User talk:Orland

Female bishops

Thank you for adding to the "Female bishops" category which I created earlier this year. I appreciate your assistance in making this category more useful. Ringbark 12:58, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I note that someone has proposed this category for deletion. Please go to Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_December_26#Category:Female_bishops and vote. Ringbark 11:22, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

OIC Map

Sorry, but I'm not really a fan of Wikicommons. I'm not that active there and I don't have an ID. Maybe you could ask Astrokey. He's active there and is more an expert in doing maps--maybe he can even make a higher standard OIC map. Now that I'm looking at the map, I think it is of poor quality (i.e. very poor resolution, not good color scheme, etc.). Joey80 13:24, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Mehmet murat ildan

Hi I read your comment on huwiki about this turkish writer. well, I looked at the article in enwiki and checked the refs, the fact he has several published works (not one but at least 10) has to mean some form of notability... Self-promotion? don't think so, since he pronounced on his website that his biography is released into the public domain along with every piece of information on his website.... So the bio on enwiki was copied from there legally. Some of his works were published by the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Turism. That must mean something :) (sorry for not writing to your NO page but it requires registration and I don't speak norwegian. :) --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 07:49, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

The article is not relevant to readers in languages that he has not been translated into. And the article is obviously lying about his reputation, as it foresees how his reputation will be in the future. Please note the intro statement "Following his epistolary novel, The First Sorrows of Young Werther, he is regarded as a romantic writer", when the book in question is due to be published in february this year. When the article also states that this unpublished The First Sorrows of Young Werther is his magnum opus, we an easily assume that this author is not notable, yet. --Orland 07:56, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for your message. This article is already nominated for deletion on id:. So we shall wait and see. Meursault2004 13:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

whatever mistakes the writer of the aricle made, you fail to recognise the works already published! as I said, he has been publsihed by the turkish ministry of culture, jeez, they don't publish anyone. I don't see why these articles should be deleted. Corrected, yes, but definitely not deleted. There are a lot more less notable people in wikipedia, I sense that you just partcularly dislike this person or the Turks and that blinds you from the facts. And this is not just my opinion, in huwiki there are some more editors who think the same, and they are not turkophile. --Teemeah Gül Bahçesi 20:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

It is a strange misconcetion that I should have taken this steps to delete the article because I dislike the turks. I do not dislike turks. I like turks as well as any other people. This has nothing to do with the country, the people or the possible qualities of Ildans litterary works. My action is because his biography has spammed wikipedia way beyond reason. Even though an anonymous newbee Special:Contributions/Melanicool has corrected the most obvious errors in the biography, this is still selfbiograhy, vanity and spamming. --Orland 08:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

This guy is becoming an expert in sock-puppets: 3 votes (including the IP). I think you should really consider requesting a Check-User. Clem23 15:37, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion

Please refrain from pasting speedy delete notices that have been removed. It creates confusion and can be disruptive for Wikipedia. Thank you. Baristarim 22:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello, Baristarim. Please relate to the real matter in question: Someone has made a large number of articles on upublished manuscripts by Mehmet Murat İldan. These articles will only harme his case in the Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mehmet Murat İldan-debate. --Orland 22:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

DO NOT keep on replacing speedy deletion notices that have been removed by many editors. You should read Wikipedia:Speedy deletions - self-promotion is not a criterion for speedy deletion. Baristarim 22:38, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Is this better, then? Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/An Admirer of Machiavelli --Orland 09:02, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Much better :) In fact, I will qualify my vote there. It is just that speedy deletion process exists to get rid of articles that are complete non-sense in an effort to keep Wikipedia respectable, and if it were ever used for these sorts of disputes, the process would become much less efficient. Cheers! Baristarim 11:52, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello again, Baristarim. Thank you for your support. As one user said on my norweigan talk page: "this guy launched one of the most incredible spam event that I've ever seen on WP". As a sign of my respect for the the people of Turkey, and the literature of Turkey (and to prove that my actions only were intended to prevent spam, and had no intended bias), I am considering to write an article on Yasar Kemal in the norwegian wp. Would you approve that? Could you also suggest one or two other writers, artists or other turkish people that currently is missing in wp:no; check no:Kategori:Tyrkere for existing biographies. --Orland 11:03, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

A statement in the Ildan case

See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mehmet Murat İldan.I got aware of this spamming incident when Ildan anonymously tries to publish himself to the norwegian wp, where I'm an admin and "cleaner". I discovered that he had published himself to 31 different wp-editions. I started the process to delete the article in norwegian, and to alarm other language editions. (Note: Most Wikis have only two turkish author articles: Nobel price winner Orhan Pamuk; and Ildan. Turkish national author Yasar Kemal is only described in 10 laguages yet, so this is clearly unproportional).

A french editor wrote on my norwegian talk page that "this guy launched one of the most incredible spam event that I've ever seen on WP. On WP in french we are now shifting towards deletion, and all of his plays and books have already been speedily deleted. Thanks to you. fr:Clem23".

As of now it is clear that he is not listed in major turkish lists of authors [1]; that most of the articles (in all languages) are written by himself (probably using a translation programme); that he (or some other person) has used at least four suck puppets in the english deletion debate; and that turkishs contributors admit that " i've never heard of him in my life before his Wikiactivity. He is definitely not famous in Turkey, that i can assure you".

Articles about 10 of his unpublished and unstaged (!) plays have also been listed for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/An Admirer of Machiavelli

That's for now. --Orland 14:11, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Anonymous suggestions that my actions should have anything to do with racism is totally without reason. I've already propsed to write 1-3 articles on other turkish authors og artists in the norwegian wikipedia in order to strenghten our representation of turkish art. And furthermore: As a literary critic, I've previously written an short essay on libanese author Amin Maalouf and a general essay on middle east literature in norwegian translation (link to essay, and even if you dont read norwegian, you might recognize some names: like Pamuk, Kemal, Khayyam, Mahfouz). --Orland 18:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi! About the message you left me here: http://ro.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Discuţie_Utilizator:Vlad&diff=794465&oldid=787703 the only problem we have back there at the Romanian wiki is that until now we only had speedy deletion, not voting for deletion (we're still a relatively small community, and we prefer to expand rather than to delete :) But like I've already said, I've opened a discussion about it, but I would also like to see the outcome of the vote here at the en.wiki. --Vlad|-> 20:41, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi again! As no one objected to the deletion of the article during 10 days, I've just deleted it from Romanian wiki. --Vlad|-> 10:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Lumb

Nice job!! Thanks. --20-dude (talk) 22:56, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikimania 2010 could be coming to Stockholm!

I'm leaving you a note as you may be interested in this opportunity.

