User talk:Muniswede

Separation of towns from municipalities
Nice to hear, I just look in the Swedish articles and/or look it up in Google Earth. Thanks for the great work on separating the articles, keep it up =) --Skizzik 21:49, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Ship districts
I am not Mic, but he has, like me, written a lot about Swedish topics.

I don't know anything about Ship Districts, and can not remember having written about it. Do what you think is best.

Fred-Jn 13:44, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Hallo! On Mic's page there was a note that he had been "missing since September 2004" and that qusestions could be directed to Fred Chess. Well, that doesn't matter. Anyhow, I just wondered about the translation of "skeppslag". I have no opinion myself about it. I am not going to change anything before I know more. --Muniswede 14:16, 5 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Yay, I got my admin stuff back after changing username.
 * Let me know if you need some admin stuff done, such as deleting pages or images.
 * Fred-J 22:54, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Former municipalities of Sweden
Get Former municipalities of Sweden to featured list status? Why not, I did it with former municipalities of Norway. Can you allow Norway to be better than Sweden? :) I'll gladly help you with the cleanup if I just had some reliable, informative sources to go by. Punkmorten 21:41, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

And, oh, it would be helpful if you used edit summaries all the time. Happy editing, Punkmorten 21:45, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Such a list must contain more than 2,000 entities. Not even in the Swedish WP there is a complete list. I don't think I have the time to do for the time being. --Muniswede (talk) 09:59, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Recommendation re. edit summaries and category edits
It has occured to me that you might not know what "edit summaries" are: On a page being edited, a small "Summary" field is found under the main edit box. It looks like this:
 * [[Image:Edit_Summary-2.png|Edit summary text box]]

Always fill in this summary field. This piece of advise is found on the help page for edit summaries, and is considered an important guideline. Even a short summary is better than no summary. An edit summary is even more important if you delete text; otherwise, people may question your motives for the edit. Summaries help everyone to understand what you have changed when they peruse the history of a page. It's a good idea to set your user preferences (under Editing) to "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary".

Regarding more deletions of categories from articles: please desist. If you have a problem with a certain category, please discuss it on the talk page or take it to WP:CFD. Depopulating categories by doing covert edits without edit summaries in all the individual articles of a category is not a helpful method and in my opinion, it is rather damaging to the project as it creates more work for people who have to clean up the mess created when categories are emptied out. There is a reason people add a category to an article: it is a navigation aid. Categories are not political statements or an exclusively "modern municipality"-sorting technique. Thank you for your cooperation and happy editing. Pia (talk) 03:27, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Former municipalities of Sweden
Hi, do you know if there's a source for this somewhere? A list? How can the list be completed? Punkmorten (talk) 05:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Municipalities without infoboxes
If you are interested, these articles are the only municipalities of sweden that not had an infobox.
 * Nordanstig Municipality
 * Bjurholm Municipality
 * Ragunda Municipality
 * Hofors Municipality
 * Nordmaling Municipality
 * Malå Municipality
 * Vännäs Municipality

cheers --Djacku (talk) 20:37, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I will try to do something about that in the near future. --Muniswede (talk) 20:58, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


 * You missed Sandviken Municipality. Skizzik (talk) 20:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Sandviken and Nordanstig are fixed now. To be continued... --Muniswede (talk) 21:06, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * The other municipalities have also got infoboxes now. --Muniswede (talk) 19:20, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

List of urban areas in Sweden
I have created a list of urban areas in Sweden, maybe you can take a look at it to see if something is wrong or ways it could be improved? My english is not the best one (as you can see, i guess) so there are probably some errors in the text at least. --Skizzik (talk) 22:48, 11 April 2008 (UTC)


