Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iceland/Archive 3

Current news for the portal
Hello, I'm currently working on the Iceland Portal. Could someone find some recent headlines for the news section? It needs to be updated. Thanks a lot — [ sd ] 22:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The Iceland Portal is up for peer review. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, [ sd ] 04:09, 5 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The Iceland Portal has been nominated for featured status. Comments and suggestions are welcome at the discussion. Thank you, [ sd ] 02:00, 9 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The Iceland Portal is now featured! Thanks for everyone's feedback. [ sd ] 11:51, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Question about "Paul Oscar"
Hi, the article "Paul Oscar" is about the Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockey Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson, who is known internationally as Páll Óskar and Paul Oscar. Is it more appropriate to refer to him in the article as "Paul Oscar" (as I've done), or simply as "Paul"? Do reply on the article's talk page. Thanks. &mdash; Cheers, Jack Lee  –talk– 02:00, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Copyright
Can anyone establish Icelandic law in relation to copyright, so that we can know what images (eg. old photos, images of paintings etc) are elegible for uploading to WP? This info is available for several countries, especially the USA, at Copyrights, but some Iceland info would be a great help. Apologies if this is already somewhere on these pages - I'd be grateful to be pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, perhaps someone could add a summary at the WP copyright page just mentioned? Cheers hamiltonstone (talk) 02:06, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Question about Joey Gudjonsson
Does exist any possibility to know is the person who makes a biography? I'm very interested to know who is the person who writes Joey Gudjonsson's biography, and I also would like to have contact with that person. Contact me at missjinx@gmail.com. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.56.68.162 (talk) 20:50, 17 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Go to the article and click on the 'history' tab. That will give you the record of contributors to the article. Haukur (talk) 21:13, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Help with referencing Icelandic press
Could anyone please help me find references to this WIPO case ("Wal-mart sues Icelandic artist") in the Icelandic press? It's for the article Lárus List. I have been led to believe the story has been covered quite a bit there. TreveXtalk 03:05, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Apparently it's been covered in Fréttablaðið. I can't speak Icelandic! TreveXtalk 03:07, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Found a couple of references (see article) but would appreciate any other references at all on the artist and the case. TreveXtalk 03:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Iceland: Articles of unclear notability
Hello,

there are currently 13 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 2008-03-12 and may be slightly outdated.)

I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see WikiProject Notability.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! --B. Wolterding (talk) 16:33, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Iceland index
I've expanded List of Iceland-related topics and due to the large number of links, have reformatted the list to be consistent with most other lists in that set (see List of Germany-related topics, List of China-related topics, List of Canada-related topics, etc. The Transhumanist  02:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

List of basic Iceland topics
A new topic-based list has been created for Iceland, using the standard structure for country basic topic lists. Provides a topical map of Iceland subjects, and shows coverage pretty well and key areas that need development. I hope you find it useful. The Transhumanist 02:44, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Who were her parents?
I am writing a cited biography on Vigdis and I need to know who her parents were. Any of you Wiki fans out there no who they are. I know the Dad is Finnboga, then his patronymic name but....PS: Pay attention, I am just a KID that has a World Fair project. Nothing too fancy Signed, Nice N or GFFAE #3 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.96.226.84 (talk) 13:51, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

WP:FAR nomination of Surtsey
I have nominated Surtsey because it does not seem to meet the featured articled criteria 1.(c), 2.(c), and 4. It is quite short, and is not of comparable length to current FA's. It is very under-referenced, and some of them aren't in the cite web form at all, just in tags. I do not believe that this fits the FA criteria any longer. You are welcome to comment at the review. Dreamafter (talk) 22:40, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Icelanders GA Sweeps Review: On Hold
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Icelanders and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and several other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 06:30, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics
This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist 10:04, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
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Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 1716 articles are assigned to this project, of which 254, or 14.8%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-07-14.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 17:20, 27 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I think WP Iceland could benefit from a cleanup list (as in fact almost any project could).
 * I requested the proposed list at User_talk:B._Wolterding. --IsFari (talk) 08:10, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Iceland
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:22, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Curious article
Can you guys check out this AFD please? We think it's a hoax article purporting to be about an Icelandic gameshow. Stifle (talk) 18:07, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Nordic cinema task force
A Nordic cinema task force has been proposed at WP:FILMS, which would include the cinema of Iceland. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 18:15, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis
Help with 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis would come in handy. The article is linked to from the front page so I think it's important that we make it as good as we can. Haukur (talk) 15:23, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Help request: 79 Iceland-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Iceland, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Iceland, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Iceland articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Brú
 * 2) Grundarhverfi
 * 3) Hauganes
 * 4) Hraunhafnartangi
 * 5) Litla-Hraun
 * 6) Norðurland eystra
 * 7) Nyrðra-Vatnalautavatn

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 79 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

Why add coordinates?
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?
The articles are all marked with coord missing tags, which need to be replaced with coord tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members.

Please let me know if this is useful, or if I can help in any way. -- The Anome (talk) 22:36, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Garthar Svavarsson
why is the article about him using a poorly anglicized version of the name?--Marhawkman (talk) 07:58, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Financial and political crisis Jan 2009
It seems that the current financial and political crisis in Iceland is the most severe in quite a while. Eirikur Bergmann writes in the Guardian --"'While Barack Obama was being sworn in to office on Capitol Hill yesterday, the people of Iceland were starting the first revolution in the history of the republic. The word 'revolution' might sound a bit of an overstatement, but given the calm temperament that usually prevails in Icelandic politics, the unfolding events represent, at the very least, a revolution in political activism.'" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/iceland-globalrecession/print I don't know how much of this is exaggeration, but I assume that not all of it is. Shouldn't we be adding a little more on this to the main article Iceland? (I will not be doing this myself.) For convenience, links to 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis and 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 16:17, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Spánverjavígin
I started this article just recently, help expanding Spánverjavígin would be nice.Hammer of the Gods27 (talk) 02:36, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir needs sourcing
Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir needs sourcing WhisperToMe (talk) 14:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

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Þ/ð debate
There's a fairly strong debate going on on the Teitur Þórðarson talk page regarding the use of Þ/ð in main article names. Some input from the Iceland project would probably be helpful because it also touches on the names of other Iceland related pages such as Þingvellir. If this topic has been debated before and a policy agreed, it would be good to know about. Cheers! Akerbeltz (talk) 20:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC) I'd use th in the names and use the other spelling in the main text. Mainly because people can't type Þ normally on a keyboard.--Marhawkman (talk) 01:59, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Icelandic Hockey League
Any help would be good, Icelandic Hockey League. I am near the limits of what I can do to help. )LAz17 (talk) 00:13, 11 April 2009 (UTC)).

