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Contents 1 News 1.1 Pages listed on Articles for deletion 1.2 Announcements 2 Suggestions and requests 2.1 Verification requests 2.1.1 Kven 2.2 Requested articles (to be created) 2.2.1 Arts 2.2.2 Biographies 2.2.3 Education 2.2.4 Geography 2.2.5 Population 2.2.6 Organizations 2.2.7 Religion 2.2.8 Sports 2.3 Requests for improvement/expansion 2.3.1 Very short articles 2.3.2 Other articles 2.4 Requests for attention/review 2.5 Possible candidates for deletion 2.6 Image requests 3 Current informal projects 3.1 Winter sports reporting 3.2 List of villages in Norway 3.3 Norwegian Members of Parliament 4 Finished informal projects 5 Stub markers (templates) 6 WikiProjects on Norway-related topics 7 Norway-related resources/references 7.1 Our subpages 7.2 Other 7.3 External 8 List of participants 9 Alternative words for Germans

[edit] News

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[edit] Pages listed on Articles for deletion

(See also WikiProject Deletion sorting/Norway)

• Kalbakken (station) (AFD discussion) - vote was recorded as a keep September 1.

[edit] Announcements

• Former municipalities of Norway is now a featured list candidate, please voice your opinion (i.e. support it :) ) at Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/Former municipalities of Norway. Punkmorten 14:45, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions and requests

• Created articles are listed at Norway-related topics notice board/New articles.
• Other completed requests can be found at Norway-related topics notice board/Completed requests and finished projects.

[edit] Verification requests

[edit] Kven

For quite a long time 1-2 editors write the Kven article, which basically claims that Kvens/Cwens permeated whole Northern Europe.. I have reasons to believe that it is original reasearch and POV-pushing. I periodically delete some really abnormal claims related to countries outside Scandinavia. Unfortunately I don't have enough knowledge of Northern European history and not a single expert with second opinion editis this article. Please help. mikka (t) 20:34, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Requested articles (to be created)

When creating an article from this list, please try to provide some more information than what the person looking up the topic can be expected to already know. In general, try to submit two or three paragraphs, or at least five sentences of main text.

Some also prefer that you provide a reference pointing to the source of the information, and put the article in a Category.

[edit] Arts

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[edit] Biographies

Compiled from the red links in the List of Norwegians.

Arts:

• Kjartan Fløgstad, author
• Arild Midthun, cartoonist
• Lise Myhre, cartoonist
• Vebjørn Sand, painter (very short article)
• Gabriel Scott, author
• Jan Erik Vold, poet

Sports:

• Dag Fornæss, speed skater
• Cecilie Leganger, handball keeper
• Heidi Tjugum, handball keeper
• Ingrid Tørlen, beach volleyball player
• Pål Anders Ullevålseter, rally motorcyclist

Science and engineering:

• Erik Rotheim, inventor of the aerosol spray

Other:

• Arnfinn Nesset, hospital serial killer
• Asbjørn Sunde, WWII resistance fighter
• Turi Widerøe, aviatrix

Compiled from the red links in the Stortinget 2005-2009:

Members of the Norwegian Parliament 2005–2009

Møre og Romsdal: Nesvik | Løvik | Solholm | Grimstad | Nordland: Svendsen | Strøm | Ellingsen | T. Pedersen | Kristiansen | Oppland: Brørby | Hagebakken | Johnsen | Nistad | Thommessen | Oslo: Nybakk | Bøhler | Hildeng | Marthinsen | Lønning | Khan | Tybring-Gjedde | Grande | Syversen | Rogaland: Vaksdal | Nordtun | Høie | Horne | Solvik-Olsen | Vallersnes | Opheim | Tørresdal | Sogn og Fjordane: Starheim | Heggø | Ludvigsen | Telemark: S.O. Hansen | Hoksrud | Aasland | Fostervold | Holmberg | Troms: Arnesen | Korsberg | Bjørnflaten | Amundsen | Knutsen | Nord-Trøndelag: Kristoffersen | Eriksson | Skjelstad | Sør-Trøndelag: Lien | Lånke | Vestfold: Width | Flåtten | Bartholsen | Anundsen | Gullvåg | Østfold: Leirstein | Gåsvatn | Engeset | Johansen | Giltun | | Hjemdal |

Footballers - These are footballers with many international caps for Norway:

• Nils Eriksen (Norwegian Wikipedia)
• Tore Pedersen (Norwegian Wikipedia) (very short article)
• Erik Solér (Norwegian Wikipedia)
• Harald Sunde (Norwegian Wikipedia)
• Alf Martinsen (Norwegian Wikipedia)
• Sverre Brandhaug (Norwegian Wikipedia)

[edit] Education

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[edit] Geography

• Geography of Norway needs an undersection about Geology, or a short primer and then wikilink to main article. So, could someone write a Geology of Norway - article? Orcaborealis 23:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Population

• Census in Norway Need help to expand. StabiloBoss 15:40, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Organizations

• Speidernes Fellesorganisasjon

[edit] Religion

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[edit] Sports

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[edit] Requests for improvement/expansion

[edit] Very short articles

The following articles are very short, three sentences or less. Some of them can be considered substubs. Some of them have recently been created from the list of requests above, others have been around longer. All would benefit from being expanded.

