This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | → | Archive 15 |
This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.
See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.
The Transhumanist 10:02, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
There's been a lot of acrimony for several years about the use of umlauted letters and ß in Wikipedia articles, particularly in article titles. Some editors have never seen an ß they didn't hate; others think that en.wikipedia should use German orthography regardless of whether there exists a standard and distinct way of writing a name in English (Rudolf Hess rather than Rudolf Heß, for example). Some WP projects have gotten around this problem by instituting their own project-specific conventions, such as Hawaii-related articles usually being titled without macrons and okinas, but then using these marks in the body of the article (thus the article titled Poipu uses Poʻipū in the text of the article). At the risk of stirring up the acrimony here, I'm wondering whether people involved in articles related Germany (and other Germanophone-related articles) want to set up a German-specific convention, so people don't waste their time with arguments like these, and instead get to work on improving articles or engaging in worthwhile real-world activities. -- Atemperman ( talk) 21:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable) 21:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello, need some Germany experts to answer the question of, what flag should be used for germany in 1934 (and all articles 12 March 1933 - 15 September 1935) (because there are some inconsistency with some articles using the tri-colour and some using the nazi flag), in places like 1934 FIFA World Cup, European LC Championships, Czechoslovakian Grand Prix, 1934 Grand Prix season. Which should be used, as they are described as "the two legal national flags of Germany" — chan dler — 18:32, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
An anonymous contributor using a succession of different e-addresses has worked through the post war chancellors entering 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc chancellor of Germany in the info box for each of the Federal Chancellors since Adenauer.
I have tried reversing this a couple of times in the case of Frau Merkel. For my money, the first chancellor of Germany was Otto von Bismarck. Angela Merkel is (I think) the eight Chancellor of the BRD - the eighth FEDERAL Chancellor (Bundskanzler). But not of Germany.
Someone else, who appears to agree with me, tried reversing the same fellow's entries several times in respect of Dr Adenauer. But the fellow is persistent, and since he never logs in with an identity nor from the same location it is impossible to discuss the matter on his talk page. Of course, one starts out assuming good faith. Maybe he understands little of German and less of English. But now I begin to wonder if good faith is in play here.
Questions:
(Apologies if we are dealing not with a fellow but with a female contributor: however I know what I think...)
Mit Dank im Voraus Charles01 ( talk) 08:30, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
The Oberstdorf says it has a population of Zero (0). Is theree any confimation on this? Kingjeff ( talk) 02:34, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
There is currently a proposal for a bot that would notify WikiProjects when their articles have entered certain workflows, e.g. when they are nominated for deletion or for Good article reassessment.
The question is whether a relevant number of wikiprojects would be interested in using such a bot. You can find details of the functionality, and leave your comments, at the bot request page.
I am posting this message to the 20 largest WikiProjects (by number of articles), since they would be the most likely users. Thanks, -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 12:09, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Eifel Aqueduct has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 04:40, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I think the Germany WikiProject could need someone (or two) to lead it, develop new ideas and start interesting cooperative projects. Or if you don't want to be a "leader": Just be bold and start something, and if it is fun and interesting, others will join. Perhaps you can even revitalize this talk page and WikiProject :-) Kusma ( talk) 08:12, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I am currently trying to have a life instead of leading by example here. But it would be so nice if somebody else could do it ;-) As your example shows, there is TONS of interesting material to collaborate on or to translate from the German Wikipedia. And doing it collaboratively is fun, actually. Kusma ( talk) 12:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Hey. An editor over at Talk:Spaßguerilla is challenging the use of the eszett in the name of this article. Could someone swing by and offer up another opinion on whether or not it should be in the title? Thanks. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 15:39, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
The Todo list at Portal:Germany/Things you can do could use some updating. Perhaps some part of the work (figuring out what articles fall under WikiProject Germany and need copyediting / NPOVing etc.) could be done by help of bots (although it isn't TOO hard to do manually). Kusma ( talk) 06:03, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Hamm (Westfalen) railway station, a GA tagged by this project, has just been reviewed as part of the GA Sweeps Project and has been placed on hold pending the resolution of a few issues. The review can be found here. -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 14:51, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Does this article have the correct name? Should it be Sohland am Rothstein? Mjroots ( talk) 16:54, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
