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Velkommen! This is a notice board for Norwegian Wikipedians, Wikipedians living in Norway, and anyone else interested in Norway-related topics. Here we may suggest topics or articles in need of expansion, discussing English terminology, common projects, ask questions, or anything else related to Norway, Norwegian things, or of interest for Norwegian editors.

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[edit] News

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[edit] Pages listed on Articles for deletion

(See also WikiProject Deletion sorting/Norway)

[edit] Announcements

[edit] Suggestions and requests

  • Created articles are listed at Norway-related topics notice board/New articles.
  • Other completed requests can be found at Norway-related topics notice board/Completed requests and finished projects.


[edit] Verification requests

[edit] Kven

For quite a long time 1-2 editors write the Kven article, which basically claims that Kvens/Cwens permeated whole Northern Europe.. I have reasons to believe that it is original reasearch and POV-pushing. I periodically delete some really abnormal claims related to countries outside Scandinavia. Unfortunately I don't have enough knowledge of Northern European history and not a single expert with second opinion editis this article. Please help. mikka (t) 20:34, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested articles (to be created)

When creating an article from this list, please try to provide some more information than what the person looking up the topic can be expected to already know. In general, try to submit two or three paragraphs, or at least five sentences of main text.

Some also prefer that you provide a reference pointing to the source of the information, and put the article in a Category.

[edit] Arts

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[edit] Biographies

Compiled from the red links in the List of Norwegians.

Arts:

Sports:

Science and engineering:

Other:

Footballers

[edit] Education

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[edit] Geography

  • Geography of Norway needs an undersection about Geology, or a short primer and then wikilink to main article. So, could someone write a Geology of Norway - article? Orcaborealis 23:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Population

[edit] Organizations

  • Fellesrådet for speiderpiker i Norge
  • Norges KFUK-KFUM-speidere

[edit] Religion

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[edit] Sports

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[edit] Requests for improvement/expansion

[edit] Very short articles

The following articles are very short, three sentences or less. Some of them can be considered substubs. Some of them have recently been created from the list of requests above, others have been around longer. All would benefit from being expanded.


[edit] Other articles

[edit] Requests for attention/review

  • Riksmål - Had problems with NPOV editing. Has now settled down, but probably needs watchfull eyes for the foreseeable future.Inge 10:06, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Brynjar Meling - I recently created this article, so currently I'm the only editor. Some outside review and expantion would probably do it some good. --Sherool 16:05, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Vidkun Quisling - I think someone is pushing a POV --Samuelsen 18:50, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Kåre Willoch - on (if not over) the edge of war for a period, calmer now, but still turbulent. See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Norway#Clean and beef up Kåre Willoch. --Eddi (Talk) 23:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Jan Simonsen - peculiar introduction and the rest seems rather biased. --Eddi (Talk) 23:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC) (Was tempted to copy edit, but I don't know how to validate or correct the various assertions. Besides, it is such a deliciously amusing read that we almost need to create a special category for the article - perhaps Category:Gossip & Slander. Thanks for bringing it to our attention - Williamborg 01:45, 15 April 2006 (UTC))
  • Category:Norwegian football clubs - I feel that we should give the articles new names without full stops, i.e. Aalesunds FK and Alta IF instead of Aalesunds F.K. and Alta I.F. I don't know why they have been named this way. Punkmorten 17:54, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Union between Sweden and Norway - Needs a complete revision because it is written from a Swedish point of view and based on the false premise that the union was one single state. The Former country template is misleading. Roede 07:48, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible candidates for deletion

List Norway related articles that you think are "borderline" deletion candidates here to get a second opinion before listing for deletion or trying to improve it.

[edit] Image requests

See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Norway and articles listed below.

[edit] Current informal projects

[edit] Winter sports reporting

After the participants reach a consensus, the discussion under this heading will be transferred to the talk page, and a summary put here.

Hi! I have been thinking a little about trying to motivate fellow winter sports enthusiasts across Scandinavia and Europe in general to report results to the current sports events page—if not for any other reason than to alleviate the heavy baseball, Am. football, cricket, rugby, and football (soccer) bias on said page. Myself, I love to watch biathlon, but I also like other ski sports. But to report each and every ski sport result single handedly is a little too much...

