Talk:Satakunta

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You've done well. Especially as most Finns consider the region to be the same as the historical province, now only with new status and more well-defined borders. --MPorciusCato 08:48, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In the introductory chapter, there is a separate sentence "There is a small minority of Finland-Swedes in Satakunta." Indeed, this is a very small minority: there are about 350 Swedish-speaking persons in Pori, the capital of the region. In other municipalities, the net number of Swedish-speakers is much lower than this (785 in 1999 [1]). The

User:Pko has taken a practice of re-creating the page Satakunta (historical province), contrary to the earlier consensus which resulted in merging the that article with this one. Considering that this article already discusses the whole historical province, and the nowadays region, I'd like him to give reasons for re-creating that article. Edit-warring is not the way to make a better Wikipedia. --MPorciusCato (talk) 07:24, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]