User talk:Teuton

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Contents 1 warning 2 Serial move requests 3 Dating controversy 4 WikiProject Finland 5 Swedish House of Lords

[edit] warning

Moving pages by copy-and-paste is forbidden here. Do not do it again. If a page needs moved, there is a move function for that. Copy-paste moves destroy a page's editorial history. If you repeat your offence, you ultimately may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Suedois 23:29, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Serial move requests

I oppose your attempts to have names masked behind their translations to Swedish. For your attention, this is English Wikipedia. In case you are not able to work in English language, also in article naming, there exists Swedish wikipedia that welcomes writings in Swedish. Suedois 01:04, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dating controversy

Your edits just to change dates from "December 6" style to "6 December" is going to cause conflicts here. This warning is serious. I happen to prefer the style "6 December" myself. However, it is a convention here that no one is allowed to just change the dating style. The next thing, a number of people will do just the reverse. And then anything gets battled, reverted and counter-edited, over and over again. So, such stylistic edits are not accepted. Editors should concentrate on substantial improvements of texts, not on their own notions of style. Suedois 01:22, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Finland

Hey. All users can add project tags to articles' talk pages. {{WikiProject Finland}} is the template for WikiProject Finland, so feel free to add it to all articles related to Finland. I tagged and assessed Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt and Johan Anders Jägerhorn now, but there are many articles still untagged. Assessment is not necessary, but if you are interested there is some information here. Thanks, Prolog 15:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Swedish House of Lords

Hi there, I don't think you addressed user:Odengatan's concerns about the really goofy name "House of the Knights", which I also seriously doubt was used in any ancient legal documents of Sweden. And you are excused, but Google search is certainly not the optimal way of finding legal documents from the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly not Swedish (I've tried myself...). Your claim that the Swedish nobility didn't observe the function of a system of hereditary Lords also seems pretty odd. I understand that Sweden until recently had special privilegies for "Lords", such as the hereditary right to the estate. I have a Swedish friend who inherited his estate thanks to that legislation only 15 years ago; a very interesting aspect of the Swedish "volkhem" model... --Camptown 22:54, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

You are missing the point. I was not saying that there is no Swedish nobility. The term Lord is never used for Swedish nobility. There is no value in what you call "original translation" into English. House of Lords is not the correct term for the Swedish House. I have also not advocated the use of House of Knights, I said it is better than House of Lords. /Teuton 07:57, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

The term "Lord" is never used for Swedish nobility. That's probably correct as English is not the prime lingua in Sweden... N.B. we are not discussing the nobility in general! And, for sure, terms such as herre, storherre, aldste son (Swedish Academy suggestions) were used, weren't they? There is no value (sic) in what you call "original translation" into English. Sigh..., for some time, I have been puzzled by the generally low quality of Swedish related articles in Wikipedia, and this discussion makes me understand why the quality is so low, and why seriously competent editors like user:Odengatan probably avoid touching these articles... --Camptown 22:39, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

I do not see your point. Also, I think it is unnecessary to make personal attacks. I refer to the discussion page of the Swedish House of Lords where you may follow the facts./Teuton 12:37, 30 April 2007 (UTC).