. On the list of Swedish army regiments a number of Swedish regiments / battalions have "Jägar" in their title and get translated as "Ragner" such as the Jämtlands fältjägarregemente or the Lapplands jägarregemente. I think translating the "Jagar" part in this context leads to a misunderstanding as neither regiment equates to a modern Ranger regiment in English. I would suggest using "Ranger" for the AJB, coastal Rangers and the Swedish Air Force Rangers as well as the parachute ranger company but use "Rifles" for the other "jägar" regiments (so, Lapplands jägarregemente becomes "Lappland Rifle Regiment"). The use of the work "Rifles" fits in better with regiments such as the Rifle Regiment in the British army. Comments? Isenhand (talk) 09:40, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello, I agree with you if we're talking about a description of units; the term "jägare" or "jägar..." have probably been applied more liberally to units of the Swedish armed forces than the term ranger in some other armed forces. However, the "more-or-less true ranger units" are termed jägar..., so there is no doubt that the liberal translation of jägare in a military context is ranger. When it comes to translation of the names of units, I'm definitely in favour of a literal translation. So for me, it depends on the context. As it comes to rifle (skytte...) as opposed to infantry (infanteri), this term has been applied mostly at battalion level and below in the Swedish army. Possibly you could also ask at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history for opinions, since there´s no longer seems to be a specific talk page for the Nordic military history task force. Tomas e (talk) 12:32, 9 August 2013 (UTC)

Sweden greater arms2.png

image:Sweden greater arms2.png has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 08:10, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Royal Order of the Seraphim

category:Royal Order of the Seraphim has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 08:28, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Request for changing the title of the drama series Don´t Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves

The Swedish TV drama series "Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar" has an article on the English Wikipedia with an incorrect English title (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_wipe_tears_without_gloves). "Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves" was an early, international title of the series but it was later corrected to "Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves" by the author himself, Jonas Gardell. Here are two sources to verify the new title: http://svtsales.com/programme-sales/dont-ever-wipe-tears-without-gloves/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/dont-ever-wipe-tears-without-gloves.html

I would be most grateful if the English title could be corrected in the Wikipedia article.

/Niklas Ahlgren, SVT International Niklas Ahlgren (talk) 14:44, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

•  Done Thanks for the correction. Regards, Iselilja (talk) 14:55, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

{{Countries bordering the Baltic Sea}}

Template:Countries bordering the Baltic Sea (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:36, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Maintained: no consensus.Ipigott (talk) 07:15, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

{{Nordic Council}}

Template:Nordic Council (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 01:30, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Maintained: no consensus.--Ipigott (talk) 07:16, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

"Veterans Day"

The usage of Veterans Day (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Veterans Day (disambiguation) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Veterans Day (United States) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Veterans Day (United States).

Indirectly, this concerns also Veterans Day (Sweden). -- 签名 _sig at 08:22, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

AfC submission

This is a current submission at AfC. It might be better off at Wiktionary. What do you think? Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 00:21, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Translation tools from Swedish to English?

Hi folks-- if there are any OTRS agents here, please refer here:

VRTS ticket # 2013112110021928

But barring that, my question is if you are aware of any software that translates English to Swedish better than what Chrome's software is capable of, as it churns out a bit of Swenglish. A user is trying to find if there are any other tools available. Thanks, I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 17:21, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

The Bridge (Danish/Swedish TV series) worthy of C-class rather than "Rated Start-class, Low-importance"?

While over the years I have added to Wikipedia entries and even started a few myself, I have never been involved in the question of deciding on the class or importnace of an entry. Would someone in the Swedish portal agree that The Bridge (Danish/Swedish TV series) fulfills the criteria of C-class? Thanks--Punavuori (talk) 11:25, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes. Rule of thumb: articles that are reasonably long, well structured with proper body text (and not just tables), referenced, not filled with "problem templates" and properly illustrated are usually C-class or above. Tomas e (talk) 15:00, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

English exonyms for place names

English_exonyms#Sweden. Looks straightforward, but all the same. Can someone check this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:33, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

West Aros for Västerås seems out of place. English sources seem to use Vasteras but there's an MC gang and some companies in Västerås that use West Aros in their name. Perhaps a case of wishful thinking on their part? Sjö (talk) 07:56, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Sounds like a local neologism based on an archaic Swedish form of the name rather than a genuine exonym. (Wouldn't it be Western Aros in proper translation?) Tomas e (talk) 13:44, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

I've removed it (and from the Västerås article). --Rob Sinden (talk) 14:13, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

A perhaps more common exonym for Västerbotten is Westrobothnia (which also goes hand in hand with the exonym Ostrobothnia for Österbotten in Finland). Laponia, Lapponia and Lapland should probably be added as exonyms for Lappland as well. Many other historical provinces have also historically been referred to in English by their Latinized names (Westrogothia for Västergötland and so on). Götaland has also historically been referred to as Gothland (used for Gotland as well), Gothia, Geatland and other similar spellings.

Further additions could be Skanderna that has the exonyms Scandes and Scandinavian Mountains, and perhaps more questionable additions are Kattegat for Kattegatt, Bothnian Sea and Bothnian Bay for Bottenhavet och Bottenviken, as well as Baltic Sea for Östersjön (some other sections include waters, for example Germany and France). – Elisson • T • C • 15:30, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Småland archipelago

Unsourced stub at Småland archipelago, and no apparent article in Swedish Wikipedia at the Swedish term given. Is this OK? Could anyone source it? PamD 13:11, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

And Swedish section of List of archipelagos by number of islands has one ref, to a Swedish-language source whose English summary doesn't help me. PamD 13:13, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

I do find some hits using the term, such as a tourism website and the titles of a couple of books. I wouldn't say that it's a very widespread term, though. The islands are many, but only in the northern part does the archipelago have much depth. You don't find the exact term in the reference, because it uses modern administrative divisions, where the province of Småland is divided into three counties, of which Kalmar County is the only one with a coastline. So the number of islands of that county is included in the table. (Nit picking, the island of Öland is a separate province from Småland but is included in Kalmar County.) Tomas e (talk) 17:39, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission

Care to review this submission? Thanks, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 18:54, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Urban areas

I don't understand why we have the articles Stockholm urban area, Malmö urban area and Gothenburg urban area. It must be a confusion. We already have articles about the urban areas (tätorter): Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg. The first three articles were created in 2004 by the same editor and they have been edited around 20 times each, which is not surprising since they are duplicates. Or am I missing someting? --IRISZOOM (talk) 02:54, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Sofia Church

Hi there- an image of Sofia Church is currently at FPC- see Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sofia Church. Would a Swedish speaker be able to do a little work on our article? Even if it's only tracking down a couple of reliable sources for further reading, we could really do with a slightly improved article. Thanks! J Milburn (talk) 16:48, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 10/03

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Riksakten. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:23, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Frölunda Torg

At the bottom of the intro paragraph it says: The companies housed in Frölunda Torg employ in total 1500 people and their total annual turnover is in excess of 1,6 billion kronor.