The bottom of this page has some requests that are already almost a year old (and probably out of date). Does anybody have an idea how this can be organized more efficiently? Also, some volunteers to clear the backlog would be great. Thanks, Kusma ( talk) 15:34, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Does anybody have experience from other projects how to best start a project-based peer review process? I think that is what is most sorely needed in this project, so we can help each other find and correct weaknesses in our articles. Kusma ( talk) 09:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm working on this list (and sub-lists linked from there), but suspect some of the place names need tweaking. Assistance also needed in improving the lists by adding more images . Mjroots ( talk) 12:37, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Cathedral of Magdeburg has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Thank you, Cirt ( talk) 02:52, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, just dropping by to share some good news: a newly featured picture relates to your project. Best regards, Durova Charge! 19:18, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I notice that there are a lot of articles about train stations named in German, examples:
Berlin Dresdner Bahnhof Berlin Hauptbahnhof
and especially bad: Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Fernbahnhof
Shouldn't these all be renamed into English, here on the English language wikipedia? Abc30 ( talk) 21:26, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
These articles come under the Trains WikiProject too, and should have English titles as per established practice for all station articles. I will copy your question to that project. Mjroots ( talk) 09:55, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
The List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is currently a featured list candidate. Interested users are welcome to leave their comments here. BomBom ( talk) 18:22, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
I just removed the "Categorize" part of the todo list at Portal:Germany/Things you can do, as the uncategorized category was empty. Can someone who knows template magic rewrite it so it automatically adds that category whenever it is nonempty? That would be great. Kusma ( talk) 20:29, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Frederick III, German Emperor has been put up for review as a Good Article candidate -- Banime ( talk) 18:40, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
Frederick III, German Emperor passed and is now a Good Article. Thanks to anyone else who helped! -- Banime ( talk) 09:43, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.
We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.
A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.
We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:52, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
I'll do some things to revive the Frankfurt WikiProject. I added many neighborhoods, etc. to the project template. WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:15, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
This Template:German IMDB title needs to be translated. WhisperToMe ( talk) 02:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, there is a deletion request at Commons for this image which is used within this article on the ground of major factual inaccuracies. The inaccuracies are summarized at the image description, its talk page, and at the deletion request. It would be helpful to remove this image from that article or to substitute it or to express at the deletion request why this image should be kept. Thanks for your help. Cheers, AFBorchert ( talk) 13:24, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I have been busy otherwise recently, and sometimes forget to select articles for the Germany portal at the start of a new month (I was five days late this time, very bad for a featured portal). I would be glad if anyone wants to take over either by adding new articles every month or by changing the portal to no longer need monthly changes (there are several mechanisms for displaying "random" featured content). Kusma ( talk) 09:33, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey, Frederick III, German Emperor recently received GA status and I have been improving it since then. My ultimate goal is to get it to FA status, but I'd like to get it to A Class in its projects first, since that would provide the most improvement to the article overall. It said to post on the talk page to ask about A class, so can anyone look at it, review it, and give me some tips that would help get it to A class and later FA class? Thanks if you can help out. -- Banime ( talk) 21:17, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
There's a peer review of this article going on right now at Wikipedia:Peer_review/Frederick_III,_German_Emperor/archive1 if anyone would like to help improve the article. -- Banime ( talk) 15:14, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there a place called Immerath in North Rhine-Westphalia? Mjroots ( talk) 05:24, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Article created today. I'd really appreciate someone who knows the area going through the article and double checking it, making any corrections / improvements as necessary. Mjroots ( talk) 14:33, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
The title of the article Gross Aktion is being disputed by two users - myself (as 74.15.29.56 and 76.64.212.106) and The PiedCow). In short, while we agree that the subject was a grossaktion, it is not known to English-speakers as ‘’the’’ grossaktion. We have suggested “Gross Aktion in the Warsaw Ghetto “and “Grossaktion in Warsaw” as possible alternatives. Poeticbent, the creator of the article, disagrees. The issue is discussed at Talk:Gross Aktion. 76.64.212.106 ( talk) 11:47, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:GERMIL#Naming_conventions only provide a limited list of words. It does not lay down any guideline on how these words could be used in a article. I have been working on a Luftwaffe related article where the issue is weather you should use the German word in bracket with English equivalent outside. Also this list very few Luftwaffe related words. Ex. Staffel, Gruppen, Geschwader etc. Also absent are ranks. Can someone point me as to who can mediate or provide guideline ? Thanks Perseus71 ( talk) 16:13, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Germany, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Germany, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.
