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Does anybody have a source to check the information on Ranked list of Norwegian counties? The article has no sources and has recently been edited by anons. Regards. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 22:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Is the ski resort of Kvitfjell in Øyer? I can't find a reference to say what municipality it's in. -- Montchav 14:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
How would you all feel about using Norwegian words and nomenclatures in all Norwegian administrative division article texts? eg, use fylke instead of counties in the text of all Norwegian articles, not just the titles? -- Bob 04:04, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Well now we have an assessment department, to be found here. I suspect a large amount of Norway related articles have not even been tagged, but thats something to get done as we go along. I hope the statistics and other stuff we'll get from it will be of use. Inge 12:22, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I think the main page for this project is too long. I would like to move the standards and conventions part to a sub-page such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Norway/Conventions and leave a short explanation and link to it in the main page. Any objections? Inge 15:15, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
What is meant by this sentence: The early kings uses a form of the name consistent with the sources (Heimskringla et al), but using latin transcription. The early sources are written with the latin alphabet - no latin transcription is necessary.-- Barend 12:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
I am wondering if there could be established a consensus for applying special Norwegian alphabetic collation rules to those categories that exclusively contain Norwegian names. Currently, there is a mix between English conversion and incidents of "regular" handling (as seen in Category:Norwegian writers) but most frequently displaying O and Ø last names tossed together, Å and Aa with A, etc.. I've been informed that technically there is no problem placing such entries after Z, and there is precedence in the Icelandic handling of categories, but is there wide community desire for this method? What do you all think? — MURGH disc. 15:53, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Comment: 2 weeks and not quite yet resembling a wide and passionate community consensus. Having been told there are folk out there who hold fighting such tendencies their chief wiki-task, we had better be more than 3 who favour this. So.. anybody else? MURGH disc. 14:23, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
I've never been in a wikiproject before, is there something I have to do before I can join? Claidheamohmor 21:38, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
For those of you that remember the previous fuzz about Denmark-Norway, you might wish to contribute regarding the debate about the Scandinavian settlements on Greenland and their relations to Norway, see: Talk:Greenland. Valentinian T / C 21:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I've begun compiling a list of places and buildings founded by Christian IV but my knowledge about the Norwegian material is insufficient. In Denmark we have Christianshavn, Nyboder, Rundetårn, Rosenborg and Børsen. In Germany and Sweden; Kristiansstad, Kristianopel, Kupfermühle, Glückstadt and Christianspris. But what about Norway? All I can think of is Christiania, Kongsberg and Kristiansand. Surely there must be more than this? If I remember correctly Kristiansund was founded by Christian VI. Valentinian T / C 14:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I propose we should have a new category under the category Norwegian people, named Norwegian people by county. This category should then contain the 20 counties in Norway in the form Category:People from Rogaland. This would both make the categorisation interesting and would allow further diffusion of Norwegian people. I refer to what is done in Irish people by county and English people by county. Please tell me what you think. Spelemann 14:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I just sent to AFD from from deletion review an article where the best information is at the Norwegian Wikipedia. The sourcing found in that article is primarily in Norwegian, and the new AFD discussion could use the participation of some Norwegian literate editors. GRBerry 01:46, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Could someone from the project take a look at Madcon? I seriously doubt that I wouldn't have heard about a Norwegian rap duo that has collaborated with 50 Cent, Destiny's Child, Clipse, Wu-Tang and Xzibit and it's clear that the article is 90% junk. However, I'm wondering whether there is perhaps something to salvage from the remaining 10%. Google finds a lot of hits in what I can only assume is Norwegian. Thanks in advance for your help. Pascal.Tesson 04:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
There is an effort underway to create a series of articles with lists of farms in various municipalities in Norway - see Category:Farms in Oppland. This was nominated for deletion in May last year, with sparse voting and no consensus.
I'm inclined to allow such lists, but I think we have to be clear what their purpose is, and why they're notable and encyclopedic. I suppose a greater push on agriculture in Norway (Det store hamskiftet, etc.) would be worth considering in any event.
As I see it, Norwegian farm names are an important part of Norwegian economic and geographic history, as most of Norway was rural for so long. To understand the economic development of each community in Norway, the farm names matter - which is why bygdebøker (comprehensive works of local history) are so common. In addition, they have genealogical value, though I think that's less important. -- Leifern 13:23, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:43, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
There is some disagreement about what the article name should be for the six municipalities in Norway with a Sami or Kven name. That is should the official name or only the Norwegian part be used?
The six muncipalities are (official name):
I believe the official name should be used since it is the official name, and is hence used in phone books, official documents, by SSB http://www.ssb.no/english/municipalities/2020, etc. But also because I believe article content is more important than the name. Based on my experience from other indigenous/minority people articles is that having a very strict naming policy that insist that the “colonial” name should be used, only generates endless discussions about which name should be used (eg Talk:Inuit). Such discussions are a waste of everybody’s time, and more importantly many of the people in question are offended and do not want to contribute to the articles.
If there is agreement about using the official names, the municipality templates needs to be changed. Labongo 09:25, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
At least include a hyphen. Punkmorten 16:41, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
A note about the counties Finnmark and Troms. Each of these have two official names, respectively Finnmark or Finnmárkku, and Troms or Romsa (i.e. they differ from the municipality names). Since either name can be used it is OK to have the articles under Finnmark and Troms. Labongo 18:31, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
About Porsanger going tri-lingual, this is what i found: http://www.porsanger.no/index.php?id=202368. The phrase "tri-lingual municipality name" is used, but then it says:
Kommunen får tre likestilte navneformer - Porsanger (norsk), Porsángu (samisk) og Porsanki (kvensk/finsk)
My translation: The municipality is given three names of equal status
I offisiell skriftlig og muntlig kommunikasjon skal den norske navneformen tas med der det norske språk brukes, mens den samiske eller kvenske/finske navneformen skal tas med der henholdsvis samisk og kvensk/finsk språk brukes.
My translation: In official written and oral communication the Norwegian name shall be included where the Norwegian language is used, while the Sami or Kven/Finnish name shall be included where respectively Sami and Kven/Finnish language is used. Reading Ot.prp. 111 I notice that both Norsk språkråd and Samisk språkråd opposed these names and wanted separate names instead. These forms were chosen to force the use of the minority language and to avoid confusion over identity. I honestly do not think that Wikipedia need to force any use at all, and the matter of confusion is non-existant, as the articles explain the matter. - BsL 02:15, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Karasjok is a mid-point for travelers in Finnmark, and a natural point of departure to visit and experience places of the North Calotte, ie. the North Cape. The nearest airports are Banak/Lakselv 80 km away, Ivalo in Finland 150 km away and Alta some 200 km from Karasjok.
Hi guys. I just wanted you to know I've added a page where people will be putting Norway requests for experts, and began to identify Norwegian topics with requests for experts: Category:Norway articles needing expert attention. This is part of the expert finding process. Goldenrowley 04:52, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Anyone game for making a map indicating which areas of Norge have adopted nynorsk, bokmål, both and neither? If someone can show me a map of all of Norge with municipalities outlined, I'll do the gruntwork, although I regret to say that my information will necessarily have to come from the Wikipedia articles. Tom e r talk 02:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
Sverre of Norway has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Savidan 06:00, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
The article of Erik Solheim, a Norweigan cabinet member and peace maker, has been vandalised and marred by POV pushing for several weeks now, I hope that members of Project Norway will assist in the protection and expansion of this biography. -- Sharz 00:23, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
I didn't even know about the Wikipedia:Articles for creation scheme when it popped up as I seached for an article on Flekkerøy. It so turns out that an anonymous user uploaded an article last October containing text for both an article on Flekkerøy and Oksøy lighthouse (comp. Norw., Germ.). Flekkerøy articles exist on nb/ nn/ da. __ meco 13:53, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I am adding islands to a table of islands in the North Sea article. However, I cannot find references to some Norwegian islands - only the municipalities they are part of. Please could somebody supply the land areas of Stord, Karmøy and Huftarøy. Cheers! Totnesmartin 17:27, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
In the To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Norway which heads this project talk page one of the tasks for the Norbot bot is: "Make sure all the articles on Norwegian writers are good articles." __ meco 18:40, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but iv'e noticed that there's not much about known norwegian women in history. I'm sure they are a lot of them, so i think it would be interesting to read about! For example; why not create a coupple of articles of actresses in Norway in the 19th century? An earlier of course. And male ones, for that matter, at least two of each gender. Just a suggestion! -- 85.226.235.174 18:54, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
North Sea is the current Article Creation and Improvement Drive collaboration. WikiProject Norway members may find that a relevant focus. I have refrained from rating the article pending the result of the collaboration. __ meco 22:17, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
User:Punkmorten/List of villages in Møre og Romsdal has been residing in Punkmorten's user space for a long time now. It's the only list lacking in the county hierarchy, however it needs to be finished before it can be moved to the main namespace. __ meco 06:40, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
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With the upcoming kommune- og fylkestingvalg, the articles about the political parties will come more under the spot light. And, especially the article about Progress Party (Norway) is in a sorry story state. It is currently heavily politicized, it is even claimed in the lead that the progress party is radical right-wing, based on ten-year old quotations from foreign researchers. If that wasn't enough, the quoted papers are not even about the progress party or norwegian politcs - the descriptions I could verify, are simply by-sentence remarks, probably because the researcher in question heard a rumour somewhere.
But this is far from the only problem with Progress Party (Norway) article, please read it and consider helping to fix it!
Heptor talk 11:19, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Please join the discussion on the List of Norwegian Americans that were deleted. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 00:04, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
This stub types is now oversized; if you've any thoughts on how best to split it up into more manageable units, please comment here. Alai 20:16, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether Vigramør is notable enough for an own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! -- B. Wolterding 17:55, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Could somebody please try to resolve this dispute. The Norwegian article on the same subject is objective and balanced, and I'd like to replace the current English article with a translation of that one. But the user Wogsland obviously feels that he "owns" this article. leifbk 12:17, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I just created an article on a Norwegian Poker Player, but could use some help with appropriate categories and was hoping you guys might be able to help out. The article is on Annette Obrestad. Balloonman 08:29, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
So i just realized that this WikiProject has its own guidelines for municipality articles, and that i've not been following them. Instead of changing my own ways, i'll try to change the guidelines. ;) I believe some of them stand in direct opposition to Wikipedia's main policies and guidelines, and make the articles about Norwegian cities, towns and municipalities too different from articles about foreign settlements.
-- Aqwis 22:11, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Could anyone proofread Trond Hegna? Sosekopp 19:26, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
I have made an article about Royal coronations in Norway and would invite comments to questions in the talk page and suggestion for improvements. – Nidator T / C 11:25, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, this page Cloroform claims to be about a band from Norway. But it lacks sources completely, I am thinking about speedy but someone from here might point better idea. Thanks. ≈Tulkolahten≈ ≈talk≈ 00:12, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Since 9 months there has been a red link from the disambiguation page Prim to Fløtemysost. Could someone check up on this, either (if adequate) by changing the link to brunost, or by writing the article (e.g., translating no:Fløtemysost), or both?
Does anyone of you actually know what this "prim" is from personal experience? Is it something like Swedish sv:messmör?
Med vänlig hälsning, JoergenB ( talk) 17:09, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
In the infobox for Norwegian municipalities, I have added a line for demonyms and have started populating it for each one. Anyone wants to help out is welcome. The source is the by Språkrådet. -- Leifern ( talk) 12:33, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
I have created List of Lighthouses in Norway, which includes a sortable list of lighthouses. It's incomplete, and I'll add to it as I do the research. I've also started to write articles about each one, but this will take time to finish. Svinøy fyrstasjon made it to the DYK list the other day. -- Leifern ( talk) 14:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Another project that needs more work - among other things, there's a much more comprehensive infobox for rivers {{Geobox}} that we should probably use for all rivers in Norway. And there should probably also be an article about the freshwater in Norway. -- Leifern ( talk) 14:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
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I have a suspicion that this article is a hoax, but I know little of Swedish/Norwegian history. Any clarification welcome. Thanks, Jonathan Oldenbuck ( talk) 16:26, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Today's featured article in Wikipedia is Swedish emigration to the United States. Norway actually has a Category:Norwegian migration to North America of comparable size to its Swedish counterpart (Norway and Sweden being the only two such categories), but alas, no article, not even a stub :-( __ meco ( talk) 19:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
The first one of these I translated from the bokmål Wikipedia tonight, the other some months back. Especially with the Pocket Man article it would be nice if several people would collaborate with keeping it up-to-date as the story develops. __ meco ( talk) 22:20, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
I have started what is likely to become an extensive article on the Shoah in Norway. Any help is appreciated, whether it's adding material, source references, or copyediting. I have also created Jewish deportees from Norway during World War II, which includes a comprehensive list of those who were deported to concentration camps, where the overwhelming majority were murdered. There has been one attempt at blanking this page, as it's quite specific; but as far as I know it's the only place on the web where this list exists. -- Leifern ( talk) 03:11, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
I have written several additional articles, most of them biographical, of notable individuals who were deported from Norway - among them Cissi Klein, Ruth Maier, Berthold Epstein, and Moritz Rabinowitz. Leo Eitinger has had an article for some time, but articles will also be written about Herman Sachnowitz, Kai Feinberg, and Samuel Steinmann. There will also likely be separate articles about the underground railroad to Sweden, though this will include all those who made their way across the border; and also the restitution case in the mid-1990s, and what was known as the Feldmann case. With time, the issue of legal culpability for crimes against Jews in Norway will also get its own article, but this is a highly contentious issue, to this day. One question for the group: what should be the right category for articles related to the Shoah in Norway? Should it be Shoah in Norway, or perhaps Holocaust in Norway, or more specifically Persecution of Jews World War II Norway? Any thoughts? -- Leifern ( talk) 15:59, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
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I have noted on the talk page for Oslo, people agree the article really needs a better map. It seems like very many maps are only of the position within the given county. Is this really OK? I personally think not... Greswik ( talk) 12:49, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
In Norway settlements are either labeled by or tettsted. Current WP practice of jostling these items into three different (or four if we add settlements as well), albeit not clearly hierarchical, levels does not yield a clear precedent, and frankly, I find it rather confusing. Are there any clever ideas on how to work this out? __ meco ( talk) 21:48, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
There's a bit of a debate going on about the right labels at Template:Norway during World War II. The issues under discussion should be pretty clear from the Talk page. -- Leifern ( talk) 23:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
After initially stumbling over a template from the Bangladesh WikiProject and then following the lead to several templates and a fully-fledged category hierarchy belonging to Ireland and its WikiProject, I have now established the basics for us to be able to wikilink years pertaining to events in Norway, to Norway-specific year in categories. See for instance 2008 in Norway and look at how I have changed some year-links in the Gro Harlem Brundtland article. Also take a look at 2008 in Ireland for inspiration.
