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I am posting this as (it seems to me) a number of articles under the purview of this project are bordering on the unreadable. I recently read this, for example, and there are others I have encountered, and it feels like they are written in denglish. I assume the editors for this project will have German as their first or second language and maybe these pages will seem unremarkable, but from the point of view of someone with English as their first (and I expect more so for someone who has English as a second and something other than German as a first) these pages are hard going. We have Mark Twain's observation on how little the language has to be altered to become opaque; and pages like this one, or this, also make the point. If the reader has to mentally change gear every sentence or so to work out what is being said they will rapidly lose interest. I don't know if there is some purpose in insisting on using German terms when English ones exist for the same thing, but the present situation really only suits German -speakers who wish to read about German subjects on the English WP. If we want other people to actually read and learn stuff about German subjects these pages need to be more user-friendly. My two pennies worth... Moonraker12 ( talk) 11:41, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
<od>My thanks (one and all) for your replies: And thank you that help and collaboration is welcome in this matter; it sometimes feels that correcting people's English is seen as interference.
@Gerda. "College" has elastic usage. Here are four: 1 - my sixth form school was called a college. 2 - I now go to a college but my degree will be accredited and awarded by a university elsewhere in the country. 3 - at my first university I was in a college that was part of the university and really a "house" and a hall of residence. And 4 - there are also independent colleges such as technical colleges and colleges of arts that award qualifications other than a degree.
@Khnassmacher - you're right about polytechnics - they have all become unis and award degrees.
I guess the choice is: translate it to English and risk losing some of the original sense (and possibly clumsiness) or leave it in German and risk total incomprehensibility. The right choice depends on the topic. German speakers understandably tend to dislike us translating their proper names; I tend to favour translation into the nearest "equivalent", not necessarily a literal translation. So I translate Elbetalbrücke as "Elbe Viaduct" not "Elbe Valley Bridge" as the latter is not a common construction in English. HTH. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 16:37, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
For anyone interested I have updated the list of somehow Germany-related articles in need of copy editing, in the project page's sidebar. Included are all articles in Category:All articles needing copy edit, which are also categorized within Category:Germany (or one of its subcategories down to 3 levels) via a Catscan 2 list. GermanJoe ( talk) 15:08, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
As some may have noticed, I tried to clean up a few of the smaller assessment categories. With decreasing editor numbers assessment probably isn't that vital anymore, but I believe that at least the more developed articles should be assessed. It would be great if the project could assess all articles which:
Certainly not the most glamorous task, but it could be done very quickly, when editors assess a few articles from time to time in a spare minute. GermanJoe ( talk) 13:23, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Minister-president?, (state) Governor?, premier?, prime minister? - right now en.wiki is not consistant about that 149.172.99.168 ( talk) 13:36, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
To be quite frank and honest: I am offering my best knowledge, but I am not interested in changing any wiki-rules or playing wiki-games. Thus I will leave such items to anybody who is. Khnassmacher ( talk) 17:11, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Any form of Minister President is awkward English. Please use Premier, State Premier or the like. -- 109.43.2.186 ( talk) 19:52, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Particularly relevant naming criteria are:
-- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
The contenders are:
Capitalization may need to be changed (especially for the list articles, which use the term as a compound common noun rather than as part of a proper name). -- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
-- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Conference of Ministers-President)
-- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
-- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
The article on Minister-President)should be dealt with separately. -- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
I wanted to learn more about German schools in Israel... and I found "Deutschen Schule Jerusalem" http://www.dsjonline.net/. I can't figure out:
WhisperToMe ( talk) 20:55, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Germany Wikipedians! I am reaching out to see if anyone would be interested in helping out with editing training for a Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon being organized in Berlin. We would appreciate any assistance in securing at least one experienced Wikipedian in the area, and I'd be happy to put you in touch with the organizers if you are able to help out. If interested, please reply on wiki or by e-mail at thepwnco.wiki@gmail.com. Cheers! - Thepwnco ( talk) 22:38, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Dear Germany experts: This draft article will soon be deleted as stale unless someone decides to edit it. It appears to be about a fairly large company, and I see a lot of news reports online, but they are not in English, so I can't tell which ones are independent. I am willing to rewrite for neutral point of view if someone here can help select some appropriate sources.— Anne Delong ( talk) 15:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Dear Germany experts: This old AfC submission is about a gallery owner in Germany. It has a lot of references, but they are not linked on line. In order to know if this is a notable subject, it's important to find out if these references are advertisements for his gallery, or are articles in German newspapers and magazines. Any help in identifying these would be appreciated. — Anne Delong ( talk) 15:34, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Which is better:
Xx234 ( talk) 09:48, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion that may be of interest to members of this project. That discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Wilson (British Free Corps). - Ad Orientem ( talk) 01:40, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Category:Privatization in Germany has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. GermanJoe ( talk) 01:29, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
This page does not make any reference to the arrest, internment, deportation, repatriation, expatriation and exchange of German Americans during World War II. (moved from header)
There are two known websites that report on the subject headline, these are http://www.foitimes.com and http://www.gaic.info ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.201.177.107 ( talk) 10:49, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Dear Germany experts: The above old AfC draft is about a member of parliament. It's about to be deleted as a stale draft unless someone edits it soon. There appear to be quite a few references in the article about this person in the German Wikipedia, bui I can't read German, so I can't place the citations or tell if the references are any good. Can someone add at least some minimum citations so that the article can be moved to mainspace? Or am I wrong to think that it's worth keeping? — Anne Delong ( talk) 19:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Just checking, if it's a new common problem or only a local issue on my side (XP, FF 36): Is the statistic table in the sidebar displaying too large for anyone else too? It displays too large and extends beyond the right box border. This layout change ("because it looks cleaner" /sigh) may be the cause, but I want to verify the problem before raising a stink. GermanJoe ( talk) 03:39, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Tinkering with this complex article and German administrative madness :). I am trying to update and cover all various district types as clearly as possible, without going into too much painful detail (at least in a first phase). Any help or suggestions for additional improvements would be greatly appreciated. These [2] have been the changes so far. GermanJoe ( talk) 05:28, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
I had to remove "Purchase and hiding of art works" from this article as copy/paste from the source article (ref #18). If any English-speaker is interested and knows a bit about that incident, it would be great to paraphrase 3-4 sentences of the source's main information for this section - or I'll try a draft in "German-English" later ;). GermanJoe ( talk) 12:38, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello WikiProject Germany. I am not quite sure if this is the place to request article assessment. I am asking a member of they could give assessment to Maria Radner, a female opera singer who recently died in the Germanwings Flight 9525 plane crash. On her talk page, I assessed the article as "C-class" for WikiProject Germany, but the talk page says "This article has not yet been checked against the criteria for B-Class status", and I was wondering if somebody with WikiProject Germany could see if her article ( Maria Radner) qualified for "B-class".
