Wikipedia talk:Icelandic Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 1

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Please see the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Regional notice boards. Zocky | picture popups 00:52, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Help with translations
I'm currently working on a script intended to create short articles on political parties on a variety of wikipedias simultaneously. However, in order for the technique to work I need help with translations to various languages. If you know any of the languages listed at User:Soman/Lang-Help, then please help by filling in the blanks. For example I need help with Icelandic. Thanks, --Soman 12:14, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Kjarvalr Írakonungr
I've started an article on Cerball mac Dúnlainge who I understand is better known in Icelandic sources as Kjarvalr Írakonungr. I have a small amount of information on his appearances in Icelandic genealogies which I will add, but if anyone expert can contribute I'd be much obliged. Thanks ! Angus McLellan (Talk) 16:41, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

DYK
The DYK section featured on the main page is always looking for interesting new and recently expanded stubs from different parts of the world. Please make a suggestion.--Peta 02:02, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Category sorting for patronymic names
Hello,

I'm just wondering if there has been any discussion about sorting in categories with regards to people with patronymic names. The standard Wikipedia sortkey of "Lastname, Firstname" seems a bit absurd in this case as we'd be sorting based on person's father's name. I looked over Help:Category and Categorization of people, but couldn't see anything about this case in particular. A quick glimpse at Category:Icelandic musicians for example shows that it's split between the two forms.

Perhaps we should add a paragraph to one of these pages about an exception for the patronymic names? If so, do we use the first name sortkey only in Iceland-related categories, or in all of them?

Thanks, --user:Qviri 17:39, 15 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Feel free to add such a paragraph - I think that reflects current practice fairly well. Haukur 19:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Kristín Ingólfsdóttir
The article is currently on VfD. Could someone take a look? Pavel Vozenilek 13:10, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Icelandic naming conventions in an English-language encyclopedia?
I realise that it is good and proper to refer to people using their first name when doing so in the Icelandic language. It seems however to me a bit awkward to do the same thing in English-language articles in an encyclopaedia. The article on Geir Haarde, for instance, reads (to an English person) like it has been written by his friends or family members, and not by (presumably) complete strangers. Other articles, for instance Kristján Eldjárn (directly comparable because he does not have a patronymic surname, either), uses the surname or the personal pronoun instead. At least, we ought to have a consistent policy on how to refer to people from Iceland. My vote, for all it's worth, goes to following English rather than Icelandic conventions, and using the surname in encyclopaedic articles. --Thorsen 13:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Libraries sort works by Icelandic authors using the first name. --Stalfur 14:37, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Kristján Arason
This one line article is currently on VfD. Could someone take a look? TIA Pavel Vozenilek 15:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Rebekka Gudleifsdóttir
The article about a photographer is on VfD. Can people take a look? Pavel Vozenilek 02:23, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Á slóðir Konrads Maurers on 19th July
Hello, I would like to inform Wikipedians in Iceland of a historical-educational day tour "Á slóðir Konrads Maurers" that I (a Wikipedian from Germany) will organize on Saturday 19th July 2014. Perhaps any Icelandic Wikipedians are interested in joining the bilingual (Icelandic and German) tour that will take us from Árbæjarsafn into Suðurland until Skógar, to return to the city in the evening. The tour details and booking information are on Ferðafélag Íslands´. If you have any questions about the tour, please feel free to ask me (best here). --Neitram (talk) 09:20, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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