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The purpose of the present user page is to manage the project of identifying places in Finland (mainly former municipalities) for which there are no articles here at the en.Wikipedia, and which could therefore be considered as candidates for translation from their equivalent articles at the Finnish Wikipedia.
The motivation behind this project is that, even though they have been amalgamated into larger conurbations (or ceded to the USSR in the 1940s), these former municipalities have a distinct history in their own right, and/or are the birth places of notable people, or have notable features, such a churches, monuments, lakes, canals, etc.
Articles to create from red links
The following table includes all the municipalities shown with red links in the navboxes for each region listed in the first column, and for which an article is therefore missing at the en.wiki.
List of fi.wiki articles on Places in Finland without an article at en.wiki
List of fi.wiki articles on Places in Finland without an article at en.wiki
For all the regions above (first column), only the article on Åland Islands is tagged as B-class; all the others are tagged as Start-class.
(!) = No article at fi.wiki.
(*) = Create a navbox for Territories of Finland ceded to the USSR in the 1940s, based on fi:Malline:Luovutetut alueet (where 'Malline:' = 'Template:').
Articles to create from redirects
The following table includes all the municipalities shown with blue links that are only redirects in List of former municipalities of Finland for each region listed in the first column. A new article therefore also needs to be translated from fi.wiki for each of these, to overwrite the redirect.
Some will be municipalities ceded to the USSR in the 1940s; the others will be those that have been absorbed within larger Finnish conurbations. All their names need to be added to the appropriate regional navboxes, including the new navbox for Territories of Finland ceded to the USSR in the 1940s, based on fi:Malline:Luovutetut alueet (where 'Malline:' = 'Template:').
List of fi.wiki articles on Places in Finland with only a redirect at en.wiki
List of fi.wiki articles on Places in Finland with only a redirect at en.wiki
For fi:Heinjoki, the corresponding en-wiki article (Heinjoki) currently is a redirect to Veshchevo. (Remember to link the latter’s mention of Heinjoki to the new article.)
For fi:Muolaa, the corresponding en-wiki article (Muolaa) currently is a redirect to Pravdino. (Remember to link the latter’s mention of Muolaa to the new article.)
For fi:Nummi (Lohja), there is (here at en.wiki) a redirect from "Nummi (municipality)" to the article on Nummi-Pusula, because the original municipality of Nummi (Lohja) was merged into Nummi-Pusula municipality on January 1, 1981, which in turn ceased to exist on 1 January 2013, when the municipalities of Nummi-Pusula and Karjalohja merged with Lohja. Confusingly, there was also (here at en.wiki), an article entitled "Nummi", which was actually not the correct "Nummi" (i.e. not the fi:Nummi (Lohja) municipality in Uusimaa region), but the district of Turku (fi:Nummi (Turku) in Southwest Finland region), which I therefore moved (i.e. renamed) to Nummi (Turku). I have also updated the Nummi (disambiguation) page, to clarify all this.
Discrepancies (red linked articles not in navboxes)
The following former municipalities are red linked in List of former municipalities of Finland, but missing from the navboxes; therefore, articles for these also need to be created, and their names added to the navboxes.
List of fi.wiki articles on Places in Finland without an article at en.wiki & missing from navbox
List of fi.wiki articles on Places in Finland without an article at en.wiki & missing from navbox
(*) = Add to the new navbox for Territories of Finland ceded to the USSR in the 1940s, based on fi:Malline:Luovutetut alueet (where 'Malline:' = 'Template:').
Difficulties (shared names, etc.)
The following list contains place names that are problematic.
Examples:
where different places in Finland share a name, disambiguated one way at fi.wiki but differently (or not at all) at en.wiki;
where a place is listed at en.wiki under a different name from its corresponding article at fi.wiki;
where a place name may have been mistranslated, or previously confused with another place of a similar name.