Thank you very much Germany Wikipedia~! CookieMonster755 (talk) 18:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
A new section in Elections_in_Germany#Local_elections tries to summarize some information about German Kommunalwahlen, in case anyone wants to improve it or needs the link for a town article. Not sure, if local elections have been covered elsewhere (didn't find it), but it fits in the general overview of elections as well. GermanJoe ( talk) 13:50, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
I did research into the Deutsche Schule Abuja and found that it was the Deutsche Schulen Abuja-Lagos. Apparently the Deutsche Schule Lagos (DSL) closed. When did it close? Are there any news stories about this?
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:49, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Die deutschen Schulen Nigeria (DSN) sind Privatschulen der Firma Julius Berger Nigeria PLC in Abuja und Lagos
— own description from December 2013
Nachdem bereits 2009 die Schule den Deutschen Schulen Nigeria in Abuja angliederte wurde, so schlossen 2013 entgültig die Pforten in Lagos - aufgrund mangelnder Schülerzahlen und des seit längerem ungünstigen und nicht mehr sicheren Standortes.
— DSL Deutsche Schule Lagos, Nigeria
I could use some opinions and/or assistance on this template, as the deletion of "Fourth Reich" was reverted again. The inclusion of such a fringe-theory (and that is putting it politely) and the mixing of real and purely fictional concepts to push a certain PoV is clearly against WP:NPOV and WP:OR. The addition of "hypothetical" does not fix that fundamental flaw - this approach is similar to putting unicorns in a horse-related template and adding (mythical) as qualifier. Enough rambling of my opinion - any other comments please? GermanJoe ( talk) 15:43, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
I've started to translate more of the German version of this page to English. Unfinished, but more there now than before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lkingscott ( talk • contribs) 17:25, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Can someone look at U rob me's edits on Corruption as well as the discussion on their and the article's talk page? I don't know if it's a language issue but "Resounding efficiency in fostering corruption of private corporations against other countries was achieved in Germany after the EC southern expansion. Along with the establishment of the European Single Market, 1993 the legalization of foreign corruption..." reads very strangely. -- NeilN talk to me 01:53, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Unfortunately, the linked article in the headline has completely the wrong description and content. Roller Derby Germany (Roller Derby Deutschland - short RDD) is not the national team of Roller Derby, it is the "governing body" of Roller Derby in Germany - the German association of Roller Derby and a part of the DRIV (Deutscher Rollsport und Inlineverband). Maybe sth got misunderstood by translation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.201.188.21 ( talk) 09:41, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
The translation of "Rheinkreis" is "Rhine district", not "Circle of Rhine". "Circle of Rhine" is meaningless. People capable of translating "Rheinkreis" with "Circle of Rhine" should not be working on translating German articles into English for Wikipedia. In geographical contexts the English word for "Kreis" is "district". Cf. Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders dictionary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.211.95.227 ( talk) 13 April 2015
I have nominated Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:09, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
There is an allegation of bias against this entry (which seems to be a selective translation of the German wiki-entry). The allegation has sat there since 2011 and seems to have frozen the entry in aspic because no one wants to bother with building it into something more substantial until the allegation has been addressed and sorted.
Can someone smarter than I am please take a look at the entry, figure out what the allegation of bias is all about, and then (yes, this is the other difficult bit) find a source to add a couple of lines in the text that give the alternative perspective.
There are several online sources identified in the German language equivalent entry, which is good, but the ones I click on all seem to go to webpages that no longer exist which is bad. It's enough to make you want to read a book.
Thanks for any one with time and inclination to follow up on this. Regards Charles01 ( talk) 20:00, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello, assessing a lot of Germany-related articles lately I was wondering, if WP:GER and WP:MILHIST couldn't help each other with that task. Both projects have a significant overlap in their scope and project members in one project could simply copy most of their assessment info to the second project banner as well. Of course the assessment criteria have some minor differences (most notably in C-Class assessment), but by and large the assessments are similar enough to allow a cooperation and reduce redundant, duplicate work. Our current guidelines allow for all interested Wikipedians to do WP:Germany assessments anyway. What do other project members think about this idea? (a parallel request for feedback is currently discussed here at MILHIST too.) GermanJoe ( talk) 15:56, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
Dear Germany experts: Here's a draft which has references in German. I suspect that many of them are press releases or closely connected, but I can't tell. Is this a notable subject? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:00, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
At Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request, a German editor supporting the move proposed that Hillary Clinton is generally known as "Hillary Clinton" by people in Germany, not as "Hillary Rodham Clinton". Another editor questioned that on the basis that the German Wikipedia article is at de:Hillary Rodham Clinton, having been moved there one week ago after a surprisingly short discussion for such an important topic. Since most other major languages use "Hillary Clinton" or the alphabetic equivalent (e.g. af:Hillary Clinton, da:Hillary Clinton, fr:Hillary Clinton, it:Hillary Clinton, no:Hillary Clinton, ru:Клинтон, Хиллари, sv:Hillary Clinton), I was wondering whether this is reflective of the name the person is usually known as (i.e. the WP:COMMONNAME) in German? Cheers! bd2412 T 15:03, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
The German WP page [3] is much longer than the en:WP one at List of archives in Germany.