Hrafnkels saga
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Akureyri
Akureyri has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Articles are typically reviewed for one week. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:25, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Ingólfr the Viking
“According to tradition recorded in Landnámabók, the settlement of Iceland began in 874 when the Norwegian chieftain Ingólfur Arnarson became the first permanent Norwegian settler on the island.[4]"

Hi

My name is Einar--Einargunnarb (talk) 16:04, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

What can I say. The above is bad. And referring to a website! It is not possible to say with certainty that Ingólfr the Viking was a Norwegian. Most likely he was not, judging by the primary sources and other evidence. Primary sources have to be used here and in the original language. We can only say with certainty that Ingólfr was Scandinavian, but there are many scholars who want to promote his supposed Norwegian origin. That is another story. I discuss Ingólfr and other interesting issues in an article just being published by a Norwegian magazine. The following letter is introducing the article. It is a short article and most find it interesting.

I have cancelled my previously announced plans of a book about Ohthere’s voyages, which was scheduled for publishing in 2008 or 2009. My most recent article (National Historiographies and the Viking Age: A Re-examination) is divided into three chapters which are named: Ohthere’s Sciringes heal(h); The first victims in the westward expansion of the Vikings; Ingólfr the Viking: the Swedish connection. In the first chapter, I heavily criticize a well-known theory that is a central theory in Norwegian historiography. In the second chapter, I pose a pioneering theory about who were the first victims in the westward expansion of the Vikings. In the third chapter, I discuss Ingólfr the Viking, the account in Libellus Islandorum about the first settlers of Iceland, and other interesting issues. In my view, an exceptionally exciting article. Published in Aust-Agder-Arv 2008 http://www.aaks.no/FullStory.aspx?m=81&amid=5882

Best regards Einar Gunnar Birgisson

Eldfell at FAR
Sorry to do this - has only 7 inline refs and an ugly tag I cannot in good faith remove, and I lack material on volcanoes. Good luck. Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:54, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

PS: sinking now - Featured_article_review/Eldfell/archive1 - can anyone help with sourcing? Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:53, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
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GA Sweeps invitation
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Icelandic heraldry
I would like all the help I can get with Icelandic heraldry, and I hope someone here has better access to sources than I currently have, especially in regard to civic "heraldry" (municipal logos). Thank you all for looking! Wilhelm_meis (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Category:Icelandic historical figures
I see that this category is being used for individuals who lived prior to the modern era, but "historical figures" is vague as a category title, and could just mean anyone who merits an article and is therefore worthy of historical notation. This should be changed into Category:Icelandic people by century (see Category:People by nationality and century and subdivided (e.g., Category:13th century-Icelandic people). Postdlf (talk) 17:51, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Garðabær and Þingeyri
Move requests have been made on Talk:Garðabær and Talk:Þingeyri. The issue concerns the perennial question of what characters are acceptable in article titles. Haukur (talk) 23:10, 14 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, and Garður, I forgot that one. Haukur (talk) 14:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Financial and political crisis Jan 2009
It seems that the current financial and political crisis in Iceland is the most severe in quite a while. Eirikur Bergmann writes in the Guardian --"'While Barack Obama was being sworn in to office on Capitol Hill yesterday, the people of Iceland were starting the first revolution in the history of the republic. The word 'revolution' might sound a bit of an overstatement, but given the calm temperament that usually prevails in Icelandic politics, the unfolding events represent, at the very least, a revolution in political activism.'" http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/21/iceland-globalrecession/print I don't know how much of this is exaggeration, but I assume that not all of it is. Shouldn't we be adding a little more on this to the main article Iceland? (I will not be doing this myself.) For convenience, links to 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis and 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 16:17, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

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Hrafnkels saga
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Ingólfr the Viking
“According to tradition recorded in Landnámabók, the settlement of Iceland began in 874 when the Norwegian chieftain Ingólfur Arnarson became the first permanent Norwegian settler on the island.[4]"

Hi

My name is Einar--Einargunnarb (talk) 16:04, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

What can I say. The above is bad. And referring to a website! It is not possible to say with certainty that Ingólfr the Viking was a Norwegian. Most likely he was not, judging by the primary sources and other evidence. Primary sources have to be used here and in the original language. We can only say with certainty that Ingólfr was Scandinavian, but there are many scholars who want to promote his supposed Norwegian origin. That is another story. I discuss Ingólfr and other interesting issues in an article just being published by a Norwegian magazine. The following letter is introducing the article. It is a short article and most find it interesting.

I have cancelled my previously announced plans of a book about Ohthere’s voyages, which was scheduled for publishing in 2008 or 2009. My most recent article (National Historiographies and the Viking Age: A Re-examination) is divided into three chapters which are named: Ohthere’s Sciringes heal(h); The first victims in the westward expansion of the Vikings; Ingólfr the Viking: the Swedish connection. In the first chapter, I heavily criticize a well-known theory that is a central theory in Norwegian historiography. In the second chapter, I pose a pioneering theory about who were the first victims in the westward expansion of the Vikings. In the third chapter, I discuss Ingólfr the Viking, the account in Libellus Islandorum about the first settlers of Iceland, and other interesting issues. In my view, an exceptionally exciting article. Published in Aust-Agder-Arv 2008 http://www.aaks.no/FullStory.aspx?m=81&amid=5882

Best regards Einar Gunnar Birgisson

Akureyri
Akureyri has been nominated for a good article reassessment. Articles are typically reviewed for one week. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to good article quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. Reviewers' concerns are here. Dabomb87 (talk) 16:25, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Eldfell at FAR
Sorry to do this - has only 7 inline refs and an ugly tag I cannot in good faith remove, and I lack material on volcanoes. Good luck. Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:54, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

PS: sinking now - Featured_article_review/Eldfell/archive1 - can anyone help with sourcing? Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:53, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
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GA Sweeps invitation
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.

We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria.

If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:06, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Category:Icelandic historical figures
I see that this category is being used for individuals who lived prior to the modern era, but "historical figures" is vague as a category title, and could just mean anyone who merits an article and is therefore worthy of historical notation. This should be changed into Category:Icelandic people by century (see Category:People by nationality and century and subdivided (e.g., Category:13th century-Icelandic people). Postdlf (talk) 17:51, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

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Icelandic references in Halldór Laxness novels
I would like to see more comments on the Icelandic words and references in Halldór's novels. I do not speak Icelandic but have studied Norwegian and have three dictionaries of Icelandic and Old Norse, plus a couple of grammar books. I will start posting some comments very carefully and I hope native speakers of Icelandic will notice and correct any errors that I make, or expand on my comments. Egabay (talk) 18:51, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Icesave referendum
There is an ongoing request for move at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Icelandic_debt_repayment_referendum,_2010 those interested are asked to participate in the discussion.--Icelandic Viking POWER (talk) 21:18, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

AFD for Minarc
Articles for deletion/Minarc. It's a family business of Icelandic expatriates in California. East of Borschov (talk) 05:21, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

template:Iceland Portal
FYI, Iceland Portal has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.210.155 (talk) 05:08, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Icelandic cuisine
Are any editors here knowledgeable in Icelandic cuisine? The section on Iceland is rather small and unsourced. Thanks, Hayden120 (talk) 05:25, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Smalahove/Sviðahaus
I think the two dishes are the same, but right now the smalahove article is only listed in the norway project and the food and drink project, not in the iceland project. Also the article claims that the dish is traditionally norwegian without mentioning any presence of it in other western nordic countries. Could someone here that know a bit more about the the (two) dish(es) please edit the article, find sources and then delete this comment? Thanks in advance :-) Luredreier (talk) 07:44, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * PS. The reason I haven't done it yet is that I don't feel qualified to do so as a vegetarian since it's a meat dish... Luredreier (talk) 07:44, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Fréttir


