Talk:Trøndelag

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[edit] Use of OECD Peer Review as an External Link

Wikipedia:Reliable_sources#Evaluating_reliability would allow use of an OECD Peer Review report as a reference. It is certainly good enough to be an External link, which can be almost anything relevant and does not have to meet reference standards. Skål - Williamborg (Bill) 04:01, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

The OECD report absolutely meets the criteria for a reference. But I don't feel it meets the requirement for an external link. There are no good relevent examples on Wikipedia:External links but I feel that the report lacks two mayor elements to be a good external link. First of all it is not neutral. While this is not an absolute requirement for an external link, it's a good guideline (OECD is comming with sugestions). Secondly the report is concerned with higher education, that does not unite with the topic of the article, namely the region in general.

Optimally the article is a good reference, so I challenge you, Williamborg and myself between us to use the report as a source concerning higher education and its challenges and possibilities in Trøndelag and add it to the article (and I'll just let the link stay for the moment). Is that a good solution do you think, or? Arsenikk 08:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Genocide"

The article says (concerning the Swedish rule):

This is known by some local Trøndelag historians as the genocide against the Trønders.

Since Jämtland (where I come from) and Härjedalen became Swedish before Trøndelag and still are parts of Sweden, one may wonder how much worse the "genocide" there was. I know that Jämtland and Härjedalen suffered a lot being handed over between Norway-Denmark and Sweden more than a dozen times in the 16th and 17th centuries, but not the suffering was not more severe than that there still are people living in the area. Since the Swedish impact on Trøndelag naturally must have much weaker, how can one speak about a "genocide"? If Trøndelag suffered a genocide, then Jämtland-Härjedalen must have suffered a complete extinction (which it didn't), right? I simply want to see some references for the claim that the event is denoted "genocide". Hunef 21:28, 14 November 2006 (UTC)