I propose we recommend that all Norway-related articles are edited with this new perspective in mind. __ meco ( talk) 22:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
The Premenstrual syndrome article has an important sentence supported by a reference in Norwegian. I am concerned that the content of the ref is being misrepresented (by being presented vaguely, not on purpose). It's also possible that the sentence in this article is vague because the ref itself is vague. The discussion and my original question are here. If you can help me, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, WhatamIdoing ( talk) 18:07, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
As part of my complete and comprehensive rewrite of Hans Gude, I have created two new articles. The first was Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten which appeared on the front page under "Did You Know?". The second one is List of paintings by Hans Gude which I have just finished (as much as I can). I would appreciate any spelling and grammar help people can offer, as well as anything you think you can add! -- Falcorian (talk) 07:27, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
My Hans Gude rewrite is up, please take a look and give it a good polishing! It's also up for DYK, so check that out and promote it if you like it! -- Falcorian (talk) 19:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
there are currently 11 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 16:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I request an article about this children's book and village please. - Kittybrewster ☎ 12:28, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
On June 17th, it will be 200 years since Henrik Wergeland was born. I think it would be a worthy ambition to improve the article to the point that it can be the featured article on June 17th. This will require quite a bit of editing, consulting sources, and coordinating with the folks who decide the FA queue. I will do my bit on the editing side, and hope others will as well. We also need someone to persuade the FA editor(s) to at least allow for the possibility of featuring the article if it is up to snuff. I may post a similar request in no.wikipedia.org and nn.wikipedia.org. -- Leifern ( talk) 17:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Anyone have objections to creating a template for former municipalities? I want to do this in part because there is ongoing consolidations of municipalities, and I'd hate to lose information captured in the current municipalities templates. Also, this will help to explain what happened to the municipalitie as they were shut down. -- Leifern ( talk) 15:51, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
The data in the box for the current municipalities has most relevant ones, But, I think we only should have the static values (not mayor, population etc. as it only say at the end, not what dominated it's lifetime) the other values are outdated and could rather be put in the text. And then the destiny of has to be filled in. Røed ( talk · no) 01:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Kitty Lange Kielland just hit DYK. I'll add it to DKY 20, but I'm not sure what else needs to be done. -- Falcorian (talk) 21:43, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
This looks like Speedy Delete (no context) to me. However, I find that there Google hits for this school but I can't understand your language. I posted it here to see if you could improve it or nominate it for AfD.-- Lenticel ( talk) 13:46, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Flag flying days in Norway is nominated for Featured List status. Please comment or give votes. Inge ( talk) 15:33, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Thought you all might be interested to know that Architecture of Norway has been approved as a Good Article. -- Leifern ( talk) 01:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
I replaced the current list by a list I wrote on norwegian (nb), but I didn't find any good name for the local lists that holds quite some of the mayors is the rural areas. Any good suggestions? Røed ( talk · no) 01:10, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
We should definitely go for WP:FL on this one! Punkmorten ( talk) 08:41, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Closely related to this post, there have started a discussion on the standard template {{ Infobox Kommune}} for Norwegian municipalities, would be great if more people would join the discussion. Røed ( talk · no) 02:05, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I just put a bit of work into Ulsteinvik. Then, I took the stub tag away. Maybe this was pre-emptive, but I hope not. However, then there is the small matter of the Project box on the talk page. I would like to notch this one up from stub class. However, I'd love to have input either - telling me that it IS still a stub, and how I (or someone) should upgrade the article so that it's not, or suggesting that it be labelled as something other than "stub". Thanks, AshleyMorton ( talk) 16:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I reckon the article Jaysuma Saidy Ndure could be featured. We need a picture, though, does anyone have any? Punkmorten ( talk) 11:52, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
We need to fix the article for a-ha the best-selling norwegian and scandinavian band. -- Alive Would? Sun ( talk) 19:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I believe the naming of the articles about the regions of Norway - Vestlandet, Sørlandet, Østlandet and Nord-Norge - violates Wikipedia's naming convention guidelines. The guideline page states that "Generally, article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature". The Norwegian names of these regions are certainly not what "the majority of English speakers would most easily recognise" - the international press almost never uses the Norwegian names when talking about Norway's regions. Even the Norwegian government uses the terms "Western Norway", "Southern Norway" and so on in English publications and when giving English names to Norwegian institutions, projects and organisations. [3] I would suggest renaming Vestlandet to Western Norway, Østlandet to Eastern Norway, Sørlandet to Southern Norway, and Nord-Norge to Northern Norway (I am not sure whether Trøndelag should be renamed; the Norwegian word seems to be about as frequently used internationally as any translations such as "Middle Norway"). -- Aqwis ( talk – contributions) 14:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
We have gotten such a list before, but this one is updated. The list contains articles that are tagged with {{ notability}}, and has our project tag on the talk page. Rettetast ( talk) 09:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 1440 of the articles assigned to this project, or 12.1%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subsribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 17:17, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
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Input welcome here and with finding any suitable sources for the article. Ty 01:15, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone here be interested in helping me start Portal:Arctic and Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic? Drop a note on my talk page if you are interested, or if there are any objections. Please also let me know if I've missed any existing projects. I'm notifying the WikiProjects listed at Talk:Arctic (and have also notified Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica). Please let me know if you know of any other WikiProjects centred on Arctic or polar areas. Carcharoth ( talk) 22:29, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hello, I just wanted to let you know about Nordbild the Nordic image database. The images there can be used freely provided you quote the source so it's perfect to upload on Wikimedia Commons. If you are active on the other Nordic Wikipedias feel free to post this information there.-- Jóhann Heiðar Árnason ( talk) 07:47, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Hola,
Is anyone willing to give a rough translation of what this link says, and specifically could it be used as a reference for Nightingale Research Foundation and/or be useful for the AFD discussion? WLU (t) (c) (rules - simple rules) 18:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Translation:
Resistance.
After many years, Norwegian physicians start taking ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) seriously. Today and tomorrow the professor Byron M. Hyde gives guest lectures in Oslo. Hyde, hailing from Canada, is considered the foremost capacity on the chronic fatigue syndrome.
If this was a Wikipedia article we'd mark it with {{ weasel}}, because of the phrase "is considered the foremost capacity". Punkmorten ( talk) 22:00, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
A Nordic cinema task force has been proposed at WP:FILMS, which would include the cinema of Norway. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 18:11, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello all...
An image used in the Buøy article, specifically Image:Buoy .jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.-- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 22:43, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
We currently use "borough" as a translation of the Norwegian word "bydel" in the English Wikipedia (see e.g. Grünerløkka or Fyllingsdalen). I propose changing this to "urban district". Using the word "borough" to translate "bydel" is not supported by any reliable sources, and so violates WP:Verifiability. I believe this translation was originally used because of the boroughs of cities such as Manchester, London and New York City, which bear some similarities to the Norwegian "bydeler". However, in addition to the fact that no reliable sources employ this translation, there are several other problems: the word "borough" as used in these cities has historical connotations, which are not meaningful when using the word to translate a similar Norwegian concept. Also, US and UK boroughs usually have a high degree of self-government, while the Norwegian "bydeler" have - comparatively - very little. Now, as for the term "urban district". The term is used by Statistics Norway [4]] [5] [6] [7], which is almost the stereotypical reliable source, and an important authority on this kind of matters. It is also used by others, including the research institute NIBR [8] and NTNU. -- Aqwis ( talk – contributions) 14:03, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
I have proposed renaming of two articles Niels Juels Street and Karl Johans Street to the use of gate instead. Anyone who wants to have their say in this is welcome to voice their opinion. __ meco ( talk) 14:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Yes that is the article title, though it does admit in the lead that it isn't acctually serfdom. Could someone with more specialised knowledge than myself please check if there's any salvageable in this oddity. Thanx. Misarxist 12:49, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
In the article Olav V of Norway there's seems to be a controversy about the inclusion of a well sourced discussion about his origin [9]. Can someone familiar with the subject and Wikipedia:Policy please look into it? The theory in question has been discussed in no:Historisk Tidsskrift (and been covered in all the main newspapers in Norway), the leading Norwegian historic journal, so removing the paragraph on the grounds that it is slander is not correct? Nsaa ( talk) 13:58, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia gives results for both spellings of the name of this physicist from Norway, who spent much of his working life in Germany. Right now the article is filed under the "Björn Wiik" (title of article in German Wikipedia) with a redirect from "Bjørn Wiik," but I wonder if it should be the other way around. betsythedevine ( talk) 13:03, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
North Sea is currently undergoing GA review. Any assistance appreciated. SriMesh | talk 00:11, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
This article about a notable Oslo theater/theater company was deleted as an expired prod, which I failed to catch. I'm sure people acquainted with this entity agrees that this would be a viable article. __ meco ( talk) 11:26, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a vacuum in the description of the global economic turmoils from a Norwegian vatnage point. I have made some minor efforts previously in updating related articles, but I notice that for instance Late 2000s recession has sections for most European countries, but no mention of Norway. Also the Economy of Norway article has not been updated to reflect any of the developments of the past several months. __ meco ( talk) 16:04, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
These could be useful for various WP articles. See [10]. Badagnani ( talk) 22:30, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
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Leaders before Norways independence, should they be included in this list? -- This Feels Right ( talk) 12:39, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps you could stop making unilateral changes, as the page is already glaring with errors introduced by you? Punkmorten ( talk) 19:42, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
The pages related to the prime ministers of Norway NEEDS expansion, i've started to work on Thorbjørn Jagland, but it would be nice to get some help on these articles which all have major importance... -- This Feels Right ( talk) 19:47, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
The unilateral series of moves by This Feels Right ( talk · contribs)—moving first cabinet Gerhardsen to Einar Gerhardsen's first term as Prime Minister of Norway and cabinet Jagland to Premiership of Thorbjørn Jagland—should clearly have been discussed first. The current names are obviously far out. "Premiership of Thorbjørn Jagland"? Government.no uses names like "Thorbjørn Jagland's government", for the record. Punkmorten ( talk) 20:02, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
I will give rebirth to this discussion, since the article names are bothering me a lot. I agree that the old names were not optimal, so I had a look around. Sweden has Third cabinet of Per Albin Hansson and Cabinet of Göran Persson; Denmark Cabinet of Knud Kristensen and Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I; Finland Paavo Lipponen's first cabinet; Italy Berlusconi IV Cabinet; the Netherlands Netherlands cabinet Van Agt-2; Malaysia First Tunku Abdul Rahman Ministry; and Indonesia Revised Ampera Cabinet. Personally I prefer the Swedish or Finnish solution, but perhaps without the last names. Also, I belive a cabinet is a proper noun, and therefore should be capitalized. What opinions do other people have? Arsenikk (talk) 09:38, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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I have read the interesting article of Laura Gundersen. Before her, there is said to be only Danish actors employed at the theatre of Oslo. But they also belonged to the Norwegian theatre history. Who was the most noted actor and actresses in lso before her, in the period of 18th century-1840? It would be interesting to know more of this part of Norwegian history! regards-- 85.226.46.34 ( talk) 13:40, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
I am no expert, but I believe the page on Olav Bjaaland is understating his contribution. My recollection is that due especially to his skiing prowess, and the consequent invaluable contribution he made to the expedition, Amundsen gave him the honor of skiing ahead and actually being the very first man to cross the South Pole.
Is there anybody out there who can confirm this?
Tom Scherer 56.0.163.16 ( talk) 20:02, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Talk:The Ali Farah case#Urgent need for cleanup - nom for DYK. 'nuf said. __ meco ( talk) 20:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm looking for information about the naming of Fredrikshald Bay in Nunavut, Canada. I believe that Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen's grandfather was born in Fredrikshald, Norway, but I haven't found anything in English to support that's the reason why the bay has this name. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 19:04, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Someone's new page. Worth saving? (I fixed the English a bit and added category:Norwegian sailors.) - Hordaland ( talk) 15:14, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
What does it take for a Norwegian settlement to earn the description village? Category:Villages in Norway first seems to say that village means tettsted, then it seems to say that it does not. Lists of villages contain settlements ranging from town-sized to ten houses by a curve in the road. Ters ( talk) 23:19, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
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Would any Norwegian-reading editors mind a look at this AfD? We're having trouble with sourcing, because there don't appear to be any in English. I know sources need not be in English, but being unable to read the sources, we can't determine notability. Thanks! StarM 00:17, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
There are many flags that are not on the wikipedia page at this address http://flagspot.net/flags/no-l0001.html#auth it will be useful to put these in to the List of Flags of Norway if you please —Preceding unsigned comment added by Admiralspockman ( talk • contribs) 02:08, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
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A recent AfD to delete articles on several minor Oslo streets was closed as no consensus. I personally am very happy about this respite and I would be glad to see more of the Oslo street articles from the Bokmål Wikipedia transferred here. Kategori:Veier i Oslo there currently holds more than 400 articles. Whew! __ meco ( talk) 09:08, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
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I added Norwegian switches to the {{ IPA-sv}} pronunciation template, and created WP:IPA for Swedish and Norwegian to go along with it. It would be nice if we could keep the same IPA values for the two languages as much as possible, since we have the pronunciations for people who don't know either language.
