User talk:Uppland/Oldish

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Alumni lists

Thanks for letting me know about the move. —Lowellian (talk)[[]] 10:55, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Swedish school

Thank you for helping clean up my mess! I used the Adventist.org archives and statistics site to get a list up there so that those who know more could do just as you've done. I admit I haven't checked all the homepages, etc., and I know there are likely more of the same, but I figured posting the info on the page was at least a start and could be edited, which I think is what Wikipedia is known for. Feel free to continue if the desire strikes you!

Amiably, Cromwellt 14:36, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Swedish school2

BTW, as I don't read Swedish, it would be difficult for me to deduce what kind of school it is from its homepage. Therefore, your assistance is even more greatly appreciated! :D

Cromwellt

Schools again

As an interesting sidenote, I noticed other schools on the list I mentioned from the GC site that were listed in the English version of the name as "college" or "junior college" which were categorized as secondary schools and such, so I'm not surprised that they didn't catch all of them, especially since I found several other issues (like duplicate entries, outdated ones, typos, etc.) on several pages there, some of which I sent revise requests in for.

Cromwellt 15:16, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Universities in the Pacific

USP is not only a University of Fiji, but also of some other countries. Your lonely category (with one element only) is a wrong one. Please, change it or make it more complete --Enzino 21:21, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Please recategorize University of the South Pacific as appropriate. I am not sure why you ask me to do it. If necessary, you can just create new categories according to the same pattern as others in the same hierarchy. / Tupsharru 22:27, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC).

Why? You changed the category of USP and put it in the wrong place. Not me. Enzino

Humboldt University

I deleted the redirect page Humboldt University of Berlin, and moved Humboldt University there. Humboldt University should become a disambig page for Humboldt University of Berlin and Humboldt State University. (I would have done it, but I looked at the number of links to Humboldt University which I would break and quailed.) Since you asked for it to be moved, you get to do the fixes. :-) (I did the most necessary ones - disambig pages, etc.) Noel (talk) 17:53, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

PS: I don't usually check other User_talk: pages (so that I don't have to monitor a whole long list of User_Talk: pages - one for each person with whom I am having a "conversation"), so please leave any messages for me on my talk page (above); if you leave a message for me here I probably will not see it. I know not everyone uses this style (they would rather keep all the text of a thread in one place), but I simply can't monitor all the User_talk: pages I leave messages on. Thanks!

SEFFS

thanks, tups<caron>arru. you gave me a chuckle :o) dab (ᛏ) 17:09, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sweden geo-stubs

Hi Tupsharru - I've been working on cutting the general geo-stubs down by putting them in subcategories, so I was pleased to see a new Sweden-geo-stub category! I've put the 40 or so Swedish places that has simple geo-stubs into the new category :) Grutness|^hello? 09:56, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC).

PS - did you remember to add the new stubs to Wikipedia:Template messages/Stubs/By region ?

Hello

Thanks for the encouraging message you left on my talk page some time ago! I wrote a reply at the time but it somehow got lost in the slooowness that plagued WP at the time, so I decided to get back to you later instead. I'm pleased to see that we managed to save the Mankuzhikarys. As you may have noticed, you also managed to get me hooked on VfD. :) I've noticed that you've just created a Sweden-stub marker, and I've already started using it, adding it to the Bengt Wedholm stub I wrote yesterday (just to take a break from all these politicians and major organizations). I've also added it to a few of the members of the Swedish government I and others have created, and I will keep my eyes open for other places to add it. (Will get back to the politicians to add more biographies soon.) BTW, do you know whether or not it is considered acceptable to double-tag stub articles, e.g. using Sweden-stub together with bio-stub, poli-stub or Edu-stub? I'm apparently not the only one asking - see here. / Alarm 19:58, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think we certainly could make use of a Sweden-history-stub and Sweden-politics-stub. There is indeed a lot to be done on Swedish topics here, although the coverage is amazingly extensive in certain areas. (When I came here, I was rather stunned to see that we had reasonable articles on all the king's sisters but nothing on most members of government and opposition party leaders.) I'm glad to see that there are people like you working hard to fill the glaring holes. I'll try to do what I can.

