Talk:History of Sweden
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A new styled table has been introduced to the History of Russia series. Similar tables will be introduced in the History of Sweden series. -- Mic 09:11 11 Jul 2003 (UTC)
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[edit] Peer Review invitation
Greetings.
There is a peer review started on Wikipedia:Peer review/Viking/archive1 and any interested party is invited to take part in reviewing the article. If you know the history of scandinavia, then please stop by and help the peer review of the artile Viking
Thank you for your time. --OrbitOne [Talk|Babel] 22:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Why give concessions to cranks and cooks?
The text said that the centre of "Svea rike" (still a name for the country, isn't it?) was "allegedly at Old Uppsala". Based on WP:FRINGE, WP:WEASEL, WP:verifiability and WP:OR, I strongly disagree with such concessions to cranks and cooks in Västergötland. As long as the Götaland theory has never been accepted by professional historians, it is verboten on Wikipedia to make such concessions to that "school".--Berig 19:10, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 1914-1945
The interwar period, a very important period in European History generally, seems to be missing from this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.52.215.67 (talk) 03:46, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] POV
"After falling upon harder times in the 1970s, the economy stagnated somewhat and in 1976, the social democrats lost their majority to the opposition. When the 1980s came and the economy started to get back on track again, the social democrats returned."
I'm going to try and rewrite the later part of the previous snippet in a less biased and more factual manner. The article as it stands now does not accurately respresent history or the original article it points to. Compare yourself. I've split the original article in 3 diffrent parts.
"The 1976 parliamentary elections brought a liberal/right-wing coalition to power after almost half a century of social democrat leadership, and Mr Palme gave way to Thorbjörn Fälldin (of the Centre Party, a former farmers/landowners party which had incorporated social liberal ideas as well as the burgeoning environmental debate)."
"Over the next six years, four governments ruled and fell, composed by all or some of the parties that had won in 1976, and the questions of energy and of battling the economic recession came to the fore like never before. The fourth liberal government in these years, again with Fälldin at the helm, seemed somewhat baffled by these problems and had neither the support of a firm majority in the parliament, nor a clear mandate from the non-socialist part of the Swedish electorate."
"Predictably it came under fire both from the Social Democrats & trade unions, and from the Moderate Party, now heading in an increasingly Friedman-inspired and market liberal direction, and it was defeated in the elections of 1982, with Mr. Palme returning to the PM's seat."
In fact, the original article doesn't even mention the economy improving. Even if it had, I doubt there is a general consensus that the economy improved because of anything the right did, except if you're a rightist, in wich case of course it did. To me, the original article seems to imply that the reason the social democrats returned was the right's inability to cope with the problems. Who to credit the economic recovery to is not in there. I've tagged this article to check if anyone will have an opinion about my edit.
213.141.89.53 (talk) 15:20, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
