Talk:Thingeyri

message: Annoyingly I can't find a source saying when an airport was first established at Þingeyri. A 1964 advertisement in Morgunblaðið provides a terminus ante quem and World War II provides a terminus post quem since I know that no airports were built in Iceland until then. Maybe it was built by the Allies during the occupation. All I can find out is that planned flights stopped in 1996. In 2006 the airport was extensively renovated and now serves as a backup airport for flights to Ísafjörður. Haukur 22:35, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This issue of Morgunblaðið from 12 November, 1957 has an article (Sjúkraflugvöllur tekinn í notkun á Þingeyri) about the first plane landing at Þingeyri Airport on 2 November. The runway was rather small though (300x20 meters) and I'm not sure if the current airport is still the same one on the same site. It is most likely the case though. --Bjarki 00:07, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well done! We should update the article. Haukur 07:47, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Today the runway seems to be a bit larger: 980×30 m. Lupo 07:58, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, the plot thickens. In 1971 a new runway was completed, measuring 1100×50 meters. But this 2005 article gives the size of the runway as 950×30 meters but says that planned renovations will bring it to 1084×30 meters. There seems to be a missing link here. Haukur 08:13, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like the edge of the tarmac crumbled, but it would be worth checking the direction of the various runways to see if they can be the same. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 17:41, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The airport 

message: Okay, this may be a bit crazy but I've dug up the results of elections for the local council from 1962 to 1994. After 1994, Þingeyri (or Þingeyrarhreppur) was not a separate municipality and before 1962 elections for local councils were typically not political. The council consisted of five elected representatives. In the table below I've lumped various permutations of independents, liberals, leftists and workers together.
Party                    	1994	1990	1986	1982	1978	1974	1970	1966	1962
B (Framsóknarflokkurinn) 	1   	1   	2   	2   	2   	-   	1   	2   	2
D (Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn)	2   	2   	1   	2   	1   	1   	2   	1   	2
Others                   	2   	2   	2   	1   	2   	4   	2   	2   	1
Sources:
Haukur 18:07, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Awesome! This should definately be added to the article. Unless we want to make Þingeyrarhreppur a separate article? --Bjarki 00:11, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: We wouldn't add it to any other town of this size elsewhere in the world. Why here? (Nothing would be wrong with generalization that the council has been divided and a note on the exceptional election of 1974 - especially if it reflects national trends.) Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:57, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The 1974 election is indeed interesting though it doesn't seem to reflect a national trend - the big national left trend came only in the 1978 elections. The Progressive Party didn't offer a separate list so I assume they joined forces in a leftist front. The "D-list of the Independence Party and their supporters" got 48 votes and 1 councilman, the "V-list of leftists" got 98 votes and 3 councilmen and the "I-list of independents" got 54 votes and 1 councilman. My guess is that the Progressive Party was part of this V-list, but Morgunblaðið doesn't quite spell it out. Now, going out on a limb here I think the reason we don't usually have information like this for towns of this size is because it's usually rather difficult to find. User:Stalfur has been pioneering this type of information on the Icelandic Wikipedia, see e.g. :is:Hreppsnefndarkosningar á Seltjarnarnesi. Now, I think having a separate article here for the election information would not be appropriate. Nor do I think that providing the names of the councilmen is necessarily the thing to do. But I do think a table and/or a graph with a few explanatory sentences could be interesting. Haukur 20:01, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm curious, you wouldn't add it to any other town you say *of this size*. Would it be because you want ALL or NONE to have election results (even this rough overview) or does the political history not matter at all or only for towns *over a specific size* or? I'm trying to see the reasoning for election results not belonging in the article. --Stalfur 15:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thingeyri has a population of 450. This means, first of all, that election results are as likely as not to be decided by the random shifts and personal dislikes of a handful of people. More importantly, why are these encyclopedic? The elections of Mexico City or New York City or Jerusalem may be of world importance. Why are the elections of Thingeyri, or, say, Yonkers, New York, which is much larger? Yet the election results of Yonkers are almost certainly available on line, since the New York Times is, and are certainly available in print. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:07, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Þingeyri, of course, isn't of world importance at all. Nothing in an article about the town can be expected to be of world importance. The election results do not, perhaps, say very much in themselves but they are interesting to compare with those of other municipalities and the results of national elections. Haukur 22:30, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

text: If someone would go through the trouble of compiling a basic overview of election results for Yonkers for the last decades, wouldn't that be a nice addition to that article? I would certainly think so. That nobody has bothered to do it yet does not mean that it should never be done. --Bjarki 02:30, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My point exactly. Earlier this year we compiled election results for a couple municipalities on the Icelandic wikipedia. Given enough time we might likely expand it to cover everything we can get data over. I would think that the election results are no less of an encyclopedic material than 2 pages about a singer in a band which had a single hit song and was never seen again, just to refer to some of the more banal side of Wikipedia. --Stalfur 11:06, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local politics