User talk:Oceanh/Archive2012

Axel Maurer
With my knowledge of your fields of interest, I reckon this should be right up your alley. Geschichte (talk) 14:10, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Interesting article, good research! Reminds me of some theatre articles I planned to write, but still not done. Oceanh (talk) 23:40, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Small heads-up
Hi. Interesting work you are doing, as ever. Just a little reminder that Petter Henriksen is no longer editor of SNL. Geschichte (talk) 00:26, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the reminder! Regarding your latest creations, they invited the introduction of historian Asgaut Steinnes, who shortly served as chairman of the board of Det norske teatret in between. Oceanh (talk) 00:59, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
 * GOOD call! Geschichte (talk) 23:05, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Re: Template:Did you know nominations/Lorentz Brinch, I expanded Oliver H. Langeland which could fit in the hook as well. The part about the confiscated book is a bit murky, though. Geschichte (talk) 19:58, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Good job with the expansion of Langeland. I have included Langeland in the suggested hook. I happen to own a sample of his confiscated book Dømmer ikke from 1948, but do not know any more details of the trial and confiscation. Oceanh (talk) 17:57, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 1858 Christiania fire
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. Geschichte (talk) 17:51, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I recently acquired some old books on the history of Christiania/Oslo. Oceanh (talk) 00:49, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Bet there's something in there about the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition at Frogner stadion? I just linked up the term, and it went from 0 to 11 incoming links. Geschichte (talk) 17:37, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the hint. I made a simple start of the 1914 Jubilee Exhibition, and included some book references. Feel free to expand the article. I might include more details from the given sources (exhibition pavilions, events, etc). Oceanh (talk) 00:11, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I like the exhibition article. I dunno how much I can contribute to it in terms of content, but I'll gladly copy-edit it. -- Eisfbnore talk 14:05, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Fine! I tried to find representative pictures from the exhibition. The books have several, and there are also several on other websites, but rather little is uploaded to wikimedia. Oceanh (talk) 20:07, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

DYK for 1858 Christiania fire
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Oceanh (talk) 18:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

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Misnomers in Norwegian geography stubs
Hi. Nice work on creating those Spitsbergen geography stubs. Unfortunately, you've created create a few misnomers though. You've added the geographical term before a title that already includes said term (e.g. bay(s) before bogen (which means bay) or glacier before breen (which means glacier), peninsula before flya (which means flat plain/peninsula)). I noticed you cited sources in Norwegian, so I'm guessing you're Norwegian yourself. I've seen the editors of the Norwegian Polar Institute do the same thing when translating their cruise guide pages from Norwegian to English, retaining the complete Norwegian term for a geographical feature but adding the English equivalent before it as well. It's just a little redundant to do so, so could you refrain from doing this in the future? You've done a great job on the articles, but just need to avoid doing the above. Thanks. Baily&#39;sMacomb (talk) 00:32, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comments, and for working with the Svalbard geography articles/stubs. Since I am not a native English speaker, I always appreciate input from other editors on language issues. I understand that in sentences like "He crossed the glacier Jostedalsbreen by foot" the word "glacier" may appear redundant to an informed reader. My reasoning was that one may not assume it to be common knowledge, for those familiar with English, that the Norwegian suffixes -øya=island, -breen=glacier, -elva=river and so forth. Similarly, I would prefer references to the lake Iešjávri or the mountain Jiehkkevárri, even when these clarifications are redundant for those who know Sami language. As a side note, I do not see how the term misnomer is relevant to this discussion, better terms are redundant or superfluous words. Again, thanks for showing how to write better language, such as your improvement of Sørkapp Land‎ and other articles. Oceanh (talk) 22:45, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Just to add 2 cents, I'm Norwegian and I had no idea what "flya" meant. It's good in this Wikipedia to explain uncommon words like that (same goes for "bogen"), and I don't think Oceanh should avoid it. Geschichte (talk) 09:25, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Alright. Perhaps it should be written in English, otherwise it would be redundant. If someone wanted to know what "flya", "oya" or any other Norwegian term meant all they'd have to do is click the darn link. Not that hard. Baily&#39;sMacomb (talk) 00:07, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