People from all six Nordic Wiki-communities (sv, no, nn, fi, da and is) are coordinating a bid for Wikimania 2010 in Stockholm. I'm sending you a message to let you know that this is occurring, and over the next few months we're looking for community support to make sure this happens! See the bid page on meta and if you like such an idea, please sign the "supporters" list at the bottom. Tack (or takk), and have a wonderful day! Mike H. Fierce! 08:03, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Anna Ceselie Brustad Moe

Why you moved the tile from Anna Ceselie Brustad to Anna Ceselie Brustad Moe? BTW, Government of Norway is redirecting to Politics of Norway. Can create the article Government of Norway? Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 09:09, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

As i wrote in the article, she is married to fellow MP Ola Borten Moe, and signed in the newspaper as Anna Ceselie Brustad Moe yesterday.
Sorry, but i cannot promise to write the requested article, perhaps a notice on The norwegian message board will give a response?! --Orland (talk) 09:12, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Police crisis in Norway

Hi, what happened with the section "Police Crisis"? I thought I got a go for adding it to the page again from WikiProject Law Enforcement? And where did you put it? Daimonion (talk) 07:52, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Melhus church

Hi Orland, of course I cannot agree with your DYK review, but I would like to ask you, if you change your mind, if I change the hook? Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 14:05, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

No, still disturbed. You are violating the aim of a balanced article about the church. See more at Talk:Melhus church. Bw --Orland (talk) 20:50, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Melhus church (2nd)

The following is copied from the deleted article talk page. - Dank (push to talk) 21:15, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I must ask User:Mbz1 to stop violating and renaming this article in search for a headline. Who has come up with the idea that the debate about the Darre/Dass-portrait should be the sole interesting thing about this church? Where is the part about other church art within this church? Where is the part about architectural history?

The discussion about the portrait should be in the article about Petter Dass, certainly not here! As for me, I live relatively close to this church, which is i my home county. As an art historican and librarian i can confirm that the debate is real, but i think that the resume of it in this article is biased. --Orland (talk) 20:48, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

And here's some more for your good memory. I wish instead of screaming "POV", "no,no,no" "bad" from "bad to worse" you'd better helped to improve the article, but I guess this is too much to ask for.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:44, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Melhus church

• ... that the only portrait of Petter Dass, which is located in the Melhus church (pictured), may be of an absolutely different man?
• ALT1:... that Medieval runic inscriptions were discovered on the old portal of Melhus church (pictured)?

Created by Mbz1 (talk), Invertzoo (talk), Kjetil r (talk), and Finnrind (talk). Self nom at 22:50, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

•   Melhus church – Mbz1 (give) (tag)
•   Melhus church – Invertzoo (give) (tag)
•   Melhus church – Kjetil r (give) (tag)
•   Melhus church – Finnrind (give) (tag)

• -Need someone Norwegian to translate sources to verify.Smallman12q (talk) 23:17, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

• In such caes were supossed to agf it. But what I wonder is why is ther 4 creators, when only 2 have worked the article? Also, is fact cited? 88.90.88.107 (talk) 23:34, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

@Smallman12q Is one of the creators OK for the translation, or I should look for someone else or maybe we could assume good faith?

@88.90.88.107 Two others creators helped with Norwegian translation and the images. If four creators are too much, I will gladly take myself off, but all the others shoud stay. The facts are cited, and the source is very reliabale - Petter Dass museum in Norway for the hook .--Mbz1 (talk) 23:40, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

1. Creators cannot ok their own article. 2. Mbz1, you & Invertzoo wrote the article, Finnrind Kjetil r didn't, thats the problem. 3. AGF = Assume good faith (ie: translation not needed) 4. cite not at claim. 88.90.88.107 (talk) 23:53, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Cite needs to be directly at hook fact. 88.90.88.107 (talk) 23:59, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

As I said they helped with the images and the translation. For example here. It will be only fair to include them as creators becuse they spent their time for translation from Norwegian that I do not know either. Could you please explain to me what does it mean "Cite needs to be directly at hook fact." ? Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 00:04, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

In stead of after "In the meantime the "portrait of Petter Dass" in Melhus Kirke remains surrounded by myth and mystery", it should be after "However, some historians believe that the subject of this famous portrait is not Petter Dass, but the clergyman Oluf Mentzen Darre." If Petter Dass museum says that. 88.90.88.107 (talk) 00:08, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

I would prefer to have it verified by someone who can read norwegian (and was not involved in the development of the article). If no such person comes forth within a day or two, I will then assume good faith and accept it as it is.Smallman12q (talk) 00:27, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

• • I would not recommend this article for DYK, mostly because the article deals with another subject than the church, which is supposed to be the subject. The autencity of the portrait is obviously discussed, and the discussion is well know in Norway, but the resume of the debate given in this article is slightly rhethoric and POV. --Orland (talk) 07:06, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

The article has some good points, but overall I must agree with Orland, for instance, compare it with the Norwegian Wiki-article. --FinnWiki (talk) 11:23, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

@Orland, you ment my POV? Did I translate wrong from Norwegian source? I did not add any single thought from myself, and translated practicaly word to word from Norwegian sources. The portrait is the most famous belonging of the church. What's wrong with discussing this in the article? Even Dass museum does. I rather see you pushing your POV in declining the article.--Mbz1 (talk) 14:38, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

The POV is not in the translation, but in the excerpt from the discussion, which is obviously pro Hansens arguments, and contra those of the Dass museum. (And, as i write below, making this debate a part of a description of the church is a violation of a balanced presentation of the church itself). --Orland (talk) 20:37, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

@FinnWiki, Compare it with Norwegian article, which has no single reference at all. Do you really like it better? --Mbz1 (talk) 13:31, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Added alternative hook and changed the name of the article to address the subject better.--Mbz1 (talk) 14:38, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

No, no, no!! This goes from bad to worse! Wikipedia should without any doubt have an article about Melhus church, but by renaming this article you are increasingly underlining the POV: this is totally turning wievpoint away from the chcurch per se. Who has come up with the idea that the debate about this Darre/dass-portrait should be the sole interesting thing about this church. Where is the discussion of other church art within this church? Where is the part about architectural history? The discussion about the portrait should be in the article abot [Petter dass]], certainly not here! --Orland (talk) 20:37, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

OK, Orland, maybe instead of blaiming me in POV you would be so kind to edit the article and to "add the discussion of other church art within this church and the part about architectural history?" I put in the article almost everything I could find on the subject, and I worked on it for a very long time, and very hard. I really tried to do my best, and I believe the artical is better then the one in Norwegian Wikipedia. Surely, you, Orland, living in Norway have much more resurces availabale to you. Why don't you help to edit the article instead of calling it "bad" and POV? In a meantime I guess I will nominate the article to be deleted. I've got enough here and I withdraw my nomination. Thanks everybody, sorry I took your time with a bad article and POV.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:04, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

- A small debate and you withdraw=(? You must understand that articles are nominated based on consensus, leave it here for a few more days and we'll see what other editors say. You see this is what you call a poor discussion. I agree with Mbz1, rather than saying its a bad article, you should help with it. As it currently stands, the article may still qualify for DYK if other editors can come to a consensus.Smallman12q (talk) 21:13, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, here's what Orland said at the article talk page:
"I must ask User:Mbz1 to stop violating and renaming this article in search for a headline. Who has come up with the idea that the debate about the Darre/Dass-portrait should be the sole interesting thing about this church? Where is the part about other church art within this church? Where is the part about architectural history?

