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four out of four title images show alpine idylls? I mean, nostalgia is all very well, but how about balancing this away a little bit from folklore and stereotypes? dab (𒁳) 17:59, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

PORTAL SWITZERLAND

The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica, German: die Schweiz or Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, French: La Suisse or La Confederation Suisse, Italian: Svizzera, Romansh: Svizra) is a landlocked Alpine country in Central Europe with a strong economy in finance and banking, pharmaceutics, watches and micro-precision industry.

Switzerland borders Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.

Switzerland is a confederation and has a long and strong tradition of political and military neutrality. This background allows Switzerland various international co-operations and organizations.

How about something like this? ---Sluzzelin 05:10, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

hm.. no. I'm sure we can settle for something between these extremens :) dab (𒁳) 17:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
Novartis, looks too much like an advertising. What about "Bundeshaus" in place of Blocher and replacing Novartis with Aletsch. Look how we did that on :fr (well the layout has changed but there are some ideas if you want to replace your 4 pics). 85.2.79.72 22:44, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Ok, the suggestion was a New Year's joke. I do like the look of French WP's portal of Switzerland, though the concept is different, featuring smaller images for each subcategory (politics, geography, history, etc.) Which ever way this portal goes, I agree with dab that the alpine idylls could be balanced out a bit. Specifically, more urbanity, at least some buildings or signs of civilization and/or technology, maybe a railway picture, maybe the Bundeshaus, as suggested by 85.2.79.72. I've been looking through Commons, but haven't found any clear winners yet. ---Sluzzelin 15:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

People... Much as I would like, but Albert Einstein was not Swiss although he assumed Swiss citizenship in the end. At the time of his death, he actually was a US - Swiss double citizen Tprosser 17:44, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mosè Giacomo Bertoni‎ or Moisés Santiago Bertoni

Hi Portal:Switzerland and Portal:Latin America I have a question on the naming of Mosè Giacomo Bertoni‎ or Moisés Santiago Bertoni. He lived in Switzerland from 1857 til 1884 and in South America the rest of his life (1929). So what is the right name for the artile and which one will become the redirect?--Stone (talk) 10:02, 29 April 2008 (UTC)