The Grandes
Hi Oceanh. Nice work creating articles on Ivar and Kitty Grande. I just read about them in a book I bought recently. Thumbs up for your filling in the various gaps in biographies and geography etc. Manxruler (talk) 16:00, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Yes, I created a stub about each of those, although they are not the most likeable (Just spotted that IG doubled the content of one category you created lately). I notice you have been back in business for a while after your process of moving, and done lots of work on ships, particularly related to WW2. Keep up the good work! Hope you enjoy your new home and job. Oceanh (talk) 01:33, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I really appreciate that you're making the effort to create articles on such varying themes. They're very interesting to read. Yes, I'm sort of back in business editing, even though I haven't yet found the time to focus for long enough to actually write much of substance, mostly just minor edits. My new place of residence is acceptable, for a while. The job's not as challenging as I'm accustomed to, so I busy myself with writing a new book. I had an article in a book that came out just before Christmas last year, so I'm quite pleased with that. How are things with you? Manxruler (talk) 21:57, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. Congratulations with your book publishments, and all the best with your new writing efforts. Myself, I am sort of garbage collector, contributing to subjects nobody else yet cared about. But now and then finding things of interest, such as hidden islands, historical buildings, forgotten disasters, literary pearls, and piles of olympic medals. Job and home situation has been stable for years, not much change there. Oceanh (talk) 23:59, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I really do appreciate your efforts on the various subjects, it's very valuable. Home life stability is nice. Cheers. Manxruler (talk) 10:18, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for 1914 Jubilee Exhibition
Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 17:52, 9 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Oceanh (talk) 18:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

New football articles
Hi there - whenever you create a new article on football, please make sure you add to the article talk page; please also list them at WikiProject Football/New articles if you can. This is just so we know what new articles there are, so that we can help improve them! Please let me know if you need any help. Thanks, Cloudz 679 17:12, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. It is not necessary to manually update the list of new articles at "Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/New articles", as this list is regularly updated by a bot. All football articles I created yesterday are already listed there. As for project tags, I will probably update talk pages after a while, if nobody else does it. I might start more articles on Olympic footballers in the near future, the bot will probably catch them, and I appreciate further improvement from football experts. Thanks. Oceanh (talk) 19:02, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Straus Street
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New Utvær Lighthouse article

