User talk:Edinborgarstefan

Weißenburg in Bayern

Good job on expanding Weißenburg in Bayern! - Haukur Þorgeirsson 09:22, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps I could interest you in this little edit war: [1]

I'm currently all out of reverts (WP:3RR). - Haukur Þorgeirsson 10:27, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

hello there, terribly sorry to disturb you with this topic, but there is a new vote Talk:Weissenburg in Bayern on finally renaming it to Weißenburg in Bayern and since you have shown previous interested, I just thought I'd let you know what is going on... with kind regards. Gryffindor 22:49, 23 October 2005 (UTC) sorry I totally oversaw you already voted, my apologies! Gryffindor 22:52, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Arnaldur Indriðason

Hey, I was editing Arnaldur Indriðason, but you beat me to it! Hmpfr. You know, I'm very busy proving that I'm not a sock-poppet and therefore don't appriciate people stealing my edit-count! :p Arndisdunja 16:43, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

My RFA

Thank you for supporting my nomination till the end. I'm sorry that so much of what you've seen of Wikipedia so far has consisted of debates and arguments. It really can be a very nice place to hang around - in fact most of it is, most of the time. I hope you'll keep contributing good articles like the one on that ineffable German city :) - Haukur Þorgeirsson 22:26, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Note

I just happened to read your essay... commentary... whatever and find myself absolutely agreeing with it, so I just wanted to tell you that if there are any discussions related to this where my vote might be needed, just tell me (in case I don't notice myself). Gah. "Weiss" hurts my eyes. Cheerio! File:Austria flag large.png ナイトスタリオン ✉ 22:49, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Wuerzburg radar

Please note that Giflesund is a sockpuppet of the hard-banned troll Wik. He is permanently forbidden by Jimbo from editing any Wikipedia content and may be automatically reverted as and when any edits are made. --Centauri 22:56, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Dronke

Takk. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 23:21, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Depression and anxiety

Depression and anxiety are extremely common comorbidities in chronic fatigue syndrome. I think it belongs in that section. A person scanning the article could easily miss it in the plethora of the other text. Rather than getting into a revert war, I'd like for you to consider this.DocJohnny 11:15, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Addendum

Thank you for your response. I guess I am used to a certain amount of redundancy in medical texts and articles, although I can see your point as well. I do still feel that it should be mentioned for the sake of clarity and have made the adjustment in the links that you suggested. Thank you for your input. I agree that definitions are the problem here. The syndrome and its sufferers are not aided much by all the acrimonious exchanges which I believe lie at their root in inaccuracies in language and the resultant misunderstanding of causality that it engenders. I look forward to future collaborations. DocJohnny 11:14, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Faroese

Sorry, but I don't think I can help. I don't know anything about Faroese, nor do I have any references on it. (I don't know anything about Icelandic either, but at least I have references about that.) --User:Angr/talk 15:54, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

wow...

Thanks for your message. I did not have any dealing with User:CDThieme except one run-in in a voting procedure, where he strangely voted an oppose to a renaming procedure, which is still running. because of his vote, my proposal is going to be ruined now Talk:Abul-Qassim Khoei. Is it allowed to cross his vote off in this case? Gryffindor 11:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

HOLY COW! i can't believe this, he manipulated the vote! now i'm noticing this. ok, so what does that mean, if i deduct the quadruple votes he gave, would the proposals to rename still work? and how did users find out this person was overrepresenting himself? because i find it a bit difficult to discern. and shouldn't the sockpuppet tags be attached to the user page? you probably know how it looks like, take a look here User:Arrigo Gryffindor 14:00, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

ps: hey cool, thanks for helping me out on that vote, really appreciate it.

Babel

I think I understand what you were saying about the Babel templates now. I decided to put up a language list, and only at the last minute did I spot one for Old Norse. I didn't have time to rewrite them. Another user pointed out that they were badly written, which is what he thought you meant. So I have rewritten them. Wighson 06:40, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

sonr

That is a very beautiful vellum. It is great how many resources such as this have been uploaded to the internet; now anyone can look at them without having to travel or put on those little white gloves. You pose some very interesting questions. I moved the page to comply with efforts to standardize spelling. Personally, I prefer to leave off strong endings and diacriticals in English (to yield "Egil Skallagrimsson"), but that is not the proposed standard. I am not a palaeographer and I have no idea what the statistical average of "sonr" would be. Thus I was using only the standard reference work. I didn't think I would bother anyone by the move, but then again I could be wrong. I'll try to look at the discussion page and see if anyone prefered "son." Wighson 00:49, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I just left a note at Talk:Egill Skallagrímssonr inviting anyone to move it back. I can't decide either, and you made a very good point. Wighson 01:00, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Þorgeir Ljósvetningagoði

