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Originally IP: 81.213.213.127 stated: "Denmark must apologize"
Why are we not reporting on the fact that: Islamic Society of Denmark Used Fake Cartoons to Create Story! Link: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/islamic-society-of-denmark-used-fake.html
Either remove this thread completely or stop vadalizing my posts. Or open another thread for this discussion and send us the link.
Are the danish moto: "Lad os hygge os" not rigtigt correctly translate to "Let's have a good time" or are it untranslatable?
Wouldn't the Queen's motto "Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke" perhaps be better as "God's help, the People's love, Denmark's strength" rather than "God's help, the love of the people, Denmark's strength"? If nothing else, then because it is close in structure to the Danish version.-- Kristjan Wager 20:13, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
"hygge" is one of the few Danish words which can't be translated - cozy is as close as we get. I'm thinking that "schadenfreude" and "femme fatalle" is examples of French and German words/concepts which can't be translated directly into English (although schadenfreude exists in the Nordic languages: skadefryd) for which reason they are are commonly used in their original form. Isn't there a word for these kinds of untranslatable words? Celcius 19:52, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
I have made maps of the 13 counties of denmark - http://cryosphere.net/~morwen/denmark/ These aren't showing the municipalities with the status of counties because I couldnt find maps showing those borders. Any comments? Morwen 22:10, Jan 28, 2004 (UTC)
A controversy has erupted over the choice of map for this article. The two candidates are shown here, along with any others that other Wikipedians may choose to enter. Feel free to make any comments. The lower map may also appear in the corresponding Geography article for this country. Kelisi 02:59, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Are you able to translate the Danish text of te article on Janteloven into English, please? See my request at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Jante_Law Agendum 00:39, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
"Denmark was united by Harold Bluetooth (Harald Blåtand) around 980"
No, his father Gorm the English was king of Denmark and Norway. And father and son were kings together by 14 year.
Gorm the Old is identical by Guthrum of East_Anglia. Danish: Gorm = English: Guthrum. Guthrum the Young was king from 902 to 918 in East_Anglia.
Denmark was united by Hardeknut, who was the father of Gorm the Old
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(Mon May 31, 2004). Sky, why did you remove the messages boxes about Denmark being among monachies, and being member of the Nordic Council? - I'm talking about this change: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Denmark&diff=0&oldid=3789741 -- TroelsArvin
This article says that Denmark is smaller than more than 100 countries, but List of countries by area says that it is a lot larger. Any comments?? 66.32.242.106 00:02, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
It seems a bit strange to me that we have both a "Miscellaneous topics" section and a "See also" section. The two don't seem to differ much. Would anyone oppose to a fusion of the two, and an alphabetization of the items in the fused section?
By the way: I would like to add ISO 3166's two-/three-letter code and numeric code, the Danish language code, Denmark's international licence plade code, perhaps the International Telecommunication Union letter code for Denmark, etc. I thought this could be put in a little table somewhere on the page. Any thoughts on this? TroelsArvin 09:57, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
there is really no mention of religion in Denemark... I know you are very secular country...but... there seems to be something missing -- Macronyx 12:14, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Religion is of so little importance that it's rarely ever heard off, I see no reason why it should have any special mentioning other than than the obvious; That most citizens are born into the Lutheran church and freedom of religion is allowed.
Can someone underline the fact that eventhough most are born into the mass of the Lutheran church not many is active believers, there must be a survey or study out somewhere that tells that most danes are members by default but only a small precentage is active christians? (as a subjective note all the people I know is members of the church but NONE are active in the chruch - we use the services becasue of tradition and the romantic notion of a wedding but if you ask people about Jesus they are not likely to belive much of the bibles tellings). 83.73.64.191 16:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Some anonymous editor (138.217.68.91) has added a stub atticle about a writer called Robert Lacy and added him to the list of well known Danes (the Culture section). Allegedly, Robert Lacy lives in Odense. I cannot find any evidence of a such a writer, neither in the White Pages, in the databases of Danish libraries, nor in Amazon. I'll remove the link (and ask for removal of the "Robert Lacy" page) if noone confirms the existence of "Robert Lacy" (with relevant proof of existence, like a reference to a publisher having published his work) soon. TroelsArvin 08:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I removed the following because to my knowledge, Denmark have no official languages. Not even Danish have any special status, except for the law about Dansk Sprognævn. Rasmus (talk) 07:40, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone add a section about the administrative regions of this country? Everton 11:05, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
I purpose a large cut in “other well known danes” (under culture). I actually had to say “who?” to some of them. Red links in “well known danes”, are you kidding me? OUTTTTT This is not a list of Danes, there is a perfect good list right here List of Danes where you can add all you want. Nobel Prize does not automatically make you a well-known Dane nor does being a superstar in whatever job (ballet master???? Huh? Most Danes could not even mention ONE on instant demand and here you got a whole horde in the list???) The best thing would be if someone from another nation did the cleaning up. He or she would know much better who is actually "well known" Danes. Twthmoses 13:35, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Flag of Denmark#What is going on with the Danish flag??? Twthmoses 04:19, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
I removed the bold sections below, but User:Haabet reinstated it:
User:Haabet, can you explain why you feel that we should single out Kurds out of the many groups of immigrants? Rasmus (talk) 18:12, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
she is a famous actress who was big during the french new wave. i don't know how to edit, but she should be under the list of famous danes i think.
