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Surely he should be catgorised as a British TV presenter & writer? He has never been a presenter on Icelandic TV and does not write books in Icelandic. I was in Iceland in the 1990's when he also happened to be visiting, and saw him on an Icelandic TV new program being interviewed by an Icelandic presenter in English which was subtitled. --JBellis 21:12, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
His knighthood was an honorary one so he never did take British nationality.
His knighthood was indeed honorary, which is why he could not be called "Sir Magnus Magnusson". However, he was entitled to "KBE" after his name, without the qualifier "honorary". I've made the correction. JackofOz 23:47, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
Could someone clarify to me please, how is his name spelt is it Magnus Magnusson or Magnús Magnússon. AxG (talk) (sign here) 22:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Magnús Magnússon would be fine as a title, but it was wrong to move this page to Magnús Magnússon (television presenter). If there is likely to be confusion, then a proper disambiguation page should be created. Deb 21:08, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Surely his father's name was Sigursteinn - http://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigursteinn - or are Icelandic names cited in the accusative?
He was a noted Icelandic translator, and did many of the sagas, not to mention modern literature such as the novels of Halldor Laxness There should be more mention of this.
Also a notable writer upon Scottish subject matter.--MacRusgail (talk) 15:52, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
The diacritical marks are entirely inappropriate. He never used them in any of his many published works, and the article even implies that they are appropriate for his children. They need to go (and they need to go from the title too). Sticks out like a sore thumb that his daughter Sally is exempt from the treatment, as she has a Wiki article and it's a BLP. Magnus and his other children get it because he's dead and they don't have articles here. It's not Wikipedia's task to impose some kind of authenticity on people.KD Tries Again (talk) 06:58, 13 December 2010 (UTC)KD Tries Again
The result of the move request was: move Dpmuk (talk) 12:09, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Magnús Magnússon → Magnus Magnusson — Having removed the diacritical marks from his name in the article, the title is no longer appropriate. I tried moving it myself, but because there is already a Magnus Magnusson page - which simply redirects here - it's not allowing me. KD Tries Again (talk) 17:31, 13 December 2010 (UTC)KD Tries Again
Support Move WP:Article Titles, under Common Names states "Common usage in reliable sources is preferred to technically correct but rarer forms". The common form of this man's name does not have diacriticals. -- Doug (talk) 20:46, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
The following from ODNB confirms the obvious:
He never took British, and therefore Scottish, citizenship so he cannot be listed as Scottish. Permanent Residence doesn't make you a citizen of that country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.165.152.170 (talk) 17:35, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
Did he honestly use this foreign pronunciation of Magnus? Varlaam (talk) 18:14, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
I don't think his successor should be John Humphrys -after the BBC TV series stopped in 1997 it was on radio with Peter Snow then then o the Discovery Channel with Clive Anderson before the BBC revived it with Humphrys. Dunarc (talk) 20:34, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
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