Should it say 1.6 billion..... instead of 1,6 billion....? Robert4565 (talk) 03:24, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Yes. In Swedish, the decimal separator is the comma, so it's a common mistake for "us" when writing in English. – Elisson • T • C • 07:43, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Peer review of Kronan (ship)

I've requested a peer review for the article about the Swedish late 17th-century warship Kronan. My goal is to take make it an FA and I believe feedback from members of this project would be very helpful. If you think something is missing or could be improved, please comment at Wikipedia:Peer review/Kronan (ship)/archive1. Your input would be much appreciated!

Peter ^Isotalo 17:13, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to User Study

Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster (talk) 18:53, 8 April 2014 (UTC).

S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897's FAR

I have nominated S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. GamerPro64 16:34, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Kronan (ship) at FAC

I just nominated Kronan as a FAC. Since the article is included in the scope of this project, I'm posting a reminder here.

Looking forward to your comments!

Peter ^Isotalo 15:12, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Klippan

Hi. The city Klippan in Sweden shouldn't have the name Scania after. just the city Klippan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Micaaimi (talk • contribs) 07:48, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

I've left a comment at User talk:Micaaimi concerning this. --Hegvald (talk) 11:33, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Join the Umepedia Challenge!

Hi there,

This month (1st-31st May) you are invited to take part in a writing contest about the northern city of Umeå, which currently is the European Capital of Culture. These 40 important articles are needed in your language as we hope to place QRpedia signs next to these landmarks in Umeå during 2014, making it easier for tourists and immigrants to enjoy the city's history and culture. This will make Umeå the first Wikipedia city in the Nordic countries! :-)

As a lot of participants are translating from the English articles into their languages it is really important that the language is correct and easy to understand and that everything are well sourced. I hope that you will join the fun and take part in translating or improving these 40 articles and win great prizes!

Kind regards, John Andersson (WMSE) (talk) 15:07, 5 May 2014 (UTC) (project manager for Umepedia)

Check requested

Can anyone check out Victuallers (talk) 15:59, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Europe may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer _(Talk) 18:47, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Wikiproject Sweden At Wikimania 2014

Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to:
Project leaflets
Adikhajuria (talk) 10:57, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Living people on EN wiki who are dead on other wikis

The following individuals who are in the scope of this project are showing to be alive on the English wiki, but deceased on another language wiki:

1. Jan Håkan Åberg: fi:Vuonna 2012 kuolleet / sv:Avlidna 2012
2. Rolf Holmström: sv:Avlidna 2012

Please help to find reliable sources to confirm if these individuals are alive or dead, or correct any mis-categorization on the relevant foreign-language article(s). Please see WP:LIVINGDEAD for more info and raise any issues on the talkpage. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 09:01, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses

Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 04:21, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Question about SAS Frosundavik Building and SAS re-leasing it

I found this Swedish news article:

• "SAS flyttar åter till Frösunda – nära 14000 kvm aktuellt" (Archive). Fastighetsvärlden (SV). 24 May 2013.

Using Google Translate, I think it states that SAS moved some employees back into the SAS Frösundavik Office Building (I renamed the article to make it clear which one it is) after the company failed to find a buyer. The Google translate seems to say:

• The construction occurred from 1985 to 1987
• Only 6,000 square meters are left for rental
• SAS's lease runs to 2023, so it is sub-leasing areas in the building

Is this correct? Is there any more information of note? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 09:40, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

Hemmema at FAC

I recently nominated hemmema as a FAC. Since the article is included in the scope of this project, I'm posting a notification here. If you have time to spare, please drop by with feedback and criticial comments.

sincerely,
Peter ^Isotalo 07:29, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Early Swedish flag

Ever since this edit to flag of Sweden in 2007, it's been accepted as established fact that the Swedish state and war ensign was a double-tailed flag until 1663. It was even used for {{flagicon}} for anything relating to Sweden c. 1562-1663 until I questioned it recently. As far as I can tell, there seems to be no evidence of any "official" standardized flags as early as the 16th century. Since this particular statement has been accepted for over seven years, I'm asking for more input on the matter at talk:flag of Sweden#Double tail needs support.

Peter ^Isotalo 21:38, 31 August 2014 (UTC)

Women to the Top

Up for proposed deletion. Bearian (talk) 15:03, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Scanian regionalist POV

I'd like to alert members of the project of the activities of Boeing720. I've had disputes with the user over articles like Swedish language, Scanian dialect, South Swedish dialects and Skåneland. Not many other users have chimed in, but all have so far agreed that Boeing is relying on personal reflections rather than reliable sources.

The user has also recently been editing Scania with unsubstantiated claims[3] that "[a]ll television channels [...] are controlled or aired from Stockholm, and so also radio and most newspapers" and that "the uprising of many small political parties [...] has been a typical Scanian sign". The jist of most edits is that Scania is utterly unique and separate from Sweden as a whole.

Peter ^Isotalo 07:29, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

By just browsing, I notice that there has also been multiple problems with bad spelling, unencyclopedic writing, unorthodox ideas about article structure, and several other issues. Worth looking ínto for those who have the time and inclination to do so. Tomas e (talk) 14:36, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Sports

Can somebody please populate Category:Swedish sports broadcasters and Category:Swedish sports journalists and connect to cats on Swedish wiki?♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:00, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

I've linked them their Swedish counterparts via Wikidata. Tomas e (talk) 13:31, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

"Swedish Landrace"

FYI, the usage of "Swedish Landrace" is up for discussion, see Talk:Dutch Landrace -- 65.94.171.225 (talk) 06:35, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Comments on merger

You are welcome to comment in Talk:Kristineberg, Malmö kommun about a proposed merger. --IRISZOOM (talk) 04:44, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

Yes, it should definitely be merged to Kristineberg, Malmö. Also, the term kommun should not be used for disambiguation of Swedish articles on English Wikipedia, since the English-language term is municipality, such as Malmö Municipality. Tomas e (talk) 14:32, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

I noticed your proposal too and I merged them for two days ago. I agree with you on the title and it's consistent with the rest of the articles about localities in the municipality. --IRISZOOM (talk) 01:59, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Are the urban areas duplicated here?

