Talk:Ole Kirk Christiansen

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Ole Kirk Kristiansen was an inventor who developed LEGO. He was very smart because he developed a toy that children could play with.

My name is Mitch richardson and i am in 8th grade doing a project on inventors.

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I merged in this strange sub-part of the article as I found it oddly written and not verified:

Kristiansen was born in Fliskov, Denmark. Kristiansen made a living as carpenter, and he built houses and furniture in Billund, Denmark. In 1932 the stupid man, he decided to switch from carpenter to toy maker. In Denmark then there was a depression. His first wooden toys were miniature versions of the houses and furniture. Later, in 1947 he was the first to make toys with plastic. In 1949 he had over 200 plastic and wooden toys. Lego is made from “Leg” and “Godt” which, in Danish means, “Play well.” Lego in Latin means, “I put together.”

62.189.191.42 (talk) 10:50, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Kristiansen

From the Lego.com company information history timeline: http://aboutus.lego.com/en-us/lego-group/the_lego_history/ list and mention the correct spelling and use of the name: 'Ole Kirk Kristiansen'. GoTLG (talk) 12:26, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Other sources seem to be split between the two spellings, although "Christiansen" seems more common by a factor of ten, in a Google Books search. Digging through some of those sources, the 1997 Scandinavian Review includes a caption that mentions the three generations of "Ole Kirk Christiansen, Godtfried Kirk Christiansen and Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, who has gone back to an earlier spelling of his surname", which may explain the confusion. --McGeddon (talk) 16:25, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Let's be honest can they be trustworthy? What other sources? Google books, News media, fan sites, blogs, newspaper article? If you look at from the company information link: http://aboutus.lego.com/en-us/lego-group/the_lego_history/

Also, please e-mail the person listed on the link. They will be able to answer your question. It shouldn't be hard to ask. GoTLG (talk) 18:10, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Google Books gives a general search of the written corpus over the last fifty years. If we restrict the search to the 20th century (to eliminate any possible echo chamber effect of writers looking up Ole Kirk's name on Wikipedia) we get about 130 usages of "Ole Kirk Christiansen", and only ten for "Ole Kirk Kristiansen". The sources favouring "Christiansen" include the New Yorker, Forbes and books published by the Lego Group itself, so yes, they are trustworthy. It seems possible that a site editor at lego.com simply mistook the disparity in surnames for a typo, and "corrected" Ole Kirk's spelling to match Kjeld Kirk's after confirming the latter elsewhere - as I say above, we have a source clearly saying that the family name was changed two generations after Ole Kirk. --McGeddon (talk) 18:27, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Further to that, a book search for "Ole Kirk Christiansen" "Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen" spelling turns up nine explicit references to the surname being changed, including the claim that "the disparity in spelling of the surname was apparently an error by the registrar!" --McGeddon (talk) 18:33, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for responding. However that doesn't explain if the person 'Ole Kirk Kristiansen' birth certificate or family name of the Lego company history is spelled 'Kristiansen' and not 'Christiansen'. The same argument can be like names as 'Jon' or 'John', 'Sean' or 'Shwan', and 'Eric' or 'Erik'. (there are many other examples). The sources as you listed New Yorker, Forbes and others have made mistakes. It is one of the problems that journalists either 'Google' search' or reline (maybe) Wikipedia for information and not contact the company. I believe the site editor at Lego.com is a Lego employee and is correct with Ole Kirk Kristiasen name. Please if you are willing to e-mail the Lego company, they will able to answer and explain it. GoTLG (talk) 19:03, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

As I said above, I deliberately only looked at pre-2000 books to avoid an "echo chamber" effect of writers lifting content from Wikipedia. We have multiple reliable sources explicitly saying that Ole Kirk Christiansen had a different surname to his grandson Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, and commenting on that difference, some even suggesting why it happened. That has much greater weight than one particular page on the lego.com site happening to use a particular spelling (especially when other pages on the same site use the "Christiansen" spelling, and an introduction to a 1999 Lego Group book written by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen himself talks of "my grandfather, Ole Kirk Christiansen").

Your link is not Lego's official biography of Ole Kirk, it is just a short introduction to a timeline page that we could forgive them for not fact-checking thoroughly; I'll drop the writer a line in case there's a story behind it, but in the absence of authorial intent, I think we should side with the 130 books that use "Christiansen" (nine of which draw specific attention to the change in spelling) and the apparent words of Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, against the 10 other books and the one particular lego.com page. --McGeddon (talk) 19:24, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

I've just had the following response from the lego.com editor in private email:-

“ On Ole Kirk Kristiansen’s birth certificate his surname is spelled with a K. In Ole Kirk Kristiansen’s day, however, it was common practice for the surname Kristiansen to be spelled with either Ch or K – and Ole Kirk Kristiansen did indeed use both versions, although mostly the Ch style.

