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Template:German_Reich

I added a question about the contents of the Template:German_Reich template on Template_talk:German_Reich. This is a historical project and the hypothetical 'Fourth Reich' seems out of place.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greater Romania (political concept)

Would you please tell us your opinion on this matter? The concept concerns Germany (e.g. Molotov-Ribbentrop pact). All comments are welcome. Fakirbakir (talk) 08:14, 11 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Cornelius Gurlitt

I would appreciate additional input here. Thank you. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 19:45, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've finished expanding the history; I am sure much more could be added but the article is long enough for a DYK. Feel free to expand; we could use a better map, geographical description, and much more. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 13:06, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

How to get PDF official maps of German cities?

I want to cite the map of Lautzenhausen to show that Frankfurt Hahn Airport is partially in the municipality. Where can I find PDF official maps for this? WhisperToMe (talk) 12:49, 18 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RfC on Angela Merkel

...regarding the inclusion of a photograph of her grandfather in the article [1]. Participation welcome.Volunteer Marek (talk) 02:17, 19 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AfC submission - 26/05

Draft:Pohnpei's Bell Tower. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 20:21, 26 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is a preexisting article at Catholic Belltower Agathoclea (talk) 19:39, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AfC submission - 02/05

Draft:Cornelia Schlosser. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 12:18, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

looks ready to me Agathoclea (talk) 19:40, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pfalz, Pirmasens, Lemberg, translation error

I am a new user...

1. When I look at the Lemberg site, I ask Google to translate from German to English. 2. Google is incorrectly translating "Lemberg" to "Lviv".

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemberg_(Pfalz)

Thanks for your help. Doug 68.164.236.226 (talk) 03:45, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On English Wikipedia, Lemberg redirects to Lviv because it's the German name for that Ukrainian city. Personally I wonder whether that's right because there are many other Lembergs (see Lemberg (disambiguation)), but there it is.

If you're using google translate to expand the Lemberg, Germany article from its German Wiki counterpart, you'll have to change Lviv back to Lemberg. You'll also have to make a lot of other changes as google translate is often confused or chooses the wrong sense of a word. I'll help if I have time. Good luck anyway! --Bermicourt (talk) 07:19, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Another example for my collection of examples where Google produces nonsense instead of something one could use as substitute for a translation. I especially like how it alternates between "Lviv" and "Lvov". —Kusma (t·c) 13:03, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Loves Pride 2014

You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Europe may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! --Another Believer _(Talk) 18:53, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Leaflet For Wikiproject Germany At Wikimania 2014

Hi all,

My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.

One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.

This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:

• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film

• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.

• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.

• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____

• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost

For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to:
Project leaflets
Adikhajuria (talk) 10:43, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is anyone working on this?

Inactive members

I see the list of members contains a number of editors I haven't seeen around for a while. Any ideas on how to keep the list up-to-date?

I would suggest, at least, moving users who have not made any contributions to English Wikipedia for about 6 months into a section headed "Inactive members" and completely removing any users who have not contributed to English Wikipedia for more than 12 months. We could also do the same for any users who have not contributed to German topics for a similar period, where known. Comments? --Boson (talk) 13:31, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is that any contributions at all or just on Germany-related articles? --Bermicourt (talk) 13:35, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking of first applying it to any contributions at all, since that is easy. Later it could be extended to Germany -related topics, perhaps with a longer period, Of course, anyone could move their name back if they thought it didn't apply. If it were later applied to Germany-related articles, it might be sensible to first send a message, but that would probably mean using a bot (or more work). On the other hand, I would expect that project members who are still active in some way (even if they haven't made any edits recently) would have this page on their watchlist.

I looked at the member list because of the above query about Wikimania and the first user I clicked on (AmericaHistory (talk · contribs)) hadn't made any contributions at all since March 2011.

I was also thinking of going to Wikmania this year, since it is in London, so it would also be interesting to see if anyone else will be there. --Boson (talk) 15:57, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some time in the past I tried to keep up with a similar cleanup of the members list. Thanks for the reminder. Agathoclea (talk) 17:29, 13 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I think pruning the member list is a sensible thing to do (I can't think of a use for an outdated, but longer, member list). Going to Wikimania sounds like a great idea, actually. I'm pondering whether to go for a one-day trip on Saturday or on Sunday – any suggestions? —Kusma (t·c) 18:25, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Laut.de

