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Hi! When searching for Arne Kjelstrup on Atekst, I found the following picture caption: "Trening i Skottland før Operasjon Sunshine. Fra v: Arne Kjelstrup, Norman Lind, Jens-Anton Poulsson og Leif Tronstad. Fra boka: Tungtvannssabotasjen". So I created a stub for Norman Lind. Would you happen to have more information about him in one of your books? Thanks, Geschichte (talk) 12:38, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fine! I added something about Lind's role in the Operation Sunshine to the Lind article. Also started a separate article about Operation Sunshine (will probably expand a little, maybe more on the main targets for protection and operative plans, the air drops, the training, various dramatic episodes, the railway sabotage, the liberation phase, etc). Oceanh (talk) 03:28, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

With regards to the Lise Lindbæk article, this is interesting. Kind of depends on how you define "war correspondent", I guess. Manxruler (talk) 21:00, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know!

So that's why I had to question mark the otherwise very interesting DYK nom. Manxruler (talk) 21:18, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for finding Gerda Grepp, and modifying the Lindbæk article. Might need to find another DYK-hook for Lindbæk. Any suggestions? Oceanh (talk) 03:29, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. We definitively need a Lise Lindbæk hook, she's a very important journalist. Having been to lectures about Lindbæk by Sigrun Slapgard, I know her story quite well. How about her work for the Spanish refugee kids, or her narrow escape from the Nazi German invasion of France, or her book on Thälmann Battalion? With those first three suggestions the Spanish Civil War will need to be mentioned. Or her wartime efforts for the sailors of the merchant marine? Or the reconstruction of Finnmark? I'm quite interested in a Thälmann Battalion connected hook, something like: "... that female Norwegian war correspondent Lise Lindbæk wrote the history of the international Thälmann Battalion during the Spanish Civil War?" Manxruler (talk) 06:51, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, evidently this: File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-17036-0005, Spanischer Bürgerkrieg, Nordahl Grieg, Ludwig Renn.jpg is Gerda Grepp. Manxruler (talk) 07:35, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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}} tag. Here is the article:

1. Omar Kent Dykes - Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

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Thanks for taking these articles to dyk! Oceanh (talk) 17:19, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I just wanted to ask; do you have any info on "Gulosten" in your sources? Manxruler (talk) 12:04, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, yes "Gulosten" occurs several places in my books. I notice you expanded the article considerably yesterday and today. I do not have his autobiography, nor Bjørnsen's biograhy, and not Ulateig's book. He is mentioned in Moland's book Over grensen? (the index points to ten different pages), and in some other books I have. Maybe we should attribute the Max Manus quote to his own book (will try to find the quote, page number etc, and maybe more on Gulosten in the book Det vil helst gå godt). Will check if I can find something that is not already covered in the article.

By the way, you did a very good job on Lise Lindbæk, and on Odd Starheim! Oceanh (talk) 12:47, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a plan. I only have Ulateig's book myself. I'll wait with the DYK nomination a little while, see what you can come up with. With regards to Lindbæk and Starheim; thanks, I try my best. By the way, I just remembered that there should be more about Starheim in another of my books. Will go look for that later today. Manxruler (talk) 13:00, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No luck on finding more on Starheim. However, I think this book should be a good source on Gulosten. Manxruler (talk) 16:06, 16 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Moland's book (Over grensen?) has two relevant sections, one on the Bittern operation, and one on the assassination of Raymond Colberg. Added this book and five other books to the references. One minor fact corrected. Not too much new text added, because much of the relevant stuff from these sources was already in the article. Ulateig's book (Med rett til å drepe) was heavily criticized for containing inaccuracies (for instance by Moland); and the first and second editions were actually withdrawn by the publisher. Therefore I think extra citations are useful. Also, it might be helpful to specify which edition of Ulateig's book is used as source for the article (1st, 2nd or 3rd). Oceanh (talk) 00:19, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your great efforts. Excellent work. Good point about the edition, my copy is actually the 2nd edition, I'll go add that right away. I think the article is DYK ready now, will go nominate it. Then I suppose the next step is GAN. Cheers. Manxruler (talk) 06:39, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article on "Gulosten" looks quite nice now, after your latest improvements. Two issues: Sources "disagree" on his year of death (1968 or 1970?), I do not know which is correct. The infobox says "Ruth Johanne Andersen (wife) (1939-1945)"; now she was shot in 1944, but the killing was kept secret until 1945, not sure how such things are handled. I also collected some related information in a short article about the Operation Bittern. Oceanh (talk) 21:50, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... Yes. I see that now. I suppose we shall have to do a 1968/1970 thing with the death date. The marriage end date for Ruth will probably have to be 1944, even though Johannes wasn't aware of her death. Thanks for the great work, both on this article and the new ones you've just created. I think Operation Bittern should make a nice DYK. Manxruler (talk) 04:06, 18 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Oceanh. Great work on creating the article

