Talk:Sweden

Edit request: found typo in Climate paragraph

"Sweden receives between 500 and 500 and 800 mm" --> "Sweden receives between 500 and 800 mm"

Just a little mistake

Fixed, thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 00:48, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Edit request: found the missing citation, 25 July 2011

I found the citation that is missing under the education section, 3rd paragraph, in the part that talks about tertiary education:

https://www.tilastokeskus.fi/artikkelit/2006/art_2006-07-06_001.html

I found this citation source in the article about Finland, which discussed a similar set of statistics about its own tertiary education system.

Thanks!

Edit request on 12 June 2013

The table on religion is outdated , please add

| 2009 || 9,340,682 || 6,664,064|| 71.3% |- style="text-align:center;" | 2010 || 9,415,570 || 6,589,769 || 70.0% |- style="text-align:center;" | 2011 || 9,482,855 || 6,519,889 || 68.8% |- style="text-align:center;" | 2012 || 9,555,893 || 6,446,729 || 67.5% thanks

Sweden Democrats

I wonder what in the classification of the Sweden Democrats as centre-right constitutes a compromise? There was no scientific research supporting such a description. A quick Google Scholar search for "Sweden Democrats" yields papers supporting the opposite (populist right, racist right and radical right populist are the first three descriptions of the party ) and while they may not be considered neutral by proponents of the Sweden Democrats they are indicative of most theory regarding the Sweden Democrats. A compromise could be describing the parties in government as centre-right and the Sweden Democrats as right-wing. Martymcflyer (talk) 04:27, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Whether or not elitist press has reported thus, the evidence in their parliamentary work suggests that that party does not belong to the right, left or center. Since there is so much propaganda about that party, I suggest we take care not to include any of it in this article. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 13:34, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

If it does not belong to right, left or centre it is erroneous to class them as centre-right. If we are unable to find a correct classification of the party, it should not arbitrarily fall under centre-right. There should, if the left-right scale presented is based solely on economics (which is the only possible reason for placing the party in the centre of the spectrum), be a footnote explaining this and that parties would be placed differently if there was a libertarian-authoritarian dimension. The Wikipedia page on left-right politics does not focus solely on economics. The site referenced in the section describes the Sweden Democrats as "far-right" so however anyone chooses to regard the party's politics, the information should, to remain objective and correct according to source, be changed. Alternatively, a new source should be used where the Sweden Democrats are described as centre-right.Martymcflyer (talk) 20:39, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Map of "Swedish Empire"

First I question the terminology. There has never been any Emperor that has ruled any Swedish territory. The British Empire is different, since the Queen/King in the UK also was Emperor of India. But the map - I would argue that before the beginning of the 19th century, the border between Norway and Sweden was undecided. Along the coast Norwegian fishermen lived all the way to the Kola-peninsula (in Russia). But further away from the coast, and north of Jämtland, only the Sami people lived (except at the Baltic Sea coast). Other maps from this time usually doesn't print out any Swedish-Norwegian border north of Jämtland. Boeing720 (talk) 02:29, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

About terminology, Swedish Empire seems to be the prefered english frase for "Svenska stormaktstiden", so it has support in WP:COMMONNAME. I don´t think actually having someone (in english) called an emperor/empress is an absolute necessity to use the term empire. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:52, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Bad source

The climate source doesn't work. I strongly suggest to use the SMHI very thorough data instead (period 1961-90)

http://www.smhi.se/polopoly_fs/1.2860!ttm6190%5B1%5D.pdf This gives the number of each SMHI station.

http://data.smhi.se/met/climate/time_series/month_year/normal_1961_1990/SMHI_month_year_normal_61_90_temperature_celsius.txt And by finding that number here, average temps. are available for all months and annual. 100's of stations to choose from. And above all a safe source for describing average temperatures during the last fixed 30-year period. (Next will be 1991-2020). Using running periods like "last 20 years" is not scientifically safe !. Boeing720 (talk) 02:44, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

Definition of Sweden in the first sentence

The definition of Sweden being a "Scandinavian country" in the first sentence should be removed or placed further down. This information is secondary and does not define Sweden at this basic level. Instead Sweden should be defined as a "parliamentary constitutional monarchy". 213.100.99.103 (talk) 18:23, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Not done: both facts are in the lead section (the constitutional type is in paragraph 3). I guess different people will have different priorities regarding geographical, cultural and political facts. --Stfg (talk) 23:11, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Reputable boast?