I haven't created a category before, but I'll read up on how to do it. I wonder, though, how Marcus Samuelsson would feel if he dropped by here, and saw that he was placed in the same category as the Swedish Chef? :)

Uppsala and Swedenborg

Hi Tupsharru! I see you edited a link to Erik Benzelius on the article you suggested I'd try to get revied for featured article -- you know, the great Emanuel Swedenborg page we've had so much trouble with. I have put a lot of work into fixing it, there are still some old data from the 1911 Brittish Encyclopedia in there that should be rewritten (it is not up to date and it has an awkward language), and a lot more things could be said about about Swedenborg that I still haven't put in there. But I think when it comes to biographies it is always a selection. The 1911 enclyclopedia compared Swedenborg's discoveries with discoveries from that time, such as psychology from the Freudian school, or the Gothenburg system concerning liqour laws (I think the latter is obsolete today). It is more interesting to compare it to recent discoveries of course. But I think everyone has their own view on what is most interesting to mention about someone...

Well anyways, it seems that Jesper Swedberg, the father of the above, was a principal of the Uppsala University, and a professor of theology. I know you are interested in the Uppsala university, so I thought I should tell you, and hope you could correct mistakes you spot on the page? Fred chessplayer 13:26, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Lincei

Thanks!

Geez, the Italian article didn't link to the English; there was no redirect from the (rather common) English name.

Yes, they should be merged.

Jmabel | Talk 17:54, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)

Hagen Kleinert

Sorry, couldn't do that; Physics in his class are way over my head, that's why I changed my dedication to geology/paleontology. By the way, it was years and years ago.

But I could have a look at his german website, and try to emulate something from there (VfD pending). Mind, I' not a physics expert.

Thanks for asking

Lectonar 13:21, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

So all have to do is

make a page Wikipedia:Lookup Browser Buttons

--Kmg90 22:06, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)

What do I post on there?

do I post the article itself?

Marklund

Nice formatting there, i didn't realize how ugly those headers were before you removed them. bbx 14:30, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

VfD the article Guo Bingwen

Please don't remove VfD tags before voting is over. If VfD tags are removed, people who are interested in the subject of the article will have no way to know that a deletion discussion is going on, unless they happen to go to the VfD page. A translation of the Chinese Guo Bingwen article would be a very useful addition to the English Wikipedia. / Tupsharru 08:38, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Hello, dear Tupsharru. I move your message here. I'm sorry I did not check carefully to understand linking with VfD there is a vote page. I'll give my information there. Thanks for your attetion. Wikinu 08:39, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Question for you

Hi Tupsharru!

On the Archbishop of Uppsala page, could we just translate the articles from swedish wikipedia for every Bishop?

--Fred chessplayer 18:02, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Skissernas museum

Museum of Sketches for Public Art.

Museum of Sketches for Public Art.

Jag har tagit två bilder av Skissernas museums grå betongfasad, som du frågade efter. Du kan ha en av dem i artikeln. Det råkade bli bilder i snö, eftersom Lund var snötäckt vid fotograferingstillfället. Väsk 14:05, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

De Piro

Thanks for the note about De Piro. I hadn't seen the discussion about Maltese notability. I've restored the content and removed the vfd tag, leaving the "cleanup" note. Joyous 19:03, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Karlfeldt

Hello, I would like to discuss in which kind of family Karlfeldt was born in order to avoid an editing war. You changed my correction about lawyers family. This information was taken from this place which I consider credible. Moreover, German Wikipedia, which I also consider much credible, also mentions that he was born in ``Beamtenfamilie``. What's your opinion? Alx-pl 10:38, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Reply on Talk:Erik Axel Karlfeldt. / Tupsharru 11:38, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