 * As far as I have seen it looks good. I will check more later on.--Muniswede (talk) 07:32, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Hundred, Court District and Parish
There are lots of articles like Algutsrum Hundred, Burträsk Court District and Bräkne-Hoby Parish. Should we move them to Algutsrum, Burträsk and Bräkne-Hoby (now redirects) and so on (and of course rewrite them a bit)? --Skizzik (talk) 21:03, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Sometimes I have done that. It has been done when there are localities with the same name. Sometimes there are links to localities in municipality articles, and when you click you find a hundred instead. That is not so good, so in those cases it is better to rewrite them. --Muniswede (talk) 21:19, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Most of the hundred-articles have redirect from the localities. But are the hundreds notable enough to have own articles? Shall there be articles about both the locality and the hundred? And if not, should the hundreds which don't have a locality with the same name be kept? And what do you think about the parishes and court districts, notable enough? Thanks, Skizzik (talk) 21:33, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I think the localities should have priority, at least if they are tätort (more than 200 inh). I do not know very much about hundreds, but if somebody wants to write articles about them, it is O.K. But if they are notable enough, well I do not know. --Muniswede (talk) 14:12, 17 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Ok, thanks. --Skizzik (talk) 20:44, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

List of municipalities of Sweden
Hi, I made a new version of the article (as you noticed), but I'm not 100% sure of what to write in the intro to the article (as it's a balance between the list of and the main article. Want to take a look on the job? Røed (talk · no) 04:47, 17 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I think it looks nice at the moment. --Muniswede (talk) 18:34, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

More swedish red tape!
If the town of Åmål cannot "twin" with other towns because it is in fact the municipality that is the political arm that makes such exchanges - the bureacratic thinking is so typically Swedish (and one supposes that the Municipality should not be allowed to make such exchanges because it is towns that are supposed to make such exchanges not wider geographical areas - then I hope you don't mind that any reference to Moodyson's film "Fucking Åmål" should be removed from the Åmål municipality page because the film only refers to the town not the municiplity!--Punavuori (talk) 22:33, 15 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, that is a good idea. There are in most municipalities a lot of localities such as cities, towns, villages and whatever. They are not political entities and cannot decide anything, as little as streets or squares can. --Muniswede (talk) 07:31, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Scania dab
Regarding this and the previous edits: You probably did not notice that the errors were not introduced by humans, but by bots, so pointing that out in the edit summary won't help. If the bots add the wrong iw again, the best way to stop them is reporting that as a false positive on the bot's talk page, which will alert whoever is running the bot. Best Skäpperöd (talk) 08:29, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * FYI: . I think (hope) that the iw is now dealt with. Regards Skäpperöd (talk) 09:17, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Good! I did not know how to handle it. --Muniswede (talk) 09:22, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Urban population instead of total population?
Using the population_total field of the Infobox settlement template in articles about Swedish cities and urban areas invites people to incorrectly state the total municipally population. I suggest that the population_urban field should be used instead. At least it would make Swedes less surprised. What do you think? I just changed this issue in Sundsvall. Mange01 (talk) 12:54, 15 July 2010 (UTC)


 * That is O.K. --Muniswede (talk) 20:37, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Scania
I have the impression, English is not your first language. The name of "Skåne" is Scania in English. Please acknowledge this. John  Anderson  (talk) 11:26, 9 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Your "impression" is of course correct. But the the question is not about that. The historical province Skåne is often (but not always) referred to as Scania in English. It is a so called exonym. The modern administrative unit Skåne län is very seldom referred to as Scania County.--Muniswede (talk) 11:56, 9 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Scania is very seldom mentioned at all in America. The English name for this part of Sweden is however Scania, not Skåne. This is the same for both the "historical province" and the modern "län". en:Wikipedia is written in English, so English names for countries, cities and provinces should be used even if they are not used by the entity itself. If English is not your first language, maybe you don't understand the nuances in this language. I noticed that you do aknowledge that Gothenburg has another name in English, so what's the difference with Scania? John  Anderson   (talk) 16:01, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Just to let you know, John Anderson is one among several sockpupets that has now been blocked from editing on svwp. I've requested a block here on enwp as well. I've got more users on svwp (and a lot more edits) too look over. Can you fix the things John has done here? In case you are wondering which accounts that are the same take a look at his page on svwp. GameOn (talk) 12:08, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

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Stop engaging in OR
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