Talk:Visby

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[edit] power supply?

power supply? an odd heading no?

Who cares, a person looking up visby is not looking for that kind of information. --TheBigD 13:54, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

I care. The mentioned power supply was the first windpark connected to a High Voltage Direct Current and thereby interesting. It even has its own page. Fred-Chess

it's very peripheral information. People who look up Visby in general don't expect to find information about the electrical grid. If it got its own page let's keep it that way. --TheBigD 22:27, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Wiki is full of peripheral information. But if you seriously think you have improved the article by removing the information, then I'm fine with it. --Fred-Chess 10:35, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

I do. --TheBigD 14:18, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

I've restored the line, and expect not to see it removed again. Deletion of valid information is very rarely permissible on WP, generally accepted only for redundant material or very ephemeral bits, such as phone numbers and home addresses. The power system however is quite a bit more important, and very much worth mentioning. Stan 18:29, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

"Near Visby there is the static inverter plant"? it's not even in visby! You want to list everything in the vicinity? And who looks up an entry of a city if they want to find information about the electic grid structure of an entire island? Is this place a tourist attraction? If it is I've not heard about it while living there. --TheBigD 20:31, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Then WP has helped you to learn about the world around you, eh? We do aspire to be more than a travel guide. If you live in Visby, you ought to be able to add quite a bit of local info that is not just tourist stuff. Stan 19:26, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

I appreciate that WP is not a travel guide. It just seem to be so irrelevant for the topic. I guess, what I'm asking is, where do you draw the line? Popular restaurants in the vicinity, a three page essay of the battle that demolished part of the wall, the danish influence on the gotlandic dialect...? In any case it seems to me that any information about the power grid should be in the Gotland article instead since it serves the whole island and not just the city of Visby.--TheBigD 01:46, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Yes to all those, although restaurants tend to be ephemeral, so one would prefer restaurants that have been around for a long time or have some other notability. If the inverter plant is more relevant to Gotland than to Visby, then moving the info about it is reasonable, sure. Visby is an interesting place, its article could easily be 20K in length. Stan 05:14, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Visby class corvette

Do we really, really, really need to have a link to Visby class corvette up at the top? I think we could have it at the bottom instead, under See also. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 15:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

The way the article about the corvette is worded, it seems people often refer to it as simply "Visby" and so that might well be wikilinked. In such cases it is standard to have a note in the top of the article, it makes people who click on such a link easily find the article they are looking for - they can not really be expected to find the note if it is placed at the bottom of the page. For someone who knows nothing about that boat it looks a bit silly, agreed, but I still think it serves a purpose. Probably this is described on Wikipedia:Disambiguation, or some page that links from there. // Habj 15:36, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Town - distinction

The two sentences Some affectionately call Visby the "city of roses and ruins" and natives to the island often just say "town". Whether it lives up to that distinction among other old Swedish cities is debatable. are confusing to me. I am not sure if the second sentence refers to "rosornas och ruinernas stad" - a well-known slogan - or referring to the town as "stan" (town). People call their local town "town" everywhere, it has nothing to do with Visby being more of a town than others. // Habj 00:04, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Word. Delete the second part of the first sentence and the second sentence? Are you from around here (Visby/Gotland) by the way? Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 09:39, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Nope, just average Swede. :) // Habj 15:32, 3 July 2006 (UTC)