Talk:Paul Oscar

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Þjarkur in topic Reversion
Good articlePaul Oscar has been listed as one of the Music good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
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January 6, 2008Good article nomineeListed
Did You KnowA fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 6, 2007.

Help with new article "Paul Oscar"

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Hi, do help if you can with the following aspects of the new article "Paul Oscar", about the Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and D.J. Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson:

  • Adding an IPA transcription of the pronunciation of "Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson".
  • Providing English translations of the following album titles:
    • Stuð (1993).
    • Milljón á mann (1994).
    • Seif (1996).
    • Allur pakkinn (1999).
    • Þetta er nú meiri vitleysan (2001).
  • Ensuring that there are no missing diacritics in Icelandic words.

Thanks! — Cheers, JackLee talk contribs count Updated 13:44, 2 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Stuð is not easily translated. It means something like "groove" but not Quite. Milljón á mann means "A million for each". Allur pakkinn means "everything" but something like "The Whole Shebang" would capture it better. Þetta er nú meiri vitleysan means "This is completly foolish".Óli Gneisti (talk) 18:17, 9 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for that! Are you able to help with the translations of the following, which are also stated in the article?

  • Seif.
  • "Betra Lif".
  • "Er þetta ást?".
  • "Sama hvar þú ert".

Also, how does one pronounce "Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson"? — Cheers, Truth's Out There talk 07:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC), updated on 16:23, 27 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Sorting of article

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Hi, 86.168.7.98, you've added "{{DEFAULTSORT:Oscar, Paul}}" to the article "Paul Oscar" twice, but I've reverted this edit because Icelandic people are conventionally sorted according to their first names. See "Icelandic name" and "Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Iceland-related articles)" for more information. This is because most Icelandic people do not have surnames, and in this case "Oscar" is not a surname but one of the subject's first names. If you would like to discuss this matter further, please do so here on the article's talk page. Thanks. — Cheers, JackLee talk 19:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Reversion

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Arthistorian1977, I did explain why I removed the quotes. We write in a summary style here and it is better to summarize what controversies are about. The section is WP:UNDUE, and we usually encourage not splitting controversies into their own section. – Thjarkur (talk) 18:16, 14 November 2019 (UTC)Reply