This seems to be a poor section to have in the 'denmark' article. maybe an introduction can be written but this terrible list can be sent to culture of denmark? Where are people like Mads ØVLISEN, Chairman of the Board Novo Nordisk A/S, Lego A/S and the Danish Royal Theatre? Thomas1917 22:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Article refers to Hamlet being Shakespeare's greatest play; this statement is at best highly contentious
Denmark has actually got two coats of arms, a small and a large one. The one showed in the article is the small one. Should'nt we show both? Thrane 17:20, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Actually, people use to insert only the most common Coat of Arms of each country. However, if the "larger" Danish coat is also plenty used, why not? Do you know any link where we may find it? 201.6.253.247 16:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Just a question from a generalist surfer: How do these statements resolve?
"Denmark is the oldest monarchy in the world." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark (under the Politics section)
"...the Chrysanthemum Throne is the oldest continuing monarchy in the world" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysanthemum_Throne
Further reading shows:
"Denmark is a constitutional monarchy with an almost unbroken link of monarchs for more than 1,000 years (except for an interregnum of eight years from 1332 to 1340)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Denmark
"With historical assurance the record is back to Emperor Ōjin who supposedly reigned in the early 5th century." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysanthemum_Throne
Why not change it to "Having existed for more than 1000 years, the Danish Monarchy is one of the oldest in the world."?
This is what it says on the official "Royal House" page: http://kongehuset.dk/publish.php?dogtag=k_en_fam
By any measure Japan is older...
Babbletower 13:40, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
In the demographics section religion is mentioned, the following is stated: "For the last decade Danish People's Church has seen a decline in the number of memberships. In the later years, the old norse religion Ásatrú has begun to reemerge. Ásatrú was approved as a religious movement by the Danish government on November 8th 2003."
In my opinion the decline in the Danish Peoples Church is irelevant without any specific numbers supporting it. The old norse religion has been apporved but since this happened I have heard nothing of it. I aggain can't see the relevance, this religion has very few followers but I could not find the exact numbers. The religion has a webpage: [2], maybe some information can be found here. However, Ásatrú has no real importance in my country (Denmark) because there er not many followers. For theese reasons I am removing the lines stated.
The Foreign Ministry may have made what they think is a fine reference to, among other things, the constitution. But they've got it wrong in the translation. The constitution states clearly:
§ 3. Legislative authority shall be vested in the King and the Folketing conjointly.
Executive authority shall be vested in the King.
Judicial authority shall be vested in the courts of justice.
And in § 12: Subject to the limitations laid down in this Constitutional Act, the King shall have supreme authority in all the affairs of the Realm, and shall exercise such supreme authority through the Ministers.
§ 12 is where the monarchy becomes constitutional.
Thus, the separation of powers, which most democracies pride themselves of, is also enacted in the Danish constitution. Page corrected to that effect.
Roidhun
07:44, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Just out of curiousity, is it possible to compile a short list of the most famous Danish products and brands? We could incorportate it into the article about Business in Denmark. -- rydel 16:19, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
The exact origin of Denmark is lost in history. The oldest Danevirke is from the seventh century. That seems pretty much out of the blue. The reader coming here for information probably does not know what a Danevirke is. Okay, there's a link, but then what does a Danevirke have to do with the origins of the country Denmark? Or the Runic alphabet for that matter. Seeing that there is a main article about the history of Denmark, I think the first paragraph should just go. I think it is only confusing. Piet 11:43, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I think that the listing of prominent Danes is somewhat dubious, there are in my opinion way to many people listed who are not really that prominent. For instance no one outside the computing world knows any of the three creators of programming languages.
Look people – this isn’t working. When people come to here to find information about Denmark this article is saying:
“Look, this Is Denmark. I will tell you everything you need to know about this country – the best and the worst. Oh – and here is a list of the 33 most prominent Danes of the last 1500 years of Danish history – one of them is an NFL kicker, another is a poker player and a third was a member of Aqua!” wtf?
No no no no – we can not possibly put an NFL kicker up there side by side with Kierkegaard, Grundtvig and Niels Bohr. Look – I like American football as much as the next guy – I’m even a poker buff – but these people are not national icons let alone internationally renowned. In any event – 33 is simply too much as it turns 1/6 of the article into a list.
Sweden lists all Swedish Nobel prize winners – some 30 all in all but the article is much longer than the Danish one and since the Nobel Prize is Swedish it’s not really comparable. Norway, France and Germany doesn’t list any at all – and England lists 13.
The list should aim for 10-15 of the most internationally influential and famous Danes through the last 1000 years of our history. Visitors should be shown the best of the best – either from an ‘’’international’’’ point of view or from a national point of view like Grundtvig who had enormous impact on Danish culture. Niche-celebrities like Gus Hansen is a bad idea - we currently have the world champion in plowing and doesn’t list him for the same reason.