The discussion about the portrait should be in the article about Petter Dass, certainly not here! As for me, I live relatively close to this church, which is i my home county. As an art historican and librarian i can confirm that the debate is real, but i think that the resume of it in this article is biased. --Orland (talk) 20:48, 30 May 2009 (UTC)"
So that's why I decided I've got enough. I nominated the article for speedy and it was deleted, nothing more to discuss here. I only would like to add that, if I were looking for a "headline" as Orland says, it was not for myself, because as I indicated earlier in this very nomination I was ready to take my name as a creator of the article off the nomination. It was start class article that could have been improved later on. Much more information that I could not find could have been added later. Now the article is gone, and there's nothing more to improve.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:29, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Smiles

Orland, may I please asure you that there was no any tiny bit of bias and/or POV in writing Melhus church article. I simly tried to do my best. It was hard for me to find info for the article. It just happened that what I did find was mostly about the portrait. Please believe me I was absolutely not interested in creating any headlines for myself. May I please ask you to help in improving of the article? Thank you.

Orland, Mbz1 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing!
Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

--Mbz1 (talk) 19:42, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Just one more thing. Yesterday I removed my nomination for DYK, but today I renominated the article to DYK once again. If you feel as declining the article once again, I guess you need to repeat your decline one more time.--Mbz1 (talk) 20:10, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the smile. And best wishes to you too! I must correct you on one misunderstanding though: even if I can point out a misinterpretation or wrong focused article, this is not necessarily an obligation for me to correct this article. I've got other obligations on no:wp, and in my offline life. --Orland (talk) 20:24, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Of course you do not have to do it. I just asked. One more time I'd like to asure you that, if there were misinterpretation or wrong focus in the article it was not because I was biased or tried to push my POV. I simply tried to add to the article as much information as I was able to find on the subject. I do hope that eventually the article will get improved in the way you suggested. I myself will also continue to work on the article. Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 20:45, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi Orland, I am sorry to bother you once again, but you removed my edit. I believe I found the confirmation of the statement about Odin here. Of course this thing does not have a source at all, but I did find the source here. So, as you could see the old Melhus church was built at the farm that used to have the name Óðinssalr. So, I believe it might be safe to add the statement you removed back to the article. On the other hand I'm surely recognize your authority in the questions concerning Norway, and if you still believe the info is not sourced, I will not add it to the article. Thank you for your time, and once again I'm sorry to bother you with this.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:00, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Hello again. It is a well known fact / theory that most medieval churches in norway was built on the site of a hof, partly to explicit replace the former religion, and partly because these sites used to be located at the largest farm and/or in the midst of the community / valley / district. Thus, it would be wrong to emphazise this in connection with one church only. It belongs rather in Christianization of Scandinavia or History of Norway. (And furthermore, the source first used was definitely not of a kind to recommend). Bw, --Orland (talk) 08:53, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs

Hello Orland! Thank you for your contributions. I am a bot alerting you that 1 of the articles that you created is tagged as an Unreferenced Biography of a Living Person. The biographies of living persons policy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensure verifiability, all biographies should be based on reliable sources. If you were to bring this article up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current 312 article backlog. Once the article is adequately referenced, please remove the {{unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the article:

1. Carolyn Coman - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Thanks!--DASHBot (talk) 16:09, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Immigration to Norway

never mind about the 300% thing. It's already removed. But seriously, how can you claim that immigrants are net contributers to society because they pay more taxes than they recieve in welfare. I see that the source claims so, but are welfare benefits really the only expenses of a state? I'd say the source is wrong here. And remember, sources arent always right. Use your brain please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Knarum (talk • contribs) 13:22, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi Orland, I believe the correct slang at Wikipedia in English is SPA, not SPU - apart from that I think you're right... Best regards, Finn Rindahl (talk) 20:00, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

SPA is noted :-) This guy Knarum must have lots of friends sharing his views .... --Orland (talk) 21:10, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Maybe he don't have that many friends after all, Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/SameerJaved... Finn Rindahl (talk) 14:26, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

At last! Good to have "them" stopped. --Orland (talk) 17:24, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

obviously Knarum hated migrants to Norway. the agenda was very clear and I suspected there was more to it when I saw SameerJaved (talk · contribs) appear. LibStar (talk) 06:29, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

81.167.16.214 (talk · contribs)

Hi. I saw that you left a user warning template ({{uw-tdel3}}) at this IP's talk page for about two weeks ago, and was wondering if you could take a look at this: This IP has added a new section in the article Criticism of multiculturalism—which I've been watching for a year or so—appearently discussing the topic at a Norwegian scale. Eventhough it looks encyclopedical and well-referenced at the first glance, it is quite problematic: The section does not deal with criticism of multiculturalism in Norway in any sense, but merely with his/her own POV, based on some controversies related to antisemitism and islam in Norway. I can't find one single reference to any Norwegian commentator or author engaging in public debate about multiculturalism in that section, as it is in many of the other sections, e.g. to the Canadian author Mark Steyn in the section Criticism from English Canada. As far, I've seen a violation of both WP:OR and WP:NPOV in these edits, but there's more: The IP user duplicated two paragraphs, which are now to be found under the sub-section Multicultural shools in Oslo and in the end of Integration Barometer 2009, and used quotation marks and words like "thus" about six–seven times in the section, making the text quite un-encyclopedical and essayish. Would you mind taking a look? Best wishes, Eisfbnore (talk) 20:13, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

I hate to bother you again, but it seems like an edit war is starting to evolve from the above mentioned article. The text in the Norway-section does still not contain any criticism of multiculturalism in Norway, but rather problems related to immigration to Norway. Bw, Eisfbnore (talk) 20:09, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

IMHO, the article Criticism of multiculturalism is in itself written in a troublesome genre. We must only try to keep it as good as possible. I've got it on my surveilance list. --Orland (talk) 19:12, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Artur Balder References

• References:.