PBS

sigh, he just doesn't get it, does he. The interwiki business is simply weird, and should just be reverted. It also sheds light on his level of understanding of the other diacritics-related issues. I've really done my best to explain things to him, but at this point he should just be considered a "diacriticophobe". It's perfectly fine if he votes against diacritics in votes like Zurich etc., where the community is split anyway, but redirecting anything containing diacritics to interwiki? strange. dab (ᛏ) 15:29, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Lützen

I apologise that I didn't put an edit summary stating that I'd moved the page and why. I'd moved Lützen to Lutzen, because the characters in the URL don't sync. Your thoughts? Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 14:53, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Right, I was only moving it so it would look better in the URL. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy) 05:46, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Péter Cardinal Erdõ

Please see Talk:Péter Cardinal Erdõ I have tried to list the diffrent options. Please make sure that my cut and past job reflects your position. Philip Baird Shearer 10:08, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Template:Unreferenced

You might be interested in the discussion at Template talk:Unreferenced. —msh210 14:57, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

re: Palmstruch

Hi Tupsharru and thanks for the message. I seem to be having a bit of a "Sweden Day" today - I've noticed that Henning Mankell and related articles could use some work (must read some more of his novels...) - and on the Swedish wiki too. For that matter, why are there no articles on sv:Johan Palmstruch or sv:Stockholm Banko in Swedish?! I don't speak Swedish (actually I was quite impressed by how much I could understand when I was attempting to research Palmstruch! (Being able to speak German is useful.) So there's another one for my long list of languages to learn when I have time...!). I guess that means there's a job for you if you're bored!

Tack och hej då! (It's a start at least...) SteveW | Talk 19:41, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of UCL alumni -> List of University College London alumni

Hi Tupsharru, thanks for the move but isn't List of Universtiy College London alumni a little too overlong? I'm also thinking perhaps it should be UCL people anyway, following the example of MIT: MIT people. What do you think? --stochata 12:54, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply -- yes, sorry, I went straight ahead after I saw the Lists of people by university affiliation. You are of course right about the UCL / University College London -- I'm just trying to go and tidy up what I was doing now. Thanks for the Category:University College London too, makes it a lot easier. --stochata 13:23, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Oops, I accidently added your talk page to Category:University College London! --stochata 13:25, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

(oh and thanks for the link to List of Uppsala University people too, it's fantastic!) --stochata 13:29, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

J/R/T RfC

I've filed a joint RfC concerning the behavior of the users Johan Magnus, Ruhrjung and Tuomas at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Johan Magnus, Ruhrjung, Tuomas. I would appreciate your comments since you speak Swedish, which might help in this mattter, and since I know you have at least some interest in linguistics. Peter Isotalo 21:35, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

Swedish hundreds

I am sorry, but my vote would have to be keep since many of the articles in the category can be expanded. Moreover, many of the articles are nice to link to when writing about old Swedish history.--Wiglaf 09:50, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

I am in complete agreement with you on the issue of keeping the articles, but the category duplicates another category. I will however change my vote again, as I am annoyed over the way the nomination was made. Tupsharru 11:22, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

I see. I only read the first post that suggested removing both the articles and the category :).--Wiglaf 11:15, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Sweden Municipalities

Hello. You may not have noticed but I have made a page for all major municipalities in Sweden except those in Stockholm.

I would appreciate if you would look them through and give some feedback or suggestions. You can use Template:Infobox_Kommun and click what links here. All but three links were created by me. --Fred-Chess 19:09, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Hello again.

I still haven't gotten a real feedback for the municipalities. I assume that everything is OK then? It would take a while to remake 290 maps, so if you have any arguments you really should speak up soon. In the mean while, I have made some "real" municipal maps for the largest municipalities. So that you don't have to search for them here they are: Kiruna Jokkmokk Gällivare Arjeplog Härjedalen Strömsund Vilhelmina Pajala Sorsele Storuman (plus some others). I had some problems with Vilhelmina, perhaps you could take a special look at that page?

