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Hi there, The article, Lubeck, has a link for the river Wakenitz that currently links to the de.wiki article for that river. I looked in lists and cats of German rivers and I don't think the en.wiki has an article or even a redlink to that river so I have changed the article link to a redlink (removing the de. prefix). Is this correct? If so we need at least a stub on the river for our english wiki.
Also I have been helping a primarily de.wiki user translate the article Bad Iburg, I think we have it in good shape but if someone wanted to take a look I would appreciate it. We are having a small problem with the meaning of the smaller towns around Bad Iburg and their relationship to it. This is in the second paragraph where I use the word municipality.-- killing sparrows (chirp!) 03:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! I see this WikiProject manages such articles as Bundesautobahn 1. As such, you may be interested in helping to write a notability guideline for highways. The current proposal came out of WP:USRD, and as such deals only with U.S. highways. Any help in giving the guideline a more international scope would be much appreciated. -- NORTH talk 01:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
I think I'll put a list of all German municipalities (from de:Kategorie:Liste (Gemeinden in Deutschland)) on Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Cities. Then we should check whether we have articles for all of them, and if not, create them (article names in line with Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Conventions). If applicable, I think we should create redirects from the de: article names to the en: article names. And then update the municipality lists in the district articles, and the navigation templates. Markussep 15:25, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
I am letting the users of WikiProject Germany know that we have finally established a project devoted to improving Wikipedia's fashion coverage (it has been terrible), WP:FASHION. We've been around for a month or so now tagging articles for inclusion on our worklist. Since many overlap with articles about things and people German, you may have noticed.
If any of you are interested in joining, feel free. You can also help by bringing your expertise to the articles we share. Daniel Case 04:20, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Please help sort out DRG Class 44 by translation -there a loads of missing articles from German wikipedia . THanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 21:45, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
No one could be bothered hey? What a shame - I suppose the Germans are editing German Wikipedida not English wikipedia. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 20:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
As most project members have probably noticed, I have started a monthly newsletter and spammed it to every member's talk page. Any comments on contents or structure would be appreciated. Thank you, Kusma ( talk) 12:39, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
There's currently 1200 articles in Category:Unassessed Germany articles. Please help and assess one or two articles per day so we can kill this backlog without much pain for everyone involved! Kusma ( talk) 11:14, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
I wonder whether we should change "It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited" to "It is suitably referenced". That way, reasonably good articles that do not use inline citation could be made B-Class, and we could ask for inline citations as an A-Class requirement (it is already a GA requirement). I am suggesting this because currently Start-Class is very large, containing basically every article above stub length that doesn't have inline citations. We should avoid making the B-Class criteria too hard. Or should every B-Class article be a GA candidate once it has been copyedited? Kusma ( talk) 08:25, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you all know that while tagging Kaiserliche Marine ships for WikiProject Ships, I went ahead and added your {{ WikiProject Germany}} tag to any articles not already carrying the banner. -- Kralizec! ( talk) 05:47, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello German Wikipedians, This is Nic Hill Director of Truth in Numbers a Documentary film about wikipedia. we have been filming wikipedians from around the world and how they interact with technology. We were recenty in London filming Jimmy Wales participating in an Oxford Debate. Now we are in Frankfurt and we hope to interview some german Wikipedians. unfortuantly we only have time to shoot on the 20th 21st and 22nd. please contact us if you or any wikipedians you know would be interested in this important film.
This is our contact: nic@underdogpictures.com
We are staying at the Best Western hotel downtown Frankfurt RM# 305
for more information heres our wiki site
www.wikidocumentary.org
-Nic Hill
Since there is now a concentrated effort at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Cities to bring articles on municipalities/towns/cities up to standard, perhaps it is time to come up with some sort of format for these articles. At the moment, the focus is on making sure that all articles actually exist. The next step is to add content. We probably don't need something as detailed as de:Wikipedia:Formatvorlage Stadt but some clear guidelines wouldn't help. I've started up a page at here, giving what I believe to be the necessary minimum requirements for such articles. Any comments and help with setting this up would be appreciated. - 52 Pickup 15:28, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
I would really appreciate if one of you could help with either an image of the coat of arms of Henry the Lion or a description of it. As I understand a few references in books on Danish heraldry, Henry used a coat of arms consisting of three lions, but I haven't been able to find any actual depiction or detailed description of this symbol, nor its history. If this description is true, that might mean that Danish heraldists could be correct in speculating that this insignia was related to the insignias of Canute VI of Denmark and Richard the Lionheart. Any help would be most welcome. See also the talk page of Coat of arms of England. Valentinian T / C 15:37, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Please check the article Mierscheid Law. If this is not a hoax, please make that clear with good references. Thanks! -- SueHay 02:01, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
I currently have this list in my userspace. It was userfied in March 2007 as part of this AfD discussion. The arguments for deletion, as set forth by the nominator, were that the list was: (1) unmaintainable, (2) did not have a defined focus, and (3) did not concern a subject of sufficient interest to English-speaking readers.