I know this may be controversial but we have to reach some sort of consensus. A lot of people have voiced dissatisfaction with this list and it seems wholly random who ends up on it. Underneath is my proposal – voice your opinions and let’s figure out what to do. This is only my suggestion – feel free to criticize and come with your own suggestion.
Celcius 07:05, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
This page keeps improving, but just for the inspiration, try checking the pages on Romania and France. I found both rather impressive, and there's probably many more good examples. Valentinian (talk) 21:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there an extra "was" here?
1. The opening table shows this text: "({{{population estimate_rank}}})". It was intended to tell the system where to put the population rank, but my attempt to fix it made it worse, so I left it alone.
2. In the first paragraph, "between 54°33′31″N, 57°44′55″N and 8°4′36″E, 15°11′59″E " contains two malfunctioning links. Click them and they say "Error, out of range".
3. Near the end of the article, what does this mean: "Statistics Denmark Click on "Key-figures-Population and elections"Click"+"Click the table HISB3(English language)"? After I found the tiny British flag for the English language version, I found "Population and elections", but I didn't find "Key-figures" or "HISB3", and what is "Click"+"Click the table? Double click the table? What table? Art LaPella 22:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Is this information in the "Government" section needed?
Deleted reference #8 due to linkrot. Tried to find another online reference for the information, but my attempts were unsuccessful. PDXblazers 05:52, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Should there be something in this article about the folkehøjskole movement and its founder N.F.S. Grundtvig? It is described on another website as "the single most original contribution that Denmark has made to international thinking about popular education" - it doesn't seem to be covered in the general education sub-category. Just a thought. -- Agendum 23:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Er, which day of the year is meant by "Christmas" - the 25th of December, or the actual winter solstace? On which calendar system? Is this holiday that is described in Yule?
Frederiksberg and Glostrup is in Copenhagen county(Amt) to. Copenhagen capital is also Copenhagen county so that should be deleted.
I dont know how to edit the map, so i haven´t changed it.
The conscription now only consists of 4 months military service, called HBU (Hærens Basis Uddannelse) or The Armys Elementary Education (Very rough translation).—Preceding unsigned comment added by RedSaint ( talk • contribs)
"The Danish education system is sophisticated system designed to educate the people of Denmark. Everybody has free access to public school, high school and most kinds of higher education (universities etc.).
has been changed into
"The Danish education system is sophisticated and offers free access to public school, high school and most kinds of higher education (universities etc.)."
Every education system is there to educate, hence the change and merger of two phrases. As this is the first sentence of the section, I thought the change deserved to be explained here. RedZebra 18:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
I think that the final paragraph in the education section needs serious revision. I personally think it's unnessecary, unless reformated and cited.
"The normal school in Denmark is "den Danske Folkeskole" or "the Danish Publicschool". It goes from 0-10 grade. In Denmark you can also go to "Friskole" or freeschool, the freeschools are not under the state. An exampel is "Rudolf Steiner Skolerne" or "Waldof Schools". The most speciel kind of schools in Denmark is "Efterskole", it's aint a Boarding school but it's reminds of. If you translate directly from danish it becomes Afterschool, Efter = After, Skole = School. The "afterschools" goes from 8-10 class, and everybody lives at the school. One of the big difference between a boarding school and an "afterschool" is the freedom, you have (mostly) more freedom at an afterschool. What to read more about afterschools check www.efterskole.dk There's also "højskoler" in Denmark, if you transelate the word "højskole" it become "highschool", but it isn't a highschool as the english highschools. It's a 4-6 or 10 months course. It can be a language school, a sport school and a lot of other things."
I have made an edit for the spelling and grammar, but I wanted to see if anyone agrees with me about a major revision. -- Benjamin 09:21, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
What is that fake Viking Boat in the harbour of (Swedish Capital!) Stockholm doing in the section on Danish History? It is a steel construction with some weird ornaments welded on back & front, screaming fake from a mile away. It is not seaworthy at all, unsuitable for the unruliness of the nearby Baltic Sea (not to mention the North Sea and the Atlantic.)
Any suggestion for a replacement? MX44 08:48, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
The map for this country has recently been changed to a format which is not standard for Wikipedia. Each and every other country identifies that country alone on a contintental or global map; none of them highlight other members of relevant regional blocs or other states which which that country has political or constitutional links. The EU is no different in this respect unless and until it becomes a formal state and replaces all other states which are presently members; the progress and constitutional status of the EU can be properly debated and identified on the page for that organisation; to include other members of the EU on the infobox map for this country is both non-standard and potentially POV.
Please support me in maitaining Denmark's proper map (in Wikipedia standard) until we here have debated and agreed this issue? Who is for changing the map and who against? The onus is on those who would seek to digress from Wiki standard to show why a non-standard and potentially POV map should be used. Denmark deserves no less! JamesAVD 15:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
This user has decided to remove references to the EU from the page of every member state. See his talk page for more details. yandman 15:30, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
The users above are misrepresnting my actions. Certain non-standard items have been included in the infoboxes of the pages of some European states. I have removed the undiscussed and unsupported changes and started a discussion here on the best way forward. I have in no way 'removed references to the EU'! The EU is an important part of the activities of the governmenance of many European states, to the benefit of all. That does not mean that an encyclopedia should go around presenting potentially POV information of the constitutional status of the EU in the infoboxes of states which are supposed to be standardised across Wikipedia. I'm interested in what users here feel? Please feel free to comment at any of the various pages Yandman might suggest.
