Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Höfðaletur


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The result was   Withdrawn, not needed anymore  Jac 16888 Talk 22:48, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Höfðaletur

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Neutral nomination.

Höfðaletur is an article which is currently in Icelandic, and listed at WP:PNT. Its subject is an Icelandic font, there is a admittedly poor machine translation on the talk page. There are a number of google and google book hits, pretty much all in Icelandic, so they're not much use for writing an English article unless we find someone who knows Icelandic. Not aware of any guidelines regarding fonts, so what do people think? For the record there are no icelandic speakers at PNT as far as I'm aware, so there is a strong possibility that if this isn't deleted now it will sit for two weeks before being listed for Prod. Thanks Jac 16888 Talk 23:42, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to the Icelandic wikipedia then, and remove it from English Wikipedia. 70.29.210.242 (talk) 05:47, 10 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iceland-related deletion discussions.  —Favonian (talk) 10:29, 10 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep provided, of course, that it can be translated and provided with more sources. From trying to (Google) translate some of the above-mentioned hits it looks like this font has considerable historical significance.  I came across this site which shows some examples of the font and also illustrates how the Icelanders keep their heritage alive.  Favonian (talk) 10:39, 10 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep I have translated it, and then rewritten it with references taken from the article that was listed under Links. Added the site referred to above by Favonian as a second external link; it illustrates use of a modern font based on Höfðaletur by the second modern designer referred to in the article, and that design job won an award. Also found a very bad online version of the article in a German translation, which should help German-speakers to verify its contents. There is one additional source in English that I cannot access: an English-language PhD dissertation Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem, Royal College of Art, 1980). I've put both of those in Sources. Most of the Google hits are either blog entries or museum catalog references, so nothing usable for the article, but they do demonstrate notability and I believe the article plus the dissertation are decisive in that respect. I just wish I could reference the latter in the article. Hopefully someone can get hold of it. Yngvadottir (talk) 22:41, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
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