I wrote about this here eight months ago and I still think the same. Your views are welcome.

In the Swedish Wikipedia, there are no separate articles for the ones about Gothenburg and Malmö but Stockholm do have it (sv:Stockholm and sv:Stockholm (tätort)), which makes it more unclear. These are the articles:

• Stockholm urban area
• Gothenburg urban area
• Malmö urban area

Compare with:

• Stockholm
• Gothenburg
• Malmö

See List of urban areas in Sweden and List of urban areas in Sweden by population. What makes Stockholm, Gothenburg/Göteborg and Malmö different from the 1953 other urban areas or localities (tätorter)? They are the same. For example, look at Malmö. It's about the urban area so Malmö urban area is a duplicate. Both include Arlöv (a part of Burlöv Municipality), both had a population of 280,415 in 2010 etc. --IRISZOOM (talk) --IRISZOOM (talk) 03:14, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

WP:VG comments subpages cleanup

Hi, there is currently a discussion taking place at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games#VG comments subpages regarding whether it would be acceptable to permanently shift all comments subpages associated with WP:VG articles into talk. This shift would follow the recommended approach given at WP:DCS. The WikiProject Sweden articles that would be affected by this action are these:

• Jonny Jakobsen

If you have objections related specifically to WikiProject Sweden's use of these subpages, please make this clear at the discussion so that other unrelated talk pages can be cleaned up where appropriate. Thank you. -Thibbs (talk) 15:57, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been featured

Hello, Please note that Ice hotel, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by Theo's Little Bot at 01:00, 20 October 2014 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Monarchy of Sweden

I have had and continues to have an ongoing dispute with User:SergeWoodzing over at Talk:Monarchy of Sweden for over 6 months (with a long voluntary break taken by me) and I would very much like to have input from other users. My opinion is that he is unwilling to act collaboratively (other than on his arbitrary terms) at best and completely ignorant to reason (and verifiable facts) at worst. That is just my humble opinion and I leave it up to others to form their own conclusions.RicJac (talk) 17:43, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

The "dispute" is actually about extensive Swenglish and it's effects on the editing of that article, as well as about the editor's attitude when asked to be more careful. The problem is more serious now because the editor, as an extension of that attitide as I see it, also has embarked on a disgruntled campaign of vindictive deletion requests on Commons. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 11:59, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Felicia´s svenska suite

The current spelling in article title includes an aprostrophe that seems to be in the album cover title as well. But elsewhere the title seems to be spelt without an aprostrophe (which according to Norwegian grammar would be grammatically correct). Do you have any opinion on what is the correct title here? Iselilja (talk) 17:56, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Proper current-day Swedish would be without the apostrophe, but it's not unheard of to see it used anyway, both in the present day (as an "English disease") and in 100+ years old Swedish texts. If Cornelis (or his record company) used that form of writing, it seems natural that the article also should, this being a proper name and a type of name where some artistic license may be exercised. I added a redirect from the name form without apostrophe, by the way. Tomas e (talk) 07:57, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

For the record, that isn't an apostrophe but an acute accent, often used incorrectly as an apostrophe. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 17:56, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

Helwig of Holstein

Anyone who has any constructive ideas is welcome to try to help out here. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 22:18, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Smögen Whisky

Draft:Smögen Whisky is using some .se domains and I wanted to see if anyone can check the resources or sources in the area language to determine notability. If you don't work with afc drop me a line with your thoughts and I'd appreciate it. Hell in a Bucket (talk) 23:37, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Did you best. Stamboliyski (talk) 13:16, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!

Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

List of Kings of Svitjod

The above list seems to be duplicating information that is in List of legendary kings of Sweden and List of Swedish monarchs. Not being familiar with Swedish history, is there a valid reason for List of Kings of Svitjod to exist as a separate list? Cheers, Vrac (talk) 14:56, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

@Vrac:, this is not an easy question, opinions differ, but a main stream of historians does confirm a swedish kingdom called Svitjod, from a time when Swedes were not yet united with Geats. Consolidation of Sweden may give you an insight in this, especially the map. Dan Koehl (talk) 15:16, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. I just redirected it to List of legendary kings of Sweden. Perhaps I am stumbling into a polemical situation but it seems to make sense to redirect instead of duplicate the information, particularly given that Svitjod itself is a redirect to Swedes. Vrac (talk) 17:52, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Carl Bildt

The article Carl Bildt reads like an attack article. I removed a paragraph based on Nyheter Idag, a forum linked ot Sverigedemokraterna, puffed up with OR citing Expo.

I need help with first removing BLP violations and sections built on unreliable sources. Then there needs to be some effort at WP:NPOV and WP:Due Weight. For example, it is strange that Aftonbladets notorious Kultursida is used as the basis for a discussion of Bildt on Ukraine, and high quality reliable sources ignored. is a 11:16, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Sweden to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Sweden/Popular pages.

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Scania has become Skåne

I just noted that CFCF (talk · contribs) has moved Scania to Skåne (including categories) without any previous discussion I can see, and without using any proper move procedure for move over redirect. Instead, the article content as well as the talk page content has just been dumped into their new location, effectively losing the entire article history for both the page and the talk page. Even if I were to agree with the new name (Swedish spelling), the procedure used is completely wrong and needs to be undone to keep the article history. However, it might be a good idea to first decide if there is to be a move at all, because I would proceed in different ways if I am to restore Scania or move to Skåne in a proper way. CFCF has claimed WP:UE (= Use English!) as basis for the move (somewhat surprising for a move to an "å"), while WP:COMMONNAME has most likely been used for Scania. For the relatively recently created region, Skåne County was chosen since they use that form themselves, but that was contentious (and if memory serves me, an angry editor even got himself permanently blocked for edit-warring or sockpuppetry while objecting to this). However, it does not follow automatically that the province, which has a longer but "currently less formalized" existence should have the same name, since it has been written about in English for centuries, creating a WP:COMMONNAME basis. Any thoughts on the choice of Scania versus Skåne? Tomas e (talk) 15:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Right now, I have no strong opinion either way, but maybe the history can be fixed with WP:HISTMERGE? Sjö (talk) 15:44, 21 January 2015 (UTC)

Please move back to Scania! --SergeWoodzing (talk) 20:43, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

And someone needs to deal with arbitrary moves by that user or we're in for a lot more problems. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 20:48, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

Strongly disagree, Skåne should remain the title. As for the other article that is part of a larger discussion that we might need to have in the future, and is under no terms arbitrary, even if the specific move may have been premature. -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 12:43, 25 January 2015 (UTC)

Regardless of the outcome of this decision, the way CFCF "moved" the page was procedurally incorrect. The page has been histmerged back to Scania in order to preserve the edit histories. Primefac (talk) 14:09, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Would not the opposite have been more favorable? Primefac -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 14:24, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

The old article was at Scania, so the discussion should be whether to move it to Skåne (not whether to revert the move). Primefac (talk) 14:29, 27 January 2015 (UTC)

Is there no way to just rename the headline to "Scania (Swedish: Skåne) without sabotaging the wikistructure? If so, wouldn't both be found in an ordinary search procedure? They are both correct names, even if the alleged English happens to be Latin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.209.12.249 (talk) 10:37, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Use of fika in Swedish

There is disagreement on how widespread the term fika is in southern variants of Swedish. Input from outside parties would be appreciated at talk:fika (culture).