The article Fréttir has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * A search for references found that the word "Fréttir" is the word for "news". All of the news programs and papers and web pages are "Fréttir" (news). It is no more appropriate for the Icelandic word "Fréttir" to contain an article about a specific program that it would be for english word News to do so. No version of generic usage exist in history for this article. Delete and redirect to News

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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Constitutional convention in iceland
hi everybody, have you ever heard of a constitutional convention in iceland? I read in some newspapers in france that Berghildur Erla Bergthorsdottir is thespokeswoman for the committee entrusted with organizing the Constitutional Assembly. Can you help me in order to know if it is true? if so why is there no news about it? thanks and best wishes for 2011! Viking59 (talk) 23:01, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Spelling: Úlfljótr
Is Úlfljótr this the correct spelling or should it be Úlfljót? Best wishes (Msrasnw (talk) 15:35, 6 February 2011 (UTC))


 * Úlfljótr is correct, that's the nominative form which you will find as the headword in dictionaries. Úlfljót is the accusative form. The nominative ending -r is sometimes omitted as a form of Anglicization (or Danicization etc.) so Úlfljót could also be seen as an Anglicization. But then you'd typically drop the accents too and use Ulfljot or Ulfliot. Incidentally, Ulfljótr is correct too, as a pre-1200 form, the vowel lengthened at one point. Haukur (talk) 18:27, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks! (Msrasnw (talk) 20:39, 7 February 2011 (UTC))

Scandinavian diaspora
For your information, Scandinavian diaspora has been nominated for deletion. 65.93.12.101 (talk) 04:32, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

Diacritics RfC
Discussion is underway regarding the use of diacritics in proper nouns from languages such as Icelandic. Comments are welcome at Naming conventions (use English)/Diacritics RfC. Prolog (talk) 19:23, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion was closed on 3 August 2011, with no consensus to make any changes to the existing guideline at WP:DIACRITICS. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 07:47, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Verify ID of photo of player at Langspil
An IP from an Icelandic university added a caption to an old photo I found: "Stefán Stefánsson from Heiði in Skagafjörður playing his langspil with a bow" Can anyone help us verify this caption, and ascertain the latest possible date of the photo for copyright purposes? Currently, lacking a viable date, the photo. The website the photo came from is here, but I cannot read the site. Thanks for any help to (legally and properly) maintain this photo here! MatthewVanitas (talk) 00:58, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Does Iceland have a military?
English-language references such as the CIA World Factbook (as well as some Wikipedia articles) say that it doesn't, but this is apparently an object of controversy at Military of Iceland. Posting here in the hopes that someone will be as irritated by this state of affairs as I am and take on the task of resolving this issue/maintaining this article.Pwrm (talk) 17:44, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Iceland will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Iceland's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:56, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Requested Move Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir → Johanna Sigurdardottir
See Talk:Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:38, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
 * The discussion on this issue was closed on 7 May 2012; the consensus was not to move the article. —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 07:44, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

List of Icelandic mammals
I don't know what the source for that article is, but as an Icelander I think I'm right in saying that those sources are wrong. There aren't many mammals in Iceland, so it's hard to lose count. There are for example only reindeer in Iceland, no roe deer. I have no sources of my own to confirm this, unless I'd go to a library. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.220.62.74 (talk) 07:32, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Dyrhólaey
Dyrhólaey - formerly known as Cape Portland by English seamen? Jules Verne: A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, Chapter IX: "On the 11th we reached Cape Portland. The clear open weather gave us a good view of Myrdals jokul, which overhangs it. The cape is merely a low hill with steep sides, standing lonely by the beach. The Valkyria kept at some distance from the coast, taking a westerly course amidst great shoals of whales and sharks. Soon we came in sight of an enormous perforated rock, through which the sea dashed furiously." Is Dyrhólaey and Cape Portland really quite the same?Miniminimax (talk) 08:41, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

File:The bones of Miklabæjar-Sólveig moved to their final resting place.jpg
File:The bones of Miklabæjar-Sólveig moved to their final resting place.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 23:42, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Map of the area where the story of Miklabæjar-Sólveig takes place.gif
File:Map of the area where the story of Miklabæjar-Sólveig takes place.gif has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 23:56, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Guðrún
The usage of Guðrún/Gudrun is under discussion, see talk:Guðrún -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 00:30, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

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

Feedback request: VisualEditor special character inserter
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AfC submissions
Hello there! There a several museum article submissions from Iceland at AfC. Would anyone be interested in having a look? Let me know. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 15:35, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Such as Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Westfjords Heritage Museum. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 17:36, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Requested move
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Draugr, recently moved to Draug, should be moved back. The discussion may be found at Talk:Draug. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:21, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson
Dear Iceland experts: Here is an old Afc submission about a composer. It will be deleted soon as a stale draft unless some additional citations can be found. Is this a notable person, and are there citations available that are not in English? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 22:31, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I would say that he is notable, yes. Several icelandic sources state that he was an Icelandic pioneer in electronic music. There is enough of icelandic sources out there to verify the bulk of the article. One of those sources point out that Magnús is mentioned in three english books, published in 1977, namely "The international register of Profiles", "The International Who's Who of Intellectuals" and "Men of Achivement". You probably want to check those out.--Snaevar (talk) 21:01, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Snaevar, I never did thank you for taking the time to help with this. Belated thanks - the article is in mainspace. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 10:57, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (use English)
RfC: Use of characters from the Icelandic alphabet. Specifically ð In ictu oculi (talk) 14:47, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Náttfari
All input welcome. Cheers, walk victor falktalk 02:29, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Possibly unfree File:Icelandic police star (logo).jpg
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Copyright Issues around Architecture and Monuments
Be aware that wikimedia commons will not allow images of any buildings, sculptures or monuments whose designer/architect died more recently than 1944. The example below is the deletion justification for all photographs of Hallgrímskirkja:

"This is a building in Iceland by w:Guðjón Samúelsson. In most countries, all paintings, sculpture, architecture, text, and other creative works have copyrights which last for 70 years after the death of the creator. An image of a work that is still under copyright is a derivative work, and infringes on the copyright so that we cannot usually keep the image on Commons. In some countries, there is a special exception to the copyright law which allows such images under certain circumstances. We call that exception freedom of panorama (FOP). Unfortunately there is no applicable FOP exception in this case."

While you may think it's nonsensical that images of a public building which dominates the skyline of Reykjavik are in violation the architects copyright (and I would agree), this is what Icelandic law says according to the judgement of wikimedia commons. Similar apparently applies to all buildings, monuments, statues, etc, etc.

I thought it worth making users aware of this before they put significant time and effort in to images and edits only to have them deleted as incompatible with the copyright policy.

