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Contents 1 Re: Raptori 2 Finland: Articles of unclear notability 3 Provinces, regions and historical provinces 4 Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested 5 Tórshavn and Mariehamn 6 Swamps. Are there swamps in Finland?

[edit] Re: Raptori

I am currently attempting to expand the Article Raptori, and have serious questions concerning references on the original Article fi:Raptori. I found no talk page fi:Keskustelu:Raptori, as of 05:08, 18 March 2008 (UTC), at the Finnish Wikipedia, which I presume to have counterparts to the English WikiProject Biography, WikiProject Albums, and WikiProject Songs; apparently little discussion has gone into the original Article. Could a current Finnish Wikipedia User on this WikiProject please look into creating the aforementioned fi:Keskustelu:Raptori, pre-Templated for the applicable WikiProjects on the Finnish Wikipedia?

Furthermore, I am working on an Article in alpha on this group's single "Debi Gibson," currently having no counterpart on the Finnish Wikipedia (fi:Debi Gibson is currently a redirect to a translation into Finn of the English Article Debbie Gibson (WikiProject Biography), rather than an Article on the Raptori single, released by Megamania Records in the early 1990's). What information is there in English about the song's Publisher, production personnel, &c.?

— B. C. Schmerker (talk) 05:08, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't think there is a single project in the Finnish Wikipedia. At least I found none. --Mika1h (talk) 09:34, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Finland: Articles of unclear notability

Hello,

there are currently 22 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)

I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:11, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Provinces, regions and historical provinces

User:PKo, who is apparently the same person as fi:User:PekKos has taken a dispute from fi-Wikipedia to the English-speaking one. He has repeatedly:

• re-created the page Satakunta (historical province), although it was merged by consensus to the article Satakunta, which includes both the modern region and the historical province.
• moved the page Finnish Karelia to Karelia (historical province of Finland), editing it strongly without any discussion. In my opinion, this article should be moved back.
• moved the page Laponia (historical province) to Laponia (historical province of Finland), changing the entire topic of the article.

I have tried discussing these points with him, but to no avail. As the whole article structure of Finnish sub-regions is concerned, I feel this is a topic for the project to discuss.

I will not start edit warring with Pko but will obey the results of this discussion. --MPorciusCato (talk) 13:03, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested

Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 21:24, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tórshavn and Mariehamn

I just noticed that Tórshavn is listed as a sister city of Mariehamn in Mariehamn#Sister cities, but that Mariehamn is not listed as a sister city of Tórshavn in Tórshavn#Twinnings. Which is correct? Aecis^Brievenbus 13:40, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

According to the website of Mariehamn's city library, Mariehamn and Tórshavn are indeed twinned. --ざくら木 16:20, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Swamps. Are there swamps in Finland?

In my opinion there are no swamps in Finland. They are rather bogs and mires.

Seppo-hovila (talk) 13:36, 3 June 2008 (UTC)