JamesAVD
15:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
PLEASE DISCUSS THIS AT Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries#Location_Maps_for_European_countries--_discussion_continues as it involves more than just this country.
Thanks, — MJCdetroit 20:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
"Denmark a constitutional monarchy in 1849 after having been an absolutist state since 1660"
Hello, can you please correct it:)? Thanks!20:54, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
The Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: Kongeriget Danmark IPA: ['dɑnmɑɐ̥g̊]) is the smallest and southernmost of the Nordic countries.
The Kingdom of Denmark is Greenland, Faroe Islands and Denmark together.Håbet 21:54, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey guys. Can you head over to Talk:Roskilde and help resolve the conflict? Thanks! -- Orbit One Talk| Babel 23:53, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
This article states: "However, an increasingly larger part of the labor force choose not to become members of a trade union or to become members of one of the trade unions outside the organised system..." I've lived in Denmark for many years and I see no evidence of this. Unions remain highly popular in Denmark. Too often, Wikipedia articles seem to be written by right-wingers who are hostile to unions, worker's rights, progressive politics, etc. and as a result Wikipedia is smothered with unsourced comments like the above that have no basis in reality.
Laleena has proposed the creation of a WikiProject on Denmark at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Denmark. If you would be interested in joining such a project, please add your name there so it can be known if there is sufficient interest in such a project to start one. Thank you. Badbilltucker 20:18, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
I tagged the section about Denmark's international rankings as it is quite listy and not flowing prose. I'm not sure if we should include it at all? Snailwalker | talk 19:25, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Why even have a section like that? Some of the links could be moved to other sections whereever they make sense. Some of them could fit well into the ecomomics section.
Babbletower 19:32, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
If you read through the etymology section, you will find that is not very well written and completely without sources. The whole section is on top of that only speculation with words like "uncertain", "interpretations" and "seems". I propose that we get rid of this section. Remember that Wikipedia should be based on verifiable information. -- Maitch 21:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
It is now removed. -- Maitch 17:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
We need that on this article. -- Arigato1 13:29, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
The natural fauna is extinct [1] and the natural flora had only survived by the coast [2], where it is is threaten of imported plants. [3] The originally prehuman nature was a cold tundra, and without influence human the land had been a forest dominate of lime by plains with a specie of elephant and big deers [4].
Denmark has been add to the new Category:Germanic culture by an editor. Please discuss this to ascertain whether this is appropriate or not - and act accordingly.-- Zleitzen (talk) 13:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
If you are going to include Denmark in anything, it should be Nordic or Scandinavian culture. You cannot just include Denmark in Germanic culture and then leave out Norway and Sweden as well. If you do, then how the hell are you catergorizing what is Germanic? Linguistically Danish is Germanic, but so is Norwegian and Swedish and Icelandic and Faroese, culturally Denmark is more Scandinavian than it is Germanic, so I hope the editor makes up his mind.
I've created this page with the hopes that others will come and expand it. Please do this. -- Hojimachong talk 07:28, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
je cherche des information sur les belle place a visiter au danemark stp aidez moi
Why did Dannish lose the "th" sound like in English? They used to have it, didn't they? Flyingdannish 00:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Regarding these lines "but the number of people in the top income tax bracket still grows. This of cause is also true for the number of people in the lowest income tax bracket."
While the growth in the number of people in the top income tax bracket (I assume it's referring to people paying the Top incom tax) can be explained with a general increase in wages, it would be nice with some citations.
Similarly the growth in the lowest bracket can be attributed to the tax break of 2003, where the limit for when the Mellemskat would apply was raised with approx. 20000 dkr/year (ie. many people who used to belong to the middle Melllemskat tax bracket suddenly found themselves in the bottom Bundskat bracket), meaning people got a tax break. The wording make it sound like a bad thing. Teral 12:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
I have to argue with the following quote from the current text: "Denmark is regarded as a Scandinavian country, although it is not located on the Scandinavian Peninsula." This is not entirely true. The island of Bornholm lies in the very same granite bassin as much of Sweden to the north of it. In that regard the island of Bornholm is very different from the topography of the rest of Denmark. -- Philaweb 23:20, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Could we please get a lead image on which Denmark is not just a dot on the European continent. -- Maitch 15:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I find the use of English exonyms for even the most obscure places within the geography of Denmark (like Eastern Skerry) completely silly. As a native Dane, I have never heard of a place like Østerskær and would probably have to ask more than once to the meaning of a sentence if someone were to mention Eastern Skerry in a conversation. Can anyone explain to me the obvious advantages of using English exonyms for obscure places in Denmark? Furthermore, why is the use of exonyms without coherence? Would love to nitpick if possible... -- Philaweb 20:29, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
You're invited to discuss a new series of vector maps to replace those currently used in Country infoboxes: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries#New European vector maps. Thanks/ wangi 13:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
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Originally IP: 81.213.213.127 stated: "Denmark must apologize"
Why are we not reporting on the fact that: Islamic Society of Denmark Used Fake Cartoons to Create Story! Link: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/02/islamic-society-of-denmark-used-fake.html
Either remove this thread completely or stop vadalizing my posts. Or open another thread for this discussion and send us the link.
