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Iceland Defense Force
Greetings and welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed that you copied Icelandic Defense Force into Iceland Defense Force. I understand your intent, but unfortunately, this raises some issues in that we now have two parallel articles regarding the same subject. Also, certain legal restrictions require that a full history of edits to a page be maintained.

Here's what I recommend:
 * 1) Recommend Iceland Defense Force to be Speedily Deleted under rule G9 (page to be moved).
 * 2) Move Icelandic Defense Force to Iceland Defense Force.

This will set up the proper redirects and maintain history on the page. I've gone ahead and did the first step (the speedy delete) for you. Thanks! -- ShinmaWa(talk) 02:04, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Friðargæslueinkennismerki
Hvaðan fékkstu þessar myndir? :) Haukur 23:55, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Já, ég krassaði þær sjálfur í MSpaint. Annars byggi ég þetta á fréttaljósmyndum og fréttum/upplýsingum frá utanríkisráðuneyti og fréttamiðlum, (eða byrjaði á því) svo fann ég [], sem var hægt að nota til að leggja til grundvallar tignarheitum og stöðu þeirra í Natókerfinu. Ég breytti reyndar stafsetningunni, svo þetta væri nú eins og í góðri orðabók, svo er líka smá munur á myndunum mínum og þessum þarna, en ég reyndi að byggja þær fyrst á fremst á ,,alvöru” ljósmyndum frekar en ímyndunaraflinu, en þeir á þessari vefsíðu hafa samt, án efa, góða innmúraða og innvígða heimildarmenn í varnarmáladeild utanríkisráðuneytisins, ólíkt mér... -- Kjallakr 17:42, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
It is good to see that even people in Icland support Serbs.Thank you very much because of thatDzoni 02:51, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

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 * The reason for "the file's description page currently doesn't specify who created the content" is that someone by the name of 69.111.87.162 removed it. Now that has been fixed. -Kjallakr 15:48, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

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WikiProject Iceland
Maybe you are interested in this project... --Michkalas 14:11, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

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Wikimania 2010 could be coming to Stockholm!
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Iceland and the European Union
Það má endilega reyna að bæta þessa grein eitthvað. Erlend fréttamennska um þetta mál er oft furðu-léleg og það hefur tilhneigingu til að leka inn í þessa grein. Haukur (talk) 11:34, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Þakka þér viðbæturnar! Ágætt að fá dálítið af hinum pólnum í þetta. Haukur (talk) 20:28, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Það var nú lítið :) -Kjallakr (talk) 23:57, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Iceland Crisis Response Unit
Dear Kjallakr,

I would like to ask you to support your changes of my text on the ICRU, in particular that you undid my deletion of the comment below:

“Despite being equipped and trained as a military force, some Icelandic politicians commonly maintain that the ICRU is a civilian unit. This opinion is based on the fact that no law explicitly states that the unit is a military force. The legal status of the ICRU can thus be compared to the Japanese Self-Defence Forces, even though Icelandic law holds no legal obstructions to forming of military units”

The legal status of the ICRU can not and could not be compared to that of the Japanese self-defence forces as the JSF is a standing military tasked with self defense and were until recently forbidden to undertake missions abroad. JSF is established to handle the defenses of Japan while ICRU was established solely as a unit to participate in peacekeeping missions, see the laws on the ICRU nr.73 from 2007 which can be accessed at althingi.is.

The comparison to the JSF is thus false. The status of the Icelandic Coast Guard would be more likely to discussed in comparison though I would still contest that the coast guard to be civilian as well as the Icelandic police. I would therefore also like to ask you to support your removal of references to the civilian nature of the ICRU as well as the comment I added to the ranks.

Regarding the comment that the ICRU is equipped and trained as a military force, it is simply not accurate as of 2008 (and even before that only a part of the ICRU received training and carried arms during their missions abroad) and that history of the ICRU I believed I reflected accurately by these texts which you left unchanged:

The previously deployed doctors, nurses, those deployed as Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) as well as those working at Kabul International Airport (KAIA) were trained by the Norwegian Defence Force (previously the United Kingdom Armed Forces as well) as they were expected to merge into a military environment and the PRT´s as well as those working at Kabul airport would be armed (this was changed in 2008, see below).

and continued below:

In 2008 many of these concerns were answered when the portion of ICRU deployed personnel still wearing a uniform and carrying weapons for self defense, accounting for a little less than a third of ICRU personnel at that time, changed to civilian clothing and returned their weapons. Now, according to the former Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, ICRU personnel do not wear uniforms or carry weapons unless under special circumstances and then only those that have had the appropriate training such as members of the the Icelandic Viking Squad (SWAT team) or members of the Coast Guard. Some controversy remains on ICRU existance in general, but mainly towards ICRU participation in NATO missions in particular.

I could agree to just refering to ICRU as the unit rather than civilian unit and so on but the changes I made I believed to reflect both the current status of affairs as well as ICRU´s history.

With hopes of a positive response, Change131 (talk) 12:17, 9 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi there. You are incorrect as the JSDF are a "civilian armed force", not once in Japanese legislation is it called an army or military. Japan also doesn't fullfill the requirements for armed forces according international law like for example with published lists of commissioned officers. This is of course due to the Japanese constitution.    I have heard what the former foreign minister has said about the ICRU and what changes are or were supposedly to take place. Problem is this had already been said many times by many previous ministers  about softening its image and so on. The credibility is thus doubtful. What you have written is not too shabby though. --Kjallakr (talk) 11:02, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

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 * Actually he file's description page included this, however I have further clarified the matter. -Kjallakr (talk) 13:09, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

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File source problem with File:Bjornarnason.gif
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