User talk:Matthead/Archive2008

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Archive This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.

Contents

AfD nomination of East German jokes

An editor has nominated East German jokes, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/East German jokes and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 14:29, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


No content in Category:Austrian historical regions

Hello, this is a message from an automated bot. A tag has been placed on Category:Austrian historical regions, by another Wikipedia user, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. The tag claims that it should be speedily deleted because Category:Austrian historical regions has been empty for at least four days, and its only content has been links to parent categories. (CSD C1).

To contest the tagging and request that administrators wait before possibly deleting Category:Austrian historical regions, please affix the template {{hangon}} to the page, and put a note on its talk page. If the article has already been deleted, see the advice and instructions at WP:WMD. Feel free to contact the bot operator if you have any questions about this or any problems with this bot, bearing in mind that this bot is only informing you of the nomination for speedy deletion; it does not perform any nominations or deletions itself. To see the user who deleted the page, click here CSDWarnBot (talk) 13:30, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Populated since with a couple of articles. There are plenty which are qualified, considering the history of Austria. -- Matthead  DisOuß   14:15, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: quick on the draw

It's boring maintenance work, and I'm the only admin left doing that task. Now, two more things: my block log is from blowing off steam on IRC with several friendly admins; and you are also under the Digwuren restriction, which means any administrator can block you for any edits judged by them to be incivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith. Please try to work with the presumption that all of us are here to help the project, not piss off editors by going on deletion rampages. east.718 at 13:12, January 10, 2008

"any editor working on topics related to Eastern Europe". Eastern Europe is considered beginning East of Poland, while Karl III Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Durlach and Talk:Karl_Wilhelm_of_Baden-Durlach are topics pretty much in my back yard. When I created the redirect, you assessed it, surely while assuming good faith and that I am here to help the project, and then deleted it. Is that correct, or incivil, personal attack, or assumption of bad faith from my side? Anyway, thanks for restoring it. With just a little bit more patience, you could have saved us this issue. So, as you did blow off steam on IRC among fellow admins, where am I permitted to blow off steam, for example after witnessing this? German Nobel laureates are not exactly topics related to Eastern Europe, yet an editor not under the Digwuren restriction, never having edited the article before, shows up shortly after I did so, coincidentally. See also this, showing how Wikipedia spreads a claim added by another editor. The article has not been edited since, despite obviously having double entries now. Maybe you want to take a break from boring maintenance work to fixed this? Wikipedia:Verifiability is also a policy that needs to be respected, as I believe. -- Matthead  DisOuß   14:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Heinrich Hertz

Please consider re-visiting Talk:Heinrich Hertz#jewish ancestry. I'd be interested in your feedback about the suggested edit strategy I've proposed. --Ooperhoofd (talk) 15:41, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Löschig vo de Kategorie User als

Hallo Matthead, das chönnti dich interessiärä: User_talk:Black_Falcon#Category:User_als-N Gruäss DidiWeidmann (talk) 19:39, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Wehrmacht Heer

I have somewhat expanded your article, but much more editing is required--mrg3105mrg3105 05:36, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Kirlston - your Archive and Civility

Hi...

I believe a section of your archives (heading: January 2008) is located in the wrong archive "file" - it is placed in the 2007 archive "file".

I am interested in learning more about the reasons which you were blocked for 24 hours and the context. My interest goes back some time, you might remember that I responded to a comment of yours on the Pisudski FAC. Thank you for reading this message, please reply in my user talk page.

