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WikiProject Germany

Willkommen to WikiProject Germany! We are a group of editors dedicated to the expansion and refinement of Wikipedia’s coverage of the German republic, people, monuments and culture. If you wish to join us, simply sign your name on our roster.

Should you have any questions about our project, just drop us a line on our discussion page. If you’re lucky, you might even find some fellow project members in the Wikipedia IRC chat (#wikipedia-en). If you speak German, you may want to also try the German Wikipedia chatroom (#wikipedia-de).

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.

As of 13 November 2025, there are 132,988 articles and other project resources within the scope of WikiProject Germany. For a more detailed overview see Germany article statistics.

A monthly top 1000 list of Germany-related popular articles is available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Popular pages.

Goals

1. Kill all backlogs.
2. Get this project organized.
3. To serve as a central point of discussion for collaboration related to Germany. Foster increased cooperation between editors in order to meet the other goals.
4. To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of Germany in the English language.
5. Build all Top Importance Germany Articles to Good Article status at a minimum. Current progress: 11 out of 136 meet this criteria.

Project divisions

• Reference and navigation - the "keys to the country" (and of key importance)
• Cities (talk) – Cities, towns, villages and districts
• 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
• Photo requests (talk) – adding and requesting images of Germany.

Related groups

• WikiProject Intertranswiki/German
• German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board - also for Austrian, Swiss and other German language issues
• German football task force
• WikiProject Bavaria
• WikiProject Lower Saxony (defunct)
• WikiProject Frankfurt (defunct)
• WikiProject Friesland (defunct)
• Holy Roman Empire task force of the WikiProject Former countries
• WikiProject Munich (defunct)
• WikiProject German districts (defunct)
• WikiProject Germanic Mysticism (defunct)
• WikiProject Hanseatic League (defunct)
• WikiProject Silesia (defunct)

Task forces

• Prussia task force (talk) – for articles related to Prussia
  • Prussian Standesamter task force (talk) – (defunct)
• Hamburg task force (talk) – for any article related to Hamburg
• Mainz task force (talk) – for articles related to Mainz
• Transportation (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Germany.
• German cinema task force of WikiProject Films
• German military history task force of the Military history WikiProject
• GDR task force – for articles relating to the history and culture of the German Democratic Republic
• German football task force for articles related to association football in Germany within Wikipedia:WikiProject Football
• Nazi affiliation Task Force for removing whitewashed/undue articles about Nazi involvement

Article alerts

Article alerts

Today's featured articles

• 20 Nov 2025 – Nuremberg trials (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

Today's featured article requests

• 27 Jan 2026 – History of the Jews in Dęblin and Irena during World War II (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by Harizotoh9 (t · c); see discussion

Did you know

• 11 Nov 2025 – The Failure of Technology (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Uriahheep228 (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Nov 2025 – Maria Rickmers (barque) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by GGOTCC (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Nov 2025 – Bartholomäus Scultetus (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Jon698 (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Nov 2025 – Laura Kampf (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Nov 2025 – Berlin Papyrus Collection (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by WatkynBassett (t · c); see discussion
• 28 Oct 2025 – Himmel, Erde, Luft und Meer (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Gerda Arendt (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Oct 2025 – Jakobus Onnen (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TouchedWithFire (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Oct 2025 – Traum von Monte Carlo (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by TouchedWithFire (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Oct 2025 – Wanda Perdelwitz (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Thriley (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Oct 2025 – Lotte Ledl (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Gerda Arendt (t · c); see discussion

