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Good articleMagnus Olsen has been listed as one of the Language and literature 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.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
February 11, 2021Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 4, 2021.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the investigations of Scandinavian place names by Magnus Olsen were instrumental in restoring confidence in Icelandic literature as a useful source for information on Old Norse religion?
On this day...A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on November 28, 2023.

Good article status

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Just a few quick tips.

  • The University of Oslo was not called that at the time, please avoid the anachronism.
  • Replace hyphens with endashes where applicable.
  • Single-sentence paragraphs and single-sentence sections should be avoided, and thus expanded or merged with other sections.
  • The See also section is probably too long and should be converted to prose entirely. Can you write prose about these persons in context with Olsen?

Geschichte (talk) 14:16, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tips. I have now made an attempt at implementing the suggestions. Krakkos (talk) 16:46, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
These are substantial improvements. It will now stand a better change at Good Article Review. Thanks! 22:13, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Magnus Olsen/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 21:37, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

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I'll be reviewing this interesting and well-constructed article. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:37, 10 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • "which was founded by him." -> "which he founded."
  • It might be an idea to provide English translations of the 'Selected publications' titles [in square brackets].

There is really very little that this article needs, but a little copy-editing would perhaps be a good thing. I've fixed some very small issues with English.

  • For example, "Following the death of Bugge" -> "After Bugge's death".
  • The Bugge succession is stated twice! Maybe remove the second one, or better, merge the entries.
  • Perhaps "Philologist" would be a better heading than the rather general "University professor?
  • Turvill-Petre 1964 is used in the references, so it should be in "Sources" rather than "Further reading" (where Johannessen however still belongs).

Well, that's about it from me. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:17, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review, Chiswick Chap. I have now modified the article in accordance with your recommendations. Krakkos (talk) 14:31, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Some of the trans-titles need to be filled in? Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:06, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Done. checkY Krakkos (talk) 15:48, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Super, it's a GA. Thank you for constructing such a nice article. I hope you'll take the time to pick an article or two to review from the ever-growing GAN queue. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:20, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Great! Thanks for the suggestion. I'll see what i can do. Krakkos (talk) 16:43, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk07:08, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Magnus Olsen
Magnus Olsen
  • ... that the investigations of Scandinavian place names by Magnus Olsen (pictured) were instrumental in restoring confidence in Icelandic literature as a useful source for information on Old Norse religion? Source: Turville-Petre, Gabriel (1964). Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia. Greenwood Press. p. IX. ISBN 0837174201. Outstanding modern works are those of J de Vries and G. Dumézil, to which reference will frequently be made in the following pages. Many have disputed the revolutionary conclusions of Dumézil, but the significance of his keen observations cannot be questioned. It is not too much to say that this scholar has restored out confidence in the validity of Norse tradition as it is expressed in the literary records of Iceland. In quite another way the studies of the late Magnus Olsen, who has investigated Scandinavian place-names in the light of ancient literature, have be no less important.

Improved to Good Article status by Krakkos (talk). Self-nominated at 20:05, 11 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

Image eligibility:

  • Freely licensed: No - I'm not a copyright specialist, so I'd like a second opinion, but the licensing looks like it might have issues. The license template says it's public domain in countries where term is life + 70 years, but since the author is unknown, it's unclear that that applies. The template also asks for a U.S. public domain template to be included, but that is missing.
  • Used in article: Yes
  • Clear at 100px: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: As a GA, article has been reviewed and affirmed to be in good shape, so I'm assuming compliance with neutrality/copyright etc. The picture has quite substantial JPEG artifacts. If we're able to resolve the licensing issues, it'd be good to get it from a higher-quality source.

Hooks are generally cited. For ALT1, hook appears to support that he helped keep the university preeminent, not make it preeminent.

On the interestingness criterion, the hooks suffer somewhat from being either too technical or for just asserting his importance without offering anything unusual that might pique someone's interest or explain why someone not super into philology should care about him. Sorry, but as a reader, I wouldn't really be tempted to click on any of them as currently written. Let me comb through the article and see if I can find anything better, and open to additional suggestions. (I also acknowledge I take a harder stance on interestingness than most DYK reviewers, so if others find the hooks interesting enough, I won't stand in the way.) {{u|Sdkb}}talk 21:50, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Following up, I think that his resistance activities during the Nazi occupation of Norway are probably what'd be most likely to draw in readers. (I know it's not the biggest part of his life, but DYK hooks don't need to be comprehensive, just to get people to click.) If you found any particularly interesting details about what precisely caused him to be arrested or what happened to him when he was, those might make a good hook. Otherwise, something like this might be good:
ALT4: ... that Old Norse scholar Magnus Olsen (pictured) was imprisoned for resisting the Nazi occupation of Norway as dean of the University of Oslo? {{u|Sdkb}}talk 22:16, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for this thorough review. I have added the more appropriate license to the image. Well done on developing this hook. It appears that Olsen was arrested for criticizing the Nazi German occupiers. If the original hook is indeed too technical or difficult to simplify, I'm perfectly fine with opting for ALT4 as the hook. Krakkos (talk) 22:43, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
License now looks good, as it was released here. Overall, ready to go. {{u|Sdkb}}talk 08:13, 12 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]