Talk:Siegfried Line

message: The caption to one of the Dragon's Teeth photos says  5 "teeth" .  There are definitely more than 5 in the photograph.  Perhaps it is meant to say 5 foot teeth?
:Each section has five teeth, as far as I understand it. Take a look at the article next to the photo where it describes how they're made. Saintswithin 15:17, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caption wrong? 

message: In the section The role of the Siegfried Line at the beginning of the war: "This phase of the history of the Siegfried Line is memorialized in the Billy Joel song Seigfried Line, a previously unreleased track from his 2005 boxed set My Lives." I'll presume that this is true, but is it really notable enough to belong in the article? If it is, is it really important enough, boxed set and all, to interrupt the general flow of the narrative rather than being somewhere at the bottom? It doesn't seem to me to throw any light at all on the topic for someone who turns here for research purposes. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:45, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I was totally engrossed in the article, until right in the middle of important, well-written narrative, it screeches off on tangent to mention a B-side Billy Joel track. I don't even see it as being important enough to belong in a footnote; if there are any Billy Joel fans reading the article, they will probably be doing so because they are already aware of the reference in the song, whereas everyone else reading the article will hardly get a distorted view of history because they weren't made aware that someone sang about it. Mixsynth 01:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I also agree. The contemporary song "The Siegfried Line" by Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr might be worth referring to in the context of the phoney war but the Billy Joel song at most needs a one line mention. I was going to raise this here and see what the response was but in light of the above comments I'll 'be bold' and edit it.IanOfNorwich (talk) 07:52, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And by the way... i would rather eat Belgian chocolates than Dutch chocolates... Billy Barbarian!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.200.220.100 (talk) 21:45, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Billy Joel 

message: The link to the mp3 extract of the song in English is a link to a modern commercial site of someone signing the song for a nostalgia audience. It is thus both not authentic, and commercial. This is surely a problem, but I wanted someone else's opinion before removing it. Johncmullen1960 (talk) 07:18, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Questionable link 

message: I've spent a half hour or so cleaning up some of the more egregious statements of opinion, weasel wording and unreferenced statements tagged as far back as four and a half years ago, but this is still a badly underreferenced article which could use some TLC.   ῲ Ravenswing ῴ  12:30, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What a mess ... 

message: There were no concrete FlaK "towers" in the western air defence zone, only concrete foundations for heavy FlaK or maybe wooden towers for light FlaK, standing on concrete foundations.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.204.139.123 (talk) 09:12, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Western air defence zone 

message: http://westwall.elvamie.nl/index.php Check it out.  In German, but Google Chrome translates well. Loaded w/ pics and maps.  Not for nothin' . . . johncheverly 18:56, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excellent German Website on the Siegfried Line/Westwall 

message: Since it can either refer to the Siegfried line of WWI or the Westwall of WWII. 108.45.79.25 (talk) 00:31, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just call the Westwall the Westwall and make Siegfried Line a dab page. 

message: Since Westwall is the normal American English term, how can WP:UCN/WP:USEENGLISH be a reason to oppose the proposed move? 108.45.79.25 (talk) 23:09, 14 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: But Westwall is the normal American English term

message: American casualties should not be provided to the exclusion of allied casualties.  This reads like an American story not a wikipedia article.  I'll try and correct where I can but this is not my area of expertise.  WayeMason (talk) 01:42, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Internationalization of this article is required

message: I've taken out all references to this. Possibly does deserve a "see also" or one-line reference of some sort (feel free to make such an addition) - but not the double-billing that it had before my edit. - Snori (talk) 11:18, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: The Hindenburg Line (Siegfriedstellung)

message: The name section explains what the Germans called the line at various times, but Why did the British call it the "Siegfried Line"? This is a far mor pertinent question for an English language encyclopeadia. -- PBS (talk) 20:26, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Mostly due to the legendary dragon-slaying hero in Wagner - all those ramifications. Didn't help Nazi Germany in the end.50.111.33.214 (talk) 18:35, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name section 

message: I just watched a programme about dragons teeth and it was too expensive to remove them? I was just thinking that it would be appropriate for them to be used as memorial plac's that could be engraved in memory of all soldiers and people from both sides that died in the area that the dragons teeth lay? 💐🌹💐 88.105.251.10 (talk) 15:01, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dragons teeth relics from WW2!