[edit] Other articles

• List of stone churches (which also gets redirects from stone church) would be interesting to have expanded. / Fred-Chess 10:14, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
• Prime Minister of Norway is currently a redirect to List of Prime Ministers of Norway. Could we fill the PMoN article with information on the powers and role of the prime minister, historical things etc. ? Punkmorten 14:51, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Requests for attention/review

• Viking Age, Ragnvald Eysteinsson, Normans, Northmen, Daner, 911, [860]], Rollo of Normandy, Rollo, Hrolf Ganger, France in the Middle Ages, Orkneyinga saga have all been targets of a very active user seeking to promote his view on these articles. Inge 17:24, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
• Riksmål - A series of anon users (or one with several IPs) have heavily edited this article in a way that seems to me to take it in a POV direction. It is well written but unsourced and some of the statements and things that are alluded to are dubious. Inge 08:47, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
• Brynjar Meling - I recently created this article, so currently I'm the only editor. Some outside review and expantion would probably do it some good. --Sherool 16:05, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
• Vidkun Quisling - I think someone is pushing a POV --Samuelsen 18:50, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
• Bjørnøya - resubmitted for peer review (see Wikipedia:Peer review/Bjørnøya), any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Kosebamse 10:51, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
• Kåre Willoch - on (if not over) the edge of war for a period, calmer now, but still turbulent. See also Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Norway#Clean and beef up Kåre Willoch. --Eddi (Talk) 23:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
• Jan Simonsen - peculiar introduction and the rest seems rather biased. --Eddi (Talk) 23:26, 28 March 2006 (UTC) (Was tempted to copy edit, but I don't know how to validate or correct the various assertions. Besides, it is such a deliciously amusing read that we almost need to create a special category for the article - perhaps Category:Gossip & Slander. Thanks for bringing it to our attention - Williamborg 01:45, 15 April 2006 (UTC))
• Category:Norwegian football clubs - I feel that we should give the articles new names without full stops, i.e. Aalesunds FK and Alta IF instead of Aalesunds F.K. and Alta I.F. I don't know why they have been named this way. Punkmorten 17:54, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
• Sognamål - useless - let's send it to AFD! Punkmorten 11:50, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Possible candidates for deletion

• RENAC Society - Looks like webpage-vanity to me. Originaly it claimed it was a "press agency" (I edited it). I tried to get it deleted once, but it was kept as a "no consensus" seeing as no one "dared" to vote on it becase they didn't understand Norwegian. If a few more people here agree with me we should try nominating it again (it sure doesn't pass the "infamous" Alexa test mentioned on Wikipedia:Websites). Alternatively someone rely should expand the article if you think it's worth keeping. --Sherool 16:26, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Probably not notable. Searching for RENAC + Aalesund gives 2060 hits. Looks like the majority of those are hotlinking of pictures. Fornadan (t) 22:10, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Highly dubious article, yes. Not something to put in an encyclopedia. --Wernher 21:54, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Redirected to Aalesunds F.K. now. Sam Vimes 18:01, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Norwegian Trench - this one is strange. Orcaborealis

Oh my, strange indeed. It's a notable geographic feature though, so while most of the content gotta go I think we should be eable to salvage the article by simply re-writing it into a stub, more or less from scratch though. I'll just tag it as {{cleanup-rewrite}} for now, I'll look at it tomorow if no one beats me to it (going to bed).--Sherool 00:53, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

I've re-written it now, still very stubby though, so I'll just list it for expantion here as well. --Sherool 23:30, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

• Gromguten - being the Norwegian wrestling champion does not constitute notability, do you agree? Punkmorten 19:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I like the part that says: "Finishing Moves: Telemarksnedslag, Fossefall, Hallingspark"... - Soulkeeper 17:35, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image requests

See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Norway and articles listed below.

• Norwegian Royal Regalia
• Crown of Norway

[edit] Current informal projects

[edit] Winter sports reporting

After the participants reach a consensus, the discussion under this heading will be transferred to the talk page, and a summary put here.

Hi! I have been thinking a little about trying to motivate fellow winter sports enthusiasts across Scandinavia and Europe in general to report results to the current sports events page—if not for any other reason than to alleviate the heavy baseball, Am. football, cricket, rugby, and football (soccer) bias on said page. Myself, I love to watch biathlon, but I also like other ski sports. But to report each and every ski sport result single handedly is a little too much...

