The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the German battleshipSMS Grosser Kurfürst was involved in a series of accidents during her service career, including collisions and several groundings?
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Latest comment: 5 years ago8 comments5 people in discussion
Hi! The German wikipedia has this article under "SMS Großer Kurfürst" which would definitely be the modern German orthography. Of course, the letter "ß" ist not usual in English but, well, it seems that ship wasn't called "Grosser Kurfürst" but "Großer Kurfürst" which makes a difference not only in orthography but also in pronunciation (at least from a modern German point of view). Maybe one should consider moving the article while keeping a redirect under its current title. Greetings. --EBB (talk) 09:45, 24 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
According to whom is it rendered with double s? it is a proper name, and even in modern German proper names still use the ß and not ss. This is not an anglicised version of a German city like Cologne, it is the name of a Ship. It should be written with the ß as it historically was.76.10.187.28 (talk) 06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
As I said eight years ago, look at any number of books published in English. They do not use the eszett, with very few exceptions. Parsecboy (talk) 09:01, 16 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
As also said years ago: ship names on the ships are in all upper case, and there's no upper case "ß" which is probably the reason for the English usage. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:25, 5 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
Those ships didn't have their name on the ship, so there is no official upper case name, and the reason why some English books didn't use the ß probably was because they could not print it. Wikipedia can print the ß and since it is a proper name it should do so. --84.62.85.136 (talk) 00:07, 6 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
This (right) is the lead image in the article on the German Wikipedia. It appears to be a photograph of this battleship. Is that right? Perhaps we could use it instead of the current lead image here, which appears to be a drawing of a different vessel, SMS König, in the same class? 213.205.198.188 (talk) 20:28, 5 May 2019 (UTC)Reply
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