The articles in question are listed in Category:Germany articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 632 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.
The articles are all marked with {{ coord missing}} tags, which need to be replaced with {{ coord}} tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Please let me know if this is useful, or if you have any questions! -- The Anome ( talk) 11:57, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Frederick III, German Emperor is now a featured article candidate if anyone would like to help improve the article. You can see the FA Review here. -- Banime ( talk) 21:15, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
This article is even longer than what its title leads us to expect, while many of the entries for the coat of arms of each individual German state are unreferenced stubs. - A split has been suggested at the article's talk page. You may be interested in taking a look at that possibility. :-)
I left an identical message at the WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology. - Best regards, Ev ( talk) 19:38, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Bethmanns and Rothschilds, an article under WikiProject Germany, has been nominated for deletion. If interested, you may comment at the discussion here. Sorry, forgot to sign this (I am presently the main author of the Article, by the way.)-- Goodmorningworld ( talk) 20:11, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Just found Heinrich Himmler named as Federal Minister of the Interiour. But this Ministry didn't exist in 1943, when he acceeded to this post, and I'm afraid that saying otherwise is in violation of some basic historical facts and German (well-founded) custom.
The epochs of the newer German history, Kaiserreich (1871–1918), Weimar (1918–1945), and post-war (1945/49– ) were accompanied by major organisational and personal upheaval, so usually there is little continuity at the top level of the administration, differently from the lower echelons, I suppose.
Humbugde ( talk) 18:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
The article Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany is within WikiProject Germany. It is a featured article. I am desperately seeking more regular contributors for further suggestion on this article. Thanks. Otolemur crassicaudatus ( talk) 23:03, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
German poet and author Gottfried August Bürger, who published a version of Baron von Munchhausen's adventures, has one birthdate when you look at some reliable sources, another date when you look at others. His gravestone says January, most modern scholarly sources seem to favor December. Teasingly, a source seen at Google Books in an excerpt that is just a bit too short states that there has been a debate about this, but the excerpt says no more. The mystery deepens. Can members of this August WikiProject, with their possible knowledge of German, ferret out the solution to the December/January mystery, or at least help in finding reliable sources that mention the debate so that it can be incorporated into the article? The mystery deepens at Talk:Gottfried August Bürger#Birthdate: December 31, 1747 or January 1, 1748? The Great Debate. Reconsideration ( talk) 04:29, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
As I usually forget to update the portal every month, I just coded a system that will display a monthly selection if a page with the correct title exists, or a random selection of previous pages if there is no such page. This will avoid ugly redlinks. The only drawback is that I use redirects, which makes it more difficult to edit the subpage from the main portal. See Portal:Germany/Test. Any ideas or comments or should I just copy this over to the main portal page and create the missing 60 or so redirects so we can display all the 35 pics and 35 articles that were displayed on the portal previously? Kusma ( talk) 12:47, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
As it is December now, I have implemented the change. When I get around to it, I think I'll just move all the old subpages to new names. That keeps them visible in the right spot in the archive (per redirect) and editable directly from the main portal. Kusma ( talk) 09:22, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
521 articles in Category:Germany articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Germany is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 01:24, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I'll take this one on. I should be able to get it done shortly since the facts are pretty straightforward. I suspect I can find a picture somewhere to illustrate it too. Wood Artist ( talk) 03:13, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey, Saxon Brother War is currently a DYK on the main page. However, theres a discussion going on about the translation of the name of the war. Please see the talk page and give your two cents. It could be Saxon Brother War, Saxon Fratricidal War, or leave it German as the Sächsischer Bruderkrieg. We'd welcome all responses, thanks. -- Banime ( talk) 21:43, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I would appreciate a quick show of hands at Talk:List of German Americans#Jews?, I don't want to revert the user a second time without a clearer consensus. Thanks, Amalthea 01:39, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
