Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Faroe Islands

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new stub
Just a heads up that I've created Faroes (sheep), which could especially use some help looking for interwiki links. Thanks, Steven Walling 01:44, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

House Sparrow
Does the House Sparrow have any special significance in the Faroe Islands? (Is it the national bird, etc.) If not, I'll remove it from the scope of this WikiProject, since the House Sparrow is found on more than half the world's land area, so putting it in the scope of a geographic WikiProjects is a bit odd. —innotata (Talk • Contribs) 19:32, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

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Faroe Islands articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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FV Athena
The Faroe registered ship FV Athena suffered a fire yesterday. This was the second fire suffered by the ship. According to this powerpoint presentation (image #23), the previous fire was on 4 July 2007. Are there any members of this WP who can find online sources (in Danish?) for this event, so that the article can be expanded. Article is not tagged with as being of interest to this WP, I'll leave that to members of this WP to decide upon. Mjroots (talk) 09:07, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Knúkur


The article Knúkur has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A search for references found no published (gBooks) support for the claims of this article. Fails WP:N and WP:V. Other language articles are also unreferenced.

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 * I have added a reference. According to Us.fo (official Faroese website of the Environmental Office) the name of this mountain is Knútur. A page with this title already excist, (it redirects to Knut). EileenSanda (talk) 10:34, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

AfD
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Guðrún
The usage of Guðrún/Gudrun is under discussion, see talk:Guðrún -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 00:31, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

West Nordic Council
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 01:33, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

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Tórshavn
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Education in the Faroe Islands
I've created an article about Education in the Faroe Islands. I'm sure I've missed a couple of things (or even more), as I only had access to English language material (I have no knowledge of Faroese, or any other Scandinavian language, at all). Anyone capable of, is more than welcome to develop the article. One thing that crossed my mind is the status of Danish language in the Faroese Education system. I couldn't find a lead to write something about it.Hansi667 (talk) 14:55, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Since I've started with educational subjects I've created two more articles: University of the Faroe Islands (Fróðskaparsetur Føroya) and Centre of Maritime Studies and Engineering (Vinnuháskúlin). Please have a look and add additional information if necessary. Hansi667 (talk) 19:07, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

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Faroese football players articles
Having just created an article about Heðin á Lakjuni I've found some valuable resources for Faroese football players. FaroeSoccer.com has accumulative statistics for almost every Faroese football player as well as a database of nearly every football match in the Faroe Islands. National-football-teams.com has statistics for Faroese international players. Finally in.fo has a database dating as far back as 1997. It covers every football match, transfers, and has a lot of news. Wit a little help from google translate and sprotin.fo new articles about Faroese players could be really well documented. Hope that helps. Hansi667 (Neighbor Of The Beast) a penny for your thoughts? 21:35, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

AfD nomination - List of airlines of the Faroe Islands
I have nominated for deletion the article List of airlines of the Faroe Islands. The discussion can be found here. Olidog (talk) 16:16, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Same-sex marriage
Hi. It seems that the Faroese parliament approved a bill related to same-sex marriage on 30 May, but I have no clue about the details because all available sources are in the Faroese language, see ,,,,. Could someone to translate in general the content of these sources?. Ron 1987 (talk) 02:46, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

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Links between English and Frisian peoples and languages
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Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
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Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

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