Talk:Civil war era in Norway
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- OK, trying not to seem personally insulted here (because I'm not), but I'm curious: A stub is defined on the task force page as: The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to A-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible. So which is this article? Irrelevant or incomprehensible? --Barend 14:38, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
List of pretenders
Most of my books are unaviable atm, but some of the minor pretenders from Sverre's reign seems to be missing. Also were there not a band called "Slittungene"?
Missing articles
Just a list of articles we should have, but don't
- Eirik Ivarsson the archbishop
- Nikolas Arnesson
- Orm Ivarsson "King's Brother"
- Gregorius Dagsson
- Sigurd of Røyr
- Sigurd jarlsson
- Ingerid Ragnvaldsdotter
- Kristin Sigurdsdotter seems to have left her husband and gone to Constantinople?
Some of the battles could well have their own articles. Not sure if Fimreite is supposed to be about the battle or the location Fornadan (t) 12:49, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Names of people from medieval Norway
In modifying the article on
So, to take an examle, if we write an article on bishop Nikolas,
I used to be very interested in this problem but nowadays I think consistency in Wikipedia is almost impossible to achieve and usually not worth the bother since it tends to lead to long debates about relatively inconsequential matters. Nevertheless I'll give my opinion :)
I tend to favour the standardized Old Norse forms, in my experience that's what's normally done in reliable scholarly literature in English. Here's a (perhaps extreme) example from Google Books:
- 1 pages on Øystein Erlendsson (Norwegian) [1]
- 30 pages on Eystein Erlendsson (Anglicized) [2]
- 150 pages on Eysteinn Erlendsson (Old Norse) [3]
This led me to move
Multiple observations, this article is sub par
First off, where does that cliché about "The reasons for the wars is one of the most debated topics in Norwegian medieval history" come from? It is pretty clear, Magnus and Harald Gille hated each others guts, and Magnus was provoked by Harald claiming the title of king. It also says that Sigurd Slembe is an irishman, which is false, as he was southern Norwegian, not even having lived in Ireland. He lived for some time in Scotland and the isles. Also, the Øyskjeggs are probably worth mentioning. The "Units involved" field is quite lacking.
- Suggestion for some editor(s) who know(s) far more about these topics than I do: While cleaning up this Civil war era in Norway article, merge into it the two articles Birkebeiner and Bagler, cleaning up the lacks of citations and resolving any contradictions between the three articles. (E.g., were or were not the Baglers peasants?) Then, delete the [[Birkebeiner] and Bagler articles. Acwilson9 (talk) 04:44, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
and more about ensuring and When
There is a piece of a sentence missing the civil wars were less about putting a particular "legitimate" king in power and more about ensuring and When