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Featured articleAugust Meyszner is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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Did You KnowOn this day... Article milestones
DateProcessResult
July 15, 2015Good article nomineeListed
September 14, 2015WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
March 10, 2017Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 30, 2015.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei August Meyszner (pictured) was hanged in 1947 for overseeing the killing of as many as 8,000 Jewish women and children using a gas van?
On this day... A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on January 24, 2019.
Current status: Featured article


Persondata

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I looked at the edit mode and there doesn't seem to be the "Persondata" towards the end of the edit mode. Have I missed it? Adamdaley (talk) 04:17, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

G'day Adam, when I saw your comment I went "doh!" but then checked to see what had happened with the RfC about persondata, and discovered we're not adding it anymore. See WP:PDT. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 06:33, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Poorly written

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This is the worst featured article I've ever seen. It described the years of the war in great length, even going into very small and hardly relevant details for 1942, 1943 and 1944 - only to then summarize the years 1945, 1946 and 1947 in a few short sentences. I would expect much more of a featured article. The final years of his life would need to be described in much greater detail. Jeppiz (talk) 21:16, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry you think that, and thanks for your feedback, but we can only put in the article what is in the reliable secondary sources. I imagine he languished in detention from 1945 to until his death in early 1947, not much to say about that. Regards, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 06:14, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Peacemaker67, I completely agree with you, and further want to congratulate you on your work of this well done, thorough article. Interesting detail on the side, I grew up near Meyszner's hometown, born in 1967, and was a military man all my life but only heard about this guy through wikipedia. Our country went so far in the other direction that while growing up we couldn't even learn the historical facts about people like this, or that they even existed. Best wishes, --Nanorsuaq (talk) 12:46, 30 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]