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Proposed WikiFun For All Members

Wikifun is linked to from the Community Portal. Please join the fun if you a member of the project & report on your findings to Laleena (talk • contribs • count). Thank you.

Laleenatalk to me contributions to Wikipedia 00:45, 20 December 2006 (UTC) =Click on the Random Page link & click on the eighth link to each page you go to. Report your findings below.

I've taken the liberty of moving this entry to the talk page since it looks like a "talk-related" issue. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 01:10, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Project Proposals

It has been suggested that this group institute a collaboration and maybe something like a governing body. I personally think it might be a bit early to go for a collaboration, but am curious as to what the members think about creating a project official. Certainly, there is now a subpage of the WikiProject Council at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Contacts where it is requested that individual contacts for each project be listed. The designated contact should probably be the individual who will be working most often on specific project related activies. Badbilltucker 15:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC) My suggestion is that we do one or the other sooner or later, and then do the projects. I suggest we vote for a council first, then do contacts (from the council), then do the collaboration. Laleenatalk to me contributions to Wikipedia 13:28, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Signing up

I noticed that a WikiProject Denmark template had been added to an article I have been grooming and followed the link. Sounds fun - where do I sign up?

chochem 00:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

You can sign up right here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Denmark#Participants Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 10:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Nordic / Scandinavian task force on WikiProject military history?

It has been proposed on WikiProject military history to set up an either Nordic or Scandinavian task force. If you are intrested in this topic, please comment on Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Military_history#Two_task_force_ideas. Cheers. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 10:33, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Getting the article on DK featured

Shouldn't we try to get the article on DK featured, as it has already come a long way. I would very much like to help, but I'm not sure if I can do it all by myself. Snailwalker | talk 19:28, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

It should be a priority, but it takes a lot of work doing research and adding sources. Perhaps we could have this as an collaboration in February. --Maitch 17:33, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm in on this. It shouldn't be too hard really. Cheers, MartinDK 20:21, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
So, are we going to do this? MartinDK 11:06, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
To get things rolling here perhaps the first step should be to request a new peer review. I will do so once I figure out how to! MartinDK 14:24, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
I have requested a new review here. MartinDK 14:38, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Using Danish terms

How would you all feel about using Danish words and nomenclatures in all Danish administrative division article texts? eg, use amter instead of counties in the text of all Danish articles, not just the titles? --Bob 04:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

As I see it, the main problem with the current situation is that a reform of 1671 created a large number of fiefs held by either barons or counts, see the list at: da:Danske grevskaber og baronier (grevskab = county, baroni = barony). If we use the words "county" and "barony" it should be for the fiefs actually held by the nobility. The fiefs abolished in 1662 were referred to as "Len", e.g. Hammershus Len (da:Danske len).
The administrative "amter" (1662-2006) had nothing to do with the nobility. The word was taken directly from German and until 1970, the "amtmand" represented royal authority in the province. He might be compared to a British governor. The word "hundred" also presents a challenge since Denmark had many more than this (da:Kategori:Herreder, da:Skånske herreder, da:Sønderjyske herreder) and the word will not be easily recognized.
I'm still not sure how to properly procede with the administrative divisions of territories no longer under Danish control, (e.g. da:Slesvigs amter (før 1864) and de:Ämter und Harden in Schleswig). But all in all, I would rather go with "Syssel", "Herred", "Len" and "Amt", but I have no problem with "Parish" rather than "Sogn" or "County" / "Barony" for fiefs actually held by the nobility. I have no strong opinion on using "Kommune" rather than "municipality" but changing the latter material would take a long time. We still have to update almost 200 articles in Cat:Municipalities of Denmark and its children due to the municipal reform of January 1, 2007. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 10:50, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Adding a resource

I would like to add a local resource to make finding fair use, CC and copy left images for use in articles relating to the Cathedral in Roskilde easy. It simply is a category for images uploaded to Wikipedia of the Cathedral, the tombs inside, etc etc. I think this will improve article quality in the long run. --OrbitOne [Talk|Babel] 20:10, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Cat:Roskilde Cathedral Photo Resource

Blue Order

Could someone take a look at Blue Order? Sounds like a hoax... Olessi 17:59, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Agree. It fails WP:V completely. No independent sources at all to back this one up. Added a Prod. Valentinian T / C 07:55, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Population ranking of cities

The Esbjerg article says Esbjerg is the 5th largest city in Denmark, while technically that is Frederiksberg.

