Template talk:Did you know/Cuno strikes

Cuno strikes

• ... that the Cuno strikes in 1923 led to the fall of the German government and an attempted Communist coup?

• Reviewed: Edward Hay Mackenzie Elliot

Created by Marrante (talk). Self nom at 15:36, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

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• Length, format, content rules: --Antidiskriminator (talk) 08:20, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
• Source: The hook is not supported with the text of the article. On the contrary, the article says: "The attempted coup that was cancelled at the last minute." If the attempted coup was cancelled then it was not attempted but planned? If instead of the attempted coup there was Hamburg Uprising, why would it be named as attempted Communist coup? The article Hamburg Uprising does not even contain a word coup. Also, the text of the article does not support directly that strikes led to the fall of the German government, it just says that German government resigned a day after strike begun. The source does imply that strike helped the fall of the Cuno government but as the first reason for fall of the government mentioned in the source is "Nach einem Mißtrauensvotum der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands (SPD) im Reichstag wegen des Scheiterns der Politik des "passiven Widerstands". (SPD voted in the parliament for "no confidence" in the government. Also, the text of the article does not support the statement that Cuno strikes led to the Hamburg uprising which was in fact result of the activities of "the Soviet Politburo" which adopted a plan for a "German October". If there are no other sources which support the text of the hook, it may be considered as result of the WP:SYNTH and the text of the hook should be changed. --Antidiskriminator (talk)

09:04, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

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• ALT1:... that the Cuno strikes on August 11, 1923 helped to force the resignation of the German chancellor and his entire cabinet on August 12 and inspired the Communist Party to attempt a coup?

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Comments/discussion: The article is new, created three days before nomination for DYK. The length of the hook is ok (102 characters). The lenght of the article is also ok (more than 4,000 characters). --Antidiskriminator (talk) 08:41, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

The story is somewhat complicated, as was the entire nation of Germany in 1923. The planned coup was cancelled, but the people in Hamburg went ahead. The reasons why are somewhat in dispute, but are either that they ignored the message or never got it, so for that reason, the planned coup was both cancelled and attempted. My understanding of the Cuno strikes changed somewhat as I went back to the Hamburg Uprising. My hooks have tended to be very complicated and long and I have been trying to change that. I did not mean to imply that the Cuno strikes were the exclusive cause of the government's collapse, but at the time I wrote the hook, I may have sacrificed too many details in the interest of brevity. I will look over both articles and will write one or more alternate hooks. Marrante (talk) 11:03, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

As I read over your comment that the strikes had nothing to do with the coup attempt, that is too supported. From the article (minus refs), Though the crisis was resolved within the framework of the parliamentary system, the Cuno strikes nurtured a hope in Moscow and within the executive committee of the Comintern that there was a possibility for revolution in Germany and on August 23, 1923, the Soviet Politburo adopted a plan for a "German October". The strikes convinced the Communists that the timing was right to try to repeat the Russian October revolution in Germany, but it was cancelled at the last minute. But this came after the resignations of Chancellor Cuno and his entire cabinet, which took place the day after the strikes. There was a definite causal relationship and I will look for more sources. Marrante (talk) 11:14, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

I have worked on the article and improved its clarity. Thank you for sparking that. I found a reference that clearly states the strikes were the dominant factor in forcing the Cuno government to resign (the source says, "after the wildcat strike had swept Cuno away"), so the first hook should be okay now. The idea was to surmount insurrections all over the country, but because of the cancellation, KPD groups in other cities did not follow through, leaving the Hamburg Uprising as the only remaining part of a larger attempted coup. If you need me to explain this better in the article, let me know. Marrante (talk) 13:12, 5 August 2011 (UTC)