Peter ^Isotalo 14:24, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Queen Silvia Nursing Award

Dear Editors,

I have been referred to this forum as I would need help in verifying my sources which as in Swedish. I am currently trying to publish an article on Queen Silvia Nursing Award but it had been rejected 3 times due to the content, references and notability issues. I have since made the necessarily improvements but I hope to receive some feedback on it so I could work towards creating a useful article for the audience. Here is the link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Queen_Silvia_Nursing_Award

Thank you so much in advance!

Maybelline Ooi (talk) 13:00, 23 March 2015 (UTC)Maybel

Help needed on Template talk:Largest cities of Sweden#Scania and Gothenburg

Please read and give input to the discussion over there, concerning the English names for Swedish counties. – Elisson • T • C • 23:29, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

Gutnish and WP:V

I have started a thread at talk:Gutnish about the fact that this article has been left uncited for over a decade. I urge anyone who wants to improve the article to join the discussion.

Peter ^Isotalo 12:08, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Jean Sibelius

You might find it a little unorthodox for me to be addressing Jean Sibelius here as he was of course a Swedish-speaking Finn (even if he learnt Finnish later). As there are undoubtedly Swedish-speaking Finns involved in this WikiProject, I would like to announce that we are trying to improve the Sibelius article up to at least GA, if not FA standard by the time of his 150th anniversary on 8 December 2015. One of the major problems is the acceptability of the images - most have serious copyright problems (see the talk page). There are certainly lots of good photographs published in Finnish/Swedish encylopedias from around 1900 as well as in early biographies, in the press and in concert programmes. Sibelius also performed/conducted in Stockholm. Please upload these on Commons with the necessary source details. Any additional help with the Sibelius article would be greatly appreciated. Further discussion on the Jean Sibelius talk page please.--Ipigott (talk) 19:34, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Thousands of Swedish cityscape and other images may be deleted from Commons

Please see discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Two_weeks_to_save_freedom_of_panorama_in_Europe. I think it is an item of major interest to the editors interested in this WikiProject. The (very underestimated) counts for how many images may be affected have been posted to commons:Commons_talk:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015#numbers. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 01:10, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Culture of Sweden

The article is in a really poor condition, I added some sources and hopefully it will be improved. Maybe someone here could check it. Rupert Loup (talk) 09:58, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

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AfC submission

Could anyone assess Draft:Leonard Bygdén? Takk, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 23:33, 18 August 2015 (UTC)

I gave my 2c on the talk page. Sjö (talk) 16:28, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Quick translation needed

These [4][5] were sent to me by Martin Schibbye. They are diagrams of Kaliti Prison where he was held. Could someone please translate the Swedish for me so I can recreate the maps and add an English caption? I'd be very grateful. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:18, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

@Anna Frodesiak: If you don't get a translation here, try the village pump on the Swedish Wikipedia. I got a good response from there when I used it. Graham87 14:47, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the feedback. I'll keep that in mind if the kind editors cannot help in the future. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 21:19, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

I'll take a stab; I'll try for as literal translations as I can, and skip a few where the words are identical:

First one

Kalityfängelset - Kality prison

Vakttorn - Watch tower

Vår väg till ambassadmötena - our way to the embassy meetings

A: Main entrance

B: Administration, office

C: Administration, office, warden's office, meeting place for our close relatives and the embassy

D: Monitored meeting rooms for lawyers and prisoners

E:Injera bakery (not too sure about this one, hard to read)

F:Workshop and vocational school

G:7th-9th grade and Gymnasium (school) (unlikely that this is the exact form of education there; "high school" should be close enough)

H:Visiting area

I:Soccer field

Second one

Zon - Zone

Rum - Room

Tvättplats för kläder - Washing place for clothes

Bibliotek och klassrum - Library and classroom

Zonpolicernas kontor - Office for the zone police officers

Fångkommittens kontor för rådgivning - The prisoner committee's office for counseling (probably legal and/or related to life in prison)

Fångkommittens högtalar- och musikrum - The prisoner committee's room for speakers and music

Disciplinkommitens kontor och straffrum - The disciplinary committee's officer and punishment room

Trädgårdsland - garden patch

Fångkommittens administration - The prisoner committee's administration

Utlänningarnas eldstäder ("köket") - The foreigneräs fire places ("the kitchen")

Fångkommittens kontor - The economic committee's office

Protestantiska kyrkarn - The protestant church

Barberare - barber

Skrädderi - Tailor's shop

Verkstaden - the workshop

Ortodoxa kyrkan - The ortodox church

Moskén - The mosque

Kafé - café

Kiosken - the kiosk

Carambole-bord under tak - table for carambole under a roof

Cementplan - cemented field

Andejons (talk) 19:53, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

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Eyes needed...

2015 Ikea murders has just been started, and has the potential to be problematic. MSJapan (talk) 02:04, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Alexander Hagman

Dear Sweden experts: This draft will soon be deleted as stale. There may be some references that are not in English which could show that this musician is notable on his own. Otherwise I guess the page should be redirected to the page of his band. I tried looking at the Swedish Wikipedia article to find sources, but it is basically unreferenced (so I added an album review). —Anne Delong (talk) 13:52, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Fotografiska

Fotografiska is, I believe, a photography gallery cum "event space" in Stockholm. Fotografiska.eu suggests that it's sizeable. Although it may not be as important to Swedes as the Reykjavík Museum of Photography is to Icelanders (I wouldn't know), it's likely to be more important to the world in general than is the little Icelandic museum. Thanks in considerable part to the efforts of (Icelandic-reading) User:Snaevar, the latter has a short but well-sourced article here. By contrast, the article Fotografiska (started by an SPA) has somehow survived for over five years, but it looks ripe for AfD. And sv:Fotografiska is sad too, as are de:Fotografiska, fr:Fotografiska, fi:Fotografiska and uk:Шведський музей фотографії.

