Talk:Motorväg

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Votes for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on May 26, 2005. The result of the discussion was keep (no consensus).

The template link above to the VfD discussion doesn't work. Here is one that does. Bishonen | talk 13:26, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

It appears that something should be done with this—merge? redirect? move?—but the VfD doesn't establish a clear consensus on what.Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:01, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I was convinced that the interpretation of the vote would be to move it to transportation in Sweden myself. In any case, it's not a valid entry here at English Wikipedia, so I'm redirecting it instead.
Peter Isotalo 00:51, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
There is no reason to move this page to transportation in Sweden. If this page should be moved, Autobahn should be moved to transportation in Germany and Autoput shold be moved to transportation in Serbia and Montenegro. /E70 13:18, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
Please read the discussion in the VfD. "Motorväg" is not a term similar to "Autobahn" and neither is it used in English in any context. It is simply an English loanword that means the exact same thing as motorway, something that can be confirmed by looking the word up in NEO. Since Wikipedia is not a dictionary, this is as irrelevant as making a separate article for "motorway" at Swedish Wikipedia. Please respect our policies.
Peter Isotalo 15:48, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
It is you who are not have any respect for the policies. "Motorväg" is a term who are similar to "Autobahn", "Autoroute", "Autostrada" and "Autoput". Before you move this to transportation in Sweden you should move "Autobahn" to transportation in Germany, "Autoroute" to transportation in France, "Autostrada" to transportation in Italy and "Autoput" to transportation in Serbia and Montenegro. If you do that it is ok. If you dont do that it means you are only interested to destroy this only because I made the article. Im tired about you Isotalo. /E70 12:55, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
Read the VfD which is more or less an echo of my argumentation and is more or less unanimous (though with some confusion exactly where to redirect). "Motorväg" means motorway, end of story. It can be confirmed by any Swedish-English dictionary and is confirmed by looking this up in, for example, NE. Make your contributions to the proper article or perhaps motorway, but please don't push this. You're not getting any support by claiming how tired you are of me or how I'm out to get you. Unlike Swedish Wikipedia people here actually care more for objectivity and quality than the misguided opinions of individual users (or abusive admins).
Peter Isotalo 15:09, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
I have looked at this discussion and the edit history, and I recommend E70 to read the VFD and also Wikipedia:Civility, and to make no more reverts without first coming up with a reasoned argument. Personal attacks on Peter Isotalo don't count as reasoned argument; you need to address the points he makes about the difference in kind between "Motorväg" on the one hand and "Autobahn", "Autoroute", "Autostrada" and "Autoput" on the other. The fact that you "made the article" doesn't give you any special authority over it, I'm afraid. Bishonen | talk 15:45, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
Motorväg means motorway, Autobahn is also means motorway, same with autoput. Change the other articles before you change this please. Peter Isotalo dont know anything about motorways but i know he hates me and in Swedish Wikipedia he made a lot of provocations to me. /E70 11:27, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
The article motorväg is now redirected to List of motorways in Sweden. I hope this is ok now. I also hope this was the last time I saw Peter Isotalo destroy the articles I made here. /E70 12:20, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for compromising, E70. Please try to refrain from these constant personal attacks, though. All of this is in accordance with the policies of English Wikipedia. It's hardly fair to claim that I "destroy" articles because I'm trying to help them abide by these policies.

Peter Isotalo 14:18, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wrong colour on the motorväg road sign

The Swedish road sign, like the rest of Europe I believe (including Germany), has the white roads in perspective with the white bridge on a green background, not blue.