 * Thank you. Utvær Lighthouse seems to be the westernmost "inhabited" place in Norway. Oceanh (talk) 18:02, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Reidar Jørgensen
Materialscientist (talk) 05:19, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you. (Delivered personally this time, not the usual bot!) Oceanh (talk) 10:02, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Lorentz Brinch
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DYK for Oliver H. Langeland
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DYK for Gjest Baardsen
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DYK for Ole Høiland
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DYK for Lars Hætta
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Language
Thanks for adding those Lang templates so promptly. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:34, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I commented on the template use over at Andy's talk. Manxruler (talk) 02:00, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * ...and he's right and I was wrong with regards to the use of language templates. See his talk for details. Sorry about that. Manxruler (talk) 23:16, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for pointing at and discussing the template. I often leave the inclusion of  templates to a later improvement phase of the article, especially when I am not familiar with the language in question. In my opinion, the  template is useful for obvious Norwegian words or phrases, in particular words that contain any of the letters æ, ø, å. On Sami versus Norwegian names, note that for instance Lars Jakobsen Hætta is the Norwegian form of the Jáhkoš-Lasse. I am also not too convinced that any literary work published in Norway before the introduction of the 1862 orthographic reform for schools should be labelled "Danish". Obvious counterexamples are "Ja, vi elsker dette landet" and "Ferdaminni fraa Sumaren 1860". Official reforms often reflect long-term common practice, while conservative publishing companies even neglect new reforms. Oceanh (talk) 00:55, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree with regards to the Norwegian versions of Sami names. I'm not too sure that "Ja, vi elsker" (first published in 1859) is a valid example here, do we even have the 1859 lyrics? I believe the song has been changed several times over the years. As to Vinje's use of Landsmål, yes, the use of language by writers haven't followed the official reforms. Food for thought, indeed. I'm not sure what would be best blind people-wise, of course it is best to label non-English text as something else than English, but I'd say that "Ny Vise om Ole Pedersen Høilands sidste mærkelige Undvigelse fra Agerhuus Fæstning Natten til den 17de September 1839" might be closer to Danish than Norwegian. Then again, how something was written, and how it was pronounced, are different things yet again. Complicated, this. Manxruler (talk) 01:52, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I have no strong opinion on the templates. Since the orthographic rules were identical in Norway and Denmark at the time, I would user either or , depending on the context. For a text by a Norwegian writer published in Norway primarily for the Norwegian public, I think  would be the best choice, particulary for guiding the pronounciation. Certain numbers, for instance 1859 and 1859 sound clearly different in the two languages. – By the way, thanks for help with and improvement of the Akershus prisoners hook! The hook attracted far more viewers to the articles than my hooks normally do. Oceanh (talk) 21:11, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I think you are right with regards to the languages. After all, it's about the pronunciation. Thank you, I liked that hook. Btw, I've made some suggestions on your recent executioner hook too. Manxruler (talk) 10:21, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
 * My original comment to this was lost/hidden in an edit summary somewhere. In essence I chose to involve as little as possible, leaving the hook choice to the reviewer/promoter. The review process was slower than normal, but the outcome was satisfactory. The hook surprisingly appears to be the only Norway-related hook that currently qualifies for inclusion in the list of All-time DYK page view leaders (lower end though). Oceanh (talk) 19:46, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Agnes Mowinckel
Just wanted to drop by and commend your hard work with this article. It is very interesting! -- Eisfbnore talk 11:53, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, glad you like the article. Good improvements from your side on lead section and other sections! I originally compiled the article from about twenty books, so it was a bit of a puzzle. Oceanh (talk) 22:07, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you for the recognition. Oceanh (talk) 23:09, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Jan Gulbrandsen
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DYK for Clara Holst
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DYK for Club 7
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DYK nomination of Norwegian Ornithological Society (1920–1935), Oscar Collett
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 * Thank you for reviewing the nomination. I have supplied an alternative, hopefully more precise hook. Sorry for the inaccuracy of the original hook, which was compiled somewhat in a hurry due to shortage of time, since when I noticed/considered the articles for dyk they were already almost five days old. Oceanh (talk) 21:43, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Oscar Collett
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DYK for Norwegian Ornithological Society (1920–1935)
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DYK for Samson Isberg
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DYK for Murder of Knut Grøte
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Ulla-Førre
Hi, Oceanh. I am proposing to merge articles about the Ulla-Førre hydroelectric complex into single article. Your opinion is appreciated. The discussion is here. Beagel (talk) 16:26, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Action of 22 August 1795
Materialscientist (talk) 16:04, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
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Thankyou
Thankyou very much for the DYK nomination of Action of 22 August 1795! I had no idea and it was a very nice surprise. Much appreciated!--Jackyd101 (talk) 16:09, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I was lucky to notice your nice article just in time. Glad you appreciated the nomination! Oceanh (talk) 21:49, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Peter J. K. Petersen
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DYK for Peter J. K. Petersen
PanydThe muffin is not subtle 16:04, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Oceanh (talk) 21:49, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Theatre chair
Hey, would you have access to a list of chairs of Den Nationale Scene? Made a succession box for Jørgen Blydt, currently empty. Geschichte (talk) 11:43, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
 * My books cover only the period from 1876 to 1931 (Wiers-Jenssen + Aarseth). The period from 1876 to 1895 was rather turbulent. Then a long stable period, as Christian Michelsen chaired the board from 1895 to 1925 (except for 1903-1907, when he was a member of the parliament/government). Oceanh (talk) 21:46, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
 * PS. My computer has been quite unstable lately, more specifically the cooling does not always start. The hot machine crashes within minutes, and takes an hour to cool down afterwards... Oceanh (talk) 21:55, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Gerhard C. Kallevig
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DYK for Nikolai Ramm Østgaard
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DYK for Johan Sørensen
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The Red Link Removal Barnstar