Sincerely,
--Kiyarrllston 18:48, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh, I thought I had changed the target to Archive2008, but User talk:Matthead/Archive2007 is used anyway. Hmm, bug, or wrong configuration by me, as also the target in the comment needs to be changed? I've set it up last year [1], maybe I got something wrong. I've replaced the template with the one given at User:Werdnabot/Archiver/Howto. It is rendered to almost the same, yet both targets are identical now. So I guess its the second one that counts. I'll leave the Archive2007 as is, don't want to start the 2008 archive with messages like these [2] [3] [4]. See your talk for more. -- Matthead  DisOuß   20:05, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
As the archive bots User:Werdnabot and User:Shadowbot3 are offline (Shadow1 has left Wikipedia), I'm trying MiszaBot now. -- Matthead  Discuß   18:51, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Helmut Dähne

Updated DYK query On 24 January 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Helmut Dähne, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 18:22, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Doctor Luz Long

Hi Matthead, I noticed that you made a substantial edit to Luz Long, among them, that he is a Doctor. Do you know the circumstances under which he became a doctor, and where I could find a reference for this? It would be an interesting fact to add to this article. Thanks, Deathphoenix ʕ 20:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I've expanded the article with some links. Apparently, there are only short snippets of his bio available, and he seems to have studied law in Leipzig and promoted to doctor, very likely Dr. jur.. -- Matthead  Discuß   22:45, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the latest edits including the references! --Deathphoenix ʕ 14:48, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Casimir and Frederic

Please look at Talk:Frederick_II_of_Prussia#Survey and consider revising your vote at Talk:Casimir_I_of_Poland#Survey_2 accordingly. I certainly agree with you that we should have no double standards, and I'd gladly support similar renamings of other famous German monarchs.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 23:24, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I find it rather odd that someone seemingly filed several move requests Wikipedia:Requested_moves#26_January_2008 to support a desired move away from Casimir I of Poland. -- Matthead  Discuß   04:32, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Consistency, I think, is the answer. Space Cadet (talk) 12:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Consistency, as in keeping all articles as is, seems to have been out of the question. -- Matthead  Discuß   12:42, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Panta rhei. Space Cadet (talk) 12:49, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Updated DYK query On 2 February 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Herzogin Cecilie, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Archtransit (talk) 20:35, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

I know it's water long under the bridge, but ...

When you moved Hans Müller to Hans Müller (chess player) and redirected that page to a disambig last July, you really should have fixed up the existing links to Hans Müller. Leaving them pointing to a redirected disambiguation rather than the correct page was a bit anti-social. Quale (talk) 18:06, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Jagdschloss Glienicke

An editor has nominated Jagdschloss Glienicke, an article on which you have worked or that you created, for deletion. We appreciate your contributions, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in his/her nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Your opinions on whether the article meets inclusion criteria and what should be done with the article are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jagdschloss Glienicke and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also edit the article during the discussion to improve it but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you. BJBot (talk) 20:00, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Glienicke

Hi, Matthead. I just did a major overhaul of Glienicke to make it better conform to the Disambiguation Manual of Style (MOS:DAB) as it was tagged as a disambiguation page and moved it to Glienicke (disambiguation) clearing out a space for you to turn the Glienicke page into an encyclopedic article. I would encourage you to take a look at the links pointing at Glienicke and see where they should point as you have far more knowledge in this area than I. If you have another vision for the purpose of the page, then feel free to revert my edits, but you should probably remove the {{disambig}} tag to keep another editor working in disambiguation from coming along and doing the same thing or requesting clean-up (which is how I came across the page). Best wishes. Gwguffey (talk) 04:53, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Logo avanti.gif

Thank you for uploading Image:Logo avanti.gif. However, there is a concern that the rationale provided for using this image under "fair use" may not meet the criteria required by Wikipedia:Non-free content. This can be corrected by going to the image description page and add or clarify the reason why the image qualifies for fair use. Adding and completing one of the templates available from Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy. Please be aware that a fair use rationale is not the same as an image copyright tag; descriptions for images used under the fair use policy require both a copyright tag and a fair use rationale.

