Portal talk:Iceland

Great to see this
Hi, great to see a Portal Iceland has come into existence in the en.wikipedia. I'm one of the few editors of the Portal:Island in the German Wikipedia and I have long awaited that day ;-) I hope a few new good articles come into existence that way. If there is any article in the German wikipedia that you would like to have translated into english or there is a new great article here that I can translate into german, just tell me or contact the team on the discussion page of the german Portal:Island. --Wirthi 22:35, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Portal
The portal's subpages are at Special:Prefixindex/Portal:Iceland. A shortcut to this portal is P:ICE. Regards,  S .D.   ¿п?  § 14:01, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Nordic cinema task force
A Nordic cinema task force has been proposed at WP:FILMS, which would include the cinema of Iceland. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 18:25, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Notice from the Portals WikiProject
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There are design initiatives for revitalizing the portals system as a whole, and for improving each component of portals. So far, 2 new dynamic components have been developed: Template:Transclude lead excerpt and Template:Transclude random excerpt.

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From your friendly neighborhood Portals WikiProject. Hope to see you there. Sincerely,    &mdash; The Transhumanist   07:33, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Portal expanded
The portal has been expanded with the addition of a new Good article section. The article selections listed below are presently in the GA section. If anyone is interested, please feel free to discuss these changes here. North America1000 03:29, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Good articles
1 Olaf the Peacock 2 Bolli Bollason 3 Icelanders 4 Stefán Kristjánsson 5 Iceland at the 2014 Winter Paralympics 6 Education in Iceland 7 ICGV Þór 8 Debut (Björk album) 9 Cocoon (Björk song) 10 Vespertine 11 Leif Erikson


 * Additional articles for the portal can be considered from those available in the table listed below.


 * This new GA section clashes too much with the selected article and even sometimes selected biography sections. Removing entries from those to create another section is not appropirate. Selected article and selected biographies should rather have more entries from GA articles, rather than creating the GA section. Also, large changes to Portals are discussed first. Don't think that just becouse there is an small wikiproject behind it that you will get away with that.--Snaevar (talk) 18:10, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Per your concern above, I have diffused content from the Good article section into the Selected article and Selected biography sections, and have removed the Good article section (diff). Struck part of my original post above per all of this. North America1000 18:12, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * That is not the only thing I said, North America. I also said adding those non GA articles to the list is not appropriate. You are also still adding information without discussing it, despite being reverted by an admin for that in October 2019. Your response is inadequate. This is not a matter of cherry picking the bits you like.--Snævar (talk) 07:40, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * GA and FA level articles shound not be the only criteria ...vital articles should also be presented to our readers as is the norm for most portals Portal. That said what sections do you believe are not warranted....reverting years after the above talk and post below that was not replied to looks odd. Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 11:46, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * While I find myself in agreement with here about including well-developed vital articles, I'm also fine with having only GA- and FA-class articles in the portal. I'll leave it for others to decide, and will default to whatever consensus occurs. North America1000 23:19, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Also, please consider adding yourself as a maintainer of the portal to the Portal maintenance status template on the main portal page, if you'd like. The portal would benefit from having a maintainer, and it's possible that I won't perform any more work on the portal into the future. North America1000 23:22, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Upon further consideration, struck part of my comment above, per the analysis provided by another user here (diff). North America1000 00:27, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Article selection criteria
The following is article selected criteria that is listed at the portal's subpages. North America1000 18:00, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * From Portal:Iceland/Selected article: "Feel free to add any featured or good articles"
 * From Portal:Iceland/Selected biography: "Feel free to add any featured articles"


 * I feel that that Selected biography criteria is too strict, and hinders this portal being improved. There are presently only three FA-class Iceland-related articles (link), and none of them are biographies. Using this criteria, a Selected biography section can never exist. As such, I feel that WP:IAR comes into play as a functional way to move forward, because the present criteria prohibits improvements. North America1000 18:14, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

İslandiyanın paytaxtı
İsla 5.250.204.201 (talk) 12:10, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
 * The portal already displays some content about Reykjavík, but please feel free to suggest specific ways in which it could be improved. Certes (talk) 12:41, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Recent changes
It's clear from recent changes that there are differing opinions on the best content for this portal. Can we find a consensus on this talk page? Producing a good portal requires two sets of skills: subject knowledge and portal design. It's rare to find one editor with both, so collaboration can be helpful. A portal can be a distinctive space where topic experts do things their own way, perhaps after looking at similar portals and adopting or rejecting their design as they see fit. On the other hand, many tools and techniques are of general benefit and there is a case for applying them across all portals. Perhaps we should notify WikiProjects Iceland and Portals to see if any other editors can make helpful suggestions. Certes (talk) 11:34, 12 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Some articles for consideration can be seen at  WikiProject Iceland/Popular pages. Moxy -Maple Leaf (Pantone).svg 12:12, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * (Came from the premature ArbCom). What said. This should have input from those two portals. Perhaps even an RfC to deal with any disputes instead of ArbCom?  -- Deep fried okra  ( talk ) 12:32, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I commented above in the Article selection criteria section above almost two years ago that I felt the portal would benefit from also including additional, non-recognized articles, to provide a more comprehensive overview of Iceland and boldly moved forward in doing so. As of this post, nobody has since replied in the Article selection criteria section. Almost two years later the edits were reverted. I'm actually fine with the recent reversion that occurred, whereby only GA- and FA-class articles are now in the portal. While I would prefer the former, I am also perfectly fine with the latter. I'll leave it for others to decide, and will default to whatever consensus occurs. North America1000 23:09, 15 May 2022 (UTC)