I imagine there are other changes in the ranking because of the recent reform, so a few cities ranking should probably be updated.

One must also consider, if it is the city population, or the municipiality population that is ranked.

What are your opinion on this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Koderko (talk • contribs) 23:03, 1 March 2007 (UTC).

As long as it is the rank of a city, not a municipality, the definition is pretty much set in stone, as the article List of cities in Denmark by population clearly states that Statistics Denmark defines city (by) as "a continuous built-up area with a maximum distance of 50 metres between residences." And as long as that statistic states Esbjerg as the 5th most populous, I dont see any problem. /AB-me (chit-chat) 21:02, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Tagging relevant articles with {{WikiProject Denmark}}

Perhaps it would be a possibility to get at Bot to auto-tag all articles that falls within the scope of this project. I know that when wikiproject Visual Arts started up they got User:Alphachimpbot operated by User:Alphachimp to do it, and is hs approval to do it. The bot can go through The Denmark category, other danish stub related categories, to get the tag. -Angelbo 00:49, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

I think it would be nice if a bot collected all articles in the category and sub-categories that are not tagged, but I still think we should evaluate them. The categories divide in strange fashions, and some reach areas not related to Denmark. Carewolf 10:32, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
Around two months ago, I created a list of potential articles the way suggested. I did around 1/3 of it, but I haven't had the time to do the rest. AWB combined with Kingboyk's plugin makes the work a lot easier but the assessing will still have to be done manually. Please note that I have not checked if all entries on the list are relevant, I've only sorted parts of this material. Anyway, the "missing" part of the list is here: User:Valentinian/WP Denmark tagging. Feel free to work on it, but please remember to keep the list updated. If you simply tag the talk pages, simply add {{WikiProject Denmark|class=|importance=}} to the top of the talk pages. If anybody wishes to use AWB for this purpose, copy-paste the content of the list into an empty .txt file. In this case, all entries should use the current format: # [[Talk:Esbjerg]] . Valentinian T / C 10:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Btw, this list is not the latest version, so a number of articles on it might have been done already by me or others. Unfortunately, this is the best version I can find as my harddrive crashed a few days ago. Valentinian T / C 10:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Everything through #100 #200 on the list is tagged as of March 14. -- Pastordavid 16:25, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
Done through no. 270. I've been a bit cautious regarding the tagging of former colonies in India and Africa. Valentinian T / C 20:19, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Grundtvig

Was just passing by, and thought I would mention this article. It is in dire need of in-text citations, and I don't know the sources well enough to do that ... I thought that someone here might. With the citations, I think the article could easily be promoted to a Good Article. -- Pastordavid 19:12, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Assessment Chart

For easy reference, I added the assessment chart to the main page, along with a link to the project stats and the assessment page. -- Pastordavid 17:26, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

