Talk:NSDAP
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I'm wondering about the usefulness of sticking this under "NSDAP". What was the reasoning behind this? In English, they are far, far, far, far more often referred to as the "Nazi Party". I'd argue that one should put text on a page where it's likeliest to be linked to by accident. By that I mean "Anyone writing an article in which they reference the Nazis without knowing which article has the explanation of them is going to go for [[Nazi Party]] or [[Nazi]], not [[NSDAP]]". In other words, this article is never going to be referenced as is, which kind of defeats the purpose.
Good text, though. -- Paul Drye
Well, we can just add a redirect for Nazi Party. The power of Wiki is not paper.
I agree it should be Nazi Party, not least because it wasn't the NSDAP at its foundation. The text can be expanded too. User:David Parker
I've done much of the heavy-lifting on moving this and similar titles around so that the English name is the title of the article and not the German acronym. Gesh... does anyone read our naming conventions before contributing to this scale anymore? Both acronyms and non-English titles are inferior to spelt-out English titles unless the acronym or non-English title is the most widely used, known and least ambiguous term. NSDAP is a double strike-out. --maveric149