Both Godtfred Kirk Christiansen and his son, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen – like Ole Kirk Kristiansen before them – were baptised Kristiansen, and Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen has always used this spelling. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, on the other hand, used the Ch version all his life and was in fact popularly referred to as GKC. With the amendment of the Danish Act on Names in the 1980s, it became possible to change one’s surname – and Godtfred Kirk Christiansen did exactly that, formally adopting the name Christiansen.

The reason the names Ole Kirk Kristiansen and Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen are written with a K is simply that it is how it is spelled in their birth certificates. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, on the other hand, is spelled with Ch because he himself always used that form – and because he officially changed his name to Christiansen in the 1980s.

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Which in summary is "the spellings were interchangeable in the 19th century, it's a "K" on his birth certificate but he mostly used the "Ch" spelling". I'd say that this meant we should title the article with a "Ch" per WP:COMMONNAME (as "Ch" clearly has a greater "prevalence in reliable English-language sources" and was also Ole Kirk's favoured spelling) but mention the birth certificate spelling in the article. Does that seem like an accurate reading of policy and context? --McGeddon (talk) 10:30, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Your summary of that message is correct, except for the fact that Godtfred used&preferred the 'ch' spelling, not Ole. The message shows no indication that Ole used anything except 'k'. So, contrary to my and the whole internet's belief, this message clearly shows that 'k' is the proper spelling to use.--ɱ (talk) 22:09, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

No, it also says in the first paragraph that "Ole Kirk Kristiansen did indeed use both versions, although mostly the Ch style". --McGeddon (talk) 23:00, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, fine. But should one go with what he often listed his name as, or his birth-certificate name? I believe usually the latter, unless someone legally changes their name, which Ole never did.--ɱ (talk) 23:04, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

It's the other way around, WP:COMMONNAME says that "Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources." - that Ole Kirk "mostly" favoured the Ch-spelling during his lifetime only adds weight to that. --McGeddon (talk) 23:26, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Yeah. So then we should do that, but add a footnote after his name to say that his proper name is 'Kristiansen'. Either that or an entire section devoted to that history & explanation that the lego editor said in that message.--ɱ (talk) 02:08, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Sure, if we can get a source for the birth name (a private email from a random Lego employee isn't a reliable source, but I've asked them if they can point me at one) then it's worth mentioning in the article. I'll wait for a response from User:GoTLG before going ahead and changing everything back to "Ch" across all Lego articles. --McGeddon (talk) 15:57, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

I read through the WP:COMMONNAME, I think it is a small list of examples. Makes think of Sean John, Puffy or his other name. etc. I notice you got the same e-mail from the Lego editor. I got the same answer few days ago. And I responded by mentioning that it is getting confusing when reading news media, blogs, fan-sites and Wikipedia miss spelling the name. The basic response from the Lego editor was, 'It is out of control.' If one Lego employee e-mail is not a reliable source. How many more? Five? Ten? Twenty employees? A news press release from the company video/letter read on TV (CNN, BBC)? I can understand maybe the owner of the LEGO company such as Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen or the current CEO of The Lego Group could answer. I just think 'Ole Kirk Kristiansen' true name should be strongly mention. GoTLG (talk) 23:05, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, WP:COMMONNAME only has a small list of examples, it does not list every ruling. (It looks as if the Sean Combs article title was a result of considered consensus on what editors felt his most commonly-used name was.)

All claims made in Wikipedia "must be attributed to a reliable, published source", and one or five or twenty private emails (even from the CEO) would simply never be a "published source". If Lego updated their web page to include the details of Christiansen's birth certificate, then that would be "published" and we could use it. I'd imagine we could find a mention of the birth name in an existing biography of the man, though, I'll see what I can turn up.

I'll go ahead and change the spelling to "Ch", and add the "K" birth spelling as unsourced for now. --McGeddon (talk) 09:45, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

It is now officially stated in the official history of the company on their website. I believe the page name should be changed to Kristiansen. Laz (talk) 10:21, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

DOB

I've reverted this edit by an anon with a perfect history of pure vandalism, this being their only edit in any doubt and not already reverted.