There are references to Artur Balder as writer in the most important Spanish media. I list some of them: I hope I can rebuild a logical article about the subject, and later continue adding other contributions since there are a lot of historical interesting discoverings at 14th street of Manhattan in relationship with its Spanish American past.

Lolox76 (talk)--Lolox76 (talk) 17:40, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Oh dear. When you start listing google searches as "references", I understand that we must think very differently about this. You must remember that this article was once deleted because of the spamming campaign. Therefore, is has to be so much better now, to be convincing. The article about Balder was deleted on spanish wikipedia. To me, that is a signal: If you can't convince in your own home language, why should we make an article in english wp? Bw --Orland (talk) 08:06, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, it is just a bad signal for the Wikipedia itself, when a certain number of Wikipedia editors do NOT respect the rules and purposes of the Wikipedia. The actual references, as the previous ones, requiere JUST an impartial review from a neutral comitee. Frustrated critics, or editors that otherwise are not able to achive notability, unless making a fuss about phantom spam campaigns... are, from our point of view, not the appropiate counsellors for a global organism like Wikipedia. The references are there, and you will not be able to do nothing with, unless read them, and accept the facts. Best --Lolox76 (talk) 20:33, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

You have made a good deal of suggestions and wild guesses about my "misfeelings", "frustrations" and motivations in your recent edits. That is not a very good manner of discussion, neither is it a good way of convincing other wp editors about your good intentions.

Since you suggested that my profile of contributions "look much more destructive than constructive", I've taken time to enlighten you and other readers on the "profile of my contributions"; I have actually even written about spanish literature: here. And I regret to renounce your kind suggestion that I should make wp edits about spanish american history; I'm currently busy on a major project on no:wp, as you can see on this working page. Bw --Orland (talk) 23:51, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Whoever read my messages on the boards will undestand what's about. However, you are always steping out of the matter and the subject. If you have only a 10% of the Spanish knowledge you try to show, you will have to be able to step back and look at the references, and preciate them as that what they are. On top of that, there is a confirmation from NY and, if requiered, Meatpacking Productions LLC will show the references and direct information about the director and the film adressed to wp editors in the official site of the company www.meatpackingproductions.us I think this is the best way to "confirm" identities for everyone, not only for someone who is obviously taking the matter too personal. No one will undestand why you dont want to recognice the proofs of Artur Balder as writer or filmmaker, and the many references even of the trnaslation of the books... That's why I insist on your lack of neutrality.--Lolox76 (talk) 09:24, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Artur Balder, Spanish Benevolent Society, Little Spain

As you are so proud of collaborating in some spam campaigns, I think you should check the above listed articles -included international references- and present a public apology for your behaviour in your Artur Balder personal campaign. Otherwise it will be necessary an investigation by other organisms inside the wp editing foundation to clear your deletion efforts against the main subject. Thanks --Lolox76 (talk) 17:01, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Are you threatening me? That is not impressive, given that you are anynomous.

Since I didn't vote for deletion in this discission, you might assume that I find him notable, now. And i might with good reason add a comment to my userpage about the difference between then and now.

My antispamming campaign (not spam campaign, mind you) against the Balder biography and the Curdy-articles took place more that two years ago, and I was not the only person that found it strange and difficult that Balder should have a wider wp-coverage that e.g. famous spanish nobel author Cela (Balder 62 languages in december 2008; Cela ca 44 now). You must be aware that i have no power to delete articles in en:wp, es:wp, dutch, portugese, etc. All these more than 80 deletions was performed by administrators within the 62 different language editions who felt that Balders claim for fame, at that time, was overexaggerated. You could also check Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Curdy and similar discussions around wp to see that I speak for more writers and administrators than myself. --Orland (talk) 19:26, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment at your userpage, it resolves the whole situation from my point of view. You are partly right, but I'd like to know your point of view of the deletion that took place at the spanish wp: the references of the books were almost the same, and that was a little strange. --Lolox76 (talk) 20:36, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Nah, that would only be guessing, and not very good neither. I'm sorry. Bw --Orland (talk) 08:05, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Signpost

Can you make sure I didn't mess anything up grandly with the Norwegian story? Thanks =), ResMar 02:42, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Been there, done that :-) Bw --Orland (talk) 19:15, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

The Swedish World Library

I created the Norwegian article here.
I translated the Swedish list too and added it there, but this idiot:

16:10, 22 November 2010‎ WikiDao (talk | contribs)‎ . . (13,122 bytes) (-13,005)‎ . . (rm so-called "Swedish list") (undo) 

deleted the list.
You can pull the Swedish list out of the log there if you want and paste it onto your page.
Varlaam (talk) 15:41, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

I see you are an admin over at Bokmal and Nynorsk.

I added Swedish to the Norwegian page because of the duplication between the two lists.

I also created the 100 Books of Le Monde pages at nowiki and nywiki.

Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 15:58, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, Ive made a notice on it here: Talk:Världsbiblioteket. By the way, I don't think anything good comes out of calling other people idiots. Centainly not when in public. Bw --Orland (talk) 16:28, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

I strongly disagree with you there. [...]

I have removed the rest of your reply. My talk page is not the right forum for your disagreement with other editors. --Orland (talk) 20:40, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

The Glass Key award

I am seeking your knowledge.
This is the crime novel award for the Nordic countries, and we have an English template Template:The Glass Key award.
No Nordic language has this template. (I checked.)
Do you think that is because there are not enough articles to justify a template (except in Swedish),
or because of a general policy against templates?
(Both German and Spanish Wikipedia appear to dislike templates in general.)
Varlaam (talk) 18:17, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

I have no opinion in this specific matter. In general my view is that there is more than enough templates on wp --Orland (talk) 20:38, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Administrator's board notice

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.

Just letting you know that I've posted this on the admin board, since we could probably use an uninvolved admin in this at this point.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 09:23, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Well, fair enough. I have no idea what friends of mine Ms Fikos "agents" might be referring to. Due to the unusual high extent of autopromotion in this biograhpy, the deletion in no:wp was discussed in the e-mail-list of the no-wp-admins, not in a regular, open deletion discussion. It is therefore perfectly easy to prove - from the e-mail-archive - that the originale initiative to erase this wiki vanity came from several other persons than myself, before I was the one to take the action.