The articles about Danish municipalities need updating

Denmark carried out an administrative reform on 1 January this year, slashing the number of municipalities from 271 to 98. Result: we now have almost 300 incorrect articles about these entities. All articles in Cat:Future municipalities of Denmark need to be moved to Cat:Municipalities of Denmark and the future tense must be changed to past tense since these entities now exist. The articles in Cat:Municipalities of Denmark also need updating. Many of them need to be updated to reflect that the entity has been abolished and moved to Cat:Former municipalities of Denmark. A number of entities about towns also refer to entities now abolished. The articles about the counties and regions have all been fixed, but any help on the articles about the municipalities would be very much appreciated. Most of these articles are very similar so perhaps a bot could be programmed to do some of this work? If this work is done manually, we'll need to set up a check list to avoid a lot of duplicate work. Valentinian T / C 21:35, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Could we also please try to separate cities and municipalities? It is silly that Copenhagen talk about the municipality and not the city as a whole. Others like Vallø shares name with a geographic area that might or might not be equivalent to the municipal area. I propose that all articles that talk about the municipalities end in .. Municipality, and we move out all municipal specific content out of, for instance Copenhagen to Copenhagen Municipality. (Roskilde and Roskilde municipality has already done this.) Carewolf 09:10, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Sounds like a good idea. Much of this material has been split off already, and we might as well do the same for the remaining articles. There is a bit confusion regarding the names of these articles, and we have articles using both upper- and lowercase article names (Odense Municipality and Roskilde municipality) so having a uniform naming system would be nice. The articles about the regions and counties use upper-case spelling (Funen County). However, I don't like the Danish Wikipedia's practice about creating duplicate articles for entities that have been enlarged by the reform, e.g. we should have one article about Kerteminde but only one article about Kerteminde municipality (the Danish Wikipedia has da:Kerteminde, da:Kerteminde Kommune and da:Kerteminde Kommune (1970-2006)). A Czech editor has created a series of infoboxes, so we might find them useful here as well? We never really introduced them for the Danish material. I've made a few experiments on Odense, Næstved, Roskilde, and Region Sjælland but the boxes can contain much more information, see e.g. the articles Pilsen and Pilsen Region. Valentinian T / C 11:22, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
As an experiment, I've added infoboxes to both Fredericia and Fredericia municipality. The colour for the municipal infobox is the same as the one proposed for the regions, but I don't think it will pose any actual problems. Valentinian T / C 19:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

What to do with {{SightLandmarkDenmark}}  ?

I just discovered this one. The list of places is not a UNESCO list or something similar, not that I know of anyway. I don't necessarily disagree with the buildings listed but the list is a grab bag. Where is Saint Canute's Cathedral in Odense, Viborg Cathedral, the Little Mermaid, the Dybbøl trenches, Kronborg Castle, Koldinghus, and Ribe Cathedral. It looks like WP:TFD fodder to me. Valentinian T / C 21:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm listing it at WP:TFD Valentinian T / C 23:47, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Danish films

Hi!! Please can you help fill in the List of Danish films I am afraid it will be up for afd. I and a few other users are trying to fill the lists by country in. If you can add the details on the films already on wikipedia in year order from Category:Danish films and any others you know of from notable directors etc that would be a great help for WP Film sand Denmark!. THanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" "S.P.E.C.T.R.E" 16:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Bilateral relations discussion

I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you. Ed ¿Cómo estás? 18:39, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Energy conservation and wind power

Both seem to be topics for which Denmark is notable. See "How Denmark Paved Way To Energy Independence". [1] Are there, or should there be articles dealing with these topics? Walter Siegmund (talk) 17:52, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Norse_history_and_culture

A new project has been started for people interested in ancient and medieval Norse history and culture. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 15:00, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

CfD for Category:Hundreds of Denmark

Category:Hundreds of Denmark has been nominated for deletion. See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 April 25#Category:_Hundreds_of_Denmark. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 08:47, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up. Valentinian T / C 08:52, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Request copyedit

I request that somebody will do a copyedit and proper stub sorting on Slædepatruljen Sirius, that has recently been merged. Best regards Mads Angelbo Talk / Contribs 10:23, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Where is the municipal reform?

One used to be able to link to Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007, but the target section has now disappeared. Where has it gone? I would expect that the reform still deserves some encyclopedic coverage, if only the bare fact that it happened, when it happened, the general principles of the reform, and so forth. –Henning Makholm 09:30, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Hundreds of new articles on danish films and actors

I am currently putting danish film and actors form dnaish wikipedia onto english wikipedia. Please help translate any danish new articles you see in Category:Wikipedia articles needing translation. It would be a great help so no information is lost. Thanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 15:35, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't think any member of this project has the time to go through a ton of articles. It would be a bad idea to dump a large number of articles here as it will simply result in the deletion of most of them again. If people wish to see this material translated, it will eventually happen sooner or later, but this is not the way. Valentinian T / C 15:39, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Help needed with article revamp

