Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany

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Welcome to WikiProject Germany, a WikiProject that aims to collaboratively improve Wikipedia's articles related to Germany. If you want to participate, just add your name to the members subpage.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Project divisions 2.1 Related groups 3 Featured content 3.1 Did you know? (DYK) 3.2 Featured articles 3.2.1 Awards, decorations and vexillology 3.2.2 Biology 3.2.3 Education 3.2.4 Geography 3.2.5 Health and medicine 3.2.6 History 3.2.7 Landmarks 3.2.8 Notable Germans 3.3 Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC) 3.4 Good articles (GA) 3.5 Featured images 3.6 Featured topics 3.7 Featured portals 4 Formerly recognized content 5 Article alerts 6 Related Portals 7 Project Barnstar 8 Resources 8.1 Infoboxes 8.2 Stubs 8.3 Templates 8.4 Translation and style guides 8.5 Websites 9 Credit where credit is due

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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
• Transportation (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Germany.
• 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.
• Mainz task force (talk) – for articles related to Mainz

[edit] Related groups

• German cinema task force of WikiProject Films
• German military history task force of the Military history WikiProject
• WikiProject Frankfurt
• WikiProject German districts (inactive)
• WikiProject Germanic Mysticism (new)
• WikiProject Prussia (restarting)
• WikiProject Prussian Standesamter (inactive)
• German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board - also for Austrian, Swiss and other German language issues
• Holy Roman Empire task force of the WikiProject Former countries
• WikiProject Bavaria
• WikiProject Munich - This WikiProject is to help create a lot of resources for Munich-related topics.

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Did you know? (DYK)

Articles on Germany-related subjects featured on the Main Page's Did you know? section (probably incomplete since April 2007)

"Did you know"s can be also used at Portal:Germany/Did you know. The archive of that page can be seen at Portal:Germany/Did you know/Archive.

[edit] Featured articles

Articles on Germany-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. These should also be listed at Portal:Germany/Selected articles and pictures for their possible use as Selected articles on the Germany portal.

[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

See article alerts below.

[edit] Good articles (GA)

The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:

[edit] Featured images

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Gallery.

[edit] Featured topics

[edit] Featured portals

• Portal:Germany

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Article alerts

Proposed deletion

• 2 Jul 2009 – PROD tag removed from Peter Deilmann Cruises (talk).
• 30 Jun 2009 – PROD tag removed from Fernhag (talk).
• 22 Jun 2009 – Doctor Wutzdog (talk) has been deleted.

Featured article candidates

• 3 Jul 2009 – Unification of Germany (talk) is nominated by Auntieruth55.
• 22 Jun 2009 – Magdalena Neuner (talk) is nominated by EnemyOfTheState.
• 3 Jun 2009 – Albert Kesselring (talk) is nominated by Hawkeye7.

Good article nominations

• 30 Jun 2009 – SMS Blücher (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Parsecboy.
• 22 Jun 2009 – O class battlecruiser (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 29 May 2009 – Kurt Welter (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by MisterBee1966 (on hold); see discussion.
• 26 May 2009 – Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld (talk) is nominated as GA candidate (on hold); see discussion.

Good article reassessment

• 18 Jun 2009 – High German consonant shift (talk) is nominated for an individual reassessment by G Purevdorj; see discussion.
• 11 Jun 2009 – Messerschmitt Bf 109 (talk) is nominated for an individual reassessment; see discussion.

Peer review

• 26 Jun 2009 – Peer review opened for Hermann Detzner (talk) by Auntieruth55.
• 23 Jun 2009 – Peer review for Niedermayer-Hentig Expedition (talk) closed.
• 23 Jun 2009 – Peer review for Magdalena Neuner (talk) closed.
• 17 Jun 2009 – Peer review opened for Albert Einstein (talk) by Casliber.

Requested moves

• 2 Jul 2009 – Move requested for Neuengamme (talk) by Diremarc; see discussion.