Thanks for improving my hasty English version of that page, which I made haste to make after seeing it turn up on AfD. I learned after Googling the name of the waterfall that foss is "waterfall" rather than "ravine" or "rapids", which was my impression. By all means look at the history and see if there is something I blew or something important I left out. Smerdis of Tlön 05:15, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

"Ancient Greek philology"

LOL, I've no idea where that came from. Thanks for your help. :-) Bishonen | talk 13:08, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Nightstallion

I was going to call your attention to Nightstallion's RFA but I see you're already there :) - Haukur 20:17, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Jebb, I saw it in your log :) Stefán Ingi 20:18, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Wikisource

Sæll!

Til að stofna Wikisourcesíðu fyrir íslenzku þurfum við að tilnefna bürokrat. Hvern eigum við að draga í það embætti? Sjálfum datt mér helzt í hug þú eða Haukur. Beztu kveðjur Io 18:05, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Þannig að þú ert Bürokratinn? Ef svo er, njóttu heill! Það gleður mig, að komin sé íslenzk Wikisource. Textar munu vætla inn. Sjálfur hefi ég áhuga á að koma Stephani G., Þorsteini Erlingssyni og Einari Benediktssyni þangað inn, en Einar verður víst ekki almenningseign fyrr en 2010. Sjálfsagt er að setja hlekki í Netútgáfuna og Jörmungrund. Ég er ekki fær um að taka mikinn þátt fyrri hluta janúars, en Þerriblaðsvísur á ég þó og mig langar til að setja inn Á ferð og flugi. Beztu kveðjur Io 19:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Wikisource aftur

Ég veit, að þetta er smáræði, en gætirðu breytt letrinu á hnappnum Forskoða í Wikisource í Skoða? Seinni útgáfan er heldur skárri íslenzka. Beztu kveðjur Io 19:47, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Ég kláraði kvæðið Þótt þú langförull legðir, og það gekk, en mér tókst ekki að bæta við öðru skáldi (Páli Vídalín), sem ætti heima í undirflokknum Vísum. Er eitthvað sérstakt, sem maður þarf að vita. Beztu kveðjur Io 20:27, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm. Mér sýnist þú þurfa að breyta http://is.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Vísur&action=edit í http://is.wikisource.org/wiki/Vísur á forsíðunni í Wikisource. Enn fremur hafa tilraunir mínar leitt til þess, að á kerfissíðunni Titlalisti, sem ég má ekki breyta, eru vísurnar tvíteknar. Þú mættir fjarlægja augljósu villuna. En hvernig kemur maður nýjum greinum inn á skammlausan hátt? (Ég er nýr í þessu, en mun vonandi vitkast, svo að þú gætir sem bezt bent mér á einhvern idiotsikker hlekk.) Beztu kveðjur (og fyrst ég gleymdi því áðan), gleðilegt ár. :) Io 21:54, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, ég gefst upp í bili. Ég hefi örugglega skilið eftir mig einhvern sóðaskap undir Vísum og á því biðst ég afsökunar. Beztu kveðjur Io 22:25, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

My Request for Adminship

Greetings, Edinborgarstefan! I wanted to sincerely thank you for voting in my RfA, which passed with a final result of 55/14/3. Your support means a lot to me! If you have any questions or input regarding my activities, be they adminly or just a "normal" user's, or if you just want to chat about anything at all, feel free to drop me a line. Cheers! —Nightstallion (?) 07:38, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

RfC

See Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Edinborgarstefan --Francis Schonken 19:12, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Möppudýr

Sæll!