Prosthetic Head (talk) 14:32, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, I am aware of that. I want to clear some things up though. Notice that they do mention that there is "no applicable FOP exception". What lies behind that is that Iceland does have an FOP criteria (which is in place in article 16 of the Icelandic copyright act), but it is too strict for commons. The reason for that is that said article 16 does only allow images taken in public for an non-commercial purpose. Since Commons does not allow commercial media, this blocks these images on commons. Keep in mind though that De minimis still applies for pictures of buildings from Iceland and is a perfectly valid reason to keep some images of buildings from Iceland on commons. The fact that the FOP criteria for Iceland does exist also means that it is perfectly legal to upload an image of an icelandic building to the english wikipedia.--Snaevar (talk) 18:57, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

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Category:Populated places on Iceland's Route 1
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First Division Women (Icelandic basketball)
Either First Division Men (Icelandic basketball) should be First Division Men (Icelandic Basketball), or First Division Women (Icelandic Basketball) should be First Division Women (Icelandic basketball). Somebody else should decide.--DThomsen8 (talk) 16:38, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅.--Snaevar (talk) 19:30, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

Featured Portal Review: Iceland
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Unfinished but critical Icelandic fjords list page needs help!
The 'Fjords of Iceland´ page leaves a lot to be desired. On visiting the page for a detailed description of Icelandic fjords, one finds it says, '...most important Fjords in Iceland...'. It should be an exhaustive list of ALL Icelandic fjords, which is difficult to find anywhere else (including the once excellent but now half-useless LMI mapping, sadly).

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 * @Webistrator: Done.--Snaevar (talk) 19:59, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

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Template:Iceland squad 2011 World Women's Handball Championship
Should the names in Template:Iceland squad 2011 World Women's Handball Championship not be amended ? Thanks GrahamHardy (talk) 14:28, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
 * The names are correct. It would be better to use their first names though, since Iceland does use an patronymic system.--Snaevar (talk) 11:50, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thought so, I'll get on to it GrahamHardy (talk) 23:10, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Reykjavík Museum of Photography
I've always been sorry that the short life (in early 2014) of a little article on the Reykjavík Museum of Photography ended when it was snuffed out as a copyright violation.

The copyright violation didn't seem a major hurdle to the article's resuscitation, as the quantity lifted was minor. And so over the last few days I've been working toward resuscitation. The interim result is at Draft:Reykjavík Museum of Photography. What within it either cites an Icelandic-language source or doesn't cite any source is taken from the deleted original (though sometimes reworded a bit). Most of what cites sources in English is also taken from the deleted original, though a little is new. I've done a fair amount of rewording, reordering, and link improvement, but little that's really significant to the value of the article. Google turns up very little about the museum; so I fear that if I launched the article as is, it would be deleteworthy as "non-notable" -- which I'd regret.

Perhaps there are good sources in Icelandic, but I cannot read Icelandic. Could some kind Icelandic-reading person please take a look? -- Hoary (talk) 22:46, 26 July 2015 (UTC)


 * A tip of the hat to Snaevar for a great improvement to the draft. But other improvements are still welcome (and, I fear, still needed). -- Hoary (talk) 13:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks to Snaevar and Moonriddengirl, what was a draft is now an article: Reykjavík Museum of Photography. -- Hoary (talk) 23:44, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

Spánverjavígin
I started this article just recently, help expanding Spánverjavígin would be nice.Hammer of the Gods27 (talk) 02:36, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir needs sourcing
Þórhildur Þorleifsdóttir needs sourcing WhisperToMe (talk) 14:35, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Icelandic Hockey League
Any help would be good, Icelandic Hockey League. I am near the limits of what I can do to help. )LAz17 (talk) 00:13, 11 April 2009 (UTC)).

Icelandic heraldry
I would like all the help I can get with Icelandic heraldry, and I hope someone here has better access to sources than I currently have, especially in regard to civic "heraldry" (municipal logos). Thank you all for looking! Wilhelm_meis (talk) 01:43, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Garðabær and Þingeyri
Move requests have been made on Talk:Garðabær and Talk:Þingeyri. The issue concerns the perennial question of what characters are acceptable in article titles. Haukur (talk) 23:10, 14 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Oh, and Garður, I forgot that one. Haukur (talk) 14:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Review
Can someone please review the articles I've started. see my user page for a list. How am I doing?--Mr ComeGo (talk) 02:59, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Icelandic television and radio channels (online)
It would be nice to have an article about Icelandic television and radio channels including the sites of those that offer streaming or other forms of online broadcasting. This could help a lot all learnes of Icelandic providing them a constant speech input that may improve their oral understanding and accent even when they are doing other things than learning. Wisapi (talk) 00:03, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Photo request
When the weather permits, would anyone like to photograph the Icelandair head office? It is located on the grounds of Reykjavík Airport. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 00:33, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

The Icesave referendum
Hey guys I recently suggested that the name of "Icelandic debt repayment referendum 2010" be changed to "The Icesave referendum". If any of you feel like weighing in on that discussion then please join us at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_debt_repayment_referendum,_2010 .--Icelandic Viking POWER (talk) 13:58, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:48, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons
The WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 32,665 as of May 16. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

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Freedom of panorama in Iceland
Commons:Freedom of panorama says that "Iceland basically allows freedom of panorama for both buildings and works of the arts in general that have been permanently placed outdoors. If the work is the main subject of the photo and the photo is used commercially, the author of the work (this applies to both buildings and other works!) is entitled to remuneration, unless the publication of the image is in a newspaper or a TV broadcast."

Does this mean that photos of buildings and sculptures can be used here with a fair use licence? I would like to use a Creative Commons image of The Sun Voyager from Flickr (or an editor from here, if he or she wishes to donate one), but I am not sure if the licence can be changed to fair use. Hayden120 (talk) 09:02, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

I've contacted a member of the parliament in Iceland (Birgitta Jónsdóttir), the laws are soon to be changed, hopefully in October / November 2010 (as she told me), so that the pictures won't conflict the rights of use on Wikipedia. Reyndeer —Preceding undated comment added 22:43, 27 September 2010 (UTC).

Photo request
Hi! I have a photo request for the Iceland Express head office at Grímsbær Efstaland 26 IS-108 Reykjavik - Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 09:03, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

DO Icelandes consider themselves ethnic Norwegians?
According to and other users - the entire populatoin of Iceland is counted as Norwegians in the article on Norwegian people. It is not warranted by sources, and it also doesn't seem to be correct to consider the Icelandic people to be members of another ethno-national group rather than constituting their own. Keep an eye out for Norwegians. Also the article Norwegian diaspora considers the Icelandic people a Norwegian diaspora community.·Maunus· ƛ · 16:37, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Þ/ð debate
There's a fairly strong debate going on on the Teitur Þórðarson talk page regarding the use of Þ/ð in main article names. Some input from the Iceland project would probably be helpful because it also touches on the names of other Iceland related pages such as Þingvellir. If this topic has been debated before and a policy agreed, it would be good to know about. Cheers! Akerbeltz (talk) 20:55, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd use th in the names and use the other spelling in the main text. Mainly because people can't type Þ normally on a keyboard.--Marhawkman (talk) 01:59, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know about that... Myself I'm using a norwegian keyboard, it don't have Þ but I can get it with alt + 0222... But I think I see the point of using th instead too... Luredreier (talk) 07:35, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Keyboards are irrelevant. The Wikipedia Manual of Style is unequivocal when it comes to English language articles - Names not originally in a Latin alphabet must be romanized into characters generally intelligible to English-speakers. 210.7.132.77 (talk) 04:57, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Small villages
I had a picture of Skarð church in Rangárþing ytra, and found an existing stub article Skarð, Iceland that I extended. However, this village/parish is very small and there is little chance that Wikipedia can cover such villages in any number. Besides, this is not the only Skarð on Iceland. Should this article be merged into that of the municipality Rangárþing ytra? That municipality article could contain a list of villages/parishes, former municipalities and other places. --LA2 (talk) 14:39, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Iceland Olympic team
A whole set of new BLPs will need Icelandic names :) In ictu oculi (talk) 00:19, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