Hi there. I think I stepped into something a little deeper than I had expected it to be when I responded to a query by one Michael Hardinger, a long-time member of the band Shu-Bi-Dua, on Editor Assistance and apparently rather prolific musician and songwriter, recently. An article about him had been deleted, and he was wondering why; I asked the deleting admin to restore the content for me, and I would try and rewrite the article to a point where it wouldn't fall under a speedy criteria. (The restored article is very much speedy bait.) All well and good. Problems: I have very few sources for his notability that I can actually read. My Danish is a little weak, where weak = nonexistent. He does have an article up on da.wiki, and there's also a longer article on the band over there. But, I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me pin down some better sources on Mr. Hardinger? It's obvious he's notable in terms of music, with something like 30 albums and upwards of 20 years with a notable band. Any help would be great. Thanks! Tony Fox (arf!) 03:09, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Requested articles

I don't know where you guys put article requests, but I would like to ask for

  • Det Danske Spejderkorps
  • Danske Baptisters Spejderkorps
  • Dansk Spejderkorps Sydslesvig

Chris 00:43, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

New thing - Denmark Experts Requested

Hi guys. I just wanted you to know I've added a page where people will be putting Denmark requests for experts, and began to identify Danish articles with requests for experts: Category:Denmark articles needing expert attention. This is part of the expert finding process. Goldenrowley 04:49, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Freelance writers request

Being the head of the project, I would request that we ask Jimbo Wales for a freelance writer to help with the project. The freelancer needs to be Danish & have experience writing for encyclopedias. Remember, this is just an idea, please don't get crazy about it. Laleenatalk to me contributions to Wikipedia 15:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

I'd volunteer as a freelance Danish writer.·Maunus· ·ƛ· 15:45, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
Laleena, you had first post on this project, yes, but WP:DK hasn't seleted any leadership and neither should we. We talked about this back in December, remember? Only one project has elected leadership and that is WP:MILHIST with many hundreds of members. You haven't edited for six months, and you are probably one of the least active editors on this project since you still haven't amassed 10-15 edits about Denmark or Danish topics. All editors on this project are equals, there are no "leaders". Valentinian T / C 22:46, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
For the record I was kidding.·Maunus· ·ƛ· 07:06, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

National football teams - please vote

I've discovered that some editors have decided that the football team of Bornholm should be called Bornholm national football team, as if Bornholm was an independent nation! They've done the same with other countries (Brittany national football team, Cornwall national football team, Andalucia national football team, etc.). I've tried to replace the word "national" with the word "regional", but I was immediately reverted and I was told that supposedly there exists a consensus to use the word "national". Since I can't find such consensus on the talk pages, I opened a vote to remove the word "national" from the titles, as this word seems extremly POV. Please take part in the vote, whatever your opinion may be. You can vote here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football#"national" team for subnational entities?. Godefroy 02:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Lauge Koch Nature Reserve

I have tried to find sources for this nature reserve on Google, Google News Archive, Google Scholar, Google databases and other databases. If anyone can confirm its existence, it would be greatly appreciated. Capitalistroadster 03:46, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

It is in Greenland and I have also left a message on Wikiproject Greenland. Capitalistroadster 03:47, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

American or British English

I've started a discussion on which spelling to use on talk:Denmark. I thought perhaps it would be nice to get some more input from my fellow project members, and that perhaps we could carry over whatever consensus may be reached there, to other Denmark-related articles? Lilac Soul 05:29, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't we use whatever wikipedia generally recommends. Most danes are taught British spelling, but has been contaminated by American influences, which typically makes us a mess at using one or the other. Carewolf 10:14, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
Whatever Wikipedia generally recommends is that no national variety is more "correct" than others, but that consistency within each article should be aimed for. I cannot imagine that declaring that (British|American) spelling is preferred in articles relating to Denmark will be a win. At best it will quiet a few avoidable edit wars a bit quicker; at worst it might scare away contributors who, like me, know they cannot possibly abide with such a requirement, because they don't care about remembering which spelling comes from where. People who know the difference by heart and care about consistency shall be welcome to edit my contributions to fit the standard they favor, as long as they don't clutter up the article histories by edit warring with other editors who favour another standard. –Henning Makholm 21:05, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Freedom Party / Frihedspartiet