I also started of with the tiny municipalities in Scania that require a tiny weeny map, but this got screwed up. See Trelleborg , perhaps you have a suggestion how to order to maps?

Regards, Fred-Chess 20:20, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Emanuel Swedenborg

Hi, Tups, long time. Thanks for your vote on my RFA! I've taken a look at the last month's editing at Emanuel Swedenborg, and it does look nice and stable. The stylistic edits by User:Blainster really lift the page—good stuff! The only tiny niggle in my mind is the single edit by 24.21.23.151 the other day—looks a bit like a strong religious POV—I sure hope it doesn't herald another of those conflicts. Still, I don't want to be paranoid here. If 24.21.23.151 returns, s/he will hopefully raise any concerns on the talk page, so that they can be discussed. And yes, I quite agree with you, peer review now would be just right. --Bishonen | talk 16:51, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Uppsala cathedral

Regarding the move from "Uppsala Cathedral" to "Uppsala cathedral", I am following the Wikipedia naming conventions. "Uppsala Cathedral" is not a name proper and should thus be titeled this way. Nixdorf 21:20, 2005 May 17 (UTC)

Request for Comment

Hello.

I would like a second opinion on two pages. You seem to know one or two things about history and have more experience with Wiki than I have. An anonymous user has created the pages:

• Euphemia of Sweden
• Albert II of Mecklenburg

and contributed to many more. Especially the page of Euphemia contains a lot of heraldry and is probably not appropriate?

Under http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=62.78.121.189 are some edits he has made, they are overall impressive, and seems like original work.

--Fred-Chess 00:08, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Lots of edits there! I haven't looked at them yet. The Euphemia and Albert of M articles seem superficially OK, and I don't think there is a problem with genealogy on Wikipedia as long as it concerns notable families or, especially, ruling dynasties. The formatting needs some work, though. Tupsharru 08:16, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary

I laughed aloud at your edit summary at User talk:Bishonen. Thank you for that joy. --Theo (Talk) 11:26, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks! :-) Tupsharru 13:43, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

1276

I noticed you added the coronation of Magnus I of Sweden to the year page 1276. In general, I think it's a better idea to leave these types of events off of year pages, as they are usually insignificant in the context of global history - the context that the year pages are in. There is a List of state leaders in 1276 (and most other years) where this type of information is better presented. The only exceptions would be people like Napoleon, Genghis Khan, etc., who have had an undeniable lasting global impact; or firsts, like George Washington; or when the process of selection changes (i.e. move from a monarchy to a democracy). Thanks! - Bryan is Bantman 23:47, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Adminship

Thanks Tup, for your support!--Wiglaf 19:13, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

(Posting it here instead of starting a new topic) Thanks for restoring the Laleh article. --Anittas 04:03, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Who is Henrik Petersen?

Since you are Danish, maybe you can decide whether the subject of the rather obvious vanity page Henrik Petersen (and duplicate HenrikPetersen) is in any way notable enough to stay, or if the article should be VfD'd. Tupsharru 17:12, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

I have never heard of him; he is at best marginally notable. I will add the vfd request. Thue | talk 20:35, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

question

You still haven't commented on the question asked above concerning municipalities... i take it you haven't seen the message? If you have, and chose not to answer, and think I am constantly bothering you, then that is your problem. --Fred-Chess 11:57, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I had no intention to snub you. I have just been busy and mostly preoccupied with non-wikipedian matters. As for the Jokkmokk map and its siblings, they are very clear in layout and colours, except for the fact that the map gives the impression of an enormous mass of land stretching outwards on the Norwegian side. I think you should consider either of these options:

• Alternative 1: indicate the Norwegian coast, or
• Alternative 2: cut neighbouring countries out of it entirely and use som other colour than blue for the non-map area in order not to give the impression of Sweden being entirely surrounded by water.