My history of contributions also very well proves that I've fought interwikispam before, and in norwegian wikipedia I've probably positioned myself as an exclusionist. My actions against Ms Fiko's promotional campaign is therefore coherent with my normal activity on wikipedia. I've previously met several other harsh accusations during these deletion discussions, among them that I am an enemy of the turkish people, when I initiated the deletion of the Ildan articles in 2007. This is however the first time someone has used their own divorce history as a part of accusations against me. From one point of view it is only strange, and desribes METC4F more than me. From another point of view, this is highly embarrassing, as METC4F intends to drag other, non-wikipedian people's friendship with my friends (or was it with me) into this case as a part of her defence in a deletion discussion.

Take a look at it: My loyalty to some unnamed ex of Ms Fiko should be so strong that I've managed to convince 5 no:wp admins, 2 da:wp admins and 2 sv:wp admins, plus on canadian and one japanese wikipedian to take part in a deletion process only to let Ms Fikos ex get an overdue extra revenge!? (Plus all the other 50-60 no:wp admins on our mailing list) If this was true, then I must really be a mad, evil "spider"; and not worthy beeing an wp admin.

I've spent the best part of the last 6 years contributing to wikipedia. Other norwegian contributors might if necessary testify to whether I'm respected for integrity in the no:wp community. Why should I risk all this years, hours and confidence only to participate in some hypotethical divorce vendetta? --Orland (talk) 10:54, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Norwegian royals template merge

Orland, your Norwegian royalty template merge proposal is now under discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2013 March 3#Template:House of Glücksburg (Norway). Please comment there. Ego White Tray (talk) 04:29, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

OK. I've left a comment there. bw --Orland (talk) 14:29, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Royal Standard

I do not appreciate you calling my actions a "solo raid", when I have worked on this matter for years and have had several sources long before the other two editors ever came along. You can disagree, but don't attack me in bad faith. Fry1989 ^eh? 20:24, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

I am sorry that you don't appreciate it. But it is still a solo raid; as far as I can see, you are the sole editor working for your point of view. And what is more: you are arguing against learned and skilled men with impressive lists of merits in the field of norwegian heraldry (as User:Hans Cappelen and User:Roede; se also NORART for Lars Roede), without beeing able to make a good point. My advice is that you look for another battle to fight. Bw --Orland (talk) 20:58, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

This isn't about battles, it's about truth and accuracy. I've been working on the flag since 2009 before either Roede or Hans Cappelen ever came along. Fry1989 ^eh? 02:41, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Four years? Is that so? As for my self, I've worked on the article no:Bhutan for almost eight years now, and the one thing I've learned from that, is that my knowledge still is limited, and that I still have to step back and respect advice and opinions from people better educated than myself.

And furthermore: You have worked with this for four years, and yet you see no difference between that fluffy rococo-style lion that you prefer, and the neo-classic Peterssen lion that is actually in use!? How do you think of your own four years of experience against the merits of Mr Cappelen, who wrote one of the sources to this article 7 years ago, and who has written about norwegian heraldry since 1969? Btw: Did you read Cappelen's article in Heraldisk Tidsskrift? Bw --Orland (talk) 06:31, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Where did I say that 4 years of effort makes me the expert?? It appears you're the one making this a matter of merit, when I believe Wikipedia is supposed to be a place of equals. From what I can see, this is just a case of one Norwegian backing up another. Fry1989 ^eh? 17:22, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

What kind of argument is that? "this is just a case of one Norwegian backing up another". Why is it surprising that several norwegians have opinions about this flag? Wouldn't it be easier to take this as a token of wide consensus in the norwegian community, rather than suggesting some kind of ethnic conspiracy?

And you have not answered my questions: Did you read Cappelen's article in Heraldisk Tidsskrift? Don't you think writings like that makes him a qualified voice in this matter? Bw --Orland (talk) 17:45, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

No, I haven't read it and I will not at this point. I've tried to work on this and get it right for 4 years and all I got in return was constant opposition to any sources or whatever else I had to say, being called a troll just today, and you accusing me having some air of superiority simply because I've been working on this the longest out of anyone involved. As for an ethnic conspiracy, it's not the first time on this project I have seen people back each other up based on those lines, and I couldn't count how many times I've been told "You're not one of us, you couldn't possibly know as much about anything to do with our nationality as we do", whether it's from Serb users or Portuguese users or others. If my effort isn't welcome then that's fine but I resent the harsh language I often receive for trying to make this place better and more accurate and more informative. Fry1989 ^eh? 00:31, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Please don't take it as an insult to your person if everypone else disagrees with you. You could see it as an chance to learn something new; there is of course the possibility that everyone else disagrees because your opinion is wrong. And with all due respect: you have not "been working on this the longest out of anyone involved"; I have pointed out for you that Cappelen wrote about this flag 7 years ago. Bw Orland (talk) 12:17, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library Survey

As a subscriber to one of The Wikipedia Library's programs, we'd like to hear your thoughts about future donations and project activities in this brief survey. Thanks and cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 15:49, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

The 100 Best Books of All Time listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect The 100 Best Books of All Time. Since you had some involvement with the The 100 Best Books of All Time redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. McGeddon (talk) 11:50, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

@McGeddon:. Thank you. I've given my opinion. Bw --Orland (talk) 17:35, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Barnetvern and Eva Michaláková

Hello, Mr. Haugen, Norway is now unfortunately ignominy of Europe. But the truth will come out. I wish good life without Barnetvern for all the children and their parents in Norway. Let stop lying to yourself. The situation in the Czech Republic is similar, but not so bad as in Norway. Best regards Severák (talk) 23:30, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Discrimination in education in Norway

Hello, I support your decision to take Discrimination in education in Norway to AFD. 4 users who are involved in AFD process might have some personal connection to each other and I believe this could either be sock accounts or members of an organization trying to push their views through this article. all 4 user accounts are recently created and only edited few articles, on similar topics and shown sudden interest in this particular page, I think that is enough evidence to start a sockpuppet investigations on Educationinpeace, WorldPeaceLove, Hkhaledi and master account Sedai2014 . I thought I will bring this first to your attention see your response. Nicky mathew (talk) 21:35, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

A Sockpuppet investigation is open see here. if you are interested please check it. thank you :) Nicky mathew (talk) 23:21, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Hello, Nicky mathew. Thanks for your support. I think that the most likely outcome is that there are different persons, and that they are a part of the same campaign group. Anyway, they are obvious Single-purpose accounts, and that should be considered in the deletion debate. Bw --Orland (talk) 06:16, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Milk Paint

Hey bud, you made some ridiculous assumptions about me, and did the Wikipedia community a big disservice by removing the only link on the Milk Paint page to a credible source of information, in fact, THE credible source of information.

I've spent years and a lot of hours making Wikipedia better in a lot of ways, and your crude dismissal of who I am as a community member should be apologized for, IMHO.

You come off like an arrogant hot-head. Is that what you are intending?