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Thanks. I created a short article on

Våre falne 1939-1945. It can easily be expanded, for instance along the lines of the corresponding article in the Norwegian wikipedia (most of the content there is taken from the introductory chapter in volume 1 of the series). Oceanh (talk) 21:46, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply

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Gerda Grepp

I think I've managed to de-stub Gerda Grepp. We should DYK nominate her. If you have anything more to add to the article, then please do. Manxruler (talk) 15:06, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Again you did a good job, on expanding Gerda Grepp. Thanks for the expansion! Agree that the article is ready for dyk. If you can come up with a good hook, feel free to nominate. Oceanh (talk) 21:36, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll see what I can do today. Can probably think of a couple of hooks. By the way, great work on Våre falne. And thanks for pointing out (through editing) that VF is actually an encyclopaedia. Both thumbs up. Manxruler (talk) 08:18, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Gerda Grepp now DYK nominated. Manxruler (talk) 14:10, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Looks good. Thanks for finding a hook and nominating the article for DYK. Oceanh (talk) 14:25, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, it's nice working with you. Good job job on the latest articles too. Nice to have an article on the Grinifangene encyclopaedia. I think Welhaven's a very fascinating character, might have to have a look at expanding that one, if I can find the time. Manxruler (talk) 22:10, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agree that Welhaven is fascinating. There is some more on him in

nkl. Might find something in Seip's book from 1946, Hjemme og i fiendeland (the name index has 18 page references), in Ringdal's Mellom barken og veden (15 page references), or in Haarstad's I hemmelig tjeneste (15 page references), plus in books such as Krigens dagbok, Norge i krig and others. By the way, I noticed you did a great job running through a bunch of articles and create links to Norsk krigsleksikon! Oceanh (talk) 23:53, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply

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Indeed. I believe I've got quite a lot about him in one of my books. Can't remember which one right now. And in Krigens dagbok as well, of course. He was quite central in the early phase of the German occupation, in several different ways. It was good fun tracking down the articles that needed Norsk krigsleksikon links, I'd do the same thing for Våre falne, but as there is much more work involved in that (changing from ref book to ref encyclopedia) I won't until I have a lot of spare time on my hands, which probably won't happen any time soon. Cheers. Manxruler (talk) 00:34, 27 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, also finding the urls for citations from Våre falne takes time. I was not aware of the online version until recently. Might have look at Welhaven if I find time and inspiration during the weekend. Oceanh (talk) 22:12, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I stumbled across the on-line version myself a while ago when I was going to use the paper version for an article. If you should start work on Welhaven then I might join in, time permitting. Manxruler (talk) 00:42, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Oceanh!

