ITALICS What s with the italics in the end of the paragraph Italics are quotations in the original German article Incomprehensible Many parts of this article are incomprehensible I tried to edit a few parts but I can t interpret what was said This article has major problems in sentence structures I hope some one with better knowledge of the topic can cleanup the article There are still some sentences in the Construction and From Opening to World War II sections that have not be translated cleaned up yet due to their incomprehensibility and my absolute lack of knowledge in German It would be great if some one who s good in German can clean those sections up by refering to the article on the German Wikipedia What is here appears to have been machine translated from the much longer German article some words are even left untranslated What is needed is editing by people who can read German and clean this up The original is a featured article on the German Wikipedia and quite detailed I will work on this as I can Yes I m almost sorry I put this on Did you know now although it s certainly attracting a lot of helpful attention The fact that the original German article is written in an almost impenetrable extremely academic style which for some reason is exceedingly popular at de doesn t make things any easier Apologies Sorry I started this article yesterday and indeed with a machine translation I started to put all that in good English and managed to do the first three paragraphs and fell asleep only to wake up the next day to find the article on first page I am really sorry next time I will do that on my hard drive and post it when it is in good shape No problem this way you got a lot of help cleaning it up I saw the shell of the Neues Museum back in the 1990s and am glad they are finally rebuilding it thanks for putting this on Wikipedia Kupfergraben What is Kupfergraben I thought the aim of the cleanup was to translate the German words into English not adding more German words Am Kupfergraben is the name of the street on the bank of the river west of across from the Neues Museum and it is actually the street address for the Pergamon Museum which is beside the NM so my guess is the Neues Museum will have that address too The literal translation is copper ditch and the machine translation put it in that way but it should stay with that German name Just as no one translates a better known Berlin street as Prince Elector s Causeway they just leave it as Kurf rstendamm Am Kupfergraben along the copper ditch like Unter den Linden under the lindens is an example of the disconcerting German habit of using prepositional phrases as street names Another one I like is the street behind St Hedwig s Cathedral picturesquely named Hinter der katholischen Kirche behind the Catholic church The Neues Museum however is not on Am Kupfergraben but on Bodestra e OK thanks I was going by a map I found on the net I hopefully clarified the first reference to Am Kupfergraben in the article Cabinet Order translated Thanks Angr I am fine with Cabinet Order as a translation especially since the wikilink to Cabinet makes clear it is a governmental cabinet The only alternative I thought of is something like The king had already assigned the construction project to St ler on March 8 1841 by order of the royal cabinet or The king with his cabinet had already ordered that the construction project be assigned to St ler on March 8 1841 That sounds better than my literal translation Be bold OK made the chnge thanks What Else to Translate While the articl