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Precious anniversary

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Six years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:59, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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DYK nomination of Hans Bredow

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Königsberg

Hello HerhusMonte, your sweeping reversal - what do you mean by "POVish", please - has put back all the poor English copyedits and such unfortunate and colossal bloomers like describing Hebrew script as "Yiddish" for the city's name! Is it possible you could be more exacting and helpful in your editing?? --Po Mieczu (talk) 12:04, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Po Mieczu: Why did you move specific languages to the top? I don't see any reason to split the names like that. I'm unable to read Hebrew, I guess it's just the specific spelling of the Yiddish "Kenigsberg" in Hebrew letters.I don't think it's actually a different name.

Calling the Albertina an "initially Polish and Lithunaian intellectual center“ is an exceptional claim which needs a much better source than the source you provided (a wayback machine version of "Albertina on postcards and stamps"). The Albertina was a German language University from the start, your selective choice of notable students shows a significant national (POVish) bias.

You replaced a section header Duchy of Prussia with Polish Prussia. Polish Prussia is a term used for Royal Prussia, the western part of the Teutonic Order's state which became part of Poland in 1466. Königsberg was not part of Royal/Polish Prussia. Again a POVish edit.

Some other changes were just minor sentence constructions, grammatically wrong (Stadtstheater) or unsourced. I'm pretty sure the Königsberg garrison wasn't "quartered" and Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein wasn't assassinated but sentenced to death by a Prussian court.

If you think some of your changes should be adopted, please seek WP:Consensus at the relevant talk page. HerkusMonte (talk) 13:10, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ethnicity of Spätaussiedler

Look, English wikipedia very clearly says that they could be of any ethnicity, not just ethnic Germans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_return#Germany

Quote from the "Right of return" article, "Germany" section: "German law allows (1) persons descending from German nationals OF ANY ETHNICITY or (2) persons of ethnic German descent and living in countries of the former Warsaw Pact (as well as Yugoslavia) the right to "return" to Germany and ("re")claim German citizenship."

Also, Spätaussiedler do not have to be Reichsdeutsche but also Volksdeutsche (who were not German citizens before WW2, but lived for example in Volhynia).

Domen von Wielkopolska (talk) 16:34, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here is Deutsche Welle article about Spätaussiedler which clearly mentions that many of them were ethnic Poles or with mixed Polish-German identity:

https://www.dw.com/pl/emigracja-z-polski-do-niemiec-liczna-i-prawie-niewidoczna/a-16181647 Domen von Wielkopolska (talk) 16:58, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Actually the article mentions Czesław Gołębiewski and Lukas Podolski as examples of ethnic Polish Spätaussiedler (not family members, but Spätaussiedler - they could be ethnic Poles or other ethnic Slavs as well). I will remove those edits by sock. Domen von Wielkopolska (talk) 17:09, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Question about Spätaussiedler

Immigrants from pre-war Polish Silesia (East Upper Silesia) were also counted as Spätaussiedler or not?

Because there were around 2 million Einhemische Silesians there in 1950: https://i.imgur.com/HmJiihn.png

Source (Tabelle 7): https://ulis-buecherecke.ch/pdf_neben_dem_krieg/schlesien_und_die_schlesier.pdf

Wojewodschaft Kattowitz included small part of West Upper Silesia with over 300,000 Autochthons, but the remaining 2 million were Einhemische Silesians from East Upper Silesia, which had been part of Poland already before 1939. Many East Upper Silesians also emigrated to Germany for economical reasons.

If they were counted as Spätaussiedler, then you cannot equate Spätaussiedler with "autochthons of Regained Lands".

In such case I suggest we should remove the statement about the number of Spätaussiedler because it has nothing to do with the number of "autochthons of Regained Lands", as Spätaussiedler could be recruited also from other groups (Volksdeutsche in all regions of Poland, even Lublin etc., Silesians in East Upper Silesia which is not part of "Regained Lands", etc.).

I removed that statement from those two articles, but I added it to the article about Right of return: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_return#Germany

And I added "See also" templates linking to Right of return page to those two Ostgebiete-related articles.

Domen von Wielkopolska (talk) 10:07, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Please see note on your DYK review. Yoninah (talk) 22:59, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed it. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:55, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Charles Fryatt

Hi, can you provide an English translation of the quote you added to the reference? I think it would benefit those readers who don't speak German. Mjroots (talk) 03:59, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gdansk vote

Please respect Gdansk vote-it isn't used for modern locations in Poland or administrative districts.--MyMoloboaccount (talk) 12:52, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@MyMoloboaccount:: "For Gdansk and other locations that share a history between Germany and Poland, the first reference of one name in an article should also include a reference to other names" These districts obviously share a history, the date of construction of the current houses is completely irrelevant. HerkusMonte (talk) 14:07, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Warsaw shares a lot of history with Germany Herkus-are you claiming all locations in Warsaw and its administrative districts should have Germanised names? For instance are you claiming [[]]Wola district should have Germanised name just because Wola Massacre happened there?--MyMoloboaccount (talk) 14:12, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please try to keep this discussion factual. HerkusMonte (talk) 14:17, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry,are you saying Wola Massacre didn't happen? Please clarify. I believe you are seriously misrepresenting the vote-it isn't used for descriptions of modern locations but for historical part of the articles. Since all of Poland was once under German occupation in WW2 your interpretation would mean every Polish location should have a Germanised name-which is obviously wrong and absurd.--MyMoloboaccount (talk) 14:19, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Masurian People's Party

Hello. Just a heads up: You introduced a contradictory claim in this article that an MVP candidate received around a third of the vote in a constituency, but the winning Conservative Party candidate received 73% of the vote. Cheers, Number 5 7 18:52, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notable Masurians

Hi, Hieronim Malecki moved to Masuria in the 1500s but at that time a lot of Poles/Masovians were moving to Masuria, so I think he should be added back because he was one of the "founders" of this population, and he was Lutheran. I'll add him back. The ones without articles on English Wikipedia were taken from Polish Wikipedia.
Domen von Wielkopolska (talk) 12:15, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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