Fotografiska, the article now tells us, "is a centre for contemporary photography in Stockholm, Sweden that opened on 21 May 2010". The Swedish-language article appears to say much the same thing. I thought I'd look up the place/institution at the Guardian's website. It's mentioned here and there, but not obviously discussed. One hit is the obituary for Helen Levitt, which tells us:

The show toured Europe first in 1982, showing at the Ikona gallery in Venice and (as part of a Photo-Portrait group exhibition) at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn, then in 1985 at the Fotografiska gallery in Stockholm.

My emphasis. The article here on Levitt doesn't mention this, and unfortunately sv:Helen Levitt doesn't exist. Have there been two (or more) unrelated Stockholm institutions named Fotografiska? Did a single Fotografiska move in 2010? Or did the Guardian's obituary writer just screw up?

As my salaried job is about to consume much more of my time, I can't start to investigate; and anyway, the materials are likely to be in Swedish, which I can't read. Can I interest a Swedish reader or three in this matter? -- Hoary (talk) 01:30, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

@Hoary: Levitt was probably exhibiting at sv:Fotografiska museet, part of Moderna Museet. Smartskaft (talk) 21:29, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

DYK hooks need verification

I am unable to verify the alt hooks 2 and 3 at Template:Did you know nominations/Carolina Benedicks-Bruce, can someone who reads Swedish check them please? Gatoclass (talk) 07:11, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

We could still use some assistance here. Gatoclass (talk) 10:31, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Dear Editors:

I work at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and noticed that our page has some incorrect info. Since I work for the institute, I know that I'm not supposed to edit the article, but wondered if one of you could kindly do so? Details below:

Under the 'Director' header, the following text is listed: "The Director, who is appointed by the Swedish Government, has the main responsibility for SIPRI's work programme. Dr Bates Gill served as SIPRI Director from 2007–2012.[3] In September 2012 the Swedish Government appointed the German economist Tilman Brück as his successor.[4] Brück held the position of SIPRI Director from January 2013 to June 2014.[5] In June 2014 the SIPRI Governing Board appointed Dr Ian Anthony as Director for an interim period"

SIPRI's current Director is Dan Smith (previously head of International Alert and PRIO). He was appointed by the Swedish government and began work on September first. Ian Anthony is no longer the Interim Director. Below are source articles documenting the personnel change (in English and Swedish). I'm also happy to send you the link to SIPRI's own press release on the subject, if that helps.

Best,

Kate

Sources

International Alert: http://www.international-alert.org/news/dan-smith-step-down-head-international-alert

The Swedish Government http://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2015/03/dan-smith-ny-direktor-for-sipri/

Mundus International: http://www.mundus-international.com/dan-smith-appointed-director-of-sipri/

Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish newspaper): http://www.svd.se/ny-sipri-direktor-utsedd — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kate.A.Sullivan (talk • contribs) 10:29, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

 Done. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 14:58, 1 October 2015 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been featured

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Draft:Wille Crafoord

Hello again Sweden experts. Here is another old draft about a Swedish musician. Is this a notable topic? Are there references not in English that could be added here?—Anne Delong (talk) 22:26, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

Yngve Kalin

Can someone take a look at this article and the associated AfD? Thanks. Kingsindian ♝♚ 12:12, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

We Are Sthlm sexual assaults

There's an ongoing discussion at talk:We Are Sthlm sexual assaults. Input from members of this project would be appreciated.

Peter ^Isotalo 19:54, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

AfD of interest

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eleonora Luthander. --Sammy1339 (talk) 05:33, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Rescued. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:17, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Reddit post dissecting "Demographics of Sweden"

I found that a Reddit post criticized the Iraqi Christian demographic figure sourcing at Demographics of Sweden https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/41tz5v/isis_destroys_iraqs_oldest_assyrian_christian/cz5j7ob

WhisperToMe (talk) 04:51, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

Music

Hi. I just created 2016 in Scandinavian music because previously only Norway had a Year in Music page. Please feel free to expand it. Deb (talk) 16:24, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Carl Michael Bellman

I've made a template for Carl Michael Bellman (at the end of the article), and am in the process of upgrading Fredmans epistlar (Fredman's Epistles), both the main article and those on half-a-dozen of the most popular Epistles. Improvements and suggestions will be welcomed. In particular, additional sources of criticism would be useful - perhaps you have a copy of Kellgren or Afzelius, for example. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:56, 20 March 2016 (UTC)

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Untruthful claims

The wikiproject Sweden is a disaster. I keep finding untruthful claims about Swedish politics on the English Wiki site. Check my recent amendments and discussions for a few examples. You should realize by now that one of the first places organized and disorganized propagandists alike go to to spread their message is Wikipedia — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.249.4.255 (talk) 09:39, 15 May 2016 (UTC)

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Salem, Sweden

The old reference is dead, new number of poeople is unreferenced. Please help.Xx236 (talk) 06:38, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Bojan Djordjic move request

Since tennis player Bojan Djordjic is tagged as being of interest to this wikiproject, please join in the move discussion at Talk:Bojan_Djordjic#Requested_move_19_May_2016. Rovingrobert (talk) 07:22, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Luleå

I was hoping some Swedes could help with some sourcing. Thanks LibStar (talk) 10:04, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Page move proposal

There is a page move proposal at Talk:Tofta. Comments would be appreciated. w.carter-Talk 16:34, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes

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TFD for Template:Familjebok

Template:Familjebok has been nominated for deletion. This template is used to link references to the relevant entry in the Nordisk familjebok (1876–1926, Swedish), an encyclopaedia considered significant to the culture and history of Nordic countries. Feel free to join the discussion here. --Bermicourt (talk) 07:17, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

The 10,000 Challenge

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Is Eva & Adam notable?

