Talk:List of Icelandic writers

A single entry on the table is organized thus:


 * style="background:white" | Andri Snær || style="background:white" | Magnason || style="background:#c9ddff" | Mars symbol.svg || style="background:#f2f7ff" | Contemporary || 1973 || style="background:#d3ffd8" | Living || Children's book author || The Story of the Blue Planet ||
 * style="background:white" | Andri Snær || style="background:white" | Magnason || style="background:#c9ddff" | Mars symbol.svg || style="background:#f2f7ff" | Contemporary || 1973 || style="background:#d3ffd8" | Living || Children's book author || The Story of the Blue Planet ||

The  symbol divides the rows. Cells are divided with the  symbol. symbols are also dividers.

To break it down:


 * - this is a piped wikilink to the article, representing the first name and any middle names.


 * - this is a piped wikilink to the article, representing the surname.


 * - The "mars" symbol is for men, and the "venus" symbol is for women . Gender neutral and other gender symbols are available.


 * - remember to use the right color. #f2f7ff is the color for contemporary, #f6e2ff is the color for modern, #fdffea is for medieval.


 * - This is the birth date.


 * - This is the death date, or "Living" for people still alive. Use the #ffe5e5 color for dead people.


 * - main specialisation. The table will not cope with too much written here so keep it short.


 * - any well known work.


 * - 2-3 citations is good.


 * Help:Table - Manual of Style/Tables - Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial - Help:Sorting

- Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 09:56, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

Tasks
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 * Check for uncategorised people to add to the list.
 * Citations for every listed fact on each entry.
 * Complete the notable works column.
 * Add some more images and deal with the double image in lead.
 * Check mobile view.
 * Expand the lead to include the works of journalists.
 * Complete the Surname column.
 * Add reciprocal links to all relevant articles.
 * Fix the sorting issue with unknown birth/death dates.
 * If possible, find better period sorting than medieval > modern > contemporary.
 * If possible, fix the sorting of the period column so the entries correctly sort by date.
 * Make accessible.
 * Check for policy criteria.
 * If the list becomes too big, split it by period into 3 lists, keeping this page as an index. Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 12:20, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Lead
I reorganized the lead. IMO the second paragraph, about people being able to read Old Norse, does not belong in this article about writers. Yoninah (talk) 22:02, 26 June 2018 (UTC)


 * I will see what I can do about that. Most the people on this list that lived before the 13th century and some later, certainly most people described as skalds, were writing in Old Norse, and that paragraph should explain that but doesn't really do that. The fact that the language is generally intelligible with modern Icelandic means that the original text is to some extent readable now. Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 22:18, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Frayæ, I think the sentence you added helps refocus the discussion. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 09:19, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Frayæ Rereading this, could the second paragraph be incorporated somehow into the third paragraph, which speaks about the skalds? The beginning of the third paragraph, Some of the best known examples of Icelandic literature are the Sagas of Icelanders, seems like a better second paragraph and opening to the discussion of Icelandic literature from a chronological point of view. Yoninah (talk) 09:27, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Merging could be a good idea. Skaldic poetry and the sagas are from a comparable period. I moved it further down, I will think about this, but if you want to rewrite any of it yourself then go ahead. Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 09:32, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I did edit it a bit. Yoninah (talk) 21:43, 27 June 2018 (UTC)