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Move request at Nazi concentration camps

A move proposal has been made at Talk:Nazi concentration camps#Requested move. Both sides are not always using the best arguments, and more eyes on the issue would be helpful.  Cs32en  23:02, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is important to be clear that Nazi concentration camps, where victims of the master race had died in millions, were set up and financed by the Nazi German State. This fact should not be manipulated.--24.182.186.67 (talk) 07:00, 1 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Related to this issue another vote is taking place at Talk:List_of_Nazi-German_concentration_camps#Move.3F SPLETTE :] How's my driving? 12:41, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dr Carl Warburg

I have attached this article Carl Warburg which I originated to this WikiProject, is that okay?--Roland Sparkes (talk) 15:53, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have essentially finished by contribution to thsi new article, Please can the article be given a quality rating by this WikiProject? --Roland Sparkes (talk) 00:26, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

RATING required. I have expanded and improved this article a lot more lately, please can the article be reviewed and a quality rating be assigned. Thanks--Roland Sparkes (talk) 11:56, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rating of Freya von Moltke

This article has been rated B-class, both as a biography and under Project Germany. Apparently, someone other than a normal editor is required for the B-class rating to take effect in the Project Germany box.

The article clearly: The article meets the following five criteria:

  • It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited.
  • It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies.
  • It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content.
  • It is free from major grammatical errors.
  • It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams.

Please consider setting the Project Germany box to B-class.

Sincerely, User:HopsonRoad 22:57, 6 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Translating articles on German colonies

I've been GoogleTranslating various articles on former German colonies, as well as creating and populating categories thereof. I'd appreciate any help in cleaning up one or two points in the translation, marked with a [clarification needed] in most cases, or in some cases shielded with the <!--to only be visible when editing. Also any help in further populating the new categories, from German translation or existing English articles, would be awesome. The new content:

Thanks! MatthewVanitas (talk) 05:15, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your work! I've cleaned up the Astrolabe Company‎ now. Best regards --Cyfal (talk) 09:24, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Now I've also modified the other articles. --Cyfal (talk) 14:03, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help. Got three more. Are folks finding this to be a workable method to plus-up German history articles?

MatthewVanitas (talk) 02:59, 10 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I also modified these. Having your translation already at hand, it's much easyier to refine the articles instead starting from scratch! --Cyfal (talk) 10:34, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Here's another one that's a little rough: Ossidinge. Feel free to message me if you want native-English cleaup. Again, your German proficiency is most helpful. And also I started Iwindo. MatthewVanitas (talk) 06:18, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've also did Ossidinge now. You may check all my updates for a native-English cleanup, because my English is not that good. Also, I've posted you a message at Talk:Astrolabe Company, maybe you can check this? Best regards --Cyfal (talk) 15:13, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Zweigniederlassung/Oddział_przedsiębiorstwa

What is de:Zweigniederlassung/pl:Oddział_przedsiębiorstwa? Could it get an article on EN? I posted this request on here since people in this project may be able to read the German article. WhisperToMe (talk) 06:43, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Worth expanding Bosniak Corps?

I'm no expert on Prussian military history, but I've created a stub for Bosniak Corps in case anyone wants to expand it. I mainly did it because it had a cool picture. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:31, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ditto Volontaires de Saxe. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:22, 17 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

List of the highest mountains in Germany

Just a note to say that the above list is up and running and I have translated articles on several of the highest peaks including the requested one on the Hochwanner, Germany's second highest peak... or is it?! Feel free to add more! --Bermicourt (talk) 21:12, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WP 1.0 bot announcement

This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. — Carl (CBM · talk) 03:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Putting images from the German Wikipedia to use on the English Wikipedia

Some time ago I wrote a computer program that uses the database dumps of EN/DE Wikipedia to create lists of articles on EN which have no image, where the German article about the same subject does. I have been using these lists to add images from the German Wikipedia to the English Wikipedia, but there are way more results than I can go through myself. I am wondering if there are other people who want to use these lists to add images to articles. I put some more information and sample lists on User:Arthena/DE image list. If people are interested in this, I will put online more of the lists. Any feedback is welcome; up to now I have only used these lists myself. Not all of the images are about subjects related to Germany, rather, they are images from the German Wikipedia. Arthena(talk) 19:59, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Greenland articles about "Unternehmen" ???