I have previously asked several times that there be less unflattering & embarrassing boasting about Sweden in this article, and I recently removed a huge boast by a little private organization that few people have ever heard of. Because of this edit and the previous one, where I was reversed, I have now red-linked that "prominent" organization (quoting another user), which I still do not believe should be used for a boast that huge. If so it should be well known enough for it's own article. Who/what else says it's "prominent"? --SergeWoodzing (talk) 07:46, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

The Administrative Divisions section of the article gives the impression that municipalities are subdivision of counties, and thereby subordinate to them. This is not correct.

The geographical boundaries usually do coincide with the outward boundaries of the outer municipalities. But there are two separate Governmental institutions covering the county geographic area: the County Administrative Board - which is an arm of the Central State and purely administrative; and the County Council - which is an elected body with a supporting administration whose primarily responsibilities lie in health and public transport.

The County Council is legally at the same LOCAL GOVERNMENT level as the Municipal Council, also with its own administrative system. The municipalities have a wide range of statutorily compulsory and some voluntary fields of responsibility. These do not include health and public transport. However, because of the nature of some fields of responsibility - like care of the elderly, and of children, local roads and their associated infrastructure (drainage, street lighting etc.) there are obviously many points of contact. Swedish public sector organisations are generally known for their high level of cooperation and coordination. Sweden is also remarkable in the extent of decentralisation of authority. Local authorities (municipal and county)receive the lion share of income tax with payment to the municipality/county of residence - not employment; they have a virtual monopoly on planning (municipal plans do not require approval at any higher level). Once again, there is a great deal of consultation, coordinatin and cooperation between different organisations, and among municipalities themselves. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohembo (talk • contribs) 21:33, 21 December 2013 (UTC)

Advertisement on this page - links to bad link of 'list of US senators'

Found in this section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden#Demographics — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.17.100.29 (talk) 09:35, 30 December 2013 (UTC)

Could you be more specific? The Demographics section is a long one and I have been unable to find any such link. Sjö (talk) 10:39, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

The first known dwelling place, found in southern Sweden, dates from around 12,000 BC.

http://sweden.se/society/history-of-sweden/ This is Sweden's government website and they know there own history. The language is German based not the people. Facts are Germany does not have a DNA project!. So how can you prove they have Germanic blood. And Swedish peoples DNA is most similar in ratios to other Central European countries like Czech Republic and Poland. Google, Jomsborg, Jomsborg Vikings, Skane slavic, Skane slavic pottery, slavic pagans, King Eric of Pomerania Also old English did not exist before the late 12th Century ( You must mean Latin/Roman) Does it hurt to do a little research?. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.33.7.110 (talk) 10:35, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

There was the 30 year war from 1618 - 1648 which was in/with the German provinces. In wars there is always some kind of DNA exchange, i.e. soldiers fathering children near the battlefields or boys taken to fight with the invading forces and then taken home with the invaders. 121.209.53.9 (talk) 04:10, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Fluffy, unsubstantiated sentence

It says: "Post-war era: Sweden was officially a neutral country and remained outside NATO and Warsaw pact membership during the Cold War, but privately Sweden's leadership had strong ties with the United States and other western governments."

This sounds somewhat sneaky, as there's a front of neutrality and behind everybody's back they have strong ties. This ought to be substantiated because it implies the accusation of hypocrisy. 121.209.53.9 (talk) 04:16, 26 February 2014 (UTC)