I would appreciate it if people here took a look, since I don't know what I'm doing! The key words are primarily Swedish, and perhaps some are not found in Norwegian? Also, the articles are inconsistent: for å, some articles have [oː] and some have [ɔː]; some show vowel length, some don't; some show stress, some don't; and none distinguish accent 1 from accent 2.
There are only about twenty articles, so if y'all could verify that the transcriptions are correct & match the key, that should help our readers. kwami ( talk) 01:37, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
I live in western Norway. My first 2 reactions are: (1) never heard of many of those Swedish words, (2) Oslo isn't Norway!!! How many times is Oslo mentioned in that article? It grates every time.
First problem can probably be solved by finding recognisable Swedish words and spelling them out in both languages. Making Norway a stepchild of Sweden is not the way to go.
You're right that in Oslo there is a 'sh' sound in 'fersk', but not anywhere I've lived in the country.
Vowels are, of course, tricky. To me 'hel' (whole) in Norwegian doesn't sound much at all like 'hail'. And the 'a' that I say in 'ago' is way different from the 'e' in 'begå'. Maybe the (first, unstressed) 'e' in bedeck?
'kj' is not formed like any English sound, but it sounds a lot like 'ch'; it's formed at the back of the tongue without any 't' sound. Einar Haugen's dictionary says it's like the 'Ch' in the German 'Chemie'.
Good luck! If it's any comfort, Danish will be worse :-) - Hordaland ( talk) 20:23, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
The elections were yesterday, and the results are more or less ready. However I'd say that we wait until we get good, solid sources. Wait adding missing biographies, for instance. www.stortinget.no should be a good source in not too long. Geschichte ( talk) 07:16, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Noen bedre oversettelse av "geologiske forekomster" enn "geological deposits" - noen som har det (skjønt det er jo mest kvartærgeologi som er interessant, og da er kanskje deposits ikke så dumt lell?)
Noen som vet hvordan man får tekstbryting rundt innholdsboksen?
-- Carl S. Bj ( talk) 10:25, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Are there any such? There was a link on WP:Naming conventions (now moved to WP:PRNC) telling people to come here to find such (proposed) conventions, but there don't seem to be any. I'm removing the link from WP:PRNC, but please readd such a link there or at WP:NC if there's a relevant page to link to. Thanks,-- Kotniski ( talk) 16:11, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
I have been working on this for some months, and intend shortly to submit it for WP:Peer review. It is I think an appropriate article for Project Norway, and I would be pleased to have any comments, criticisms or suggestions from members of the project. Brianboulton ( talk) 09:47, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I have proposed to move Ivar Andresen to Ivar F. Andresen. Your opinion is appreciated at the article's talk page. Regards, decltype ( talk) 09:59, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Currently on the English Wikipedia, there is a single article for municipalities and their administrative center if they have the same name. For instance, there is only one article about Steinkjer, although 'Steinkjer' is two different things: a municipality and a town, where the municipality took the name of the largest settlement in 1964. In the neighboring municipality of Verdal, the administrative center (despite being smaller than Steinkjer) has its own article, because there the administrative center has a different name than the municipality, i.e. Verdalsøra. I would guess that about half the municipalities in Norway take their name from the main town or village, while the remaining have this separate. In Sweden-related article, they have taken this into account, and have created different articles, for instance Strömsund Municipality and Strömsund, where the latter is about the village while the former is about the municipality. Is this an appropriate naming convention? Personally I like it, but alternatives would be to use Foo (municipality) and Foo (village/town/city) or Foo and Foo (village/town/city). The most important issue is if a person who types in 'Steinkjer' comes to the article about the municipality or the town. Any ideas anyone? Arsenikk (talk) 09:58, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
We now have a new article Bergen (municipality). Geschichte ( talk) 10:58, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
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Looking at the page for norwegian jazz musicians is noticed that Ketil Bjornstad did not get a mention. Is he Norwegian? If so he deserves to be in there.
Regards,
Brendan Singleton Ireland —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.45.73.69 ( talk) 19:37, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
is within project Novels and project Denmark. Seems like it also should be in project Norway? It takes place here, after all. (På ein måte...) - Hordaland ( talk) 15:35, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I learned something new today. According to Talk:Nansen's Fram expedition#Note on "Christiania", the English name is Christiania and not Kristiania. Thus, Kristiania should not be used for Oslo, not even between 1870s-1890s and 1925. I have personally used Kristiania in some 500-1000 articles, so it will take long to fix. Any comments? Geschichte ( talk) 10:57, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Within Project Runeberg I have digitized Merkantilt biografisk leksikon : hvem er hvem i næringslivet? (1935). I hope it can be a useful reference source for biographic articles. -- LA2 ( talk) 10:11, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I was thinking we need to have a Norwegian Explorer Stub like the British one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_explorer_stubs.
Does anyone have experience doing this ? Your thoughts ? ( Ice Explorer ( talk) 16:59, 14 November 2009 (UTC))
Looking at assessments of articles within this WikiProject, I often find that articles rated as B-class don't actually come close to meeting the B-class criteria. Most of the time, it's because an article lacks references. If it doesn't have at least one reference per paragraph, I think it's safe to say that the article can be degraded at once - to C-class or Start.
On the other hand, it's good if sources can be added, so that B-class can be reached. But this is not necessarily excpected of editors. It's cool, too, if one just handles the assessment. Geschichte ( talk) 22:01, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I need a working translation of the quote from sogneprest Krogh. Can anyone help please ?
oplyser om at bygningen senere hadde tjent som herremag, altså den bekvemmelighet som almuen så vel i middelalderen som langt ned i efterreformatorisk tid skulde vedlikeholde på enhver prestegård av hensyn til biskopenes ophold under sine visitaser; ved en åbotsforretning 3. sept. 1787 erklærte sogneprest Krogh at han i likhet med sine forgjengere vilde holde «det gamle stenhus . . . vedlige som en Antikvitet, uden ringeste Udgift for Almuen, da det ej længer passer som Almuens saakaldede Herregemak»; i en innberetning til Selskabet for Norges Vel av 29. aug. 1812 meddelte E. Møllerop ( Ice Explorer ( talk) 02:53, 15 November 2009 (UTC))
The organization doesn't have "Benefit" in its name, but is rather called the Royal Norwegian Society for Development - see this. Geschichte ( talk) 22:00, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I have some drawings of parts of the Alexander L. Kielland oil-rig which had an accident in 1980.
This drawings are from: The "Alexander L. Kielland"-accident: From a Commission Appointed by Royal Decree of 28th March, 1980 : Report Presented to Ministry of Justice and Police, March 1981 (NOU 1981:11)
The English translation of §9 of Act No. 2 of 12 May 1961 relating to Copyright in Literary, Scientific and Artistic Works, etc., states:
Because I can't read the text in the original language, there ist the question:
Is a simple technical drawing (more a sketch with comments) public domain or are there mistakes in the above translation using the terms "artistic works" and "works of art" and also a technical drawing is seen as "art"?
The drawings are on the Commons at petroleum production of norway (they are coloured by myself because the originals were not so good)
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Ulvik Lutheran Church is currently up at AfD. Since coverage is probably mostly limited to Norwegian sources, some Norwegian eyes might be beneficial to the discussion. Regards, decltype ( talk) 08:53, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Commons:Category:Population graphs for Norwegian municipalities contains image files of population graphs for all of Norway's municipalities. At least the Bokmål, Nynorsk and Spanish Wikipedias have availed themselves of this resource. It has even been included in the municipality infobox, see no:Rauma. __ meco ( talk) 17:44, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
There is a village in Hallingdal, called Dagali, which is not mentioned in the article. A history going back 1,000 years was written by Kare Soensterud. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Genedoug ( talk • contribs) 02:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Could anyone here who knows about Norwegian names and characters (letters) help out here? Thanks! Carcharoth ( talk) 05:50, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
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FYI - A massive discussion is taking place at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people. About 50k of articles are currently unreferenced and therefore in danger of deletion, some of those are on Norwegian subjects (like Per Morten Hoff, deleted exactly for being unreferenced). The link above points to a list of unreferenced articles with the WikiProject Norway template on its talk page. Please revise articles on the list,
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Hi,
I was talking about reconvalescence with Anne Karin Elstad. Here is som feil about years. That mean at she wasn't sick eight years but seven.
Sincerly Margareth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Singritt ( talk • contribs) 19:45, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
This article needs some copy editing and a little work to reach GA. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 00:47, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I started Niels Torp - If anyone wants to assist with the article, please do so. WhisperToMe ( talk) 15:11, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
Editor Hectorthebat has made several articles about roads/railways in Norway, and the articles have major MOS/cleanup issues. I don't know anything of Wikipedia's guidelines regarding roads and railways, and I think some of the stuff might need some translation, so could someone look at them? Recent examples include: Riksvei 171, Riksvei 174, Riksvei 181, Sand, Akershus, Riksvei 120 and Riksvei 22. I also put in a help request at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transport. Thanks, PDCook ( talk) 17:03, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
Started GAR here. GamerPro64 ( talk) 16:12, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
We could need some input at Talk:New Church, Bergen#Recent move. Rettetast ( talk) 15:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
According to several sources,
Store norske leksikon online, in its current form, is going to be discontinued from July 2010. This is a popular lightweight online source for a variety of Norwegian topics, and a large number of our articles link to it. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to best deal with the
link rot that will inevitably occur, and if possible, ensure that everything that is currently available under SNL's free license,
[12] will also be available in some form in the future?
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I have started working on Wikipedia:WikiProject Norway/Unreferenced BLPs. Any help is appreciated. Rettetast ( talk) 21:33, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
The Ivar Hippe has been hold on in a while without any reviews, so i thought it would be good to post this here to buy any reviewer interest. -- TIAYN ( talk) 21:39, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Article request: Sjursøya accident. Geschichte ( talk) 23:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Hei hei. Please see Talk:Norway House, Manitoba. I'm wondering if anyone here might know anything about a party of convicts or ex-convicts hired by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1814-1817, who Canadian sources say built Norway House; any idea what prison, and why they were contracted out? Maybe there's a related item in Norewgian history? Or maybe they were Norwegian prisoners in a jail in the Orkneys or elsewhere in Scotland? I'm familiar with later Norwegian immigration to Canada, I'd never heard this before.....though come to think of it I'm unsure of when Norwegians began to come to Eastern/Maritime Canada....I know the first in British Columbia came with the gold rush of 1858-59, and from what I know of a friend's family in Labrador they're part Norwegian, several generations back....I've been meaning for quite a while to start History of Norwegian immigration to Canada and a companion piece for the US (actually a combined "to North America" article might be more viable since there was so much back-and-forth between the two countries). Norway House is a puzzle though; I'd never heard of Norwegian settlers that early in the 19th Century in Manitoba.... Skookum1 ( talk) 14:59, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
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Please see Talk:Kragerø. Skookum1 ( talk) 04:12, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Luis.luque ( talk) 02:36, 5 April 2010 (UTC)The article about Snus should be removed from the project Norway.
