Talk:Reykjavík

message: I am wondering about this quote: "Beer, however, is expensive: half a litre of beer in an Icelandic bar can cost between 600 and 850 krónur (approx. $4.60 to $6.55 or €3.80 to €5.38 or £3.20 to £4.50 as of June 2010)."
By what standard is that expensive? By Icelandic standards? By American standards?
Paying $4.60 - $6.55 for a pint of beer would not be expensive by Canadian standards, for example, so I am wondering what standard is being used here. Asnider (talk) 22:06, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes I just thought about that. It seems relatively in-line with Canadian / UK / Northern European (and many other places) prices to me. http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/oct/06/average-cost-pint-bitter-good-pub-guide seems to suggest the average costs more than the low range here. This might be a hold-over from a time when Iceland's currency was worth twice as much as it is now. For instance, I was in Reykjavik in 2005, and the exchange rate was around 60 ISK to 1 CAD. At those rates, 850 is quite a bit. But since their currency has gone the way of the ZWL, the prices have come down to a more normal level. However, if that's an old reference, it's possible that the price of beer has risen in response to the value of the currency (maybe a pint costs 1200 - 1700 ISK now). A bit of clarification there is needed. As it stands, 600 ISK is 2.95 GBP as well. This has costs from various countries http://www.pintprice.com/. I recommend taking the line out of the article, it's pretty much useless anyway. 99.236.234.224 (talk) 18:47, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expensive according to whom? 

message: Okay. I made a few changes, added a few new sections and material so that this page would contain the same sections as the page about Akureyri does.
Added:
* Economy
* Sites of interest
* Colleges and universities (with complete lists of colleges and universities)
* Sports teams (with complete list of sports teams)
and a new Administration section.
--Ómar Kjartan Yasin
:Changed colleges into gymnasia, which is correct. --165.123.138.170 16:57, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes (2004) 

message: The introduction claims that the first settler chose the spot "after his high-seat pillars had washed upon the shore". What exactly are "high-seat pillars"? I presume this is a translation issue, but it means absolutely nothing to me. Does anyone know what is meant? - IMSoP 23:06, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I added that bit and made a link to a stub called "Öndvegissúlur" (the Icelantic name for these things) witch should give the reader some idea what this meant.KiloGramm 00:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

text: "Pillars of Importace" is the direct translation, but perhaps the meaning of the word has changed ower the years.KiloGramm 00:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I see - perhaps that explanation could be noted in the article and/or something linked from it, for those as baffled as I was. - IMSoP 15:25, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm workning on rewriting the whole Reykjavík article and I might try to make this clearer there. - Biekko 16:21, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  High-seat pillars (2004) 

message: I've rewritten and expanded this article, I think this form of the article also allows for more future expansions. Anyone is of course encouraged to revise the article and make improvements and expansions. I am yet to write the administration and infrastructure passages but they are coming. Biekko 18:44, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  New article (2004) 

message: ===2005===
The phonetic description at the top of the page is not IPA, though it says it is.
:I have changed it to IPA. Krun 18:15, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: And I've changed it to what I think is slightly more readable IPA :) - Haukur Þorgeirsson 08:08, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not IPA 

message: The phonetic description at the top of the page is not IPA, though it says it is.
:I have changed it to IPA. Krun 18:15, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: And I've changed it to what I think is slightly more readable IPA :) - Haukur Þorgeirsson 08:08, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 2005

message: My apologies for my recent /c/-deleting edit. I had never seen /c/ in IPA before, meaning something akin to /kj/. But Help:IPA#C just schooled me. — ¾-10 23:11, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 2007: /c/ vs /kj/

message: Congestion is one of the matters the city dwellers complain most about and what do they say is to blame? The fact that the city is spread out! Especially the way it is spread out with residential areas mostly disconnected from industrial and commercial areas. This means that most people can't walk or ride a bicycle to their workplace and have no choice but to use their car (The bus system is rather unpopular because in this "car friendly city" the buses are stuck during rush hour). There are also parts of the city that are not particularly well served by the traffic system such as the city center and the city's eastern suburbs (whose outlets to the wide multilane highways are often congested). Maybe the inhabitants haven't seen much real congestion like the ones that occur in big cities like New York but listen: Reykjavík is NOT a big city even if it may have the heart of a big city. And i think there is a strong case to consider it as having severe congestion. The point I'm making is that the view represented on this issue in the article is highly debatable. - Andrés Böðvarsson --85.220.121.53 17:35, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  No severe congestion? 