If it is determined that the image does not qualify under fair use, it might be deleted by adminstrator within a few days in accordance with our criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions, please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot (talk) 13:23, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Re:

Ok, let's take a cup of friendly coffee and discuss. What do you dislike on the changes by Guy Peters? ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 09:30, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

German names

Hello Matthead, well our conversation didn't grow up well before. So please tell me and explain why are you putting German names in the articles about Czech history? You argument that they were official until 1945, but you always forget to mention that there were two official names and you completely forget the history before the Germanisation of Czech lands after the battle of White Mountain in 1620. And you forget to tell that those places were established with Czech names mostly in the 10th, 11th century, so your arguments are not correct. I expect your answer at my talk page. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 11:53, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

The account Tulkolahten is retired. -- Matthead  Discuß   21:36, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Naming debate at Sněžka-Śnieżka

As a participant in the last, unsuccessful bid to change the name of this article, you should be advised of a new debate to move the article about Sněžka-Śnieżka. Your views on the current proposal would be especially welcome. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 05:32, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I had made my views clear earlier, and provided Google Books counts for post-1990 English use of Schneekoppe outnumbering the Slavic names. -- Matthead  Discuß   20:34, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Mercedes CLR

Do you have any information on the collector that purchased the Mercedes-Benz CLR? It looks like you were the one that added that information and I was curious as to who purchased it. Thanks. --350z33 (talk) 20:47, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

In a 2001 event in Hockenheim, the CLR (and a 2000 DTM Merc) was entered under the name "Andreas Knapp-Voith", but was driven by veteran Harald Grohs. The CLR was since seen in a showroom (in the background, covered).-- Matthead  Discuß   21:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

GWS-Vorlage sind jetzt fertig

Hoi, nach dem "bösartigä" Raub vo oisärä Abchürzig "als" dur d' ISO han i jetzt wiä scho vor eewigkäitä värsprochä alli gws-Vorlage fertig gmacht und au diä zuäghörigä kategoriä erstellt. Die altä als-Vorlage hani la staa (cha dänn jedä sälbär entschäidä obär fortan di noiä boustäi brucht), han abär alli link uf di noiä gws-kategorie umgändärät, da ois ja d'als-kategoriä immär widär glöscht werdät, wenn si öppört noi erstellt ... - Damit dörfti dänn bald alli Alemannisch-Usär i dä änglischä Wiki widär chönä gfundä werde. DidiWeidmann (talk) 23:15, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

So an Bachel hat heit dia Kategorie fir'd Muetersproch glöscht. Sack Zement, was isch bloß los, passt denne garnex ?-- Matthead  Discuß   21:31, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

User boxes

Just a friendly note that the language code for the Alemannisch userboxes has been changed from "als" to "gsw", so you might want to remove the "User als" categories from your user page. (The {{babel}} template will put your page into the appropriate categories automatically, anyway.) --Russ (talk) 14:09, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

... and the category for native speakers was speed-deleted even though nearly 100 links to it:
  • 15:05, 18 April 2008 VegaDark (Talk | contribs) deleted "Category:User gsw-M" ‎ (WP:CSD#C2 - Category has been speedy renamed)

-- Matthead  Discuß   21:13, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Re: Category:User gsw-M

See Wikipedia:UCFD#Category:User gsw-M. Native language categories should be -N, not -M. VegaDark (talk) 22:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Dein Freund Weltraumkadett

hat kurz nach seiner Sperrverbüßung den allaselben Quark mit Kruläwjetch und Old and new Prussia, für den er gespertt wurde, wieder reingesetzt. Ich kenn mich mit den Regeln nich so aus, ob man bei solcher Unbelehrbarkeit wieder was machen kann, fängt die 3rr wieder bei 0 an? Leider hab ich zu wenig Zeit, dir bei deiner guten und notwendigen Arbeit hier zu helfen. Gruß --ThePiedCow (talk) 14:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

LUCPOL

I'm happy to inform you that from now on I will try to conduct my conversations with LUCPOL in English only, to make it easier for you to accuse me of stuff. Dein freund Weltraumkadett (talk) 01:45, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

geographical center of Europe

please, provide source for this edit. Pundit|utter 01:52, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

See recent additions. The patent story was taken from the German page de:Frauenkirchen, to which it was added [5] by an Austrian IP in January 2006. It was quoted in a 2007 speech of a Bavarian politician [6]. Hopefully he or his ghostwriters do not use text from Wikipedia.-- Matthead  Discuß   01:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Serafin

