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WikiProject Germany

Wilkommen to WikiProject Germany! We are a group of editors dedicated to the expansion and refinement of Wikipedia’s coverage of the German republic, people, monuments and culture. If you wish to join us, simply sign your name on our roster.

Should you have any questions about our project, just drop us a line on our discussion page or by contacting our project coordinators directly. If you’re lucky, you might even find some brothers in editing in the Wikipedia IRC chat (#wikipedia-en). If you speak German, you may want to also try the German Wikipedia chatroom (#wikipedia-de).

Scope

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the nation of Germany, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Germany in a fair and accurate manner.

As of 25 April 2018, there are 7005108120000000000♠108,120 articles and other project resources within the scope of WikiProject Germany. For a more detailed overview see Germany article statistics.

A monthly top 1000 list of Germany-related popular articles is available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Popular pages.

Goals

1. Kill all backlogs.
2. Get this project organized.
3. To serve as a central point of discussion for collaboration related to Germany. Foster increased cooperation between editors in order to meet the other goals.
4. To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of Germany in the English language.
5. Build all Top Importance Germany Articles to Good Article status at a minimum. Current progress: 11 out of 136 meet this criteria.

Project divisions

• Reference and navigation - the "keys to the country" (and of key importance)
• Cities (talk) – Cities, towns, villages and districts
• Physical geography (talk) – Regions, parks, climate, physical features
• Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
• People (talk) – includes residents of the current nation of Germany, all its predecessors, and all those people who have resided in any of Germany's predecessor states who have shaped Germany
• Government (talk) – Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Germany and its predecessors
• History (talk) – history of Germany and its predecessors
• Photo requests (talk) – adding and requesting images of Germany.

Related groups

• WikiProject Intertranswiki/German
• German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board - also for Austrian, Swiss and other German language issues
• German football task force
• WikiProject Bavaria
• WikiProject Frankfurt
• WikiProject Friesland
• Holy Roman Empire task force of the WikiProject Former countries
• WikiProject Munich

• WikiProject German districts (inactive)
• WikiProject Germanic Mysticism (defunct)
• WikiProject Hanseatic League (defunct)
• WikiProject Prussia (inactive)
• WikiProject Prussian Standesamter (inactive)
• WikiProject Silesia (inactive)

Task forces

• Hamburg task force (talk) – for any article related to Hamburg
• Mainz task force (talk) – for articles related to Mainz
• Transportation (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Germany.
• German cinema task force of WikiProject Films
• German military history task force of the Military history WikiProject
• GDR task force – for articles relating to the history and culture of the German Democratic Republic
• German football task force for articles related to association football in Germany within Wikipedia:WikiProject Football

Article alerts

Notice: An RFC on the future of Wikipedia portals is ongoing.

Today's featured articles

• 26 Apr 2018 – Yugoslav destroyer Dubrovnik (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

Articles for deletion

• 24 Apr 2018 – Anna Puck (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by RetiredDuke (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 14 Apr 2018 – Wolfgang Römer (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by K.e.coffman (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
• 09 Apr 2018 – Jugend Rettet (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Power~enwiki (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
• 15 Apr 2018 – Goethe-Institut, Ghana (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by MB (t · c) was closed as delete by Killiondude (t · c) on 23 Apr 2018; see discussion (5 participants)
• 14 Apr 2018 – 2018 Hamburg stabbing attack (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Natureium (t · c) was closed as keep by Killiondude (t · c) on 21 Apr 2018; see discussion (12 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 18 Apr 2018 – Elke Gerns (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Gbawden (t · c): Not seeing anything to indicate notability. At present all she is famous for is being on the Gustloff and endorsed by Staszek Lem (t · c) on 19 Apr 2018

Categories for discussion

• 19 Apr 2018 – Category:Monasteries in Germany by order (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Apr 2018 – Category:German LGBT-related television shows (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Paul 012 (t · c); see discussion
• 08 Apr 2018 – Category:German television shows (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Paul 012 (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Feb 2018 – Category:German basketball coaches (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Namiba (t · c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 24 Apr 2018 – Katrin Doerre (talk · edit · hist) →Katrin Dörre-Heinig was RfDed by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion

Featured article candidates

• 21 Apr 2018 – HIAG (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by K.e.coffman (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Apr 2018 – Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56 (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Mar 2018 – First Battle of Dernancourt (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Peacemaker67 (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Mar 2018 – SMS Braunschweig (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Parsecboy (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Jan 2018 – Rhine Campaign of 1796 (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Auntieruth55 (t · c); see discussion

Featured list candidates

• 18 Mar 2018 – List of Chancellors of Germany (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by BegbertBiggs (t · c); see discussion

A-Class review

• 24 Feb 2014 – Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review by MisterBee1966 (t · c); see discussion
• undated – Razing of Friesoythe (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review
• undated – L 20e α-class battleship (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review