Please see Talk:Ulriken#anthem by Lully Skookum1 ( talk) 15:19, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I think he was the first Norwegian pro bodybuilder, or the first one to rank internationally anyway. There must have been other Norwegian champions, i.e. that got pro cards, but I'm unaware of any that "made a mark" in IFBB pro shows; I wanted to add this to the article but don't have a cite for it; if it's wrong, please kibbitz/quibble. Paulsen's homepage also says he was in championship soccer, skiing and skating, but maybe that was only at an adolescent or junior or otherwise non-notable level but maybe, if an adult, he has competition records that could be cited (I've asked him for clarification directly); he was also on the 1980 Olympic weightlifting team but of course did not compete because of the boycott of the Moscow Games; not sure if there's a Norwegian national team weightlifting page.... I also made a bio for Tommi Thorvildsen; if anyone knows other ranked/notable Norwegian bodybuilders please let me know; Arild Haugen has also competed in bodybuilding but I don't know his show rankings. Skookum1 ( talk) 16:53, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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I have posted the following comment on Skookum1's talk page:
There is a number of places (particularly island and archipelagos) in Svalbard which have the article at a translated name; for instance Bear Island (Norway) (Bjørnøya), Barents Island (Barentsøya), Prince Charles Foreland (Prins Karls Forland). At first I just presumed that these were the common place names used in English, but the more sources I found, the less evidence there is that they are commonly translated into their English counterparts. So far, all the English-language sources I have found have used the "Norwegian" term; this includes Guide to Spitsbergen by Umbreit (2005), the The Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management, CIA World Factbook, the Norwegian Government, The Governor of Svalbard, the Norwegian Polar Institute's database of place names, Aftenposten, and The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. The only reference to the "English" name is Alistair McLean's novel: Bear Island (novel), and a mix of use at this scientific article. I tried googling both, and although there were lots of hits of "Bear Island", I saw no immediate reliable sources. Arsenikk (talk) 19:07, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
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Somewhat related: is the Old Town Bridge an original research name or is it indeed referred to as such? Geschichte ( talk) 07:50, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 April 16#Norwegian local politicians by county. __ meco ( talk) 12:50, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Our coverage of this border dispute is deplorable. I think it was mentioned in one sentence in Norway–Russia relations which was expanded today with another sentence briefly mentioning today's historic resolution. There are several articles on the Bokmål Wikipedia on this. __ meco ( talk) 14:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
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Would someone mind photographing Diamanten in Fornebu, Norway? (Wikipedians in Oslo should be in proximity) WhisperToMe ( talk) 09:12, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Does WP Norway have any task forces? Kingjeff ( talk) 14:46, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, there is currently a rename proposal over at WP:CFD for the categories of Norwegian local politicians and would like to invite members of this WikiProject to the discussion, which can be found here. Thank you. — ξ xplicit 23:24, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
We need a good photo of a dinner plate with raspeballar og det som hører til. The only one I found on Norwegian Wikipedia has slimey green raspeballar -- enough so to kill anyone's appetite. Can someone please upload to Commons a better picture? Thanks. -- Hordaland ( talk) 13:26, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaja Bordevich Ballo. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt ( talk) 00:44, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Where is the consensus for changes such as this? The generic "settlement" template does not show the county and the municipality's location within it (instead it just puts a pin on a large map) or the official language form. Perhaps these templates could be merged together? Hayden120 ( talk) 00:18, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
You may be interested in voicing your opinion at current CFD nomination, as it also concerns Category:Cities and towns in Norway. - Darwinek ( talk) 11:28, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I suspect this should be renamed to Category:Former farms in Norway, Category:Historic farms in Norway or Category:Abandoned farms in Norway, but I would like the input of someone more who may have specialist knowledge. Is "Historic Farm" an official designation? I know in Norway, the definition of "farm" is broader than in most English-language countries; does that make a difference to the type of article that should be found in this category? Some help with this would be appreciated! TheGrappler ( talk) 01:38, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
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13:53, 16 July 2010 (UTC)An RFC of the spelling of Spitsbergen is taking place here. An issue with the lede of the Spitsbergen article is also subject to an RFC here. Comments welcome on both. Mjroots ( talk) 11:18, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
For some weeks now I have been expanding the Nansen article and will shortly be putting the finishing touches. Memnbers of WikiProject Norway are welcome to leave any comments on the article's talkpage. Brianboulton ( talk) 18:56, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
The List of Norwegian battles was created some time ago, but is still an orphan stub. It could use some work itself, but also contains too many redd links to important Norweian battles needing an article. Hope someone takes the challenge :) Inge ( talk) 18:09, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
I've made a request for this project to get its own entry in Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject. Once created, it will be available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Norway/Popular pages. I've currently asked for it to include 500 pages, but if anyone believe it should contain more, you can edit the request here. The edit key is f4981e5. lil2mas ( talk) 14:30, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
A number of Norwegian wikipedians are attending the Oslo Book Festival ( http://www.oslobokfestival.no/), September 17 – September 19. We will there promote the various Wikimedia projects, as well as recruit members to Wikimedia Norway. We'll bring laptops and show live demos of editing, hand out printed copies of (Norwegian) featured articles, and generally talk to visitors about how they can participate and show their support. We welcome all Wikipedia editors to join us, please see this page for more information (in Norwegian). Regards, -- Kjetil_r 10:01, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps someone coulld give it some attention? __ meco ( talk) 16:25, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
I have reported these two articles at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard:
__ meco ( talk) 16:28, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
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This article has now been replaced by a copyvio banner. If someone has some spare time on their hands to assist in sorting out the problem, that would be great. __ meco ( talk) 17:12, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Should the Years in Norway articles including less significant information such as ALL winners of local reality shows, establishment dates of ALL Norwegian bands (including minor bands), etc? Please express your opinion here. TheCuriousGnome ( talk) 18:47, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I figure since Norway performs well at Speed skating, that there might be editors here interested in a WikiProject for the sport. If there are any, I created a proposal where you can vote to support or oppose the creation of such a project! See it here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Speed Skating. Forgive me if this is inappropriate! Cheers, on camera (t) 04:24, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone but me think that there categories are ridiculous? What about the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, should they have categories for 1760, 70s, 80s, 90s, 1800s, 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 1900s, 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s? Geschichte ( talk) 07:11, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
I realize that my creating an edifice for a category hierarchy such as this one is rather drastic. One reason I did it without consulting anyone was that from my considerable experience in dealing with (including creating) similar wide-ranging hierarchies, people need to see what they look like before they are able to make a rational opinion about their viability and usefulness – otherwise very many people are just going to reject it offhand, partly because they don't see all the areas of practical usefulness as I do or simply because they don't get the hang of it ("I don't understand what this is about, so it must be a stupid idea").
If at any time someone makes up their mind that this is a really bad idea that there's no justification for trying on for size, a successful CfD umbrella nomination will swiftly and (relatively) uncomplicatedly restore all articles to their original state while the categories themselves get deleted.
Now to my suggestion. Or an idea, more like it. As the number of categories from this scheme added to one single article could become considerable, it would also by many be considered obtrusive. I conceived a thought in bed last night that perhaps could remedy that by making these hidden categories and instead supply each of the articles with a well-designed, discreet navbox at the bottom of the page, perhaps of the size of the {{ wiktionary}} box, perhaps even using a graphical bar of ten seamless and consecutive segments to mark each century (I'm no graphical artist so I'm just presenting raw ideas here).
I would be content to do the work of setting up this hierarchy with requisite connecting categories to interface with existing structures as well as creating navigational templates for the hierarchy (similar to what is used at Category:1990s in Norway) as well as populate the categories, that is unless others would want to pitch in also.
I'll appreciate continuing feedback on this initiative. In the meantime I'll continue tweaking and fiddling with these and other category structures that I am currently working on. __ meco ( talk) 11:54, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
How to translate the word "knot" in the phrase "det kohtske knot"? Geschichte ( talk) 13:04, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
The RV Belgica (1884) article has been created. It is short on details of the arctic expeditions of 1905 and 1907-09. Are any members of this WP able to expand the "later history" section of the article. There must be books on the subject of the expeditions that could be used. Mjroots ( talk) 14:17, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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An important question regarding the Norwegian ministry articles. Arsenikk told me that i was a bit hasty when it came to move the "Norwegian Ministry of (something)" articles to Ministry of Something (Norway)".. Most ministry articles here on wiki follow the Ministry of something (country), should the Norwegian ministries follow this model or should we have the "Norwgian Ministry of something" instead? -- TIAYN ( talk) 16:46, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
"Zoning plans are scheduled to be approved by the Oslo City Council on 18 July 2008." Article needs some work; information is dated. -- Hordaland ( talk) 00:13, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
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I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick ( talk) 21:24, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
I see that the article East End and West End of Oslo, which I translated from the Swedish translation of the Norwegian original, has been assessed as C-class. The original Norwegian article has Featured Article status, and the Swedish translation has Good Article status. Are the quality standards on the English Wikipedia that much higher? JIP | Talk 09:59, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm just posting a couple of odd pages here for inspiration as to ways of expanding this hierarchy:
The second one may be rather "out there", but at least the first one would conceivable work even for us. Or how about a collaboration: 2009 in Nordic literature? __ meco ( talk) 07:56, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
I am very surprised to find that the en: wikipedia lacks an article on this important coronation church. (The only other version with an article is the Spanish Wikipedia.) I would translate a quick stub from the no: wikipedia myself, but my Norwegian is lamentable, so probably better if someone competent does it. Cheers. -- Mais oui! ( talk) 04:25, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
I encourage this WikiProject to help update that article with regional data and incidents. Winter of 2009–2010 in Europe#Norway isn't much to brag about, so let's try and be a bit proactive for the current season of anomalous winter weather. __ meco ( talk) 15:24, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
We have separates articles on Akershus and Akershus County Municipality, but we don't have this separation when it comes to municipalities. Even Oslo has everything about the city, including local government conflated into one article. I don't like this. Is everyone else happy about the current state of affairs? __ meco ( talk) 15:25, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
The featured article candidacy for the Black Friday (1945) article (which I nominated and which covers an Allied air raid on German shipping in Norway) hasn't recieved any comments for over a week. Any comments and votes (including opposes, of course) would be appreciated at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Black Friday (1945)/archive1. Thanks, Nick-D ( talk) 10:26, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
A newly registered user has made some posts on my talk page suggesting articles be written, i.e. Veterans of Norwegian military operations and Warrior culture of Norwegian soldiers. Please check out User talk:Meco#Norwegian veterans and the subsequent section too. __ meco ( talk) 13:49, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
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Would there be anyone interested in helping me develop the Einar Gerhardsen, the first post-war Prime Minister of Norway, article? I have access to all of Gerhardsen's memoirs (which are now all out of print) and one biography written about him. Again, would anyone of you be interested in working with me to develop the Gerhardsen article? -- TIAYN ( talk) 08:55, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated List of former municipalities of Norway for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Arsenikk (talk) 12:53, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
I just came across Category:Musical groups from Jacksonville, Florida. Perhaps we should expand and diffuse the current categorization of Norwegian musical groups a bit? __ meco ( talk) 21:20, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
{{ RNoAF Squadron}} has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.14.196 ( talk) 06:02, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Category:People by district in Norway was just created and has thus far been populated with two sub-categories. What immediately troubles me about these categories is that they are being inserted between municipalities and counties. That isn't good, is it? __ meco ( talk) 23:40, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi! For those of you in Bodø, I have a photo request:
Thank you, WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:24, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated the article Norwegian diaspora for deletion - the article is a list that synthesises various sources that use the notion of "norwegian" in incompatible ways either as citizen or as a person claiming to have Norwegian ancestors - this creates a false number of how many Norwegians are living outside of Norway and an image of an actual Diasporic community that is not supported by any sources. Please comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norwegian diaspora. ·Maunus·ƛ· 16:13, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Deleted sevral poorly cited claims in the opposition section. Whale song, whale-poo that fight global warming and cells in whales that match human cells. Within these claims there were also sevral other claims about barbarism and opposition to whaling from counties that were not quoted from anywhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truls86 ( talk • contribs) 02:38, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi there guys. I've been trying to verify the material we have at Ferking and Ferkingstad, and I'd appreciate any help I can get. Those two articles, and some related information in Augvald and Karmøy, were all added in 2007 by an editor who doesn't seem to have communicated their sources very well. The only sources listed in the two articles are either not reliable or not verifiable, Google web search results only show unreliable sources or copies of Wikipedia, and neither Google Scholar nor Google Books seem to know anything about either the person or the village. You would expect the village, at least, to have some web footprint even if not in English. Basically, does anyone have any sources to verify that the subjects of these articles actually existed? I am far from an expert on Norwegian topics and do not want to jump right to calling them hoaxes, but I can't find anything verifiable at all. Any assistance is appreciated. — Gavia immer ( talk) 23:14, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion at Talk:Norwegian diaspora#Renaming about a proposal to rename the entry. I'm notifying this Wikiproject since the entry is a part of it. Griswaldo ( talk) 18:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
For your information, Scandinavian diaspora has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.12.101 ( talk) 04:32, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Currently, the majority of articles on places in Norway that also happen to be a municipality contain the following text in the lead section: "[place name] was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt)". I find this to be a bit misleading, as that date refers to the creation of the system of municipalities (previously, Norway was instead administratively divided into parishes). However, the current text can make it sound like the settlements in question were established in 1838.
For example, the article Tønsberg says in the second paragraph of the lead: "The city of Tønsberg was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838". This makes it sound like Tønsberg was founded in 1838, when it has in fact been a city since the Viking ages, with full trading rights as a city for many hundred years prior to 1838.