Translation/transfer over anyone? ( [4] can be used if required.) Jackiespeel ( talk) 16:17, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
I have nominated Georg Forster for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:00, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
See this discussion on how to use the category structure for Category:Centuries in Germany versus Category:Centuries in the Holy Roman Empire in the best way. Please share your thoughts. Marcocapelle ( talk) 09:13, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
The article Germany is being updated. Just some general fixes to standardize text, update numbers, names, etc. The article is protected, so if you're interested in helping out.... There is a list of tasks on the talk page, but this list is not inclusive of all the tasks needed. One of the items in need is a review of the population figures. Do these automatically update if the template is updated (despite all my years on projects, I'm woefully ignorant). auntieruth (talk) 14:50, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
The usage and primary topic of Varieties of German is under discussion, see talk:German dialects -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 05:07, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I have created an article about Ingeborg Rapoport, a German neonatologist, Holocaust survivor, and the oldest person to receive a PhD in 2015. I was wondering if someone at this WikiProject would like to create a page about her thesis supervisor, Rudolf Degkwitz. The German Wikipedia has an article about him, and also about his son. However, not everything is referenced, and I think it's important to add in-line references everywhere on the English Wikipedia at least. I don't speak German, and I am hoping some of you do and are interested. I could simply copy and paste the automatic translations, but I think it requires a bit more work (including finding more references, ideally a picture). I was also wondering if there was a page about the dean at the University of Hamburg who was a fanatical Nazi supporter? Was he tried at Nuremberg? Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 12:09, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
All the references are in German, looks like they're probably notable, but I cannot tell for sure. Please could someone advise me? Joseph2302 ( talk) 10:11, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
And this one too, please: Draft:Patrick Bebelaar. Joseph2302 ( talk) 10:14, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Please see discussion at Talk:Islam in Germany#First mosque? Thanks, BDD ( talk) 20:52, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
During my visit to Berlin, I've identified a few missing articles about local sites, memorials, art, etc. I hope to create some of these articles myself but of course would welcome help from project members. There may be articles at German Wikipedia, but it would help if Wikipedia had English-language equivalents for the following:
Some articles may also benefit from English translations? Again, all assistance is welcome. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 07:43, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
See this proposal. Marcocapelle ( talk) 08:15, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Three requested move discussions which concern this project have been started. They can be found at:
BMK ( talk) 17:11, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I would be grateful, when somebody can chek/correct the English translation here of the German article (German original version: here) (the pictures "Datei…" you can see in the German version). Perhaps you can see something you don´t understand, because my Englsh is not the best, please ask then and I can try to write this part better. If you can speak German, than I can understand your tips better. You can also correct the version in my sandbox here. Best regards -- Justus Tler ( talk) 17:16, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Please see discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Two_weeks_to_save_freedom_of_panorama_in_Europe. I think it is an item of major interest to the editors interested in this WikiProject. The (very underestimated) counts for how many images may be affected have been posted to commons:Commons_talk:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015#numbers. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:07, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I have translated a couple of locality articles from German, but omitted the "Wappen" section. I know that Heraldry has it's own specialized vocabulary in English. My opinion is that the German should be translated to the appropriate English, and I don't have the knowledge to do it. It would be nice if someone fluent in the English terminology could translate these. Peter Flass ( talk) 01:13, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Is the article concerning Hellmuth_Marx (AUSTRIAN sculptor) really within the scope of WikiProject GERMANY ?Hommageur 21:14, 24 June 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hommageur ( talk • contribs)
Hi, I've left a message on the German page too. I hope you don't mind but I thought I might be able to help with translating into English. I've only just started (Saturday at the workshop at Wikimania). I'll pop back to review the page as I haven't translated everything and I'm not entirely happy with it yet. However, I need some help. I think there needs to be more references and I'm not well placed to find these e.g. references to the dates given. Also a few photos would be great, especially as it's difficult to understand the concept of a high bank, if you can't see what is meant. Thanks.
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Input at Talk:Swalm (Maas)#Requested move 25 July 2015, now twice relisted, would be appreciated. TIA. Andrewa ( talk) 17:47, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
I am not really sure, if this category, together with its sister Category:Uncategorised German articles are even used anymore, but it would be great, if more experienced project members could comment on the eventual usefulness and background of those categories at the CfD proposal for a merge with the top country category. GermanJoe ( talk) 20:14, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
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The German language Wikipedia needs articles on 1) F. Ad. Richter & Cie. 2) Friederich Adolf Richter
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The product lines of the company were sold between 1911 and 1914, so minor changes should be made in other articles. Ankerstein ( talk) 17:59, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at my added material to Walther von Reichenau, which appears under To Follow Nazi Support section? This relates to his participation in German Resistance activities and is a significant shift in the presentation of the rest of his biography.
I'm really green at Wikipedia editing and very confused about navigating in this system. I got some advice in the Teahouse but discovered it had been deleted a few hours later.
Thanks for any assistance!
Radixetramus ( talk) 14:52, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
I started an RFC discussion at Talk:Greek government-debt crisis#"Criticism of Germany's role" subsection. -- George Ho ( talk) 16:07, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
There's a new website listing German windmills. It contains little info about the mills apart from the location and photographs. Helpfully, a full address is given for each mill. I will be adding entries to the relevant lists of windmills in due course.
Editors in Germany, particulary the states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein can assist by taking photographs of these mills and uploading them to Commons. Assistance in expanding the lists on de-Wiki and tr-Wiki would also be appreciated. Mjroots ( talk) 07:53, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, we've seen that there are some obsolete information about Siemens Healthcare in the Wikipedia article. Could you please update the article? Or are we allowed to update it? All necessary information could be found here: http://www.siemens.com/about/en/businesses/healthcare.htm Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.138.39.61 ( talk) 08:30, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
I have removed the invalid (imo) PROD tag from this article, as the topic is clearly notable. If anyone is interested in such political topics, a few references (English or from de-Wiki) and a bit of cleanup would be great. GermanJoe ( talk) 16:38, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
So far I have been the only person to sign up for the German Cross-language Editing and Learning Exchange project. If anyone else is learning German and interested in practicing, please consider joining the project. If anyone is already fluent in German, I would appreciate it if they could proofread my proposed message on the project's talk page. Thanks! -- Hampton11235 ( talk) 03:32, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
{{subst:Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law|Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition|reason= The name of the institute has been changed recently. This can be verified from the homepage of the institute- wwww.ip.mpg.de}}
At de:Benutzer_Diskussion:Superbass#Ideas_for_serving_Syrian_refugees_in_Germany I was discussing possible Wikipedia articles that can help Syrian refugees living in Germany. He suggested that Arabic versions of the following can be made:
I suggested that it may be good to have English versions made first. Fewer Arabic speakers speak German, so we could have English articles made and then an Arabic speaker who knows English can translate that into German. Then English would be the "intermediate languge" between German and Arabic. (I also contacted User:Tarawneh who knows Jordanians who studied in Germany, and maybe one of them can directly translate material from German to Arabic) WhisperToMe ( talk) 07:49, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
Should this article be given a new name? I'm asking for help because I don't think that Johanna had either the title of Princess or the style Her Grand Ducal Highness as there was no Grand Duchy of Hesse and her lifetime was during the notoriously anti-Kaiserreich Hitler regime. Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 13:11, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
If anyone reading this finds translation interesting/educational/therapeutic (or some combination thereof), and if you periodically get bored with your own "to do" list, there's a list here that gets updated each month.
