Talk:Provinces of Sweden

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The basic templates for each of the province articles are covered in two WikiProjects: WikiProject Swedish provinces and WikiProject historical provinces in Finland. -- Mic 08:02 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Why are you using the outdated Latinized forms of the province names, names never used and only to be found in age-old official Swedish documents? In English, or any other non-Swedish, literature you will only find the Swedish names or transcripts thereof (Scania-Skåne being the sole exception). And when the Latinzed forms are nothing but transcripts themselves why not use the normal Swedish/English names that, not surprisingly, actually are used by all other sources?: Matle 15:54, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] These 'landskap' are not archaic!

The English Wikipedia gives the impression that the Swedish Provinces are some archaic division of Sweden no longer used and very much written in the past tense (and for some reason even uses the old latin names). This is completely wrong. The provinces may not have anything to do with the current governance of the the country, but they are still very much used as geographic regions, and identity for the people who live in them. Wikipedia in this instance has even posioned Google's Index so if you for example do a Google search for Smalandia nearly all of the top links can be traced back to Wikipedia.

I would like to hear any objections to moving these provinces to their modern names, and arguments against doing so. --pflodo 14:23, 2004 Sep 25 (UTC)

I will continue my discussion to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Swedish provinces, as that is a more logical place --pflodo 10:14, 2004 Sep 27 (UTC)

[edit] Past tense for Österlanden

Please use the past tense at least for Österlanden as this part of (historical) Sweden doesn't exist anymore. The usage of the past tense would be more in accordance with international usage dealing with historical issues. This is one of the confusions arising when trying to write more articles about one geographical area. It is funny that the problem with Swedish areas, provinces and regions seems to arise only in the English wikipedia version.

(posted by anonymous, signed by Peter ^Isotalo 03:32, 4 August 2005 (UTC))

Thank you for your input. This is largely because these articles have been initiated and mostly written by Mic, who's ideas about Swedish geography and history leave much to be desired. Please help out by correcting the mistakes. There's a lot of them to correct.

Peter ^Isotalo 03:32, 4 August 2005 (UTC)