I believe that this information, related to a technicality about the organisation of administrative districts of Norway, should not be so prominent in the lead section of every article on a municipality. Instead, this fact should be explained on the Municipalities of Norway page, or alternatively, mentioned in a paragraph about the area's history, instead of in the lead. Theis101 ( talk) 11:08, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Template:Former possessions of Norway is being considered for deletion. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. Ben Mac Dui 12:48, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
I need help over at no:Mal:Flagg/Storbritannia please. The flags for the civil and naval ensigns need to be added. I've tried my best to code these, but it's not working for me. Template:Country data United Kingdom will show what I am trying to achieve. Suggest alternative names of civil and naval are used. I've already coded the no:FLK «Maudie» page with the flag, but it is showing as the Union Flag and not the Red Ensign. Thanks in advance, Mjroots ( talk) 10:44, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Hey all. I see that WP:JA has a reference library where editors of the project have listed books they have in their disposition, so that other editors can have "access" to them. Could this be an idea for us as well? -- Eisfbnore talk 03:14, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
How am I supposed to translate "høyere almenskole" into English? -- Eisfbnore talk 08:39, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Discussion is underway regarding the use of diacritics in proper nouns from languages such as Norwegian. Comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)/Diacritics RfC. Prolog ( talk) 19:22, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
There is a dicussion of this man's status as King and his article title at Talk:Svein, King of Norway. If interested please join in the discussion.-- Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy ( talk) 04:49, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi folks, I was thinking of creating a naming standard for railway accidents in Norway. Any suggestions? Right now, the articles in Category:Railway accidents in Norway are using completely different names; some have '*year* *place* *accident*', some '*month* *year* *accident*', whilst the majority have '*place* train *disaster/crash*'. I would appreciate any ideas on how we can standardise this. -- Eisfbnore talk 20:43, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
A naming standard could apply to other fields. In aviation accidents, we have some with "Flight xxx", and some with cryptic names like Bukken Bruse disaster and Havørn Accident. Geschichte ( talk) 21:31, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
I cannot see that "Nordic Feminist University" is a legit English translation of the institution in question. Geschichte ( talk) 18:05, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
The owners of the domain http://www.kvinneuniversitetet.no are not affiliated with this institution (see [17] for an overview of various institutions with similar names). Feminist university is the common English translation of kvinneuniversitet. The translation "women's university" is rather misleading, it's not a women's college or a university for women as that term would generally imply in the English-speaking world, but rather an institution focusing on feminist studies ("kvinneforskning" in Norwegian). One of the other feminist universities, Kvinneuniversitetet Nord, used the translation "Northern Feminist University" [18]. Feminist university is the term used by the founder of the first such institution and co-founder of this one, Berit Ås (B. Ås, "The Feminist University." Women's studies international quarterly no. 4 1985). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toriland ( talk • contribs) 18:38, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
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Does anybody have a source to check the information on Ranked list of Norwegian counties? The article has no sources and has recently been edited by anons. Regards. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 22:18, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
Is the ski resort of Kvitfjell in Øyer? I can't find a reference to say what municipality it's in. -- Montchav 14:36, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
How would you all feel about using Norwegian words and nomenclatures in all Norwegian administrative division article texts? eg, use fylke instead of counties in the text of all Norwegian articles, not just the titles? -- Bob 04:04, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
Well now we have an assessment department, to be found here. I suspect a large amount of Norway related articles have not even been tagged, but thats something to get done as we go along. I hope the statistics and other stuff we'll get from it will be of use. Inge 12:22, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
I think the main page for this project is too long. I would like to move the standards and conventions part to a sub-page such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Norway/Conventions and leave a short explanation and link to it in the main page. Any objections? Inge 15:15, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
What is meant by this sentence: The early kings uses a form of the name consistent with the sources (Heimskringla et al), but using latin transcription. The early sources are written with the latin alphabet - no latin transcription is necessary.-- Barend 12:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
I am wondering if there could be established a consensus for applying special Norwegian alphabetic collation rules to those categories that exclusively contain Norwegian names. Currently, there is a mix between English conversion and incidents of "regular" handling (as seen in Category:Norwegian writers) but most frequently displaying O and Ø last names tossed together, Å and Aa with A, etc.. I've been informed that technically there is no problem placing such entries after Z, and there is precedence in the Icelandic handling of categories, but is there wide community desire for this method? What do you all think? — MURGH disc. 15:53, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Comment: 2 weeks and not quite yet resembling a wide and passionate community consensus. Having been told there are folk out there who hold fighting such tendencies their chief wiki-task, we had better be more than 3 who favour this. So.. anybody else? MURGH disc. 14:23, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
I've never been in a wikiproject before, is there something I have to do before I can join? Claidheamohmor 21:38, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
For those of you that remember the previous fuzz about Denmark-Norway, you might wish to contribute regarding the debate about the Scandinavian settlements on Greenland and their relations to Norway, see: Talk:Greenland. Valentinian T / C 21:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I've begun compiling a list of places and buildings founded by Christian IV but my knowledge about the Norwegian material is insufficient. In Denmark we have Christianshavn, Nyboder, Rundetårn, Rosenborg and Børsen. In Germany and Sweden; Kristiansstad, Kristianopel, Kupfermühle, Glückstadt and Christianspris. But what about Norway? All I can think of is Christiania, Kongsberg and Kristiansand. Surely there must be more than this? If I remember correctly Kristiansund was founded by Christian VI. Valentinian T / C 14:24, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I propose we should have a new category under the category Norwegian people, named Norwegian people by county. This category should then contain the 20 counties in Norway in the form Category:People from Rogaland. This would both make the categorisation interesting and would allow further diffusion of Norwegian people. I refer to what is done in Irish people by county and English people by county. Please tell me what you think. Spelemann 14:39, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
I just sent to AFD from from deletion review an article where the best information is at the Norwegian Wikipedia. The sourcing found in that article is primarily in Norwegian, and the new AFD discussion could use the participation of some Norwegian literate editors. GRBerry 01:46, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Hello. Could someone from the project take a look at Madcon? I seriously doubt that I wouldn't have heard about a Norwegian rap duo that has collaborated with 50 Cent, Destiny's Child, Clipse, Wu-Tang and Xzibit and it's clear that the article is 90% junk. However, I'm wondering whether there is perhaps something to salvage from the remaining 10%. Google finds a lot of hits in what I can only assume is Norwegian. Thanks in advance for your help. Pascal.Tesson 04:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
There is an effort underway to create a series of articles with lists of farms in various municipalities in Norway - see Category:Farms in Oppland. This was nominated for deletion in May last year, with sparse voting and no consensus.
I'm inclined to allow such lists, but I think we have to be clear what their purpose is, and why they're notable and encyclopedic. I suppose a greater push on agriculture in Norway (Det store hamskiftet, etc.) would be worth considering in any event.
As I see it, Norwegian farm names are an important part of Norwegian economic and geographic history, as most of Norway was rural for so long. To understand the economic development of each community in Norway, the farm names matter - which is why bygdebøker (comprehensive works of local history) are so common. In addition, they have genealogical value, though I think that's less important. -- Leifern 13:23, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
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There is some disagreement about what the article name should be for the six municipalities in Norway with a Sami or Kven name. That is should the official name or only the Norwegian part be used?
The six muncipalities are (official name):
I believe the official name should be used since it is the official name, and is hence used in phone books, official documents, by SSB http://www.ssb.no/english/municipalities/2020, etc. But also because I believe article content is more important than the name. Based on my experience from other indigenous/minority people articles is that having a very strict naming policy that insist that the “colonial” name should be used, only generates endless discussions about which name should be used (eg Talk:Inuit). Such discussions are a waste of everybody’s time, and more importantly many of the people in question are offended and do not want to contribute to the articles.
If there is agreement about using the official names, the municipality templates needs to be changed. Labongo 09:25, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
At least include a hyphen. Punkmorten 16:41, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
A note about the counties Finnmark and Troms. Each of these have two official names, respectively Finnmark or Finnmárkku, and Troms or Romsa (i.e. they differ from the municipality names). Since either name can be used it is OK to have the articles under Finnmark and Troms. Labongo 18:31, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
About Porsanger going tri-lingual, this is what i found: http://www.porsanger.no/index.php?id=202368. The phrase "tri-lingual municipality name" is used, but then it says:
Kommunen får tre likestilte navneformer - Porsanger (norsk), Porsángu (samisk) og Porsanki (kvensk/finsk)
My translation: The municipality is given three names of equal status
I offisiell skriftlig og muntlig kommunikasjon skal den norske navneformen tas med der det norske språk brukes, mens den samiske eller kvenske/finske navneformen skal tas med der henholdsvis samisk og kvensk/finsk språk brukes.
My translation: In official written and oral communication the Norwegian name shall be included where the Norwegian language is used, while the Sami or Kven/Finnish name shall be included where respectively Sami and Kven/Finnish language is used. Reading Ot.prp. 111 I notice that both Norsk språkråd and Samisk språkråd opposed these names and wanted separate names instead. These forms were chosen to force the use of the minority language and to avoid confusion over identity. I honestly do not think that Wikipedia need to force any use at all, and the matter of confusion is non-existant, as the articles explain the matter. - BsL 02:15, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Karasjok is a mid-point for travelers in Finnmark, and a natural point of departure to visit and experience places of the North Calotte, ie. the North Cape. The nearest airports are Banak/Lakselv 80 km away, Ivalo in Finland 150 km away and Alta some 200 km from Karasjok.
Hi guys. I just wanted you to know I've added a page where people will be putting Norway requests for experts, and began to identify Norwegian topics with requests for experts: Category:Norway articles needing expert attention. This is part of the expert finding process. Goldenrowley 04:52, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Anyone game for making a map indicating which areas of Norge have adopted nynorsk, bokmål, both and neither? If someone can show me a map of all of Norge with municipalities outlined, I'll do the gruntwork, although I regret to say that my information will necessarily have to come from the Wikipedia articles. Tom e r talk 02:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
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The article of Erik Solheim, a Norweigan cabinet member and peace maker, has been vandalised and marred by POV pushing for several weeks now, I hope that members of Project Norway will assist in the protection and expansion of this biography. -- Sharz 00:23, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
I didn't even know about the Wikipedia:Articles for creation scheme when it popped up as I seached for an article on Flekkerøy. It so turns out that an anonymous user uploaded an article last October containing text for both an article on Flekkerøy and Oksøy lighthouse (comp. Norw., Germ.). Flekkerøy articles exist on nb/ nn/ da. __ meco 13:53, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I am adding islands to a table of islands in the North Sea article. However, I cannot find references to some Norwegian islands - only the municipalities they are part of. Please could somebody supply the land areas of Stord, Karmøy and Huftarøy. Cheers! Totnesmartin 17:27, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
In the To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Norway which heads this project talk page one of the tasks for the Norbot bot is: "Make sure all the articles on Norwegian writers are good articles." __ meco 18:40, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but iv'e noticed that there's not much about known norwegian women in history. I'm sure they are a lot of them, so i think it would be interesting to read about! For example; why not create a coupple of articles of actresses in Norway in the 19th century? An earlier of course. And male ones, for that matter, at least two of each gender. Just a suggestion! -- 85.226.235.174 18:54, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
North Sea is the current Article Creation and Improvement Drive collaboration. WikiProject Norway members may find that a relevant focus. I have refrained from rating the article pending the result of the collaboration. __ meco 22:17, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
User:Punkmorten/List of villages in Møre og Romsdal has been residing in Punkmorten's user space for a long time now. It's the only list lacking in the county hierarchy, however it needs to be finished before it can be moved to the main namespace. __ meco 06:40, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
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With the upcoming kommune- og fylkestingvalg, the articles about the political parties will come more under the spot light. And, especially the article about Progress Party (Norway) is in a sorry story state. It is currently heavily politicized, it is even claimed in the lead that the progress party is radical right-wing, based on ten-year old quotations from foreign researchers. If that wasn't enough, the quoted papers are not even about the progress party or norwegian politcs - the descriptions I could verify, are simply by-sentence remarks, probably because the researcher in question heard a rumour somewhere.
But this is far from the only problem with Progress Party (Norway) article, please read it and consider helping to fix it!
Heptor talk 11:19, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Please join the discussion on the List of Norwegian Americans that were deleted. -- Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 00:04, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
This stub types is now oversized; if you've any thoughts on how best to split it up into more manageable units, please comment here. Alai 20:16, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether Vigramør is notable enough for an own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! -- B. Wolterding 17:55, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Could somebody please try to resolve this dispute. The Norwegian article on the same subject is objective and balanced, and I'd like to replace the current English article with a translation of that one. But the user Wogsland obviously feels that he "owns" this article. leifbk 12:17, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I just created an article on a Norwegian Poker Player, but could use some help with appropriate categories and was hoping you guys might be able to help out. The article is on Annette Obrestad. Balloonman 08:29, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
So i just realized that this WikiProject has its own guidelines for municipality articles, and that i've not been following them. Instead of changing my own ways, i'll try to change the guidelines. ;) I believe some of them stand in direct opposition to Wikipedia's main policies and guidelines, and make the articles about Norwegian cities, towns and municipalities too different from articles about foreign settlements.
-- Aqwis 22:11, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Could anyone proofread Trond Hegna? Sosekopp 19:26, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
I have made an article about Royal coronations in Norway and would invite comments to questions in the talk page and suggestion for improvements. – Nidator T / C 11:25, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi, this page Cloroform claims to be about a band from Norway. But it lacks sources completely, I am thinking about speedy but someone from here might point better idea. Thanks. ≈Tulkolahten≈ ≈talk≈ 00:12, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Since 9 months there has been a red link from the disambiguation page Prim to Fløtemysost. Could someone check up on this, either (if adequate) by changing the link to brunost, or by writing the article (e.g., translating no:Fløtemysost), or both?
Does anyone of you actually know what this "prim" is from personal experience? Is it something like Swedish sv:messmör?
Med vänlig hälsning, JoergenB ( talk) 17:09, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
In the infobox for Norwegian municipalities, I have added a line for demonyms and have started populating it for each one. Anyone wants to help out is welcome. The source is the by Språkrådet. -- Leifern ( talk) 12:33, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
I have created List of Lighthouses in Norway, which includes a sortable list of lighthouses. It's incomplete, and I'll add to it as I do the research. I've also started to write articles about each one, but this will take time to finish. Svinøy fyrstasjon made it to the DYK list the other day. -- Leifern ( talk) 14:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
Another project that needs more work - among other things, there's a much more comprehensive infobox for rivers {{Geobox}} that we should probably use for all rivers in Norway. And there should probably also be an article about the freshwater in Norway. -- Leifern ( talk) 14:43, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
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I have a suspicion that this article is a hoax, but I know little of Swedish/Norwegian history. Any clarification welcome. Thanks, Jonathan Oldenbuck ( talk) 16:26, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Today's featured article in Wikipedia is Swedish emigration to the United States. Norway actually has a Category:Norwegian migration to North America of comparable size to its Swedish counterpart (Norway and Sweden being the only two such categories), but alas, no article, not even a stub :-( __ meco ( talk) 19:21, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
The first one of these I translated from the bokmål Wikipedia tonight, the other some months back. Especially with the Pocket Man article it would be nice if several people would collaborate with keeping it up-to-date as the story develops. __ meco ( talk) 22:20, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
I have started what is likely to become an extensive article on the Shoah in Norway. Any help is appreciated, whether it's adding material, source references, or copyediting. I have also created Jewish deportees from Norway during World War II, which includes a comprehensive list of those who were deported to concentration camps, where the overwhelming majority were murdered. There has been one attempt at blanking this page, as it's quite specific; but as far as I know it's the only place on the web where this list exists. -- Leifern ( talk) 03:11, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
I have written several additional articles, most of them biographical, of notable individuals who were deported from Norway - among them Cissi Klein, Ruth Maier, Berthold Epstein, and Moritz Rabinowitz. Leo Eitinger has had an article for some time, but articles will also be written about Herman Sachnowitz, Kai Feinberg, and Samuel Steinmann. There will also likely be separate articles about the underground railroad to Sweden, though this will include all those who made their way across the border; and also the restitution case in the mid-1990s, and what was known as the Feldmann case. With time, the issue of legal culpability for crimes against Jews in Norway will also get its own article, but this is a highly contentious issue, to this day. One question for the group: what should be the right category for articles related to the Shoah in Norway? Should it be Shoah in Norway, or perhaps Holocaust in Norway, or more specifically Persecution of Jews World War II Norway? Any thoughts? -- Leifern ( talk) 15:59, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
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I have noted on the talk page for Oslo, people agree the article really needs a better map. It seems like very many maps are only of the position within the given county. Is this really OK? I personally think not... Greswik ( talk) 12:49, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
In Norway settlements are either labeled by or tettsted. Current WP practice of jostling these items into three different (or four if we add settlements as well), albeit not clearly hierarchical, levels does not yield a clear precedent, and frankly, I find it rather confusing. Are there any clever ideas on how to work this out? __ meco ( talk) 21:48, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
There's a bit of a debate going on about the right labels at Template:Norway during World War II. The issues under discussion should be pretty clear from the Talk page. -- Leifern ( talk) 23:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
After initially stumbling over a template from the Bangladesh WikiProject and then following the lead to several templates and a fully-fledged category hierarchy belonging to Ireland and its WikiProject, I have now established the basics for us to be able to wikilink years pertaining to events in Norway, to Norway-specific year in categories. See for instance 2008 in Norway and look at how I have changed some year-links in the Gro Harlem Brundtland article. Also take a look at 2008 in Ireland for inspiration.
