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Past tense

lotsa past tenses are used in this article, what is that about? --62.251.21.22 (talk) 14:52, 10 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disregard of Icelandic Taxpayers

the article disregards that icelandic taxpayers will be providing the "full refund" every other country is recieving, creating discrimination as Icelandic citizens have lost, on average, 33% of their savings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.149.9.9 (talk) 19:12, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article doesn't disregard it at all – it is simply untrue. Physchim62 (talk) 20:17, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't really know what the OP was trying to say here. It is, of course, true that the nation hardest hit by the collapse of the Icelandic banks is (duh) the people of Iceland. Lots of people had a substantial part of their savings in the various—heavily promoted—funds of the banks. Those funds were decimated in the collapse. I'm not sure where the 33% number comes from or whether it is correct. It could plausibly be correct under some definitions. But this is material that would probably better be handled in the 2008 Icelandic financial crisis article. Haukur (talk) 20:37, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As I'm sure you realise, I'm not disputing that individual Icelanders are the worst hit by this fiasco, merely the assertion that Icelandic taxpayers would end up paying the full cost of compensation. Physchim62 (talk) 22:40, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, indeed, of course. Haukur (talk) 23:33, 29 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Outdated information

At the moment the article concentrates on the legal struggle to resolve the Icesave Dispute. In fact, at least in the Netherlands and the UK most customers were compensated by now and the situation with Kaupthing Edge in Germany also seems to be close to a solution.BjoernZ (talk) 18:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Icesave agreement, NPOV issues?

An Icesave settlement agreement has been negotiated and is being discussed at Althing, the Icelandic parliament. This agreement is only vaguely discussed in the article. There has been a lot of discussion about it, especially in Iceland as many Icelanders feel it's unfair. International media are increasingly covering the Icelandic side of the case and a recent leading article in Financial Times was sympathetic to Icelanders. I wasn't able to find the leader but this article discusses it: [[1]]. This article covers the Icelandic POV and provides a link to an opinion article by Iceland's PM which was published on FT: [[2]]. I would argue that given the recent developments, this article is somewhat not from a NPOV as it doesn't really discuss the Icelandic POV. I would improve it instead of putting the blame on other Wikipedia editors but I have some very strong opinions on the matter and I feel like a more neutral perspective is needed. Or I don't know. 66.117.142.227 (talk) 03:40, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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 At the moment the article concentrates on the legal struggle to resolve the Icesave Dispute. In fact, at least in the Netherlands and the UK most customers were compensated by now and the situation with Kaupthing Edge in Germany also seems to be close to a solution.[[User:BjoernZ|BjoernZ]] ([[User talk:BjoernZ|talk]]) 18:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
+== Icesave agreement, NPOV issues? ==
+An Icesave settlement agreement has been negotiated and is being discussed at Althing, the Icelandic parliament. This agreement is only vaguely discussed in the article. There has been a lot of discussion about it, especially in Iceland as many Icelanders feel it's unfair. International media are increasingly covering the Icelandic side of the case and a recent leading article in Financial Times was sympathetic to Icelanders. I wasn't able to find the leader but this article discusses it: [[http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16568&ew_0_a_id=337745]]. This article covers the Icelandic POV and provides a link to an opinion article by Iceland's PM which was published on FT: [[http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1017404.shtml]].
+I would argue that given the recent developments, this article is somewhat not from a NPOV as it doesn't really discuss the Icelandic POV. I would improve it instead of putting the blame on other Wikipedia editors but I have some very strong opinions on the matter and I feel like a more neutral perspective is needed. Or I don't know. [[Special:Contributions/66.117.142.227|66.117.142.227]] ([[User talk:66.117.142.227|talk]]) 03:40, 14 August 2009 (UTC)