So, I consider posting this message, or one like it, on the WKP notice boards of Sweden, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Germany (all ski sports); France and Ukraine (biathlon); Austria (alpine skiing and ski jumping), Switzerland, and Italy (alpine skiing), Poland (ski jumping); and perhaps a couple more countries? (I do think I've got most of the "relevant" nations covered in this list, though). Tell me what you think. --Wernher 04:36, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Is there a need to differentiate between events? For instance, Italy is prominent in cross-country and biathlon too, no need to single out alpine skiing. Also, don't forget the Czech Republic. And perhaps speed skating should be included in the scope? Just a few thoughts.
Something we can do to boost the coverage of said sports is to create more bios of Winter Olympians. Many of these can be translated from Norwegian or German Wikipedias. Recently I did a major overhaul on categorization etc. in this field. Punkmorten 18:59, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Well thought'n'said. The reason I singled out alpine skiing for the Italians was simply that I felt that that sport would have a higher chance of being interesting to Italian wikipedians. But perhaps wikipedians from northern Italy are equally enthusiastic about the XC disciplines, I don't know. My general rationale for limiting the sports mentioned to the most popular in each specific country (and referring to the other winter sports as a whole) was that there might then be a better chance of the wikipedians receiving the message to jump right in and start reporting.
Speed skating I plainly forgot about (but I sure remembered it last night when watching the world record class WC event from "Salt Lake Olympic Oval" on TV). :-) Also forgot about the Czechs; they have good ski jumpers and XC skiers. And the Estonians, too, have many good XC skiers. --Wernher 17:37, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
And Japan (ski jumping, Nordic combined). Punkmorten 14:52, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Update: I have now put in some effort in the Current sports events page's Current and Upcoming events sections (placed in the pink listbox to the right); now there's at least some skiing events listed. I did some 'subsectioning' so that the Cricket, Rugby, and College football items won't swamp everything else (as it undeniably did before). I'll try to come up with a concise and inspiring 'call to arms' before long (as discussed above), to put in the Announcements section of the potentially interested Wikipedians' regional notice boards. --Wernher 04:32, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

On this topic, I've just created Norway at the 2006 Winter Olympics (the other countries to have such pages were Australia, Canada, Israel, United States, and, interestingly, Belarus). Might be a useful page to have during the Olympics (assuming we're not all sitting in front of the TV...) Sam Vimes 17:58, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone know the copyright status of images taken during the Oslo 1952 Winter Olympics (eg [1])? Thanks, Andjam 16:21, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Whoops, I just realised that the photo was probably published in Australia, which may be a better route for public domain status. Andjam 16:29, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of villages in Norway

I have now created the mammoth List of villages in Norway! Inspired by the coverage in the United States and articles like Hibberts, Maine, we should list every populated place in Norway, and this is the goal of this list. It is based upon a 2005 SSB release.

Please help out with completion of this list! See also Talk:List of villages in Norway. Punkmorten 09:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Finished informal projects

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[edit] Stub markers (templates)

Consider tagging very short Norway-related articles, with a Norway designated stub tag. For general Norway-stubs, write this {{Norway-stub}} at the bottom of the article. (All such articles are listed in Category:Norway stubs)

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[edit] WikiProjects on Norway-related topics

Could use some help on the monthly update. I've added some new material, but it could be more exciting—and particularly would benefit from fresh eyes.

[edit] Norway-related resources/references

[edit] Our subpages

  • /Terminology – Reference list of English translations of common Norwegian terms
  • /New articles
  • /Old articles
  • /Old news
  • /Completed requests and finished projects
  • /Image requests
  • /Norway-related quality articles – Eventual Featured article candidates?

[edit] Other

[edit] External

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[edit] List of participants

  • Punkmorten 19:01, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
    • I'll put this page on my watchlist and we'll see what happens.
  • Sherool 16:09, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
    • Can't promise to be hugely active on this board, but I'll give it a shot.
  • Vindheim
    • If I have nothing else I want to do ....
  • WegianWarrior 12:47, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Intrests are, among others, weapons, warships, airplanes, history and so on and so forth.
  • Wernher 13:55, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
    • General topics: history, language, etc
    • Particular interests: Nordmøre, WWII, tech history
  • Inge 22:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Interests: History, military, vexillology and many others.
  • Williamborg (Bill) 03:06, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Interests: Geography, history, and whatever else catches my fancy.
  • Orcaborealis
    • I have been pretty active adding to wikipedia, particularly everything related to geography, time to add myself here...
  • meco 07:32, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
    • I've been a prolific contributor to the bokmål Wikipedia for about a year, an endeavor that was aborted in the beginning of February of this year when I was banned, initially for three months, however, recently the ban was made permanent. The reason for this is my alleged unruly and undisciplined behavior which, again supposedly, is detrimental to the continuity and prosperity of this Wikipedia project. I shall not polemicize against this process, bar expressing my sentiment that this exclusion process from my perspective has had decidedly Kafkaesque traits.
    • But I have also made some considerable contributions to this Wikipedia, as I intend to continue doing.
    • My interests are focused on deep ontology and all other subjects issuing from the relationship between man and the divine.
  • Aqwis 11:19, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
    • Interests: Geography, history, art/architecture

[edit] Alternative words for Germans

Does Norwegian have alternative words for Germans, as in slang? If so please add them, with a small explanation and perhaps translation at the following article: Alternative words for Germans. Thanks in advance, Rex 15:02, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] m:Talk:Wikimedia Norge

There is an ongoing debate on meta if there shall be created a local chapter for Norway, I hope intrested people will join the debate. Røed 14:31, 11 March 2007 (UTC)