Since March, I have changed the article from this to this. The major changes include: updating the list based on the April 13 version of the article in the German-language Wikipedia; formatting the footnotes; adding the "Further reading" section (copied from the German-language article); and other mostly cosmetic changes.
As there's no point to the list remaining in my userspace any longer, I think one of the following options ought to be implemented:
At the moment I am not sure which is the better solution, so I ask for your input. Thank you, Black Falcon ( Talk) 18:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
This article is being put up for deletion. You can come here to join the discussion. - 52 Pickup 06:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Now it's up for merging the West Germany national team and the German national team here. Kingjeff 23:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
This article is one of the worse articles I have seen in Wikipedia. It needs to be fixed hard. Yet it has been granted "B" scale in quality, while it doesn't meet several of the criteria for this. For example, it doesn't cite any sources. We need to fix it...-- Cerejota 03:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
The categories at Category:German people by state are somewhat of a mess. For example, Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg, who was born in Neuburg an der Donau in Palatinate-Neuburg, is categorized in Category:People from Bavaria. Category:People from the Palatinate is almost empty, so is Category:People from Brunswick. Joseph Goebbels, who was born in Rheydt in Prussia, is categorized as " from NRW, although NRW did not exist until after his death. It appears that we mostly categorize people by the state that their birthplace happens to be in right now, not by what state they were born in. However, we don't claim that Martin Schongauer was born in France or David Hilbert in Russia. This is somewhat inconsistent; I believe we should categorize all people by the state they were born in, both for people born in places that are no longer Germany and for people born in states of the HRE that no longer exist (putting Mozart into Category:People from Salzburg works nicely: at the time of his birth, Salzburg was an independent archbishopric in the HRE). Thoughts? Kusma ( talk) 07:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
To get back to the original problem: if we put city subcategories in state/country categories, we run into problems. People from Dortmund can be people from Prussia or people from NRW, depending on when they were born in Dortmund. Whatever we do, we need suggestions how to make it clear what is in the category and how it is supposed to be used. As I usually don't do much category-related work, I have no idea how to deal with this. Kusma ( talk) 06:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Brüsewitz was an East German priest who set fire to himself to protest against the communist regime in the 1970s. There's a long article on him on the German Wiki. There wasn't one on the English Wiki so I wrote one, only for some cheeky person to tag it for 'notability'. I added the German sources to boost it but can someone with better German than me read the German article on him and add some info to the English article? There's a lot of google stuff on him, but mostly in German. Thanks. Nick mallory 10:57, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
It's done. Thank you Thw1309 Nick mallory 15:08, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
I've suggested removing this page from WikiProject Germany; the rationale is given on the article's talk page. Please let me know what you think. SGilsdorf 02:24, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, if you look at the end of the article Hamm and some other city articles you will find in red letters "Cities in" and then in blue the rest of the categories. Any ideas how to get rid of this?-- Gabriel-Royce 14:38, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Ah, yes I see. Thanks -- Gabriel-Royce 19:58, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
The article Unstruttal was an amalgamation of the de:Unstruttal and de:Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Unstruttal which are totally unrelated (ie different states). Incoming links were in favour of de:Unstruttal so I changed the content to that. Unstruttal (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) will need a new article and/or renaming ( see incoming links). Agathoclea 13:15, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Munich was a candidate for Good Article status. The main reason why it failed was because it lacks inline citations. I'll be working on it. Kingjeff 19:51, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
I just stumbled onto the territoral changes happening today. As it is a lot to take in and reference I made a new template {{ Kreisreform2007}} to tag the articles affected until they can be re-written. The template will need some fleshing out but I am off to work for the rest of the day. Agathoclea 15:29, 30 June 2007 (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 1 | ← | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | Archive 8 | → | Archive 10 |
Hi there, The article, Lubeck, has a link for the river Wakenitz that currently links to the de.wiki article for that river. I looked in lists and cats of German rivers and I don't think the en.wiki has an article or even a redlink to that river so I have changed the article link to a redlink (removing the de. prefix). Is this correct? If so we need at least a stub on the river for our english wiki.