Did you know

• 3 Jul 2009 – A fact from Mercedes-Benz W25 (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 2 Jul 2009 – A fact from Lublin Ghetto (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 1 Jul 2009 – A fact from Postage stamps and postal history of the German colonies (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 29 Jun 2009 – A fact from Andachtsbilder (talk) appeared on the main page.

Copyright problems

• 29 Jun 2009 – Great Wine Capitals Global Network (talk) has been deleted.

Bounty board

• 22 Mar 2009 – Bounty for bringing World War I (talk) to FA status: US$250 donation by Roger Davies (expires on 31 December 2009).

Other news

• 29 June 2009 – A compilation of Academic Journal has been generated from the |journal= parameter found in citation templates, identifying the 500 most cited journals, and 500 most cited journals without articles.
• 18 June 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
• 15 June 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Apr 2009 – WikiProjects can sign up for Announcements & Milestones, listing the milestones of a particular projects (such as 10th FA, etc...). The list is managed by LivingBot.

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[edit] Related Portals

• Portal:Germany
• Portal:Ancient Germanic culture

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.

[edit] Project Barnstar

The existing barnstar associated with this project is the Germany Barnstar of National Merit. It comes in two variations, both of which are displayed in this section. Both of these versions are available to be given out to members whose work regarding the project is found by other members to be particularly deserving of recognition. However, please award a user only one or the other barnstar at a time. The second variation of the barnstar can always be given out later, when and if that same user's contributions are found to deserve another barnstar.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] 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

[edit] Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{WikiProject Germany}}	GermanyWikipedia:WikiProject GermanyTemplate:WikiProject GermanyGermany articles WikiProject Germany (Rated NA-Class) Germany portal v • d • e This page is within the scope of WikiProject Germany, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Germany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  NA  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale.	Template placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages
{{User WikiProject Germany}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Germany.	Userbox for WikiProject members, add to the user page
{{Infobox German Location}}	WikiProject Germany Administration Country Germany State Enter Bundesland District {{{Kreis or district}}} Population {{{Einwohner or  population}}} 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 for German for transcription used.
{{de}}	This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.	Template to use when an article is a translation of an article on the German Wikipedia
{{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: University Church of Marburg, Prussian semaphore system (de), Rennsteig (de), Georg Britting (de), Hochwanner (de), Copyedit: Artemis Gounaki, Celler Hasenjagd, Frankfurt Parliament, Nuclear power in Germany Wikify: Elmar Lampson, Fort Breendonk, Heinz Ansbacher, Krampfer Palace, Holger Ernst, Hubi Meisel, Isak Roux Unreferenced: Benjamin Trinks, Friedrich Kaulbach, Limburg Cathedral, High German languages, 1954 FIFA World Cup Final, Amelie Beese, Geschwister Scholl Emil Krebs, Republic of Alsace-Lorraine, West Frisian (language) Cleanup: Die Judenbuche, Steeler (German band). Dörte von Westernhagen, Expand: Wilhelmplatz, Wilhelm Kaulbach, Zoologische Museum in Kiel, Bundesautobahn 93, Isabell Werth, Geschwister Scholl, Argengau, Pergamon Altar (de) Disambiguation: German, Zeiss Stubs: Tegernsee (lake), Democratic Awakening, Frankfurt Cathedral, Albersdorf, Thuringia, Parlamentarischer Rat, Teck NPOV: Anti-German sentiment, German Visa Affair 2005, Germanisation, Germany – United States relations, 1939 German expedition to Tibet Portal maintenance: Update News, Did you know, announcements, and suggest Selected article and picture Help assess the quality of 4 unassessed articles Take/Add requested photographs 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"

[edit] Translation and style guides

• Naming Conventions

[edit] Websites

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

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

[edit] Credit where credit is due

And vielen Dank to Wikipedia:WikiProject Michigan, who provided the basis for this page.