Hve langan tíma tekur að útnefna möppudýr? Ég er algerlega sáttur við, að þú ríkir þarna sem alvaldur eða heimildadrottinn eða undir hvaða titli þú annars kýst þér. Hins vegar virðist vera erfiðleikum bundið að setja texta inn. Þú gerðir mér greiða, ef þú snyrtir fyrir mig titlasíðuna. Hún er sóðug og það er mér að kenna. Beztu kveðjur Io 20:45, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Takk fyrir svarið. Ég mun láta leka frá mér texta eftir því sem tími vinnst til. En hvernig ber maður sig að við að setja nýjan flokk á forsíðuna, t. d. rímur, ný skáld etc? Ég las kóðann og sá fátt hjálplegt. En ekki stressa þig út af þessu. Þú hefir unnið mjög gott verk og þetta kemst allt í gagnið líklega fyrr en síðar. Beztu kveðjur. Io 20:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

PS: Ef þetta er heimskuleg spurning í ljósi leiðbeininga þinna, þá verður svo að hafa. :-) Beztu kveðjur Io 21:01, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Ö

Ö is definitely not a diphtong. It is apparently a wide-spread belief that any Icelandic vowel with any sort of diacritic is a diphtong, but that is not the case. You don't even need a book to make sure of that. Cheerio Io 22:59, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

As any German speaker can attest, it's an umlaut instead. ;) —Nightstallion (?) 23:26, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Hljóðritunin á Vatnajökli er rétt núna, nema hvað l-ið í endann á að vera óraddað. Ég reyndi að bæta úr þessu, en þá lenti hringurinn undir t-inu. Kanntu ráð? Beztu kveðjur Io 18:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Jæja, fyrst þú vilt rita ensku hér. :) The ring appears under the t as is. Do we have a solution, perhaps by combining symbols, l + ring_under or whatever it is called? Cheerio Io 18:53, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Órödduð hljóð

Sæll!

Það kemur í ljós við tilraunir, að til að hringurinn, sem táknar raddleysi, lendi undir réttum staf, þarf að hafa eyðu á milli stafsins og hringsins. T. d. kemur tl̥ svona út tl̥, en tl ̥ svona tl ̥. Ætti þar með Vatnajökull að vera leystur. Beztu kveðjur Io 19:09, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Búinn að breyta þessu. Þetta kemur vel út. Kveðja Io 19:13, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Laozi

Sorry not to have responded sooner (I somehow missed your message until now). Thanks for the information — I agree that it does change things somewhat, though I don't think that there was consensus even with the sock-puppet votes included. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:58, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Brunswick/Braunscweig

Hey Edinborgarstefan, can you point me to the discussion where ppl discussed whether it was Brunswick or Braunschweig? I changed it to Brunswick last time because the people on the [[2]] asked me to. I did bring it up on the talk page, where I didn't get a definitive answer (and only one reply). The naming convention on the geographical pages is a mess actually. It's strange that we have the article on the city and region at "Braunschweig" but the article for the state is at Brunswick-Lüneburg. Borisblue 15:13, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Actually I don't mind either usage- just consistency (in the Gauss article both Brunswick and Braunscweig were used before i edited it). Either Brunswick-Lüneburg or Braunschweig should be moved imho. Borisblue 17:18, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Three weeks of admin tools

Today three weeks have passed since I was granted access to the administrator toolbox. During this time I have made use of it in the following way:

• Protections and unprotections: 1
• Blocks and unblocks: 4
• Deletions and restorations: 69
• Rollbacks: 246

I've found that the rollback tool is much more useful than I'd thought for vandalism patrol. In fact it makes that task so easy that I've been doing it more than before. On the other hand I've been surprised by how little the blocking tool is needed. Having done a significant amount of vandalism patrol I have still only blocked one solitary vandal. The great majority of addresses which send out a vandal edit do so only once. Those who do it more often usually stop after a warning or two. Only rarely is a block actually needed and in those cases someone usually beats me to it.

As a side note I haven't retired from writing articles either. I'm still hoping to bring Freyr up to featured status but even though I've already performed more edits on it than on Hrafnkels saga back in the day, a lot of work remains to be done. Community expectations for featured articles have gone up and so have my own ambitions. I'm currently waiting for a couple of books I ordered to arrive and then I may be able to make the final push.

