Hello Johan Elisson/Archive 1 and welcome to Wikipedia! Hope you like it here, and stick around.
Here are some tips to help you get started:
Good luck!
Another fellow Swede, may I say: Välkommen! (I noticed you've been here a while, but I haven't seen you before.) I see we partially share interests, and hope you will be contributing where we lack information, which is for instance:
This is not to say that I want or demand you specifically to contribute here, it's just a selection of articles that you might want to improve, if you find yourself idle on a rainy day and don't know what to work on. If it'll ever rain again, that is. Cheers, Jao 12:43, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
Du skulle inte kunna tänka dig att bidra med din utmärkta lista över Svenska regementen till den svenska WP:n? När jag researchade lite på google för att skriva om ett svenskt regemente upptäckte att jag Du har lagt upp en mycket bättre lista här än motsvarande som finns på sv:... Narym 18:19, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Johan, you made some relevant comments earlier at Talk:List of German divisions in WWII, so I wanted to call your attention to the new draft Wikipedia:Naming conventions (military units) page, which you may also wish to comment on. — B.Bryant 00:13, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I've started to expand the Swedish football articles and would like to suggest an improvement to the infobox. How about adding a place for the logo, which would make things look neater than they do currently when adding a logo to a page? -Elisson 00:21, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Width regards to your mockup, this is exactly the point, you have to add badge = | to every box before you make that edit. So if you want to do this, you'll have to go through every club that uses it (Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Football_club_infobox, 421 at the last count), and add in the badge, or the empty tag. P.S. if you do do it, could you use the more generic "image" as the variable, not "badge". ed g2s • talk 12:31, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Not completely related to this, but still close enough, I've edited the Template:Hqfl logos so that it should put the image pages which use the template in a separate category (Category:HQFL Logos) and not the usual logos category but it doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong? Is there somo special syntax to be included on the category page or is my browser just not updating the page correctly? --Elisson 17:10, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
Hey Johan! Although my brother used to live in Sweden (Karlstad) and I once visited your country (1998 for a negatively unforgetable football-match Chelsea-VfB Stuttgart), I'm not able to say something more in swedish like: jäg älsger dir, and I'm convinced, I wrote it absolutely wrong. So, I do have to ask you something in english not with my poor swedish.
As we (some Football-maniacs from Germany, Austria and Switzerland) try to improve the content of our Football articles, we were editing the Football Kits. We don't know about the worldwide connections of wikipedia and if we just can copy "your" contets/images, so I wanted to ask you, if you could share the kits you collected in the wikipedia-Common Place. Dankeschön aus Deutschland! --Heinz Van Eugen
Thank you for supporting my candidacy for administrator. Kelly Martin 14:45, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
I am willing to help in any way needed with the soccer portal. Phoenix2 20:53, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hello Elisson :) I came to keep you company so that you don't get lonely.
So...how's life? I read your welcome message on your userpage. I'm not sure why, but welcome messages in general bother me. I feel like somebody just slapped a boilerplate on my page. Some welcome messages are condescending also. Lucky for me, I never got welcomed to wikipedia, and that's the way I like it :D.
I got "welcomed" to wikinews recently. People somehow assume that if you have a blank talk page that makes you a newbie. Well, I already knew how things worked, seeing as I first discovered wikinews in December 2004...
People should probably look at the date of a users' first contribution before welcoming them- ah well, they're just trying to help :) Maybe I'm just an angry person. I'm not mad at them I guess, or at least I shouldn't be. Now I feel like a jerk...
Speaking about wikinews, I don't personally find it that useful. Typically, the most useful stories on wikinews are stories with original reporting (there should be more of those). There's no point in reading a summary of CNN- especially if it appears hours later.
Another problem with the wiki model when reporting news is that I like to read a story once, and only once. I don't want to have to keep on checking back on the page to see the latest developments. Maybe pages on wikinews should be protected before actually being published? Oh well, wikinews is new, and it's still in beta. Maybe after it has time to grow, it'll be truly valuble...or maybe it'll always suck ;) Or maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about.
