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Article promoted by MisterBee1966 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 07:06, 14 September 2015 (UTC) « Return to A-Class review list[reply]

August Meyszner[edit]

Nominator(s): Peacemaker67 (crack... thump)

August Meyszner (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

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Meyszner was the Higher SS and Police Leader in the German-occupied territory of Serbia from 1942 to 1944, and oversaw the gassing of around 8,000 Jewsish women and children, as well as thousands killed in reprisal for attacks on German and collaborationist troops. Recently passed a GAN review. Regards, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 01:18, 15 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support: I did some light tweaking (please check you are happy with my changes). I have the following observations/suggestions: AustralianRupert (talk) 05:01, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • in the References, some instances of New York say "New York, New York" while others simply say "New York" - I'd probably suggest the secondary approach is best here;
    • forced labour is probably overlinked;
    • the navigation box for war criminals at the bottom of the article would probably be best displayed in a collapsed state
    • "File:Heimwehr PfrimerPutsch.jpg": I'm not certain about the licence used here. I don't think the uploader is the copyright holder, but I could be wrong. It might be worth checking this prior to FAC. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 05:01, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • Thanks Rupert. Have made all loc fields consistent (city and state or country), rm overlink, collapsed navbox, and uploaded a new version of the image onto Wikipedia rather than Commons (and requested deletion of Commons version, as it is PD-Austria but not US URAA). Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 07:20, 24 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • CommentsSupport
    • "and submitted his résumé to the Allgemeine SS..." should "Allgemeine SS" be in italics here? (or do you only do that at first instance?... I can't remember the requirement pls check this).
    • " prior to his seizure of power in 1933..." Should this be "Hitler's seizure of power" or something along those lines (rather than "his seizure")?
  • Hitler didn't seize anything, he was manoeuvred into office by Papen and the camarilla around Hindenburg. Keith-264 (talk) 10:11, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Otherwise this is a thorough, well-written article completed with obvious attention to detail and it was difficult to find much to fault it. Anotherclown (talk) 12:18, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. This one's long enough that I think it's likely possible FAC reviewers would ask for some significant pruning. I'll be happy to copyedit the shorter version. - Dank (push to talk) 01:41, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Although ... is this headed to FAC? And, changed "likely" to "possible" ... it would depend on who you get for reviewers. - Dank (push to talk) 12:23, 30 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Well Dan, let me put it like this. I've lost a bit of interest in FAC since 4th Army (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) was failed for being too "listy". There is way too much gatekeeping going on there IMHO, and I don't rate it as highly as I used to. I have a ship article there now, but I'd rather have a comprehensive biographical article passed at Milhist A-Class and leave it there than cut down a comprehensive article so I could get it past FAC. Nothing against you at all, you've always been a major positive at FAC, but there is still too much personality and personal preference involved for my taste. My view on length is roughly the same as WP:SIZERULE, and I cannot for the life of me accept that an article with a readable prose size of 34K even gets close to stretching that guideline. Do we want comprehensive FAs or not? Bio articles are often larger than average. Nuff said. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 10:44, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
No offense taken. Okay, I've just finished a big pile of copyediting, I'll come back to A-class as soon as I can. - Dank (push to talk) 11:11, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I see Rupert just listed this at WT:MIL two days ago ... hopefully that will produce another review, and I'll copyedit right after that. - Dank (push to talk) 16:15, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Dan! Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 06:59, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comments. As always, feel free to revert my copyediting. - Dank (push to talk)

  • "Feldmarschallleutnant": I was taught that German has always reduced a triple consonant to a double consonant (or a workaround is found, such as a hyphen), so I don't think that spelling works. See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Feldmarschall-Leutnante, which gives a prior Austrian spelling of Feldmarschalleutnant (2 els).
  • Now that I've been through the whole thing, I believe my first assessment was wrong, you won't have any problems with length at FAC.
  • Support on prose per standard disclaimer. These are my edits. - Dank (push to talk) 03:11, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Nikkimaria: would you mind having a look at the licensing of the images used in this article? Thanks, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 03:18, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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  • File:August_Meyszner.jpg: according to the current licensing tag, copyright would have expired in Germany in 2008, so this wouldn't qualify for PD-1996 - is there another reason this would be PD in the US?
  • I'm glad we have you available to check this stuff. I looked at this for some time, and couldn't see the issue, but you are right of course. Delete from Commons and upload to WP with a bio article infobox NFR? Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 09:59, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Assuming there is no other PD rationale, yes. Nikkimaria (talk) 11:47, 11 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • OK, but I think there is a case for PD-GermanGov, because, despite the wording of the template, section 5 (2) of the German Copyright Act states that "official works" include (my translation) "other official works, which have been published in the official interest for general knowledge" as long as the source is credited. The work from which this photograph is derived is an official listing of the members of the fourth Reichstag, so I believe it meets that criteria, and the image description already credits the original publication. Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 00:28, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • File:Der_Panther_Pfrimer_Putsch.jpg: same issue, but would this qualify for the wartime copyrights exception?
  • I think this might be an example of where a natural person was not the copyright holder, and under Austrian law only ancillary rights (Leistungsschutzrechte, vested in the later outlawed Austrian-Styrian Heimwehr) existed. If this was the case, then under Austrian law the work was only protected for 50 years from the publication of the work. Given a publication date of 1931, this would have been PD in 1981 and therefore PD-1996. I'm using the guidance provided here. What do you think? Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 00:05, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sounds good - let's swap out the current tag for that pair. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:03, 12 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • File:Emanuel_Schäfer.jpg: I would read the "acts" exception to copyright as referring to textual (legal) acts - can you verify this? If that's correct, we'll need a different tag
  • I think this is actually mis-described. It is highly likely this was taken by a German photographer, as it was taken in Belgrade. In which case, the publication requirement of PD-GermanGov is the obstacle, I've deleted it from the article. Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 00:48, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • File:Draza_Mihailovic,1943.jpg: the current tag requires that the image be published, not just created, before 1973 - did that happen? Nikkimaria (talk) 12:50, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Good so far, but you'll need to add a US tag too. Nikkimaria (talk) 11:45, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Done. The fifty year rule in Australia brings it into 1992 and therefore PD before URAA. I've searched US newspapers I have access to, and can't find an earlier publication or one within 30 days. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 21:02, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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