Can anyone add sources that show this received coverage in independent media? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:55, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic)

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Cannabis in Sweden needs improvement

We have a new article Cannabis in Sweden, but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read Swedish sources. With a little polishing, it'd also be really useful to make a translated version for Swedish Wikipedia since it's a topic of increasing interesting these days. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 03:01, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Note there is already a sv:Cannabis och hampa i Sverige, so a good basis to translate from or take references from for anyone who wants to expand the English version! Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 11:38, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

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Template:Nobel Prize in Literature at WP:TFD

Please comment at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2017_January_2#Template:Nobel_Prize_in_Literature.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:58, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Bergsbruk etc

Hi, does anyone know if there are any widely accepted translations into English of Swedish terms related to traditional mining (bergsbruk)? I would like to translate some articles about "bergsmansgårdar" into English but can't think of any natural English equivalents of "bergsman" and "bergsgård" - it seems such a specifically Swedish tradition. Any ideas of where to find guidance would be appreciated. I don't want to invent any Swenglish terms. Thanks, Yakikaki (talk) 20:52, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

I think you'll have to use circumlocutions or glosses, along the lines of 'traditional miner', 'miner's compound' or just 'the compound' where traditional and mining are implicit. There certainly were small-scale mines (Thomas Bewick's father owned a small coal mine in the 18th century) and there must have been (could still be) regional English dialect words for such things. Perhaps also there are such terms in North America and Australia. The Klondike Gold Rush uses words like prospector ... Chiswick Chap (talk) 22:16, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, you're probably right. Hm, I'll see how I go about it, if I do it. Thanks for your input. Yakikaki (talk) 16:06, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Look for some relevant Swedish doctoral dissertations or other works of scholarship with substantial English summaries. When no established English terminology exists, the authors may actually discuss and explain their translation. (They may also make international comparisons in the main Swedish text, which can be useful to put things in context.) Check several works by different authors to see if there are differences in how they translate terms. --Hegvald (talk) 18:01, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Requested move notice

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Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2017 February 20

This discussion might be greatly aided by a Swedish speaker. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:38, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

@7&6=thirteen: Do you perhaps mean a Finnish speaker? There's a film on Finnish Wiki called On aika tappaa, a translation of "A Time to Kill (1996 film)" - whether the same thing or just a coincidence I have no idea. If you do need some Swedish, happy to help. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:48, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

I could say something, but whatever I say could insult somebody. So I will take this to Finland where it belongs. Without further elaboration. Sorry for the errant post. 7&6=thirteen (☎)

Dagligt Allehanda

Could you please create a reference article about Dagligt Allehanda? There is one on the Swedish Wikipedia, but the references aren't tiptop. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 04:48, 27 February 2017 (UTC)

Old Tjikko GAR

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Can someone translate Draft:Maltos-Cannabis for sv.wikipedia?

I've written a draft on "Maltos-Cannabis", a Swedish hemp-seed food remedy from around 1900. I imagine that if we post a translation at Sv.wikipedia that we might get more editors there adding Swedish-language sources and helping expand it, plus it would be enough content to make a Category:Cannabis in Sweden cat at sv.wikipedia. The article is only a few sentences long, should only take a few minutes, and the new tool Special:ContentTranslation is really useful for doing the gruntwork of fixing formatting as long as you can proof-read it before publishing. Thanks for any help! Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 18:12, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

Shouldn't Paradox Development Studio be under the WikiProject Sweden?

Hi guys, just an observation. EA DICE is within the scope of the WikiProject Sweden, but Paradox Development Studio isn't. They are both video game developers from Sweden that I admire for their games, even though the genre of the games couldn't be more different.

Cheers from Brazil! Willian 01:19, 23 March 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Will Xiu (talk • contribs)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming "420 collaboration", which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017! The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. WikiProject Sweden participants may be particularly interested in the following: Cannabis in Sweden. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer _(Talk) 14:30, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

We – Community Tech – are happy to announce that the Popular pages bot is back up-and-running (after a one year hiatus)! You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, Community Tech bot will post at Wikipedia:WikiProject Sweden/Archive 2/Popular pages with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Sweden.

We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:

• The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.
• The report will include a link to the pageviews tool for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.
• The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).

We're grateful to Mr.Z-man for his original Mr.Z-bot, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Sweden, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at m:User talk:Community Tech bot.

Warm regards, the Community Tech Team 17:16, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Alice Bah Kuhnke, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 June 2017 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

August 2017 at Women in Red

		Welcome to Women in Red's August 2017 worldwide online editathons.
		"Indigenous women" "Women in peace" "Canadian women"

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A new WiR initiative starting in August

		Introducing... WiR's new initaitve: 1day1woman for worldwide online coverage Facilitated by Women in Red
		Create articles on any day of any month Cover women and their works in any field of interest Feel free to add articles in other languages too (To subscribe: Women in Red/English language list and Women in Red/international list. Unsubscribe: Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Ipigott (talk) 11:20, 30 July 2017 (UTC)

Cecilia Lundqvist

Would someone from this WikiProject mind taking a look at Cecilia Lundqvist and assessing it? The article has been arond for more than ten years, but it is still a stub and still not supported by any citations to independent reliable sources, so it's not clear how this person meets WP:BIO or WP:ARTIST. -- Marchjuly (talk) 05:16, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Vikings characters

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The title of the page List of Vikings characters is under discussion, see talk:List of Vikings characters -- 70.51.46.15 (talk) 05:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

Template:Museums_in_Stockholm

I have created Hamn (museum) and my question is if this museum also can be part of the above template? - Salgo60 (talk) 17:50, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

We ought to include Bellman Museum. At the moment it redirects to the great man himself. Best answer would be an article, I guess. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)

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Challenge

Dear Wikipedia Helpers,

FRIVOLOUS challenge on Leif Erland Andresson (astronomer) Wikipedia page

PLEASE NOTE

The wife of Sunramanyan Chandrasekar has not cited any evidence for her marriage to the astrophysicist. Why is she not being challenged and I am? Is this interrogation selective? Are there no regular practices in this area?

I met Leif as a fellow student at Indiana University, Bloomington, where I started the first scuience fiction club. I have Swedish language family history (Långarydssläkten Simonstammen av Per Andersson och Johan Linhart) listing me as his wife, a passport, and marriage licance. We were married at university so home towns had no newspaper stories. In any case, most online marriage announcments do not go back to 1973. I can produce the marriage licence if necessary! Contact Leif's brother Lars Andersson for confirmation! Lars G Andersson <lassepojken@inkorgen.nu>

NO EVIDENCE GIVEN for this marraiage:

URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar

"Chandrasekhar married Lalitha Doraiswamy in September 1936. He had met her as a fellow student at Presidency College, Madras. Chandrasekhar was the nephew of Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1953."

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I suggest you drop this challenge of my marriage, which may have been created by a bot or overzealous volunteer, seeking to up some total of challenges. This has been a painful (to me) mistake and I suggest some further action by communicating with me, since I do hold proff or simply removing the tags about lack of citation.

