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Removal of translations
editWikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary#Major_differences clearly states that translations of an article name into other languages should be put in Wiktionary, not Wikipedia. The Chinese and Japanese (hardly with any relevance to Icelandic language) versions for the name "Iceland" or "Republic of Iceland" are merely translations, with no literal differences with the original Icelandic name. I would consider the removal of these translations reasonable. --supernorton 10:34, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
- No literal differences? The chinese one translates literally to "Ice Island"....--Marhawkman (talk) 10:50, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Language lesson
editI'd like to propose that this article is inappropriate. It is mostly a list of names of the country in Icelandic and Latin. Wikipedia is not a language tutorial. Incidental mention of the name of something in its native language is appropriate in an article about that thing, but having a whole article that is mostly about how something is named in other languages is not appropriate. IMHO I would say that the only appropriate content in the article is
- Iceland
- Thule
There is no indication that any of the other names, translated or not, are in any way common or notable in the English language (if there is such notability it needs to be provided). If these two names are really the only names that merit preservation, this is not enough content to justify an article.
--Mcorazao (talk) 20:31, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
- I disagree. Most of this is only for historical purposes, but few places actually have been called by that many names.--Marhawkman (talk) 13:41, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
- What about the name 'Isafold'. I'm faroese, but I have often heard old people talk about Iceland and called it 'Isafold' or sometimes 'Old Isafold' with love and affection. eab010311-0528utc —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.177.253.226 (talk) 05:28, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
- At least in the article's present state, I would agree with Mcorazao. It's almost entirely unreferenced, and most of the page just seems to be a list of synonyms and related terms. At best, this should just be a section of the Iceland article. V2Blast (talk) 06:43, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
References
editReference 1 has nothing to do with the wiki article. It is a speech of Geir H. Haarde which is in no way related to the subject. 194.144.77.182 (talk) 23:33, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
- Yep. The link's also now dead (albeit archived). V2Blast (talk) 06:18, 8 July 2017 (UTC)