Are you familiar with the anecdote that when Quisling was arrested and they confiscated his gun, they found it to be sticky because of all the liquorice he kept in his pocket? I believe I've heard this a couple of times, but I'm unable to find any information at all about it on the internet. Since you write a lot about WWII in Norway from a variety of sources, I figured you might know something about it. Thanks, decltype (talk) 18:57, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I am not familiar with such an anecdote. Checked some sources on his arrest (Hemming-Sjöberg (1946). Domen över Quisling.; Høidahl (1988). Quisling - en studie i landssvik.; Dahl (1992). Vidkun Quisling - en fører for fall.; Heradstveit (1976). Quisling - hvem var han?.; Eriksen; Halvorsen (1987). Frigjøring. Norge i krig. Vol. 8.; Voksø (1984). Krigens dagbok.), but these sources did not mention confiscation of a gun, as far as I could tell. I do not have any particularly relevant sources on anecdotes from this time, though. Oceanh (talk) 22:12, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, this has always been presented to me as a true story, I think the first time was by my history teacher in upper secondary school. Now that I think about it.. the way it was told, the gun had been completely ruined by the liquorice, it could not even be fired. It was the lack of mention on the Internet that lead me to question the truthfulness of it. Thank you so much for checking this out for me! Regards, decltype (talk) 23:34, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! I just wrote up Elisabeth Welhaven. If Eva Nansen is expanded some (and if it's possible to expand Maren Sars much further) they could be combined into a triple DYK nom centered around their contributions to "Christiania's first salon". Or would you like to have a different hook for Eva Nansen? Geschichte (talk) 12:15, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Good idea. Go for the triple nom! I might try to help with the expansion, if needed. Oceanh (talk) 12:22, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. The nom is up. By the way, when you discovered "new" persons who were imprisoned at Grini (like Gunnar Haarstad), could you perhaps add them to list of Grini prisoners? Thanks in advance, Geschichte (talk) 22:06, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the nomination! Added a few extra entries to the list of Grini prisoners. I easily forget things like this. Oceanh (talk) 00:50, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cool! Many names there which I wasn't aware of. Geschichte (talk) 21:36, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Think I have a dozen or so more candidates to the list. Each of them takes time to verify, so might add them in smaller portions. Thanks for the expansion and dyk nomination of Polhøgda! Oceanh (talk) 23:44, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Are we going for creation on 26 January (not sure if that's going to be accepted), or expansion on 30 January? I can come up with a hook if you like. Manxruler (talk) 16:55, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, great job on Welhaven from your side. Fine if you can come up with a hook. If nominated today, "Created 26 January" will be fine. ("Expanded 30 January" is also an option, if nomination comes later.) Oceanh (talk) 17:01, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, yes. I didn't want to risk it so I called it a 30 January expansion and nominated it. Hope you approve of the hook. I guess we could move it to 26 January and call it new. Manxruler (talk) 17:28, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm moving it. Just got confused by the problems they were having over at DYK. Manxruler (talk) 17:32, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The hook looks fine, except someone might complain on the length if they count the dots (... ). Maybe too much geography (Norway + Norwegian + Oslo + Norwegian). One or two is probably enough, so I can try to offer a shorter alternative. Oceanh (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Very well done with the alt. You're right, of course, there were waaay too many Norws in the hook. Manxruler (talk) 22:19, 4 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ok thanks, my contribution to this hook was only minor. By the way, thanks for supplying photos of Cecilie Thoresen Krog, Hjalmar Welhaven and Thorvald Lammers! Oceanh (talk) 22:09, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Good contribution nonetheless. Thanks, I like it when we have photos with the bio articles. I try to keep my eye out for them when I can. Nice job on Krokskogen and Tanums too. Manxruler (talk) 01:12, 7 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nice find of Welhaven's ski collection! I added the picture to the dyk nomination, plus your name to the credit list. Also, thanks for a fine addition to Lindbäck-Larsen. Oceanh (talk) 21:52, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I figured it would be nice to have a photo of the collection, taken long before it ended up in Holmenkollen. Good job on Odd L-L, I've been thinking about writing an article on him for a while myself. We should DYK nominate that article too, I'll do some hook thinking. Manxruler (talk) 22:26, 8 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting hook, and a fine further improvement of the OL-L article! Oceanh (talk) 21:00, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. :) Manxruler (talk) 00:39, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for your help on the two Socialist Left related articles. --TIAYN (talk) 15:09, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I noticed that some former party leaders did not have articles yet. Good luck with the GA nomination! Oceanh (talk) 17:26, 4 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the link. Cool that family members spotted the dyk! Oceanh (talk) 22:00, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I've noticed you around for some time... Mainly at Norwegian sporting articles, therefor I was wondering if you would join the

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Thanks for the invitation. I think I have never contributed to ice hockey articles, have no sources, and know very little about this sport. Even in those sport areas I contributed most (orienteering, handball, skiing, and olympics), I do not join projects or task forces. Wish you good luck with improving the ice hockey articles though! Oceanh (talk) 20:32, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Oceanh, I nominated Pål Bang-Hansen for DYK as the five day limit was drawing near. Also, thanks for your comments and work re. Ola Bauer. I was unable to respond as I was away on vacation at the time. Regards, decltype (talk) 18:20, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the nomination of Pål Bang-Hansen! I was impressed by your work on the Ola Bauer biography largely based on old newspaper references, and found an opportunity to start articles on the novels Humlehjertene and Rosapenna. Oceanh (talk) 19:31, 31 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On 2 April, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lauren Burns, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 06:03, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page .