I've expanded this article recently. this source is in German. I don't speak German but from my knowledge of Dutch I can see that there is much info which could be added to the article to expand it further. Would appreciate assistance in expanding the article further as it has been approved for DYK. Mjroots ( talk) 07:29, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
People keep adding numbering to the order parameter for chancellors of "Germany", such as Angela Merkel and Helmut Schmidt, though there appears to be a tentative consensus at Talk:Angela Merkel/Archive 1#Something Confusing that this is not a good idea and that it is not normal to number German chancellors. The practice probably results in incorrect information (or a non-mainstream view) for any countries that, unlike the United States, have had several constitutions. For instance Angela Merkel is currently given as the "8th chancellor of Germany", which is not correct and is at odds with the template {{ GermanChancellors}}; it would be correct (though unusual) to refer to Angela Merkel as the 8th chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Since this affects several articles related to Germany, I thought this might be a good place to discuss this. I would suggest a convention that German chancellors should not be numbered in the infobox. It might also be appropriate to add something to the documentation or source code of the template {{ Infobox Chancellor}}. As it stands, the naming of the parameter makes it likely that incorrect information will be added repeatedly. If we could reach agreement for German channcellors , this should perhaps then be taken to Template talk:Infobox Officeholder, since it probably affects other countries (perhaps in different ways). -- Boson ( talk) 09:12, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
German orthographic conference of 1901 has been proposed for deletion. 76.66.195.159 ( talk) 08:07, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
I just noticed that in the time where I could not give WP much attention there was quite a number of new members to the project. A belated welcome to all of you especially those that I did miss in putting a message onto their talk page.
Maybe I can remind everybody else to keep an eye onto the Members page - maybe watchlist it, and welcome new members to make them really part of the team. Agathoclea ( talk) 22:37, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 5 | ← | Archive 8 | Archive 9 | Archive 10 | Archive 11 | Archive 12 | → | Archive 15 |
This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.
See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.
The Transhumanist 10:02, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
There's been a lot of acrimony for several years about the use of umlauted letters and ß in Wikipedia articles, particularly in article titles. Some editors have never seen an ß they didn't hate; others think that en.wikipedia should use German orthography regardless of whether there exists a standard and distinct way of writing a name in English (Rudolf Hess rather than Rudolf Heß, for example). Some WP projects have gotten around this problem by instituting their own project-specific conventions, such as Hawaii-related articles usually being titled without macrons and okinas, but then using these marks in the body of the article (thus the article titled Poipu uses Poʻipū in the text of the article). At the risk of stirring up the acrimony here, I'm wondering whether people involved in articles related Germany (and other Germanophone-related articles) want to set up a German-specific convention, so people don't waste their time with arguments like these, and instead get to work on improving articles or engaging in worthwhile real-world activities. -- Atemperman ( talk) 21:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable) 21:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello, need some Germany experts to answer the question of, what flag should be used for germany in 1934 (and all articles 12 March 1933 - 15 September 1935) (because there are some inconsistency with some articles using the tri-colour and some using the nazi flag), in places like 1934 FIFA World Cup, European LC Championships, Czechoslovakian Grand Prix, 1934 Grand Prix season. Which should be used, as they are described as "the two legal national flags of Germany" — chan dler — 18:32, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
An anonymous contributor using a succession of different e-addresses has worked through the post war chancellors entering 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc chancellor of Germany in the info box for each of the Federal Chancellors since Adenauer.
I have tried reversing this a couple of times in the case of Frau Merkel. For my money, the first chancellor of Germany was Otto von Bismarck. Angela Merkel is (I think) the eight Chancellor of the BRD - the eighth FEDERAL Chancellor (Bundskanzler). But not of Germany.
Someone else, who appears to agree with me, tried reversing the same fellow's entries several times in respect of Dr Adenauer. But the fellow is persistent, and since he never logs in with an identity nor from the same location it is impossible to discuss the matter on his talk page. Of course, one starts out assuming good faith. Maybe he understands little of German and less of English. But now I begin to wonder if good faith is in play here.
Questions:
(Apologies if we are dealing not with a fellow but with a female contributor: however I know what I think...)