No photos of Icelandic people
Hi WikiProject Iceland: I was reading [Scandinavia and the World] and was wondering what Icelandic people looked like. So I visited the page on Icelanders, and was sorely disappointed. No photos of actual Icelandic people. Can you put together a montage or something of famous Icelandic people, like in the Irish people and Han Chinese articles? FurrySings (talk) 04:29, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Sort keys for Icelandic names
The AWB developers are trying to implement the addition of correct sort keys (DEFAULTSORT, listas) for Icelandic names. But, judging by examples, there seems to be great confusion about the matter. According to Icelandic name, Icelandic directories are alphabetized by first name rather than surname, and indeed, many articles use a DEFAULTSORT of "firstname surname". I believe I've seen some which use the same rule as for Chinese names and add a comma: "firstname, surname". A great many have "surname, firstname", but I wonder if a lot of those may have been added by bots or people (with or without tools) who were unfamiliar with Icelandic names. To confuse the matter even further, many articles use one sort key for specifically Iceland-related categories, and a different one for other categories. Can someone help to clear this up? Thanks. M AN d ARAX •  XAЯA b ИA M  21:01, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I think the best solution is "firstname, surname". I have seen the following variants:
 * firstname surname
 * firstname, surname
 * surname, firstname
 * first parameter of Icelandic name (i.e. usually only firstname)
 * -- Magioladitis (talk) 22:24, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Copied from my talk page:
 * When I first ran into Icelandic names as a sorting problem I looked on as many articles as I could to get a sense of what was really happening. Back then there was a tendency to treat the patronym / matronym as a surname except on Iceland-specific categories.  I do not know if that is still true.  JimCubb (talk) 00:57, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
 * -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:34, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

It would be interesting to know how Icelandic phone books sort the names. My other question is how different the later name is than in Swedish. I am between option 2 and 3.-- Magioladitis (talk) 03:51, 16 January 2011 (UTC)


 * First, I don't know what advantage "firstname, surname" would have over "firstname surname". Secondly, this has been written up in MoS-Iceland (now marked as "inactive"). But here, Ipigott points out various real-world problem with the Icelandic order, notably that (however wrongly) most anglophones expect to see (for example) Ragnar Axelsson under "Axelsson" rather than "Ragnar". My own first countersuggestion, which I imagine that most people will hate, is exemplified by the following combination:
 * (within such a list, people will expect or anyway quickly adapt to the Icelandic order)
 * (within such a list, people who don't know he's Icelandic or don't know about Icelandic names will find him more easily via what they will mistakenly imagine is his surname)
 * No I'm not keen on this solution; it's just food for thought. -- Hoary (talk) 11:08, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
 * As I was quoted as writing (above) and still support, this is perhaps the best solution -- “treat the patronym / matronym as a surname except on Iceland-specific categories”. In Hoary's example the sort value for BD, lifetime or DEFAULTSORT would be Axelsson, Ragnar.  So a user or an editor who looks at Category:1958 births and has no clue about the "surname vs. patronym" issue will Ragnar where the user expects to find him.  A user / editor who looks at Category:Icelandic photographers and who should know about patronyms will find Ragnar were the user expects to find him.
 * This method does not address the problem on the talk page where there can be only one sort value and it should be the one in the WikiProject Biography listas or a DEFAULTSORT conflict will occur. (I think I know how to eliminate this problem but I know next to nothing about writing templates and have no authority to do so.  Also, the solution I have in mind would entail a lot of diligence on the part of those who apply project banners and diligence is not a quality that one would first ascribe to them or their bots.)
 * JimCubb (talk) 00:49, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
 * For the talk pages, I would propose to pick the same value with DEFAULTSORT. Since it's only a categorisation only for maintenance reasons, no reason to make a big deal of it. If someone wants to explicitly look for Icelandic names, there are many ways to do so. -- Magioladitis (talk) 18:21, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

This is the conclusion I think: This makes things easier and I'll add a not to the Manual of Style. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:05, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * For Icelandic related categories pipe "first name second name" (no commas)
 * For DEFAULTSORT and other categories use "second name, first name" (with commas). Treat second name as surname.
 * For listas use DEFAULTSORT value (since it mainly categorises in non-Icelandic categories).
 * That's a reasonable enough compromise and basically what we've been doing. A final question is whether medieval names should be treated as modern names. Should Jón Ögmundsson be treated the same as Ögmundur Jónasson? I think the tendency to avoid sorting by patronymic is even greater for medieval people. Perhaps it is less unexpected there? Haukur (talk) 09:35, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes. I think we should follow the same pattern. Less problems, easier for editors to search without knowing the background of the person, etc. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:34, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

I think this is still an issue. Almost half of the pages in Category:Pages with DEFAULTSORT conflicts are caused by a situation like . Which listas should be changed or is there another solution?Naraht (talk) 02:05, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
 * And someone should really update Manual of Style/Iceland-related articles. It contradicts what has been said here. --80.219.253.63 (talk) 06:09, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

I updated Categorization of people and Manual of Style/Iceland-related articles (which, for some reason has been tagged as Historical) to mention the last bullet in comment by User:Magioladitis above Illia Connell (talk) 03:48, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Icelandic Naming Committee (Blær Bjarkardóttir name case)
Hi. I recently updated the Icelandic Naming Committee article with information about Blær Bjarkardóttir (the girl who mounted a successful court challenge to the government's refusal to accept her name). I know essentially no Icelandic at the moment, so I'd be grateful if some people who do know this language could check one of my sources (a news story from RÚV) and make sure my summary of this source is (or isn't) accurate.

