Talk:North Rhine-Westphalia

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:teeerrejelwejrteke 2603:6000:DC04:C500:5553:91CD:C800:89EE (talk) 09:42, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
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message: Shouldn't this article be either called Northrhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine-Westphalia? Or does the English language allow to write things like that (it looks rather strange)? -- Sandman 10:04, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest Nordrhein-Westfalen and redirect for the most common tries to translate it to English. German Wikipedia has a tendency to gkddelftleekfekelesleltleleoriginal names and I like it. Horst Emscher (talk) 19:48, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  name 

message: As far as I know, cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants are referred to as "major cities".
Iserlohn is not and has never been a major city - it has always had less than 100,000 inhabitants (some 90,000 plus). Witten has had more than 100,000 inhabitants once, but at present time, it has only some 99,000 plus. Therefore, it is no longer a major city. So I took Iserlohn and Witten off the list. I've added Moers (Kreis Wesel), which is a city near Duisburg that (still) has a little more than 100,000 inhabitants. All the information that I give here can easily be checked by visiting these city articles in the German Wikipedia. (Check the box at the right: "Einwohner" means "Inhabitants" - the present numbers are listed there).
I've also corrected the alphabetical order. By the way, the official name of the city of Mülheim is "Mülheim an der Ruhr". The name "Mülheim" is common for German speakers, but actually incomplete. I have NOT changed that, since I do not know if the link would still work then. Maybe, someone would first have to change the name of the Wikipedia article called "Mülheim" into "Mülheim an der Ruhr". I don't know how to do that.
--79.253.219.218 (talk) 22:58, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of major cities 

message: Minister President Peer Steinbrück is still in office! The Jürgen Rüttgers will be elected by the new Landtag soon - there is no direct election of the Minister President in NorthRine-Westphalia! --85.74.154.165 20:20, 22 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone was too fast! 

message: Are the German "Kreise" really to be called "districts" in English language ? What about "counties" ? As the "Regierungsbezirke" are Bezirke, these should be called "districts" in English language - any oher opinion ? Henning-GM 1 July 2005 21:40 (UTC)
:There seems to be no standard translation of "Kreis" - when I joined WP years ago User:Cordyph had already started with the Kreise of northern Germany, and he had used the word "district" at first. You are right that county is the equivalent of a Kreis, but that doesn't mean it has to be the translation. The bad thing about "District" is that it's both used for "Kreis", but also for "Stadtbezirk" (otherwise also called borough). However moving and changing all occurances of district to county (or whatever else) would be quite a task - there are 400 Kreise, plus much more references to them. andy 1 July 2005 21:47 (UTC)
A Pleeding for counties:
The correct description for a Landkreis seems to be County. The Deutscher Landkreistag calls itself German County Association. This really makes sense. In the context of the EU the federal system of Germany is structured as follows: 
1)	municipalities, which are local self-government bodies
2)	counties, which are also local self-government bodies
3)	districts, which are only an administrative level of the administration of the Bundesland, therefore they are better called “regional district”
4)	federal states also called regions in the European context or land
This wording is used in the European context by the German County Association, the German Association of Town and municipalities and the German Association of Cities which are the official representatives of the local government bodies.
This Nomenclature makes a clear differentiation between the self-government bodies, which are granted by the German constitution and the merely administrative level of the regional district. 
According to this definition the kreisfreie Stadt should be called County Borough. The term County Borough, even though it is now historical, describes perfectly the fact that this is a city or town independent to a county and with the self-governance competencies of a county.
Therefore I have changed this article.
--Gereonmc (talk) 17:19, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Districts ? 