Mit Dank im Voraus Charles01 ( talk) 08:30, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
The Oberstdorf says it has a population of Zero (0). Is theree any confimation on this? Kingjeff ( talk) 02:34, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
There is currently a proposal for a bot that would notify WikiProjects when their articles have entered certain workflows, e.g. when they are nominated for deletion or for Good article reassessment.
The question is whether a relevant number of wikiprojects would be interested in using such a bot. You can find details of the functionality, and leave your comments, at the bot request page.
I am posting this message to the 20 largest WikiProjects (by number of articles), since they would be the most likely users. Thanks, -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 12:09, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
Eifel Aqueduct has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 04:40, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I think the Germany WikiProject could need someone (or two) to lead it, develop new ideas and start interesting cooperative projects. Or if you don't want to be a "leader": Just be bold and start something, and if it is fun and interesting, others will join. Perhaps you can even revitalize this talk page and WikiProject :-) Kusma ( talk) 08:12, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
I am currently trying to have a life instead of leading by example here. But it would be so nice if somebody else could do it ;-) As your example shows, there is TONS of interesting material to collaborate on or to translate from the German Wikipedia. And doing it collaboratively is fun, actually. Kusma ( talk) 12:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Hey. An editor over at Talk:Spaßguerilla is challenging the use of the eszett in the name of this article. Could someone swing by and offer up another opinion on whether or not it should be in the title? Thanks. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 15:39, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
The Todo list at Portal:Germany/Things you can do could use some updating. Perhaps some part of the work (figuring out what articles fall under WikiProject Germany and need copyediting / NPOVing etc.) could be done by help of bots (although it isn't TOO hard to do manually). Kusma ( talk) 06:03, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Hamm (Westfalen) railway station, a GA tagged by this project, has just been reviewed as part of the GA Sweeps Project and has been placed on hold pending the resolution of a few issues. The review can be found here. -- Malleus Fatuorum ( talk) 14:51, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Does this article have the correct name? Should it be Sohland am Rothstein? Mjroots ( talk) 16:54, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
The bottom of this page has some requests that are already almost a year old (and probably out of date). Does anybody have an idea how this can be organized more efficiently? Also, some volunteers to clear the backlog would be great. Thanks, Kusma ( talk) 15:34, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Does anybody have experience from other projects how to best start a project-based peer review process? I think that is what is most sorely needed in this project, so we can help each other find and correct weaknesses in our articles. Kusma ( talk) 09:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
I'm working on this list (and sub-lists linked from there), but suspect some of the place names need tweaking. Assistance also needed in improving the lists by adding more images . Mjroots ( talk) 12:37, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Cathedral of Magdeburg has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Thank you, Cirt ( talk) 02:52, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, just dropping by to share some good news: a newly featured picture relates to your project. Best regards, Durova Charge! 19:18, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
I notice that there are a lot of articles about train stations named in German, examples:
Berlin Dresdner Bahnhof Berlin Hauptbahnhof
and especially bad: Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Fernbahnhof
Shouldn't these all be renamed into English, here on the English language wikipedia? Abc30 ( talk) 21:26, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
These articles come under the Trains WikiProject too, and should have English titles as per established practice for all station articles. I will copy your question to that project. Mjroots ( talk) 09:55, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
The List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is currently a featured list candidate. Interested users are welcome to leave their comments here. BomBom ( talk) 18:22, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
I just removed the "Categorize" part of the todo list at Portal:Germany/Things you can do, as the uncategorized category was empty. Can someone who knows template magic rewrite it so it automatically adds that category whenever it is nonempty? That would be great. Kusma ( talk) 20:29, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
Frederick III, German Emperor has been put up for review as a Good Article candidate -- Banime ( talk) 18:40, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
Frederick III, German Emperor passed and is now a Good Article. Thanks to anyone else who helped! -- Banime ( talk) 09:43, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.
We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations.
A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.