Here is the source:

Here is the statement I am using the above source for:

I'm probably going to need to learn Icelandic if I'm going to do much more useful work on this or related subjects; I can tell that Google Translate's attempts at translating Icelandic texts into English are less than ideal (indeed, humorously twisted at times: for example, the program simply does not know how to translate Blær — it comes up with "tint", "veil", and even "mood"). — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 22:02, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Translation of patronymics
An editor has requested comment at WT:MOS, which may affect the way some biographical articles within the scope of this Wikiproject are styled. The discussion is at WT:MOS. Daicaregos (talk) 11:23, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Politics of Iceland page update needed
I have just looked through the Politics of Iceland page because of the 27 April 2013 general election. The page is badly out of date in several places. I copied this as an example: 'The president is elected every four years (last 2004), the cabinet is elected every four years (last 2007) and town council elections are held every four years (last 2006).' I understand that the president of Iceland was reelected in both 2008 and 2012. It seems likely that the other statements (about 2006 and 2007) are also out of date. Can someone who knows what they are doing please update this article? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.28.73.232 (talk) 10:39, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

Concordance of Edda Snorra St.
I found Snorri's Edda cited this way in a book. I suppose this is a genitive case but I am not sure as I ignore Norse. In order to cite in a complete form what is the correct concordance for Sturluson? Thank you for the attention.Aldrasto11 (talk) 06:59, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

"Snorra Sturlusonar" is correct. Declension of his full name is given below.
 * Nominative case: "Snorri Sturluson"
 * Accusative case: "Snorra Sturluson"
 * Dative case: "Snorra Sturlusyni"
 * Genetive case: "Snorra Sturlusonar"

--Snaevar (talk) 09:54, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the prompt reply!Aldrasto11 (talk) 10:03, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Hólmbert Aron Friðjónsson
Can anyone assist in assessing if there is any Icelandic news coverage to provide more biographical detail at Hólmbert Aron Friðjónsson --nonsense ferret  22:26, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

English exonyms for place names
English_exonyms. Can someone check this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:34, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

N-rule — merge or rename article?
There is currently an article on the N-rule in Icelandic. I'm unconvinced that this should really be a separate article, and it seems to me that it should be merged into Icelandic orthography, Icelandic grammar, or Icelandic language. If the "N-rule" really does justify a separate article, then I would propose a different name to make its specific, exclusive connection to the Icelandic language clear — possibly "Icelandic N-rule", or "N-rule (Icelandic language)". Comments? — Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 04:30, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Icelandic names for people with multiple nationalities
After coming across Aron Jóhannsson, I was curious how we should handle Icelandic names of people with significant ties to other countries. Currently, the Icelandic name template indicates this person is properly referred to as Aron, but the article refers to him as Jóhannsson, as though it were a family name. For American purposes, it is—that's what's on the back of his jersey (in Iceland, what goes on the back of Icelandic players' jerseys?). Should we count him, and others like him, as "Americanzed" and treat Jóhannsson as a surname? Practice seems clear for 100% Icelandic people, or for foreign people with Icelandic heritage (e.g., Val Bjornson), but less so for people who can be considered Icelandic and something else. --BDD (talk) 23:29, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * His first name should be used without any doubt. The players of the icelandic national football teams do have their first names on the back of their jerseys. Also, keep in mind that even though Aron does play for the American national team, his name still is Icelandic, and therefore it should follow Icelandic conventions.--Snaevar (talk) 19:14, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles. --Kaiyr (talk) 17:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Help with sources?
Hi! I'm trying to find more information to put in the article for Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, which I just created. I feel that there has to be more coverage out there in Icelandic, but since I cannot read or speak the language I'm running into a bit of a barrier. If anyone wants to help out, I'd be incredibly grateful. I can use Google Translate to a certain degree, but it does have fairly obvious limitations. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   10:52, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
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Gunnar Huseby
Just a heads up - I've written the biography of this athlete and it's a really interesting story. I've tried to get the most out of the sources available, but they are all in Icelandic most quite old) so I may be missing some things. If any Icelandic speakers can add anything extra, that would be great as Huseby seems like quite an important topic for Iceland's sporting history. SFB 12:37, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Vaglaskógur
I started Vaglaskógur. I am having trouble defining the borders of this forest. Does anyone know? Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:55, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, the border of said forest is defined on Icelandic geological survey map (You will need to search for the forest in the top right corner - as this is an Adobe Flash-based website I can't give you an direct link).
 * If you are only after an crude map then OpenStreetMap will suffice. You could use OpenStreetMap on wikipedia if that is what you are after, but you can not do the same with lmi.is (due to copyright reasons).--Snaevar (talk) 16:17, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you very, very much! :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:04, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

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Any WP Iceland project editors left active?
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Move Discussion at Talk:Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
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Tunnels in Iceland?
Currently all but one of the tunnels in Iceland use the Icelandic name ending in -göng. Hvalfjörður Tunnel is the only page that has been translated into english. The Hvalfjörður Tunnel page should be changed to Hvalfjarðargöng as its proper name, which it is known as and all other tunnels follow this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexanderlyd (talk • contribs) 19:41, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * That is actually like it should be. It may seem a bit odd, particularly to an Icelander, but the current agreement is to name articles by the most common name in English sources. Other tunnels typically do not follow this naming because there are not enough English sources to support that claim.--Snaevar (talk) 22:36, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson
Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson is the Prime Minister in 2016, but I don't know how to fix this page. Please fix it for me.--DThomsen8 (talk) 00:10, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Sigurður Ingi Jóhannsson is still the PM, not his predecessor.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 01:06, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

The 10,000 Challenge
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Prime Minister assumed office 7 April 2016
CurrentPrime Minister assumed office 7 April 2016. Please fix the date on this page.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 15:07, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Consider it done.--Snaevar (talk) 14:42, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

Úrvalsdeild
Pepsi League on the left side should be Pepsi League. Can someone fix that?--Dthomsen8 (talk) 00:08, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

Eyarland Statue in en.wp
I cannot find the statue´s specifications of high an weight, also the National Museum of Iceland is silencing these measures. In en.wp I read ″about 6,4 cm″ but no source. Some 20 years ago by post I received a replica of about 16 cm high and slight differences in the shape of its beard and mjöllnir. Please give the missing source if possible. Thx, --Machtjan X (talk) 13:12, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Added an source. Actually the "Eldjárn, Kristján (1981)" source also mentions the size, so there was not really any additional source needed. The weight is 115 grams, as per Þórslíkneski, National Museum of Iceland (in Icelandic). The statue is detailed enough to allow for replicas that are larger than the original.--Snaevar (talk) 17:43, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Cannabis in Iceland needs improvement
We have a new article Cannabis in Iceland, but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read Icelandic sources. With a little polishing, it'd also be really useful to make a translated version for Icelandic Wikipedia since it's a topic of increasing interesting these days. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 03:01, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I could particularly use help in figuring out the precise year in which cannabis was first banned in Iceland, sometime in the 1960s? Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 06:07, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Found not only the year cannabis was banned, but the date. Further icelandic sources exists, for example on illegal uses that the authorities have known about.--Snaevar (talk) 00:54, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Transliteration of Icelandic
At Redirects for discussion/Log/2016 December 17 it would be useful to have input from one or more people familiar with transliteration of Icelandic into environments that don't use diacritics. Thanks, Thryduulf (talk) 11:24, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