I propose we recommend that all Norway-related articles are edited with this new perspective in mind. __ meco ( talk) 22:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
The Premenstrual syndrome article has an important sentence supported by a reference in Norwegian. I am concerned that the content of the ref is being misrepresented (by being presented vaguely, not on purpose). It's also possible that the sentence in this article is vague because the ref itself is vague. The discussion and my original question are here. If you can help me, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, WhatamIdoing ( talk) 18:07, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
As part of my complete and comprehensive rewrite of Hans Gude, I have created two new articles. The first was Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten which appeared on the front page under "Did You Know?". The second one is List of paintings by Hans Gude which I have just finished (as much as I can). I would appreciate any spelling and grammar help people can offer, as well as anything you think you can add! -- Falcorian (talk) 07:27, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
My Hans Gude rewrite is up, please take a look and give it a good polishing! It's also up for DYK, so check that out and promote it if you like it! -- Falcorian (talk) 19:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello,
there are currently 11 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
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I request an article about this children's book and village please. - Kittybrewster ☎ 12:28, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
On June 17th, it will be 200 years since Henrik Wergeland was born. I think it would be a worthy ambition to improve the article to the point that it can be the featured article on June 17th. This will require quite a bit of editing, consulting sources, and coordinating with the folks who decide the FA queue. I will do my bit on the editing side, and hope others will as well. We also need someone to persuade the FA editor(s) to at least allow for the possibility of featuring the article if it is up to snuff. I may post a similar request in no.wikipedia.org and nn.wikipedia.org. -- Leifern ( talk) 17:32, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Anyone have objections to creating a template for former municipalities? I want to do this in part because there is ongoing consolidations of municipalities, and I'd hate to lose information captured in the current municipalities templates. Also, this will help to explain what happened to the municipalitie as they were shut down. -- Leifern ( talk) 15:51, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
The data in the box for the current municipalities has most relevant ones, But, I think we only should have the static values (not mayor, population etc. as it only say at the end, not what dominated it's lifetime) the other values are outdated and could rather be put in the text. And then the destiny of has to be filled in. Røed ( talk · no) 01:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Kitty Lange Kielland just hit DYK. I'll add it to DKY 20, but I'm not sure what else needs to be done. -- Falcorian (talk) 21:43, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
This looks like Speedy Delete (no context) to me. However, I find that there Google hits for this school but I can't understand your language. I posted it here to see if you could improve it or nominate it for AfD.-- Lenticel ( talk) 13:46, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
Flag flying days in Norway is nominated for Featured List status. Please comment or give votes. Inge ( talk) 15:33, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Thought you all might be interested to know that Architecture of Norway has been approved as a Good Article. -- Leifern ( talk) 01:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
I replaced the current list by a list I wrote on norwegian (nb), but I didn't find any good name for the local lists that holds quite some of the mayors is the rural areas. Any good suggestions? Røed ( talk · no) 01:10, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
We should definitely go for WP:FL on this one! Punkmorten ( talk) 08:41, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
Closely related to this post, there have started a discussion on the standard template {{ Infobox Kommune}} for Norwegian municipalities, would be great if more people would join the discussion. Røed ( talk · no) 02:05, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I just put a bit of work into Ulsteinvik. Then, I took the stub tag away. Maybe this was pre-emptive, but I hope not. However, then there is the small matter of the Project box on the talk page. I would like to notch this one up from stub class. However, I'd love to have input either - telling me that it IS still a stub, and how I (or someone) should upgrade the article so that it's not, or suggesting that it be labelled as something other than "stub". Thanks, AshleyMorton ( talk) 16:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi! I reckon the article Jaysuma Saidy Ndure could be featured. We need a picture, though, does anyone have any? Punkmorten ( talk) 11:52, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
We need to fix the article for a-ha the best-selling norwegian and scandinavian band. -- Alive Would? Sun ( talk) 19:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
I believe the naming of the articles about the regions of Norway - Vestlandet, Sørlandet, Østlandet and Nord-Norge - violates Wikipedia's naming convention guidelines. The guideline page states that "Generally, article naming should give priority to what the majority of English speakers would most easily recognize, with a reasonable minimum of ambiguity, while at the same time making linking to those articles easy and second nature". The Norwegian names of these regions are certainly not what "the majority of English speakers would most easily recognise" - the international press almost never uses the Norwegian names when talking about Norway's regions. Even the Norwegian government uses the terms "Western Norway", "Southern Norway" and so on in English publications and when giving English names to Norwegian institutions, projects and organisations. [3] I would suggest renaming Vestlandet to Western Norway, Østlandet to Eastern Norway, Sørlandet to Southern Norway, and Nord-Norge to Northern Norway (I am not sure whether Trøndelag should be renamed; the Norwegian word seems to be about as frequently used internationally as any translations such as "Middle Norway"). -- Aqwis ( talk – contributions) 14:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
We have gotten such a list before, but this one is updated. The list contains articles that are tagged with {{ notability}}, and has our project tag on the talk page. Rettetast ( talk) 09:04, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 1440 of the articles assigned to this project, or 12.1%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. Subsribing is easy - just add a template to your project page. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 17:17, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
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Input welcome here and with finding any suitable sources for the article. Ty 01:15, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone here be interested in helping me start Portal:Arctic and Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic? Drop a note on my talk page if you are interested, or if there are any objections. Please also let me know if I've missed any existing projects. I'm notifying the WikiProjects listed at Talk:Arctic (and have also notified Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica). Please let me know if you know of any other WikiProjects centred on Arctic or polar areas. Carcharoth ( talk) 22:29, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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Hello, I just wanted to let you know about Nordbild the Nordic image database. The images there can be used freely provided you quote the source so it's perfect to upload on Wikimedia Commons. If you are active on the other Nordic Wikipedias feel free to post this information there.-- Jóhann Heiðar Árnason ( talk) 07:47, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
Hola,
Is anyone willing to give a rough translation of what this link says, and specifically could it be used as a reference for Nightingale Research Foundation and/or be useful for the AFD discussion? WLU (t) (c) (rules - simple rules) 18:28, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
Translation:
Resistance.
After many years, Norwegian physicians start taking ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis) seriously. Today and tomorrow the professor Byron M. Hyde gives guest lectures in Oslo. Hyde, hailing from Canada, is considered the foremost capacity on the chronic fatigue syndrome.
If this was a Wikipedia article we'd mark it with {{ weasel}}, because of the phrase "is considered the foremost capacity". Punkmorten ( talk) 22:00, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
A Nordic cinema task force has been proposed at WP:FILMS, which would include the cinema of Norway. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 18:11, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Hello all...
An image used in the Buøy article, specifically Image:Buoy .jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.-- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 22:43, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
We currently use "borough" as a translation of the Norwegian word "bydel" in the English Wikipedia (see e.g. Grünerløkka or Fyllingsdalen). I propose changing this to "urban district". Using the word "borough" to translate "bydel" is not supported by any reliable sources, and so violates WP:Verifiability. I believe this translation was originally used because of the boroughs of cities such as Manchester, London and New York City, which bear some similarities to the Norwegian "bydeler". However, in addition to the fact that no reliable sources employ this translation, there are several other problems: the word "borough" as used in these cities has historical connotations, which are not meaningful when using the word to translate a similar Norwegian concept. Also, US and UK boroughs usually have a high degree of self-government, while the Norwegian "bydeler" have - comparatively - very little. Now, as for the term "urban district". The term is used by Statistics Norway [4]] [5] [6] [7], which is almost the stereotypical reliable source, and an important authority on this kind of matters. It is also used by others, including the research institute NIBR [8] and NTNU. -- Aqwis ( talk – contributions) 14:03, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
I have proposed renaming of two articles Niels Juels Street and Karl Johans Street to the use of gate instead. Anyone who wants to have their say in this is welcome to voice their opinion. __ meco ( talk) 14:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
Yes that is the article title, though it does admit in the lead that it isn't acctually serfdom. Could someone with more specialised knowledge than myself please check if there's any salvageable in this oddity. Thanx. Misarxist 12:49, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
In the article Olav V of Norway there's seems to be a controversy about the inclusion of a well sourced discussion about his origin [9]. Can someone familiar with the subject and Wikipedia:Policy please look into it? The theory in question has been discussed in no:Historisk Tidsskrift (and been covered in all the main newspapers in Norway), the leading Norwegian historic journal, so removing the paragraph on the grounds that it is slander is not correct? Nsaa ( talk) 13:58, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia gives results for both spellings of the name of this physicist from Norway, who spent much of his working life in Germany. Right now the article is filed under the "Björn Wiik" (title of article in German Wikipedia) with a redirect from "Bjørn Wiik," but I wonder if it should be the other way around. betsythedevine ( talk) 13:03, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
North Sea is currently undergoing GA review. Any assistance appreciated. SriMesh | talk 00:11, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
This article about a notable Oslo theater/theater company was deleted as an expired prod, which I failed to catch. I'm sure people acquainted with this entity agrees that this would be a viable article. __ meco ( talk) 11:26, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
There seems to be a vacuum in the description of the global economic turmoils from a Norwegian vatnage point. I have made some minor efforts previously in updating related articles, but I notice that for instance Late 2000s recession has sections for most European countries, but no mention of Norway. Also the Economy of Norway article has not been updated to reflect any of the developments of the past several months. __ meco ( talk) 16:04, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
These could be useful for various WP articles. See [10]. Badagnani ( talk) 22:30, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
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Leaders before Norways independence, should they be included in this list? -- This Feels Right ( talk) 12:39, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Perhaps you could stop making unilateral changes, as the page is already glaring with errors introduced by you? Punkmorten ( talk) 19:42, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
The pages related to the prime ministers of Norway NEEDS expansion, i've started to work on Thorbjørn Jagland, but it would be nice to get some help on these articles which all have major importance... -- This Feels Right ( talk) 19:47, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
The unilateral series of moves by This Feels Right ( talk · contribs)—moving first cabinet Gerhardsen to Einar Gerhardsen's first term as Prime Minister of Norway and cabinet Jagland to Premiership of Thorbjørn Jagland—should clearly have been discussed first. The current names are obviously far out. "Premiership of Thorbjørn Jagland"? Government.no uses names like "Thorbjørn Jagland's government", for the record. Punkmorten ( talk) 20:02, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
I will give rebirth to this discussion, since the article names are bothering me a lot. I agree that the old names were not optimal, so I had a look around. Sweden has Third cabinet of Per Albin Hansson and Cabinet of Göran Persson; Denmark Cabinet of Knud Kristensen and Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I; Finland Paavo Lipponen's first cabinet; Italy Berlusconi IV Cabinet; the Netherlands Netherlands cabinet Van Agt-2; Malaysia First Tunku Abdul Rahman Ministry; and Indonesia Revised Ampera Cabinet. Personally I prefer the Swedish or Finnish solution, but perhaps without the last names. Also, I belive a cabinet is a proper noun, and therefore should be capitalized. What opinions do other people have? Arsenikk (talk) 09:38, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
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I have read the interesting article of Laura Gundersen. Before her, there is said to be only Danish actors employed at the theatre of Oslo. But they also belonged to the Norwegian theatre history. Who was the most noted actor and actresses in lso before her, in the period of 18th century-1840? It would be interesting to know more of this part of Norwegian history! regards-- 85.226.46.34 ( talk) 13:40, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
I am no expert, but I believe the page on Olav Bjaaland is understating his contribution. My recollection is that due especially to his skiing prowess, and the consequent invaluable contribution he made to the expedition, Amundsen gave him the honor of skiing ahead and actually being the very first man to cross the South Pole.
Is there anybody out there who can confirm this?
Tom Scherer 56.0.163.16 ( talk) 20:02, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
Talk:The Ali Farah case#Urgent need for cleanup - nom for DYK. 'nuf said. __ meco ( talk) 20:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm looking for information about the naming of Fredrikshald Bay in Nunavut, Canada. I believe that Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen's grandfather was born in Fredrikshald, Norway, but I haven't found anything in English to support that's the reason why the bay has this name. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 19:04, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Someone's new page. Worth saving? (I fixed the English a bit and added category:Norwegian sailors.) - Hordaland ( talk) 15:14, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
What does it take for a Norwegian settlement to earn the description village? Category:Villages in Norway first seems to say that village means tettsted, then it seems to say that it does not. Lists of villages contain settlements ranging from town-sized to ten houses by a curve in the road. Ters ( talk) 23:19, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
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Would any Norwegian-reading editors mind a look at this AfD? We're having trouble with sourcing, because there don't appear to be any in English. I know sources need not be in English, but being unable to read the sources, we can't determine notability. Thanks! StarM 00:17, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
There are many flags that are not on the wikipedia page at this address http://flagspot.net/flags/no-l0001.html#auth it will be useful to put these in to the List of Flags of Norway if you please —Preceding unsigned comment added by Admiralspockman ( talk • contribs) 02:08, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
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A recent AfD to delete articles on several minor Oslo streets was closed as no consensus. I personally am very happy about this respite and I would be glad to see more of the Oslo street articles from the Bokmål Wikipedia transferred here. Kategori:Veier i Oslo there currently holds more than 400 articles. Whew! __ meco ( talk) 09:08, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
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I added Norwegian switches to the {{ IPA-sv}} pronunciation template, and created WP:IPA for Swedish and Norwegian to go along with it. It would be nice if we could keep the same IPA values for the two languages as much as possible, since we have the pronunciations for people who don't know either language.
