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Välkommen! This is a notice board for Swedes, Swedish citizens or anyone interested in Swedish topics. Premise:

1. For a while, we kept record of new articles related to Sweden. See /New articles.
2. We list articles needing improvements or images, at /Other requests for improvement. Red links are at /Requested articles.
3. We report "Pages listed at Articles for Deletion" related to Sweden.
4. On #Current Projects we follow Sweden-related projects.
5. In the section #News we put all news. Old news of current will be moved to #Announcements.
6. The bottom of the page lists the participants.

Contents 1 News 1.1 Pages listed on Articles for Deletion 2 Announcements 2.1 Press 2.2 Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(Swedish) 3 Possible candidates for deletion 4 Current Projects 4.1 Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon 5 Stub messages 6 WikiProjects on Sweden-related topics 7 Resources 7.1 Our sub pages 7.2 Other 7.3 External 8 List of participants

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• There is currently a dispute going on at Talk:Elena Paparizou on what nationality should be mentioned in the introduction, with some Greek people claiming that Paparizou (who was both born, raised and started her artistic career from Sweden) should be referred to as only "Greek" and not "Greek-Swedish". It would be good if as many people as possible could comment and give their view on the issue. /Slarre 22:34, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I think the most important thing is to try and find what Wikipedia's guidelines says. Having a bunch of Swedes defending her Swedish heritage is unlikely to yield much. / Fred-Chess 15:30, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

• Dagens Nyheter today featured an article (here) discussing the Wikipedia project, which has been added to Wikipedia:Press coverage along with a translated quote. Feel free to correct possible Swenglish in the translation. October 7, 2005.

[edit] Pages listed on Articles for Deletion

• User:Rory096 put the Invisible Party (Osynliga Partiet) up for speedy deletion. It certainly doesn't qualify as the entity has been discussed by the government, in hundreds of articles, and in many debates. It's been reported on outside Sweden and it has 87 300 googlehits. [1] -Dna4salE 06:41, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
  • No, it shouldn't be deleted. The article on Swedish Wikipedia was initially deleted, but once the "party" was recognized in media, the article was restored. / Fred-Chess 11:01, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

• I put the article for John Hron up for a vote for deletion earlier this week. The discussion so far seems to indicate that he has some notability but editors so far have not improved the article beyond a stub. If he is notable enough, I ask that someone who might know more about the subject add to the article and save what could be a good article. If he's notable, I'd rather keep the article but right now as the article stands, the subject doesn't sound too notable to me. If this is the wrong place for this, sorry. It looked like this would be the place for this to go. Thanks, Dismas|^(talk) 07:38, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

/Old news | /Previous articles listed on Votes for deletion

[edit] Announcements

• At March 15, in Gothenburg, Wikimedia Sverige will have årsmöte (general assembly?).
• In December 2007, Wikimedia Sverige was approved as an official Swedish chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation. During the first two months, we have exhibited at two conferences (Internetdagarna, Stockholm; FSCONS, Göteborg). Our first little brochure is now also available in English (PDF).
• A start up meeting for a Wikimedia Sverige is due on October 20, 2007 at sv:Naturhistoriska riksmuseet. Relevant info will be found on Meta:Wikimedia Sverige, preparation dicussions can be found on sv:Wikipedia:Wikimedia Sverige. Anders Wennersten 09.31, 24 August 2007
• Discussions on how to market Wikimedia projects in Sweden and possibly start a national chapter (Wikimedia Sweden) have started on the Swedish Wikipedia, see sv:Wikipedia:Wikimedia Sverige and also my postings to foundation-l and wikisv-l (archive open to list members). The discussion also continues at a wiki café meeting in Stockholm this Sunday (July 22, 2007). --LA2 22:06, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
• Swedish government glossaries, from sweden.gov.se. They include descriptions of governmental and administrative functions in English. We may move them to /Terminology.
• A bit of statistics: In August, a total of 209 new Swedish-related articles were found and listed in the new articles list - an average of 6.8 articles a day. (Note that the figure includes a number of music albums by Swedish artists and other, erm, specialist topics.) 39 of the created articles had been previously listed as requests on this page. Many of them, however, are still rather short stubs. / Alarm 12:00, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
• The Swedish province articles were moved from Latin to Swedish names in May/June, e.g Ostrogothia --> Östergötland. If you see Latin provincial names, you are encouraged to change them, except in the case of Scania where both Skåne and Scania are OK forms. Arguments or comments can be presented at Talk:Skåne.
• We now have excellent coverage of the stone age. If anyone chances to be interested in these matters, s/he can read the articles on Kongemose culture, Fosna-Hensbacka culture, Nøstvet and Lihult cultures, Pitted Ware culture, Alvastra pile-dwelling, Ahrensburg culture, Bromme culture, Hamburg culture, Corded Ware culture, Funnelbeaker culture, Ertebølle culture, Maglemosian culture. 18 August 2005