Of course, you could also join the project in question and enter your own proposed candidates for translation, but as far as I can figure out that's not mandatory. Happily, Wikipedia doesn't really "do" mandatory, I think (though one or two of the rules and guidelines sometimes come close), and if ....
Thanks for thinking about it (translation). If you did. Regards Charles01 ( talk) 07:49, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
I will be working on the Flick article as part of a Wikipedia class assignment in college. I am open for criticism and new ideas if anybody is interested. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikinils24 ( talk • contribs) 18:26, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
I have started a post about the current layout of Template:German Federal States after a recent major re-design - not for an immediate revert, but to discuss the Pros and Cons of the new and the old version. Personally I like the old version better, but that's not a persuasive argument on its own :). Please join in and add your opinion. GermanJoe ( talk) 22:09, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:The Gruener Strom Label e.V. Association. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 22:47, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
In response to a request for a copy-edit of History of Baden-Württemberg at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests, yesterday I completed a copy-edit of the article. Since I don't know the history, I limited my edits to improving sentence structure and correcting minor errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, spacing, etc. I think the article is slightly better now, but it could probably benefit from a review by someone who really knows the history. In particular, I think the section History of Baden-Württemberg#Further Austria and the Palatinate needs attention. I think the order of sentences could be improved to get the events closer to chronological order, and some duplication could be removed. Also, I'm not sure all the boldface is needed. Corinne ( talk) 23:59, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
I've been reading the article German Peasants' War, and I've come across a few things that need attention.
1) At the end of the third paragraph in German Peasants' War#Lesser nobility is the following sentence:
I don't think "estaments" is an English word. I thought perhaps it should be "estimates", but that doesn't make much sense, either. It is making a distinction between the lesser nobility and all other classes, or groups, in Germany at the time. Perhaps "estates", or "classes", "groups", "sectors of society"?
2) At the end of the first paragraph in German Peasants' War#Clergy is the following sentence:
As you can see, there is something wrong with this sentence, but since I don't know the history, I'm not sure how to fix it.
3) Also, I'm just a little puzzled by something else. At the beginning of the section German Peasants' War#Clergy, it says:
Now, it is true that in the third sentence it says, "the clergy was beginning to lose its overwhelming intellectual authority", but it doesn't say the clergy were dropping to the bottom of the intellectual heap. Then we read, in the second sentence of the next paragraph, "Clerical ignorance" was "rampant". There's no indication of the passage of a great amount of time, so how did the clergy go from being "the intellectuals of their time" to being a group among whom "ignorance" was "rampant"? Corinne ( talk) 23:48, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
From: Ngene, Bunye. Die Stellung der deutschen Sprache in Afrika: Der Einfluss der deutschen und nigerianischen Sprachpolitik auf die deutsche Sprache in Nigeria. Diplomica Verlag, 2013. ISBN 3842869126, 9783842869127. p. 41.
I put this through Google Translate... but it's still a little unclear. Is it saying that most German schools in Africa are only designed for native German speakers and that few children with other native languages enroll; only the Hermannsburg school has intensive English instruction?
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 11:14, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Also Böhm, Michael Anton. Deutsch in Afrika: die Stellung der deutschen Sprache in Afrika vor dem Hintergrund der bildungs- und sprachpolitischen Gegebenheiten sowie der deutschen auswärtigen Kulturpolitik (Volume 52 of Duisburg papers on research in language and culture). Lang, January 1, 2003. ISBN 3631515669, 9783631515662. p. 93. says:
WhisperToMe ( talk) 11:21, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Any reason this should not be prodded/AfD? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:50, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:Studienrat. Thanks, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 17:27, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
I have nominated Walter Model for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKay ( talk) 21:28, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks to Niet-0-leuk and Bermicourt, Portal:Baden-Württemberg and Portal:Saarland are now available. Please check them out for possible additional article links and other tweaks. Now only Portal:Brandenburg and Portal:Bremen are missing for a full set of states portals. GermanJoe ( talk) 21:38, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
G'day all, there is a RfC about the scope of the Greco-Italian War article that you may wish to contribute to. Thanks, Peacemaker67 ( crack... thump) 22:41, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Is this Theodor Wolff: /info/en/?search=Theodor_Wolff - the same one who authored the Race with the Tortoise in 1929? ( http://www.worldcat.org/title/wettlauf-mit-der-schildkrote-geloste-und-ungeloste-probleme/oclc/250470227) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.28.191.8 ( talk) 19:02, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
I came across this today in the course of following a promotional account--the article is rife with promotional content, and at least a little copyright violation. I'm sometimes hesitant to cut massive amounts of unsourced content, but think this needs a major shearing. Additional thoughts will be greatly appreciated. 2601:188:0:ABE6:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 17:48, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:Oberweißbacher Bergbahn. Best, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 12:15, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
This article, about the flop propaganda "blockbuster" commissioned by Nazi Germany's Josef Goebbels, has just been through a pretty nasty patch of edit warring, which included personal attacks and the use of sock IPs. The editor responsible has been blocked fo 2 weeks, but it might be a good idea if folks were to add it to their watchlists to make sure things don't start up again when the block is over. BMK ( talk) 23:20, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
I just saw this edit to March (territorial entity). [5] Can someone address the question? Corinne ( talk) 00:04, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Currently Southern Alps is an article about a mountain range in New Zealand and Southern Alps (Europe) is about the range in the south of the Alps. So there is a move request to move the former to Southern Alps (New Zealand) and make Southern Alps the disambiguation page, on the basis that the Southern Alps of Europe are at least as notable as the Southern Alps of New Zealand. See Talk:Southern Alps#Requested move 30 November 2015. Bermicourt ( talk) 12:05, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
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I am posting this as (it seems to me) a number of articles under the purview of this project are bordering on the unreadable. I recently read this, for example, and there are others I have encountered, and it feels like they are written in denglish. I assume the editors for this project will have German as their first or second language and maybe these pages will seem unremarkable, but from the point of view of someone with English as their first (and I expect more so for someone who has English as a second and something other than German as a first) these pages are hard going. We have Mark Twain's observation on how little the language has to be altered to become opaque; and pages like this one, or this, also make the point. If the reader has to mentally change gear every sentence or so to work out what is being said they will rapidly lose interest. I don't know if there is some purpose in insisting on using German terms when English ones exist for the same thing, but the present situation really only suits German -speakers who wish to read about German subjects on the English WP. If we want other people to actually read and learn stuff about German subjects these pages need to be more user-friendly. My two pennies worth... Moonraker12 ( talk) 11:41, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
<od>My thanks (one and all) for your replies: And thank you that help and collaboration is welcome in this matter; it sometimes feels that correcting people's English is seen as interference.