PS: I did a quick scan of your Norwegian argument above. "Solo Raid" is just the type of inflammatory, disrespectful, arogant kinda talk I'm twalking about.

Billyshiverstick (talk) 03:39, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Hello, Billyshiverstick. You are right that I owe you an apology, in one matter. I underestimated the width of your contributions. I'm sorry for that. Your recent edits on Talk:Shaker-style pantry box is IMHO however a clear indication that you're doing Advocacy on behalf of milk paint. I rest my case in that matter. Please don't make Wikipedia a soapbox for your opinions about what is "aesthetically pleasing" etc.

As you will see, the discussion in the article Shaker-style pantry box is not only about the link, but also about the tone of language used to promote an interest for milk paint. Other editors share my concern about this.

I can't control what you think of me. Other parts of the Wikipedia community value my contributions higher than you do. And as they say, you can't please all the people all the time. Best wishes --Orland (talk) 07:18, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Allan Ahlberg (interlanguage links)

Hi, Orland. Only now I see that you are at EN.wiki too. See my note at no:Brukerdiskusjon:Orland#Allan Ahlberg (interlanguage links). (No Norwegian-language for me --except I am a bridge player so I know "Boye Brogeland" [2]; d:Q18788634.)

P.S. I have visited no:I.W. Cornwall, no:Edward Osmond, no:Agnes Allen, and I plan to add EN.wiki pages for these missing Carnegie Medal (literary award) winners soon. 2015 Tanya Landman is missing for both of us. --P64 (talk) 01:36, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Hello, P64. Thanks for noticing the good coverage on children's literature in no:wp. As a part of it, I've made major contributions to 6 FL on children's literature (five of them awards and the sixth is Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter – which also could use an iw?).

Search results show me that EN.wiki now has no good target for iw link from no:Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter. Our main article National Portrait Gallery does not list any exhibitions; in Category:National Portrait Gallery we have no list of them and two articles on particular ones. Our biography Julia Eccleshare covers the exhibition only by the catalogue book as one item in the list of works. If the text is not short, it may deserve coverage in the text. WorldCat tells me that one local university library has a copy, maybe I will visit sometime. Thanks to the catalogue entry by one German-language library OCLC 248929497 we do have more information about the exhibition locations and dates D:Q11960380. --P64 (talk) 20:48, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

I do hope that en:wp would soon give up their policy on double and triple biographies. Pullein-Thompson sisters is one of these (no:Christine Pullein-Thompson etc), Janet and Allan Ahlberg is another. As wikidata is evolving, it is increasingly difficult to treat two (or three) individuals as one unit. Plus the interwiki-problem. Bw, --Orland (talk) 06:23, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Re "double"=married couples (also sibling duos, etc), see also Category:Redirects to joint biographies, which I have maintained with some iw links, as for Ingri d'Aulaire (NO) and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (FR).

We also have Category:Redirects from writers, distinct from above, which typically target a work, eg Moira Young, or a collaborator/relative, eg Jessica Ahlberg.

The problem is more general than Category:Duos. For example, book series articles and book articles, or fictional character lists and fictional characters. We at EN have five pages for "The Borrowers" novels (and none for the series) where some have only one book article for The Borrowers (1952) and some only one series article.[*] We have only 8 pages for individual Harry Potter characters; all others are covered in 2 explicit lists with shorter entries and 4 implicit lists with longer entries. Other languages have many more pages for individual characters --and often the actors who portrayed them, in effect-- or fewer than 8 pages. So interwiki navigation is quite incomplete via Wikidata.

* Even worse for Mary Poppins, where Mary Poppins (1935), the Mary Poppins fiction series, and the magical nanny Mary Poppins are differently covered by 1, 2, or 3 articles in different languages.

P.S. See also Talk:Janet and Allan Ahlberg#Split. I doubt that we will develop many triads such as {John Lennon, Lennon–McCartney, Paul McCartney}. Should we? --P64 (talk) 18:11, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

Non-neutrality of "Norwegian Child Welfare Services"

Hei Orland. I just suggested to remove the non-neutrality tag, which you added to The Norwegian Child Welfare Services in 2012. If you have an opinion on the matter, I would be glad if you share it. Best wishes, Hanno (talk) 19:11, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

About your actions at Norwegian Wikipedia

Not being that fluent in Norwegian I write you here. You recently repeated the vandalism conducted by the user Rolling Phantom, who is a rather notorious POV-pusher here at English Wikipedia. I understand you probably acted in good faith, but it's still surprising to see an administrator act in such a way. For a long time, the statement on both English and Norwegian Wikipedia quite accurately reported what neutral scholarship says: that Jesus was a Jewish preacher. We do not claim he was the Son of God, as Christians believe nor do we report on the fringe theory that he never existed, nor the Muslim view that he was the Messiah preceding Muhammed. All of these view are contrary to academic consensus. The factual statement is based on the academic book by Professor Geza Vermes. On both English and Norwegian Wikipedia, Rolling Phantom tried to falsify the statement of Vermes. On English Wikipedia, several users immediately intervened. Norwegian Wikipedia, seeing let traffic, let it pass until I restored the scholarly view. I explained in my edit summary why I did so. I must say I'm surprised to an admin reverting to what was at worst vandalism, at best POV-pushing and source falsification. Even more concerning was that you didn't even bother to explain it. Jeppiz (talk) 00:10, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, much appreciated and very much to your credit. We all make mistakes (I certainly do) but it's much rarer to fix them. Well done! Jeppiz (talk) 01:05, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

@Jeppiz: if you can write an edit summary in norwegian, you could also address me in norwegian/svorsk. Norrmän förstår svensk. Mbh, --Orland (talk) 05:46, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Jo, det har du ju förstås rätt i; vet inte varför jag inte skrev på svenska. Det är väl bara så att jag är så van med att skriva på engelska här på Wikipedia (är mkt aktiv på WP på engelska, mindre aktiv på den svenska version). Jeppiz (talk) 15:36, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Nicoletta Orsomando

Hi from Italy, dear Orland, how are you?

I tried to open this page, and I ask you, please, 3 minutes, to translate just these news: She was the first Italian television announcer, first appearing on 22 October 1953 and is considered the "dean" of Italian continuity announcers (broadcasters), and putting on her biography. Please... I'll be please to help you in Italian and Portuguese. Thank you very much Rei Momo (talk) 10:03, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

@Rei Momo: most certainly not! Please refrain from this "sport" of spreading your idols across languages. Bw --Orland (talk) 10:13, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Norwegian kingdoms

Hi there, perhaps you could help out? With this query, it is supposed to get all realms that exist or existed around Norway. Could you please check it, if you can, and fill in foundation dates/disappearance dates in their wikidata, if they are known.