Also I have been helping a primarily de.wiki user translate the article Bad Iburg, I think we have it in good shape but if someone wanted to take a look I would appreciate it. We are having a small problem with the meaning of the smaller towns around Bad Iburg and their relationship to it. This is in the second paragraph where I use the word municipality.-- killing sparrows (chirp!) 03:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Greetings! I see this WikiProject manages such articles as Bundesautobahn 1. As such, you may be interested in helping to write a notability guideline for highways. The current proposal came out of WP:USRD, and as such deals only with U.S. highways. Any help in giving the guideline a more international scope would be much appreciated. -- NORTH talk 01:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
I think I'll put a list of all German municipalities (from de:Kategorie:Liste (Gemeinden in Deutschland)) on Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Cities. Then we should check whether we have articles for all of them, and if not, create them (article names in line with Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Conventions). If applicable, I think we should create redirects from the de: article names to the en: article names. And then update the municipality lists in the district articles, and the navigation templates. Markussep 15:25, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
I am letting the users of WikiProject Germany know that we have finally established a project devoted to improving Wikipedia's fashion coverage (it has been terrible), WP:FASHION. We've been around for a month or so now tagging articles for inclusion on our worklist. Since many overlap with articles about things and people German, you may have noticed.
If any of you are interested in joining, feel free. You can also help by bringing your expertise to the articles we share. Daniel Case 04:20, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Please help sort out DRG Class 44 by translation -there a loads of missing articles from German wikipedia . THanks ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 21:45, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
No one could be bothered hey? What a shame - I suppose the Germans are editing German Wikipedida not English wikipedia. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 20:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
As most project members have probably noticed, I have started a monthly newsletter and spammed it to every member's talk page. Any comments on contents or structure would be appreciated. Thank you, Kusma ( talk) 12:39, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
There's currently 1200 articles in Category:Unassessed Germany articles. Please help and assess one or two articles per day so we can kill this backlog without much pain for everyone involved! Kusma ( talk) 11:14, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
I wonder whether we should change "It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited" to "It is suitably referenced". That way, reasonably good articles that do not use inline citation could be made B-Class, and we could ask for inline citations as an A-Class requirement (it is already a GA requirement). I am suggesting this because currently Start-Class is very large, containing basically every article above stub length that doesn't have inline citations. We should avoid making the B-Class criteria too hard. Or should every B-Class article be a GA candidate once it has been copyedited? Kusma ( talk) 08:25, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Just wanted to let you all know that while tagging Kaiserliche Marine ships for WikiProject Ships, I went ahead and added your {{ WikiProject Germany}} tag to any articles not already carrying the banner. -- Kralizec! ( talk) 05:47, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello German Wikipedians, This is Nic Hill Director of Truth in Numbers a Documentary film about wikipedia. we have been filming wikipedians from around the world and how they interact with technology. We were recenty in London filming Jimmy Wales participating in an Oxford Debate. Now we are in Frankfurt and we hope to interview some german Wikipedians. unfortuantly we only have time to shoot on the 20th 21st and 22nd. please contact us if you or any wikipedians you know would be interested in this important film.
This is our contact: nic@underdogpictures.com
We are staying at the Best Western hotel downtown Frankfurt RM# 305
for more information heres our wiki site
www.wikidocumentary.org
-Nic Hill
Since there is now a concentrated effort at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Cities to bring articles on municipalities/towns/cities up to standard, perhaps it is time to come up with some sort of format for these articles. At the moment, the focus is on making sure that all articles actually exist. The next step is to add content. We probably don't need something as detailed as de:Wikipedia:Formatvorlage Stadt but some clear guidelines wouldn't help. I've started up a page at here, giving what I believe to be the necessary minimum requirements for such articles. Any comments and help with setting this up would be appreciated. - 52 Pickup 15:28, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
I would really appreciate if one of you could help with either an image of the coat of arms of Henry the Lion or a description of it. As I understand a few references in books on Danish heraldry, Henry used a coat of arms consisting of three lions, but I haven't been able to find any actual depiction or detailed description of this symbol, nor its history. If this description is true, that might mean that Danish heraldists could be correct in speculating that this insignia was related to the insignias of Canute VI of Denmark and Richard the Lionheart. Any help would be most welcome. See also the talk page of Coat of arms of England. Valentinian T / C 15:37, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
Please check the article Mierscheid Law. If this is not a hoax, please make that clear with good references. Thanks! -- SueHay 02:01, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
I currently have this list in my userspace. It was userfied in March 2007 as part of this AfD discussion. The arguments for deletion, as set forth by the nominator, were that the list was: (1) unmaintainable, (2) did not have a defined focus, and (3) did not concern a subject of sufficient interest to English-speaking readers.
