Talk:Uusimaa

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Kevlar67 in topic French language
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 08:06, 8 February 2006 (UTC)Reply

Requested move edit

Talk:Uusimaa (region)Uusimaa (region)Uusimaa – Currently there are two disambiguation pages for Uusimaa: Uusimaa and Uusimaa (disambiguation). This can be very confusing, since most of the people who type "Uusimaa" want to go straight to the article which is currently under the name Uusimaa (region). I suggest Uusimaa (region) is moved to its proper article, which is Uusimaa, and which will leave Uusimaa (disambiguation) as the sole disambiguation page. Besides, the straight equivalent of Uusimaa (region) in the Finnish Wikipedia is Uusimaa. [1] --Thorri 14:41, 27 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

From the former Uusimaa talk page:


This used to be a disambiguation page but I moved the page to Uusimaa (disambiguation) and I'm going to write a whole new article about Uusimaa here. So therefore Uusimaa (region) is a totally useless and frankly, inadequate article. It is best for all of us to have the actual article about Uusimaa under the name Uusimaa, not "Uusimaa (region)".

I would appreciate if someone would delete the Uusimaa (region) article. --Thorri 16:39, 24 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Help with doing the article is also very much appreciated since I don't have much time in my hands. --Thorri 9:54, 25 Aug 2005 (UTC)

There are now two disambig pages for Uusimaa - this one and Uusimaa (disambiguation). The order of this one seems upside down to me, historical meanings of the word should come last. / Habj 19:35, 4 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
Maybe also Nyland should be redirected here. / Habj 19:44, 4 December 2005 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I was wondering that, too. It should be corrected a.s.a.p. (can you help?) --Thorri 10:05, 5 December 2005 (UTC)Reply

Nylandia edit

What is the reason for naming all the other provinces with latin names in English Wikipedia (Ostrobothnia, Tavastia, etc.) but then Nylandia is called Uusimaa? --Migro (talk) 10:42, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Ostrobothnia and Tavastia are widely used in English. I've never seen "Nylandia" in English texts. --Jaakko Sivonen (talk) 16:43, 23 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Helsinki and Espoo edit

I want to remind that Espoo is in no way an actual city on its own but belongs instead to the Helsinki Metropolitan Region. Yes, it is an independent municipality, and the second largest in Finland, but physically it is obviously a part of the metropolitan region. Thus, should the first paragraph instead mention that Uusimaa contains the capital region which is the largest metropolitan area in Finland? Explaining about Espoo and Helsinki that way might seem like they were two cities of Uusimaa, located apart from each other and not sharing common city structure, which is anything but reality. --88.112.90.114 (talk) 20:56, 26 December 2011 (UTC)Reply

Name, 2019 edit

@Espoo: please request a move WP:RM for potentially controversial moves. The official 2019 classification name is still Uusimaa [2] according to Statistics Finland. The "Helsinki-Uusimaa region" one is used only by the council (maakuntaliitto). --Pudeo (talk) 13:39, 13 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

French language edit

So apparently, the Finnish census says there are more than 3,000 French speakers living in the this region, which is the majority of the 4,000-or-so French speakers in all of Finland. see here Does anyone know why? Can this be a statistical fluke or is there really a Francophone community there? Is it made up of Frenchmen? Africans? Arabs? Please enlighten us. --Kevlar (talkcontribs) 18:40, 29 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

I see now that this region includes the capital so it likely has many expats. Nevermind. --Kevlar (talkcontribs)