Personally, I think alternative 1 is the better one. I also looked at the maps of the municipalities in the Stockholm area, and I think they look fine. Tupsharru 10:04, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

,

Thanks. Perhaps I was a bit rude, but I would prefer a notice next time that you don't have time... I have this page on my watchlist, by the way.

I also want to tell you how important your feedback is to me.

You can click on this image, it is an improvement.

--Fred-Chess 17:56, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Is there any chance you can ask some connections for a bot inserting Infoboxes? It would be very easy, as all the datas are in lists here and here. Maps and city arms can be inserted by hand.

Also, next year when the stats are updated, it would be really benefitial to have a bot updating them.

--Fred-Chess 11:34, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I don't really know anything about bots, but there are a number of people here who do. User:Rambot is the bot which has been used in creating and maintaining locations in the US. One of the Norwegian users has also used a bot to enter Norwegian parish and municipality data, but I can't recall the name of either the user or the bot at the moment. I agree it would be very useful. Tupsharru 11:16, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Swedenborg's grave

Swedenborg's grave in Uppsala Cathedral

Here you are Tup!--Wiglaf 17:18, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Images

I have deleted them.--Wiglaf 14:43, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Expo

In my opinion the best policy would be to delete articles such as these in order to remove what is essentially hate speech from the edit history, and then recreate them as stubs. But VfD never seems to work to that end, so the rant will probably live on forever in the Wikipedia database. Also, I'm surprised to see that a "permission" added by an anonymous user is considered enough to clear an article from copyvio allegations. Anyway, I'll flesh it out slightly, and perhaps I'll come back later to add more. / Alarm 15:11, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Considering my expericene from VfD - that articles that have been cleaned up to a decent level are invariably kept "as is", without any action taken towards previous versions - I decided to have a go at expanding the article anyway. I guess I've further diminished the prospects of actually having it deleted now... Do you know if it is technically possible to delete historic versions of an article that contain rants and/or copyvios (while the present version is kept), and if there is any official policy regarding this? / Alarm 16:26, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Category use

First message moved from User_talk:Radiant!

Since you are the only one to vote on my nomination of Category:Euler on the CfD page, I'll ask you for your opinion on a related issue before bringing it up on a more public discussion page. I question the value of categories such as Category:Swedish nobility as applied to biographies. This could be a useful category if it were applied to institutions associated with the Swedish nobility, but would end up too large to be meaningful if consistently applied to biographical articles, at least for some countries. There are several similar categories (Category:German nobility, Category:Italian nobility etc), and neither the "nation" part of the category nor the "nobility" part is that simple to define or delimit in a longer historical perspective. Tupsharru 06:12, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, this slipped below my radar. I believe you're saying that people shouldn't be in those categories, but instead in subcategories, such as Dukes of Foo. Is that correct? If so then I'm afraid I disagree, since there doesn't exist a subcat for each particular class of nobility, and many of those are rather small to begin with. Yours, Radiant_>|< 10:11, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

No, actually, my point is that I am skeptical about using Category:Swedish nobility for individuals at all. And if we really want to classify people this way, we have to

1. make sure we use historically meaningful categories, i.e. those based in historically existing legal and social systems (rather than on anachronistic use of nationality and generalizations about class), and
2. make sure people thus categorized actually belong to the group in question, and aren't categorized just because of a "von" or some other spurious reason. For instance, categorizing Max von Sydow as "Swedish nobility" just because he is Swedish and has a name with a "von". Someone did this, but I later removed the category - the problem is that the von Sydow family is not noble, despite the name, but actually encompasses an ennobled but now extinct branch. How is anyone to know this without detailed genealogical information?