Since March, I have changed the article from this to this. The major changes include: updating the list based on the April 13 version of the article in the German-language Wikipedia; formatting the footnotes; adding the "Further reading" section (copied from the German-language article); and other mostly cosmetic changes.
As there's no point to the list remaining in my userspace any longer, I think one of the following options ought to be implemented:
At the moment I am not sure which is the better solution, so I ask for your input. Thank you, Black Falcon ( Talk) 18:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
This article is being put up for deletion. You can come here to join the discussion. - 52 Pickup 06:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Now it's up for merging the West Germany national team and the German national team here. Kingjeff 23:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
This article is one of the worse articles I have seen in Wikipedia. It needs to be fixed hard. Yet it has been granted "B" scale in quality, while it doesn't meet several of the criteria for this. For example, it doesn't cite any sources. We need to fix it...-- Cerejota 03:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
The categories at Category:German people by state are somewhat of a mess. For example, Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg, who was born in Neuburg an der Donau in Palatinate-Neuburg, is categorized in Category:People from Bavaria. Category:People from the Palatinate is almost empty, so is Category:People from Brunswick. Joseph Goebbels, who was born in Rheydt in Prussia, is categorized as " from NRW, although NRW did not exist until after his death. It appears that we mostly categorize people by the state that their birthplace happens to be in right now, not by what state they were born in. However, we don't claim that Martin Schongauer was born in France or David Hilbert in Russia. This is somewhat inconsistent; I believe we should categorize all people by the state they were born in, both for people born in places that are no longer Germany and for people born in states of the HRE that no longer exist (putting Mozart into Category:People from Salzburg works nicely: at the time of his birth, Salzburg was an independent archbishopric in the HRE). Thoughts? Kusma ( talk) 07:56, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
To get back to the original problem: if we put city subcategories in state/country categories, we run into problems. People from Dortmund can be people from Prussia or people from NRW, depending on when they were born in Dortmund. Whatever we do, we need suggestions how to make it clear what is in the category and how it is supposed to be used. As I usually don't do much category-related work, I have no idea how to deal with this. Kusma ( talk) 06:55, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi. Brüsewitz was an East German priest who set fire to himself to protest against the communist regime in the 1970s. There's a long article on him on the German Wiki. There wasn't one on the English Wiki so I wrote one, only for some cheeky person to tag it for 'notability'. I added the German sources to boost it but can someone with better German than me read the German article on him and add some info to the English article? There's a lot of google stuff on him, but mostly in German. Thanks. Nick mallory 10:57, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
It's done. Thank you Thw1309 Nick mallory 15:08, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
I've suggested removing this page from WikiProject Germany; the rationale is given on the article's talk page. Please let me know what you think. SGilsdorf 02:24, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, if you look at the end of the article Hamm and some other city articles you will find in red letters "Cities in" and then in blue the rest of the categories. Any ideas how to get rid of this?-- Gabriel-Royce 14:38, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Ah, yes I see. Thanks -- Gabriel-Royce 19:58, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
The article Unstruttal was an amalgamation of the de:Unstruttal and de:Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Unstruttal which are totally unrelated (ie different states). Incoming links were in favour of de:Unstruttal so I changed the content to that. Unstruttal (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft) will need a new article and/or renaming ( see incoming links). Agathoclea 13:15, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
Munich was a candidate for Good Article status. The main reason why it failed was because it lacks inline citations. I'll be working on it. Kingjeff 19:51, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
I just stumbled onto the territoral changes happening today. As it is a lot to take in and reference I made a new template {{ Kreisreform2007}} to tag the articles affected until they can be re-written. The template will need some fleshing out but I am off to work for the rest of the day. Agathoclea 15:29, 30 June 2007 (UTC)