Good article nominees

• 22 Apr 2018 – 2016 Berlin ePrix (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by MWright96 (t · c); start discussion
• 04 Apr 2018 – Moritz Wagner (basketball) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TonyTheTiger (t · c); start discussion
• 30 Mar 2018 – Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Money emoji (t · c); start discussion
• 24 Mar 2018 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Conservatrix (t · c); start discussion
• 19 Mar 2018 – Taken by a Stranger (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Cartoon network freak (t · c); start discussion
• 25 Jan 2018 – Freundliche Vision (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 11 Jan 2018 – Danish language (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Maunus (t · c); start discussion
• 28 Dec 2017 – Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 80 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 26 Nov 2017 – O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 60 (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Gerda Arendt (t · c); start discussion
• 11 Sep 2017 – Schloss Bruchsal (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Prioryman (t · c); see discussion

(3 more...)

Good article reassessments

• 22 Sep 2017 – Rommel myth (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by LargelyRecyclable (t · c)

Requests for comments

• 11 Apr 2018 – Horst-Wessel-Lied (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Beyond My Ken (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Apr 2018 – Holocaust denial (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Beyond My Ken (t · c); see discussion

Peer reviews

• 24 Apr 2018 – Iveta Mukuchyan (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Harut111 (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Apr 2018 – Epic theatre (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Emmaosmundson (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 10 Apr 2018 – Petra Kandarr (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved by Roman Spinner (t · c); see discussion
• 15 Apr 2018 – Ralph Giordano (writer) (talk · edit · hist) move request by Unreal7 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Related Portals

• Portal:Germany

For more Germany-related portals (states, history, regions, etc.) see Category:Germany portal and "Portal" lists in Germany article statistics in the sidebar.

Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.

Barnstars

German Barnstar of National Merit, as rendered by Antou

Our project, like the other national WikiProjects, possesses a barnstar that may be awarded to outstanding contributors to the project or members particularly deserving of recognition for some effort made for the cause of the project.

Resources

Infoboxes

Stubs

For information on which stubs to use on Germany-related articles, see the list of stubs at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Stub templates

• Category:Germany stubs

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{WikiProject Germany}}		Template placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages
{{User WikiProject Germany}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Germany.	Userboxes for WikiProject members, add either to the your userpage
{{User WP Germany}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Germany.
{{Infobox German location}}	WikiProject Germany Country Germany Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)	Template allowing town info to be copied directly from de.wiki.
{{IPA-de}}	German pronunciation: [...]	Template for indicating German pronunciation. See Help:IPA/German for transcription used.
{{translated|de}}		Template to use when an article is a translation of an article on the German Wikipedia - to be placed on talk pages
{{subst:WelcomeGER}}~~~~	== Welcome to WikiProject Germany == Welcome, WikiProject Germany, to the WikiProject Germany! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on Germany-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template {{WikiProject Germany}}. A few features that you might find helpful: The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you. Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project's main talk page; you may find it useful to watchlist it. We've developed a number of guidelines for names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful. Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Petra Krause (de), Dirk Müller (de), Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck-Seeger (de), German Archaeological Institute at Rome (de), Hans Sauer (de), Walter Thiele (de) - List of place names of German origin in the United States Copyedit: Bruno Taut, Christian Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode, Curt Cress, Detlef Schuppan, Erhard Milch, Goetheplatz (Munich U-Bahn), Greek frigate Hydra (F-452), History of Saxony-Anhalt, Jack Nasher, Jeppe Hein, Julius Lothar Meyer, Julius Mayr, Karl May, Nanny Lambrecht Unreferenced: add sources to Fort Breendonk, Unreferenced BLPs, Argengau, Bundesautobahn 93, Benjamin Trinks, High German languages, 1954 FIFA World Cup Final Cleanup: Volkswagen Golf Mk6 Expand: Wilhelmplatz, Literature of East Germany, DEFA Translate: Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia Disambiguation: German Stubs: Albersdorf, Thuringia, Heilbronn League, Teck, Gabriele Zimmer, Ingo Friedrich NPOV: Anti-German sentiment, German Visa Affair 2005, 1939 German expedition to Tibet Portal maintenance: Update News, Did you know, announcements, and suggest Selected article and picture Orphans: Orphaned articles in Germany Photo: Take/Add requested photographs Help assess the quality of 822 unassessed articles If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project!	Welcome message for new project members
{{User German Road Guru}}	This user is a German Road Guru who can also claim themselves as a "German Road Warrior" WikiProject Germany Transportation Division Frei Fahren ist Frei Schreiben .	This Template can be for anyone who has driven on German roads and wants to claim themselves as "German Road Warriors"

Conventions

• Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Conventions
• For German rail transport conventions, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Rail transport in Germany task force/Conventions.

Websites

• CIA World Factbook on Germany
• Germany Tourism
• Information from the German Embassy in Washington, D.C.
• Germany GenWeb Project - for details on some lesser historical figures
• "Deutschland-Portal"

For articles to be translated, see Category:Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia

Notes

Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.