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No dates?[edit]

Why are there no establishment dates in the infobox, like there are for most country articles? – Illegitimate Barrister (talkcontribs), 08:36, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

See eg Talk:Germany/Archive_24#RfC:_Restoring_history_section_to_infobox. Nikkimaria (talk) 10:39, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Marx[edit]

Not sure why this image keeps getting remove, it is not causing clutter, and for better or worse Marx who was a German philosopher, was a figure whose ideology swept across half the world, and the recent ceremonies in Trier attended by Juncker, show that Marx is rooted in Germany. --E-960 (talk) 17:32, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion[edit]

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Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. Community Tech bot (talk) 23:06, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Government[edit]

Under government, the chancellor should be placed above the president. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.238.42.229 (talk) 03:58, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

National animal?[edit]

I removed the following photo and caption from this article:

The golden eagle is the national bird of Germany

The captioned assertion is highly-dubious and unsourced WP:OR. I can find no reliable source to support the allegation that the Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is Germany's national bird. Taking that a step further, I couldn't even find a single reliable source to confirm that Germany has ever designated a readily-identifiable national animal.

I did find a few self-published blog sites that pretend to provide "authoritative" lists of national animals, such as einfon.com. That site claims that Germany's national bird is the "Black Eagle" – which at first blush appears more plausible, given Germany's heraldic traditions (discussed below). That web page shows lots of pretty photos of an eagle that appears more or less black. But they lose credibility as a reliable source by identifying this animal as Hieraaetus spilogaster. That's actually the African hawk-eagle – which lives only in sub-Saharan Africa, and which has as much white plumage as it has black. Well, let's give them the benefit of the doubt and dismiss that inconsistency as honest error.

Aha! At the bottom of the page is a link to another page using the same photos, this time claiming that Austria's national bird is also the "Black eagle". That page properly identifies the Black Eagle as Ictinaetus malaiensis. Great! But there is one small problem, one which the author noticed as well:

"Interestingly Austria’s national animal, Black Eagle, lives in Tropical Asia. ... northwestern India ... northeastern Pakistan and the base of the Himalayas through Bhutan, India, and Sri Lanka, and down into Indochina and Malaysia."

Seriously? Umm... no. Finally – so as to remove all doubt – this site also shows that the bald eagle is the national bird of Armenia! Of course, that iconic eagle is endemic only to North America. Armenia... America... same thing.

So here's the deal: the "black eagles" that are national symbols of Germany and Austria are not identifiable as a specific species because they are instead heraldic creatures, dating back over many, many centuries, reaching all the way back to the Holy Roman Empire. Like the Russian "double-headed eagle" and the "purple lion" of the Kingdom of León, the German and Austrian "Bundesadler" are mythic, heraldic creatures that need not be associated to a particular species, just because it has black plumage or the word "black" in its name. As to the golden eagle? I can't explain from where that originates... maybe from the Bundesadler's gold background? Please. grolltech(talk) 14:04, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 October 2018[edit]

102.158.156.154 (talk) 17:16, 22 October 2018 (UTC)
 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Danski454 (talk) 17:41, 22 October 2018 (UTC)