@Gerda. "College" has elastic usage. Here are four: 1 - my sixth form school was called a college. 2 - I now go to a college but my degree will be accredited and awarded by a university elsewhere in the country. 3 - at my first university I was in a college that was part of the university and really a "house" and a hall of residence. And 4 - there are also independent colleges such as technical colleges and colleges of arts that award qualifications other than a degree.
@Khnassmacher - you're right about polytechnics - they have all become unis and award degrees.
I guess the choice is: translate it to English and risk losing some of the original sense (and possibly clumsiness) or leave it in German and risk total incomprehensibility. The right choice depends on the topic. German speakers understandably tend to dislike us translating their proper names; I tend to favour translation into the nearest "equivalent", not necessarily a literal translation. So I translate Elbetalbrücke as "Elbe Viaduct" not "Elbe Valley Bridge" as the latter is not a common construction in English. HTH. -- Bermicourt ( talk) 16:37, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
For anyone interested I have updated the list of somehow Germany-related articles in need of copy editing, in the project page's sidebar. Included are all articles in Category:All articles needing copy edit, which are also categorized within Category:Germany (or one of its subcategories down to 3 levels) via a Catscan 2 list. GermanJoe ( talk) 15:08, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
As some may have noticed, I tried to clean up a few of the smaller assessment categories. With decreasing editor numbers assessment probably isn't that vital anymore, but I believe that at least the more developed articles should be assessed. It would be great if the project could assess all articles which:
Certainly not the most glamorous task, but it could be done very quickly, when editors assess a few articles from time to time in a spare minute. GermanJoe ( talk) 13:23, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Minister-president?, (state) Governor?, premier?, prime minister? - right now en.wiki is not consistant about that 149.172.99.168 ( talk) 13:36, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
To be quite frank and honest: I am offering my best knowledge, but I am not interested in changing any wiki-rules or playing wiki-games. Thus I will leave such items to anybody who is. Khnassmacher ( talk) 17:11, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Any form of Minister President is awkward English. Please use Premier, State Premier or the like. -- 109.43.2.186 ( talk) 19:52, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Particularly relevant naming criteria are:
-- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
The contenders are:
Capitalization may need to be changed (especially for the list articles, which use the term as a compound common noun rather than as part of a proper name). -- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
-- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Conference of Ministers-President)
-- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
-- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
The article on Minister-President)should be dealt with separately. -- Boson ( talk) 12:25, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
I wanted to learn more about German schools in Israel... and I found "Deutschen Schule Jerusalem" http://www.dsjonline.net/. I can't figure out:
WhisperToMe ( talk) 20:55, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Germany Wikipedians! I am reaching out to see if anyone would be interested in helping out with editing training for a Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism edit-a-thon being organized in Berlin. We would appreciate any assistance in securing at least one experienced Wikipedian in the area, and I'd be happy to put you in touch with the organizers if you are able to help out. If interested, please reply on wiki or by e-mail at thepwnco.wiki@gmail.com. Cheers! - Thepwnco ( talk) 22:38, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
Dear Germany experts: This draft article will soon be deleted as stale unless someone decides to edit it. It appears to be about a fairly large company, and I see a lot of news reports online, but they are not in English, so I can't tell which ones are independent. I am willing to rewrite for neutral point of view if someone here can help select some appropriate sources.— Anne Delong ( talk) 15:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Dear Germany experts: This old AfC submission is about a gallery owner in Germany. It has a lot of references, but they are not linked on line. In order to know if this is a notable subject, it's important to find out if these references are advertisements for his gallery, or are articles in German newspapers and magazines. Any help in identifying these would be appreciated. — Anne Delong ( talk) 15:34, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
Which is better:
Xx234 ( talk) 09:48, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion that may be of interest to members of this project. That discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Wilson (British Free Corps). - Ad Orientem ( talk) 01:40, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Category:Privatization in Germany has been nominated for deletion, merging, or renaming. You are encouraged to join the discussion on the Categories for discussion page. GermanJoe ( talk) 01:29, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
This page does not make any reference to the arrest, internment, deportation, repatriation, expatriation and exchange of German Americans during World War II. (moved from header)
There are two known websites that report on the subject headline, these are http://www.foitimes.com and http://www.gaic.info ```` — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.201.177.107 ( talk) 10:49, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Dear Germany experts: The above old AfC draft is about a member of parliament. It's about to be deleted as a stale draft unless someone edits it soon. There appear to be quite a few references in the article about this person in the German Wikipedia, bui I can't read German, so I can't place the citations or tell if the references are any good. Can someone add at least some minimum citations so that the article can be moved to mainspace? Or am I wrong to think that it's worth keeping? — Anne Delong ( talk) 19:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Just checking, if it's a new common problem or only a local issue on my side (XP, FF 36): Is the statistic table in the sidebar displaying too large for anyone else too? It displays too large and extends beyond the right box border. This layout change ("because it looks cleaner" /sigh) may be the cause, but I want to verify the problem before raising a stink. GermanJoe ( talk) 03:39, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Tinkering with this complex article and German administrative madness :). I am trying to update and cover all various district types as clearly as possible, without going into too much painful detail (at least in a first phase). Any help or suggestions for additional improvements would be greatly appreciated. These [2] have been the changes so far. GermanJoe ( talk) 05:28, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
I had to remove "Purchase and hiding of art works" from this article as copy/paste from the source article (ref #18). If any English-speaker is interested and knows a bit about that incident, it would be great to paraphrase 3-4 sentences of the source's main information for this section - or I'll try a draft in "German-English" later ;). GermanJoe ( talk) 12:38, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
Hello WikiProject Germany. I am not quite sure if this is the place to request article assessment. I am asking a member of they could give assessment to Maria Radner, a female opera singer who recently died in the Germanwings Flight 9525 plane crash. On her talk page, I assessed the article as "C-class" for WikiProject Germany, but the talk page says "This article has not yet been checked against the criteria for B-Class status", and I was wondering if somebody with WikiProject Germany could see if her article ( Maria Radner) qualified for "B-class".