Thanks tack så mycket,

Gloria Andersson McMillan — Preceding unsigned comment added by GloLeif12234** (talk • contribs) 14:19, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

Gustaf Retzius

Hi. I've been trying to improve this article, but it's come a point in which I can't verify certain statements bc I know no Swedish, so I've given up. Does any one feel like improving the EN article translating from the SV Wiki or any other source? F (talk) 21:11, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Swedish military physicians

There is a proposal to abolish the Category:Swedish military physicians on which project members might wish to comment. Rathfelder (talk) 22:48, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject

Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Sweden

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod ^talk 18:52, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Svedka

Hi, thanks for helping.

I'd like to use this to improve the Svedka article.

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/case.darden.2016.000009

Does anyone have know how I might get access to this?

Benjamin (talk) 23:27, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Help to identify painting

--Sergkarman (talk) 21:23, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

Lisbeth was one of Carl Larsson's daughters. Since the picture comes from the site of an auction house, it is probably one that has always been in private ownership and isn't widely known, but I still suspect that it has been published somewhere in the extensive literature on his art. He appears to have used the same sketch as a basis for this painting--Hegvald (talk) 01:02, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

I found this: Carl Larssons oljemålning "Lisbeth vid björkstammen", såldes för 7 miljoner kronor vid Bukowskis våraktion 2007. --Sergkarman (talk) 05:21, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Actually, this is a sketch for, or was at least later incorporated into, the large (193 * 408 cm) "Frukost i det gröna" (Breakfast in the open), part of the collection of the Norrköping Museum of Art. The painting of Lisbeth on her own was a gift to her and had been in the family until it was sold in 2007.[6] --Hegvald (talk) 09:30, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for participation and quick answers. --Sergkarman (talk) 10:02, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Featured article review of Swedish language

I have nominated Swedish language for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKay (talk) 18:02, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

I have found sources for most of the gaps but would be glad of another pair of eyes for the remainder. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:55, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

AfD: Björn Thorsell

There is an open AfD that the members of this project may be interested in, please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Björn Thorsell. Thanks, Ejgreen77 (talk) 00:38, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Ted Gärdestad, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 March 2018 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Järntorg

On the article Järntorgsbrunnen, I removed {{Category:Gothenburg}}, which was apparently placing said article in several inappropriate categories (apparently the sames ones as Category:Gothenburg was in), most notably Category:Wikipedia categories named after populated places in Sweden, and added several appropriate categories. Okay? Articles should not be placed directly in eponymous categories, that is, categories titled “Wikipedia categories named after...”--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 23:00, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:57, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Help in correcting two articles about Cochrane Rivers at Swedish Wikipedia

There are two articles created by bots about rivers called the Cochrane River at the Swedish Wikipedia: w:sv:Cochrane River (vattendrag i Kanada, Saskatchewan) and w:sv:Cochrane River (vattendrag i Kanada, Manitoba). This is because of a quirk of the Canadian geographic names system: there are two entries for the same river, one entry only for the portion of the river in Saskatchewan, and the other for the full course of the river in both provinces to its mouth in Manitoba. The single English Wikipedia article for the river is Cochrane River (Canada). The bot created articles cause confusion at Wikidata too, as the two articles (along with identical bot-created articles at the Cebuano Wikipedia, w:ceb:Cochrane River (suba sa Manitoba) and w:ceb:Cochrane River (suba sa Saskatchewan) ) have been imported to create errant entries there (the Manitoba article was imported as d:Q22517891 and the Saskatchewan article as d:Q22517908; the correct English article is at Wikidata as d:Q18150029). Could someone merge the two articles at Swedish Wikipedia? The simplest solution would be to merge the Saskatchewan article into the Manitoba one and update the Manitoba article with information from the English Wikipedia article. Alternately, one could create a new article and merge both old ones into it. Although I speak two West Germanic languages, my skills in North Germanic languages like Swedish are not sufficient for me to do the work myself! --papageno (talk) 00:56, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Done. If you find further errors, you can report them at w:sv:Wikipedia:Anmäl ett fel. It's OK to write in English.

Andejons (talk) 07:07, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

 Done Many thanks for your help, and for the tip for next time. --papageno (talk) 00:34, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Warm here, isn't it?

If anyone is interested, I started 2018 Sweden wildfires. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:00, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Anna Anka, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 August 2018 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Advice for lang tags for Svensk

I'm trying to help a typo project by labelling text using {{lang}} and the like. Article Structure of the Swedish Armed Forces in 1989 has lots and lots of titles in English accompanied by original Swedish. For example

• Norrland Howitzer Battalion Staff and Norrland Howitzer Battalion Staff Company (Norrlandshaubitsbataljonsstab med norrlandshaubitsbataljonsstabskompani)

Not a problem except when trying to find misspellings, presumed to be English.

I first tried using the ({{lang-sv|...}}) as used elsewhere in article. But that changed the appearance adding language link: (Swedish: Svensk) and changing to italics.

Then I tried ({{lang-sv|links=no|...}}) to get (Swedish: Svensk) and then ({{lang-sv|links=no|label=none|...}}) to get (Svensk)

And then just the ({{lang|sv|...}}) to get (Svensk)

Is there any advantage to using ({{lang-sv|...}})? Is it reasonable to aim for keeping the Swedish titles unadorned by labels or italics? Or... should all those nasty titles be deleted? (I'd not think so, except for the work to keep them) Shenme (talk) 23:25, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Swedish museums on the List of music museums

Hi there, I have introduced the List of music museums, and a couple of Swedish museums are not yet written in English. Are there users at this project that like to write some of these articles? Best regards, Ymnes (talk) 17:48, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format

An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:41, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

CfD nomination of Category:Organizations based in Sweden

Category:Organizations based in Sweden has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oculi (talk • contribs) 18:32, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Julia Karlsson (songwriter)

Was wondering if someone could take a look at this and assess it for Wikipedia notability. Article was created a few weeks back, but wasn't submitted to AfC. Article states Karlsson helped produce and write Runaway (U & I) which might be enough per WP:MUSICBIO, but I'm not sure if that also applies producers and writers of a hit song. I also asked the same question at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians where the possibility of there being reliable sources in Swedish was mentioned; so, I'd figure I'd ask here about that. Just going to point out that there's no article about this person on Swedish Wikipedia; so, maybe that's not a good sign. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:08, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Google finds slightly less than nothing with a paltry 87 hits, almost all unusable beyond the Denniz Pop Award that's already in the article. Notability looks very doubtful for now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:50, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Sámi vs. Sami vs. Saami

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

Please see: Talk:Kildin Sami orthography#Requested move 21 December 2018 – multi-page RM primarily about diacritics in an endonym.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  19:39, 21 December 2018 (UTC)

Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld

Hello! My name is Alexander Alejandro and I am the main writer of Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld on Swedish Wikipedia. I have just translated that article into English, so be aware of grammer errors and weird phrasing here and there. —Alexander Alejandro (talk) 18:42, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Congratulations on an excellent and thorough article Alexander Alejandro; I've really enjoyed reading it! I've done a light copy-edit as far as Rehnskiöld's imprisonment in Russia; you might want to check that I've not inadvertently changed the meaning anywhere since my military knowledge is rather limited. Best, Wham2001 (talk) 22:21, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Many thanks Wham2001! —Alexander Alejandro (talk) 23:15, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Request for comment List of churches in Sweden

I have started an RfC for this list. I would like ideas how to limit it somewhat, see tag on list and my comment on talk page for more information about what I'm trying to do. thanks. Aurornisxui (talk) 17:37, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta

Hello! Your WikiProject has been selected to participate in the WP 1.0 Bot rewrite beta. This means that, starting in the next few days or weeks, your assessment tables will be updated using code in the new bot, codenamed Lucky. You can read more about this change on the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team page. Thanks! audiodude (talk) 05:26, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Gunilla Persson, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 April 2019 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Skåneland

Skåneland, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. --MrClog (talk) 09:35, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Josephine Bornebusch, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 May 2019 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Fingerprint Cards

Hi, I'm new to wikipedia and just created my first wikipedia article, Fingerprint Cards. Please let me know what you think and help me improve the article. Wes97 (talk) 12:16, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

2019 Skydive Umeå Gippsland GA8 Airvan crash

I've created the 2019 Skydive Umeå Gippsland GA8 Airvan crash article. As I'm sv-0, assistance in correcting any errors made would be welcome. Expansion of the article from Swedish sources would also be appreciated. Mjroots (talk) 19:33, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

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Notability of Wallenstam

See talk. This company may be notable, but sources are in Swedish. Can someone expand it just a bit to prevent this going to AfD for, in its current state, clear failure to indicate notability (WP:NCORP)? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 04:32, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Magnus Stenbock

Like Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld before, I have now translated the article Magnus Stenbock on Swedish Wikipedia, which I am the main writer of, into English. Please have a look! –Alexander Alejandro (talk) 01:15, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

At a quick glance it looks just as good as Rehnskiöld, which I enjoyed reading very much. I'll go through and give it a light copyedit later this week, assuming nobody beats me to it. Best, Wham2001 (talk) 04:56, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks!–Alexander Alejandro (talk) 13:31, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frida Matsdotter

Any comments are appreciated at this discussion.4meter4 (talk) 03:02, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

University colleges using the name "University"

There's plenty of Swedish university colleges using the name "XXX University" rather than "XXX University College". Per WP:COMMONNAME these should all be titled as "XXX University". Some of these places are in the correct article space/have the correct titles, like Södertörn University and Halmstad University, but some others don't, or have the correct titles but need to be moved into the correct name space, namely:

• Gävle University College
• Mälardalen University College
• Sophiahemmet University College
• University College West

I don't have an account. Could somebody else please move the articles into the correct name space, and make sure they have the correct titles and are referred to using their common names throughout the texts? Thanks. 110.165.185.203 (talk) 06:58, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Requested move

An editor has requested that {{subst:linked|Husqvarna Vapenfabriks}} be moved to {{subst:#if:|{{subst:linked|{{{2}}}}}|another page}}{{subst:#switch: project |user | USER = . Since you had some involvement with 'Husqvarna Vapenfabriks', you |#default = , which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You}} are invited to participate in [[{{subst:#if:|{{subst:#if:|#{{{section}}}|}}|{{subst:#if:|Talk:Husqvarna Vapenfabriks#{{{section}}}|{{subst:TALKPAGENAME:Husqvarna Vapenfabriks}}}}}}|the move discussion]]. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:05, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Ulf Himmelstrand for DYK

I stubbed this article on a Swedish sociologist, but it is just a bit short of DYK reqs. Maybe you can help find some Swedish sources to expand it a bit? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:26, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

SVT's newly found practice in airing non-Swedish TV series

I need some help from native Swedish speakers (or those professionally fluent in Swedish). See Talk:Sveriges Television#More on gender-switching. JSH-alive/^{talk/cont/mail} 15:22, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

It's not very new, the articles are from 2016. And I doubt it's WP:DUE, but I've made a couple of changes to make the text follow the sources. Sjö (talk) 15:51, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

I'd agree with that. The "criticisms" include just one item, this one, and it's already quite long; if there were several other criticisms that'd be better, but we'd still not need a detailed essay on this particular point. All that's required is for the article to note the criticism's existence really. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:56, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

Petrus Michaelis Fecht

Please rewrite. Swedish source is available.Xx236 (talk) 10:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Anna Lindh, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 13 April 2020 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Newspaper archives freely available

Swedish speaking editors! KB has made their newspaper archives (Svenska dagstidningar) freely available during the pandemic. For now, https://tidningar.kb.se is open and searchable for all until 30 April; it may or may not be prolonged, so we might want to take the opportunity to flesh out some articles about older subjects where it's hard to find sources. In addition, it's absolutely fascinating reading. It has eaten most of my afternoon today... :-) --bonadea contributions talk 18:05, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Melodifestivalen peer review

Hi all. I noticed that Melodifestivalen, a Featured Article, is up for a peer review. It's been 13 years since it was promoted to FA, so there are likely changes that will need to be made as a result of the review. Myself and hopefully some others from Wikipedia:WikiProject Eurovision will try to address any concerns that arise, however, editors who are familiar with Swedish sources would definitely be helpful. Thanks! Link here: Wikipedia:Peer review/Melodifestivalen/archive2. Grk1011 (talk) 15:07, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Redirect deletion discussion of Landsmalsalfabet

Could any members of this group take a look at Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2020_May_3#Landsmalsalfabet this redirect deletion discussion? -- The Anome (talk) 16:38, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

"Åby" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Åby. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 6#Åby until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 17:09, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Amazing results from the amazing country: Six-hour day!

Please add more material to Six-hour day to save working females around the world! Gratitude! Woundful (talk) 17:06, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Naming convention

Hey, I've started a discussion at Talk:Riddarholm Church about whether to use the name "Riddarholm Church" or "Riddarholmen Church". It may interest more people here. I would also welcome any guidance on the issue, if there is a consensus that anyone is familiar with. I imagine similar uncertainties may arise here and there in other articles. Yakikaki (talk) 12:04, 10 May 2020 (UTC)