Talk:Allgemeine SS

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==Wilk Notice==

I revertrf a wilkify notice because I could find nothing wrong with this article. Any specific problems? Thanks -Husnock 5 Nov 04

The article seems to be a word for word translation from the german language. Sometimes, the sentences are mixed up or don't make any sense at all. It is very hard to copyedit the article from the existing material because of the many quotations who are just word for word translations and pretty hard to understand - even for a native speaker of German. I tried very hard to get a little bit of the article in the right order but its pretty hard and I think my english is not as good as it should to get the sentences really smooth. --DocBrown 00:01, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

DocBrown, I have been meaning to copyedit this article for some time for the same reasons that you mention. As a professional German-English translator with a pretty good background in history I can certainly do that, although it would really take quite a lot of work. The effort might seem more worthwhile if the article had more references - maybe Postmann Michael could add some? Jbhood 10:03, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

To clarify, I think there should be some in-text references, especially because the SS is inherently a controversial topic. Jbhood 10:11, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

You're absolutly right. There are some references, but all of them are german books. Maybe it is possible to find some online references or english language books. The main source for the "Members" Section seems to be "Der Orden unterm Totenkopf", H. Hoehne. --DocBrown 20:10, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

An unregistred User, the IP 81.182.204.124 , has helped to copyedit the article into the english language. Thank you, unknown user! --DocBrown 14:05, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Though English references are preferred, in this case the German sources may well contain better material. All the same, I think we need more in-line references. Jbhood 17:15, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] acronyms need expanding

All acronyms used in the article should feature the expanded form in their first appearance with the acronym in brackets follwing afterwards. All further appearances are fine as acronyms. This applies even to the obvious ones such as SS. Can someone who knows the content please do this. JenLouise 05:53, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] copy-edit

changed "that it the SS than such since 1939 no more did not exist" to "that the SS since 1939 did not exist anymore" - please check that is what it meant.

There are still heaps of places that need attention from more than just a copy-editor. I have therefore changed the tag. JenLouise 06:12, 21 September 2006 (UTC)