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Articles for deletion

• 11 Nov 2025 – Versandhaus Walz (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Meadowlark (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 09 Nov 2025 – The Masked Singer (German TV series) season 12 (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Wikieditor662 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 08 Nov 2025 – The Hydronauts (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Timtrent (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
• 08 Nov 2025 – Isenburg-Wied (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by GarethBaloney (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
• 06 Nov 2025 – Duchess Sophie Adelheid in Bavaria (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Estar8806 (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
• 06 Nov 2025 – Werner L. Maier (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 06 Nov 2025 – Conor Miller (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
• 06 Nov 2025 – Jason Aguemon (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by WikiOriginal-9 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
• 05 Nov 2025 – Franz Joseph von Seefried (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by RobertVikman (t · c); see discussion (1 participant; relisted)
• 03 Nov 2025 – Rudolf Sosna (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Alexandermcnabb (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)

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Proposed deletions

• 11 Nov 2025 – Joshua Sommer (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Rolluik (t · c): concern
• 06 Nov 2025 – Brautsee (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Samoht27 (t · c): concern
• 11 Nov 2025 – Hägen (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Barbalalaika (t · c) was deproded by Aviationwikiflight (t · c) on 12 Nov 2025
• 04 Nov 2025 – Vanessa Seele (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Zglph (t · c) was deleted
• 01 Nov 2025 – Kirchspiel (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Shhhnotsoloud (t · c) was deleted

Categories for discussion

• 12 Nov 2025 – Category:Prussian women (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Nov 2025 – Category:Prussian politicians (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Nov 2025 – Category:German emigrants to pre-Confederation British Columbia (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Nov 2025 – Category:1910s in Bavaria (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Nov 2025 – Category:1900s in Bavaria (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Nov 2025 – Category:1890s in Bavaria (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Nov 2025 – Category:1880s in Bavaria (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Nov 2025 – Category:1870s in Bavaria (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Nov 2025 – Category:1860s in Bavaria (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Nov 2025 – Category:1850s in Bavaria (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion

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Redirects for discussion

• 08 Nov 2025 – Russian interference in European politics (talk · edit · hist) →Voice of Europe was RfDed by Super Dromaeosaurus (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Nov 2025 – Gloria Poluektov (talk · edit · hist) →Germany national badminton team was RfDed by Servite et contribuere (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Nov 2025 – Dawans (talk · edit · hist) →Sigismund-Helmut von Dawans was RfDed by Shazback (t · c); see discussion

A-Class review

• undated – SMS Prinz Heinrich (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review

Good article nominees

• 06 Nov 2025 – Eike Wilm Schulte (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 06 Nov 2025 – Laura Kampf (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); start discussion
• 31 Oct 2025 – SMS Panther (1901) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Parsecboy (t · c); start discussion
• 24 Oct 2025 – Klaus Reichenbach (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by HurricaneZeta (t · c); see discussion
• 20 Oct 2025 – Charles Thau (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Milwaukee911 (t · c); start discussion
• 14 Oct 2025 – Euphonium (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Jonathanischoice (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Oct 2025 – Franz Grundheber (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 24 Sep 2025 – German AB-Aktion in Poland (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Daniel Case (t · c); start discussion
• 22 Sep 2025 – Siegmund Nimsgern (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 28 Aug 2025 – Påhlman family (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Jaketheo (t · c); start discussion

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Featured article reviews

• 24 Mar 2025 – Anne Frank (talk · edit · hist) was put up for FA review by Ali Beary (t · c); see discussion

