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The Irish Festival of Oulu was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 28 February 2015 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Oulu. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Oulu is now 5th biggest city of Finland by population droping Turku into rank 6. I tried to update https://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 of New 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 the Duke of YorkinYork, 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. + —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.102.2.206 (talk) 15:54, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have to correct a statement you made, Oulu doesn't mean flood water in Finnish; actually, Oulu doesn't mean anything in Finnish. It is only speculated that the name might come from a Sami word meaning flood water. Otherwise, interesting claim.Ä Vinnis Persön (talk) 13:31, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect UN/LOCODE:FIOLU. Please participate in the 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 redirect Oulo. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia: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 2026 https://minedu.fi/en/capitalofculture2026 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.34.4.152 (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 fix 111.220.130.206 (talk) 02:12, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Can you be more specific? They seem to match. --JAAqqO (talk) 05:53, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Finnish is by far the most spoken language in Oulu (>90%), but it shows that the most spoken language is „Other“ 89.166.53.20 (talk) 08:16, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I just checked that pie chart in the mobile view on Safari 17.3 in iOS 17.3, and indeed, the colors are messed up. However, the colors are correct in the desktop view on Safari. Also, in Windows, the pie chart renders correctly in the mobile view on every browser I checked.
So, here's a comparison of them:

I'm not sure what's causing this. --JAAqqO (talk) 16:25, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See Template talk:Pie chart#Incorrect colors (at least) on Safari in iOS—I think I've fixed this now. — The Earwig (talk) 00:08, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]