So, I consider posting this message, or one like it, on the WKP notice boards of Sweden, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Germany (all ski sports); France and Ukraine (biathlon); Austria (alpine skiing and ski jumping), Switzerland, and Italy (alpine skiing), Poland (ski jumping); and perhaps a couple more countries? (I do think I've got most of the "relevant" nations covered in this list, though). Tell me what you think. --Wernher 04:36, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Is there a need to differentiate between events? For instance, Italy is prominent in cross-country and biathlon too, no need to single out alpine skiing. Also, don't forget the Czech Republic. And perhaps speed skating should be included in the scope? Just a few thoughts.
Something we can do to boost the coverage of said sports is to create more bios of Winter Olympians. Many of these can be translated from Norwegian or German Wikipedias. Recently I did a major overhaul on categorization etc. in this field. Punkmorten 18:59, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Well thought'n'said. The reason I singled out alpine skiing for the Italians was simply that I felt that that sport would have a higher chance of being interesting to Italian wikipedians. But perhaps wikipedians from northern Italy are equally enthusiastic about the XC disciplines, I don't know. My general rationale for limiting the sports mentioned to the most popular in each specific country (and referring to the other winter sports as a whole) was that there might then be a better chance of the wikipedians receiving the message to jump right in and start reporting.

Speed skating I plainly forgot about (but I sure remembered it last night when watching the world record class WC event from "Salt Lake Olympic Oval" on TV). :-) Also forgot about the Czechs; they have good ski jumpers and XC skiers. And the Estonians, too, have many good XC skiers. --Wernher 17:37, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

And Japan (ski jumping, Nordic combined). Punkmorten 14:52, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Update: I have now put in some effort in the Current sports events page's Current and Upcoming events sections (placed in the pink listbox to the right); now there's at least some skiing events listed. I did some 'subsectioning' so that the Cricket, Rugby, and College football items won't swamp everything else (as it undeniably did before). I'll try to come up with a concise and inspiring 'call to arms' before long (as discussed above), to put in the Announcements section of the potentially interested Wikipedians' regional notice boards. --Wernher 04:32, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

On this topic, I've just created Norway at the 2006 Winter Olympics (the other countries to have such pages were Australia, Canada, Israel, United States, and, interestingly, Belarus). Might be a useful page to have during the Olympics (assuming we're not all sitting in front of the TV...) Sam Vimes 17:58, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone know the copyright status of images taken during the Oslo 1952 Winter Olympics (eg [1])? Thanks, Andjam 16:21, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Whoops, I just realised that the photo was probably published in Australia, which may be a better route for public domain status. Andjam 16:29, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of villages in Norway

I have now created the mammoth List of villages in Norway! Inspired by the coverage in the United States and articles like Hibberts, Maine, we should list every populated place in Norway, and this is the goal of this list. It is based upon a 2005 SSB release.

Please help out with completion of this list! See also Talk:List of villages in Norway. Punkmorten 09:09, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Norwegian Members of Parliament

In addition I imported the Template:Stortinget 2005-2009 from the Norwegian Wikipedia. We should definitely have articles for all 169 members, all of which may be translated from no:wiki. Punkmorten 11:26, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Finished informal projects

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[edit] Stub markers (templates)

Consider tagging very short Norway-related articles, with a Norway designated stub tag. For general Norway-stubs, write this {{Norway-stub}} at the bottom of the article. (All such articles are listed in Category:Norway stubs)

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[edit] WikiProjects on Norway-related topics

• WikiProject Norway

Could use some help on the monthly update. I've added some new material, but it could be more exciting—and particularly would benefit from fresh eyes.

[edit] Norway-related resources/references

[edit] Our subpages

• /Terminology – Reference list of English translations of common Norwegian terms
• /New articles
• /Old articles
• /Old news
• /Completed requests and finished projects
• /Image requests
• /Norway-related quality articles – Eventual Featured article candidates?

[edit] Other

• Check for Norwegian-to-English translation requests

[edit] External

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[edit] List of participants

• Punkmorten 19:01, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I'll put this page on my watchlist and we'll see what happens.

• Sherool 16:09, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Can't promise to be hugely active on this board, but I'll give it a shot.

• Vindheim
  • If I have nothing else I want to do ....

• WegianWarrior 12:47, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Intrests are, among others, weapons, warships, airplanes, history and so on and so forth.

• Wernher 13:55, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
  • General topics: history, language, etc
  • Particular interests: Nordmøre, WWII, tech history

• StabiloBoss 15:39, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

• Inge 22:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Interests: History, military, vexillology and many others.

• Williamborg (Bill) 03:06, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Interests: Geography, history, and whatever else catches my fancy.

• Orcaborealis
  • I have been pretty active adding to wikipedia, particularly everything related to geography, time to add myself here...

[edit] Alternative words for Germans

Does Norwegian have alternative words for Germans, as in slang? If so please add them, with a small explanation and perhaps translation at the following article: Alternative words for Germans. Thanks in advance, Rex 15:02, 6 August 2006 (UTC)