Template talk:User Norden

Color choice

Why are we in black all the sudden? Kind of a depressing color, not? --Anjoe 14:13, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe so, but black is also good for visual perception when contrasted with lighter colours, especially since the square is sooo tiinyyyyy.;J BigAdamsky|TALK|EDITS| 14:26, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I rv'd to previous version and suggest dark green rather than black or fix the whole fragging colour scheme for everything ... The old one was really nice, perhaps even "just perfect?" MX44 11:43, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to add dark green if able and willing, MX44. I might give it a try too or else I might simply restore the "black" map as I see fit. In any event, you may eventually have to create a personal userbox yourself or perhaps make an alternative template that you may edit at your own leisure. If you wish to copy the current version of this userbox to your user page, you are free to add {{subst:Template:User Norden}} to it. The bottom line is that you get to decide what's in your own name space, not others'. (York and Tallin are about as Scandinavian as Cape Town is Dutch.) BigAdamsky|TALK|EDITS| 14:50, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Easy there BigAdamsky. You don't get property-rights on Wikipedia. I am also a user of the template, and I think the current version is far superior to the black one. On top of that I don't think a dark green would make it any nicer, allthough maybe the map itself (not the color scheme) could be bettered. --Anjoe 18:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category tree

BTW: the template wrongly categorizes users in Category:Scandinavian Wikipedians when it on the other hand has the text and the name "Norden". Instead it should go to Category:Nordic Wikipedians. --Anjoe 18:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're absolutely right; I will (suggest we) establish the Nordic Wikipedians cat you mention above. Also, in a strict sense, Scandinavia ≠ the Nordic region. I'm not sure how restrictive the inclusion criteria for the Nordic cat should be, however. --Wernher 22:31, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

York, Tallin, ...

Why rule out that places like York and Tallinn, which in a certain light, sometimes can be seen as part of Scandinavia? --DS

Well, Tallinn unquestionably belongs to the Hansa region, and the Baltic, but to say it's part of Scandinavia, and/or the Nordic, is to stretch those regions a little far, IMO. York is of course part of the former Viking/Dane area of influence, but, like the Shetlands and the Orkneys, or the Isle of Man, or Dublin, for that matter (the latter was, as you know, founded by the Vikings), York isn't any longer part of Sc. or the Nc. as such (as BigAdamsky says, "York and Tallin are about as Scandinavian as Cape Town is Dutch").

I, for one, however, dreamingly wish for your suggestion to be reality; a Great Nordic Empire! *evil laughter* >:-))) Too bad the Vikings didn't rule their domain as efficiently and dominatingly, and forward-looking, as I'd wish they had... --Wernher 22:31, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]