It sems to me that this category is doomed to be misused. And still, compared to some other countries, the Swedish nobility is very well-documented and (in theory) easy to delimit, at least from 1626 and later. Categorizing "Italian" nobility is probably even more difficult to get right. (Venetian? Papal? Florentine? Napolitan? Italian families with nobility from the HRE or Austria or the Napoleonic empire?) I am not sure if I am making myself any clearer... --Tupsharru 11:02, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Danish biographies

Hi, I've noticed you are editing some of the biographies I have been entering from the 1911 Britannica and was hoping you could look at Johann Georg Forchhammer. The titles of the books are garbled and I was thinking you might be able to improve them. If you can't or don't have time, let me know if you know anyone or ask them yourself. Otherwise, thank you for your time. --DanielCD 1 July 2005 16:10 (UTC)

Surnames

Some Wiktionarians want to delete surnames from Wiktionary. I'm opposing, on the grounds that this is a long-standing arrangement between Wiktionary and Wikipedia, where Wiktionary handles the lexicography and Wikipedia handles the people and places. Please come to Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Requests for deletion#Surnames and contribute to the discussion. Uncle G 2005-07-03 13:43:55 (UTC)

2 topics

First, to respond -- I will keep an eye out for the names, as you asked on my talk page.

Second -- we don't have an article about the Swedish emigration to America, afaik. Do you know if there is such an article?

--Fred-Chess July 4, 2005 18:36 (UTC)

Strömkarln

Thanks for pointing this out to me.--Wiglaf 5 July 2005 09:45 (UTC)

Avoid copyright (sorry in advance...)

I know you're going to hate me for this, but I have found a way to tackle the copyright nazis as Wikimedia Commons. Here for instance, we have a free licensed image with the coat of arms of Höör, no need to resort to fair use :-)

--Fred-Chess July 5, 2005 23:39 (UTC)

verses

Hiya,

you recently voted to keep or merge at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Matthew 1:verses

however, that VfD concerned only the verses from Matthew 1, wheras Uncle G's proposal covered a much larger group of verses.

