Talk:Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Hi,

I just created a German page of Wikipedia for Gro Harlem Brundtland. Could you please indicate this on this page somewhere? I don't know how to do this.

Reykholt 21:23, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Silly entry

Without any credible source this: "became a social democrat at the age of 7" is just silly.

Almost a stub

The article is a good start but doesn't go much beyond the most obvious facts. Did Brundtland ever practice medicine? Why did she go into politics? When was she married and does she have any children? As an American, I have no idea what the answers to these questions are, but assuredly some of you Norwegians do! Alison Chaiken 19:44, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Who put the IPA in there? It's totally wrong.

Hi, she was "Assisterende Overlege" which is assisting supervisor, or something like that, at Oslo health council from 1968 to 1974. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.202.234.33 (talk) 19:11, 23 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Popular culture

I consider adding a 'In Popular Culture' entry on how the main characters in the popular book series on Elling is obsessed with her. Would a Popular Culture reference be out-of-place in an article on a politician?

Assertion of WP:BLP violation

An anonynous user is insisting that my recent addition to the article constitutes a violation of Wikipedia's guidelines concerning biographies of living persons. Here is the contested text:

Personal health issues
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Controversy over cancer treatment payments
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Brundtland received an operation for uterine cancer in 2002 at Ullevål University Hospital^[1]. In 2008 it became known that during 2007 she had received treatments at Ullvål twice payed for by Norwegian public expenditures. Since she had previously notified the Norwegian authorities that she had changed residence to France, she was no longer entitled to benefits Norwegian social security. Following intense media attention surrounding the matter, Brundtland decided to change residence once more, back to Norway, and she also announced that she would be paying for the treatments herself^[2].

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
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It has also become known that the former WHO head suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, a condition which the WHO itself does not recognize. This came to light when Gro Harlem Brundtland stated in 2002 that she gets headaches from talking on mobile phones, and that people in her immediate vicinity are requeste to switch off their mobile phones. Brundtland states, "it isn't the sound, but the waves, that I react to. And the hypersensitivity has evolved to the extent that I react to mobile phones that are closer to me than about four meters." She goes on, "In the beginning I sensed a local heating developing around the ear. But the ails have developed, and evolved into strong unease and head pains whenever I talked on a mobile." She experiences similar symptoms in the vicinity of laptops and cordless phones. The symptoms subside half an hour to one hour after the source of the radiation has been removed.^[3]

^ (in Norwegian) VG.no:Betalte operasjon i 2002

^ (in Norwegian)VG.no:Gro flytter hjem

^ Dalsegg, Aud (March 9, 2002). "Får hodesmerter av mobilstråling". Dagbladet.no (in Norwegian). Oslo, Norway: Dagbladet. Retrieved 2008-02-29.

I cannot see how this is in violation of our guidelines. Wikipedia's BLP policy is based on strict adherence to the three pillars of verifiability, neutrality and avoiding original research. This quote from the WP:BLP page seems relevant in this case: "If an allegation or incident is notable, relevant, and well-documented by reliable published sources, it belongs in the article — even if it's negative and the subject dislikes all mention of it."

Please be specific as to how the above text is inadmissible for the article! __meco (talk) 13:05, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I seem to recall that Bruntland was not breaking the law when receiving the treatments for free, but rather exploting some little known loophole in the law. Sorry I don't remember it more acurately. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.48.110.17 (talk) 03:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] (in Norwegian) VG.no:Betalte operasjon i 2002

[2] (in Norwegian)VG.no:Gro flytter hjem

[3] Dalsegg, Aud (March 9, 2002). "Får hodesmerter av mobilstråling". Dagbladet.no (in Norwegian). Oslo, Norway: Dagbladet. Retrieved 2008-02-29.

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