We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:52, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
I'll do some things to revive the Frankfurt WikiProject. I added many neighborhoods, etc. to the project template. WhisperToMe ( talk) 22:15, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
This Template:German IMDB title needs to be translated. WhisperToMe ( talk) 02:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, there is a deletion request at Commons for this image which is used within this article on the ground of major factual inaccuracies. The inaccuracies are summarized at the image description, its talk page, and at the deletion request. It would be helpful to remove this image from that article or to substitute it or to express at the deletion request why this image should be kept. Thanks for your help. Cheers, AFBorchert ( talk) 13:24, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
I have been busy otherwise recently, and sometimes forget to select articles for the Germany portal at the start of a new month (I was five days late this time, very bad for a featured portal). I would be glad if anyone wants to take over either by adding new articles every month or by changing the portal to no longer need monthly changes (there are several mechanisms for displaying "random" featured content). Kusma ( talk) 09:33, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
Hey, Frederick III, German Emperor recently received GA status and I have been improving it since then. My ultimate goal is to get it to FA status, but I'd like to get it to A Class in its projects first, since that would provide the most improvement to the article overall. It said to post on the talk page to ask about A class, so can anyone look at it, review it, and give me some tips that would help get it to A class and later FA class? Thanks if you can help out. -- Banime ( talk) 21:17, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
There's a peer review of this article going on right now at Wikipedia:Peer_review/Frederick_III,_German_Emperor/archive1 if anyone would like to help improve the article. -- Banime ( talk) 15:14, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
Is there a place called Immerath in North Rhine-Westphalia? Mjroots ( talk) 05:24, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Article created today. I'd really appreciate someone who knows the area going through the article and double checking it, making any corrections / improvements as necessary. Mjroots ( talk) 14:33, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
The title of the article Gross Aktion is being disputed by two users - myself (as 74.15.29.56 and 76.64.212.106) and The PiedCow). In short, while we agree that the subject was a grossaktion, it is not known to English-speakers as ‘’the’’ grossaktion. We have suggested “Gross Aktion in the Warsaw Ghetto “and “Grossaktion in Warsaw” as possible alternatives. Poeticbent, the creator of the article, disagrees. The issue is discussed at Talk:Gross Aktion. 76.64.212.106 ( talk) 11:47, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:GERMIL#Naming_conventions only provide a limited list of words. It does not lay down any guideline on how these words could be used in a article. I have been working on a Luftwaffe related article where the issue is weather you should use the German word in bracket with English equivalent outside. Also this list very few Luftwaffe related words. Ex. Staffel, Gruppen, Geschwader etc. Also absent are ranks. Can someone point me as to who can mediate or provide guideline ? Thanks Perseus71 ( talk) 16:13, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Germany, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Germany, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.
The articles in question are listed in Category:Germany articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 632 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.
The articles are all marked with {{ coord missing}} tags, which need to be replaced with {{ coord}} tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Please let me know if this is useful, or if you have any questions! -- The Anome ( talk) 11:57, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
Frederick III, German Emperor is now a featured article candidate if anyone would like to help improve the article. You can see the FA Review here. -- Banime ( talk) 21:15, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
This article is even longer than what its title leads us to expect, while many of the entries for the coat of arms of each individual German state are unreferenced stubs. - A split has been suggested at the article's talk page. You may be interested in taking a look at that possibility. :-)
I left an identical message at the WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology. - Best regards, Ev ( talk) 19:38, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Bethmanns and Rothschilds, an article under WikiProject Germany, has been nominated for deletion. If interested, you may comment at the discussion here. Sorry, forgot to sign this (I am presently the main author of the Article, by the way.)-- Goodmorningworld ( talk) 20:11, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
Just found Heinrich Himmler named as Federal Minister of the Interiour. But this Ministry didn't exist in 1943, when he acceeded to this post, and I'm afraid that saying otherwise is in violation of some basic historical facts and German (well-founded) custom.
The epochs of the newer German history, Kaiserreich (1871–1918), Weimar (1918–1945), and post-war (1945/49– ) were accompanied by major organisational and personal upheaval, so usually there is little continuity at the top level of the administration, differently from the lower echelons, I suppose.
