Talk:Kajaani

What I continue to find amusing is that the Kajaani coat of arms depicts a castle, when there hasn't been a whole, intact castle in Kajaani for almost three centuries. J I P | Talk 13:51, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

It's just the ruins of it, but we call it a castle. (28.9.2006) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.50.192.202 (talk • contribs)

Katiska ?
What's that Katiska- district in the The Districts and Villages of the City of Kajaani section of the article ? It's not even in the Finnish Wikipedia's Stub Type of Kajaani. Where is Katiska in Kajaani ? I also searched with Google (Katiska Kajaani) and got no results. Hoikka1 (talk) 08:20, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I'll answer to myself. It is indeed an district, and it exists. The district is in where "Katiskatie" is. I'll add this Katiska to Finnish Wiki stub type. Hoikka1 (talk) 07:02, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

GA
Don't want to be a spoil sport but this IMO isn't even close to GA standard. It's start class, I'd dispute a C class grading. A very stubby section on geography, unsourced climate section, reliance on sports databases, and stubby sections on the others including some very short sentences/paragraphs. A lead which fails to summarise the article. Compare this to something like Esbjerg. It needs a lot of work if this is to retain GA. Perhaps User:Ipigott has something to say about it.♦ Dr. Blofeld  14:08, 9 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I agree with Dr. Blofeld that the article needs a lot more work if it is to have GA status. Why don't you start by drawing on the Finnish wiki. Even if you don't read Finnish, Google translate can help you with background to enhance most of the sections of the English article, especially the history which you can find in a separate article translated into English here. You should also look at the translation of the main article here. There are many sights and landmarks which could be included, possibly with their own articles. Kajanni is quite a large town and deserves much better coverage on the EN Wikipedia.--Ipigott (talk) 14:51, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I've always been under the impression that GAs don't have to be as good as FAs or A-class. Therefore, I've never been too strict in passing them. (Now, if this were up for FA, it would fail miserably.) However, there's always the possibility that I've made a mistake, so I'd be willing to either reassess the article's status right now or help improve it and then take it to WP:GAR. Thanks, -- Biblio worm  15:35, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

GAs don't need to be as good as FA or a A class. But they do at least have to have a pretty sound grasp of all aspects of the topics with adequate prose and sourcing. A couple of stubby lines in each section by no means is a good grasp of the town. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  15:41, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * About the geography section, I really searched hard for anything to add to it, like I did before, and I found one website, a fishing website, that I could cite when adding a single sentence to the section. So, that didn't help because I already had a sentence on fishing. About fiwiki, I don't speak Finnish, but you can see in the "Luonto" (translates as "Nature", but it's a geography section) section, nothing except the content in the climate section is sourced, and may have been written by someone who lives in Kajaani. I'm afraid I really can't improve this article much more, because I worked really hard on this (if I would've been able to get more info, I would've added it to the article), and according to you it's still Start-class. -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 15:51, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I've also spotted another unsourced statement: "...(around 34,000 in the town itself) and covers an area of 2,264.01 square kilometres (874.14 sq mi) of which 428.94 km2 (165.61 sq mi) is water. The population density is 20.59 inhabitants per square kilometre (53.3/sq mi)."
 * How about I temporarily delist this and put it on hold for a one or two weeks, and then reassess it at the end of the period? If Amaryllis cannot find anything else to add to it, I'm sure other people that are interested in the subject can. Users with access to privileged data sources, such as Highbeam and JSTOR, could also probably be of help. -- Biblio worm  16:20, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

I don't speak Finnish either; I think this would really benefit from a competent Finnish native speaker in researching. I will try to see what I can add to it but it's still a long way off GA I'm afraid. I'm not doubting it took a fair bit of time Amar, but compare it to the research that went into Aalborg for instance! Now a town of 37,000 I wouldn't expect to be close to that level, but I believe we can still produce some solid sections on this one comparable to Esbjerg. Perhaps ask at WP:GA talk page if you can do tha Biblio. That's why I didn't go running straight to GAR and to at least give it a chance to improve. It would be good if we could get hold of some native Finnish speakers in the meantime. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  16:25, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

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