I do realise that there has already been some discussion on this point, but as a Brit who now lives in the Neuen Bundesländer I think it should read "… largest church built in the former East Germany since …". I think one would use "the" in this context, and "… largest church built in what used to be East Germany since …" is rather cumbersome. I have no recognition of having heard the term "New states of Germany" before, though that may be because I have gone native and only rarely get home. --GroupCohomologist (talk) 12:24, 21 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
- I gave up. Perhaps we should strike the sentence, now that DYK is over. It doesn't really matter how big a church is ;) The source simply said Ostdeutschland, speaking about a region rather than a state, a name that translates to eastern Germany, right? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:34, 21 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
- No, we should definitely keep the sentence. The only thing I knew about this church was how remarkable it was that they were building a new church on this scale in what used to be the GDR, especially as it's Roman Catholic. Taken in context it's clear to me that der größte Kirchenneubau in Ostdeutschland nach der Wende refers to the former state of East Germany, and not Eastern Germany (whatever one takes that to mean). We just need to phrase it better. --GroupCohomologist (talk) 13:05, 21 March 2017 (UTC)Reply