I would appreciate it if people here took a look, since I don't know what I'm doing! The key words are primarily Swedish, and perhaps some are not found in Norwegian? Also, the articles are inconsistent: for å, some articles have [oː] and some have [ɔː]; some show vowel length, some don't; some show stress, some don't; and none distinguish accent 1 from accent 2.
There are only about twenty articles, so if y'all could verify that the transcriptions are correct & match the key, that should help our readers. kwami ( talk) 01:37, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
I live in western Norway. My first 2 reactions are: (1) never heard of many of those Swedish words, (2) Oslo isn't Norway!!! How many times is Oslo mentioned in that article? It grates every time.
First problem can probably be solved by finding recognisable Swedish words and spelling them out in both languages. Making Norway a stepchild of Sweden is not the way to go.
You're right that in Oslo there is a 'sh' sound in 'fersk', but not anywhere I've lived in the country.
Vowels are, of course, tricky. To me 'hel' (whole) in Norwegian doesn't sound much at all like 'hail'. And the 'a' that I say in 'ago' is way different from the 'e' in 'begå'. Maybe the (first, unstressed) 'e' in bedeck?
'kj' is not formed like any English sound, but it sounds a lot like 'ch'; it's formed at the back of the tongue without any 't' sound. Einar Haugen's dictionary says it's like the 'Ch' in the German 'Chemie'.
Good luck! If it's any comfort, Danish will be worse :-) - Hordaland ( talk) 20:23, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
The elections were yesterday, and the results are more or less ready. However I'd say that we wait until we get good, solid sources. Wait adding missing biographies, for instance. www.stortinget.no should be a good source in not too long. Geschichte ( talk) 07:16, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
Noen bedre oversettelse av "geologiske forekomster" enn "geological deposits" - noen som har det (skjønt det er jo mest kvartærgeologi som er interessant, og da er kanskje deposits ikke så dumt lell?)
Noen som vet hvordan man får tekstbryting rundt innholdsboksen?
-- Carl S. Bj ( talk) 10:25, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
Are there any such? There was a link on WP:Naming conventions (now moved to WP:PRNC) telling people to come here to find such (proposed) conventions, but there don't seem to be any. I'm removing the link from WP:PRNC, but please readd such a link there or at WP:NC if there's a relevant page to link to. Thanks,-- Kotniski ( talk) 16:11, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
I have been working on this for some months, and intend shortly to submit it for WP:Peer review. It is I think an appropriate article for Project Norway, and I would be pleased to have any comments, criticisms or suggestions from members of the project. Brianboulton ( talk) 09:47, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I have proposed to move Ivar Andresen to Ivar F. Andresen. Your opinion is appreciated at the article's talk page. Regards, decltype ( talk) 09:59, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
Currently on the English Wikipedia, there is a single article for municipalities and their administrative center if they have the same name. For instance, there is only one article about Steinkjer, although 'Steinkjer' is two different things: a municipality and a town, where the municipality took the name of the largest settlement in 1964. In the neighboring municipality of Verdal, the administrative center (despite being smaller than Steinkjer) has its own article, because there the administrative center has a different name than the municipality, i.e. Verdalsøra. I would guess that about half the municipalities in Norway take their name from the main town or village, while the remaining have this separate. In Sweden-related article, they have taken this into account, and have created different articles, for instance Strömsund Municipality and Strömsund, where the latter is about the village while the former is about the municipality. Is this an appropriate naming convention? Personally I like it, but alternatives would be to use Foo (municipality) and Foo (village/town/city) or Foo and Foo (village/town/city). The most important issue is if a person who types in 'Steinkjer' comes to the article about the municipality or the town. Any ideas anyone? Arsenikk (talk) 09:58, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
We now have a new article Bergen (municipality). Geschichte ( talk) 10:58, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
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Looking at the page for norwegian jazz musicians is noticed that Ketil Bjornstad did not get a mention. Is he Norwegian? If so he deserves to be in there.
Regards,
Brendan Singleton Ireland —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.45.73.69 ( talk) 19:37, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
is within project Novels and project Denmark. Seems like it also should be in project Norway? It takes place here, after all. (På ein måte...) - Hordaland ( talk) 15:35, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I learned something new today. According to Talk:Nansen's Fram expedition#Note on "Christiania", the English name is Christiania and not Kristiania. Thus, Kristiania should not be used for Oslo, not even between 1870s-1890s and 1925. I have personally used Kristiania in some 500-1000 articles, so it will take long to fix. Any comments? Geschichte ( talk) 10:57, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Within Project Runeberg I have digitized Merkantilt biografisk leksikon : hvem er hvem i næringslivet? (1935). I hope it can be a useful reference source for biographic articles. -- LA2 ( talk) 10:11, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I was thinking we need to have a Norwegian Explorer Stub like the British one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_explorer_stubs.
Does anyone have experience doing this ? Your thoughts ? ( Ice Explorer ( talk) 16:59, 14 November 2009 (UTC))
Looking at assessments of articles within this WikiProject, I often find that articles rated as B-class don't actually come close to meeting the B-class criteria. Most of the time, it's because an article lacks references. If it doesn't have at least one reference per paragraph, I think it's safe to say that the article can be degraded at once - to C-class or Start.
On the other hand, it's good if sources can be added, so that B-class can be reached. But this is not necessarily excpected of editors. It's cool, too, if one just handles the assessment. Geschichte ( talk) 22:01, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
I need a working translation of the quote from sogneprest Krogh. Can anyone help please ?
oplyser om at bygningen senere hadde tjent som herremag, altså den bekvemmelighet som almuen så vel i middelalderen som langt ned i efterreformatorisk tid skulde vedlikeholde på enhver prestegård av hensyn til biskopenes ophold under sine visitaser; ved en åbotsforretning 3. sept. 1787 erklærte sogneprest Krogh at han i likhet med sine forgjengere vilde holde «det gamle stenhus . . . vedlige som en Antikvitet, uden ringeste Udgift for Almuen, da det ej længer passer som Almuens saakaldede Herregemak»; i en innberetning til Selskabet for Norges Vel av 29. aug. 1812 meddelte E. Møllerop ( Ice Explorer ( talk) 02:53, 15 November 2009 (UTC))
The organization doesn't have "Benefit" in its name, but is rather called the Royal Norwegian Society for Development - see this. Geschichte ( talk) 22:00, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I have some drawings of parts of the Alexander L. Kielland oil-rig which had an accident in 1980.
This drawings are from: The "Alexander L. Kielland"-accident: From a Commission Appointed by Royal Decree of 28th March, 1980 : Report Presented to Ministry of Justice and Police, March 1981 (NOU 1981:11)
The English translation of §9 of Act No. 2 of 12 May 1961 relating to Copyright in Literary, Scientific and Artistic Works, etc., states:
Because I can't read the text in the original language, there ist the question:
Is a simple technical drawing (more a sketch with comments) public domain or are there mistakes in the above translation using the terms "artistic works" and "works of art" and also a technical drawing is seen as "art"?
The drawings are on the Commons at petroleum production of norway (they are coloured by myself because the originals were not so good)
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Ulvik Lutheran Church is currently up at AfD. Since coverage is probably mostly limited to Norwegian sources, some Norwegian eyes might be beneficial to the discussion. Regards, decltype ( talk) 08:53, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
Commons:Category:Population graphs for Norwegian municipalities contains image files of population graphs for all of Norway's municipalities. At least the Bokmål, Nynorsk and Spanish Wikipedias have availed themselves of this resource. It has even been included in the municipality infobox, see no:Rauma. __ meco ( talk) 17:44, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
There is a village in Hallingdal, called Dagali, which is not mentioned in the article. A history going back 1,000 years was written by Kare Soensterud. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Genedoug ( talk • contribs) 02:54, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
Could anyone here who knows about Norwegian names and characters (letters) help out here? Thanks! Carcharoth ( talk) 05:50, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
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Hi,
I was talking about reconvalescence with Anne Karin Elstad. Here is som feil about years. That mean at she wasn't sick eight years but seven.
Sincerly Margareth. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Singritt ( talk • contribs) 19:45, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
This article needs some copy editing and a little work to reach GA. Thanks. Viriditas ( talk) 00:47, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi! I started Niels Torp - If anyone wants to assist with the article, please do so. WhisperToMe ( talk) 15:11, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
Editor Hectorthebat has made several articles about roads/railways in Norway, and the articles have major MOS/cleanup issues. I don't know anything of Wikipedia's guidelines regarding roads and railways, and I think some of the stuff might need some translation, so could someone look at them? Recent examples include: Riksvei 171, Riksvei 174, Riksvei 181, Sand, Akershus, Riksvei 120 and Riksvei 22. I also put in a help request at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transport. Thanks, PDCook ( talk) 17:03, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
Started GAR here. GamerPro64 ( talk) 16:12, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
We could need some input at Talk:New Church, Bergen#Recent move. Rettetast ( talk) 15:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
According to several sources,
Store norske leksikon online, in its current form, is going to be discontinued from July 2010. This is a popular lightweight online source for a variety of Norwegian topics, and a large number of our articles link to it. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to best deal with the
link rot that will inevitably occur, and if possible, ensure that everything that is currently available under SNL's free license,
[12] will also be available in some form in the future?
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I have started working on Wikipedia:WikiProject Norway/Unreferenced BLPs. Any help is appreciated. Rettetast ( talk) 21:33, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
The Ivar Hippe has been hold on in a while without any reviews, so i thought it would be good to post this here to buy any reviewer interest. -- TIAYN ( talk) 21:39, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Article request: Sjursøya accident. Geschichte ( talk) 23:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
Hei hei. Please see Talk:Norway House, Manitoba. I'm wondering if anyone here might know anything about a party of convicts or ex-convicts hired by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1814-1817, who Canadian sources say built Norway House; any idea what prison, and why they were contracted out? Maybe there's a related item in Norewgian history? Or maybe they were Norwegian prisoners in a jail in the Orkneys or elsewhere in Scotland? I'm familiar with later Norwegian immigration to Canada, I'd never heard this before.....though come to think of it I'm unsure of when Norwegians began to come to Eastern/Maritime Canada....I know the first in British Columbia came with the gold rush of 1858-59, and from what I know of a friend's family in Labrador they're part Norwegian, several generations back....I've been meaning for quite a while to start History of Norwegian immigration to Canada and a companion piece for the US (actually a combined "to North America" article might be more viable since there was so much back-and-forth between the two countries). Norway House is a puzzle though; I'd never heard of Norwegian settlers that early in the 19th Century in Manitoba.... Skookum1 ( talk) 14:59, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
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Please see Talk:Kragerø. Skookum1 ( talk) 04:12, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
Luis.luque ( talk) 02:36, 5 April 2010 (UTC)The article about Snus should be removed from the project Norway.