Are the danish moto: "Lad os hygge os" not rigtigt correctly translate to "Let's have a good time" or are it untranslatable?
Wouldn't the Queen's motto "Guds hjælp, Folkets kærlighed, Danmarks styrke" perhaps be better as "God's help, the People's love, Denmark's strength" rather than "God's help, the love of the people, Denmark's strength"? If nothing else, then because it is close in structure to the Danish version.-- Kristjan Wager 20:13, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
"hygge" is one of the few Danish words which can't be translated - cozy is as close as we get. I'm thinking that "schadenfreude" and "femme fatalle" is examples of French and German words/concepts which can't be translated directly into English (although schadenfreude exists in the Nordic languages: skadefryd) for which reason they are are commonly used in their original form. Isn't there a word for these kinds of untranslatable words? Celcius 19:52, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
I have made maps of the 13 counties of denmark - http://cryosphere.net/~morwen/denmark/ These aren't showing the municipalities with the status of counties because I couldnt find maps showing those borders. Any comments? Morwen 22:10, Jan 28, 2004 (UTC)
A controversy has erupted over the choice of map for this article. The two candidates are shown here, along with any others that other Wikipedians may choose to enter. Feel free to make any comments. The lower map may also appear in the corresponding Geography article for this country. Kelisi 02:59, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Are you able to translate the Danish text of te article on Janteloven into English, please? See my request at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Jante_Law Agendum 00:39, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
"Denmark was united by Harold Bluetooth (Harald Blåtand) around 980"
No, his father Gorm the English was king of Denmark and Norway. And father and son were kings together by 14 year.
Gorm the Old is identical by Guthrum of East_Anglia. Danish: Gorm = English: Guthrum. Guthrum the Young was king from 902 to 918 in East_Anglia.
Denmark was united by Hardeknut, who was the father of Gorm the Old
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(Mon May 31, 2004). Sky, why did you remove the messages boxes about Denmark being among monachies, and being member of the Nordic Council? - I'm talking about this change: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Denmark&diff=0&oldid=3789741 -- TroelsArvin
This article says that Denmark is smaller than more than 100 countries, but List of countries by area says that it is a lot larger. Any comments?? 66.32.242.106 00:02, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
It seems a bit strange to me that we have both a "Miscellaneous topics" section and a "See also" section. The two don't seem to differ much. Would anyone oppose to a fusion of the two, and an alphabetization of the items in the fused section?
By the way: I would like to add ISO 3166's two-/three-letter code and numeric code, the Danish language code, Denmark's international licence plade code, perhaps the International Telecommunication Union letter code for Denmark, etc. I thought this could be put in a little table somewhere on the page. Any thoughts on this? TroelsArvin 09:57, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
there is really no mention of religion in Denemark... I know you are very secular country...but... there seems to be something missing -- Macronyx 12:14, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Religion is of so little importance that it's rarely ever heard off, I see no reason why it should have any special mentioning other than than the obvious; That most citizens are born into the Lutheran church and freedom of religion is allowed.
Can someone underline the fact that eventhough most are born into the mass of the Lutheran church not many is active believers, there must be a survey or study out somewhere that tells that most danes are members by default but only a small precentage is active christians? (as a subjective note all the people I know is members of the church but NONE are active in the chruch - we use the services becasue of tradition and the romantic notion of a wedding but if you ask people about Jesus they are not likely to belive much of the bibles tellings). 83.73.64.191 16:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
Some anonymous editor (138.217.68.91) has added a stub atticle about a writer called Robert Lacy and added him to the list of well known Danes (the Culture section). Allegedly, Robert Lacy lives in Odense. I cannot find any evidence of a such a writer, neither in the White Pages, in the databases of Danish libraries, nor in Amazon. I'll remove the link (and ask for removal of the "Robert Lacy" page) if noone confirms the existence of "Robert Lacy" (with relevant proof of existence, like a reference to a publisher having published his work) soon. TroelsArvin 08:22, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I removed the following because to my knowledge, Denmark have no official languages. Not even Danish have any special status, except for the law about Dansk Sprognævn. Rasmus (talk) 07:40, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
Can anyone add a section about the administrative regions of this country? Everton 11:05, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
I purpose a large cut in “other well known danes” (under culture). I actually had to say “who?” to some of them. Red links in “well known danes”, are you kidding me? OUTTTTT This is not a list of Danes, there is a perfect good list right here List of Danes where you can add all you want. Nobel Prize does not automatically make you a well-known Dane nor does being a superstar in whatever job (ballet master???? Huh? Most Danes could not even mention ONE on instant demand and here you got a whole horde in the list???) The best thing would be if someone from another nation did the cleaning up. He or she would know much better who is actually "well known" Danes. Twthmoses 13:35, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Flag of Denmark#What is going on with the Danish flag??? Twthmoses 04:19, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
I removed the bold sections below, but User:Haabet reinstated it:
User:Haabet, can you explain why you feel that we should single out Kurds out of the many groups of immigrants? Rasmus (talk) 18:12, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
she is a famous actress who was big during the french new wave. i don't know how to edit, but she should be under the list of famous danes i think.