Good article reassessments

• 03 Nov 2025 – Hindu–German Conspiracy (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Sep 2025 – Junkers Ju 87 (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 25 Oct 2025 – Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110 (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Gerda Arendt (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Oct 2025 – Dorfromantik (board game) (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Chorchapu (t · c); see discussion
• 29 May 2025 – Johann Sebastian Bach (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by ErnestKrause (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 12 Nov 2025 – Stuttgart Technology University of Applied Sciences (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Stuttgart Technical University of Applied Sciences by Alfred Max (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Nov 2025 – Danish Wahld (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Dänischer Wohld by Zacwill (t · c); see discussion
• 19 Oct 2025 – Knowledge of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Knowledge of the Holocaust in Nazi Europe by Wolfdog (t · c); see discussion
• 09 Nov 2025 – Wiesel AWC (talk · edit · hist) move request to Wiesel (weapons carrier) by Kylesenior (t · c) was moved to Wiesel (weapons carrier) (talk · edit · hist) by Andrewa (t · c) on 12 Nov 2025; see discussion
• 05 Nov 2025 – Königsberg, Bavaria (talk · edit · hist) move request to Königsberg in Bayern by Zacwill (t · c) was moved to Königsberg in Bayern (talk · edit · hist) by HurricaneZeta (t · c) on 12 Nov 2025; see discussion
• 02 Nov 2025 – The African Queen (film) (talk · edit · hist) move request to The African Queen (1951 film) by 162 etc. (t · c) was moved to The African Queen (talk · edit · hist) by Extraordinary Writ (t · c) on 09 Nov 2025; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 29 Oct 2025 – Kaiserpreis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to 1907 Kaiserpreis by Golem08 (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Oct 2025 – DBAG Class 641 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to SNCF Class X 73500 by MKH1020 (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Oct 2025 – Alternative for Germany (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to AfD pro-Russia movement by FaviFake (t · c); see discussion
• 01 Sep 2025 – Continental Germanic mythology (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Frankish paganism by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion
• 31 Aug 2025 – AfD pro-Russia movement (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Alternative for Germany by Sophisticatedevening (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 02 Nov 2025 – Junge Wilde (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Hitsuji777 (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Oct 2025 – Paul Schulz (ufologist) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Wikifixer559 (t · c); see discussion
• 20 Sep 2025 – Erwin Rommel (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Tankishguy (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Apr 2025 – Evil Queen (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 94.246.147.217 (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Mar 2025 – Pina Bausch (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Laterthanyouthink (t · c); see discussion
• 13 May 2024 – Mercedes-Benz G-Class (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by A75 (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Apr 2024 – Volkswagen Type 2 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 93.150.208.84 (t · c); see discussion
• 29 Nov 2023 – Greater Poland (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Piotrus (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Oct 2022 – Freikorps (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by AnomieBOT (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Jan 2022 – Mittelstand (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kaihsu (t · c); see discussion

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Articles for creation

• 12 Nov 2025 – Draft:Eduard Rügemer (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TheGreatEditor024 (t · c)
• 10 Nov 2025 – Draft:Alexander Wuertz (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Majesticmaster1982 (t · c)
• 10 Nov 2025 – Draft:Christian Moris Müller (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Filmgeschichte Enthusiast (t · c)
• 09 Nov 2025 – Draft:Jasper the Penguin (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Delbiafanoflucie188 (t · c)
• 08 Nov 2025 – Draft:Peter van Loyen (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Pfannkuchenwaffel (t · c)
• 06 Nov 2025 – Draft:Oskar Lapp (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LAPP CC (t · c)
• 04 Nov 2025 – Draft:The Last Whale Singer (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LukeNorg (t · c)
• 31 Oct 2025 – Draft:Icons of Light (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Filmgeschichte Enthusiast (t · c)
• 29 Oct 2025 – Draft:Jacob Duygu (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by YourMainManK (t · c)
• 28 Oct 2025 – Draft:Simtec Systems (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by MotionTechWriter (t · c)

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Related Portals

The main portal for this project is Portal:Germany. Other Germany-related portals are being deleted or moved to project space so they can continue to be useful for topic development:

Federal states

• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Baden-Württemberg
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Bavaria
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Berlin
• Portal:Brandenburg
• Portal:Hamburg
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Hesse
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Lower Saxony
• Portal:North Rhine-Westphalia
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Rhineland-Palatinate
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Saarland
• Portal:Saxony
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Saxony-Anhalt
• Portal:Schleswig-Holstein
• WP:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Thuringia

Regions and history

For more Germany-related portals (history, regions, etc.) see Category:Germany portal and "Portal" lists in Germany article statistics in the sidebar.

Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.