Yes, he's a minor pain, isn't he? He edits from the University of Guelph, and appears to be a resident of Johnston Hall. We could contact the authorities there and see if they can trace him - it shouldn't be too hard. Otherwise we could range block the University's IPs, but I'd be very reluctant to do that unless he really get out of hand. For now we can keep playing whack-a-mole with him until he gets bored. Best, Gwernol 10:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

(User:Adadasu is a sockpuppet) Thanks for your message. Generally, I welcome first and check edits after. That way I can perform whatever tagging or coaching is needed. By the time I'd finished reviewing this er, "user's" edits, he'd already been blocked. As you say, the edit summaries were not a good sign, and the edits were extremely POV. Cheers and happy editing. Dlohcierekim's sock (talk) 14:54, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiCookie

Just stopping by with wikicookies for those editors who started new articles today. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:35, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Notability of Gerd Ruge

A tag has been placed on Gerd Ruge requesting that it be speedily deleted .... blahblah deleted ... criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Corvus cornixtalk 23:50, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, fantastic, well done. Just created a stub for a notable German journalist, and within a minute while I'm over at his de-Wiki article, you place tags here and there. How about some patience, like two minutes? -- Matthead  Discuß   00:01, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Matt. I have remove the CSD tag, added an "underconstruction" tag and (roughly) translated the bulk of the article, so nobody will nominate it for deletion as a non-English language article. I think that Corvus just happened to catch the article at the wrong time when it was still a one-line stub, but of course, Gerd Ruge would easily satsfy notabilty criteria. What I would suggest though is, that if you are bringing articles over from the German wiki, which is a good idea, you might want to translate them before you create them here, or at least, create them over here with an "under construction" tag already in the article so they are less likely to be nominated as a speedy deletion.Anyway, I will take another look at the article later tonight and tidy up any work I have done on the article. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 02:10, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Pinkowski-Institute

As reviewing administrator, I declined to delete the article--but it will certainly be sent for Afd, and I strongly advise you to make some serious effort to make it more neutral. DGG (talk) 15:36, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

I have nominated Pinkowski-Institute, an article you created, for deletion. I do not feel that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pinkowski-Institute. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time. Do you want to opt out of receiving this notice? ukexpat (talk) 15:39, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
As stated previously, I created this article only as the "Institute" is used as source on Wikipedia, and I want to have this investigated. Afterwards, the article may be deleted. -- Matthead  Discuß   16:46, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
You might also post that isssue on Wikipedia:Reliable sources/NoticeboardSkäpperöd (talk) 19:22, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Just done so, thanks for pointing to it. -- Matthead  Discuß   19:34, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Please explain

Why do you remove country of birth for several people and their citizenship ? --Molobo (talk) 18:57, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

If Marie Curie has Russian Empire as her country of birth, what's wrong with Fahrenheit having been born in Poland? Dein Freund Weltraumkadett (Umlaufbahn) 21:27, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

DYK

Updated DYK query On 12 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Danzig Rebellion, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Gatoclass (talk) 06:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Gdansk rule

Bogislaw vs Bogusław, Stettin (Szczecin) vs Szczecin etc is an RFC I filed to avoid further edit and rv wars; maybe you know a board where I can draw some attention to this case... Skäpperöd (talk) 09:01, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Naming conflicts in regard to the history of Poland are a perennial pain in the Wikipedia. I had recently posted (again) to Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)‎. Due to the persistence of a few people who specialise in this field, I'm afraid this is something which has to be discussed and enforced by ArbCom. -- Matthead  Discuß   11:26, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

East Prussian plebiscite

Dear Matthead,

maybe You are interested in the latest discussion at East Prussian plebiscite. Somebody added a map showing a Polish Majority in the area, which is obviously wrong (98 % voted German). Would be nice to get some assistance.

Best regards (HerkusMonte (talk) 16:43, 15 May 2008 (UTC))

Somebody added a map? The usual suspect, I'm afraid? I better get sunglasses to protect my eyes against the horrible composition of prime colors which is to be expected. -- Matthead  Discuß   21:48, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/M41A pulse rifle

Hello - seeing that you commented on this AfD, could I have you give it another look?