SELECT ?country ?location ?countryLabelEn ?countryLabelFr ?countryLabelNo (min (?creationDate) as ?creation) ?dissolutionDate
with {
  select ?country {
    wd:Q20 wdt:P625 ?norwayLoc .
    SERVICE wikibase:around {
        ?country wdt:P625 ?location .
        bd:serviceParam wikibase:center ?norwayLoc .
        bd:serviceParam wikibase:radius "700" .
        bd:serviceParam wikibase:distance ?dist.
    }
    FILTER ( ?country not in ( wd:Q62589,wd:Q10684331,wd:Q34,wd:Q10651107 ) )#exclude sweden
  }
} as %places
WHERE {
  include %places .

  ?country wdt:P31/wdt:P279*  wd:Q7275.
  optional { ?country rdfs:label ?countryLabelFr filter(lang(?countryLabelFr)= "fr")} .
  optional { ?country rdfs:label ?countryLabelEn filter(lang(?countryLabelEn)= "en")}.
    optional { ?country rdfs:label ?countryLabelNo filter(lang(?countryLabelEn)= "no")}.
  optional { ?country wdt:P571 ?creationDate }.
  optional { ?country wdt:P576 ?dissolutionDate }.
} group by ?country ?location ?countryLabelEn ?countryLabelFr ?countryLabelNo ?dissolutionDate

Click here to launch the Wikidata query

Thanks, Bouzinac (talk) 05:32, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello, Bouzinac. Ufortunately, this code stuff is incomprehensible to me. If there is a question here that you could rephrase in plain language, I might be able to help you. Bw Orland (talk) 05:51, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Sorry, Simply hit "Click here so as to launch the Wikidata query" to see the result in a table.Bouzinac (talk) 08:14, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello again, Bouzinac. I'm sorry I didn't understand that in the first place. This is actually a completely useless query. It seem to be based on data from fr:Liste des royaumes de Norvège (se also Petty kingdoms of Norway). This list again, is based on only one not-so-official source (this one), which is summing up every notion of any petty king, village chieftain or mighty earl mentioned in the earliest parts of Heimskringla. Treating Ynglinga saga and Saga of Harald Fairhair as reliable sources in modern historical terms is not a good idea, to say the least. The Sagas obviously exaggerated the King's victories, and they had other concepts of historical truth than we do. Several of these ″kingdoms″ allegdedly lies within my own district, and they are completely unknown to me.

The lists, and thus the query, seem to be based on the strange misunderstanding that if there once was a person mentioned as king – be it in a realiable source or not - there must have been a kingdom of some durability and substance. There are so many weak links in this postulate, that it must be rejected. If you take a look at Petty kingdoms of Norway, you'll see that several of these kingdoms have no known rulers, and some of them are connected to only one name. (Some of these names again – like Halfdan Hvitbeinn, are only known from legendary sagas)

The strangest part of the query is still Morokulien. How in Odin's name did that park/monument end up as a petty kingdom? Bw Orland (talk) 08:48, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your cleaning. May we add them as Småkongerike instead of realm/kingdom ? (as every Wikidata item shall have a P31 value)Bouzinac (talk) 09:37, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

That would be a good solution. Bw Orland (talk) 10:04, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

@Bouzinac: on seconds thoughs; perhaps Chiefdom would be even more accurate for the lot of them. (Except for the Earldom of Lade and and a few others like Vingulmark; they're småkongeriker of some longevity.) Bw Orland (talk) 08:51, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility

Dear @Orland:, First of all Happy New Year 2020 and congratulations for your articles on norvegian churches and norvegian stamps.

• Wikipedia is built on Five Pillars that are availbale in almost all languages (one is available in norvegian). I don't know how you successfully became an administrator but you should know them.
• As an administrator you should know that since 2013 there are not anymore direct links between languages see: a newer look at the interlanguage link. This is a fact you must be aware. Since 2013 languages are not linked anymore.
• As an editor of wikipedia you should assume goodfaith: see Assume good faith.
• As an editor of wikipedia you should not attack anybody personaly.
• As an administrator you should be exemplary.

You should maybe calm down a bit and consider walking outside. The world is not so dark and dirty. All my very best, --Philippe49730 (talk) 15:05, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

And a happy new year to you too, Philippe49730. As you are lecturing me about wikiquette, I take that you are displeased about being listed in my list of interwiki agents.

You are indeed right about the world. It is a fine one. Bw Orland (talk) 18:45, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Stop your personal attacks in your answering! I have reminded you what wikipedia is and what you have been elected for, neither pleased nor displeased, I am answering somebody who tagged me.--Philippe49730 (talk) 09:02, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

I am sorry that you are upset. Could you be more specific about what part of my answer you think of as a personal attack?

On another level: Thank you for your gratulations about my articles. I haven't done very much about churches, thought (only Sakshaug gamle kirke). I was proud about fulfilling Verdensarven i Frankrike in 2011. Bw Orland (talk) 09:18, 10 January 2020 (UTC)

Sami drum

It appears that I have once again fallen prey to the dangerous allure of WP editing, following the semi-obligatory stationing of the COVID quarantine. I stumbled upon your majestic entry on the sámi drum a while back when reading on something related to their language. Permit me to congratulate you on an impressive achievement – and a rare one at that, given the scarcity of proper Sami articles over here at en.wp. I ventured to do some copy-editing – I gather from the history pages that it has already received some. I see no reason as to why it shouldn't receive some type of formal recognition here as well. We could put it up for WP:Peer review to ensure that it becomes truly brilliant, and compliant with en.wp guidelines. I fear that some of the prose might at this stage assume prior knowledge (stuff that is obvious to you and me, etc.). Stay healthy and stay indoors! --Eisfbnore ^(会話) 16:14, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Hello,Eisfbnore. How nice of you. Feel free to improve it. I'll look into your cn's.

