Portal talk:Germany

message: The portal has been expanded with the addition of a new selected cuisine section. The article selections listed below were added. If anyone is interested, please feel free to discuss these changes here. North America1000 13:16, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portal expanded 

message: Hi, I would like to call your attention to the following request for comment because it is relevant to Standard German, especially to Austrian (or Swiss) Standard German:
* Help talk:IPA/Standard German#Should we use Austrian (or Swiss) Standard German pronunciation for topics related to Austria (or Switzerland)?
Thanks --mach 🙈🙉🙊 14:32, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: That's rubbish, Switzerland and Austria were never part of Germany historically and both are older than Germany. Germany was a collection of states within the Holy Roman Empire until 1871. To answer the question, we are at liberty to use regional spelling and terms for regional articles so I imagine it's okay to use regional pronunciation too. In any case, there is no standard German way of saying some Swiss and Austrian words e.g. standard German doesn't recognise Swiss "merci" or Austrian "Droggn". If anyone disputes it, add both. Bermicourt (talk) 07:19, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  FYI: Request for comment regarding Austrian (or Swiss) Standard German 

message: Hello everyone,
I'm looking for some style guidance on the use of the birth_place parameter in the :Template:Infobox person for people born in Germany 1933–1945. I did a hasty revert of this edit on Michael Haneke's page – instinctively assuming that a one word addition of "Nazi" in the article of a famous film director is vandalism. I soon saw this was not the intention of , and apologized to him here. Since then I've been looking for a style guide or discussion on this issue, and found little so far. The explanations at the template are pretty vague: "Countries should generally not be linked", as well as "for historical subjects, use the place name most appropriate for the context and our readership." 
In the German WP, we stick to the official name used in every historical period, which for 1942 would be "German Reich", and for 1943–1945 was "Greater German Reich". But looking at articles here, I haven't found a single one yet that uses "German Reich" for Germans born in 1942. Instead, most just use :Germany, either with a link to that article, or without a link. See for example: :Hannelore Hoger, :Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Jochen Rindt, :Margarethe von Trotta, :Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul. This includes articles like the one on Alexandra, who was born in East Prussia, which is not part of Germany anymore. Some use piped links to the article :Nazi Germany, for e.g.: :Hannelore Elsner, :Reinhard Mey, :Werner Herzog. Even less common seems to be the direct link to Nazi Germany – and of those examples, most seem to have been inserted by an IP: Sigfried Held, Reinhard Klimmt, Volker Rühe – so that doesn't raise my confidence in that method.
What is the best practice in your opinion? I feel uncomfortable leaving these few directly-linked "Nazi Germany" in place – unless we would decide to make that the guidance for every article. I would suggest "German Reich" instead – but for some reason, that doesn't seem to favored right now. Greetings from --Sprachraum (talk) 04:24, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best style choice – country name for Germans born between 1933–1942: German Reich, Nazi Germany, Germany? 

message: Germany of flag 136.158.39.74 (talk) 09:13, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The portal shows the flag prominently and links to Flag of Germany.  Portal:Germany/Selected article/32, extracted from Flag of Germany, is sometimes chosen randomly as the selected article.  Would you like to suggest an improvement?  Certes (talk) 13:54, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Germany flag 

message: I Request that the Gau Saxony article be expanded to also contain events from 1918-1933 which would be Events under the Weimar Republic.We could also make an article about Weimar Saxony. Another Request is to make a portal for The German state of Saxony so we can discuss stuff like this in that portal. Zyxrq (talk) 00:47, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Portal:Saxony got trashed in 2019 during the mass deletion campaign, but was rescued and moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Portal:Saxony along with the other state portals that didn't survive the cull. If we are allowed to restore German state portals, we could bring it up to date and then move it back to mainspace when we're happy with it. But worth checking with Wikipedia:WikiProject Portals whether this is now acceptable. Bermicourt (talk) 06:35, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see a problem with recreating this portal. The mass deletion campaign stemmed from an admin who went on a disruptive campaign on deleting portals based on a faulty assumption or made-up criteria (i.e. less than X pageviews per month should be considered for deletion) that ultimately led to dozens of portals being deleted and the admin desysopped by ArbCom. It looks like Portal:Saxony was one of the victim from this carnage that its effect is still being felt 3 years later. As long as the portals (Saxony and others) can be maintained once in a while, I support having these portals recreated. OhanaUnitedTalk page 17:46, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, that is helpful. Of course, the portals need to be brought up to date and to meet the usual portal standards, but at least we can move forward. Bermicourt (talk) 17:57, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Portal:Saxony is now up and running and editors are encouraged to use it to track and update Saxony articles. It would be useful if we could incorporate bots that give automatic readouts on the number of Saxony articles, the newest articles and those with issues. German Wiki uses bots like "User:MerlBot/InAction", but I can't find its equivalent. Bermicourt (talk) 13:08, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saxony from 1918-1945. Also a Request to make a portal for Saxony. 

message: States of the Weimar Republic: Free State of Prussia, Free People's State of Württemberg, Republic of Baden, People's State of Hesse, Free State of Anhalt, Free State of Brunswick, Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont, Free State of Lippe, Free State of Schaumburg-Lippe, Free State of Oldenburg, Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. articles of Weimar States that should be created Weimar Bavaria Weimar Saxony Weimar Thuringia Zyxrq (talk) 01:51, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weimar States 

message: I have some doubts about the German words; I noticed that there are many words with a capital letter, could you tell me how I can understand which ones they are? JackkBrown (talk) 20:48, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think we have a MOS rule about when English text should retain the capital initial when borrowing nouns from German.  In the case of Flammkuchen, Wiktionary claims that the capital F is optional in English. Certes (talk) 21:53, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  so in the sentence "The Alsatian flammekuecheHelga Rosemann, Flammkuchen: Ein Streifzug durch das Land der Flammkuchen mit vielen Rezepten und Anregungen (Offenbach: Höma-Verlag, 2009). (standard German: Flammkuchen; French: tarte flambée)", should "Flammkuchen" be spelled with a lowercase initial? I know it's not important, but that's all I need and then I have finished my work on an important page. JackkBrown (talk) 21:57, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's optional, so I would be inclined to leave the text as it is (effectively seeking a second opinion from whoever created it and going with that). Certes (talk) 22:00, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  perfect, thank you. JackkBrown (talk) 22:02, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Flammkuchen" 

message: Hello all, recently there were major developments in the history of the museum, I updated the article accordingly. It would be very nice if somebody could proofread my translation (which was supported by DeepL). Thanks! elya (talk) 17:54, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Kölnisches Stadtmuseum]]