As most of you probably know, the Freedom Party (Denmark) was founded earlier this month by Ruth Evensen of Faderhuset. Or at least, she stepped forth and said she was founding a party. Since then, I haven't heard a peep from her about this party, the name still doesn't appear to be registered, nor is there a website or any mention of it one Faderhuset's website. I'm starting to think that we should propose the article on the Freedom Party for deletion, and remove it from the Politics of Denmark article and template. But before I do so, I thought it get everybody's opinion first. Lilac Soul 11:29, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Delete it. There are so many silly parties in denmark, there is no reason to write anything about them until they actually get enough signatures, even then, many are still not to be taken seriously. Carewolf 14:13, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
leave it at least till the next election. A party being "silly" is certainly no reason for it not to have a wikipedia article. The party is noteworthy simply because of the amount of media coverage they got.·Maunus· ·ƛ· 14:14, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Actually, there is a website - a placeholder saying that they haven't got a policy (yet?) - at http://www.frihedspartiet.org/ . But in all likelihood it is simply a media stunt. For one thing, I'd like to see them gather 20,000 signatures. I support a different party, so it wouldn't be proper for me to vote either way :) Valentinian T / C 14:17, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
How about a merge? The party did receive enough media coverage to deserve mentioning, but the current content could be rewritten into a paragraph in the article on Ruth Evensen and Freedom Party (Denmark) could be turned into a redirect. That way we won't be giving undue weight to what might just have been a media stunt, while at the same time no information is lost. Hemmingsen 14:43, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
I support Hemmingsens idea.·Maunus· ·ƛ· 15:07, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
I support Hemmingsen also, merge and redirect. If it wins seat(s), then it can get an article like the Union of Conscientiously Work-Shy Elements. - Mads Angelbo Talk / Contribs 17:07, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
OK, count me in as well. Valentinian T / C 23:14, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

This looks like a consensus. Merged and redirected. Hemmingsen 17:49, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

AfD for Royal League Finals

On Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Royal League Finals I have nominated the three Royal League Finals for deletion. Since this falls under this Wikiproject, I thought I'd let you know so that you can comment if you wish. Lilac Soul 07:27, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

North Sea collaboration

The Article Collaboration and Improvement Drive has officially closed. North Sea is the current Article Creation and Improvement Drive collaboration. WikiProject Denmark members may find that a relevant focus. I have refrained from rating the article pending the result of the collaboration. Perhaps a regular member of this project could find a place for the collaboration banner on the project page itself? __meco 22:29, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Task Forces

I'd recommend we begin a Christians or Religion(s) in Denmark task force. A Music of Denmark task force would be good too. Who says what? Laleenatalk to me contributions to Wikipedia 19:09, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Johanne Marie Fosie

It would be interesting to read about Johanne Marie Fosie, whom i think was the first professional female artist in Denmark in the 18ht century. Just a suggestion!--85.226.235.144 14:16, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

People's Movement for Justice and Welfare

An editor has recently created People's Movement for Justice and Welfare, but I'm not convinced concerning its notability. Thoughts? Valentinian T / C 22:38, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Never heard of them. No assertion of notability and no non-self-published sources. Could be speedied via {{db-club}}, it seems. –Henning Makholm 23:37, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
This issue also relates to the list on Next Danish parliamentary election, List of political parties in Denmark, and the Danish Wikipedia, btw. Valentinian T / C 07:34, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Occupation of Denmark needs fixing