It's a bit hard to know whether online sources are just repeating information from Wikipedia (remembering that they don't need to attribute our information, only our text if they use it) but

• http://astrumpeople.com/ole-kirk-christiansen-biography-amazing-history-of-lego-company/
• http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/christiansen.html

both give the date as 7 April 1891. Andrewa (talk) 00:12, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 4 October 2016

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Ole Kirk Christiansen → Ole Kirk Kristiansen – As I stated last year in the talk page, the official name has now been officially announced on the official history of the company on the LEGO website. Since the doubts people discussed about years ago about the name of the page were based entirely on the missing official information, now that we have it I believe it should be moved now. Laz (talk) 13:03, 4 October 2016 (UTC) --Relisting. Andrewa (talk) 18:53, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

• Oppose. "Ole Kirk Christiansen" remains far more common in Google Books than "Ole Kirk Kristiansen". The Lego link notes that he used both spellings, and used "Ch" more frequently himself.--Cúchullain ^t/c 16:57, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
• Support. I don't get it. There's a long discussion in this page that basically says "we need an official statement from LEGO to change this, not just a private email". Now we have the official statement and... no, it's not enough anyway. The official name is (and always was) spelled with a "K", so the page should reflect that, noting "Ch" as an alternative spelling. Not the other way around because it creates confusion and helps spread the old false rumor that "Kristiansen" was misspelt on grandson Kjeld's birth certificate. Laz (talk) 19:52, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
  • While the official statement does qualify as a source, it's just one of many. Andrewa (talk) 18:53, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
• Comment: I note that we are not consistent in spelling of the family name regardless of how this RM goes. We still have Godtfred Kirk Christiansen vs Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen (and note that the latter comes under BLP). Andrewa (talk) 18:53, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose. The previous discussion was about finding an official statement to confirm that Kristiansen was his birthname at all, not necessarily to rename the article. Per WP:COMMONNAME, "Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it generally prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources." - "K" was his birthname, "Ch" is far more common in English sources, and the official Lego history you link to says that Ole Kirk himself used "both versions, although mostly the Ch style". --McGeddon (talk) 19:08, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
• Oppose, this has been argued before, unsuccessfully. Goes against COMMONNAME and previous consensuses here. ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 19:16, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

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I am doing a project for school, and I found almost no info. Please improve this article! thank you. 50.49.143.45 (talk) 23:42, 13 November 2017 (UTC) 1+1=2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.222.120.173 (talk) 16:05, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Major issues

This article does not use an encyclopaedic tone, and reads as if written by someone connected with the subject. It needs serious work to comply with the WP:NPOV core policy. 46.208.152.48 (talk) 08:53, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

Ole Kirk Kristiansen Park in Rome

Dear @Fieryninja I want know why you consider “properly cited” the institutional web site of the Rome Municipality where you can find simply the updated about that park.

Second, you can simply find it with a very simple search on every research web link and you can find many online news papers, even in Denmark, that report the news.

Third, if this is not all that park is in every online maps you want even for the maps that are powered by the wiki system (as like open street maps).

The problem is the park or the surname that is spelled in the right way when here in all the Wikipedia languages it continue be in the other form that, like the LEGO Historians wrote on the official web site, is properly right but isn’t the right spelling that is present on the Ole Kirk’s birth certificate? And fortunately I had the way to see this and other documents wrote in the right way. I write this because like for the park section you deleted the other about “Kristiansen or Christiansen” that simply report the official LEGO right way to see this “long time error”.

And I work so hard in 7 years for made this park not for consider it like I minor news when for LEGO is been a huge things. So we can work together, suggest me how I can write all this updates respecting the rules. 7 years ago my colleague and friends tried to explain this mistake for change it without success. But them are not me.

So I will wait and I hope we can find a solution. Gozerathome (talk) 17:42, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello Gozerathome Thanks for contacting me. I agree that the park can be included in the article, but it just needs better writing and a secondary source to include it. I have since found this news source from a Danish website [1] which we can use. Note the spelling of the subject's name in the news article is Christiansen. I removed the large quote because it is too big and unnecessary. The spelling has been restored to Christiansen because that has been the consensus and remains valid until there is further discussion. I hope that provides a solution. Fieryninja (talk) 17:54, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Fieryninja thanks for your answer.

I believe that I will write something better to add.

For sure I understand exactly what you mean, if it need more sources to add there is others like this [2] (for a quick insertion I not translate it) where you even see that however the other form is equally used.