Humbugde ( talk) 18:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
The article Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany is within WikiProject Germany. It is a featured article. I am desperately seeking more regular contributors for further suggestion on this article. Thanks. Otolemur crassicaudatus ( talk) 23:03, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
German poet and author Gottfried August Bürger, who published a version of Baron von Munchhausen's adventures, has one birthdate when you look at some reliable sources, another date when you look at others. His gravestone says January, most modern scholarly sources seem to favor December. Teasingly, a source seen at Google Books in an excerpt that is just a bit too short states that there has been a debate about this, but the excerpt says no more. The mystery deepens. Can members of this August WikiProject, with their possible knowledge of German, ferret out the solution to the December/January mystery, or at least help in finding reliable sources that mention the debate so that it can be incorporated into the article? The mystery deepens at Talk:Gottfried August Bürger#Birthdate: December 31, 1747 or January 1, 1748? The Great Debate. Reconsideration ( talk) 04:29, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
As I usually forget to update the portal every month, I just coded a system that will display a monthly selection if a page with the correct title exists, or a random selection of previous pages if there is no such page. This will avoid ugly redlinks. The only drawback is that I use redirects, which makes it more difficult to edit the subpage from the main portal. See Portal:Germany/Test. Any ideas or comments or should I just copy this over to the main portal page and create the missing 60 or so redirects so we can display all the 35 pics and 35 articles that were displayed on the portal previously? Kusma ( talk) 12:47, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
As it is December now, I have implemented the change. When I get around to it, I think I'll just move all the old subpages to new names. That keeps them visible in the right spot in the archive (per redirect) and editable directly from the main portal. Kusma ( talk) 09:22, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
521 articles in Category:Germany articles missing geocoordinate data do not have geographic coordinates. Coords are useful for making the article appear on Google Maps & many other mapping services; and they allow our users to click through to see the article subject location on a map. There's a short guide to on how to add geocodes to articles ... it really is very easy to do. I hope you'll take some time to ensure that Germany is as well represented as it can be on wikipedia by fixing up the listed articles. thanks -- Tagishsimon (talk) 01:24, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I'll take this one on. I should be able to get it done shortly since the facts are pretty straightforward. I suspect I can find a picture somewhere to illustrate it too. Wood Artist ( talk) 03:13, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Hey, Saxon Brother War is currently a DYK on the main page. However, theres a discussion going on about the translation of the name of the war. Please see the talk page and give your two cents. It could be Saxon Brother War, Saxon Fratricidal War, or leave it German as the Sächsischer Bruderkrieg. We'd welcome all responses, thanks. -- Banime ( talk) 21:43, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
I would appreciate a quick show of hands at Talk:List of German Americans#Jews?, I don't want to revert the user a second time without a clearer consensus. Thanks, Amalthea 01:39, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
I've expanded this article recently. this source is in German. I don't speak German but from my knowledge of Dutch I can see that there is much info which could be added to the article to expand it further. Would appreciate assistance in expanding the article further as it has been approved for DYK. Mjroots ( talk) 07:29, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
People keep adding numbering to the order parameter for chancellors of "Germany", such as Angela Merkel and Helmut Schmidt, though there appears to be a tentative consensus at Talk:Angela Merkel/Archive 1#Something Confusing that this is not a good idea and that it is not normal to number German chancellors. The practice probably results in incorrect information (or a non-mainstream view) for any countries that, unlike the United States, have had several constitutions. For instance Angela Merkel is currently given as the "8th chancellor of Germany", which is not correct and is at odds with the template {{ GermanChancellors}}; it would be correct (though unusual) to refer to Angela Merkel as the 8th chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Since this affects several articles related to Germany, I thought this might be a good place to discuss this. I would suggest a convention that German chancellors should not be numbered in the infobox. It might also be appropriate to add something to the documentation or source code of the template {{ Infobox Chancellor}}. As it stands, the naming of the parameter makes it likely that incorrect information will be added repeatedly. If we could reach agreement for German channcellors , this should perhaps then be taken to Template talk:Infobox Officeholder, since it probably affects other countries (perhaps in different ways). -- Boson ( talk) 09:12, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
German orthographic conference of 1901 has been proposed for deletion. 76.66.195.159 ( talk) 08:07, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
I just noticed that in the time where I could not give WP much attention there was quite a number of new members to the project. A belated welcome to all of you especially those that I did miss in putting a message onto their talk page.
Maybe I can remind everybody else to keep an eye onto the Members page - maybe watchlist it, and welcome new members to make them really part of the team. Agathoclea ( talk) 22:37, 26 December 2008 (UTC)