Talk:Runestone

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Perhaps a division of Countries / Districts? The lists in this article will get silly, but they could link to another page with all the un-nonenoteworthy (uuuh...) stones. For example, an entry in the list of Rune Stones for Sweden, then a sublisting for Uppland which sends you to the article "List of Rune Stones in Uppland", which would look something like this: User:Mceder/RuneDistrictTest . Perhaps? Mceder 00:47, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, also removed the double category out of the template. Good point. Mceder 00:47, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your test pages looks pretty good, except that IMHO there is too much colors & graphics. I proposed quite a long time ago to merge the articles into some kind of lists. IMHO best approach would be to merge according to names: Uppland Rune Inscriptions, Medelpad Rune Inscriptions, Östergötland Rune Inscriptions, etc. If say one page gets too long, divide into two: eg Uppland Rune Inscriptions (1-25) & Uppland Rune Inscriptions (26-50) or something like this. Renata3 23:55, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well finally had some more time to work on this. I just added List of Rune Inscriptions in Östergötland and I plan to request removing the articles I added, at least the ones that have no other information then this list does. Comments and recommendations very welcome! I will start adding the other districts, but if there is something that is really dumb and needs to change it is not a big deal - the top part is template driven and the data itself is auto-generated. Mceder 04:45, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

to be re-added as the articles are created:

• The Austers Hangvar Stone
• The Halla Bora stone
• The Husaby Stone
• The Hogrän Stone
• The Klinte Stone
• The Martebo Stones
• The Pilgards Rune Stone, Boge
• The Sanda Stones
• The Sjonhem Stone
• The Stenkjyrka Stone, Lillebjärs
• The Timans Rune Stone
• The Tängvida Stone

It seems like much of the writing in this article is more in the style of a term paper, or a discussion in a book, than an encyclopedia article. I think the personal perspective that is used (primarily in the Tradition and Locations sections) detracts from the quality of the article (Style Manual - Avoid first-person pronouns and one) - Not a big deal, but after reading through pages and pages of wiki encyclopedic articles on a subject, coming across lines like these (below) almost makes me want to question the quality of the material.

"One may ask why ..."

"...we can assume that..."

"These inscriptions tell us..."

"Keep in mind that...</>"

"It may sound strange to hear that..."

Just a suggestion :-) KYJustin 19:39, 11 November 2006 (UTC) [reply]

I changed "One may ask why these particular Christian rune stones are so prominent in this specific area and they will discover that the region near modern day Stockholm was one of the last pagan strongholds." to "Christian rune stones are prominent in this specific area because the region near modern day Stockholm was one of the last pagan strongholds." -CaptainJae 14:29, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds a lot better, I rewrote the section some more. Please check.

WP:WIAGA

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1. There is embedded list in the article. Please rewrite them as textual writing or create a new
   WP:GA/R. — Indon (reply) — 13:00, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply
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   POV IssuesThere's still a couple POV issues in this article, one that caught my eye was this statement:

   "Their inscriptions are the oldest written texts created in the Nordic countries and some give a few clues about mythology and the society in Scandinavia before the tragic conversion into a foreign religion."

   tragic conversion? Agharo (talk) 02:59, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

   Yes, an obvious POV issue. Not that I disagree with the point. :) LokiClock (talk) 10:36, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

   Lingsberg runestone image

   Just do a search for "Lingsberg" by using the search function as if you would search for an article here on Wikipedia. I get three image results. :bloodofox: (talk) 10:05, 8 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

   Inspiration to Runescape?

   I am not a

   Runescape expert, but isn't it more likely that the name was inspired by Runes rather than runestones? Dront (talk) 14:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply

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   Pictish Stones

   Runic songs redirect

   Incomple map of Runestones

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