Indeed you can find it the same here [3] where even is “explained” why the two formulas and here [4] in accord with the National Danish Archive.

The huge mistake is simply that most of writer use not the official LEGO source but the most useful sources, like Wikipedia, for write them articles or even book.

So the mistake continues.

I’m the first that tell that is not wrong use the Ch formula but officially Kristiansen is the right and principally formula that should use, after Christiansen in according with the personal motivation of Ole.

I saw a lot of official signatures that was in K formula that Ole himself however used in Ch formula for who know which motivation.

There is any way to fix it? Because if need only online sources however I can reassure that for both versions (K and Ch) we can find 50% of sources for K version and 50% for Ch version.

So I can think that the official LEGO web site can be use like first source.

I could be share some documents, because are free to be used, but it is something personally of Kristiansen Family and if I not have from them an acknowledge I can’t do it.

However I would like, before made some new updates to this page, to continue this discussion in according with the last message inserted in the 2015 for “Kristiansen” above.

Maybe we can find a way to change this other not so small detail, believe me that it will be a huge thing 😉

And this is why I want add the small capitulation about “Kristiansen or Christiansen”.

Like for the park I will write something short and in a better writing (with no huge citation). Gozerathome (talk) 03:47, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Gozerathome the earlier consensus was to use Christiansen as the spelling because Wikipedia uses the most commonly used name - see WP:COMMONNAME. You have already said that 50% of sources use the K spelling and 50% use the Ch, but other editors on the page have said Ch is the most commonly used spelling. The Lego website says that Ole used both and most often used the Ch. With all this taken into account, I don't see why it should be changed as neither spelling is a "mistake". We also cannot use unpublished sources even if they are connected to the family. I think before you add any more information to this article, you should read the rules around using reliable sources on Wikipedia - see WP:RS. Fieryninja (talk) 07:39, 26 November 2023 (UTC)

@Fieryninja I have time to reply you only now.

I understand perfectly the Wikipedia’s rules but sorry if I tell you that some are wrong like for the reliable sources.

First, I tell “mistake” but I wanted use that word improperly just for underline that can generate only a misunderstanding.

You know why? Because mostly people use this page are not LEGO history expert like me and others (that we know here can be are a few errors, especially that Christiansen) and mostly are even not a LEGO fan as well.

Have this not wrong information, but improperly use of that information yes, continue to generate a long number of articles that Wikipedia considers a reliable sources but they aren’t.

And you know why? Simply because this misinformation born before internet (and before that Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen started to understand this both use by his grandfather) generaring by his son’s name Godtfred Kirk Christiansen.

In the all official LEGO History pages, made by LEGO Historian that are a LEGO employees from the LEGO Heritage Department (in Billund), the name is used is Kristiansen and there they explain why the use of K and Ch surname by Ole…that here is unexplained so this continue to generate mistakes, errors, misunderstanding, misinformation or call it like you want.

If you see all the references they are only and simply articles wrote using other sources that have the same improperly use the especially without explanation about this double use of K and Ch, and mostly by using Wikipedia pages that have the same problems.

In the 16 references somebody used the official LEGO page that use correctly Kristiansen, the only one the use properly the name.

This is unbelievable, so you tell me that thanks to the Wikipedia’s rules if 9 by 10 sources have a wrong or improperly use of an information it can be add in a page just because there are 9 sources on 1, that maybe is the only one official source? (Like here for the LEGO history).

You know how many times a lot of peoples tell me that I’m wrong because “Wikipedia say…”

I do this since +20 years, I could believe to know much things about LEGO history and Kristiansen Family…like about the first wife of Ole, I know that her was Danish and was very close to Billund and not from Norway (like only here I read) but maybe I can be wrong.

I hope that you understand my point of view, so we need to add in this page why there is a double use of Kristiansen and Christiansen to try stopping this misunderstanding.

For me only the official source can be useful but however there are different official sources that explain why this double use.

For the sources that I told you in the other message…them are not unpublished sources but are published for sure.

But is a private information how reach them, especially because contain to much private information.

But I’m happy the same, I’m one of the very small number of peoples that saw that.

However in according to your other message, I will add the section about the park with a good writing and all the reliable sources need.

But it need to have the explanation about the double use of his surname.