This seems to be a poor section to have in the 'denmark' article. maybe an introduction can be written but this terrible list can be sent to culture of denmark? Where are people like Mads ØVLISEN, Chairman of the Board Novo Nordisk A/S, Lego A/S and the Danish Royal Theatre? Thomas1917 22:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
Article refers to Hamlet being Shakespeare's greatest play; this statement is at best highly contentious
Denmark has actually got two coats of arms, a small and a large one. The one showed in the article is the small one. Should'nt we show both? Thrane 17:20, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
Actually, people use to insert only the most common Coat of Arms of each country. However, if the "larger" Danish coat is also plenty used, why not? Do you know any link where we may find it? 201.6.253.247 16:02, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Just a question from a generalist surfer: How do these statements resolve?
"Denmark is the oldest monarchy in the world." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark (under the Politics section)
"...the Chrysanthemum Throne is the oldest continuing monarchy in the world" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysanthemum_Throne
Further reading shows:
"Denmark is a constitutional monarchy with an almost unbroken link of monarchs for more than 1,000 years (except for an interregnum of eight years from 1332 to 1340)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Denmark
"With historical assurance the record is back to Emperor Ōjin who supposedly reigned in the early 5th century." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysanthemum_Throne
Why not change it to "Having existed for more than 1000 years, the Danish Monarchy is one of the oldest in the world."?
This is what it says on the official "Royal House" page: http://kongehuset.dk/publish.php?dogtag=k_en_fam
By any measure Japan is older...
Babbletower 13:40, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
In the demographics section religion is mentioned, the following is stated: "For the last decade Danish People's Church has seen a decline in the number of memberships. In the later years, the old norse religion Ásatrú has begun to reemerge. Ásatrú was approved as a religious movement by the Danish government on November 8th 2003."
In my opinion the decline in the Danish Peoples Church is irelevant without any specific numbers supporting it. The old norse religion has been apporved but since this happened I have heard nothing of it. I aggain can't see the relevance, this religion has very few followers but I could not find the exact numbers. The religion has a webpage: [2], maybe some information can be found here. However, Ásatrú has no real importance in my country (Denmark) because there er not many followers. For theese reasons I am removing the lines stated.
The Foreign Ministry may have made what they think is a fine reference to, among other things, the constitution. But they've got it wrong in the translation. The constitution states clearly:
§ 3. Legislative authority shall be vested in the King and the Folketing conjointly.
Executive authority shall be vested in the King.
Judicial authority shall be vested in the courts of justice.
And in § 12: Subject to the limitations laid down in this Constitutional Act, the King shall have supreme authority in all the affairs of the Realm, and shall exercise such supreme authority through the Ministers.
§ 12 is where the monarchy becomes constitutional.
Thus, the separation of powers, which most democracies pride themselves of, is also enacted in the Danish constitution. Page corrected to that effect.
Roidhun
07:44, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Just out of curiousity, is it possible to compile a short list of the most famous Danish products and brands? We could incorportate it into the article about Business in Denmark. -- rydel 16:19, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
The exact origin of Denmark is lost in history. The oldest Danevirke is from the seventh century. That seems pretty much out of the blue. The reader coming here for information probably does not know what a Danevirke is. Okay, there's a link, but then what does a Danevirke have to do with the origins of the country Denmark? Or the Runic alphabet for that matter. Seeing that there is a main article about the history of Denmark, I think the first paragraph should just go. I think it is only confusing. Piet 11:43, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
I think that the listing of prominent Danes is somewhat dubious, there are in my opinion way to many people listed who are not really that prominent. For instance no one outside the computing world knows any of the three creators of programming languages.
Look people – this isn’t working. When people come to here to find information about Denmark this article is saying:
“Look, this Is Denmark. I will tell you everything you need to know about this country – the best and the worst. Oh – and here is a list of the 33 most prominent Danes of the last 1500 years of Danish history – one of them is an NFL kicker, another is a poker player and a third was a member of Aqua!” wtf?
No no no no – we can not possibly put an NFL kicker up there side by side with Kierkegaard, Grundtvig and Niels Bohr. Look – I like American football as much as the next guy – I’m even a poker buff – but these people are not national icons let alone internationally renowned. In any event – 33 is simply too much as it turns 1/6 of the article into a list.
Sweden lists all Swedish Nobel prize winners – some 30 all in all but the article is much longer than the Danish one and since the Nobel Prize is Swedish it’s not really comparable. Norway, France and Germany doesn’t list any at all – and England lists 13.
The list should aim for 10-15 of the most internationally influential and famous Danes through the last 1000 years of our history. Visitors should be shown the best of the best – either from an ‘’’international’’’ point of view or from a national point of view like Grundtvig who had enormous impact on Danish culture. Niche-celebrities like Gus Hansen is a bad idea - we currently have the world champion in plowing and doesn’t list him for the same reason.
