Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany

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This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the European country Germany with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its future subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page. -->To participate, simply add your name at the participants section.

Scope

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the nation of Germany, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Germany in a fair and accurate manner.

Project divisions

• Categorization (talk) – Categorization of Germany-related articles
• Cities (talk – Cities, towns, villages and counties
• Physical geography (talk) – Regions, parks, climate, physical features
• Transportation (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Germany.
• Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
• People (talk) – includes residents of the current nation of Germany, all its predecessors, and all those people who have resided in any of Germany's predecessor states who have shaped Germany
• Government (talk) – Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Germany and its predecessors
• History (talk) – history of Germany and its predecessors

Participants

Project members: you can also add {{GermanyWikiProject-Member}} or {{User WikiProject Germany}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project.

• Badbilltucker
• Agathoclea

Did you know? (DYK)

Articles on Germany-related subjects featured on the Main Page's Did you know? section:

Featured articles

Articles on Germany-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject

Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

Articles on Germany-related subjects in Peer Review prior to Featured Article submission.

Good articles (GA)

Articles on Germany-related subjects in Peer Review prior to Featured Article submission

Resources

Infoboxes

• {{Germany}} - Infobox for German regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{GermanExecutives}} - Infobox for Germany's heads of state.

Stubs

If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.

• stubs

Templates

• {{WikiProject Germany}} - Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject; placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages
• {{Berlin-U-Bahn-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the Berlin U-Bahn; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{Munich-U-Bahn-stub}} - Stub notice for articles about the Munich U-Bahn; placed at the bottom of article pages.
• {{Germany-company-stub}} - Stub notice for all German companies; placed at the bottom of article pages
• {{Germany-hist-stub}} - Stub notice for all articles about German history; placed at the bottom of article pages
• {{Germany-mil-stub}} - Stub notice for all articles relating to German military and military hsitory; placed at the bottom of article pages
• {{Germany-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for all German biographies which don't have more specific stubs below; placed at the bottom of article pages
  • {{Germany-actor-stub}} - Stub notice for all pages about German actors; placed at the bottom of article pages
  • {{Germany-footy-bio-stub}} - Stub notice for all pages about German football (soccer) players; placed at the bottom of article pages
  • {{Germany-musician-stub}} - Stub notice for all pages about German musicians; placed at the bottom of article pages
  • {{Germany-noble-stub}} - Stub notice for all articles about German nobility except royalty; placed at the bottom of article pages
    • {{Germany-royal-stub}} - Stub notice for all articles about German royalty; placed at the bottom of article pages
  • {{Germany-painter-stub}} - Stub notice for all articles about German painters; placed at the bottom of article pages
  • {{Germany-politician-stub}} - Stub notice for all articles about German politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages
  • {{Germany-scientist-stub}} - Stub notice for all articles about German scientists; placed at the bottom of article pages
  • {{Germany-writer-stub}} - Stub notice for all articles about German writers; placed at the bottom of article pages
• {{Germany-university-stub}} - Stub notice for all articles about German universities; placed at the bottom of article pages
• {{Germany-geo-stub}} - Stub notice for all articles about German geography; placed at the bottom of article pages
• {{Germany-struct-stub}} - Stub notice for all articles about German buildings and structures; placed at the bottom of article pages

External links Websites

• CIA World Factbook on Germany
• Germany Tourism
• Germany Infor from the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.
• Germany GenWeb Project - for details on some lesser historical figures
• Das Deutschland Portal

Credit where credit is due

And vielen Dank to Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan, who provided the basis for this page.