message: The link to the river Pader points to the wrong page.  There is actually no page for the river Pader.  Should this link be deleted?
No, but changed. Will do so in a moment. -- H005 19:41, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pader 

message: Is this important enough for a Wiki article? I am not sure ... --Weissmann 12:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The current parliament belongs into the article, but a list with just the number of seats for each party and a short mention of the changes to the previous elections is IMHO enough. The detailed table and the graphic much better fit into the sub-article on these elections, were they are already anyway. andy 20:37, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  May 22, 2005 state election results 

message: northrhine westphalia (to my knowledge) has the highest population density in all of europe (if you disregard Monaco). It has 529persons/km2, which is higher than South-Korea. A comparision with Taiwan would also be nice: same area, comparable population, both are highly industrialised. -- ExpImptalkcon 02:44, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  population density 

message: :118.000.000.000 Euro Landesschulden Christlich Demokratische Union Freiheitliche Partei Deutschland
*http://www.wdr.de/themen/politik/nrw03/lrh/080602.jhtml?rubrikenstyle=politik
:151.758.000.000 Euro Landesschulden Christlich Demokratische Union Freiheitliche Partei Deutschland
*http://www.destatis.de/jetspeed/portal/cms/Sites/destatis/Internet/DE/Presse/pm/2008/06/PD08__203__713,templateId=renderPrint.psml
194.66.226.95 (talk) 10:17, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Was denn Nun, wieviele Schulden hat denn NRW?

message: I suggest that a native English speaker edit this article. The meaning of the German-English isn't always clear.124.197.15.138 (talk) 19:56, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Might help to be a little more precise. —mnh·∇· 01:28, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  language problems 

message: whoever wrote this then goes on to say the state has three parts??  gosh  what kind of parts??
would the author of the article give a proper definition and accounting of the divisions of the state as recognized by the german govt.  and drop the 'depending on the concept used' crap and add the previous portions of the state in a historical section or a separate page.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sthomper (talk • contribs) 12:11, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The state was formed from Rheinprovinz, Westfalen and Lippe-Detmold. 3, U C? Horst Emscher (talk) 19:54, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The state consists of five administrative regions 

message: The politics section is proportionally long - also considering that it has a seperate article. The subsections Responsibility of the Landtag and Legislation as well as Election system and Latest election results seem want to be grouped or structured differently. Maybe some sentences want to be outsorced into the specific article? --ZH2010 (talk) 17:20, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politics section 

message: Ok, i have just grouped the whole lot of architecture images into 3 groups. dont know if thats well representative for all regions. --ZH2010 (talk) 22:45, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Architecture 

message: I just wanted to point out to someone more versed than I that there is an issue with the demographics chart. When I try to sort it (i.e.: by population), it makes it so that the map next to the table is duplicated for each entry. 75.175.8.228 (talk) 02:59, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics 

message: The section "demographics -> religion" just doesn't make any sense at all. The text states that according to a study of Ruhr Universität Bochum there are 2.78% Muslims among the NRW population. The table to the right of this article instead says that there are 8% Muslims. Also, the sum of the table equals to 101% without any explanation given.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.136.34.105 (talk) 07:14, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religions 

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message: I completely deleted this section because it was shoehorned into the "Economy" section for no apparent reason and was poorly written. Furthermore, nothing about these nuclear reactors is mentioned in the German version of this page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 10788dbeb (talk • contribs) 21:45, 28 August 2016 (UTC)
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Nurreea (talk) 16:24, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cuisine and Traditions Sections 

message: There have been several discussions on this page where mostly Germans have been upset by the spelling and nobody has bothered to explain this to them. Germans aren't used to open compounds and are confused by them. And it didn't help that we had an incorrect/sloppy hyphen (as in the CIA World Factbook) instead of the more precise en dash (as in carefully edited publications like Encyclopaedia Britannica). (If you're German: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbgeviertstrich, not https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viertelgeviertstrich) --Espoo (talk) 00:21, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reverted the undisclosed move, a WP:RM should be opened to generate consensus if the title should be changed. S.A. Julio (talk) 16:45, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  spelling of name 

message: None of the related articles have climate data, as seen in articles such as Overijssel.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.226.49.229 (talk) 14:12, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate data 

message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :North Rhine-Westphalia's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "AIP":
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thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:North Rhine-Westphalia]] 

message: The north rhine/westphalia map in the page's main info box shows only NRW's exclaves in belgium. I would fix it myself, but I dont know how to yet.
Thanks,
Jbermingham123 (talk) 18:55, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Now the map just shows all of Germany without even marking which bit is westphalia. 2601:1C2:5000:1472:69D2:FB4C:58EF:55D7 (talk) 17:26, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map is wrong 

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