I will wait your update. Gozerathome (talk) 17:45, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Gozerathome I agree that having some information to explain why the two spellings exist would be a good thing, as this article seems to be persistently edited from one spelling to the other. This could be done simply by adding it as a note within the lede paragraph with a citation. The problem with your previous edit was that you quoted the large paragraph from the Lego website which is too much information. The paragraph should be summarised briefly and in your own words, rather than as a large direct quote. I have already added information about the park, but it could be expanded a little with additional citations. Fieryninja (talk) 18:40, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Fieryninja, finally I can reply to you.

I saw your update on the article, thanks. Now it start to be something more accurate.

Thanks for add in it the park’s paragraph. I saw even that you added after the park name, thanks.

These days I haven’t to much time but I will add a few more information with related additional citations.

And I understand what you mean and I saw the note that you add about the surname. If I understand right if I write a few personal words I can add a paragraph to explain these misunderstanding?

I will add it next days.

However I’m happy that you understand my point of view.

We can fix this long time problem, otherwise can be dangerous even for Wikipedia.

I mean if it need a reliable sources to write the pages in Wikipedia, and Wikipedia have a few mistakes (maybe because something add in without use a verified sources) that are used to write those that are the reliable sources, we enter in a loop.

This is why I wrote you all my long messages.

This is an example:

Due this misunderstanding about the Ole’s surname mostly people thinking seriously that his nephew, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, had and have a transcription error for his birth certificate but it isn’t. This due what I wrote to you for explaining this problems about Ole’s surname.

Really these is my opinion, I would add “Ole Kirk Kristiansen mostly know as Ole Kirk Christiansen” instead “Ole Kirk Christiansen also know as Ole Kirk Kristiansen”

After this update, and until we have finally a new story (and related reliable sources) about his surname, can remain with Christiansen like most serious sources I know even do.

I think that the official LEGO history web site have the right way to see this story but here there is a rules so we respect them even if in a few cases maybe then could be surpassed like here.

However I tell this you because at the end Ole Kirk was mostly known Christiansen because publicly he liked (and only him know why) this formula.

Even though he knew it was Kristiansen.

On the book “50 years of play” published in 1982 there is a copy of his identity card where his name was written in Kristiansen.

So we can be sure that he knew very well his name and he had a personal motivation to use the other version.

So this is what I can suggest to reach finally a good page, and I know that this is the principal page for all the Wikipedia pages and for the mostly sources that you can find on internet.

You know, for make the toponymy plate I worked so close to the municipal managers because I was sure that alone they would have used the name present in Wikipedia…they confirmed it to me.

But for it the municipality’s office need the birth name.

I helped they to avoid this problem that would be economically if they wrongly the name.

Because after they would have to do it again the toponymy plate with a new economic expense for the municipality.

So understand what can happen for something here in Wikipedia?

I can think that many others pages can have a few problems like this but I’m expert in the LEGO history so I can try to fix this page.

Obviously with your help.

So following days I will add the new information for the park and the new own paragraph about the surname, both with reliable sources. For the moment. Gozerathome (talk) 03:47, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Gozerathome I think the issues have been resolved now. The two spellings are stated and the birth name clarified. The park name has been added. We dont need to add a lot of information about the park because this article needs to focus on its subject. Fieryninja (talk) 08:24, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi @Fieryninja, I saw the update only today.

Thanks so much, however now is better then before even for the other things you fix or added.

Maybe Ole’s daughter, Ulla, could be remained but it’s okay.

Yes now the issue about the name is almost fix, or otherwise is explained.

But we are sure that it will be seeing?

I really hope so, I hope that the future users will see the note a to know this story.

For my point of view about that I would like be better see a short paragraph about this story, just for who not see the note a, but if you consider it unnecessary…

At the end, like here [5], the paragraph is add to be most clarify about it.

For the park…fantastic, I can ask you maybe if I can add a short story to how we reach it and who made it in Rome?

7 years are so long and the Municipality of Rome “did only his job”, the request not started from they or LEGO…you can imagine how hard was been realized it.

(This is a reply even to your second message as well) Gozerathome (talk) 17:15, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

Further on the subject of the two spellings, adding a paragraph about the surname is unnecessary for readers, as it has been clearly stated in note a. I don't see what else needs to be added to the fact that he was born Kristiansen but used both names. Fieryninja (talk) 08:30, 29 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi Gozerathome in reply to your last message, I think note a is adequate for explaining the two spelling variations. It is common practice to include an explanatory note and it can be read in full at the bottom of the article. It appears that you are connected to the park, which means that you may have a conflict of interest - see WP:COI. I question why you want to add more about how the park was named and who organised it. Adding a little about the ceremony such as notable attendees could be relevant at a push, but certainly not the park's naming history. The article needs to focus entirely on its subject - see WP:COATRACK. Fieryninja (talk) 17:59, 30 November 2023 (UTC)

@Fieryninja thanks to share to me a few WP rules, honesty not know all of them.