One huge problem is that wikinews will never have the resources that other large news organizations have. Anyhow, it was nice talking to you, see you around! -Frazzydee|✍ 17:02, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I think you'd like to know that the redirect would've worked better if you wrote 'REDIRECT' in capitals. Cheers! - Mgm|(talk) June 29, 2005 18:19 (UTC)
Hi, I've noticed that you are active on Swedish topics. I'm trying to breathe some life into the Swedish Wikipedians' notice board. My hope is that Wikipedians interested in Swedish topics will watch this page and use it to keep track of ongoing debates and votes relating to Swedish articles, and as a place to list "weak spots" they don't have the time or knowledge to fix, in order to attract the attention of someone knowledgeable in a specific area. Would you consider signing up? / Alarm 30 June 2005 18:50 (UTC)
Don't waste time arguing with Deryckchan. in the Featured article candidates talk page Raul says he will ignore "fame" objections. Borisblue 3 July 2005 16:33 (UTC)
I took the freedom to revert some vandalism on your user page, hope it was ok. -- Elisson | Talk 2 July 2005 14:19 (UTC)
Thanks for your support on both the peer review and FAC voting on IFK Göteborg, I really appreciate it! -- Elisson | Talk 1 July 2005 17:02 (UTC)
Hi Johan, just saw this today. I think it's a great idea to standardize the pages, but it's a huge undertaking. I pretty much did that for the national teams and also spent a lot of time making sure the pages for MLS clubs in the US are consistent. But to do it on a world-wide scale is hard. As for players... There are thousands of articles, and each editor does it differently. I've cleaned up so many of them (and keep a close eye on all USA-related players), but to keep track of everyone would be insane, unless someone takes a country or something. Anyway, I would be glad to help you out on this. I spend way too much time cleaning up soccer stuff as is. Formerly Dryazan, --DR31 (talk) 20:18, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
For me? Thanks! This really made my day, after being not very happy today as IFK Göteborg lost to newcommers Gefle IF yesterday! :) -- Elisson • Talk 20:03, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
I'd love to join this thing - I invision myself working on the squad lists for the various clubs (particularly the English clubs) and keeping those as much up to date as possible - as soon as I give myself time to convert them. How would that sound to you?
And, while I'm at it, commiserations about the match against Gefle. Hopefully your team can regain some of their previous good form. Bobo192|Edits
Hi, I answered a question for help with Swedish commanders about a week ago on the above article talk page. I have been doing a few other things, but I am now free to help out if you need anything. Just give me a list (post it here, I'll keep an eye open, a.k.a. adding this page to my watchlist) of Sweden-related things you need and I'll see what I can find. -- Elisson • Talk 20:41, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
I think the articles Division 1, Division 2 and Division 3 should probably be moved, and disambig pages created at those locations, as the terms are widely used in other countries (England, Scotland, Wales etc.) - see also First Division, Second Division and Third Division, which mean the same thing, in Britain at least. I'm happy to write the disambig page, but I thought I'd ask you where's a better place to put the articles - I see that you moved them already from Swedish Division 1. Can I move them back there, or is there a better, more official name for the divisions? Cheers, sjorford (?!) 08:46, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
Så hamnade jag slutligen här ändå... Fredrik | talk 17:53, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
I hereby award you the Running Man Barnstar for always keeping the Football Portal news up to date! -- Elisson • Talk 09:51, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
I fixed your comment. I must have left it over from a previous move. While there are various names of the BRSM, I went with the official name that was given to me by Government/NGO sources. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 03:01, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
If I remember it correctly, you were the one putting up Frölunda HC as a request on the WP:SWNB. Some time ago an article was created at Västra Frölunda HC. Should it be moved to Frölunda HC or should the latter redirect to the former? Also, I think the text could do with some copyediting, but this is really not my area of expertise. Perhaps you could take a quick look at it? / Alarm 14:58, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
I've addressed your objection(s) on the FAC and hope to see you change your mind. :) -- Elisson • Talk 16:10, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
Could you please stop adding useless empty variables to articles until we have discussed thoroughly how to do with the infobox? -- Elisson • Talk 21:04, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
--Sebastian Kessel Talk 21:07, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
(Re: Örgryte IS). With all due respect, can you point me to a statement claiming the infobox must be at the top? This is on grounds of principal important because the infobox is not on the top of several articles, including both Gothenburg and Stockholm, yet no-one has complained, and I personally think it looks better. // Fred-Chess 16:13, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Johan, how's it going? I've missed you on IRC. Re your edit to Charles II: er, no, my edit summary didn't refer to the football. Please scroll down here and you'll see the sneaky vandalism on the left. I zapped the football sentence as an afterthought, because I thought it misplaced in the Lead section. Maybe you could find a better spot for it? Best, Bishonen | talk 18:53, 3 November 2005 (UTC).
Just found this work of yours (through a "What links here"). Perhaps we should move it to the Sw. Wikipedians Notice Board WP:SWNB somewhere?
Hi Johan,
I'm restarting the Football AID. I'd posted a comment on the Project talk page regarding this. I'm willing to take on the responsibility of updating the drive page, templates, and other things that need to be done. I'll need one of you, the older members who were there when the drive first began, to tell me if what I'm doing is right, since I haven't done this before. Please let me know what you think about it, and anything that I need to do. Thanks. -Aabha (talk) 10:21, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
As a regular contributor to football articles you may wish to vote as talk:Football World Cup Jooler 10:37, 1 January 2006 (UTC)