message: I would like to suggest a new category for the capital cities of Scandinavia/the Nordic, including Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Reykjavik and Stockholm. (I've posted this message on the talk page for each city.) Comments, anyone? /M.O (u) (t) 15:24, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New category for the nordic/scandinavian capitals? 

message: I think that the very beginning of this article isn't good enough. For example, it says that the hours of sunlight Reykjavik receives differ greatly between summer and winter, but is that what you're looking for when you want information about Reykjavik itself. It sure is unique, but I'd say that this information should come later in the introduction, while other information, such as a summary of its history and information about its population should come in first. Although Reykjavik is a small city and might not look very interesting at first sight, it is the capital of Iceland and is very important as the financial and governmental centre of the country. What I'm trying to say is that I believe this introduction might be a little more comprehensive but still of course only a short summary for the rest of the article. -  85.220.74.213 22:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beginning of the article 

message: Superscripted h applied from German version! They are right. This was missing, making me think the j is 100% silent but it is NOT. The extremely weak h must be in to represent the j; it must not be omitted. Perfectly audible on the sample. -andy 80.129.74.36 05:22, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are confusing the difference between [c] and [k] with the difference between  and  (it is [c] and not [k] since it is spelled Reykjavík and not Reykavík but it is  and not  because it in sourthern Iceland and so is "linmælt" (don't think there is an English word for this) Stefán 16:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Heck, you are right! Yes I seem to have confused the [c] with an ordinary "c" or "k". But after I heard the sound samples, I'm about sure that there is no english word pronounced with a [c], am I even right? If so, does anyone of you guys know in which language that sound is used too? -andy 91.32.75.66 08:55, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's right, [c] is not used in English. Haukur 07:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

text: The sound file with the pronunciation is whack, I can't hear anything nor does it play the whole file. I'm going to re-record with both approached Icelandic version and Englishized one. 75.72.162.175 06:59, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I rolled that back. The earlier file works fine for me and your attempt did not sound like that of a native speaker. Haukur 07:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It was not meant to be. The previous speaker also indicated she was from New York so, I guess maybe she's really good. 75.72.162.175 05:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding /c/ in English: According to Help:IPA#C, the initial of English cute is close enough to help an English-speaker understand what is meant (even if it is not equivalent to Icelandic /c/ or Turkish /c/). It is something akin to /kj/. — ¾-10 23:17, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation bug 

message: Added picture of Only Train in Iceland..Thought it would emphasis About Iceland, and it was a good picture too lol... If you don't think it belongs then take it out (write on my talk page if you do though please). I had trouble getting it in a good spot (my wikicode knowledge isn't that good), so If you think it would look better in another place within the article, feel free to re-arrange it.  GBenemy (talk • it.wiki • bot) 08:25, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I am thinking of recording this page. Are Icelanders okei with an American English speaker recording their article? .:DavuMaya:. 05:07, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Go ahead. This is the English Wikipedia and spoken articles should be recorded by natural English speakers. Perhaps an Icelander should do it first though so you have some guidance regarding pronunciation of Icelandic names? --Bjarki 11:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be very helpful because tho I know how to pronounce the names, I always hear it a bit different from a speaker. Someone did once say "all words have an anglicized version" but I hate doing that :) I can always direct you guys to the preview of the file to check it for accuracy. .:DavuMaya:. 16:15, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recording 

message: Aren't Wikipedia articles supposed to have sources? And cite them? And, if not, have a nice big flag that says "This article fails to cite its sources"? Because this one doesn't...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.38.220.138 (talk) 04:33, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just realized there are 0 citations on this page. .:DavuMaya:. 16:53, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  fails to cite its sources...? 

message: I came here to find out what time zone Reykjavik is in.  Could someone add that to the article?  --Doradus (talk) 20:18, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Go to the page of Iceland.--2.245.66.112 (talk) 21:45, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time zone? 

message: There is currently no English pronunciation of the name of the city given here. One might be added in accordance with the manual of style. Has this already been discussed and a consensus reached against it? --Cam (talk) 17:41, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Now English pronunciation is given in the beginning of the article: "/ˈreɪkjəvɪk, -viːk/ RAYK-yə-vik, RAYK-yə-veek". Burzuchius (talk) 17:08, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  English pronunciation 

message: Hi folks.  It seems to me that the special Icelandic "í" should not be used in this name, as the name is used commonly in English without the diacritic (diagonal mark on top to differentiate it from the normal (in English) "i"), by sources from the academic to the mundane.  I'm not going to try to make the change without some sort of consensus, but this seems to be a pretty clear case, to me. Feedback?AshleyMorton (talk) 23:11, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No reason to. I'd bet that a lot of these people just don't want to bother with the extra steps to make diacritics on the keyboard. ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 13:22, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm against this move. In my opinion spelling it without the diacritic is simply incorrect. BodvarBjarki (talk) 13:55, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

