Talk:Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland/Archive 1

Archive 1

Danish father?

Her father was born in Denmark with two Swedish parents, and moved to Sweden at the age of 5. He is not Danish in any way.

--Jidu Boite (talk) 06:33, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Is he not Danish by virtue of being born in Denmark? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.16.108.125 (talk) 00:10, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

If he was born in Denmark he is Danish just as much as Swedish.--BabbaQ (talk) 08:37, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

 Fixed Her father would have to be considered Danish-Swedish. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 12:25, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Ms. or Miss?

The English language version of the official website of the Swedish monarchy referred to Sofia as both "Ms. Sofia Hellqvist" and as "Miss Sofia Hellqvist". Mirrorthesoul expressed a clear preference for the latter form of address on my talk page. He or she believes unmarried women should be called "Miss". While I appreciate his or her opinion, the fact is that we have no idea which form of address the subject herself preferred. My initial instinct was to remove the claim altogether. It is not relevant (we do not normally state whether a person is a Mr, Mrs, Ms. or Miss), and it is obviously not clear. This was reverted. I then inserted both forms which were used by the Court in English, but this too was reverted. The fact that she was called fröken in Swedish means nothing because a) we have official English language versions and so there is no need for us to play translators, b) there is no equivalent of Ms. in Swedish, so fröken can be translated as both Miss and Ms.

Is Mirrorthesoul's preference more relevant than the subject's own preference or the Court's usage? This is a violation of the verifiability, NPOV and BLP policies. We do not get to cherry pick, nor do we get to impose our own views. Surtsicna (talk) 19:57, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Very thin notability

Except for the fact that this woman is married to a prince, there is hardly anything notable about her. This article contains a large amout of non-notable fluff - what she's attended, where she's been seen etc etc etc - and could be scaled down to less than half of its size. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 08:01, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

That is an opinion without any substance or context from Guidelines. POV do not rule Wikipedia. Every major removal of information should de discussed before doing.--BabbaQ (talk) 09:25, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Such as mentioning the term "glamour model" twice in the lede? --SergeWoodzing (talk) 15:05, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Unfortunately, even people who have not really done anything can be notable. There is a whole concept of famous for being famous. Surtsicna (talk) 12:08, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Unfortunately. Plus the fact that a consensus of fans can get all kinds of generally non-notable garbage into an article, and repeat it with different wording 2-3-4-5 times. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 15:05, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

The problem is that there is no scholarly biography of someone like Sofia. We have tabloids that present info interesting to fans and an official website that presents info interesting to... nobody. It's difficult to find a middle ground. Surtsicna (talk) 16:13, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

A scholarly biographer could write a book, about 1.5 pages long so far, which would be of interest to the general public. 1.3 pages of it could then be about how she managed to bag the prince, if, however, the scholarly author had such details as probabaly would be much too private in the first place. 2-3 sentences of that would be reasonably citeable to source a WP article. Assuming she has some sort of extraordinary talent that we do not know of at all yet, and which may never be known to anyone other than her husband and a few ex-boyfriends, I am not writing this to put her down. Her success in acquiring royalty is truly remarkable.

What we'll probably have, or can hope for at least, is a scholarly book 300-400 pages long on the folksiness of the Swedish monarchy and how that folksiness has steadily increased since 1907 to a currently extreme degree, of which Princess Sofia is the monumental example, and which I believe is making it all so utterly boring to most Swedes that it will be discontinued within the next 10-20 years. It's a type of long drawn-out abdication by an entire family. I promise to translate it to English, if it's in Swedish and if I'm still alive. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 18:36, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Speaking of non-notable fluff, SergeWoodzing, it's hardly confined to articles about models-turned-princesses. Surtsicna (talk) 16:42, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Nude photos

One of the most well known and media covered facts about this woman is her having posed for nude photographs some of which were published at the time. I object to the censorship involved in removing that from this article. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 15:33, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

Your objection declined! 😏 Timix321 (talk) 22:57, 28 August 2017 (UTC)