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DYK nomination of Ole Hannibal Somerfelt
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Incomplete DYK nomination
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Lighthouses
Thanks for the articles. Please use Lighthouses completed in 1922 and the like for these rather then Buildings and structures completed in 1922. That is more precise. Where it is missing, feel free to create the category using an existing one as a model. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:14, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notification. Just a hint: To avoid "false redlinks" such as those above, rather refer to categories like this, Category:Lighthouses completed in 1922, or like this, Category:Lighthouses completed in 1922. Oceanh (talk) 19:19, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

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DYK for Erik Waaler
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DYK for Erling Steen
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Kvarstad vessels
Hi, I noticed you were writing on articles related to the Kvarstad vessels, I have translated the article from Swedish langugage version of Wikipedia into Norwegian and extended it on the Bokmål/Riksmål version of Wikipedia. I still do some checking of numbers of prisoners and I will try to have some maps produced, showing the sailing routes for the ships. When this is done I plan to translate the entire article into English for the English language version of Wikipedia. Your comments and help would be much appreciated! Best regards - Ulflarsen (talk) 08:25, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi! Great if you improve the English language Kvarstad artcicle with material from the Swedish version. I have been aware of the Swedish article for quite a while, and notice that you did a good job in translating/adapting this article into Norwegian. I only noticed one obvious error in the numbers, that is the sentence(s) "Lägren hade då totalt 382 besättningsmedlemmar från kvarstadsbåtarna" and "Leiren hadde da totalt 382 besetningsmedlemmer fra kvarstadbåtene", where the number 382 conflicts with other numbers given. It is correct that the cited source gives this number, but it has to be either a misprint or meant to include more. The book  gives a good overview of the (number of) prisoners and what happened to them. Apart from that, I think that most of the ships should also have their own articles, as the Kvarstad article covers only a few days of their total lifespans. Oceanh (talk) 14:10, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Mathias Stoltenberg
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 08:04, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
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DYK for Ole Hannibal Sommerfelt
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DYK for Christian Sommerfeldt
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Book or encyclopaedia?
Hi Oceanh, I have a question that I thought you might be able to help me with. Would you say that this book, with listings and bios on all Norwegian officers in 1929, is "just" a book, or should I use the encyclopaedia template for it? It's alphabetical and all too. Cheers. Manxruler (talk) 21:28, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi. I do not know this particular book. As a rule-of-thumb, I find it convenient to use the "cite encyclopedia" template if information referred to can be accessed the way we normally do in an encyclopedia: We refer to the title of an article, and the articles are strictly sorted alphabetically, so we do not need the page numbers to find the information. (If we refer to other, non-sorted, information in an encyclopedia, like the preface, background articles, errata, etc, the "cite book" template is more convenient.) Oceanh (talk) 22:00, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Then I'll go with the "cite encyclopedia" template. It's a really nice book, by the way, listing every single Norwegian officer in 1929. I bought it some time ago, and now I've found some time to use it. Manxruler (talk) 22:25, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Birgitte Grimstad
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Merge articles
The articles Cristina Branco (handballer) and Cristina Direito are about the same person. I'm not sure which one should be kept, so I leave ut up to you as the creator of both. Best regards, --Wikijens (talk) 16:46, 2 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I kept the old article (in order to keep the history), and included new contents from the new artcile from 29 July. Oceanh (talk) 17:17, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Birgitte Grimstad
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DYK for Jørgen Juve
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DYK for Betty Jane Watson
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DYK for Tor Torgersen
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DYK for Pål Benum
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DYK for Øistein Saksvik
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DYK for Fredrik Lange-Nielsen
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DYK for Vätsäri Wilderness Area
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DYK for Operation Mardonius
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A barnstar for you!

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Template:Did you know nominations/Poor Folk
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DYK nomination of Christoffer Hjort, Expulsion of Catholics from Denmark–Norway
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DYK for Orkla Mining Company
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Precious

 * Thank you for good words! Nice poetic style, might make me remember them even better. Oceanh (talk) 01:11, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Kirsten Brunvoll
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DYK for Jonas Brunvoll, Sr.
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DYK for Jonas Brunvoll, Jr.
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DYK for Gunnar Brunvoll
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DYK for Christoffer Hjort
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DYK for Expulsion of Catholics from Denmark–Norway
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DYK for Harald Kihle
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