Talk:Finnish famine of 1866–1868

Not Finnish but Swedish/Finnish
This catastrophe was not unique for Finland. It also occurred in Sweden. As a matter of fact currently the Swedish version of this page only mentions the situation in Sweden. It seems to me that a page must have more or less the same subject regardless in what language it's written. Also, since due to close geographical proximity this natural catastrophe did largely occur in parallel in both Finland and Sweden, it would make sense to change the subject of this article somewhat and write about the situation in both Finland and Sweden in the same article. --Smallchanges 14:49, 20 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. It should be changed to Swedish-Finnish famine of 1866-1868--85.226.235.248 (talk) 13:13, 21 September 2008 (UTC)


 * On the other hand, so far it only describes the famine in Finland, though it linkes to the article in Swedish wiki, sv:Missväxtåren 1867-1869, which descrbes the famine on both sides of the border. One should insert the info about Sweden in the article too. --85.226.235.248 (talk) 13:15, 21 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Although svwiki describes 1867 as the worst of the years, there is a one year mismatch between the svwiki article on (northern) Sweden and this article on Finland, so it would have to receive a different title and coverage if it is to fully cover Sweden as well. I think that a separate Swedish famine of 1867-1869 article could be an equally resonable choice. Tomas e (talk) 20:02, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Article split
I am going to be bold and split the article between the famines in Finland and Sweden. While the famines did occur in both Finland and Sweden during the late 1860s, there is a difference between the years (1866-68 in Finland and 1867-69 in Sweden), and regardless, the disaster was such a big event in the history of both nations that it should have separate articles which could concentrate on the causes, actions and events for both countries. Such are also the case of other articles when catastrophes spread across nations. As it is now, most links as well almost all of the articles on other Wikipedia language versions focus on the famine in Finland. I inserted the majority of the text of the Swedish section here myself a while ago, but I believe it would be uncontroversial to perform a split of the article - it is already split in the text and sections, though they are placed in the same article page. Any one are free to disagree and contest my split, of course.--Aciram (talk) 19:44, 20 July 2018 (UTC)