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Kajaani Castle

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a 1882 drawing of the castle by Jac Ahrenberg

... that upon its completion, the Kajaani Castle (pictured) was the northernmost stone castle in Europe?

Source: Vuoden 2004 näyttelyt, Museum of Kainuu. Accessed on 16 September 2013.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Reinaldo Herrera
Comment:

5x expanded by JIP (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 10 past nominations.

JIP | Talk 09:03, 18 April 2025 (UTC).

The article has been expanded by more than 5 times in the past week, no isses with copyright, and the information is cited both in the article and hook. My only question is if the hook could also mention the castle's location in Sweden (fine if not). However, there is significant uncited sections within the article. GGOTCC 21:09, 19 April 2025 (UTC)
- I will see if I can find more sources for the article. Both the Finnish and the Swedish articles about the castle have an infobox, I could probably add one for this article as well. I am assuming that it's fine to mention the castle as being in Sweden as the area it's located in belonged to Sweden from when the castle was constructed to well past its destruction, although it's now located in independent Finland. JIP | Talk 21:38, 19 April 2025 (UTC)
  - Do you have citations for Kajaani Castle in literature and From ruin to restoration? If not, the article is not eligable for DYK. GGOTCC 21:45, 19 April 2025 (UTC)
    - I will see if I can find some sources. JIP | Talk 21:53, 19 April 2025 (UTC)
      - @GGOTCC: I have now expanded the article adding some more sources. JIP | Talk 16:40, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
        @JIP: I still see a lot of uncited information. Many paragraphs lack a ref at the end and sentences are still uncited. GGOTCC 19:18, 1 May 2025 (UTC)
        @GGOTCC: I have loaned professor Reijo Heikkinen's book about the Kajaani Castle from the library and added some more references based on it. I also have two other books and will try to see if I can add still more references. JIP | Talk 21:06, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
        @JIP: Much better, but the last two sentences in From ruin to restoration is uncited. GGOTCC 20:20, 11 May 2025 (UTC)
        @GGOTCC: I can see if I can find references for them in professor Heikkinen's book. I can't find any references for them they can just be removed as uncited. I don't think the article will suffer much for that. JIP | Talk 22:28, 11 May 2025 (UTC)
        @JIP: Cool, I will remove those sentences shortly. There are some other issues with lines such as:

and this also applied to his successor Johan Ulfsparre.
After several battles, Tysk was feared to be dead, and Finland's equerry Nils Olofsson was appointed as a temporary castle commander. Olofsson did not continue the construction of the castle either.,
In the third episode of the novel during the Great Northern War in 1776 the character Kustaa Bertelsköld, a Carolean wounded in the war, bears witness along with his wife in the castle to the Russian siege and the castle's surrender. The events also include the real historical persons the castle's commander Johan Henrik Fieandt and the Paltamo-born strongman Daniel Cajanus ("Daniel the Tall") who later achieved fame throughout Europe, who in Topelius's story explodes the castle's gunpowder cellar at the age of thirteen and so causes the destruction of the castle conquered by the enemy.
Daniel Cajanus also plays a part in Kukkonen's novel following Fieandt's family to prison and on their escape back to freedom.

Since these are substancial parts of the prose, I assumed the refs got mixed up and accidently dropped. Can you make sense of this? GGOTCC 23:47, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

@GGOTCC: I have found references for the third point in your list. I will have to search for references for the remaining three. If no references can be found, the lines might have to be removed as uncited. JIP | Talk 22:56, 14 May 2025 (UTC)