Materialscientist (talk) 12:02, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Oceanh (talk) 15:01, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Do you think Se og Hør's award "Årets TV-navn" is worthy of a succession box (the box at the bottom of articles)? It certainly has a popular appeal. Geschichte (talk) 11:25, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Will leave the judgement to you. "Årets TV-navn" seems to be a prestigious award, awarded annually by the readers of the largest weekly magazine in Norway, normally reported in media independent of the awarding magazine, but unlike "Gullruten" not mentioned in encyclopedias such as Store Norske Leksikon as far as I could tell. It helps documenting the notability of the recipients, and a succession box as a navigational aid also helps creating context in Wikipedia. I am not particularly familiar with the mention of s-boxes in guidelines (only briefly mentioned

Wikipedia:WikiProject Awards and prizes seems to cover award-related articles, lists and templates. Oceanh (talk) 10:32, 5 April 2010 (UTC)[reply

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I'll add it then. The thought is that not only "official" awards should be covered, and Se og Hør is certainly a large publication. It would be a different issue with some random newspaper. Geschichte (talk) 15:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I added it. Large, gaping holes in our coverage of TV were revealed. At least SNL is no better... Geschichte (talk) 16:03, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

OK, fine. Oceanh (talk) 22:33, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

		The 200 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
		Congratulations for surpassing the high level of 200 articles featured on the Main page at "Did you know?"—your dedication to improving the encyclopedia is extraordinary! Binksternet (talk) 20:32, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply ]

Thank you very much! Oceanh (talk) 22:33, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Seeing as you have written quote a lot about culture/literature, you don't by any chance have access to more background information on the phrase Vi vil oss et land? The most basic of facts are missing: What is the poem's actual name, and what book was it published in? It's a potential DYK. Fascinating how such extremely different groups have adopted the phrase (I mean, the Fatherland Party used "Norge for nordmenn" too, a slogan with miniscule appeal compared to this). Geschichte (talk) 22:38, 9 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote a short stub on Sivle's collection Bersøglis- og andre Viser from 1895. I do not have the original book, but a reprint is found in the 1925 edition of his "collected works", Skrifter. Oceanh (talk) 11:48, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page .

Materialscientist (talk) 12:03, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Oceanh (talk) 19:40, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page .

Materialscientist (talk) 12:03, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Oceanh (talk) 19:40, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page .

Victuallers (talk) 21:44, 15 April 2010 (UTC)) 18:03, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Oceanh (talk) 19:40, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On 18 April, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Zhuang Xiaoyan, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 06:10, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Oceanh (talk) 06:56, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Oceanh, thank you for nominating Zhuang Xiaoyan, and also Lauren Burns earlier this month, for DYK. Janggeom (talk) 07:51, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed the expansion because the two articles were on my watchlist, and nominated them for DYK as they seemed to be suitable candidates. Good quality contribution to martial arts articles from your side! Oceanh (talk) 19:33, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your kind comments; I'm confident we'll cross paths again, as I work on martial artists' biographies. If you are interested in some collaborative work, please feel welcome to join WP Martial Arts (of which I'm a member) if you'd like. Janggeom (talk) 00:12, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the invitation to Wikiproject Martial Arts. I normally do not sign up on particular wikiprojects or task forces, but made a minor contribution to the project by adding two former DYK articles on judokas to the list (Shokichi Natsui, from 2008, and Aurélio Miguel, from 2009). I also nominated Daniel Trenton, which you recently expanded, for DYK. Oceanh (talk) 20:38, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again Oceanh, I didn't notice your reply above, until just now. Thanks for updating the WPMA project page with the two DYK entries, and for nominating the Daniel Trenton article. I appreciate your thoughts on WikiProjects; I find that being in just one keeps me busy enough. Janggeom (talk) 10:22, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page .

Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Oceanh (talk) 20:38, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On 26 April, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Daniel Trenton, which you recently nominated. If you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Ucucha 00:03, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Oceanh (talk) 21:36, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for the vetting! I have withdrawn the nomination, because it is impossible to verify "facts" when sources present conflicting versions of history. Oceanh (talk) 21:36, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 6 May 2010 (UTC)[reply