Talk:Algiz

Small capital ʀ

Any idea why small capital ʀ, used in IPA for the uvular trill, is taken by the software to be identical with Ʀ and thus redirects users here? I suppose more people are likely to want to find out what the pronunciation symbol is, but fixing this is far beyond my computing literacy. --Thrissel (talk) 20:33, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

It’s just what’s traditionally used in the literature regarding Old Norse and Germanic linguistic history. ThaesOfereode (talk) 23:31, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Suffix

The word "desinence" is defined in the Wictionary as a technical term from linguistics. The word "suffix" is the standard word used in United States of America in teaching school children. The Wikipedia page "Desinence" is in fact a redirect page to the Wikipedia article "Suffix". Suffix is 150 times more common in use than desinence, according to the books.google.com/ngrams word count of words in over 1,000,000 books. The Wikipedia style page instructs editors to avoid technical language in favor of standard English words. So I made this change. Nick Beeson (talk) 19:14, 25 May 2017 (UTC)

Rewrite and NPOV

This article currently reads like someone's personal essay rather than an objective and up-to-date survey of the matter in runology. There are lots of unsourced statements and, where they occur, frequently they're cited to a 19th century text. The article needs a total rewrite. Unfortunately, many of our articles on runes are in a similar state. :bloodofox: (talk) 04:03, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

This is the case for 90% of the articles on ancient/medieval Germanic (and Celtic) cultures. I would need several lives to rewrite them all. Alcaios (talk) 21:29, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Fascist & non-fascist contemporary uses

Fascist & non-fascist uses of Algiz exist; I think it's important the article mentions that. Algiz's use as a hate symbol is documented by various far-right observer orgs. However, non-racist and anti-racist uses of Algiz exist, so it'd be misleading to conflate algiz entirely with fascism.

I removed most of the paragraph on ecofascism added by 179.6.1.90. It seemed to conflate ecofascism with neopaganism of all kinds. Of the sources it cited, only one showed algiz being used in ecofascism. One didn't mention algiz, and one[https: //journal.fi/temenos/article/view/83429] is about a group that uses algiz but explicitly identifies itself as anti-fascist.

The section maybe needs more work, but I think where it is now is an improvement. -DTysen (talk) 17:27, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

I have a plan to split runic articles into "Rune (rune)" and "Rune (SS-rune)" (see SS-rune), where the latter covers the fascist use, since it is a completely different symbol and usage at that point from the historical letter. I already tried this on Swedish Wikipedia and got possitive results: sv:Odal (SS-runa), sv:Tyr (SS-runa). Thus we do not have to bloat these articles about historical writing characters with modern bullshit which has no connection to the historical usage. Blockhaj (talk) 02:30, 27 February 2025 (UTC)