I'm trying my best to live up to the trust you showed in me by supporting my RFA. If ever you feel uncertain whether I'm using the admin tools in the best interests of the project, let me know. I am at any time willing to relinquish the mop and reapply for it to address concerns people have and ensure that I'm not using the admin tools without being trusted to do so. Haukur 22:35, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Hadingus

Sko, ég held að "war" geti alveg virkað sem sögn. En hvað um það. Fáðu þér pywikipedia - þá geturðu gert svona kúl disambig-edit eins og ég. Gaman líka að hamast úr skipanalínunni. Ekkert vesen, bara python-pakki. Haukur 19:01, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, já það er nú sennilega rétt, það voru bara of mörg orð sem rötuðu ekki í rétta orðflokka þegar ég las þetta fyrst. Af hverju hafðirðu annars mest allan textan í nútíð? En vaðandi pywikipediu þá er ég hræddur um að ég þurfi að eyða minni tíma hérna í fyrirsjáanlegri framtíð og það að sækja eitthvað svona myndi örugglega ekki stuðla að því. Stefán Ingi 10:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Jæja, þabbaraþabb. Já, spurning um tíðina... Mér finnst e-n veginn eins og með því að hafa söguna í þátíð gefi maður í skyn að verið sé að lýsa sögulegum atburðum en ekki bara gera útdrátt úr bók. Bráðum fæ ég kannski nýja tölvu og þá get ég haft MSN aftur... Haukur 10:38, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Sælir, þið gaurar!

Ég veit nokkurn veginn, hvað Python gengur út á, en þarf maður að læra eitt tölvumál í viðbót til að verða liðtækur? Beztu kveðjur Io 19:19, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Þjóðernishyggja

Sæll!

Ég er með sömu bón til þín og Hauks, þ. e. að tjá þig á síðunni Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Icelandic_nationalism. Síðan var ákaflega vond áður en ég fór að fikta í henni. Núna er hún bara vond, og auk þess gagnslaus. Beztu kveðjur Io 20:18, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

your input

hi Edinborgstefan, how are you? You seem to be knowledgeable in this area and was wondering if you could take a look at the discussion that is taking place here, Talk:Meißen porcelain, thank you. with kind regards Gryffindor 09:56, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

you r right, it's Rudi Krugman mentions him

But in official citations of books and articles the late Rudiger Dornbusch [3] is always (almost) referred to as Rudi by those who known who is is already. In an encyclopedia, many people may not already be trade or international finance economists. John wesley 13:29, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

You are right. It doesn't matter to me either, Though we should see if Rudiger Dornbusch has an article on wiki, cuz ello era mas famoso. John wesley 15:52, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't remember, did we link him to the overshoot model? John wesley 20:54, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Ancient Greek wikisource

There is an ongoing initiative to create a Wikisurce in Ancient Greek. Please provide your comments at meta:Requests_for_new_languages/Ancient#Ancient_Greek_Wikisource.  Andreas   ^(T) 13:19, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Strasse des 17 Juni

I am not an administrator so my method of moving these articles around may not have been correct. But Strasse des 17 Juni is the better version because: 1. "ß" is not a letter of the English alphabet, 2. it is a better article. Please abolish the other article by whatever means is appropriate. Adam 14:05, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Straßennamen

I see you started a move request to get Wilhelmstrasse moved to Wilhelmstraße, where I would say it belongs. Do you think it would be possible to have a more general vote covering all German and Austrian street names ending in "-straße", to decide whether they should be spelt with -ss- or -ß-? Or would that be seen as undermining the more general ß policy (or lack thereof)? It seems silly to have many small votes (and I see you've been involved in several, er…, discussions about this recently), when we could have one larger one and have done with it. I deliberately exclude Switzerland, where the spelling rules are different. What do you think? --Stemonitis 08:51, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

I think it's clear that people supporting the Wilhelmstraße move would support moves of other Strasses in Germany and Austria but I'm not so interested in setting it up. Maybe we can see how this one goes and take it from there? I chose the Wilhelmstrasse to take to WP:RM because it was the most detailed article. The problem with all of this is that Adam Carr has been writing quite good articles on streets in Berlin and I tend to like to let the people writing the articles decide on the names, although not when they write new articles on subjects which we already have articles on at other places. However, what was going on between Angr and Adam clearly had to be stopped and that was what I was trying to do with this proposed move. Stefán Ingi 12:57, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

IPA

I think I'm beginning to understand and agree with your efforts concerning the IPA tag. Would you be so kind as to place one on the article about Kraków, for me. Some of my computer skills need tutoring. Dr. Dan 02:46, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

You placed the tag on the Algirdas article. Maybe I don't understand the purpose of the tag, or perhaps your understanding of when where it should be applied. Can you elucidate? Dr. Dan 12:53, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Would such a tag be appropriate on the article about Kemal Attaturk? If so, will you do so? Dr. Dan 15:23, 23 June 2006 (UTC) When you have time of course.

