Talk:Oulu
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Oulu is now 5th biggest city of Finland by population droping Turku into rank 6. I tried to updatehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Finnish_municipality/population_count_sequence and the page text, but to no avail. Someone with more ability with Wikipedia tech may be of help here.Puuska (talk)15:18, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Now it works, nice!Puuska (talk)20:50, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I recalled a talltale of the possible connection of "Oulu" with the namesake ofNew York City, in part York may be a corruption of Oulu. After doing some of my research (provided by the Wikipedia articles themselves), New "York" was named for theDuke of York inYork, England and the terminology "York" is from the Norsemen (Vikings) when they lived in the North Sea coasts of England in 850 AD. Whether or not there was a partial Finnish origin of "York" into the Scandinavian languages commonly spoken in the Bothnian coastline of Finland, the spelling Oulu may been misspelled "Yolle" in the Swedish Norse language of the middle ages. Indeed, Oulu stands for "flood water" in Finnish, but New York City sits on three islands and a peninsula (the Bronx). In the late 18th to early 20th centuries, New York city had a larger Swedish population than anywhere in the world outside Sweden and in the 1880's, the US census includes a large Finnish ethnic section in South Harlem, also known as "Yorkville" known to have many Swedish-Americans and German-Americans. Until the talltale is backed up with reliable sources available on the internet, I will not add it to the article even though it boosts a general interesting story on Oulu, Finland. +—Precedingunsigned comment added by71.102.2.206 (talk)15:54, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirectUN/LOCODE:FIOLU. Please participate inthe redirect discussion if you wish to do so.Kq-hit (talk)21:42, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
A discussion is taking place to address the redirectOulo. The discussion will occur atWikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 May 22#Oulo until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.Jay (talk)15:14, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
...as European Capital of Culture for 2026https://minedu.fi/en/capitalofculture2026— Precedingunsigned comment added by94.34.4.152 (talk)14:46, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The pie chart of language demographics doesn’t match the statistics or colour scheme appended to it. Unsure how to fix111.220.130.206 (talk)02:12, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
