Talk:Oslo

K and / versus Ch

Writing "K" instead of "Ch" began in the (late?) 19th century. It is virtually impossible that King Christian[!] IV should have chosen to call the city "Kristiania".
S.
Of course he did not. And in fact, we started to write his name Kristian IV at the same time as we started to write Kristiania. Kristian IV's gate is not far from Karl Johans gate (Was it ever Carl Johans gate?)
G.

If I'm not mistaken, the spelling of Christiania was changed to Kristiania in 1875.

The original name of Oslo was restored in 1925 but it doesn't say why.

The reason was that Kristiania was named after a king of Denmark. With the independence, the Norwegians wanted to rid themselves of the Danish and Swedish influence, hence renaming a number of towns and cities throughout Norway: Fredrikshald became Halden, Fredriksvern became Stavern and Victoriahavn became Narvik. All these names are the original ones. Don't forget that Oslo was called Oslo for more than 600 years before Christiania came around.

In fact 'Oslo' continued to be the name of the part where the old city was situated before the fire in 1624 and the development of the new city across the bay named 'Christiania'. In 1925 'Oslo' became the name of the hole ciy while the former district of Oslo was renamed 'Gamle Oslo' mening 'Old Oslo'.

Oslo, Oslo, Minnesota, Oslo, (disambiguation)

Should there be also Oslo, (disambiguation)?
See Special:Allpages/Oslo. Best regards Gangleri | Th | T 02:59, 2005 Mar 12 (UTC)

25 biggest cities of Norway

I've been asked to explain my deletion of Template:25 biggest cities of Norway from Oslo. The City of Oslo has not suddenly gained almost 300 000 inhabitants. See also Talk:Cities of Norway about a page that uses the same erroneous numbers. For example, Stavanger and Sandnes seem to have been merged for the purpose of statistics, yet for Bergen it seems to have been reversed: they "lost" more than 25 000 inhabitants. Some of the numbers cannot possibly be for cities of Norway, but perhaps for conurbations of Norway. Tskoge 10:44, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I recommend you put the template back in. What you've done is basically vandalism. If you disagree with the numbers, the source for which is given in the template itself, the appropriate steps are (1) find a better source and then (2) fix the template accordingly. Tomer ^talk 01:55, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No I'll remove the template from all of the remaining pages instead. But it's a boring job, so it'll take a while. In the meantime pages on many of Norway's largest cities will display erroneous information.

I do not dispute the numbers. However, the numbers are obviously not for the mentioned cities' populations. Perhaps for conurbations or urban settlements, but not the claimed cities. Where are the cities of Asker, Bærum, Porsgrunn or Sandnes on that list? How are you going to find these cities? Why stop at 25? Isn't city number 26 or 27 just as interesting as number 25? How is this template useful?

It is not my job to fix all sorts of nonsense. If I see nonsense I will either delete it, or perhaps correct the claimed information, depending on the amount of work and amount of nonsense. The curse of Wikipedia is that it is easy to add all sorts of nonsense, but then it gets difficult to get the nonsense removed just because the nonsense was first. Tskoge 19:59, 10 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]