Talk:Børsen

New article about fire
Please make new stand-alone article about the fire titled "Børsen fire," in Danish "Brænden på Børsen". Begin something like: On April 16, 2024 at 7:36 CET, a fire was reported in Børsen, a 17th-century stock exchange in the center of Copenhagen, Denmark. Background: location, build by Christian IV in 1619–1640 and so on Domestic reactions: the king and queen, PM Mette Frederiksen, members of Folketinget and so one. International reactions: French, British, German, Norwegian and Swedish media. The comparison to Notre Dame in Paris. Fire: it was declared extinguished at ??:?? Links: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68824189 https://abcnews.go.com/International/fire-rips-stock-exchange-building-copenhagen-people-rescue/story?id=109293831 https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/16/style/copenhagen-old-stock-exchange-fire-intl/index.html https://www.nrk.no/urix/borsen-i-kobenhavn-star-i-brann-1.16845626 https://www.svt.se/nyheter/snabbkollen/storbrand-i-anrika-borsen-i-kopenhamn https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/04/16/la-bourse-de-copenhague-au-danemark-est-en-feu_6228121_3210.html https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/live-brand-i-boersen-i-koebenhavn https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2024-04-16-ti-kobbersmede-var-paa-taget-da-alarmen-gik-nogle-graed-da-de-kom-ned

Assesment of the damage: Rebulding: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.96.25.164 (talk) 13:54, 16 April 2024 (UTC)


 * A new separate article can be made when there is sufficient new information. For now, there is only enough info to fill a section of the main article. Please be patient. Cart (talk) 15:35, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Agree that there is still no need for a separate article, I will undo the split that just resulted in duplicatation and a stub. Reywas92Talk 13:46, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * One existed just yesterday, but the article was merged into this one today. There is not sufficient information to create a whole new article, but maybe in the future. Wikipubliceditorpro (talk) 18:11, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

We have a grand total of four paragraphs of content on the fire, none of which are very long. Just because you can divide some into single-sentence sections does not mean there is enough content to warrant a split at this point. Keep expanding here first and we can split later – let's try to avoid removing content that would still be relevant here without expecting readers to go to two articles and also avoid duplication. Reywas92Talk 13:57, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

The Danish wikipedia does have a separate article on the fire (dk:Branden i Børsen), but the Danish article on the Børsen dk:Børsen is about twice the size of the English one, and the information in the article on the fire is about twice-ish what we have in the section. My feeling is to use expand the english article using the Danish one as a model and *when* the information on the fire gets to where the Danish one is (or close), it probably should get split. I am *not* expecting the article on the fire to reach the size of the Notre-Dame fire, but that doesn't mean that it won't eventually be its own article. It's not really a WP:TOOSOON though, I have no doubt that it will be possible within the next week to have such an article, especially if the article on the Børsen expands as well.Naraht (talk) 14:31, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Number of images
This article has 28 images. Can we do some trimming here? --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 23:17, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

First sentence
Two quibbles about this first sentence:
 * Børsen (Danish for "the bourse"), also known as Børsbygningen ("the bourse building"), is a 17th-century stock exchange in the centre of Copenhagen, ...

The Danish word Børs (bourse) or Børsen (the bourse) has triple meanings: (i) a place where things are traded (good, securities or whatever); (ii) specifically a stock exchange; (iii) this specific historic building in Copenhagen, that was originally børs in the 1st sense, and at a later period in the 2nd. Nø (talk) 07:25, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) I am not sure Børsbygningen is ever used, except occasionally (rarely) as a description rather than a name in contexts where just Børsen might be misunderstood to mean the modern stock exchange. I don't think it deserves a mention here.
 * 2) In the 17th century, it was afaik not a stock exchange, but it was for sure a commodity exchange. It was, however, stock exchange in a period from 1857(?) to 1974.


 * I've now changed the first sentence accordingly. Nø (talk) 15:05, 27 April 2024 (UTC)