Category:Grand Crosses with Collar of the Order of the Falcon has been nominated for discussion
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Catalogue of Icelandic Volcanoes
Howdy everyone, I've added links to the new Catalogue of Icelandic Volcanoes to various articles on volcanoes in Iceland. Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Volcanoes for details -- this is just a heads-up I wanted to give to a related WikiProject. Bestu kveðjur! Schneelocke (talk) 23:32, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Norðmanna and Northmanna
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Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
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Renewable energy in Iceland
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Defaultsort and Þ
I noticed that in Category:Populated places in Southern Region (Iceland), Þorlákshöfn is sorted under "Th" while Þykkvabær is sorted under "Þ". I assume there is a general convention where articles on Icelandic topics whose titles start with Þ should be sorted, but I'm not familiar with it. Maybe someone could impose some consistency? Huon (talk) 19:42, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
 * At a closer look sorting Þ as "Th" seems to be common. I've done that for Þykkvabær. Huon (talk) 19:30, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Cabinet question
I just did a quick cleanup project of moving people who had been filed directly in into appropriate subcategories, such as  and/or. However, while there were a couple of articles about current or recent officeholders which made it clear that the person belonged in both subcategories, there were many more that mentioned only the person's service in cabinet but said nothing at all about whether they served in the Althing or not. I know that it works differently in different countries and the Cabinet of Iceland article doesn't make it very clear either way, so I wanted to ask rather than assuming anything: does Iceland work like Canada or Britain, where the cabinet is selected within the legislature and so a government minister would be automatically also a member of the Althing by definition, or does it work more like the United States, where the cabinet is selected separately from the legislature and so a cabinet minister is not necessarily a present or former member of the Althing?

If it's the former, then there will need to be a separate run to add to the cabinet ministers that I refiled today — but if it's the latter, somebody may still need to research whether some of the cabinet ministers had also served in the Althing, because many of them had extremely inadequate articles that need expansion. Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 18:47, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * After each election, the president gives one party the right to form an government. The parties that form an government also agree to an list of ministers which is then approved by the president. (Legally speaking, the president appoints the ministers, but the habit is to allow the majority to appoint ministers). Ministers do not have to be members of the parliament. For example, in the Second cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (2009-2013), both Gylfi and Ragna where ministers, but they have never been members of the parliament.--Snaevar (talk) 19:46, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
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Requested move
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gothi that would benefit from your opinion. Please come and help!  Paine Ellsworth , ed.  put'r there  16:00, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

Alternate Names For Stokksnes
I just edited the Wikipedia page for the Icelandic mountain known as "Stokksnes" to state that this mountain is also known as "Vestrahorn" or "Vesturhorn" so that people (such as myself) searching for those names may be able to find that article. If anyone knows any reasons why those two names should NOT be considered synonyms for Stokksnes, feel free to un-do my edit; otherwise, I think it should be left in.

(As for my "sources", I found at least one web site which states that the three names in question all refer to the same place.)

LoneWolfiNTj (talk) 02:04, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * They are within 5 km of each other, but not geographicly the same. Vestarahorn or Vesturhorn is an dent in the mountain Kastarárfjall, north of Stokksnes. Stokksnes on the other hand covers only the small peninsula (or headland). I left Vestarahorn in, but explained the difference.--Snaevar (talk) 20:20, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Icelandic króna: Íkr?
There is a discussion at Template_talk:Currency about the best currency symbol to be used for the Icelandic króna in a context where it could be confused with the Danish, Swedish or Norwegian "kr". I know that the Swedes use the ISO_4217 abbreviation SEK in that situation. What symbol would an Icelandic person use in that situation? ISK? Íkr? Or something else?  Stepho  talk 06:12, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
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Need information on a WWII US military base in Iceland
I was reading the Wikipedia entry on Kaldadarnes. The Kaldadarnes entry linked to the entry on WWII sites in Iceland. Only RAF Kadadarnes was listed there. The list seems incomplete. There was a US military base inland somewhere between Gardur and Gunnuhver. It is marked by a historic sign/road marker there. I have seen the marker but I do not have a photo of it. Thank you for accepting this task, about which I do not have further information. Anne9853 (talk) 11:49, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * The WWII site between Gardur and Gunnuhver is Keflavík airport. At the time, it included two airfields, with Patterson airfield being the second one, but it is not currently within the Keflavík airport area. Keflavík airport is used as an civilian airfield nowadays, but there are also army patrols from other nations that use the field aswell. Patterson airfield is not used at all anymore.--Snaevar (talk) 22:45, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

New results table for elections
Hello all, I have developed a new results table to replace the old templates for the Icelandic election pages and have posted here as it is a fairly significant change that you might want to talk about. Please find an example of the new table below. I have edited the following election pages with this new table: 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2009 and 2013 so far and plan to input these new tables to all election pages for Iceland if there is general agreement. Most of the information that was on the templates have been transferred over to the new results tables. However there is some differences, these are; I have also kept the chairperson(s) column in the table as it clearly shows the politicians that led their parties through the election. I feel this keeping this column is clear for the reader, rather than create additional tables that would clutter the article or make it hard to find within the body of the text. I hope folks here think these are an improvement and look forward to peoples thoughts on them. Humongous125 (talk) 19:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
 * These tables have a nice, clear and cleaner format.
 * The election symbol is used on ballot papers and by media to identify parties. It is relevant information and so I have added it to the table.
 * Though this may be contentious, I have removed the Icelandic translation of the party names as they seemed to clutter the table slightly and the translation can generally be found in the party article.
 * I have also added links at the top to previous and subsequent elections to make it easier for navigating when there is no infobox.


 * Awesome. Thanks for those result tables.--Snaevar (talk) 16:36, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Thankyou for your comment.

There is a disagreement on the above table format I am aiming to roll-out for the the remaining Icelandic election pages taking place here Talk:1987 Icelandic parliamentary election. The discussion there is an ongoing debate from other talk pages. I would like to invite other editors to give their opinions and thoughts on it there to help bring the discussion to a resolution. Humongous125 (talk) 21:37, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Niceland Seafood
I just created Niceland Seafood - I was inspired by my grandmother who lives in Iceland as I was looking for an Icelandic related page to create. I told her about the page and she couldn't find it when doing a Google search. Either could I. Does it take time for it to appear?

Would someone be able to assist with adding the company logo to the page?

Thank you! MaskedSinger (talk) 16:01, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Articles younger than 90 days do not show up on Google. As for the logo see Non-free content for what rules apply and Media copyright questions if you have any questions about uploading that logo. I can not help you.--Snaevar (talk) 16:31, 16 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your reply but I see new articles that also went through the AFC process recently that now appear in Google...MaskedSinger (talk) 18:12, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Template:Infobox Iceland municipality
Template:Infobox Iceland municipality has been nominated for deletion. Comments are welcome in the discussion. – Uanfala (talk) 17:39, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

"Mainly statistical division" references in town infoboxes
The infoboxes for Icelandic towns include the notes "Political division" and "Mainly statistical division" in references when explaining what the infobox labels "Constituency" and "Region" means. There are 80 instance.

I feel these notes serve no purpose, it is obvious what these terms refer to (especially since they link to Constituencies of Iceland and Regions of Iceland) and they sort of clutter up the references sections (most town articles are unsourced, so we end up with examples like this one where the entire reference section is just explaining that a region is a statistical division).

Would anyone oppose me removing these notes?

