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Actually, I created that article becouse there was, and probably still is a request to have an english article on the matter. That request can be seen on the Icelandic chat page on the same matter. Also, becouse of that, I don´t care if that article exsists, or not.--Snaevar (talk) 23:46, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

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Can you take this on? I ^help_dןǝɥ I 10:03, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

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Greenlandic @Babel

Hi, I was notified you changed kl-0 Babel template to corectly show Greenlandic instead of Danish. Could you possibly update the rest of the Greenlandic signs as well? Tnx a lot. --Auvajs (talk) 09:05, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

User:Auvajs: It depends on where these messages come from. It's not like the editor that added those messages speaks greenlandic.--Snaevar (talk) 13:35, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

How?

Snaevar, how did you change the Vikings page? I am not able to. DaJamez (talk) 18:33, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

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Hi, I haven't had a chance yet to do a thorough comparison between my original template code and the Lua replacement you designed, but I've found only a few issues so far. I don't know Lua, but I was able to fix one of them (the title input into the case1 parameter was not supposed to wikilink),[1] but I don't know how to correct the page field, which should display ___ when no value is entered. Instead, it's not displaying anything. A bigger issue is that the opinion column sorting no longer works (this relied upon the "justice[#]-sortcode" field inputs). I've reverted to the original template code for now until the Lua code is functional in this regard. Thanks, postdlf (talk) 19:47, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Fixed the two remaining issues. Tested the sorting issue on the first two entries of "2007 term opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States" and it worked fine there.--Snaevar (talk) 22:39, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

That was quick, looks good! Thank you! I have to say I'm impressed with your work on this, given that the template code was something that I had developed organically over the past decade as I added more and more functions and so was not very streamlined, but you analyzed it well and recreated its functionality with minimal issues. I'll let you know if I notice anything else. postdlf (talk) 23:05, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

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I was having a really hard time finding a specific year for the cannabis ban, thanks for the key help from an Icelandic speaker! Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 04:03, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

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Could you adjust the datestamp on this report to be more parseable, for example by mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions##time? 17:20, August 19, 2015‎ (UTC) is confusing, I think because the commas serve multiple purposes. The closest clean analog to what you have is 17:20, 19 August 2015‎ (UTC), which is what most other Wikipedia:Database reports use. I don't know how this WP page is generated, so I don't know what program/script change would accomplish it. DMacks (talk) 07:51, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Done.--Snaevar (talk) 20:50, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks! DMacks (talk) 21:17, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Parser was still upset...it turned out there was some nonstandard whitespace or other nonprinting character between "2017" and "(UTC)". I changed it and now Wikipedia:Database reports is happy. DMacks (talk) 21:29, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Hi. I happened to notice this edit and decided to stop by. I'm re-using this section, hope you don't mind.

Regarding the timestamp, it's usually easiest to use ~~~~~ (five tildes), which MediaWiki will automatically turn into a decent timestamp: 01:25, 24 January 2017 (UTC).

Regarding the report's update frequency, are you volunteering to keep this report updated monthly? If so, great! :-) If not, I may be able to (re-)set it to update more frequently. It's kind of strange that this report is broken, in some ways. Maybe someone figured Special:LongPages was good enough? I don't remember the report being particularly complex, so it's a bit strange that other reports are continuing to update but this one is not. It makes me think it might've been intentional, but I dunno. --MZMcBride (talk) 01:25, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Err, actually, I happened to notice this edit. I looked at the report's page history after. --MZMcBride (talk) 02:02, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

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April 2020

Hello. I noticed that you attempted to file a deletion discussion on the article TimedText:Jimi Hendrix performing "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, 18 August 1969.ogg.en.srt but did not complete the process. Please note that, when listing an article for deletion, a discussion page needs to be made for other users to discuss whether to keep or delete the article. This is typically done by following the steps listed here. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

User:LaundryPizza03: That seemingly incomplete deletion was complete until this diff was made and here is my response to it. Note that the TimedText namespace (where my deletion nomination was made) does not display any templates properly. In addition to that reasoning I do not have the time to take part in this beurocratic process, as in this particular namespace it is misleading at best. As such, don´t expect any further actions on my part regarding this.--Snaevar (talk) 17:37, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

See also the discussion that followed on Wikipedia_talk:Miscellany_for_deletion#TimedText and Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Deleting_TimedText_Files.--Snaevar (talk) 18:00, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson

Hi Snaevar! In Persian Wikipedia, I'm having problems regarding the correct, standard Icelandic pronunciation of his name. Based on the IPA provided in the page (/ˈhafθour ˈjuːlijʏs ˈpjœrtn̥ssɔn/) and Help:IPA/Icelandic as well as Icelandic/Alphabet and Pronunciation, all "s" letters in his name should be pronounced like the English "s" (/s/), as in "sing". However, it is argued that the audio file in the page (provided below) somehow hears like English "sh" (/ʃ/), as in "shop". So, what is the correct standard pronunciation? Is IPA really incorrect? Thanks. MS 会話 06:12, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

The pronunciation and the sound file where both added by Þjarkur. The standard way of pronouncing the word is /s/, but the emphasis on the "s" is an North Iceland variation and as such is an acceptable way of saying it. In his edit summary Þjarkur mentioned the IPA dataset by the Icelandic linguistician Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, which is in English here: https://notendur.hi.is/eirikur/ipv.pdf . On page 8, there is further explanation about the regional difference between the North Iceland variation as compared to the common way of saying those things.--Snaevar (talk) 19:53, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Help to find user

