Talk:Longyearbyen

Pyramiden

Google Maps shows me a place called "Pyramiden" that is higher up north. Does it not count as the most northern place because it's not a town? Streetview shows apartment buildings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-10453-65 (talk) 17:09, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Citation error bleeding into sentence and missing words under Culture

The sentence below in the Culture section has the citation link in the text, and it seems some words are replaced. "...regularly meet in the Svalbar? ?? on match days..."

Twenty residents of the town are members of the Liverbirds Svalbard and regularly meet in the Svalbar Archived 28 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine on match days during the winter months. 66.41.47.112 (talk) 18:19, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

GAR needed template query

@Tbhotch: You added the "GAR request" template to this article in March with this edit. Do you still think this article needs a GAR? If so, would you like to open it? Z1720 (talk) 20:01, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

I add the tag as a notification that the page does not, in my view, meet the GA criteria, and the main authors (or anyone) should work on it. The visible issues from then (update, cn, unsourced paragraphs) are still there. I rarely open GARs. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 20:27, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

@Tbhotch: I'll open a GAR then for additional exposure. Z1720 (talk) 21:01, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

GA Reassessment

Longyearbyen

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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Result: Kept. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:56, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Uncited statements and an "update needed" orange banner at the top of the "History" section. Z1720 (talk) 21:02, 14 September 2025 (UTC)

 Done Added missing refs, and updated history with mines' closure and recent geopolitical significance. —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 17:38, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

• Keep following the improvements made by LastJabberwocky (and a justified section removal by Hog Farm). Trainsandotherthings (talk) 21:46, 23 September 2025 (UTC)
• Keep concerns have been addressed and resolved. Z1720 (talk) 21:50, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

• Not Yet - I'm not convinced that several of the sources in the article are actually RS. icepeople.net (used multiple times), johnnyjet.com, a substack page. This doesn't appear to be an overly pervasive issue, but given that this is the sort of article that tends to accumulate crufty stuff, I'd rather see this looked at a bit closer as regards existing content. Hog Farm _Talk 18:23, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
  • @Hog Farm:: I added better sources for Longyearbyen laws (instead of johnnyjet.com) and look for more cases of dubious sourcing. Regarding the other two sources you mentioned, I think I can justify substack page, because it's written by Joel Rabinowitz who made contributions to The Guardian, The Liverpool Echo and These Football Times. What would you say are the red flags of "icepeople.net"? It is powered by WordPress, but the article has an RS saying it's a local Longyearbyen newspaper, so it's not a blog. The only issue I see the two articles I checked don't have bylines. —LastJabberwocky (Rrarr) 18:55, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
    • Thanks! Sounds like Rabinowitz is OK then, and if the WordPress powered-thing is a local newspaper, then I'm okay with this. Keep as well from me. Hog Farm _Talk 19:03, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The world's northernmost settlement vs. one of the world's northernmost settlements

I edited the opening sentence. It previous said Longyearbyen is the world's northernmost settlement. But then the Wikipedia list page it links to of the world's northernmost settlements shows several more northern settlements, including another town in Svalbard.

I worry I'm being overly pedantic here or missing something, so please correct me if I've gotten something wrong. YarrowFlower (talk) 00:14, 2 May 2026 (UTC)