What is your level of knowledge in Lithuanian? Dr. Dan 20:28, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Now I'm really confused. You know nothing about Lithuanian, yet you put up the IPA tags in several articles. You say you know nothing about the Turkish language, and this is why you can't put up the same tag on Attaturk. So what gives, or what's the difference? Dr. Dan 20:58, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks

For attempting to achieve a compromise. --Molobo 15:12, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Diacritics in Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse article

I put back the diacritics in the article without looking at the history, I am sorry about that, but now that I have done it, I think it looks better than before, and I hope you don't mind. Blur4760 11:37, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Vo[ ]stra[ ]e

I appreciate your stepping in to our squabble; I think in this case a third party is exactly what was needed. --Stemonitis 13:21, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Apparently though, considering Adam's latest comments [4], only one side seems to appreciate this. Stefán Ingi 13:43, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Wilhelmstrasse Survey Results

Please see Talk:Wilhelmstrasse#Survey Results. Decision time :-(

--Philip Baird Shearer 13:57, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Óláfs ríma Haraldssonar

I've just found the first ríma in a 19th century Old Norse reader. Think we should put it on Wikisource? And maybe write an article? [5] [6] [7] Haukur 14:06, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it is very interesting and by all means we should put it on wikisource and I will help writing it up -- but I cannot do it tonight. Stefán Ingi 21:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

There's no hurry, it's waited 600 years :) Haukur 21:53, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Snilld! Ætlarðu ekki að skella þessu á Wikiheimildina? Best að skrifa svo stubb um þetta hérna og kannski á íslenskunni líka. Haukur 19:48, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

An invitation to discuss Icelandic terminology

The user Haukurth suggested that I ask you for the Icelandic translations of certain words. A discussion has begun at The movement of Fróði on his talk page; care to contribute your expertise? Doremítzwr 14:04, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I have written a long spiel explaining the context of the terminology on Haukurth’s Talk Page. Thanks again for your help. Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 04:07, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thank you so much for teaching me Icelandic terminology! If you ever need a favour in future — feel free to ask. Ex animo, Raifʻhār Doremítzwr

I’ve responded to your very helpful translations on Haukur’s Talk Page. Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 05:00, 5 August 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 several Indian languages, including Icelandic. Thanks, --Soman 12:50, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Þ, Ð and Phonetics

Firstly thanks for the thankes. But don't mind to adjust any mistakes or inconvenient collocations of anything. I'm not a linguist myself, and what I know about Icelandic IPA transcription is actually a "collage" of things I have seen in many places and that I think suit better to what I occasionally hear when I'm lucky enough to hear Icelandic being spoken. I actually know much less than I seem to. For example, the question about the Great Vowel Shift: I actually know almost nothing about the subject, and it was mostly a wild guess of what it could have been. So we'd better leave Icelandic unchanged in the article and wait for someone with better experience adjust it.
Finally, I would like to thank you for helping me learn a bit more of Icelandic phonology (which by the way deserves an article). Ciacchi 21:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Gaudy Night

I do not understand your reasons for removing Gaudy Night form the University of Oxford. It is one of the most famous Oxford-based books, set in an Oxford College. The hero and heroine are Oxford graduates and this is the one Lord Peter book set almost entirely in Oxford. It should be replaced. --Bduke 23:33, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I didn't mean any harm by removing this particular book, I had not heard of it before. Can I ask why you say that it is one of the most famous Oxford-based books? Is is more famous than the other Lord Peter Wimsey books and is it better known to take place at Oxford than the other crime fiction mentioned, which are whole series set at Oxford? Stefán Ingi 23:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

I have replied on Talk:University of Oxford. I suggest we keep the discussion there. --Bduke 01:14, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Meissen

Rather than moving the article away from the established English form right away, please use the talk page and WP:RM as you suggested earlier. It is hypocritical to say one thing and do another. There currently is a discussion on the talk page. Charles 23:30, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes I was commenting on the talk page but there was an edit conflict as you had moved it again. It's probably safer to put the comment here. I was just going to say that you are certainly presenting valid arguments but I don't agree with them and I think that it is not surprising to see Meißen in an English language publication. Anyway, I'm off to bed now. Stefán Ingi 23:40, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Surprising it may not be, but rare it is. At any rate, good night. Charles 23:42, 15 August 2006 (UTC)