Hello Snaevar, Would you help to find an user to write the article of Isabelle de Charrière (Q123386) for the Icelandic Wikipedia? That would be appreciated. Boss-well63 (talk) 12:35, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

WikidataIB

Thanks for the improvements to Module:WikidataIB/sandbox. Unfortunately, the functions like getAliases that have to load the entire entity are supposed to use the entity-id of the associated page if the qid parameter isn't provided, so when qid is nil, it's correct to call mw.wikibase.getEntity(qid) with a nil argument. You can test what happens for example by pasting

* = {{#invoke:WikidataIB |getAliases |fwd=ALL |qid=Q2191959}}
* = {{#invoke:WikidataIB/sandbox |getAliases |fwd=ALL |qid=Q2191959}}
* = {{#invoke:WikidataIB |getAliases |fwd=ALL}}
* = {{#invoke:WikidataIB/sandbox |getAliases |fwd=ALL}}

into Twospined angelfish and observing on preview that the last one returns nothing.

The fix is to change lines like

• if not qid or not mw.wikibase.entityExists(qid) then return nil end

to allow nil qid values through:

• if not mw.wikibase.entityExists(qid) then return nil end

Cheers --RexxS (talk) 02:20, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

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Nýey

Hello Snævar, I have just created Nýey and think I may have fallen into the bear trap that you described in Talk Geirfuglasker in 2011. Could you check please and I will try to fix it. (I speak no Icelandic) Many thanks. Chienlit (talk) 11:01, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

• Hello Snævar, with a clearer head this morning, I have disambiguated both Geirfuglasker islands and corrected the coordinates. Chienlit (talk) 08:26, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. That one would be hard for an non Icelander anyway. The island used to be in a ridge called Eldeyjarboði, which is a bit further southwest. There is no other "Nýey" like with Geirfuglasker, not a current island anyway.--Snævar (talk) 19:31, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

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I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:Kyle McLagan. Thanks! Oltrepier (talk) 07:20, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Hans Jóhannsson

Hi Snævar, thank you for your work on the draft. Do you mind if I change the submitter from you to the creator so they get the acceptance message? No issue if you do. I will just leave a manual note on their talk page letting them know. Also, just an fyi, if you believe a draft is acceptable for mainspace you can move it yourself. There is no obligation for a draft to go through AfC, outside of things like COI/Paid or other restrictions. S0091 (talk) 16:52, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Sure, you can change the submitter. Looking at the talk page of the draft, the original author is a bit lost, so I will probably edit the article more than he will. As far as moving the article myself, this is an biography, and with that come bigger standards, so that would be why I have not moved it myself. Even if the article is good enough, the AfC process would just make it better, and that is a good thing. Snævar (talk) 17:00, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, it appears Kolskeggur, on top of being new, does not have strong English skills but they did try. :) Sorry, I did not mean to imply there was anything wrong with you submitting through AfC as it is open to all editors of course. I just did not want you to think you had to. While I am here, you might consider becoming an AfC reviewer. Shameless plug I know, but AfC needs all the help it can get. S0091 (talk) 17:21, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Question

Why are you blocked me on Icelandic Wikipedia??? I told you about article, created by globally locked long term cross-wiki abuser (hoaxer). See blocklog of that account. Хоббит (talk) 15:08, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed by checkuser of English Wikipedia Zzuuzz. Хоббит (talk) 15:47, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

About my first edit (now deleted): maybe someone edited my comment, I wrote only one word 'Gabb' ('hoax'); that cross-wiki abuser several times edited my replicas. Хоббит (talk) 16:01, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

SPI is here: Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Birdsflyinghigh123/Archive. If you want some info Snævar, I'm quite informed about it. Хоббит isn't the hoaxer here. Meanwhile I do recall seeing Birdsflyinghigh123 edit iswiki. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 16:11, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

https://is.wiki.x.io/wiki/Raísa_Vasíljeva , https://is.wiki.x.io/wiki/Kerfissíða:Framlög/Хоббит , https://is.wiki.x.io/wiki/Kerfissíða:Framlög/Gabb_co (maybe another puppet of that hoaxer). Хоббит (talk) 16:18, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

Answered on the Icelandic wikipedia. No one is calling Хоббит a hoaxer.--Snævar (talk) 17:11, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

What about hiding of block? Хоббит (talk) 17:15, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Ortenso new account. Хоббит (talk) 07:16, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

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Your contribution to Module:wd/sandbox

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Istorrent

I would love to expand the articles on Istorrent and/or Félag hljómplötuframleiðenda. If you can provide reliably sourced information, it would be greatly appreciated. My primary interest lies in accurately representing record charts and recording certifications, but I am limited by my lack of knowledge of the language and which local sources are reliable. If we can expand the Istorrent article to five times its current size, we could consider adding it to the DYK nomination. This seems feasible given the article's length on the Icelandic Wikipedia. --Muhandes (talk) 12:32, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

The majority of the is:Istorrent covers controversies. Namely most of the "Fjölmiðlaumræður" (english: Newspaper discussions) chapter and it's sub-chapters covers controversies - distribution of stuff that both Americans and Europeans would find repulsive. Getting that article into English is not just an translation, it is also a matter of traversing that minefield. Snævar (talk) 20:31, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

I will take your word for it. I'll be happy to cooperate on any other article in the future. Muhandes (talk) 10:02, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

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