Talk:Ibsen quotes, Oslo

A fact from Ibsen quotes, Oslo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 April 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the leader of the Ibsen quotes art project in Oslo wanted it to become a "tourist attraction on par with Fram and Holmenkollen"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/April.

Wikipedia

Norway

	Norway portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Norway, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Norway on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.NorwayWikipedia:WikiProject NorwayTemplate:WikiProject NorwayNorway articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Arts

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Arts, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Arts on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArtsWikipedia:WikiProject ArtsTemplate:WikiProject ArtsWikiProject Arts articles

References

This interesting article includes references from the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten which are in fact accessible on line. For example here. As the author is a Master Editor, I wondered if there was a specific reason for this, for example the threat of spam from the website, unreliability or simply the fact that the articles are in Norwegian. Personally, I always prefer online references as I like to check them out. I also wonder why the Norwegian language icon - (in Norwegian) - has not been used in the references. But these are very minor points and the article has been well researched. -- Ipigott (talk) 14:10, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If I were to guess, I would say the article was written based on articles found in a newspaper archive - and some of them happened to be available online. There are no problems associated with adding a link to the online version of the article such as the one you linked above. decltype (talk) 15:41, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! The first answer is this: since the Norwegian news search engine, "Sesam", became defunct, I have stopped searching the Internet for news. I now search the password-protected database at www.retriever.no, which usually gives the articles as being offline (although it hosts some online newspapers and other websites as well). I don't double-search to see if some of them are online, but if others do so the links may be added. Second, I don't use the icon because all the cite templates include the parameter |language=. It renders "(in Norwegian)" instead of the icon, which is at least as good. Geschichte (talk) 15:52, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your rapid response. I might indeed provide the online links as the newspaper articles offer a lot more detail. Thanks too for your response on the icon. I also prefer the language= parameter but in many of my recent articles, administrators have systematically replaced it with the corresponding icon. -- Ipigott (talk) 16:41, 12 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Ibsen quotes, Oslo. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110504062414/http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/article2645410.ece to http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/article2645410.ece

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 05:29, 11 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]