User talk:Josefmatula

Vyborg article
There has been differing opinions about the naming of the town in the article. I have followed the route given in other articles concerning cities whose names have been changed over the history: Byzantium/Constantinopolis/Istambul, Königsberg/Kaliningrad, Sankt Petersburg/Leningrad/Sankt Petersburg, etc., where the name which was an official one at the time when something happened is used in history section. In the same way, the Swedish version of Vyborg is used when the Swedish era is described, Finnish name when Finnish era and Russian when the Soviet/Russia era. There are two time periods which do not fit this schema perfectly, as the town retained it's Swedish name between the capture of the city by Peter the Great and it's annexion to Grand Duchy of Finland. Also it retained it's Finnish name after the Moscow Peace Treaty as part of the Karelo-Finnish SSR, and the official name was changed to Vyborg at September 1944, when it was incorporated to Leningrad Oblast.

For other names, River Vuoksa is ok for me, but I'd use Saimaa Canal as most of the canal and Lake Saimaa is located in Finland and we are producing text in English Wikipedia. (In Russian Wikipedia, the Russian name of the canal should be used.) Vyborg couldn't be reoccupied by Finnish troops at 1941, as it hints that the town had been occupied by Finns before, which is not the case, as it was owned by Finns.

If you check Nordic Countries, you can see that Finland is one of them. As you see in the wording, it is about the battle fought by any of the nordic countries, meaning that it is not necessary that it is located in Nordic Countries or that both parties were Nordic Countries to fulfill the definition. --Whiskey 07:23, 25 September 2006 (UTC)