would you be prepared to make a similar vote at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Individual Bible verses, which covers the full list of verses in Uncle G's suggestion?

~~~~ 9 July 2005 15:16 (UTC)

Anna Maria Lenngren

I've just created Anna Maria Lenngren, since I thought that was one of the most burning red links we've got, especially since the coverage of Swedish literature seems to have a rather strong male bias. Unfortunately, 18th century literature can hardly be said to be my strongest side, so I just managed to scrape together a stub from the Runeberg sources. Perhaps you are more familliar with her works than I am? (After all, she was the daughter of a Uppsala University scholar...)

Oh, and checking what pages linked to my new creation, I noticed your subpage User:Tupsharru/Warburg, Swedish Literature. Perhaps we could make a brief mention of this at the Swedish notice board? / Alarm 00:18, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Categorising articles about Sweden

Hello. When categorising articles about Sweden, do not replace "ä" and "ö" with "a" and "o". Swedish considers them different letters. Thanks. — JIP | Talk 10:08, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Woodrow Wilson Center

Thanks — I was editing in too much of a hurry, of course. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:12, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Ådalen

I actually thought more or less exactly the same thing when I saw it... However, since the film is notable in itself (it was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film), I think the best way to go about it is to refactor this article into an article about the film, with a mention about the historical background linked to an article about the event, perhaps at Ådalen shootings. If you agree, I'll have a look at it later. (BTW, the confusion might have to do with the fact that the Swedish article about the event is at sv:Ådalen 31.) / Alarm 19:30, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Google searches

Next time you google test, please set the parameters to "English" only.

http://www.google.com/search?lr=lang_en&cr=&q=fucking+%C3%A5m%C3%A5l%22+%22lukas+moodysson%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 - 636 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=fucking+amal%22+%22lukas+moodysson%22&lr=lang_en - 605 WhisperToMe 00:50, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

See, your test included Swedish, Norwegian, and other sites that are irrelevant to the English Wikipedia. WhisperToMe 00:53, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

This comment seems to actually be directed at someone else and to have been placed here by mistake. I haven't referred to a Google test in this discussion. Tupsharru 05:08, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, I thought you did... maybe someone else did... hmm... I'm a bit confused. WhisperToMe 07:32, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Richard Nielsen

I have modified the article a bit. There is some info on him here. I have my doubts about his notability, but he has on the other hand made a joint statement with Henrik Williams, a good scholar, who is sceptical of the runestone.--Wiglaf 20:26, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Enström etc

Well, I haven't read them all, but I agree that it seems as if some, if not most, of the figures are of dubious notablility to say the least. I share your impresson that this seems like an attempt at using Wikipedia as a family history/genealogy database. The Swedes might not be the least notable of the bunch, however - check out Maria Louisa Bustill. After seeing the state of the original Enström article, and that a previous article of his creation had been VfD'd, I left some helpful hints on his talk page, revolving around writing style rather than his selection of subjects. Although I got no response whatsoever, he made some slight improvements to the Enström article after that, but hasn't edited anything else. I don't know if there is anything to be won from bringing up the issue directly with him, or if the best option is to list most of them on VfD. / Alarm 22:13, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Away for a while

Hi, I'd just wanted to let you know I won't be around the Swedish Wikipedians' notice board, and Wikipedia in general, for the next two weeks, since I'll be away on vacation (probably without any Internet access at all). Since Fred will be away for most of that time as well, it would be great if you could keep an extra eye on the Swedish notice board. (I know you're generally around anyway, doing a good job, so this post is probably entirely unneccessary. Well, anyway, just so you know why I'm not updating it.) / Alarm 21:20, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: Ian Lustick

Hi! Thanks for the message about this article. I deleted the original, and closed the VfD on it, not as a comment about whether or not Wikipedia should have an article on this person but because I felt that it was not possible to have a VfD on a blank article which gave me two choices—revert the removal of content by the editor who originally added that content, or delete the article. When an editor removes content that they themselves wrote I feel that it is inappropriate to revert that removal so I chose to delete the article. With hindsight I guess that it may have been more appropriate for me to try to contact the editor in question to discover the reason behind the blanking, but at the time the article didn't make much of an assertion of notability and with three delete votes already it didn't look like it had much of a future. JeremyA (talk) 17:44, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Just wanted to thank you for catching this one...it was a good call on your part. I've seen too many actors kept because they had one tv appearance or politicans included because they ran in a single election. It has seemed out of balance with the criteria to which scholars are held before inclusion. Tobycat 21:17, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

My thoughts on the Scrabble word list

