Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Germany

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Skirmish of the Berlin Schloss#Request to rename to "Battle of the Berlin Palace" that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. GHStPaulMN (talk) 12:11, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Skirmish of the Berlin Schloss#Request to rename to "Battle of the Berlin Palace"]] 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor#Requested move 27 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Векочел (talk) 14:45, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor#Requested move 27 February 2024]] 

message: An article relevant to this Wikiproject is being considered for FA status (See Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha/archive1). Any comments would be appreciated. Llewee (talk) 00:11, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 

message: Currently, the only article on "Hans Julius Wolff" is the one on the jurist. There is no article about the administrative scientist. The problem is, under 1898 births/1976 deaths, there is the Hans Julius Wolff article. Remember, the Hans Julius Wolff article on (English) Wikipedia is about the jurist, NOT the administrative scientist. And, taking into account the previous knowledge, it is disheartening to learn that the admin. scientist was the one who was born in 1898 and died in 1976. Also, (admittedly, the more Germany-related part of this) the English Wikipedia "Hans Julius Wolff" article is under the People from Elberfeld and Jurists from North Rhine-Westphalia categories. The jurist was from Berlin. Check out Hans Julius Wolff (Rechtshistoriker) vs. Hans Julius Wolff (Verwaltungswissenschaftler) on German Wikipedia. Cheers, Helminths Hooray! (talk) 02:41, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Helminths Hooray!, the stub Hans Julius Wolff is about the 1898–1976 Hans Julius Wolff (Verwaltungswissenschaftler). To write an article about the different person Hans Julius Wolff (Rechtshistoriker), who lived 1902–1983, please use a new title, for example Hans Julius Wolff (legal historian), do not overwrite the old article. —Kusma (talk) 16:54, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Kusma, the stub quite literally says "German jurist (1898-1976)". If it was changed to "German judge (1898-1976)", it would be better, but it should (like the German Wikipedia article) say "German administrative scientist and judge (1898-1976)". Thanks for the reply though, Helminths Hooray! (talk) 00:10, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Kusma! I now created an article for Hans Julius Wolff (legal historian), and it is pending review! I do have a suggestion, though. Don't just change the description of the original article, change the title, too (from "Hans Julius Wolff" to "Hans Julius Wolff (administrative scientist)", or something along those lines). Thanks a billion times, Helminths Hooray! (talk) 00:33, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's the draft: Draft:Hans Julius Wolff (legal historian). Feel free to critique and edit it all you want. I'm sure it needs the help! Forever grateful, Helminths Hooray! (talk) 00:47, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

text: @Helminths Hooray!, we don't disambiguate titles if there are no other articles on en-wiki with the same title. So we won't change it to Hans Julius Wolff (administrative scientist or whatever until there's actually a problem where we have two articles both called "Hans Julius Wolff". Even once your article is in mainspace, we'll probably just put a Hatnote on it to link to the other Wolff. -- asilvering (talk) 04:12, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Got it! Helminths Hooray! (talk) 22:25, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hans Julius Wolff (jurist) is not the same thing as Hans Julius Wolff (administrative scientist) 

message: Please could someone familiar with the topic take a look at German language in the United States, which has a very large, and old, cleanup notice? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:44, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  German language in the United States 

message: Kaunas Fortress has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:09, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good article reassessment for [[Kaunas Fortress]] 

message: simply wraps , and is neither a WikiProject nor a task-force, weirdly in limbo between the two, and seems like a work-around or a compromise to some discussion or prevailing sentiment back in/before 2016. If so, has consensus been reached in one direction or another? Should transclusions of  be kept as-is and added to other West Germany topics, or changed to ?   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  14:08, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't even know this template exists, and it does not appear to be widely used. I would suggest to change to the main  unless someone actually starts a task force. —Kusma (talk) 16:37, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:"WikiProject" West Germany 

