Talk:Bitburg

message: I placed a request on the translation page to translate the German version of this article as it's got a lot more info on the city than just the Reagan controversy. Ellsworth 21:15, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 

message: IMHO,this biased article could use some more demographical and historical(pre-World War II)info...Ranma9617 03:58, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm pretty sure that Bitburg has a lot more history than this... 

message: When did Reagan's visit occur?  The date is given but not the year.  --Myles Long 18:01, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's there now. Ellsworth 14:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year 

message: This looks suspicious:
:When Reagan arrived at the cemetery, Michael Moore and a Jewish friend of his whose parents were at Auschwitz were there with a banner that read "WE CAME FROM MICHIGAN: THEY KILLED MY FAMILY". They were shown on live TV networks across the country.
Is there a source on this? At the time Moore wasn't a national media figure. I'm not saying it didn't happen. Ellsworth 14:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael Moore 

message: I'm an german Wikipedian from Bitburg and I found a few mistakes or a few things which cold be added. I dont speak English very good. Cold you  please add them?
* When Bitburg was founded, it was on the road between Trier and Köln.
*Bitburg was build as an castle. The area of the castle is still the centre of the town
*The air base is not the heart of the city. It is located ca. 3 km away fron the centre. It was built 1965. It is an NATO-Airbase. After ist was closed in 1994, it was changed into an industrial area. At the moment, a few parties try to reopen the aribase as an industiral airport.
* There is an american housing in Bitburg. Many houses are beeing teared off now, because many american people move to the housing of Spangdahlem. Some people say that the housing of Bitburg is not save enough because there are many public roads around it.
IMO an own article about Ronald Reagans visit can be written. --Oliver Tölkes 10:04, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Please correct

message: Today, I loaded up a picture of Bitburg on Wiki Commons. Can someone please add it to the article? --Oliver Tölkes 09:26, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: There is much coverage of the reaction to Reagan's visit to Bitburg.  Perhaps this section can be condensed.- Gilliam 05:58, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I could see, there is no other presidential or state visit that gets this much coverage. There are no such events with their own articles in wikipedia, not even the IMO much more significant visit of prime minister Sharon to the Temple mount in September 2000 (see Second Intifada). I suggest someone condenses this section, I'll replace the (IMO not applicable) POV tag with the  tag. Markussep Talk 16:08, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

text: I think there are some details in the section that aren't really encyclopedic, and the style of writing is too personal/subjective. No big deal, but I guess someone (you?) should look into it. Markussep Talk 09:31, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "NPOV" 

message: This, like all other such entries, is supposed to be an article about the city. Instead, it's been conflated with (and overwhelmed by) an account of a highly controversial but brief and relatively minor event that took place there 30 years ago. 
The Reagan visit controversy section, at 1,500 words, comprises two-thirds of the 2,300-word Bitburg entry. This is drastically out of proportion, and inappropriate, especially for a town whose history dates from the era of Charlemagne.
While this notable event certainly should be mentioned in the present article, the detail presented here obviously should be packaged in a separate Bitburg Controversy article. This is the case on German WP, where the 1,800-word Bitburg article's history section summarizes the controversy in one paragraph, then links to a separate, 1,300-word entry on the controversy.Sca (talk) 13:40, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Proportionality