List of Difficulties
There are several places named "Säkkijärvi":
fi:Säkkijärvi - Säkkijärvi was a municipality in Finland located on the western shore of the Vyborg Bay in South Karelia. About 90 percent (448.7 km²) of the municipality remained in the Soviet Union after the wars. The part of Säkkijärvi (43.9 km²) remaining on the Finnish side was merged with the municipalities of Ylämaa and Miehikkälä in 1946. The name of Säkkijärvi Church Village is named Kondratyevo in Russian. Lake Säkkijärvi is especially known for its "Säkkijärvi polka" (Säkkijärven polkka).
fi:Säkkijärvi (Jämsä) - Säkkijärvi (Jämsä) Lake Säkkijärvi is a lake near the village of Arvaja in Jämsä, Central Finland.
fi:Säkkijärvi (järvi) - Säkkijärvi (lake) is a shallow lake of two square kilometers east of the village of Nummijärvi in the eastern part of Kauhajoki (South Ostrobothnia). On average, the lake has a depth of one meter. The lake drains its water into the Sack River. Lake Säkkijärvi has some holiday accommodation and is mainly concentrated on the eastern shore of the lake.
fi:Säkkijärvi (kylä) - Säkkijärvi (village), also known as Kontdratyevo, is a rural municipality in the territory of Tienhaara, or Seleznjovo, in the Vyborg region of the Leningrad region of Russia. It is located about 15 km east of the present border of Finland, north of the E18 highway. There are about a thousand inhabitants. Until 1940, Säkkijärvi was a church village in the municipality of Säkkijärvi, Finland, in the Province of Vyborg. In the Moscow Peace Treaty of 1940, the region was left behind. After the Continuation War, the new powers renamed it in 1948, first as Ulyanovka, then as Kondratyev.
1e. Check for blue links in Maalaiskunta that link elsewhere and update Articles to create from redirects (some of these will be municipalities ceded to the USSR in the 1940s); ToDo
Search for a place name in both fi.wiki and en.wiki
The following method is used to select articles for translation at en.wiki:
2. Copy the place name of an article identified as a candidate for creation;
3. Search for the place name at the fi.wiki to ensure there is an article there to translate;
4. If so, then search for the place name at the en.wiki by selecting only the containing <placename> option (to make sure the place name is not already covered in an article with a slightly different title; this approach also helps in identifying notable people born in that place, or other distinctive items such as churches, monuments, etc.);
5. If the place really isn't already covered in an existing article at the en-wiki, then proceed with creating a draft article, as follows:
5.0 Complete a row in the relevant table (if the Finnish name ends with the word "maalaiskunta" (= "rural municipality"), then check that the place name is listed in the en.wiki article titled Maalaiskunta; if it is, then keep the full original name when creating the corresponding article at the en.wiki, because that is the established practice for these articles);
Create new articles from scratch
The following method is used to create articles missing at en.wiki:
5.1 Create a new user page, including the place name of the future article title, i.e. [[User:Pdebee/Placename]];
5.4 Paste and save the above as-is into the draft en.wiki article;
5.5 Create some of the back matter section headings, mainly 'References' and 'External links';
5.6 Deactivate the original category templates;
5.7 Copy/paste the infobox from an existing article already translated;
5.8 Transfer details from the Finnish infobox into the English one (check for missing coordinates and location shields, and add these from online sources if necessary);
5.9 Translate the prose, keep all existing images and translate their captions;
5.10 Search the en.wiki for articles on Finnish notable people from that place, and include these in the 'Notable people' section; (select only the containing <placename> option to identify notable people born in that place, or other items such as churches, monuments, etc.)
5.11 Search the en.wiki for 'File:Placename' and include appropriate ones in a section entitled 'Places and events' (as above);
5.12 Check that the citations in the original Finnish article are functional and appropriate for use at the en-wiki:
a. Do the web links actually work? (no 404 errors);
b. Is the information available in English? (some of their statistical reports are often in Finnish, Swedish and English);
c. If a. and b. are negative, then search the Internet for appropriate sources on the place name and use these in citation templates or save them in the 'External links' section;
d. For printed sources (books, journals, newspapers), convert them into 'cite' templates and add the '|language= Finnish, Swedish, English |trans-title=' parameters;
5.13 Add a 'See also' section if appropriate;
5.14 Add a 'Further reading' section if appropriate;
5.15 Add the 'Municipalities of (Region)' navbox in the 'External links' section:
(or the Territories of Finland ceded to the USSR in the 1940s navbox, for those with a (*) in 'Notes:');
Create new articles by overwriting redirects/removing piped links
Converting redirects
The following method is used to convert redirects into new articles missing at en.wiki:
Redirects are identified in task '1.d' above. They can be overwritten (see guidance here) to create the full article with the redirect's existing name, as follows:
view the redirect page (for example: Heinjoki, which currently has: #REDIRECT [[Veshchevo]]);
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