The article is actually not fully translated from the norwegian version - yet. There are some sections in the norwegian no:runebomme that should be translated as well: Tilvirking og oppbevaring, the last half of Innsamling, Nyere forskningsarbeider, and Runebomma i dag. Bw --Orland (talk) 18:21, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Spanish Wikipedia

I have been working for many years to create a huge documentary fund in Spanish about medieval Scandinavian literature, Norse sagas, life and customs of characters and biographies, kingdoms and territories of the Viking Age as well as Norwegian civil wars and Icelandic Commonwealth . I have seen some of your editions and I love to find someone who can improve the contributions. Jesse Byock invited me to do the same and improve articles in other languages, but I don't have much margin as the maintenance of 2200 articles consume a lot of free time. But I do try sometimes. I am open to help if you wish. Stay safe!--Gilwellian (talk) 11:10, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Hello

Hi,

I imported material from the German article de:Zeremonialtrommel, translating for the article Ceremonial drum. There was some material in Ceremonial drum before I started importing, most of it concerning the Sámi drum or similar material. I saw in the history of the Sámi drum that you had helped improve that article. I wonder if you are familiar enough with that material that you could look at Ceremonial_drum#Far North and see if you can make sense of it. There is a fair amount of content hidden (only visible while editing). It is unsourced, but if it can be made comprehensible, it would be better. I don't have access to any books right now covering the material. Anything you can do would be appreciated. Perhaps it would be better to remove most of the material. Thank you, Jacqke (talk) 20:08, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Jacqke. I'm sorry I can't help you. Even if I might have some knownledge in this matter, I'm not able to add anything to this wider picture needed here. Bw --Orland (talk) 22:23, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you anyway. It was worth trying to save the info. Jacqke (talk) 22:29, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

Mohammad Mohammadian

Hello Dear @Orland:,

Hope you are well, I tried to create more articles in different languages to help him.

Because I have information about him, Unfortunately, Because of his works and a dictatorial country his life is in danger, I'm so serious.

I can't explain here more than this, someone's life is in danger. Please believe me.

Unfortunately i did not know it was wrong to create an article in different languages!

Anyway, please stop deleting articles, In my heart you are my friend and Humanity is very important to me.

Please forgive me. Your work causes someone to die. Unfortunately I am serious.

I will NOT create more articles but send I want send messages to several managers about this subject.

I'm so sorry but deleting his articles is like helping Islamic dictators and devil terrorists.

I understand you want to help Wikipedia, Like me and other people, but this is important. Someone's life is in danger. Please believe me.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Yours sincerely, Arenasky (talk) 22:12, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

I will NOT create more articles Arenasky (talk) 22:16, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Dear @Orland:, I deleted the articles you tagged, Please don't delete more. This is helping to Islamic dictators. Unfortunately a person's life is in danger. Unfortunately I can not explain further here, please believe me. Yours sincerely, Arenasky (talk) 22:38, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Hello, Arenasky. I simply don't believe your explanation. I understand that people living in dictatorships might be in danger, and that international attention might be of help. But i don't believe that Mohammad Mohammadian would be safer if his Wikipedia biography are spread to 40 languages. Why should he be safer with 40 languages than 8? Are there any magical asistance connected to his appearance on finnish and luxembourgish Wikipedia? And if this is so, why didn't you explain this in no:Wikipedia:Sletting/Mohammad Mohammadian at no:wp, and in a similar process in dutch Wikipedia? On both those occations, you asked for a speedy deletion when the article was questioned.

Frankly, it seems to me as if you are making up excuses as you go. On the deletion discussion on danish Wikipedia (da:Wikipedia:Sletningsforslag/Mohammad Mohammadian) you asked for a gentle treatment, claming that you had a nervous disease ("Jeg har en nervesygdom eller Slet denne artikel i dag").

Furthermore; it is easy to trace your method: you are copying an excisting Wikipedia biography (like Spielberg or Kurosawa) to keep the structure and terminology, and inserting your own data. Shown here on esperanto and here.

For a start; I would suggest that you ask for speedy deletion of at least 35 of the articles you have created about Mohammad Mohammadian. Greetings, --Orland (talk) 09:31, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

Hello Dear @Orland:,

I understand but I thought more languages meant more credibility and I can help to people.

I spent a lot of time, but you are deleting articles one by one.

Unfortunately, I cannot explain more than this, Deleting articles does not help the better world.

I think creating is better than deleting. Yours sincerely, Arenasky (talk) 10:50, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

If you are using Wikipedia for the wrong reasons, to promote your own interests, noone is interested in how much time you spent. You were wrong in the first place. Deleting articles does not make the world better nor worse. Deleting articles that shouldn't be here, does a least make Wikipedia a better, and more trustworthy place. Have a nice day. Don't forget to start asking for speedy deletions. Bw --Orland (talk) 11:08, 7 September 2021 (UTC)

In minangkabau Wikipedia; min:Mohammad Mohammadian is born in both Cincinatti and Knoxville. Bw --Orland (talk) 21:01, 8 September 2021 (UTC)

• What a coincidence - FilmFreeway, which Arenasky uses to justify the "reality" of the Cannes World Film Festival and other non-Cannes-Film-Festival Cannes film festivals, is the sponsor of ... Orland-o Film Festival (but not the Boud-o Film Festival). Coincidences do happen. Boud (talk) 02:20, 12 September 2021 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of people on the postage stamps of the Faroe Islands

The article List of people on the postage stamps of the Faroe Islands has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Yet another completely unsourced, unverifiable, unencyclopedic "List of people on the postage stamps of X" with no foreseeable purpose

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Nomination of List of people on the postage stamps of the Faroe Islands for deletion

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Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:58, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Both in Norway and in the Faroe Islands, stamp designs are used to present important people and features in history and society.

Not being a philatelist myself, I am well aware of the role stamp designs have in some countries, reflecting the canon of art, culture and history of the issuing country.

Thus, I have been involved in 3 FL-articles in no:wp based on lists of stamps: no:Liste over personer på norske frimerker (List of people on the postage stamps of Norway), no:Liste over personer på færøyske frimerker (List of people on the postage stamps of the Faroe Islands) and no:Liste over kunstverk på norske frimerker (List of artwork on norwegian stamps). I am quite proud of my work here, using relevant lists to approach the history and society of these two countries. Bw --Orland (talk) 06:46, 18 May 2022 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of people on the postage stamps of Bhutan

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Unsourced, unused, and unmaintained since 2010

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Hello again, TenPoundHammer. If you take a closer look at xtools; you'll find that Leovdvxxx (talk · contribs) have written 75 % of that one, whilst I've only done 3 minor edits 17 years ago. From my point of view, I have not so much interest in at stamp editing policy including random foreign footballers, astronauts and rock stars. But that is just my private opinion. Honestly, neither mine nor your private opinion should edit Wikipedia.

And now that you're here anyway. I would have hoped for you to say something like Thank you for fixing up the List of people on the postage stamps of the Faroe Islands; I am sorry I was unaware of the stringent editing policy of Faroya Post. Or something similar. Perhaps that is too mush to hope for? Bw --Orland (talk) 19:28, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

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Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:32, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Hello again, TenPoundHammer. For someone explicitly asking What did I screw up now?, you are remarkably uninterested in feedback. Bw --Orland (talk) 21:47, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

Nomination of List of people on the postage stamps of the Faroe Islands for deletion

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