Would http://www.laut.de be considered a reliable source by Wikipedia standards? I tried citing it in an article, but the source was challenged by another editor. I know it's a non-English source, but they are allowed to be cited to a certain extent. I tried asking this at RSN, but it was suggested that I asked here. Kokoro20 (talk) 14:13, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Partly based on the claim "Die laut.de-Redaktion wurde mit dem Landesmedienpreis "Online Redaktion 2002" . . . ausgezeichnet", I would imagine they could be treated as a music magazine run by professional journalists. --Boson (talk) 14:44, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I don't actually know German myself. Would you mind telling me what that translates to in English? Kokoro20 (talk) 14:52, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The "Impressum" shows that it is structured using a professional journalist team, You need to be beware that some of their content is a user forum, which would not qualify as RS and by the nature of their placement as a journalistic outlet connected to a radiostation any output might need to be checked if it just recyling pressreleases if used to establish notability. The above quote roughly translates that they where given a governmentgiven award in Baden-Württemberg for online news editing. Agathoclea (talk) 21:37, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Living people on EN wiki who are dead on other wikis

The following individuals who are in the scope of this project are showing to be alive on the English wiki, but deceased on another language wiki:

Please help to find reliable sources to confirm if these individuals are alive or dead, or correct any mis-categorization on the relevant foreign-language article(s). Please see WP:LIVINGDEAD for more info and raise any issues on the talkpage. Thanks. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 18:11, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RfC on Germany: replacement of images

There is now an RfC about replacing the images of the section "Weimar Republic and the Third Reich". Your participation is welcome on Talk:Germany. --walkee^talkee 18:25, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AfC submission - 25/06

Draft:Members of the Frankfurt Parliament. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 22:20, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

AfC submission - 26/06

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Sieben Linden Ecovillage. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 23:28, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Porsche

For your information, I am fielding a RfC with Porsche (to which this project has indicated interest) as one example at Wikipedia talk:Article titles#RfC: When COMMONNAME depends on country, culture, or demography Yiba (talk | contribs) 09:21, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Portal

I have just removed the news section from the portal, as it was getting a bit embarrassing (showing "news" from 2013). It would be fantastic if anyone wanted to step forward and do some portal maintenance. Be bold and turn the portal into something awesome again :) —Kusma (t·c) 08:12, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I adjusted by reducing the DYK section to seven hooks, which is the current number on the Main page. The record is awesome, - feel free to add by writing DYK articles related (however distantly) to Germany, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:46, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Kusma, unfortunately there is a similar issue on many of the German regional portals where they have e.g. "Image of the Month" or "Article of the Month" - no-one updates them. The only way round this is to create 12 images or articles and rotate them automatically. I was able to do this on Portal:East Frisia, by changing the way the German Wiki portal did it - they have a queue of new images and articles ready to go. I've just got 12 that rotate around every year. This doesn't solve the "news" section issue though! --Bermicourt (talk) 09:59, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The images on the main Germany portal are selected randomly from a list of possible choices. I used to change them monthly, but gave up after a while. Now the only thing that changes based on day and month is the anniversaries section. —Kusma (t·c) 12:31, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Rhön

And here's another embryonic portal, this time for the Rhön Mountains where I've had several enjoyable holidays! Please feel free to enhance it and add articles --Bermicourt (talk) 14:53, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Draft:Georg Dehio Book Prize - help needed

I am unable to read German. Please may I have help reviewing this draft? Fiddle Faddle 13:21, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Amon Göth

Just check here too: Is there any justification in German sources for spelling Göth as "Goeth", is this real or a Hollywoodism? In ictu oculi (talk) 00:06, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

West Germany and East Germany

Germanies, West and East have been requested to be renamed to their official names of FDR and GDR, see talk:West Germany for the discussion -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 05:02, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"FDR"??? Did you mean "FRG"? Anyway, isn't this obsolote since 25 years? Greetz, Lost Boy (talk) 10:18, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oops, that's a typo. Yes, FRG. Anyways, the move request was closed as forumshopping, as the nominator had already discussed it at Talk:East Germany -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 05:35, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

NOTE discussion is continuing at Talk:East Germany -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 03:51, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"acting president" infoboxes for Jens Böhrnsen and Horst Seehofer

It seems to be unstoppable that infoboxes are imnsertrted about those two having been "acting president", and even succession boxes as president. Can't that nonsense be stopped? --Caballito (talk) 17:20, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hessian Bibliography

I've added a template - Template:HessBib PPN - that allows links to be created (or more likely copied from the equivalent German Wikipedia article) to the online Hessian Bibliography. Bermicourt (talk) 20:08, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]