Thank you very much Germany Wikipedia~! CookieMonster755 (talk) 18:52, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
A new section in Elections_in_Germany#Local_elections tries to summarize some information about German Kommunalwahlen, in case anyone wants to improve it or needs the link for a town article. Not sure, if local elections have been covered elsewhere (didn't find it), but it fits in the general overview of elections as well. GermanJoe ( talk) 13:50, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
I did research into the Deutsche Schule Abuja and found that it was the Deutsche Schulen Abuja-Lagos. Apparently the Deutsche Schule Lagos (DSL) closed. When did it close? Are there any news stories about this?
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 23:49, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
Die deutschen Schulen Nigeria (DSN) sind Privatschulen der Firma Julius Berger Nigeria PLC in Abuja und Lagos
— own description from December 2013
Nachdem bereits 2009 die Schule den Deutschen Schulen Nigeria in Abuja angliederte wurde, so schlossen 2013 entgültig die Pforten in Lagos - aufgrund mangelnder Schülerzahlen und des seit längerem ungünstigen und nicht mehr sicheren Standortes.
— DSL Deutsche Schule Lagos, Nigeria
I could use some opinions and/or assistance on this template, as the deletion of "Fourth Reich" was reverted again. The inclusion of such a fringe-theory (and that is putting it politely) and the mixing of real and purely fictional concepts to push a certain PoV is clearly against WP:NPOV and WP:OR. The addition of "hypothetical" does not fix that fundamental flaw - this approach is similar to putting unicorns in a horse-related template and adding (mythical) as qualifier. Enough rambling of my opinion - any other comments please? GermanJoe ( talk) 15:43, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
I've started to translate more of the German version of this page to English. Unfinished, but more there now than before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lkingscott ( talk • contribs) 17:25, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Can someone look at U rob me's edits on Corruption as well as the discussion on their and the article's talk page? I don't know if it's a language issue but "Resounding efficiency in fostering corruption of private corporations against other countries was achieved in Germany after the EC southern expansion. Along with the establishment of the European Single Market, 1993 the legalization of foreign corruption..." reads very strangely. -- NeilN talk to me 01:53, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello. Unfortunately, the linked article in the headline has completely the wrong description and content. Roller Derby Germany (Roller Derby Deutschland - short RDD) is not the national team of Roller Derby, it is the "governing body" of Roller Derby in Germany - the German association of Roller Derby and a part of the DRIV (Deutscher Rollsport und Inlineverband). Maybe sth got misunderstood by translation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.201.188.21 ( talk) 09:41, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
The translation of "Rheinkreis" is "Rhine district", not "Circle of Rhine". "Circle of Rhine" is meaningless. People capable of translating "Rheinkreis" with "Circle of Rhine" should not be working on translating German articles into English for Wikipedia. In geographical contexts the English word for "Kreis" is "district". Cf. Langenscheidt Muret-Sanders dictionary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.211.95.227 ( talk) 13 April 2015
I have nominated Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 22:09, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
There is an allegation of bias against this entry (which seems to be a selective translation of the German wiki-entry). The allegation has sat there since 2011 and seems to have frozen the entry in aspic because no one wants to bother with building it into something more substantial until the allegation has been addressed and sorted.
Can someone smarter than I am please take a look at the entry, figure out what the allegation of bias is all about, and then (yes, this is the other difficult bit) find a source to add a couple of lines in the text that give the alternative perspective.
There are several online sources identified in the German language equivalent entry, which is good, but the ones I click on all seem to go to webpages that no longer exist which is bad. It's enough to make you want to read a book.
Thanks for any one with time and inclination to follow up on this. Regards Charles01 ( talk) 20:00, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello, assessing a lot of Germany-related articles lately I was wondering, if WP:GER and WP:MILHIST couldn't help each other with that task. Both projects have a significant overlap in their scope and project members in one project could simply copy most of their assessment info to the second project banner as well. Of course the assessment criteria have some minor differences (most notably in C-Class assessment), but by and large the assessments are similar enough to allow a cooperation and reduce redundant, duplicate work. Our current guidelines allow for all interested Wikipedians to do WP:Germany assessments anyway. What do other project members think about this idea? (a parallel request for feedback is currently discussed here at MILHIST too.) GermanJoe ( talk) 15:56, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
Dear Germany experts: Here's a draft which has references in German. I suspect that many of them are press releases or closely connected, but I can't tell. Is this a notable subject? — Anne Delong ( talk) 02:00, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
At Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request, a German editor supporting the move proposed that Hillary Clinton is generally known as "Hillary Clinton" by people in Germany, not as "Hillary Rodham Clinton". Another editor questioned that on the basis that the German Wikipedia article is at de:Hillary Rodham Clinton, having been moved there one week ago after a surprisingly short discussion for such an important topic. Since most other major languages use "Hillary Clinton" or the alphabetic equivalent (e.g. af:Hillary Clinton, da:Hillary Clinton, fr:Hillary Clinton, it:Hillary Clinton, no:Hillary Clinton, ru:Клинтон, Хиллари, sv:Hillary Clinton), I was wondering whether this is reflective of the name the person is usually known as (i.e. the WP:COMMONNAME) in German? Cheers! bd2412 T 15:03, 2 May 2015 (UTC)
The German WP page [3] is much longer than the en:WP one at List of archives in Germany.
