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| style="background:white" | [[Andri Snær Magnason|Andri Snær]] || style="background:white" | [[Andri Snær Magnason|Magnason]] || style="background:#c9ddff" | [[File:Mars symbol.svg|25px|frameless|link=Male|alt=Male]] || style="background:#f2f7ff" | Contemporary || 1973 || style="background:#d3ffd8" | Living || Children's book author || ''The Story of the Blue Planet'' || <ref>{{cite web |title=Andri Snær Magnason 1973- |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr98021883/ |website=worldcat.org |publisher=Worldcat identities |accessdate=7 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Little |first1=Amanda |title=‘The Story of the Blue Planet,’ by Andri Snaer Magnason |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/books/review/the-story-of-the-blue-planet-by-andri-snaer-magnason.html |website=The New York Times |accessdate=7 June 2018 |date=9 November 2012}}</ref>
The |- symbol divides the rows. Cells are divided with the || symbol. | symbols are also dividers.
To break it down:
| style="background:white" | [[Andri Snær Magnason|Andri Snær]] - this is a piped wikilink to the article, representing the first name and any middle names.
|| style="background:white" | [[Andri Snær Magnason|Magnason]] - this is a piped wikilink to the article, representing the surname.
|| style="background:#c9ddff" | [[File:Mars symbol.svg|25px|frameless|link=Male|alt=Male]] - The "mars" symbol is for men, and the "venus" symbol is for women (|| style="background:#f3c9ff" | [[File:Venus symbol.svg|25px|frameless|link=Female|alt=Female]]). Gender neutral and other gender symbols are available.
|| style="background:#f2f7ff" | Contemporary - remember to use the right color. #f2f7ff is the color for contemporary, #f6e2ff is the color for modern, #fdffea is for medieval.
style="background:#f2f7ff" | Contemporary
style="background:#fdffea" | Medieval
style="background:#f6e2ff" | Modern
|| 1973 - This is the birth date.
|| style="background:#d3ffd8" | Living - This is the death date, or "Living" for people still alive. Use the #ffe5e5 color for dead people.
|| Children's book author - main specialisation. The table will not cope with too much written here so keep it short.
|| ''The Story of the Blue Planet'' - any well known work.
|| <ref>{{cite web |title=Andri Snær Magnason 1973- |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr98021883/ |website=worldcat.org |publisher=Worldcat identities |accessdate=7 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Little |first1=Amanda |title=‘The Story of the Blue Planet,’ by Andri Snaer Magnason |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/books/review/the-story-of-the-blue-planet-by-andri-snaer-magnason.html |website=The New York Times |accessdate=7 June 2018 |date=9 November 2012}}</ref> - 2-3 citations is good.
I reorganized the lead. IMO the second paragraph, about people being able to read Old Norse, does not belong in this article about writers.
Yoninah (
talk)
22:02, 26 June 2018 (UTC)reply
I will see what I can do about that. Most the people on this list that lived before the 13th century and some later, certainly most people described as skalds, were writing in Old Norse, and that paragraph should explain that but doesn't really do that. The fact that the language is generally intelligible with modern Icelandic means that the original text is to some extent readable now.
Frayæ (
Talk/
Spjall)
22:18, 26 June 2018 (UTC)reply
Frayæ Rereading this, could the second paragraph be incorporated somehow into the third paragraph, which speaks about the skalds? The beginning of the third paragraph, Some of the best known examples of Icelandic literature are the Sagas of Icelanders, seems like a better second paragraph and opening to the discussion of Icelandic literature from a chronological point of view.
Yoninah (
talk)
09:27, 27 June 2018 (UTC)reply
Merging could be a good idea. Skaldic poetry and the sagas are from a comparable period. I moved it further down, I will think about this, but if you want to rewrite any of it yourself then go ahead.
Frayæ (
Talk/
Spjall)
09:32, 27 June 2018 (UTC)reply
List of Icelandic writers received a
peer review by Wikipedia editors, which is now archived. It may contain ideas you can use to improve this article.