text: I was surprised that the article's title contains the diacritic. We don't call Mexico City 'México City', etc. Is the form with the diacritic really the common name in English publications? 98.170.164.88 (talk) 19:39, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Icelandic I (diacritic in the name) 

message: Jón Gnarr isn't mayor yet, we should wait until he is elected formally by the city council. Hanna Birna is the current mayor. See http://www.reykjavik.is/. gumol (talk) 00:23, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jón Gnarr isn't mayor yet 

message: So what does "roughly" mean here?
There are, or there are not, 522 vehicles per 1,000 residents?
There's nothing rough about it, surely.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.132.22.57 (talk) 16:58, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Per capita car ownership in Iceland is among the highest in the world at roughly 522 vehicles per 1,000 residents 

message: "The temperature has not dropped to below −20 °C (−4 °F) since 39 January 1971."
I kinda doubt that date is accurate. Someone who knows the actual date should probably correct that, or simply remove the day altogether ("since January 1971").
Callid13 (talk) 00:02, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 39th of January? 

message: I don't know Icelandic, but for [c], the sound file has too much [k]. Are you sure it's not [kʲ]? Or is the sound file not precise?--2.245.66.112 (talk) 21:46, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It's complicated, but several scholars seem to agree that [c] is correct... if perchance you know German, maybe this discussion over in German Wikipedia will interest you... Gestumblindi (talk) 23:37, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sound file 

message: The history section has some very close paraphrasing, maybe even enough to be a copyvio, of the book Travel Iceland, see here. --AmaryllisGardener talk 14:41, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It's obviously the other way round - that's a cheaply made e-book full of material from Wikipedia resp. Wikimedia Commons (the photographs), compare e.g. also Reykjavik Art Museum or Skagafjörður or everything else in this book... There are literally thousands of books like this by various publishers (some also sell printed collections of Wikipedia articles, not always clearly labeled as such)... Gestumblindi (talk) 23:17, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, thank you. --AmaryllisGardener talk 23:31, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Close paraphrasing 

message: did you know that over 85 percent of people in iceland didn't watch the super bowl this year?? or last year??And the vast vast majority of people in Iceland doesn't watch american football  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:2:2380:27E:244B:8C4A:E6F4:657F (talk) 01:10, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know why Icelanders would watch the Super Bowl. It is incredibly boring and completely irrelevant to us. I guess most Icelanders have never even heard of it. American football and baseball are not considered interesting sports in Iceland and probably the rest of the world. Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson (talk) 02:18, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect you're responding to a feeble joke of some kind. Like saying "99.9% of Americans didn't watch the world handball championship" since that sport isn't played in the US. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 13:48, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  quote 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: What is missing from the recently created city timeline article? Please add relevant content! Contributions welcome. Thank you. -- M2545 (talk) 13:37, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Timeline of Reykjavík]] 

message: I needed updated data for Reykjavik's climate, and since the weatherbox here is ancient, I pieced an updated one together using the official monthly data. While not referencing an official publication, and using a funky time period, they'd be using the same methods in order to release their updated climate normals in 2021 or whenever they get around to it. I will leave it here and you can use it if you want to. I don't want to get into territorial battles with the people who regularly take care of this page.
Everything is updated, apart from the number of rainy days, which they don't track in the monthly data it seems. The extremes have been updated using everything since 1990, since I assumed that the 1961-1990 normals reflected all data on file up to that point.
Synon0 (talk) 04:47, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Weatherbox 

message: I'm not questioning clean or safe - but greenest ? I once learned that there are no trees on Iceland. Perhaps planted ones - but no woods.
Are there lots of parks (with planted threes) in Reykjavik ? And if not, how come it's so green ? It's a question only. Boeing720 (talk) 04:30, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe it refers to green grass. Lots of green fields. Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson (talk) 04:37, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:   "among the cleanest, greenest, and safest cities in the world" 

message: The number of seats on the city council is different than the number listed on the Wikipedia page for it Dogblock (talk) 16:30, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of seats on the City Council 

message: Why is there nothing in the government section of the infobox? Is it anarchy? :) I assume it is either a mistake, or there has been some trouble in forming a city administration. Inspector Semenych (talk) 01:41, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson (talk) 23:24, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No government currently?