Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of World Heritage Sites in Iceland/archive1


 * The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:29, 30 June 2020 (UTC).

List of World Heritage Sites in Iceland

 * Nominator(s): Tone 13:26, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

The land of fire and ice (insert your favorite GoT pun - but hey, they filmed it there as well!). A new nomination from Northern Europe, following the FLs for Norway and Denmark, and Finland is getting support. Medium-term plan is to get all the countries covered so I can nominate a featured topic, let's see. Tone 13:26, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Comments
 * I would make the bit in brackets a separate sentence starting "The existing site...."
 * "From around 930 AD to 1798, Þingvellir has served" => "From around 930 AD to 1798, Þingvellir served"
 * "as a venue of Althing" => "as a venue for the Althing"
 * "Althing is also the oldest surviving parliament in the world" => "Althing is the oldest surviving parliament in the world"
 * "Fragments of around 50 booths built from turf and stone are visible though the remains" => "Fragments of around 50 booths built from turf and stone are visible, although the remains"
 * "off the South coast of Iceland" - no need for capital S
 * "in view of biodiversity, the fish" - change the comma to a semi-colon
 * "The shape and functions of these houses were changing over time" => "The shape and functions of these houses changed over time"
 * Think that's it from me -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 16:37, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Fixed, thank you. --Tone 21:32, 13 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 08:31, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Comments from Dank
 * See FLC criterion 3b 3c. I have the same question here as in the FLC for List of World Heritage Sites in Finland: what is in this list that isn't in, and shouldn't be in, the larger List of World Heritage Sites in Northern Europe? (Personally, I don't think this is a fatal objection ... there's an argument that more text could be added to this list ... but others may disagree.) - Dank (push to talk) 20:36, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I saw this now. The general list is so-so, since it mostly includes copy-paste descriptions from the UNESCO sites, has no maps, and provides little content related to the tentative list. So, if there are enough entries on either list, a separate article makes sense. I'll address the other comments later. --Tone 10:08, 27 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the explanation. I probably have time for just one review of these, so I'll go have another look at Finland. - Dank (push to talk) 16:12, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Comments from Chidgk1
 * Perhaps add an article description
 * Perhaps shorten the beginning to something like:

"The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of cultural or natural importance; as described in the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention, accepted by Iceland in 1995. Natural sites Surtsey and Vatnajökull National Park were added in 2008 and 2019. Þingvellir National Park was listed back in 2004 as a cultural site, and is now on the tentative list both for nature and as a part of a new transnational Viking heritage nomination."


 * Then maybe add more in the lede about the other tentative list sites and/or something else - such as how locals and tourists feel about the list


 * I made a few minor copyedits but these 2 sentences are confusing me: "The turf house tradition was brought to Iceland by the first settlers and has evolved from the longhouses built from timber and covered by turf. The shape and functions of these houses changed over time, adapting to local climate and the needs of the people." So were the first ones in Iceland the longhouses,or were those the ones in the settlers previous homeland but there was no timber in Iceland, or maybe they started with the original style but ran out of timber? Maybe also add an example of how they evolved.

If you have time to do a bit more which might help a smidgen to save a few glaciers from climate change could you point out my mistakes in Featured list candidates/List of active coal fired power stations in Turkey/archive1 Chidgk1 (talk) 17:01, 7 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the edits. I rewrote the turf part which was indeed confusing. I would stick with the intro as it is in the standard form considering other lists, and I usually even get complaints that they are too short. What locals feel about the list is perhaps out of the scope here, or at least some good sources would be required. I'll have a look at the coal power stations soon. --Tone 09:31, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Comments by Dudley

 * "Two further sites were added in 2008 (Surtsey) and 2019 (Vatnajökull National Park)." The brackets looks clumsy to me. How about "Two further sites were added, Surtsey in 2008 and Vatnajökull National Park in 2019."
 * Þingvellir National Park in the tentative list could be expanded.
 * "The structure of a turf house is built from timber and they are covered by turf." Ungrammatical change from singular to plural.
 * Looks fine apart from these minor points. Dudley Miles (talk) 16:32, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Done! The Þingvellir section in the tentative list as a serial nomination already covers the above description, being the parliament and Viking legacy, so I though it was enough. --Tone 17:49, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. Sorry I missed this. Dudley Miles (talk) 22:30, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Comments Support from Shearonink
Overall, well-written & interesting. I'll do another deep-dive to see if I find anything else - if not, I'm inclined to support. Shearonink (talk) 01:54, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The one table entry with a blue background should have a key at that table. I was about to ask the reason when I finally saw the key elsewhere.
 * The Turf House Tradition has an inserted Wikilink to the article about generic turf houses. The Wikilinkage would seem to be more appropriate in the paragraph explaining the Icelandic variant not in the overall Title for that particular Tentative Nomination.


 * ,, I'm through. As for the glacier reference, this is only about being the Europe's second largest glacier, which the other reference does not say, so I wouldn't move it. As for the turf houses, I agree and I moved the wikilink to the text. There does not seem to be a dedicated page, but tentative pages sometimes do not have them. WHS should. Not sure about "the" on sorting, I leave you the decision whether to change it or not. --Tone 15:16, 9 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Support. Shearonink (talk) 16:07, 9 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Source review – I found one issue that should be addressed: reference 7 needs an access date. Otherwise, the reliability and formatting of the sources look fine. Giants2008  ( Talk ) 22:13, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Done! --Tone 09:12, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Promoting. -- Pres N  03:50, 29 June 2020 (UTC)


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