Please see Talk:Ulriken#anthem by Lully Skookum1 ( talk) 15:19, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
I think he was the first Norwegian pro bodybuilder, or the first one to rank internationally anyway. There must have been other Norwegian champions, i.e. that got pro cards, but I'm unaware of any that "made a mark" in IFBB pro shows; I wanted to add this to the article but don't have a cite for it; if it's wrong, please kibbitz/quibble. Paulsen's homepage also says he was in championship soccer, skiing and skating, but maybe that was only at an adolescent or junior or otherwise non-notable level but maybe, if an adult, he has competition records that could be cited (I've asked him for clarification directly); he was also on the 1980 Olympic weightlifting team but of course did not compete because of the boycott of the Moscow Games; not sure if there's a Norwegian national team weightlifting page.... I also made a bio for Tommi Thorvildsen; if anyone knows other ranked/notable Norwegian bodybuilders please let me know; Arild Haugen has also competed in bodybuilding but I don't know his show rankings. Skookum1 ( talk) 16:53, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
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There is a number of places (particularly island and archipelagos) in Svalbard which have the article at a translated name; for instance Bear Island (Norway) (Bjørnøya), Barents Island (Barentsøya), Prince Charles Foreland (Prins Karls Forland). At first I just presumed that these were the common place names used in English, but the more sources I found, the less evidence there is that they are commonly translated into their English counterparts. So far, all the English-language sources I have found have used the "Norwegian" term; this includes Guide to Spitsbergen by Umbreit (2005), the The Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management, CIA World Factbook, the Norwegian Government, The Governor of Svalbard, the Norwegian Polar Institute's database of place names, Aftenposten, and The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. The only reference to the "English" name is Alistair McLean's novel: Bear Island (novel), and a mix of use at this scientific article. I tried googling both, and although there were lots of hits of "Bear Island", I saw no immediate reliable sources. Arsenikk (talk) 19:07, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
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Somewhat related: is the Old Town Bridge an original research name or is it indeed referred to as such? Geschichte ( talk) 07:50, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 April 16#Norwegian local politicians by county. __ meco ( talk) 12:50, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Our coverage of this border dispute is deplorable. I think it was mentioned in one sentence in Norway–Russia relations which was expanded today with another sentence briefly mentioning today's historic resolution. There are several articles on the Bokmål Wikipedia on this. __ meco ( talk) 14:14, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
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Would someone mind photographing Diamanten in Fornebu, Norway? (Wikipedians in Oslo should be in proximity) WhisperToMe ( talk) 09:12, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Does WP Norway have any task forces? Kingjeff ( talk) 14:46, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello, there is currently a rename proposal over at WP:CFD for the categories of Norwegian local politicians and would like to invite members of this WikiProject to the discussion, which can be found here. Thank you. — ξ xplicit 23:24, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
We need a good photo of a dinner plate with raspeballar og det som hører til. The only one I found on Norwegian Wikipedia has slimey green raspeballar -- enough so to kill anyone's appetite. Can someone please upload to Commons a better picture? Thanks. -- Hordaland ( talk) 13:26, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kaja Bordevich Ballo. Thank you for your time, -- Cirt ( talk) 00:44, 28 May 2010 (UTC)
Where is the consensus for changes such as this? The generic "settlement" template does not show the county and the municipality's location within it (instead it just puts a pin on a large map) or the official language form. Perhaps these templates could be merged together? Hayden120 ( talk) 00:18, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
You may be interested in voicing your opinion at current CFD nomination, as it also concerns Category:Cities and towns in Norway. - Darwinek ( talk) 11:28, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
I suspect this should be renamed to Category:Former farms in Norway, Category:Historic farms in Norway or Category:Abandoned farms in Norway, but I would like the input of someone more who may have specialist knowledge. Is "Historic Farm" an official designation? I know in Norway, the definition of "farm" is broader than in most English-language countries; does that make a difference to the type of article that should be found in this category? Some help with this would be appreciated! TheGrappler ( talk) 01:38, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
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13:53, 16 July 2010 (UTC)An RFC of the spelling of Spitsbergen is taking place here. An issue with the lede of the Spitsbergen article is also subject to an RFC here. Comments welcome on both. Mjroots ( talk) 11:18, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
For some weeks now I have been expanding the Nansen article and will shortly be putting the finishing touches. Memnbers of WikiProject Norway are welcome to leave any comments on the article's talkpage. Brianboulton ( talk) 18:56, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
The List of Norwegian battles was created some time ago, but is still an orphan stub. It could use some work itself, but also contains too many redd links to important Norweian battles needing an article. Hope someone takes the challenge :) Inge ( talk) 18:09, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
I've made a request for this project to get its own entry in Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject. Once created, it will be available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Norway/Popular pages. I've currently asked for it to include 500 pages, but if anyone believe it should contain more, you can edit the request here. The edit key is f4981e5. lil2mas ( talk) 14:30, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
A number of Norwegian wikipedians are attending the Oslo Book Festival ( http://www.oslobokfestival.no/), September 17 – September 19. We will there promote the various Wikimedia projects, as well as recruit members to Wikimedia Norway. We'll bring laptops and show live demos of editing, hand out printed copies of (Norwegian) featured articles, and generally talk to visitors about how they can participate and show their support. We welcome all Wikipedia editors to join us, please see this page for more information (in Norwegian). Regards, -- Kjetil_r 10:01, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps someone coulld give it some attention? __ meco ( talk) 16:25, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
I have reported these two articles at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard:
__ meco ( talk) 16:28, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
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This article has now been replaced by a copyvio banner. If someone has some spare time on their hands to assist in sorting out the problem, that would be great. __ meco ( talk) 17:12, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
Should the Years in Norway articles including less significant information such as ALL winners of local reality shows, establishment dates of ALL Norwegian bands (including minor bands), etc? Please express your opinion here. TheCuriousGnome ( talk) 18:47, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
I figure since Norway performs well at Speed skating, that there might be editors here interested in a WikiProject for the sport. If there are any, I created a proposal where you can vote to support or oppose the creation of such a project! See it here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Speed Skating. Forgive me if this is inappropriate! Cheers, on camera (t) 04:24, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Does anyone but me think that there categories are ridiculous? What about the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, should they have categories for 1760, 70s, 80s, 90s, 1800s, 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 1900s, 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s? Geschichte ( talk) 07:11, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
I realize that my creating an edifice for a category hierarchy such as this one is rather drastic. One reason I did it without consulting anyone was that from my considerable experience in dealing with (including creating) similar wide-ranging hierarchies, people need to see what they look like before they are able to make a rational opinion about their viability and usefulness – otherwise very many people are just going to reject it offhand, partly because they don't see all the areas of practical usefulness as I do or simply because they don't get the hang of it ("I don't understand what this is about, so it must be a stupid idea").
If at any time someone makes up their mind that this is a really bad idea that there's no justification for trying on for size, a successful CfD umbrella nomination will swiftly and (relatively) uncomplicatedly restore all articles to their original state while the categories themselves get deleted.
Now to my suggestion. Or an idea, more like it. As the number of categories from this scheme added to one single article could become considerable, it would also by many be considered obtrusive. I conceived a thought in bed last night that perhaps could remedy that by making these hidden categories and instead supply each of the articles with a well-designed, discreet navbox at the bottom of the page, perhaps of the size of the {{ wiktionary}} box, perhaps even using a graphical bar of ten seamless and consecutive segments to mark each century (I'm no graphical artist so I'm just presenting raw ideas here).
I would be content to do the work of setting up this hierarchy with requisite connecting categories to interface with existing structures as well as creating navigational templates for the hierarchy (similar to what is used at Category:1990s in Norway) as well as populate the categories, that is unless others would want to pitch in also.
I'll appreciate continuing feedback on this initiative. In the meantime I'll continue tweaking and fiddling with these and other category structures that I am currently working on. __ meco ( talk) 11:54, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
How to translate the word "knot" in the phrase "det kohtske knot"? Geschichte ( talk) 13:04, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
The RV Belgica (1884) article has been created. It is short on details of the arctic expeditions of 1905 and 1907-09. Are any members of this WP able to expand the "later history" section of the article. There must be books on the subject of the expeditions that could be used. Mjroots ( talk) 14:17, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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An important question regarding the Norwegian ministry articles. Arsenikk told me that i was a bit hasty when it came to move the "Norwegian Ministry of (something)" articles to Ministry of Something (Norway)".. Most ministry articles here on wiki follow the Ministry of something (country), should the Norwegian ministries follow this model or should we have the "Norwgian Ministry of something" instead? -- TIAYN ( talk) 16:46, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
"Zoning plans are scheduled to be approved by the Oslo City Council on 18 July 2008." Article needs some work; information is dated. -- Hordaland ( talk) 00:13, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
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I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick ( talk) 21:24, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
I see that the article East End and West End of Oslo, which I translated from the Swedish translation of the Norwegian original, has been assessed as C-class. The original Norwegian article has Featured Article status, and the Swedish translation has Good Article status. Are the quality standards on the English Wikipedia that much higher? JIP | Talk 09:59, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
I'm just posting a couple of odd pages here for inspiration as to ways of expanding this hierarchy:
The second one may be rather "out there", but at least the first one would conceivable work even for us. Or how about a collaboration: 2009 in Nordic literature? __ meco ( talk) 07:56, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
I am very surprised to find that the en: wikipedia lacks an article on this important coronation church. (The only other version with an article is the Spanish Wikipedia.) I would translate a quick stub from the no: wikipedia myself, but my Norwegian is lamentable, so probably better if someone competent does it. Cheers. -- Mais oui! ( talk) 04:25, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
I encourage this WikiProject to help update that article with regional data and incidents. Winter of 2009–2010 in Europe#Norway isn't much to brag about, so let's try and be a bit proactive for the current season of anomalous winter weather. __ meco ( talk) 15:24, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
We have separates articles on Akershus and Akershus County Municipality, but we don't have this separation when it comes to municipalities. Even Oslo has everything about the city, including local government conflated into one article. I don't like this. Is everyone else happy about the current state of affairs? __ meco ( talk) 15:25, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
The featured article candidacy for the Black Friday (1945) article (which I nominated and which covers an Allied air raid on German shipping in Norway) hasn't recieved any comments for over a week. Any comments and votes (including opposes, of course) would be appreciated at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Black Friday (1945)/archive1. Thanks, Nick-D ( talk) 10:26, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
A newly registered user has made some posts on my talk page suggesting articles be written, i.e. Veterans of Norwegian military operations and Warrior culture of Norwegian soldiers. Please check out User talk:Meco#Norwegian veterans and the subsequent section too. __ meco ( talk) 13:49, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
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Would there be anyone interested in helping me develop the Einar Gerhardsen, the first post-war Prime Minister of Norway, article? I have access to all of Gerhardsen's memoirs (which are now all out of print) and one biography written about him. Again, would anyone of you be interested in working with me to develop the Gerhardsen article? -- TIAYN ( talk) 08:55, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
I have nominated List of former municipalities of Norway for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Arsenikk (talk) 12:53, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
I just came across Category:Musical groups from Jacksonville, Florida. Perhaps we should expand and diffuse the current categorization of Norwegian musical groups a bit? __ meco ( talk) 21:20, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
{{ RNoAF Squadron}} has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.14.196 ( talk) 06:02, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
Category:People by district in Norway was just created and has thus far been populated with two sub-categories. What immediately troubles me about these categories is that they are being inserted between municipalities and counties. That isn't good, is it? __ meco ( talk) 23:40, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi! For those of you in Bodø, I have a photo request:
Thank you, WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:24, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
I have nominated the article Norwegian diaspora for deletion - the article is a list that synthesises various sources that use the notion of "norwegian" in incompatible ways either as citizen or as a person claiming to have Norwegian ancestors - this creates a false number of how many Norwegians are living outside of Norway and an image of an actual Diasporic community that is not supported by any sources. Please comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Norwegian diaspora. ·Maunus·ƛ· 16:13, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Deleted sevral poorly cited claims in the opposition section. Whale song, whale-poo that fight global warming and cells in whales that match human cells. Within these claims there were also sevral other claims about barbarism and opposition to whaling from counties that were not quoted from anywhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Truls86 ( talk • contribs) 02:38, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Hi there guys. I've been trying to verify the material we have at Ferking and Ferkingstad, and I'd appreciate any help I can get. Those two articles, and some related information in Augvald and Karmøy, were all added in 2007 by an editor who doesn't seem to have communicated their sources very well. The only sources listed in the two articles are either not reliable or not verifiable, Google web search results only show unreliable sources or copies of Wikipedia, and neither Google Scholar nor Google Books seem to know anything about either the person or the village. You would expect the village, at least, to have some web footprint even if not in English. Basically, does anyone have any sources to verify that the subjects of these articles actually existed? I am far from an expert on Norwegian topics and do not want to jump right to calling them hoaxes, but I can't find anything verifiable at all. Any assistance is appreciated. — Gavia immer ( talk) 23:14, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion at Talk:Norwegian diaspora#Renaming about a proposal to rename the entry. I'm notifying this Wikiproject since the entry is a part of it. Griswaldo ( talk) 18:33, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
For your information, Scandinavian diaspora has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.12.101 ( talk) 04:32, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
Currently, the majority of articles on places in Norway that also happen to be a municipality contain the following text in the lead section: "[place name] was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt)". I find this to be a bit misleading, as that date refers to the creation of the system of municipalities (previously, Norway was instead administratively divided into parishes). However, the current text can make it sound like the settlements in question were established in 1838.
For example, the article Tønsberg says in the second paragraph of the lead: "The city of Tønsberg was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838". This makes it sound like Tønsberg was founded in 1838, when it has in fact been a city since the Viking ages, with full trading rights as a city for many hundred years prior to 1838.
I believe that this information, related to a technicality about the organisation of administrative districts of Norway, should not be so prominent in the lead section of every article on a municipality. Instead, this fact should be explained on the Municipalities of Norway page, or alternatively, mentioned in a paragraph about the area's history, instead of in the lead. Theis101 ( talk) 11:08, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
Template:Former possessions of Norway is being considered for deletion. See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. Ben Mac Dui 12:48, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
I need help over at no:Mal:Flagg/Storbritannia please. The flags for the civil and naval ensigns need to be added. I've tried my best to code these, but it's not working for me. Template:Country data United Kingdom will show what I am trying to achieve. Suggest alternative names of civil and naval are used. I've already coded the no:FLK «Maudie» page with the flag, but it is showing as the Union Flag and not the Red Ensign. Thanks in advance, Mjroots ( talk) 10:44, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Hey all. I see that WP:JA has a reference library where editors of the project have listed books they have in their disposition, so that other editors can have "access" to them. Could this be an idea for us as well? -- Eisfbnore talk 03:14, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
How am I supposed to translate "høyere almenskole" into English? -- Eisfbnore talk 08:39, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
Discussion is underway regarding the use of diacritics in proper nouns from languages such as Norwegian. Comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)/Diacritics RfC. Prolog ( talk) 19:22, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
There is a dicussion of this man's status as King and his article title at Talk:Svein, King of Norway. If interested please join in the discussion.-- Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy ( talk) 04:49, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
Hi folks, I was thinking of creating a naming standard for railway accidents in Norway. Any suggestions? Right now, the articles in Category:Railway accidents in Norway are using completely different names; some have '*year* *place* *accident*', some '*month* *year* *accident*', whilst the majority have '*place* train *disaster/crash*'. I would appreciate any ideas on how we can standardise this. -- Eisfbnore talk 20:43, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
A naming standard could apply to other fields. In aviation accidents, we have some with "Flight xxx", and some with cryptic names like Bukken Bruse disaster and Havørn Accident. Geschichte ( talk) 21:31, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
I cannot see that "Nordic Feminist University" is a legit English translation of the institution in question. Geschichte ( talk) 18:05, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
The owners of the domain http://www.kvinneuniversitetet.no are not affiliated with this institution (see [17] for an overview of various institutions with similar names). Feminist university is the common English translation of kvinneuniversitet. The translation "women's university" is rather misleading, it's not a women's college or a university for women as that term would generally imply in the English-speaking world, but rather an institution focusing on feminist studies ("kvinneforskning" in Norwegian). One of the other feminist universities, Kvinneuniversitetet Nord, used the translation "Northern Feminist University" [18]. Feminist university is the term used by the founder of the first such institution and co-founder of this one, Berit Ås (B. Ås, "The Feminist University." Women's studies international quarterly no. 4 1985). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toriland ( talk • contribs) 18:38, 19 July 2011 (UTC)