Translation/transfer over anyone? ( [4] can be used if required.) Jackiespeel ( talk) 16:17, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
I have nominated Georg Forster for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 15:00, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
See this discussion on how to use the category structure for Category:Centuries in Germany versus Category:Centuries in the Holy Roman Empire in the best way. Please share your thoughts. Marcocapelle ( talk) 09:13, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
The article Germany is being updated. Just some general fixes to standardize text, update numbers, names, etc. The article is protected, so if you're interested in helping out.... There is a list of tasks on the talk page, but this list is not inclusive of all the tasks needed. One of the items in need is a review of the population figures. Do these automatically update if the template is updated (despite all my years on projects, I'm woefully ignorant). auntieruth (talk) 14:50, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
The usage and primary topic of Varieties of German is under discussion, see talk:German dialects -- 65.94.43.89 ( talk) 05:07, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Hello. I have created an article about Ingeborg Rapoport, a German neonatologist, Holocaust survivor, and the oldest person to receive a PhD in 2015. I was wondering if someone at this WikiProject would like to create a page about her thesis supervisor, Rudolf Degkwitz. The German Wikipedia has an article about him, and also about his son. However, not everything is referenced, and I think it's important to add in-line references everywhere on the English Wikipedia at least. I don't speak German, and I am hoping some of you do and are interested. I could simply copy and paste the automatic translations, but I think it requires a bit more work (including finding more references, ideally a picture). I was also wondering if there was a page about the dean at the University of Hamburg who was a fanatical Nazi supporter? Was he tried at Nuremberg? Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 12:09, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
All the references are in German, looks like they're probably notable, but I cannot tell for sure. Please could someone advise me? Joseph2302 ( talk) 10:11, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
And this one too, please: Draft:Patrick Bebelaar. Joseph2302 ( talk) 10:14, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
Please see discussion at Talk:Islam in Germany#First mosque? Thanks, BDD ( talk) 20:52, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
During my visit to Berlin, I've identified a few missing articles about local sites, memorials, art, etc. I hope to create some of these articles myself but of course would welcome help from project members. There may be articles at German Wikipedia, but it would help if Wikipedia had English-language equivalents for the following:
Some articles may also benefit from English translations? Again, all assistance is welcome. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 07:43, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
See this proposal. Marcocapelle ( talk) 08:15, 30 May 2015 (UTC)
Three requested move discussions which concern this project have been started. They can be found at:
BMK ( talk) 17:11, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I would be grateful, when somebody can chek/correct the English translation here of the German article (German original version: here) (the pictures "Datei…" you can see in the German version). Perhaps you can see something you don´t understand, because my Englsh is not the best, please ask then and I can try to write this part better. If you can speak German, than I can understand your tips better. You can also correct the version in my sandbox here. Best regards -- Justus Tler ( talk) 17:16, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Please see discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Two_weeks_to_save_freedom_of_panorama_in_Europe. I think it is an item of major interest to the editors interested in this WikiProject. The (very underestimated) counts for how many images may be affected have been posted to commons:Commons_talk:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015#numbers. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:07, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
I have translated a couple of locality articles from German, but omitted the "Wappen" section. I know that Heraldry has it's own specialized vocabulary in English. My opinion is that the German should be translated to the appropriate English, and I don't have the knowledge to do it. It would be nice if someone fluent in the English terminology could translate these. Peter Flass ( talk) 01:13, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Is the article concerning Hellmuth_Marx (AUSTRIAN sculptor) really within the scope of WikiProject GERMANY ?Hommageur 21:14, 24 June 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hommageur ( talk • contribs)
Hi, I've left a message on the German page too. I hope you don't mind but I thought I might be able to help with translating into English. I've only just started (Saturday at the workshop at Wikimania). I'll pop back to review the page as I haven't translated everything and I'm not entirely happy with it yet. However, I need some help. I think there needs to be more references and I'm not well placed to find these e.g. references to the dates given. Also a few photos would be great, especially as it's difficult to understand the concept of a high bank, if you can't see what is meant. Thanks.
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Input at Talk:Swalm (Maas)#Requested move 25 July 2015, now twice relisted, would be appreciated. TIA. Andrewa ( talk) 17:47, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
I am not really sure, if this category, together with its sister Category:Uncategorised German articles are even used anymore, but it would be great, if more experienced project members could comment on the eventual usefulness and background of those categories at the CfD proposal for a merge with the top country category. GermanJoe ( talk) 20:14, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
A new copy-paste detection bot is now in general use on English Wikipedia. Come check it out at the EranBot reporting page. This bot utilizes the Turnitin software (ithenticate), unlike User:CorenSearchBot that relies on a web search API from Yahoo. It checks individual edits rather than just new articles. Please take 15 seconds to visit the EranBot reporting page and check a few of the flagged concerns. Comments welcome regarding potential improvements. These likely copyright violations can be searched by WikiProject categories. Use "control-f" to jump to your area of interest.-- Lucas559 ( talk) 22:45, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
The German language Wikipedia needs articles on 1) F. Ad. Richter & Cie. 2) Friederich Adolf Richter
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The product lines of the company were sold between 1911 and 1914, so minor changes should be made in other articles. Ankerstein ( talk) 17:59, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at my added material to Walther von Reichenau, which appears under To Follow Nazi Support section? This relates to his participation in German Resistance activities and is a significant shift in the presentation of the rest of his biography.
I'm really green at Wikipedia editing and very confused about navigating in this system. I got some advice in the Teahouse but discovered it had been deleted a few hours later.
Thanks for any assistance!
Radixetramus ( talk) 14:52, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
I started an RFC discussion at Talk:Greek government-debt crisis#"Criticism of Germany's role" subsection. -- George Ho ( talk) 16:07, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
There's a new website listing German windmills. It contains little info about the mills apart from the location and photographs. Helpfully, a full address is given for each mill. I will be adding entries to the relevant lists of windmills in due course.
Editors in Germany, particulary the states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein can assist by taking photographs of these mills and uploading them to Commons. Assistance in expanding the lists on de-Wiki and tr-Wiki would also be appreciated. Mjroots ( talk) 07:53, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
Hi all, we've seen that there are some obsolete information about Siemens Healthcare in the Wikipedia article. Could you please update the article? Or are we allowed to update it? All necessary information could be found here: http://www.siemens.com/about/en/businesses/healthcare.htm Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.138.39.61 ( talk) 08:30, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
I have removed the invalid (imo) PROD tag from this article, as the topic is clearly notable. If anyone is interested in such political topics, a few references (English or from de-Wiki) and a bit of cleanup would be great. GermanJoe ( talk) 16:38, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
So far I have been the only person to sign up for the German Cross-language Editing and Learning Exchange project. If anyone else is learning German and interested in practicing, please consider joining the project. If anyone is already fluent in German, I would appreciate it if they could proofread my proposed message on the project's talk page. Thanks! -- Hampton11235 ( talk) 03:32, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
{{subst:Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law|Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition|reason= The name of the institute has been changed recently. This can be verified from the homepage of the institute- wwww.ip.mpg.de}}
At de:Benutzer_Diskussion:Superbass#Ideas_for_serving_Syrian_refugees_in_Germany I was discussing possible Wikipedia articles that can help Syrian refugees living in Germany. He suggested that Arabic versions of the following can be made:
I suggested that it may be good to have English versions made first. Fewer Arabic speakers speak German, so we could have English articles made and then an Arabic speaker who knows English can translate that into German. Then English would be the "intermediate languge" between German and Arabic. (I also contacted User:Tarawneh who knows Jordanians who studied in Germany, and maybe one of them can directly translate material from German to Arabic) WhisperToMe ( talk) 07:49, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
Should this article be given a new name? I'm asking for help because I don't think that Johanna had either the title of Princess or the style Her Grand Ducal Highness as there was no Grand Duchy of Hesse and her lifetime was during the notoriously anti-Kaiserreich Hitler regime. Paul Benjamin Austin ( talk) 13:11, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
If anyone reading this finds translation interesting/educational/therapeutic (or some combination thereof), and if you periodically get bored with your own "to do" list, there's a list here that gets updated each month.
