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 Unsorted 3.2.2 Education 3.2.3 Geography 3.2.4 History 3.2.5 Landmarks 3.2.6 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 Related Portals 6 Project Barnstar 7 Resources 7.1 Infoboxes 7.2 Stubs 7.3 Templates 7.4 Translation and style guides 7.5 Websites 8 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

• Categorization (talk) – Categorization of Germany-related articles
• 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) – List of requested photos.
• Mainz task force (talk) – for articles related to Mainz

[edit] Related groups

• 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 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)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

The following articles are currently in the peer review process:

[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

Former featured articles

• Attila the Hun;
• Colditz Castle;
• Erich von Manstein;
• Euro
• History of Germany;
• Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9;
• Operation Market Garden;
• Prince-elector;
• Volkswagen Type 2;
• Zeppelin

Delisted Good Articles

• Adolf Hitler
• German language
• Music of Germany
• Otto Skorzeny

[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}}	Germany Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Germany, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles related to Germany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please join the project and help with our open tasks. NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the 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 Coat of arms Location Administration Country  Germany State Enter Bundesland District {{{Kreis or district}}} Population {{{Einwohner or  population}}} Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)	Template allowing to copy town info directly from de wiki.
{{de}}	This article is based on a translation of an article 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 Copyedit: Die Räuber, Heinrich Himmler Wikify: Friedrich Kapp, Privatelektro, 1936 Summer Olympics, Heraeus Merge: German Autobahns, Unreferenced: Franz Josef Jung, Limburger Dom, High German languages, Jacob Bidermann, President of Germany, 1954 FIFA World Cup Final, Erika Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Amelie Beese Cleanup: Johann Fischart, Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens, Düsseldorf-Volmerswerth, Fußball-Bundesliga 1985-86 Expand: Palatinate Forest, Hitler's rise to power Disambiguation: Elector, German, Rothschild, Reichstag Stubs: Federal Ministry of Justice (Germany), Greeks_in_Germany, Tegernsee (lake), Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Democratic Awakening NPOV: Erich von Manstein, Anti-German sentiment, Willy Brandt, German Visa Affair 2005, Germanisation, German-American relations, Hitler's rise to power Portal maintenance: Update News, Did you know, announcements, and suggest Selected article and picture Other: Help categorise Germany-related articles and assess the quality of 2,992 unassessed articles 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
{{WikiProject Germany Road Transportation}}	Germany Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Germany Transportation Division's Road Sub-section, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles related to German roadways on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please join the project and help with our roadway related articlesopen tasks. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article. Additional information: This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: not checked Coverage and accuracy: not checked Structure: not checked Grammar: not checked Supporting materials: not checked To fill out this checklist, please add the following to the template call: <!-- 1. It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited. --> |B-Class-1=yes/no <!-- 2. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies. --> |B-Class-2=yes/no <!-- 3. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. --> |B-Class-3=yes/no <!-- 4. It is free from major grammatical errors. --> |B-Class-4=yes/no <!-- 5. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams. --> |B-Class-5=yes/no	Template for articles related to roads in Germany
{{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
• Administrative divisions

[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

[edit] Credit where credit is due

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