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Hi, thanks for your thoughts. I have to disagree about your disambiguity-argument. You say ""Germany"" can refer to either ""West Germany"" or ""East Germany"". This is - as I already stated - simply not correct, since there never was a country named ""West Germany"" and there never was a country named ""East Germany"", they were called those names in foreign media for simplicity reasons, as the ""Federal Republic of Germany"" was part of the western capitalist world or first world, while the ""Peoples Republic of Germany"" was part of Eastern bloc, or second world. Still this is not the correct term for the country, and is therefore no phrasing for an encyclopaedia. It is colloquial language that saves time, but still this doesn't make it the correct term. I do not make up names or use other possibly derogatory terms for other countries, and therefore would prefer, if wikipaedia articles are kept in a neutral tone too. So if there is really confusion to avoid, then the only correct way to do so, is to use the complete names of the country, and not some popular slang. To be honest, i didn't think there would be a confusion, and someone might think this final was between the Peoples Republic of Germany and England, and not between the Federal Republic of Germany and England (since the Peoples Republic of Germany only participated in one World Cup anyways). But that's probably me knowing already a lot about this topic and forgetting about people that know little about World Cup history, so i might be wrong. But if others do think the distinction is necessary, then please distinguish the teams with the real names of the country and not colloquial language. Finally i want to point out, that the link to Germany National Footbal Team leads to an article that already explains, that there were temporary governing football associations other than the DFB, so if there really is a confusion which German team this is, a click on the link of the team name will resolve that confusion.

Your second argument is, that ""most sources refer to that team as West Germany"". That may be right, but is that really the deciding criterion? If i find, that most sources say, that eg Evolution is wrong, and Intelligent Design is right, will that decide the content of a wikipaedia article? I know it's a bad example, and i don't want to provoke a political or offtopic discussion, i just want to make to point that what many people say is not necessarily right. But unlike in discussions about ""most sources say Britney Spears is the best singer of all times"" this whole thing is not up to taste, political views, scientific surveys, or speculations. It is simply a fact, that the name of the country this team represents is not ""West Germany"", so it is not right to call the football team that represents this country ""West Germany"". If you don't believe that this is a fact, then look it up on every government document of the Federal Republic of Germany, the name ""West Germany"" is never used. And btw: it is not like, there is no source using the proper name of the team. It may not be the majority (i don't know tbh), but i am confident, that i can find a sizeable number of references using the correct term, which will be enough for every passage of this article. German sources use the correct term anyways, i could bombard you with thousands of sources in German language that use ""Germany"" or ""FRG"" or ""BRD"", and not ""West Germany"". At the end it is the souvereign right of a country to name herself (see also Macedonia vs Greece) and in English the ""Bundesrepublik Deutschland"" has the official name ""Federal Republic of Germany"" - or short ""Germany"" - and has never called herself or referred to itself as ""West Germany"", or ""Federal Republic of West Germany"" or any other alteration including geographical terms. And the governing body of German football since 1900, the ""Deutscher Fußballbund"" which translates into ""German Football Association"" has never called itself ""West German Football Association"" or referred to its players as ""West Germans"". As i have already mentioned above, all Germans were eligble to play, whether they are from east or west or south or north. Even Germans born in other countries are eligible, like Paolo Rink born in Brazil, or Miroslav Klose/Lukas Podolski/Piotr Trochowski born in Poland, or Oliver Neuville born in Switzerland, as long as they have German ancestry. 

It is and was the explicit objective of the DFB to represent all Germans. This is exemplified when the Federal Republic of Germany played in eastern Europe, thousands came from the Peoples Republic of Germany to support the team from the other side of the Iron Curtain. They did that even though the Peoples Republic of Germany over time started penalizing people who support the ""class enemy"" from across the border. Sometimes travel into a country (in the eastern bloc!) was denied for every