Talk:Runestone

message: to be re-added as the articles are created:
*The Austers Hangvar Stone
*The Halla Bora stone
*The Husaby Stone
*The Hogrän Stone
*The Klinte Stone
*The Martebo Stones
*The Pilgards Rune Stone, Boge
*The Sanda Stones
*The Sjonhem Stone
*The Stenkjyrka Stone, Lillebjärs
*The Timans Rune Stone
*The Tängvida Stone
dab (ᛏ) 13:11, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: cut redlinks

message: It seems like much of the writing in this article is more in the style of a term paper, or a discussion in a book, than an encyclopedia article.  I think the personal perspective that is used (primarily in the Tradition and Locations sections) detracts from the quality of the article (Style Manual - Avoid first-person pronouns and one) -  Not a big deal, but after reading through pages and pages of wiki encyclopedic articles on a subject, coming across lines like these (below) almost makes me want to question the quality of the material.
"One may ask why ..."
"...we can assume that..."
"These inscriptions tell us..."
"Keep in mind that...</>"
"It may sound strange to hear that..."
Just a suggestion :-)  KYJustin 19:39, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed "One may ask why these particular Christian rune stones are so prominent in this specific area and they will discover that the region near modern day Stockholm was one of the last pagan strongholds." to "Christian rune stones are prominent in this specific area because the region near modern day Stockholm was one of the last pagan strongholds." -CaptainJae 14:29, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds a lot better, I rewrote the section some more. Please check. mceder (u t c) 18:25, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Perspective - Encyclopedic Style

message: As of , the article during this review, I failed this article for Good Article status, per WP:WIAGA:
# There is embedded list in the article. Please rewrite them as textual writing or create a new separate list article.
:*Fixed. mceder (u t c) 18:31, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Failed 

message: There's still a couple POV issues in this article, one that caught my eye was this statement:
"Their inscriptions are the oldest written texts created in the Nordic countries and some give a few clues about mythology and the society in Scandinavia before the tragic conversion into a foreign religion."
tragic conversion? Agharo (talk) 02:59, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, an obvious POV issue. Not that I disagree with the point. :) LokiClock (talk) 10:36, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV Issues 

message: What has happened to the image of the Lingsberg runestone? I need it for an academic paper. How do I find it in Wikipedia commons?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.232.130.45 (talk) 01:01, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Just do a search for "Lingsberg" by using the search function as if you would search for an article here on Wikipedia. I get three image results. :bloodofox: (talk) 10:05, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lingsberg runestone image 

message: I think that I'll ad, in ==Modern Culture==, a bit saying that runestones inspired the runes from Runescape. Lol.Zheliel (talk) 12:37, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not a Runescape expert, but isn't it more likely that the name was inspired by Runes rather than runestones? Dront (talk) 14:28, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inspiration to Runescape? 

message: These bear a remarkable similarity to Pictish stones, this might deserve a mention. I also believe some Pictish stones were translated using Old Norse, written in Ogham script. The inscriptions were names and dates, most likely commemorating fallen warriors and kings, similar to the runestones.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.104.200.243 (talk) 17:22, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictish Stones 

message: I'm sorry but the person who made this redirect obviously knew nothing about either and decided to act only on the similarity of names. Runic stones are widespread historical artifacts in mostly Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, and people usually don't make new ones; runic songs are a living tradition in mostly Finland, Karelia and Estonia, and these two have very little in common (mostly artificial similarities). To make things personal, I can't draw more than two or three runes and I have studied all these from a book translated from English; I can start singing a runic song in midday and end by midnight (and I'm definitely not the only one amongst the admins of Estonian Wikipedia). I suppose this might explain the difference a little bit. --Oop (talk) 03:17, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Runic songs redirect

message: The map doesn't include one of the oldest runestones in Sweden, the one called Järsbergsrunstenen or as in older time Varnumstenen in Kristinehamn.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.253.171.212 (talk) 00:25, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomple map of Runestones