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Swedish heraldry

Fred J, thank you so much for your contributions to WP, such as your contributions to Swedish heraldry! I am working on expanding the article a bit, and I would greatly appreciate your help with finding appropriate sources for inline citations. If you can take a look at the article and add references for anything that sticks out to you, it would be a tremendous help. Tack så mycket! Wilhelm meis (talk) 00:41, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

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No worries. Wilhelm meis (talk) 00:01, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter

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Lars Fredrik Nilson

Thanks for you´r help! Now it is much better and I will try to find a little bit more about his work!--Stone (talk) 05:03, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

Raoul Wallenberg

As part of the WP:GA listing process, I have reviwed Raoul Wallenberg though I have also asked for a second opinion on if the article is correctly using WP:Summary Style and WP:Embedded Lists. However, there are some citation issues that still need to be fixed regardless of the outcome of the 2nd opinion, and some queries about entries in the honors/memorials section. Million_Moments (talk) 19:48, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

OK the second opinion agrees with the major edits that are needed. Normally an article is placed on hold if such edits can be made in a week. I'm going to ask you if you think the requested changes can be made in seven days or if you'd need more time than that, in which case the article would be failed and then you could re-nom it when it was done. I know you don't want to see the article failed, but I would have to do so if I judged it wasn't progressing well enough in seven days. Million_Moments (talk) 08:34, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

I replied again on the review page. I believe the article is going in the right direction and can be completed in a week, of course the final decision is left to Million Moments. Check out the review page for more details. --Banime (talk) 13:29, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Nordic cinema task force

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Charles XI of Sweden

Hello, Fred J. I have listed the article as a GA since it satisfies Good article criteria. But however for a future FA status, this won't be enough. You'll have to add and expand more. Also a good copyeditor needs to copyedit this article. Anyway, good work. Hope to see this article as a featured article someday. Thanks, Kensplanet (talk) 07:26, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I did like the article very much. Kensplanet (talk) 17:05, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Emanuel Swedenborg

Hi Fred, I just noticed the last two changes about Swedenborg are vandelism. The word "gay" was added in two places, and I am unable to UNDO this for some reason. Can you UNDO these? Thanks in advance for your help. Stephen —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sburleigh (talk • contribs) 03:41, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Fred, OK I see that the person who added "gay" then immediately removed the word. So all is well with the Swedenborg article. Sorry for the confusion. Stephen Sburleigh Sburleigh (talk —Preceding undated comment was added at 13:44, 20 November 2008 (UTC).

Image:National parks of Sweden numbers.png

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Best regards, -- Ukko.de (talk) 14:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

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Swedish heraldry source

Hello again! I am looking for a source on Swedish heraldry, and I'm not quite sure where to turn. I have found quite a few mentions in en.WP and sv.WP articles of a decision by the Privy Council in 1884 to grant Swedish provinces the rank of Duchy and the right to display the ducal coronet over the landskap arms. I see that at least some of these mentions were contributed by User:Mic, who seems to be long gone. I hope you have better access to sources than I do (since I am now in Japan) and the free time to look into it, or perhaps you know someone who can help. Any other contributions you can make to the article are always appreciated as well. Thank you! Wilhelm_meis (talk) 06:12, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

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GA reassessment of Swedish literature

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, listed at Talk:Swedish literature/GA1. I will check back in seven days. If these issues are addressed, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far. Jezhotwells (talk) 19:25, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Karl Knutsson (Bonde)

To demonstrate the validity of my claim that Charles VIII is better known, even in English-language sources, as Karl Knutsson (Bonde), please note the search results listed at Talk:Charles VIII of Sweden#Correct Name. Sources know him as Karl Knutsson over Charles at about a 6:1 ratio. Also, please feel free to explore the quality of search results, such as The Cambridge history of Scandinavia (p. 733) or The Catholic encyclopedia (p. 478). Encyclopedia and other reliable sources are split, and many acknowledge both names (as should we), but "Charles VIII" seems to mostly be a relatively recent trend, and Karl Knutsson (Bonde) avoids the problem of the conflicting ordinals. Wilhelm Meis (Quatsch!) 09:49, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Impressive dedication, Wilhelm. I hope you didn't get the impression I disagreed with you because I didn't -- I just like references...

And I still find it important to cite a reference in the article when saying that he is "best known as Karl Knutsson Bonde"; and that such references should be added to ALL the royalties before Eric XIV at least; and it wouldn't hurt to add references to some monarchs after Eric either.

By looking at the logs, it doesn't appear the Charles VII was ever located at the name Karl Knutsson (Bonde). It should not be attributed to ignorance from the original author Mic, but probably just adherence to the original policy on royalties to name them with their ordinal number. Since that policy has changed for some cases, it should be uncontroversial to move the article to the name that the person is best known as, which is Bonde.

While Charles Bonde is uncontroversial, people such as Gustav I of Sweden are more difficult and it is necessary to have convincing sources before moving. I noticed you were involved in discussing the location of Eric of Pomerania too, which also is more controversial. Gustav I of Sweden has actually been located at a different location earlier but was moved because of aforementioned policy. [1]

Again, thanks for your interest in our monarchs.

Fred-J 19:11, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

I spent a semester in the Stockholm area studying Swedish/Scandinavian history and culture. It certainly didn't make me an expert, but it did cultivate a respect for Scandinavian history. I agree about needing references. The thing that sparked my interest in how these articles are named was when I found that Eric of Pomerania had been moved to "Eric VII of Denmark" and some of the early Scandinavian kings I was familiar with by names such as "Eric Lamb" and "Eric Menved" were located at Eric III of Denmark and Eric VI of Denmark. Apparently I was mistaken about Karl Knutsson's article ever being at "Karl Knutsson (Bonde)", but I still think that would be the best name for him. I'm not a big fan of calling Karl "Charles", but I won't bat an eye if that's how he's known in most English-language sources. I just don't see it though. All my English-language books that discuss him call him either "Karl Knutsson" or "Karl Knutsson (Bonde)". It seems to me, and maybe you have a different perspective on this, but it seems to me that Gustav Vasa is so widely known as "Gustav Vasa" that it seems odd to drop the byname and adopt the ordinal. It seems to me that the Vasa name itself is quite notable, owing a great deal of its notability to the first king of independent Sweden. It seems to me that it would be rather like dropping Washington from George Washington (while the capital city and an entire state bear the name in his honor). Basically, I don't see the N-O-C convention as properly superceding the common name convention, just clarifying where the common name convention may be insufficient. Any time there is a clear common name, I think we should use it (though in the case of modern monarchs, the ordinals are in their common names). What do you think about it? Kind regards, Wilhelm Meis (Quatsch!) 03:22, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Nobel Prize

Hello! I am currently working on the "Swedish Project" and "Award and Prizes"'s article Nobel Prize. Since it is a top importance article and not even GA class I am trying to make it a GA article and perhaps further after that. However, I'm in a state now where I could use some help. I need a new pair (several pairs in fact) of eyes to look at the article and the talk page for improving prose, debation of different things and some sourcing. Do you got any possibility to help out? BR --Esuzu 12:08, 16 January 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esuzu (talk • contribs)

Hey, sounds great! It is currently undergoing GA review which I would be very happy to have some help with :) --Esuzu (talk • contribs) 18:11, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Ah, no problem :) Thanks for your answer! --Esuzu (talk • contribs) 09:27, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

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Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 06:09, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

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Good article reassessment for Swedish heraldry

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