Talk:Celle

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Too many pictures. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.22.233.59 (talk • contribs) .

Definitely not. Given Celle's abundance of half-timber houses, a few more might even be nice. That said, the article contained several problems, including historical inaccuracies (Celle wasn't flattened in WWII like Braunschweig, but it was bombed. It was also near Bergen-Belsen and lots of transports on their way there passed through), so I did a lot more work on it than I had initially intended (I'd come for the pictures! <g>). It could still use some work, as it is not yet up to snuff. HTH, Jim_Lockhart 14:05, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Those are my pics- Actually I have a lot more from my visit, I went nuts with the half timbered houses and they make up practically the whole town. I'll go back a see if I have any other nice ones, and maybe higher res versions of the the ones that are there. Pschemp | ^Talk 18:13, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I saw them first on your user page (I arrived there when checking the edit history for another, Japan-related article I wanted to work on). They are indeed very nice. Another town with similar charm is Wolfenbüttel, situated on the other side (i.e., south) of Braunschweig. Wolfenbüttel was also the residence of dukes of the House of Welf and, like Celle, has many half-timber houses from previous centuries. Jim_Lockhart 03:49, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok, I've put what I've got at Commons Category:Celle, Germany but I'm not sure how to replace the ones on wikipedia with higher res commons files....just kinda clueless here. Take a look at the pics and then if you know what to do, go for it and expalin how to me. Thanks. pschemp | talk 06:23, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

All done. Nice pix; when did you visit? I haven't been to Celle since about 1980. I used to drive through on my way to Hamburg when I didn't feel like taking the Autobahn. Anyhow, it seems that the Image: tag now grabs graphics for the Commons. Don't have time to do any more right now, though. HTH, Jim_Lockhart 14:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Summer 2003. Damn good pastries too. The old images still link to the ones here on WP but I don't know how to fix that. I'll see if I can find out. pschemp | talk 04:51, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Found some nice people on IRC and got all the pics fixed....they are now the higer res commons versions. pschemp | talk 06:02, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

“You can't just change it all from English to American English! ...

...It was in English first, so why change it all to US English, should keep original style.)”

In fact, the article was a mish-mash of BrE and AmE when I first got to it (see the edit history—I first got to it about one year ago, and have been working on it consistently since then). My decision to change the last few remaining centres to centers was because they looked odd, and most of the contributions since I’ve started working on this, even those that aren’t mine, have been from AmE writers. The decision was, therefore, not an arbitrary one. It was, as I wrote in my edit summary, for internal consistency on the one hand, and because—since most of the contributors to it (myself included) seemed to be AmE writers—AmE would be easier to maintain with some reasonable simile of consistency.

I believe that you did a simple undo when you reverted my changes, without inspecting the article to see what consequences your undo would have. Evidence of this is that AmE spellings that were already in the article are still there, and that all the minute (and painstaking) typographic work (most of which was irrelevant to national style) I did was also undone. I have undone your changes for these two reasons, as well, and also because I get the impression that yours was a knee-jerk reaction to the notion that someone would change BrE to AmE.

If you want to put the article into BrE, then by all means go ahead; but at least do so with care to make sure you get it consistent throughout. Also, put the article on your watch list so you can come back to maintain it when the occasional AmE-ism slips in—I make no pretensions about my ability to write and edit consistently in BrE spelling.

Please leave in place the typographical changes, except where inappropriate (probably mostly comma placement with respect to quotation marks/inverted commas) for BrE style. Curly quotation marks look much better and are more discernible than typewriter quotation marks, and proper use of en- and em-dashes is what the eye expects.

Best regards, Jim_Lockhart 23:32, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

British military connection

Is it worth mentioning that Celle was long a major base for the British Army?

From what I remember there were at least two regiments based there for a long time:

• 94 Locating Regiment
• Royal Green Jackets

Velkyal (talk) 08:50, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

History

No history past 1866? Military camps? April 8, 1944 air raid? 80.171.13.97 (talk) 10:26, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure is there a little bit: forced work in celle and much more important: during and after an air raid of the USAAF hundreds of inmates of the concentration camp drütte died. The train deporting the vitims to another camp was hit and the inmates tried to escape and or to look for shelter. There are several reports of citizens (and firefighters, volkssturm, police officers and soldiers of a near barracks) hunting them like hares in the destroyed streets. There is a wp article Celler Hasenjagd ... but this events must be buried in silence ... no information here please (sacasm!) ... Sebastian scha. (talk) 23:51, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Was there a corn shipping monopoly in 1464? Was there corn in europe before 1492?

Celje hatnote

Not being funny, but is there any real danger that Celle would be confused with Celje, sufficient to warrant a warning hatnote? Any more than cell, cello, selle and dozens of other close alphabetical relatives! --Bermicourt (talk) 20:09, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

PIctures

It's a beautiful place, but suggest to look at the images critically:

• Do they unique within the article? (We don't need the castle twice.)
• Are they specific for this town? (We don't need a steeple of a not notable church.)
• Are they in the context of the prose? (We want the image of a street lined with timber-frame houses where they are mentioned, not one specific unusual one.)

Images not valid in all three criteria should go, or at least go to a gallery. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:43, 4 December 2017 (UTC)