[edit] Press

• If you are not active on Swedish Wikipedia you might not have caught the latest news [2]. Bad press from Aftonbladet and Expressen on our Prince Gustaf Adolf (talk) and Gustav V (talk). Read Expressen article.
• A recent review of Swedish Wikipedia was also made by Sydsvenska Dagbladet, August 19th 2006. It quoted discussions on Bybrunnen (the Village Pump), and it had interviewed three prominent editors. The article started off in a non-flattering way by comparing Wikipedia to a public toilet run by pedants, but it became nicer by the end. The article can be accessed, in Swedish, at [3].

[edit] Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(Swedish)

After the debate on WP:HOCKEY about respelling Swedish people not using swedish characters I wrote a comment at the village pump that User:Francis Schonken made into a policy proposal. Please review, edit and comment. Stefan 01:00, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

A commendable initiative. But is it really necessary? I don't know. / Fred-Chess 17:25, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

If you want the names of swedes to be spelled without ÅÄÖ since that is how they are spelled most of the time (does not matter what how you spell inside Sweden, since it is very small), then no, did you see the debate at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ice_Hockey/Player_pages_format#non english diacritics and how they started moving e.g. Börje Salming to Borje Salming and so on, obviously this is not that importaint, but still as a Swede i think English wikipedia is for all people speaking English, not for North Americans only and therefore we should spell people with their right name and redirect for 'english' spelling. If you read current Wikipedia:Naming conventions you should spell in the way a majority of English speakers would most easily recognize the name and that is not using swedish character. Nevermind the proposal is up. Stefan 03:58, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible candidates for deletion

• Furbo , a village that does not establish notability. Fred-Chess 18:50, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
• Bjärv , a folk musical group
• Kristian Walker, Tsunami victim who posthumously was the center of a tabloid news story based on a rumour that soon turned out to be false. I'd say he's not notable, filing this under "Wikipedia is not a memorial" as per September 11 precedent, but I'd like to hear other's views before listing it. / Alarm 23:25, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Personally, I feel that this victim is perhaps a little more notable than other victims of the tsunami, due to the additional press coverage. I remember this case making headlines here in the UK, including BBC coverage. Also, I note that the tone of the entry isn't particularly gushing - sometimes, this type of article uses language such as "beautiful child", "innocent victim", "appalling tragedy", etc. However, on the other hand, I'm sure that many, many more of the victims of the tsunami had unique circumstances which people would say makes them notable, and many of them made headlines in their own right (although perhaps not to the same international extent), so I doubt that I would actively oppose a proposal for deletion. CLW 06:39, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

I mostly oppose deletiions on AfD whenever I can find a reason, but must agree that it is hard to see this as notable. If you post it to AfD, I'll support deletion. Williamborg (Bill) 00:07, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

• Unique Party - I'm putting this up here as a reminder to delete it after the election if it turns out to be a hoax. -Obli (Talk)^? 17:56, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Current Projects

• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team - Sweden. Taking Sweden-related article to a stable status. Many articles are decent, but need major rewrite, supervision, or copyedit, in order to reach a 1.0 status. Work with Wikipedia:Swedish Wikipedians' notice board/Swedish quality articles. / Fred-Chess 09:46, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
• Wikireaders. After German influences, we have decided to initiate a English "WikiReader Sweden". This WikiReader should be able to be printed and published. The WikiReader is distributed as pdf files, and unlike wikipedia articles they extensively cover its subject: in our case Sweden. A first attempt WikiReader currently only including Stockholm, looks like this: Image:Stockholm Wikireader first draft.pdf. Comments and critique should be made at our talk page. // Fred-Chess 13:19, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

• Sweden's Municipalities
  • Current status: Most municipalities have been improved. Remaining municipalites are: Municipalities of Östergötland County and Municipality of Uppsala County. Fred-Chess 20:26, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon

See Swedish Wikipedians' notice board/Biography and Swedish Wikipedians' notice board/Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon

[edit] Stub messages

Consider tagging very short Sweden-related articles, with a Sweden designated stub tag. For general Sweden-stubs, write this {{sweden-stub}} at the bottom of the article. (All such articles are listed in Category:Sweden stubs)

Several subcategories exist:

• For Swedish geography-related stubs, {{Sweden-geo-stub}} (articles listed in Category:Sweden geography stubs)
• For Swedish biography stubs, {{Sweden-bio-stub}} (Category:Swedish people stubs)
• For Swedish politician biography stubs, {{Swedish-politician-stub}} ( Category:Swedish politician stubs).
• For Swedish actor biography stubs, {{Sweden-actor-stub}} (Category:Swedish actor stubs).

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In addition, external links to webpages that are only in the Swedish language, can be marked by a template called template:sv icon, inserted by typing {{sv icon}} in front of the link (displaying this image (Swedish)).

[edit] WikiProjects on Sweden-related topics

• WikiProject Swedish municipalities
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Sweden

[edit] Resources

[edit] Our sub pages

• /Terminology English translations of Swedish terms.
• /Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon SBH's entire list of biographies.
• /New articles
• /Old articles
• /Old news
• /Completed requests and finished projects
• /image requests
• /Swedish quality articles

[edit] Other

• List of Sweden-related topics

[edit] External

• Nordisk familjebok, Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon,
• Sverige.se Government information portal
• LIBRIS Web Search The Swedish Royal Library catalogue
• Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB), good for checking etymology and historic occurrences of concepts
• Statistics Sweden (SCB) database - with information on national and local demographics, economy and much more.

[edit] List of participants

• Fred chessplayer 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• up+land 19:25, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Alarm 21:23, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Solkoll 20:47, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) if I have got the time, (a lot of RL work to do this summer =)
• Jebur 29 June 2005 14:43 (UTC)
• Salleman 30 June 2005 21:46 (UTC)
• Johan Elisson 30 June 2005 22:16 (UTC)
• Fredrik | talk 1 July 2005 02:29 (UTC)
• Wiglaf 3 July 2005 17:17 (UTC)
• adamrush 6 July 2005 00:09 (UTC)
• Haukurth 16:14, 17 July 2005 (UTC) Currently doing 19th century Swedish artists like Mårten Eskil Winge.
• Etnoy 19:48, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
• Tfine80 22:12, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
• Smartskaft 17:20, August 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Jeltz talk 20:58, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
• CLW 10:33, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
• Williamborg 05:28, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
• P.MacUidhir 23:44, 29 August 2005 (UTC) (mostly articles dealing with history, religion, or language)
• 9cds 11:37, 1 November 2005 (UTC) (slowly working through translating tv/movies/actor nodes)
• Obli 00:12, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Gunnar Larsson 15:54, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
• Aaker 21:38, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
• Henrik 20:04, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• StabiloBoss 15:04, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Tamino 09:37, 19 March 2006 (UTC) (at the moment mainly politics)
• Ahruman 06:41, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
• Grön ^sv 18:12, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
• Osli73 20:13, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
• Yupik 15:48, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
• Arker 03:09, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
• RicJac 15:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
• EliasAlucard (talk · contribs) 23:43 01 Oct, 2007 (UTC)