An editor has chosen to nominate Occupation of Denmark for GA status. Unfortunately, the article still needs sourcing and copyediting and I don't have the time to do it, nor for the suggested conversion of references. The deadline is 16 August. If anybody feels like doing this, it'll be great. If not, the article will remain at B-class. A completely different matter is that other editors will probably criticise the article for not devoting much space to the life of ordinary Danes during the occupation, nor to the work of the Danish resistance, but it is even less likely that this will be fixed before this deadline. Valentinian T / C 21:17, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Btw. Something I've been wondering about; the description of A-quality states that Good Article status is not required, that seems to imply we can actually use it, even if GA fails? Carewolf 21:34, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
The way things are going currently, I don't think so. A-class review will no doubt be the next thing introduced. Of course, it would be kinda fun to see this or another article relating to Denmark on the main page one day, but I don't want to spend dozens of hours on it. I have to prioritise my thesis, and in fact, I never cared much about WWII. If I'll ever try bringing an article further up the ladder, it be coat of arms of Denmark just for kicks, but in any case, that will be *after* I've finished my thesis and at a time of my own choosing. Valentinian T / C 21:48, 11 August 2007 (UTC)


Denmark or Kingdom of Denmark?

I have started a discussion about this, I'd like you all to participate by going here! Lilac Soul (talk • contribs • count) - Review me! 07:47, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Aalestrup

PLease expand or translate info from the sites. !! ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Talk"? 10:06, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Svend Aage Madsen

Hi! I made some minor updates to the page about Svend Aage Madsen after a page about one of his novels - Let Time Pass - which I had written was nominated for speedy deletion for being on too insignificant a subject. The question here mainly is whether Madsen himself is an important Danish writer or not. Since I don't speak Danish perhaps some of Denmark project participants would be able to either bring the Madsen's page to a level which would make someone believe that he is an important author (off course, only if he really is important) or find some reviews of the above mentioned book which would state that it isn't a completely worthless book. Thanks in advance! --Kazhe 14:18, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

I am confused: You say that you don't speak Danish, yet you somehow managed to create an article with a plot summary of an untranslated Danish novel?
Svend Åge Madsen is certainly an important and notable author, recipient of many literary prizes, with several secondary-source monographs specifically about his work. The list at http://www.litteraturpriser.dk/aut/MS.htm#MSvendAageMadsen should give enough pointers for somebody to make notability unambiguous in his bio article.
However, it is not clear to me that Lad tiden gå ought to have an article of its own in the English-language Wikipedia, given that it is not available in an English translation, and neither is it a particularly central book in Madsen's production. Novels such as Tugt og utugt i mellemtiden or Se dagens lys which have been adapted for other media might qualify, but most of Madsen's work get its encyclopedic significance from being part of a collective of interconnecting tales. We would serve our readers better by describing Madsen's body of work as a whole in his article, rather than scattering it over a lot of little articles. –Henning Makholm 21:38, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Help with new stub page

Although I'm interested in the project, I don't speak a work of Danish. How accurate are the English translations on the Jens Blauenfeldt page? Did he really say he felt happy after the 9/11 attacks? Thanks. Revolutionaryluddite 01:49, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Requesting AfD discussion

I have put these two articles up for deletion: Opinion polling for the next Danish parliamentary election (by party) and Opinion polling for the next Danish parliamentary election (by potential coalition). The deletion debate can be found here. I think what is already in the Danish parliamentary election, 2007 article is all Wikipedia needs, as I've stated in my reasons for listing those two opinion poll articles for deletion. But I'd like to get a discussion going, so whether you agree or disagree, please state your reasons for your opinion in the deletion debate. Thank you. Lilac Soul (talk • contribs • count) 07:38, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Translations

Hi all I was sent here from WP:ANI with regard an article David Mader on which I wrongfully removed a Danish Language ref whould someone be able to verify the refs on this article or even better translate them thanks in advance for your help. BigDunc 17:32, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Valentinian gone?

He has blanked his user page and talk page. Can't really blame him though. The lunatics are running the asylum these days. This is a serious setback for all Danes here on enwiki. A lot of work will need to redelegated so I'll engage myself more actively in this project when I return. It would be greatly appreciated if as many of you as possible would drop by his talk page and show your appreciation for all his hard work here. EconomicsGuy (talk) 15:22, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

A great loss

Valentinian patiently guided me through a number of obscure points of Inter Wiki notation of which I was making a hash. Robert Greer (talk) 21:01, 29 December 2007 (UTC)