message: There is a supposedly prophetic quote in Spengler's article…
:"in ten years, a German Reich will probably no longer exist" ("da ja wohl in zehn Jahren ein Deutsches Reich nicht mehr existieren wird!")
… with one 1964 book as source. While that book does provide the quote, in turn citing an unknown other source, if you search it on Google, you get no more than 19 self-referencing results.
For a quote of that caliber, this seems far too few to be deemed reliable. You'd expect it to be all over works from the past 75+ years.
— 2003:EA:F48:9B00:F13D:EB2:C222:A37E (talk) 16:28, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It is not in the edition of Spengler's letters, . Not sure this quote is real. —Kusma (talk) 16:50, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the source is the memories of well-known liar Hans Frank. —Kusma (talk) 19:24, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, Bronder was known to falsify sources. —Kusma (talk) 10:30, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

text: I have removed it from the article. —Kusma (talk) 20:03, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of sources for Oswald Spengler's "prophetic quote" 

message: I have created a draft translation of the German Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen article. I am having trouble satisfying notability requirements for the English Wikipedia, particularly due to a lack of sources. Any assistance would be appreciated in constructing the article to satisfy guidelines. Tule-hog (talk) 02:31, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft Help: Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen 

message: For years, it has really grinded my gears that loads of articles about German people use time periods (Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany; a recent example I have come across is Paul von Hindenburg) as the location in the place of birth/death section of the infobox. That seems utterly senseless to me. The country was never called Weimar Republic or Nazi Germany. These are time periods, not locations! How would Americans like it if I changed the infobox for William Randolph Hearst to read born in San Francisco, American Civil War?! Has this ever been discussed? Zwerg Nase (talk) 11:01, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Ha, as a matter of fact, it has been raised before, by me :D Completely forgot about that. Discussion went nowhere. Maybe this time more people will chip in. Zwerg Nase (talk) 11:04, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked at other countries and for some of them we have a more sensible way of doing this. For example, Charles de Gaulle was born in (unliked) "France". Gaston Doumergue was born in "France" and died in "France". I would generally prefer "Germany" or "Germany" to "Weimar Republic". —Kusma (talk) 11:27, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of birth/death - Usage of time periods as a location 

message: Editors are invited to contribute to the discussion at Template talk:Hanoverian princes to decide whether individuals, where no proper source verifies the claim that someone is a prince of Hanover, should be removed from the template. --Theoreticalmawi (talk) 17:39, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The debate is actually about removing everyone born after 1914 since sources were provided and are provided on the individual articles. DrKay (talk) 17:42, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template:Hanoverian princes]] 

message: Giant Schnauzer has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. CMD (talk) 07:03, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good article reassessment for [[Giant Schnauzer]] 

message: I have suspicions that this BLP might be either an WP:AUTOBIO or a paid article. The creator cited German-language sources. Is there anyone available who can verify whether the coverage meets the requirements of significant and in-depth coverage as outlined in WP:N? —Saqib (talk | contribs) 18:34, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shams Ul Haq (journalist) 

message: There is a discussion at Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park) about the war memorial's naming history that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Classicwiki (talk) If you reply here, please ping me. 15:27, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment|RfC]] at [[Talk:Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park)#Tomb of the unknow rapist, redux|Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park)]] 

message: I'm hopeful that members of this project might be able to fill out some of the missing sources for an article on this art critic and historian. I've got to a bid of a blank about his wider career, and am struggling to find sources that mention the statue that is dedicated to him in Baden-baden. Many thanks Lajmmoore (talk) 07:16, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Draft:Leopold Zahn]] 

message: The Hin Bredendieck article was created by the subject's great-grand-nephew. I have no opinion on whether Hin Bredendieck is notable enough to warrant an article, but I thought it would be prudent to ask, here, for an expert on Germany to give it a look and weigh in. Fred Zepelin (talk) 01:07, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The English article is a translation of a 2017 German article (begun by a different user, and edited since by several users). The subject, with exhibitions and archives in notable museums, and a leading teaching position in the U.S., seems notable enough. I'll look more closely. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:28, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  Very appreciated. Thank you. Fred Zepelin (talk) 19:49, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible COI article - would a Germany expert please have a look? 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Protestant Church in Germany#Requested move 25 May 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 00:13, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Protestant Church in Germany#Requested move 25 May 2024]]