Barnstars

German Barnstar of National Merit, as rendered by Antou

Our project, like the other national WikiProjects, possesses a barnstar that may be awarded to outstanding contributors to the project or members particularly deserving of recognition for some effort made for the cause of the project.

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Resources

Infoboxes

Stubs

For information on which stubs to use on Germany-related articles, see the list of stubs at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Stub templates

• Category:Germany stubs

Subpages

• list of all subpages of this page

Templates

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{{WikiProject Germany}}		Template placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages
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{{User WP Germany}}	This user participates in WikiProject Germany.
{{Infobox German location}}	WikiProject Germany Location of WikiProject Germany Country Germany Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)  • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)	Template allowing town info to be copied directly from de.wiki.
{{IPA}}	German pronunciation: [...]	Template for indicating German pronunciation. See Help:IPA/Standard German for transcription used.
{{translated|de}}		Template to use when an article is a translation of an article on the German Wikipedia - to be placed on talk pages
{{subst:WelcomeGER}}~~~~	== Welcome to WikiProject Germany == Welcome, WikiProject Germany, to the WikiProject Germany! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on Germany-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template {{WikiProject Germany}}. A few features that you might find helpful: The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you. Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project's main talk page; you may find it useful to watchlist it. We've developed a number of guidelines for names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful. A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Here are some tasks you can do. Please remove completed tasks from the list. Requests: German Archaeological Institute at Rome, Deutsche Familienversicherung, Hermann Bachmann (Journalist), Dietlof von Arnim-Boitzenburg, Rolf von Bargen, Hennes Bender, Eduard Georg von Bethusy-Huc, Rolf Brandt (1886–1953), Jan Philipp Burgard, Rudolf Epp, Lisa Feller, Georg Arbogast von und zu Franckenstein, Georg Gafron, Ferdinand Heribert von Galen, Gundula Gause, Wolfgang von Geldern, Karl-Heinz Hagen, Herbert Helmrich, Nils von der Heyde, Monty Jacobs (1875–1945), Siegfried Kauder, Klimbim Matze Knop, Wolfgang Kryszohn, Claus Larass, Isidor Levy (1852–1929), Richard Lewinsohn (1894-1968), Markus Löning, Tobias Mann, Mathias Müller von Blumencron ,Günther Nonnenmacher, Nord bei Nordwest, Günter von Nordenskjöld, Anke Plättner, Hans Heinrich X. Fürst von Pless, Günter Prinz, Ulrich Reitz, Hans Sauer (inventor), Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg, Paul Schlesinger (1878-1928), Hajo Schumacher, Der Seewolf (1971), Otto Theodor von Seydewitz, Christoph Sieber (comedian), Dorothea Siems, Werner Sonne, Udo zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, Christoph Strässer, Joseph von Utzschneider, Hedda von Wedel, Jürgen Wieshoff, Hans Wilhelmi, Dietmar Wischmeyer, Doris Wittner (1880-1937), Alexandra Würzbach Unreferenced: especially Unreferenced BLPs Cleanup: 53541 issues in total as of 2024-03-03 Translate: Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia Stubs: the largest stub category is Category:German history stubs; see also 112 articles in Category:German MEP stubs Update: Deutsches Wörterbuch Portal maintenance: Update News, Did you know, announcements and the todo list Orphans: Orphaned articles in Germany Photo: Take/Add requested photographs Help assess the quality of 924 unassessed articles If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project!	Welcome message for new project members
{{User German Road Guru}}	This user is a German Road Guru who can also claim themselves as a "German Road Warrior" WikiProject Germany Transportation Division Frei Fahren ist Frei Schreiben .	This Template can be for anyone who has driven on German roads and wants to claim themselves as "German Road Warriors"

Conventions

• Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Conventions
• For German rail transport conventions, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Rail transport in Germany task force/Conventions.

Websites

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

For articles to be translated, see Category:Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia

Notes

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.