I have two main problems with the process in this case. First off, the nominator removed/redirected all the links to these articles in the AfD BEFORE the AfD was decided. I think this is problematic.

Secondly, he lumped all of them together in one AfD, even though many of the articles have quite a bit of content in them, which makes me feel this, again, is inappropriate. This also causes an associated problem, because I have now been doing quite a bit of work on Sulaco (spaceship) in response to noticing the AfD, and feel that it has enough references and shows enough notability to stand on its own.

So as above, could you be so kind and look at the discussion again? Ingolfson (talk) 12:13, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Körner

I seem to have missed the point of your page move on Körner. Could you elaborate? Agathoclea (talk) 15:47, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm sure you'll get the point now that I've saved the disamb for a couple of persons named Körner. I've never known that there is also a place named so. Moved it to Körner, Germany. -- Matthead  Discuß   15:53, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
I guess I fixed the articles and links now. -- Matthead  Discuß   17:04, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Warned

Cease comments such as shown here: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Arbitration_enforcement#User_Matthead immediately. — Rlevse • Talk • 10:07, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Moves of Cosmographia and Cosmographia (disambiguation)

I believe that the moves of these pages without prior discussion were unwarranted and not in accord with WP:NAME. In particular, Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris is an awkward and unacceptable article title. I've therefore taken the matter to WP:ANI, where you are welcome to comment if you wish. If an admin agrees with me and moves the articles back to their original titles, and you disagree with this action, I suggest that you take the matter to WP:RM. Deor (talk) 01:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Relax and AGF, Deor. Explained at Wikipedia:ANI#Unwarranted_page_moves. -- Matthead  Discuß   02:16, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: Deletions of redirects regarding Akademisches Gymnasium Danzig

You intentionally created broken redirects? Well... please don't do that in the future. I can restore them when they're no longer broken. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 20:51, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, I can't do everything at once. But I have now created a stub at Academic Gymnasium Danzig. -- Matthead  Discuß   21:06, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
Restored. Indeed, you can't do it all at once. But if you create the redirects second, they won't ever be deleted as broken. ; - ) Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 04:25, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

Cosmographia (Nicolaus Germanus)

Please don't create redirects like this to articles about the authors. It gives the (false) impression that the article has been created when it has not been. gren グレン 00:12, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Edit summary

Please try to use edit summary in the article Masuria. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 17:18, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Please note that not using edit summary is not against any policy, but use of edit summary is recommended. Per Help:Edit summary, It is good practice to fill in the Edit Summary field. Help:Edit summary also states that Always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline. Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 17:40, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Fixing a number of links according to recent article moves (to Peace of Thorn (1411) & Second Peace of Thorn (1466)), which is uncontroversial and self-explaining, I don't want to double the work by writing into the edit summary what is written in the article anyway. Your four edit summaries to my talk page have not been very talkative, either. -- Matthead  Discuß   17:48, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Re:

Yes, of course I read the discussion. I saw your arguments there without you needing to repeat them. But if you are unhappy you can bring it up with another administrator. Regards, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 03:38, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

No consensus is an explanation, as WP:CONSENSUS is policy. It simply wasn't there. What you essentially are arguing I do is enforce once poll without anything like consensus over another which just fell short of it, because I am to hold that the arguments that you used were stronger. That's not how it works I'm afraid. Obviously you believe they are stronger, but actually the arguments on neither (or no) side clearly proved the relevant policies applied clearly in their favour. All the best, Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 05:06, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Academic Gymnasium Danzig

Updated DYK query On 29 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Academic Gymnasium Danzig, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 05:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster)

Updated DYK query On 29 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--BorgQueen (talk) 11:23, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Königsberg forts

Would you be able to help in sourcing information about the Königsberg fortifications that were built around the city in 1888? The fortifications included fifteen numbered and name forts, and I have so far only been able to discover names of seven (eight) of these. Regards--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 00:34, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I'll have a look occasionally, but I'm not much of a military buff. Fort III seems too be famous. See also [7]-- Matthead  Discuß   01:41, 4 June 2008 (UTC)