Talk:Margot Honecker

message: Is her name Margo or Margot? Tim! (talk) 21:31, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Correct spelling?

message: Was she Ministerin für Volksbildung (as in first paragraph) or Volksbildungsministerin (as in later section)? Even people who know some German will find this confusing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.197.170.130 (talk) 06:25, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Her Job Title 

message: I keep getting indigestion from this entry when it identifies her as Margot Honecker before she married Erich.   Before she married Erich she was Margot Feist.   Calling her by her married name when she was a child and then a (formidably ambitious) young woman, but BEFORE she got married is a gratuitous anachronism.   And to the extent that she had already placed several little footprints on East Germany's history BEFORE she got married, using her "wrong" name for those early years risks confusing people trying to check out contemporary sources.
Or am I being unduly picky?
*1.   What do other people think?
*2.   Could/should we change her name, in the early "prenuptial" paragraphs to "Margot Feist"?
*3.   Is there a wiki-convention/best practi(cs)e on such matters or are we expected to apply common sense?   (I tend to prefer common sense; but that only works if  people who care enough to think about stuff agree with each other.)
Regards Charles01 (talk) 08:42, 8 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:   Her name 

message: The whole article is written like a 1950s Cold War political pamphlet attacking the "totalitarian Stalinists". While there is no doubt that she was a high-ranking member of an authoritarian and anti-democratic regime, she was by no means "the most hated person in East Germany" (even today, there are Germans who are fond of the old regime, which, of course, was not a democracy, but that's not the point). And of course, expressions such as "the purple witch" have no place in the lead section of a political biography. Needs a major rewrite, ASAP. 77.49.9.243 (talk) 20:53, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope, it doesn't. This has been thoroughly discussed and the consensus is that it stays in. We don't delete reliably sourced material because some people don't like it. This is an encyclopedic article, not Neues Deutschland. --Tataral (talk) 00:40, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unbelievably unencyclopedic tone 

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message: After editing this I realise that "ouster" can mean the same thing as "ousting", but I'd argue that it's pretty obscure and "ousting" reads more nicely so I'm leaving my change in Dichohecho (talk) 10:12, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ouster / Ousting