Of course, you could also join the project in question and enter your own proposed candidates for translation, but as far as I can figure out that's not mandatory. Happily, Wikipedia doesn't really "do" mandatory, I think (though one or two of the rules and guidelines sometimes come close), and if ....
Thanks for thinking about it (translation). If you did. Regards Charles01 ( talk) 07:49, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
I will be working on the Flick article as part of a Wikipedia class assignment in college. I am open for criticism and new ideas if anybody is interested. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikinils24 ( talk • contribs) 18:26, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
I have started a post about the current layout of Template:German Federal States after a recent major re-design - not for an immediate revert, but to discuss the Pros and Cons of the new and the old version. Personally I like the old version better, but that's not a persuasive argument on its own :). Please join in and add your opinion. GermanJoe ( talk) 22:09, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:The Gruener Strom Label e.V. Association. Thank you, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 22:47, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
In response to a request for a copy-edit of History of Baden-Württemberg at Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors/Requests, yesterday I completed a copy-edit of the article. Since I don't know the history, I limited my edits to improving sentence structure and correcting minor errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, spacing, etc. I think the article is slightly better now, but it could probably benefit from a review by someone who really knows the history. In particular, I think the section History of Baden-Württemberg#Further Austria and the Palatinate needs attention. I think the order of sentences could be improved to get the events closer to chronological order, and some duplication could be removed. Also, I'm not sure all the boldface is needed. Corinne ( talk) 23:59, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
I've been reading the article German Peasants' War, and I've come across a few things that need attention.
1) At the end of the third paragraph in German Peasants' War#Lesser nobility is the following sentence:
I don't think "estaments" is an English word. I thought perhaps it should be "estimates", but that doesn't make much sense, either. It is making a distinction between the lesser nobility and all other classes, or groups, in Germany at the time. Perhaps "estates", or "classes", "groups", "sectors of society"?
2) At the end of the first paragraph in German Peasants' War#Clergy is the following sentence:
As you can see, there is something wrong with this sentence, but since I don't know the history, I'm not sure how to fix it.
3) Also, I'm just a little puzzled by something else. At the beginning of the section German Peasants' War#Clergy, it says:
Now, it is true that in the third sentence it says, "the clergy was beginning to lose its overwhelming intellectual authority", but it doesn't say the clergy were dropping to the bottom of the intellectual heap. Then we read, in the second sentence of the next paragraph, "Clerical ignorance" was "rampant". There's no indication of the passage of a great amount of time, so how did the clergy go from being "the intellectuals of their time" to being a group among whom "ignorance" was "rampant"? Corinne ( talk) 23:48, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
From: Ngene, Bunye. Die Stellung der deutschen Sprache in Afrika: Der Einfluss der deutschen und nigerianischen Sprachpolitik auf die deutsche Sprache in Nigeria. Diplomica Verlag, 2013. ISBN 3842869126, 9783842869127. p. 41.
I put this through Google Translate... but it's still a little unclear. Is it saying that most German schools in Africa are only designed for native German speakers and that few children with other native languages enroll; only the Hermannsburg school has intensive English instruction?
Thanks WhisperToMe ( talk) 11:14, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Also Böhm, Michael Anton. Deutsch in Afrika: die Stellung der deutschen Sprache in Afrika vor dem Hintergrund der bildungs- und sprachpolitischen Gegebenheiten sowie der deutschen auswärtigen Kulturpolitik (Volume 52 of Duisburg papers on research in language and culture). Lang, January 1, 2003. ISBN 3631515669, 9783631515662. p. 93. says:
WhisperToMe ( talk) 11:21, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
Any reason this should not be prodded/AfD? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:50, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:Studienrat. Thanks, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 17:27, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
I have nominated Walter Model for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. DrKay ( talk) 21:28, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks to Niet-0-leuk and Bermicourt, Portal:Baden-Württemberg and Portal:Saarland are now available. Please check them out for possible additional article links and other tweaks. Now only Portal:Brandenburg and Portal:Bremen are missing for a full set of states portals. GermanJoe ( talk) 21:38, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
G'day all, there is a RfC about the scope of the Greco-Italian War article that you may wish to contribute to. Thanks, Peacemaker67 ( crack... thump) 22:41, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
Is this Theodor Wolff: /info/en/?search=Theodor_Wolff - the same one who authored the Race with the Tortoise in 1929? ( http://www.worldcat.org/title/wettlauf-mit-der-schildkrote-geloste-und-ungeloste-probleme/oclc/250470227) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.28.191.8 ( talk) 19:02, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
I came across this today in the course of following a promotional account--the article is rife with promotional content, and at least a little copyright violation. I'm sometimes hesitant to cut massive amounts of unsourced content, but think this needs a major shearing. Additional thoughts will be greatly appreciated. 2601:188:0:ABE6:65F5:930C:B0B2:CD63 ( talk) 17:48, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
See Draft:Oberweißbacher Bergbahn. Best, FoCuS contribs; talk to me! 12:15, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
This article, about the flop propaganda "blockbuster" commissioned by Nazi Germany's Josef Goebbels, has just been through a pretty nasty patch of edit warring, which included personal attacks and the use of sock IPs. The editor responsible has been blocked fo 2 weeks, but it might be a good idea if folks were to add it to their watchlists to make sure things don't start up again when the block is over. BMK ( talk) 23:20, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
I just saw this edit to March (territorial entity). [5] Can someone address the question? Corinne ( talk) 00:04, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Currently Southern Alps is an article about a mountain range in New Zealand and Southern Alps (Europe) is about the range in the south of the Alps. So there is a move request to move the former to Southern Alps (New Zealand) and make Southern Alps the disambiguation page, on the basis that the Southern Alps of Europe are at least as notable as the Southern Alps of New Zealand. See Talk:Southern Alps#Requested move 30 November 2015. Bermicourt ( talk) 12:05, 1 December 2015 (UTC)