Talk:Republikflucht

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Per WP:UE, why is this not under East Germany refugees? I have seen and heard the English version many times, the German version is used much less often.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  19:48, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Seen many times? Where? There are 47 Google web hits, 6 in English, and some of them stretch over two sentences as "... East Germany. Refugees ..." [1]. Compare that to [2]. -- Matthead ^discuß!     O       20:48, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

First, try "East German refugees" instead of "East Germany refugees", the hits increse by 10-fold ([3] vs [4]. Second, your Repu... search shows at least half of the books are in German (ex. [5]).-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  20:58, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Among other, your search yields "nine years before 406, when the East German refugees from the Huns broke through the Western Empire's frontier on the Rhine". Besides, the victims of post-WW2 expulsions are also East German refugees, as it is a general term. Republikflucht, which is connected solely to the GDR history, is used in English as the proper term for the "offense" [6]-- Matthead ^discuß!     O       21:21, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to second the move proposed by Piotrus. The page is bearing a cryptic name with no relation to any known English language convention. The article should be speedily renamed to East German refugees or perhaps Escape from East Germany (better). The reference provided by Piotrus is not only convincing, but also quite supportive of such a move, but you have to put the name in parentheses, in order to see it. --Poeticbent talk 21:38, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

So there is an urgent need to speedily rename an article that exists since 5/2006 as Republikflucht? It has been edited by several people since, how come you two pick on it now? What about Rzeczpospolita, is that more familiar to English speakers than the Republikflucht, which made world-wide bad news from 1961 to 1989? Young persons on the east side of the iron curtain may have missed this (and other things) in their youth. Republik resembles republic closer than the Rzczp-thing, while Flucht, while not an article of its own, has 5 pages of search results on English Wikipedia anyway. -- Matthead ^discuß!     O       16:42, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Please stay on topic. We are not talking about other article, but about this one.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  20:04, 24 August 2007 (UTC)