I understand the opinion of many is that I messed these lists up, but in my opinion this is not the case. Not only does the list now contain many more, genuine words than it used to, but I've incorporated the definitions, stated the irregular plurals, such as qawwal hooked by I, and so on. To me it seems the only genuine concern with the new page is capital letters. Knowledge of irregular plurals such as fuqaha is useful, as is the fact that somehow we must categorize or otherwise sort these words so that they have a genuine meaning, a genuine context, which others can believe, research or add to.

I've already said to others, if they feel the words should be in lower case go ahead and do so (I was hoping I could get these words up in courier or some other consistently spaced font, but this appears to be impossible, thus meaning I would further understand the wish to make these words lower-case). And I'll consistently make my case that these words do exist, I've cited my sources, and the justification for the fact that each of these words exists. Yes, I'll admit that words like bathqol (which I'm happy writing in lower case for now), draw very few Google hits, but I was writing from an amalgamation of sources melded into an individual source, which is justification enough for me that they should be included in this list. I hope you think this is okay. I'm going to ask Soo whether he would update his opinion as stated on the talk page.

Meanwhile, I am of the opinion that, although perhaps obscure to some, the dictionaries I have cited are genuine dictionaries, with genuine words and should be treated as such. Please respond with your opinions.

PS. Maybe as I have earlier in this statement, the right thing to do would be to reproduce the list in bold lower case, rather than regular upper case, so as to upset fewer people. Bobo192|Edits

Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/A. F. Gotch

I'd like to ask you to re-consider your vote at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/A. F. Gotch. I've cleaned up the page, and added another of his books. If Wikipedia lists people only on the basis of how well their books were received, it seems to me that we're crossing a rather dangerous line into reviewing rather than building an encyclopedia. -Harmil 11:18, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Uppsala university

Oh, grooming it for FAC, are you? I'm just going out in the skärgården for the weekend, it'll have to be when I get back, I'm afraid. Thanks for the Cornelis Vreeswijk image tip, btw. I haven't had any reply from J Vreeswijk, and don't much expect one, but we must do what we can. A TV screengrab would be fair use, I know, but would it be good enough for FAC? Questions, questions. Bishonen | talk 12:07, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

VfD's

Hello. At the VfD for A.F. Gotch I marked it as no consensus as I didn't see your vote clearly. This is really more my fault than yours but still would you consider making the first thing you say BEFORE your comment be *Delete or however you may vote. Thanks Tup. Redwolf24 22:37, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Uppsala University II

Frusen Glädjé to you, too! I'm very impressed by this article, it seems extremely comprehensive and well-proportioned—just a natural FAC. I love the History and the People sections, they read beautifully and are very well balanced. Do you think it would be frivolous, or unencyclopedic, to spin stuff off according to a general Freudian pleasure principle? I mean, to make readability the overriding concern, by keeping (fun) narrative sections intact and creating "main articles" for an (irredeemably dull) list-like section like Organization. Perhaps also "Locations". Not that the latter is by any means necessarily dull (and it offers fine illustration opportunities], but at present it's pretty much just a list; while if it got substantially expanded beyond listhood, it'd probably become so long as to need spinning off on that account. Spinning off those two would do the TOC a world of good, too, which is always a consideration.
A nit: the music section seems quite short, considering that music is reckoned to be more important than sports.
Altogether I see that en.wiki's Swedish coverage is fuller than I sometimes thought: it's quite cheering to see all the bluelinks in this article, and to find substantial articles behind them, too. Looking good! Bishonen | talk 14:20, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

George Norlin

Thank you so very much for tidying up my work. I actually specialize in astrophysics and planetary physics, and I don't have much time to learn Wiki standards. In fact, I am probably going to drop out if I can break the habit, because of the high vandalism and nonsense quota in Wikipedia. I just noticed a gap. Also I saw in Wikipedia that somebody got a George Norlin prize, but I can't find the link and I hope a "bot" creates it. Pdn

California Institute of Technology trustees

You might review my comments at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/California Institute of Technology trustees to see if they will change your mind again. BlankVerse ∅ 10:59, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Ola Svenson

I'm not so sure Ola Svenson is a hoax. Please see Lake Wobegon effect for further details. (I'm not saying it isn't a hoax. It may well be. But the Lake Wobegon effect article gives me pause. Apparently Ola Svenson is a real researcher, and the "Lake Wobegon effect" is a real instance of cognitive bias. Extreme Unction 20:53, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey Fatty

Hey fatty, is there a reason why u called the aaland island war article nonsence and deleted it? I NEEDED IT FOR MY HOMEWORK COZ IM STUDYING THAT WAR.great- thanks now i will get an e and fail at history and not go to harvard and live on the street drinking bournbon. THANK FOR RUINING MY LIFE.

Hey You

Why havent you replyed? DONT U CARE ABOUT ANYOINE?????? R U SAYING THA6T LUXEMBOURGE SHOULD TAKE OVER AALAND ISLANDS? WHAT DO U HAVE AGAINEST THE ALNAD ILSAND??/ YOU RACIST PERSON! I BET U WANT ME TO DIE ON THE STREETS BECAUSE I CANT REAESARCH THE WAR THANK YTO YOU. I NEED THIS TO GO TO HARVARD AND CA,BRIDGE BUT I CANT THNAKS TO U...