(Pinging, the only other semi-active editor at this board, who may be willing to opine here)

– Thjarkur (talk) 21:00, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Fine by me. I am generally fine with any trivial changes; Icelandic regions and Constituencies are most of the time the same anyways.--Snaevar (talk) 16:45, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Icelandic categories
Hi, The note Category:Icelandic footballers has been changed from:

'People in this category should be alphabetized by given name, in accordance with the traditional naming conventions of Iceland. Icelanders typically have a given name and a patronymic. About 10% of the Icelandic population, notably the father-son pair of Arnór Guðjohnsen and Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen, have inherited family names, but are addressed in Iceland by their given names.'

to

'People in this category should be alphabetized by given name, in accordance with the traditional naming conventions of Iceland. Icelanders typically have a given name and a patronymic.'

by User:GiantSnowman

I started adding forenames as per before the change, should I now revert them to being family names ? Please advise GrahamHardy (talk) 19:31, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * You were trying to sort by forename for non-Icelandic players or players without patronyms, why? GiantSnowman 19:33, 1 February 2021 (UTC)


 * In Iceland, names are alphabetized by the given name regardless if the last name is a patronym or a family name or if the person is Icelandic or foreign. In my opinion all the people in the category should be alphabetized the same way. Alvaldi (talk) 19:54, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * What sources or Wikipedia consensus or convention is that based on? GiantSnowman 19:55, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Here is an english source "And since there are technically no last names, Icelanders refer to each other simply by first name. All directories such as the telephone directory are alphabetized by first name." Here is an alphabetized players listing of the current football national champions on the official site of the Football Association of Iceland. Note that there are several foreign players listed there and their name is alphabetized by their first name. Alvaldi (talk) 20:04, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The claim that there are no surnames is contradicted by Graham's reliance on the claim that 10% of Icelandic people have surnames. Which is it? GiantSnowman 20:14, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The article doesn't claim that there are no surnames in Iceland, it states that "there are technically no last names" as Icelanders do not reference each other with them. Case in point Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen who is called Eiður Smári and one Izudin Dervić who is known as Izudin Daði  or simply Daði . Alvaldi (talk) 20:35, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Where did I say article? Look at Graham's initial post, where he quotes directly from the category - "About 10% of the Icelandic population [...] have inherited family names". GiantSnowman 21:01, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * "The claim that there are no surnames [...]". I'll admit you lost me a bit with that as I don't see any claims here of there being no surnames so I assumed you were mistaking the statement from the article. For the record, according to the National Statistical Institute of Iceland about 4% of the population of Iceland has an Icelandic family names that originates from before 1925 when creations of new family names where banned. Regardless of all that, this discussion is about whether to alphabetized the names in the category according to Icelandic naming conventions or not so the percent of family names in Iceland is irrelevant. Alvaldi (talk) 21:27, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * You posted that earlier "there are technically no last names", quoting from a source; now you say there are 4% of the population, quoting from a different source. Graham said 10%. Who am I to believe?
 * Back on topic - I have no problem sorting Icelandic players in Iceland-related categories by forename, but trying to do that for foreign or foreign-born players is not appropriate. GiantSnowman 21:31, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * The "technically no last names" is fairly obviously a nod to the fact that the majority of Icelanders have patronymic and address each other, regardless of whether the person has a family name or not, by their first name. Graham is not stating that 10% of the populations has family names, at least not here, he is merely displaying the text that was changed in Category:Icelandic footballers. The original 10% claim was added to that category in 2005. None of this has any bearing on the discussion. My opinion is still that all the people in the Icelandic categories should be alphabetized the same way, by first name per Icelandic naming conventions, regardless of whether they are born in Iceland or are naturalised citizens. Foreign born Icelandic players are referenced by their first name in Iceland just like everybody else and they are listed alphabetically by their first name just like everybody else. Alvaldi (talk) 22:21, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * And my opinion is that non-Icelandic or naturalised Icelandic people with traditional surnames should not be sorted by forename. GiantSnowman 20:15, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree with Alvaldi here, the exact number of Icelanders with family names is irrelevant, as long it is not the majority of the population. I guessed that there where better arguments for sorting Icelanders by family names, but that is clearly not the case.--Snaevar (talk) 15:17, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi, How do we seek dispute resolution (as per the top)?GrahamHardy (talk) 21:09, 3 February 2021 (UTC)

It would be helpful if you actually discussed the matter. You made edits which I reverted; you then posted here rather than talk to me; you then failed to respond to any of the comments here; you then simply made the same edits which I again reverted... GiantSnowman 22:03, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi, there are three types of people in Icelandic categories:

i.e. the sorting should be consistent, otherwise it is a muddle, some with forenames, some with family names GrahamHardy (talk) 00:39, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Icelandic with Patronomic names - definitely should have sorting on forenames
 * Category:Icelandic people with family names should have sorting on forenames (I think)
 * non-Icelandics with family names. My choice is that all Icelandic named people categories should have the same sorting, i.e with forenames.
 * Except you have also been attempting to sort non Icelandic people by forename as well... GiantSnowman 08:49, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Not generally, only where Icelandic categories contain people exist, is there a general acceptance that Icelandic people are sorted on forenames even if they have family names? GrahamHardy (talk) 18:33, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
 * @GrahamHardy There is conseus to sort by fornames in some situations in articles on Icelandic people. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Iceland/Archive_3 for details.--Snaevar (talk) 15:17, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

I think there is confusion for example over Category:Icelandic footballers and Category:Footballers in Iceland. I believe that option 2 is wrong, 3 is confusing, 1 is better. What do people think? GrahamHardy (talk) 16:31, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Category:Icelandic footballers which includes the note that "People in this category should be alphabetized by given name, in accordance with the traditional naming conventions of Iceland. Icelanders typically have a given name and a patronymic."
 * Category:Footballers in Iceland, no such note is included, so is this kind of category an 'Icelandic category' (with some non-Icelandic people)
 * 1) Do we use all forenames?
 * 2) Do we use patronymics?
 * 3) Do Icelandic people have forenames and non-Icelanders have surnames?
 * For the first I would go with "use all forenames" easily. For the second (Footballers in Iceland) I'd see what the practices are of English-language media in Iceland and go with that. Surely they have local papers covering footballers... WhisperToMe (talk) 02:11, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Icelandic names in football templates
Hi should the template and similar have 1st or last names eg. GrahamHardy (talk) 23:04, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * If it's possible, I'd go with full names. While footballers do show their patronym on the back of their shirts due to foreign football registrations (or something along those lines), few if any know who these people are if they're just shown patronyms. Full names are usually what's shown in statistics in Iceland. – Thjarkur (talk) 23:38, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Patronyms only, as is standard and reflects usage on football shirts. GiantSnowman 19:33, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I wonder if usage differs between Icelandic teams and foreign teams, and does the English language press use the patronyms? WhisperToMe (talk) 02:05, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Can we have fullnames? GrahamHardy (talk) 00:40, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd go with full names personally WhisperToMe (talk) 02:05, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
 * In English-language press the patronyms are treated like surnames. GiantSnowman 18:20, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

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