First, well yes. I can agree what you mean, I see Wikipedia only on mobile version and honestly with the web version, like you said, the note are full visible at the bottom of the page.

A few minutes ago I saw the page in this way and is like you said.

I hope that it will useful in this way. Maybe in the future something will change but for the moment thanks to had add it in this page.

I continue to think that a short paragraph is more visible to learn this clarification but I understand what you mean.

For your supposition, well yes.

I’m the guy behind the project of the park but honestly I’m not knew the Wikipedia’s rule about COI, I not want have problems here and with Wikipedia.

I want to be clarify here for this.

But like the rule tell, I suggested here to you the updates that you added in the page. I did it without know this rule…ok, I not followed exactly the way but it is this now.

However this new information is directly linked to the main focus of the subject of the page.

If you ask why about my request to add something more for the park’s history is simply because it born by an internal request of my association in the 2016 (this association is a recognized LEGO user group by LEGO) that I followed in person and alone during this 7 years.

LEGO was involved only in the last year when the park was been approved and for the ceremony of the last September.

This is what I would like to add in, the pure reality of what happened.

At the end you seen the news about the park in a different reliable sources even in Denmark (I’m was surprised when I discovered this).

For adding a little about the ceremony such as notable attendees…was present the two representatives from the municipality of Rome and one from LEGO. I don't really understand if they can be added, if you can I will gladly write to you here who they are and you can add them. This is also present in the various sources, including the one cited in the paragraph.

This and others information…if you want know something more to add in this page I can suggest somethings, with reliable sources obviously.

Otherwise I perfectly understand “The article needs to focus entirely on its subject” and if no other information can be added it’s okay.

You be sure that next time I will suggest here all the new updates, thanks to you I learned something more about Wikipedia.

Sincerely I hope that this page can be grow up, the Ole’s history life need to be share with much more people possible especially with the right information (like you do now for the surname).

I know a lot of things about this story but I even think to who use Wikipedia to know the LEGO founder and not find any whole information (if see up someone wrote this last years).

So I hope to have a news sources to submit here and add in the page. Gozerathome (talk) 03:51, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Gozerathome It sounds like the attendees are not notable by Wikipedia standards i.e. they do not have their own Wikipedia articles. I do not think there is much more to add about the park at present. However, you can certainly propose changes to the article in future on this talk page. Thanks for your contributions to the discussion. Fieryninja (talk) 08:28, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

@Fieryninja okay thanks.

I'm happy to have contributed to this page and certainly if I notice anything else to add I will suggest it here in this discussion. Thank you for understanding my point of view and that you added some new information, some of it is really important (like for the surname). Can I just suggest this additional source in English for the park? Is this [6] so there can be both, English and Danish. Thanks again and see you next time. Gozerathome (talk) 17:43, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Gozerathome one citation is enough to support the sentence, otherwise it's a WP:REFBOMB. Fieryninja (talk) 19:16, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

@FieryninjaI saw your message just today.

Well, okay. Thanks for the moment. Gozerathome (talk) 17:07, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Best title: Kristiansen, not Christiansen

As already happened I ask you to move the page title from Ole Kirk Christiansen to Ole Kirk Kristiansen. The reasons are well explained in the previous discussions.

As already widely reiterated the official surname at the registry office for Ole is Kirk Kristiansen. The myth of his surname in Ch was born in recent times from the simple motivation that Ole used both forms and it was thought, because of his son Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, that the surname was with Ch. In all of this this page has also helped to feed this myth. It would be more appropriate to have the title with the official surname in K (so Kristiansen) and explain the double use with the surname in Ch, which was normal at the time of Ole in Denmark. There was no official change of surname, as instead did by his son Godfred, and we have evidence of this.

I recently spoke with a historian of the LEGO Group and he confirmed this, trying to change the title of this page restoring the historical memory.

Don't begrudge me but you should try the path of exception, which is allowed, to the rule of the reliable resource that others are not newspaper articles written using this page with this error in the title.

Sorry if I'm direct but it's like that.

I hope to find someone who implements what I'm writing. Thanks to all. Gozerathome (talk) 03:52, 27 October 2024 (UTC)