A fact from List of Icelandic writers appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 July 2018 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Iceland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
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|-
| style="background:white" | [[Andri Snær Magnason|Andri Snær]] || style="background:white" | [[Andri Snær Magnason|Magnason]] || style="background:#c9ddff" | [[File:Mars symbol.svg|25px|frameless|link=Male|alt=Male]] || style="background:#f2f7ff" | Contemporary || 1973 || style="background:#d3ffd8" | Living || Children's book author || ''The Story of the Blue Planet'' || <ref>{{cite web |title=Andri Snær Magnason 1973- |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr98021883/ |website=worldcat.org |publisher=Worldcat identities |accessdate=7 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Little |first1=Amanda |title=‘The Story of the Blue Planet,’ by Andri Snaer Magnason |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/books/review/the-story-of-the-blue-planet-by-andri-snaer-magnason.html |website=The New York Times |accessdate=7 June 2018 |date=9 November 2012}}</ref>
The |- symbol divides the rows. Cells are divided with the || symbol. | symbols are also dividers.
To break it down:
| style="background:white" | [[Andri Snær Magnason|Andri Snær]] - this is a piped wikilink to the article, representing the first name and any middle names.
|| style="background:white" | [[Andri Snær Magnason|Magnason]] - this is a piped wikilink to the article, representing the surname.
|| style="background:#c9ddff" | [[File:Mars symbol.svg|25px|frameless|link=Male|alt=Male]] - The "mars" symbol is for men, and the "venus" symbol is for women (|| style="background:#f3c9ff" | [[File:Venus symbol.svg|25px|frameless|link=Female|alt=Female]]). Gender neutral and other gender symbols are available.
|| style="background:#f2f7ff" | Contemporary - remember to use the right color. #f2f7ff is the color for contemporary, #f6e2ff is the color for modern, #fdffea is for medieval.
style="background:#f2f7ff" | Contemporary
style="background:#fdffea" | Medieval
style="background:#f6e2ff" | Modern
|| 1973 - This is the birth date.
|| style="background:#d3ffd8" | Living - This is the death date, or "Living" for people still alive. Use the #ffe5e5 color for dead people.
|| Children's book author - main specialisation. The table will not cope with too much written here so keep it short.
|| ''The Story of the Blue Planet'' - any well known work.
|| <ref>{{cite web |title=Andri Snær Magnason 1973- |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr98021883/ |website=worldcat.org |publisher=Worldcat identities |accessdate=7 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Little |first1=Amanda |title=‘The Story of the Blue Planet,’ by Andri Snaer Magnason |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/books/review/the-story-of-the-blue-planet-by-andri-snaer-magnason.html |website=The New York Times |accessdate=7 June 2018 |date=9 November 2012}}</ref> - 2-3 citations is good.
I reorganized the lead. IMO the second paragraph, about people being able to read Old Norse, does not belong in this article about writers.
Yoninah (
talk)
22:02, 26 June 2018 (UTC)reply
I will see what I can do about that. Most the people on this list that lived before the 13th century and some later, certainly most people described as skalds, were writing in Old Norse, and that paragraph should explain that but doesn't really do that. The fact that the language is generally intelligible with modern Icelandic means that the original text is to some extent readable now.
Frayæ (
Talk/
Spjall)
22:18, 26 June 2018 (UTC)reply
Frayæ Rereading this, could the second paragraph be incorporated somehow into the third paragraph, which speaks about the skalds? The beginning of the third paragraph, Some of the best known examples of Icelandic literature are the Sagas of Icelanders, seems like a better second paragraph and opening to the discussion of Icelandic literature from a chronological point of view.
Yoninah (
talk)
09:27, 27 June 2018 (UTC)reply
Merging could be a good idea. Skaldic poetry and the sagas are from a comparable period. I moved it further down, I will think about this, but if you want to rewrite any of it yourself then go ahead.
Frayæ (
Talk/
Spjall)
09:32, 27 June 2018 (UTC)reply