I know this may be controversial but we have to reach some sort of consensus. A lot of people have voiced dissatisfaction with this list and it seems wholly random who ends up on it. Underneath is my proposal – voice your opinions and let’s figure out what to do. This is only my suggestion – feel free to criticize and come with your own suggestion.
Celcius 07:05, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
This page keeps improving, but just for the inspiration, try checking the pages on Romania and France. I found both rather impressive, and there's probably many more good examples. Valentinian (talk) 21:20, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Is there an extra "was" here?
1. The opening table shows this text: "({{{population estimate_rank}}})". It was intended to tell the system where to put the population rank, but my attempt to fix it made it worse, so I left it alone.
2. In the first paragraph, "between 54°33′31″N, 57°44′55″N and 8°4′36″E, 15°11′59″E " contains two malfunctioning links. Click them and they say "Error, out of range".
3. Near the end of the article, what does this mean: "Statistics Denmark Click on "Key-figures-Population and elections"Click"+"Click the table HISB3(English language)"? After I found the tiny British flag for the English language version, I found "Population and elections", but I didn't find "Key-figures" or "HISB3", and what is "Click"+"Click the table? Double click the table? What table? Art LaPella 22:09, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Is this information in the "Government" section needed?
Deleted reference #8 due to linkrot. Tried to find another online reference for the information, but my attempts were unsuccessful. PDXblazers 05:52, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Should there be something in this article about the folkehøjskole movement and its founder N.F.S. Grundtvig? It is described on another website as "the single most original contribution that Denmark has made to international thinking about popular education" - it doesn't seem to be covered in the general education sub-category. Just a thought. -- Agendum 23:26, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Er, which day of the year is meant by "Christmas" - the 25th of December, or the actual winter solstace? On which calendar system? Is this holiday that is described in Yule?
Frederiksberg and Glostrup is in Copenhagen county(Amt) to. Copenhagen capital is also Copenhagen county so that should be deleted.
I dont know how to edit the map, so i haven´t changed it.
The conscription now only consists of 4 months military service, called HBU (Hærens Basis Uddannelse) or The Armys Elementary Education (Very rough translation).—Preceding unsigned comment added by RedSaint ( talk • contribs)
"The Danish education system is sophisticated system designed to educate the people of Denmark. Everybody has free access to public school, high school and most kinds of higher education (universities etc.).
has been changed into
"The Danish education system is sophisticated and offers free access to public school, high school and most kinds of higher education (universities etc.)."
Every education system is there to educate, hence the change and merger of two phrases. As this is the first sentence of the section, I thought the change deserved to be explained here. RedZebra 18:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
I think that the final paragraph in the education section needs serious revision. I personally think it's unnessecary, unless reformated and cited.
"The normal school in Denmark is "den Danske Folkeskole" or "the Danish Publicschool". It goes from 0-10 grade. In Denmark you can also go to "Friskole" or freeschool, the freeschools are not under the state. An exampel is "Rudolf Steiner Skolerne" or "Waldof Schools". The most speciel kind of schools in Denmark is "Efterskole", it's aint a Boarding school but it's reminds of. If you translate directly from danish it becomes Afterschool, Efter = After, Skole = School. The "afterschools" goes from 8-10 class, and everybody lives at the school. One of the big difference between a boarding school and an "afterschool" is the freedom, you have (mostly) more freedom at an afterschool. What to read more about afterschools check www.efterskole.dk There's also "højskoler" in Denmark, if you transelate the word "højskole" it become "highschool", but it isn't a highschool as the english highschools. It's a 4-6 or 10 months course. It can be a language school, a sport school and a lot of other things."
I have made an edit for the spelling and grammar, but I wanted to see if anyone agrees with me about a major revision. -- Benjamin 09:21, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
What is that fake Viking Boat in the harbour of (Swedish Capital!) Stockholm doing in the section on Danish History? It is a steel construction with some weird ornaments welded on back & front, screaming fake from a mile away. It is not seaworthy at all, unsuitable for the unruliness of the nearby Baltic Sea (not to mention the North Sea and the Atlantic.)
Any suggestion for a replacement? MX44 08:48, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
The map for this country has recently been changed to a format which is not standard for Wikipedia. Each and every other country identifies that country alone on a contintental or global map; none of them highlight other members of relevant regional blocs or other states which which that country has political or constitutional links. The EU is no different in this respect unless and until it becomes a formal state and replaces all other states which are presently members; the progress and constitutional status of the EU can be properly debated and identified on the page for that organisation; to include other members of the EU on the infobox map for this country is both non-standard and potentially POV.
Please support me in maitaining Denmark's proper map (in Wikipedia standard) until we here have debated and agreed this issue? Who is for changing the map and who against? The onus is on those who would seek to digress from Wiki standard to show why a non-standard and potentially POV map should be used. Denmark deserves no less! JamesAVD 15:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
This user has decided to remove references to the EU from the page of every member state. See his talk page for more details. yandman 15:30, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
The users above are misrepresnting my actions. Certain non-standard items have been included in the infoboxes of the pages of some European states. I have removed the undiscussed and unsupported changes and started a discussion here on the best way forward. I have in no way 'removed references to the EU'! The EU is an important part of the activities of the governmenance of many European states, to the benefit of all. That does not mean that an encyclopedia should go around presenting potentially POV information of the constitutional status of the EU in the infoboxes of states which are supposed to be standardised across Wikipedia. I'm interested in what users here feel? Please feel free to comment at any of the various pages Yandman might suggest.