I was looking for good Greenland articles in other languages which are lacking on en.wiki. Found these, but with GoogleTranslate I'm getting mostly gibberish. If anyone has translation skills and thinks these are worth it, I'd be happy to clean them up to native-English if you ping me a message. Just thought it'd be fun to add a bit to the Greenland section.

MatthewVanitas (talk) 04:55, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

These are all essentially subarticles of de:Wetterstationen der Wehrmacht in der Arktis: each of them is about an undertaking to establish a weather station in Greenland. I'd say this is more very very detailed German military history than actually about Greenland. —Кузьма討論 08:07, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Category tags

Does anyone know the most appropriate tag for category talk pages - I have found both the default wikiproject germany - which defaults to the category status - and someone has also tagged wikiproject germaany|class=NA - if anyone was ever to run a bot - it might sort of need consistency. Also a lot of really obvious categories for this project are blank... SatuSuro 08:48, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Cleanup listing#Unreferenced BLPs

FYI - A massive discussion is taking place at a Request for comment (RfC) Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Biographies of living people. About 50k of articles are currently unreferenced and therefore in danger of deletion, some of those are on German subjects. I will add the proper template on the main page to have a bot generate the cleanup list after some days (hopefully). The cleanup link in the title above will then point to a list of unreferenced articles with the WikiProject Germany template on its talk page. Please revise articles on the list, when possible,

  1. review them for contentious unsourced information pr WP:BLP concerns
  2. add references (you may e.g. lift references from the German page, if that page exists)
  3. remove the {{BLP unsourced}} template from the article.

Thank you. Power.corrupts (talk) 19:56, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Lower Saxony

I have created a new portal for Lower Saxony here which I hope will be useful along with a WikiProject for Lower Saxony. Please feel free to add/expand/improve both the portal and articles on Lower Saxony in general. In particular, I could use help with a) tracking down relevant featured or good articles and b) with developing the project page, especially tagging and summarising articles in this group. Gruß. --Bermicourt (talk) 22:13, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FAR

I have nominated Battle of Smolensk (1943) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. YellowMonkey (bananabucket) 03:54, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Giant mountains? Karkonosze? Krkonoše? Riesengebirge?

You are invited to participate in a poll. Skäpperöd (talk) 11:21, 29 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Portal:Elbe-Weser Triangle

I have also added a portal for the Elbe-Weser Triangle. --Bermicourt (talk) 15:18, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann

Can anyone familiar with German politics please add some sources? cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:04, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion regarding image used in Nazi stub tag

Hello, WikiProject Germany. A discussion is underway at Template talk:Nazi-stub regarding the use of the swastika in the stub tag. Please take the time to comment there. Thanks! —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 09:15, 2 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proofreading necessary? New section Frederick III, German Emperor # Unmarried, a Son is Born

I think, someboby with historic background should proofread this section. It's totally different to the German article, have no (zero) references, and many, many typo mistakes, but my English is not good enough for proofreading. I hope, you can help? Thanks alot and regards --Pitlane02 (talk) 07:55, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed this section, as I could find no mention of the child's alleged mother on either Google Books or Google Scholar. I don't think copyediting is useful before we're sure these claims are reported by reliable sources. —Кузьма討論 10:29, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
THX --Pitlane02 (talk) 11:35, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

FAR

I have nominated Sino-German cooperation (1911–1941) for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. YellowMonkey (Southern Stars photo poll) 06:22, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Where do the Lufthansa executives work out of?

I noticed that this page on Lufthansa's website says that the headquarters are in Cologne: http://konzern.lufthansa.com/en/service/imprint.html While this one describes the headquarters as being in Frankfurt: http://presse.lufthansa.com/fileadmin/downloads/en/policy-brief/07_2009/Lufthansa-PolicyBrief-July-2009-Sustainability.pdf

Lufthansa has facilities in both cities. The question is, where are the executives based out of? I understand that the Investor Relations and Media Relations departments are out of Frankfurt. I believe that the finance department is in Cologne. In which facility does the executive leadership of Lufthansa work out of? WhisperToMe (talk) 21:56, 14 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

History of Württemberg

History of Württemberg has improved in the last year.86.46.242.37 (talk) 15:02, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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