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-> 4/4/2018, a new edit (from a different contributor than above): Posted a few (suggested) edits to the article's current introduction section, eliminating some subjective language and adding sources. Also added a sentence (there) about the 2013 solo album, 'A'. Please review, discuss, etc.2Givemore (talk) 19:15, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agneta vs Agnetha

There has been several edits that reverted the lede "Agnetha Åse Fältskog is a Swedish musician..." to simply "Agnetha Fältskog" while the infobox was changed from "Born: Agnetha Åse Fältskog" to "Born: Agneta Åse Fältskog" without a reliable source for the past six months.
Until a verifiable reliable source (not from tertiary source) is found, her full name "Agnetha Åse Fältskog" should only be used in the article as the reliable secondary sources we use, publish it as is. Despite Swedish Wikipedia and German Wikipedia saying it so that Agneta was her birth name, a consensus is required so we can avoid unneeded edit wars debating on whether it's "Agnetha" or "Agneta" from her birth. A BLP header was added in front of the article. Misterpither (talk) 04:10, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Misterpither: Her legal name is Åse Agneta Fältskog (please note the order), according to Sweden's population registry (the source used by the birthday.se citation, and known as folkbokföringsregistret in Swedish), and I can find no evidence that she ever changed her legal name. Your name in the population registry is your legal name in Sweden, and as such it's a reliable source for her legal name. As strange as it may seem, it's not uncommon for Swedes to use their legal middle name as their first name (tilltalsnamn in Swedish), e.g. August Strindberg. There are even examples of Swedes using the second part of a hyphenated double name as their first name, e.g. Marie Fredriksson.

Regarding birthday.se as a reliable source, it's a published secondary source with a liable publisher (Patric Örner, CEO at Berlock Information AB) in accordance with Sweden's constitution (they need publication authorization to be able to legally publish the population registry). The only possible issue I can see is that the birthday.se source never explicitly states that this Åse Agneta Fältskog is the Agnetha Fältskog in ABBA. It's however obvious that it is her, given the registered date of birth and address (an address shared with her son Peter Christian Ulvaeus), and the fact there is only one singular Agneta/Agnetha Fältskog alive in the entire country of Sweden (try searching birthday.se for either spelling variant). Birthday.se does however explicitly state Fältskog's date of birth (https://www.birthday.se/kandisars-fodelsedagar/agnetha-fältskog/), due to her being a celebrity (kändis in Swedish, with plural form kändisar).

Summary: She may be known by the partly anglicized stage name Agnetha Fältskog, but her legal name is still Åse Agneta Fältskog (according to Sweden's official population registry).

185.213.154.168 (talk) 16:19, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The woman in the Swedish population register with the name Åse Agneta Fältskog is according to this (from another site with a liable publisher) on the board of the aktiebolag Agnetha Fältskog Produktion AB. A company which according to Apple Music own the copyright to music by the Agnetha Fältskog. It's obviously her, but I fail to find reliable secondary sources in English. Any ideas?

185.213.154.168 (talk) 16:37, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Origin of surname

There is some information of the (Germanoc) origin of the surname Fältskog here. Martinevans123 (talk) 13:07, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The way you are

No. 1 hit in Sweden, Norway and Brazil? I'm from Norway and have never heard the song before. Checking norwegiancharts.com, there's no information that the song charted at all. Can people add whatever to wikipedia without checking the facts? 77.16.75.251 (talk) 04:14, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, 77.16.75.251, and it may need a ^{[citation needed]} tag or, if you’re confident and have completely researched the edit, just delete Norway. By the way, you’re using an IP address and many IP addresses change periodically and are often shared by several users. As an IP user, you may create an account or log in to avoid future confusion with other IP users. Registering also hides your IP address.
Regards, Quaerens-veritatem (talk) 05:09, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]