JamesAVD
15:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
PLEASE DISCUSS THIS AT Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries#Location_Maps_for_European_countries--_discussion_continues as it involves more than just this country.
Thanks, — MJCdetroit 20:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
"Denmark a constitutional monarchy in 1849 after having been an absolutist state since 1660"
Hello, can you please correct it:)? Thanks!20:54, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
The Kingdom of Denmark (Danish: Kongeriget Danmark IPA: ['dɑnmɑɐ̥g̊]) is the smallest and southernmost of the Nordic countries.
The Kingdom of Denmark is Greenland, Faroe Islands and Denmark together.Håbet 21:54, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Hey guys. Can you head over to Talk:Roskilde and help resolve the conflict? Thanks! -- Orbit One Talk| Babel 23:53, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
This article states: "However, an increasingly larger part of the labor force choose not to become members of a trade union or to become members of one of the trade unions outside the organised system..." I've lived in Denmark for many years and I see no evidence of this. Unions remain highly popular in Denmark. Too often, Wikipedia articles seem to be written by right-wingers who are hostile to unions, worker's rights, progressive politics, etc. and as a result Wikipedia is smothered with unsourced comments like the above that have no basis in reality.
Laleena has proposed the creation of a WikiProject on Denmark at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Denmark. If you would be interested in joining such a project, please add your name there so it can be known if there is sufficient interest in such a project to start one. Thank you. Badbilltucker 20:18, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
I tagged the section about Denmark's international rankings as it is quite listy and not flowing prose. I'm not sure if we should include it at all? Snailwalker | talk 19:25, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Why even have a section like that? Some of the links could be moved to other sections whereever they make sense. Some of them could fit well into the ecomomics section.
Babbletower 19:32, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
If you read through the etymology section, you will find that is not very well written and completely without sources. The whole section is on top of that only speculation with words like "uncertain", "interpretations" and "seems". I propose that we get rid of this section. Remember that Wikipedia should be based on verifiable information. -- Maitch 21:01, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
It is now removed. -- Maitch 17:04, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
We need that on this article. -- Arigato1 13:29, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
The natural fauna is extinct [1] and the natural flora had only survived by the coast [2], where it is is threaten of imported plants. [3] The originally prehuman nature was a cold tundra, and without influence human the land had been a forest dominate of lime by plains with a specie of elephant and big deers [4].
Denmark has been add to the new Category:Germanic culture by an editor. Please discuss this to ascertain whether this is appropriate or not - and act accordingly.-- Zleitzen (talk) 13:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
If you are going to include Denmark in anything, it should be Nordic or Scandinavian culture. You cannot just include Denmark in Germanic culture and then leave out Norway and Sweden as well. If you do, then how the hell are you catergorizing what is Germanic? Linguistically Danish is Germanic, but so is Norwegian and Swedish and Icelandic and Faroese, culturally Denmark is more Scandinavian than it is Germanic, so I hope the editor makes up his mind.
I've created this page with the hopes that others will come and expand it. Please do this. -- Hojimachong talk 07:28, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
je cherche des information sur les belle place a visiter au danemark stp aidez moi
Why did Dannish lose the "th" sound like in English? They used to have it, didn't they? Flyingdannish 00:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Regarding these lines "but the number of people in the top income tax bracket still grows. This of cause is also true for the number of people in the lowest income tax bracket."
While the growth in the number of people in the top income tax bracket (I assume it's referring to people paying the Top incom tax) can be explained with a general increase in wages, it would be nice with some citations.
Similarly the growth in the lowest bracket can be attributed to the tax break of 2003, where the limit for when the Mellemskat would apply was raised with approx. 20000 dkr/year (ie. many people who used to belong to the middle Melllemskat tax bracket suddenly found themselves in the bottom Bundskat bracket), meaning people got a tax break. The wording make it sound like a bad thing. Teral 12:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
I have to argue with the following quote from the current text: "Denmark is regarded as a Scandinavian country, although it is not located on the Scandinavian Peninsula." This is not entirely true. The island of Bornholm lies in the very same granite bassin as much of Sweden to the north of it. In that regard the island of Bornholm is very different from the topography of the rest of Denmark. -- Philaweb 23:20, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Could we please get a lead image on which Denmark is not just a dot on the European continent. -- Maitch 15:23, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
I find the use of English exonyms for even the most obscure places within the geography of Denmark (like Eastern Skerry) completely silly. As a native Dane, I have never heard of a place like Østerskær and would probably have to ask more than once to the meaning of a sentence if someone were to mention Eastern Skerry in a conversation. Can anyone explain to me the obvious advantages of using English exonyms for obscure places in Denmark? Furthermore, why is the use of exonyms without coherence? Would love to nitpick if possible... -- Philaweb 20:29, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
You're invited to discuss a new series of vector maps to replace those currently used in Country infoboxes: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries#New European vector maps. Thanks/ wangi 13:09, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
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