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Happy editing! Mattythewhite (talk) 23:07, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

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Mass changes to "federal states" of Germany

Hi JeanClaudeN1, thanks for your recent contributions. I noticed one thing though, that you have been removing the phrase "federal states" from numerous Germany-related articles. I reverted your changes to the Berlin article, and may do the same for others. The German word Bundesländer is most commonly translated as "federal states", see Linguee's entries for Bundesländer and Bundesland, as well as dict.cc, Langenscheidt, Cambridge Dictionary, and others.

You're welcome to use whatever alternative valid translation you like in your own writing, such as "German states", or just "state". However, I would strongly caution you against going on a mission to change existing usage in a large number of articles. Making changes to optional styles on a mass scale, without prior consensus, is generally disapproved of, please see MOS:STYLEVAR. Thanks for your understanding. --IamNotU (talk) 11:50, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Hi Jean Claude, I notice you're still doing this. Please be aware that mass changes without consensus may constitute WP:DISRUPTIVE EDITING. Please stop or seek consensus, for example, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Germany. Bermicourt (talk) 17:52, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi Bermicourt, using the term "federal state" for federated states is not consistent with the articles Federal state and federated state. A federal state is a federation. See for example Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium: "Belgium is a federal state ..." and States of Germany: "The Federal Republic of Germany, as a federal state, consists of sixteen partly sovereign federated states ..." JeanClaudeN1 (talk) 18:14, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Well, that appears to be a problem with those articles. Langenscheidt's flagship Muret-Sanders dictionary translates Bundesland as "(federal) state" which agrees with IamNotU's findings in various leading dictionaries. Bermicourt (talk) 18:58, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Well, "federal state" is first of all only a word by word translation of the term "Bundesstaat" or "Bundesland", that's correct and every dictionary will confirm this. However, the official term in German is Land, while "Bundesland" is only used informally. The term "Bundesstaat /-land" is used ambiguously in German, unlike in other languages. See for example Bundesstaat and US-Bundesstaat. In English, however, a "Gliedstaat" is universally referred to as "federated state", "constituent state" or simply "state", while a Bundesstaat is referred to as "federation" or "federal state". Here is another example: Federal State of Austria. JeanClaudeN1 (talk) 20:24, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

I am of course aware that the term "Land" is often mistranslated to "federal state" in German sources. But that does not make it any more correct. In Britannica the terms "constituent state" and "state" are used btw. JeanClaudeN1 (talk) 20:41, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Not just every dictionary. Just look at the ngram viewer stats for German states and you'll see that English sources commonly use "federal state of..." but never "federated state of...". I've given an example on the talk page of the relevant article. Bermicourt (talk) 21:31, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

I replied on the talk page and reverted the edit. Please don't edit war and wait and see if other users (native English speakers) share your point of view. Thank you. JeanClaudeN1 (talk) 22:59, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

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Royal Prussia

Stop removing my changes, read the book before making references to it. Royal Prussia wasn't an autonomous province if the autonomy was abandoned completely in 1569. Delegates from Royal Prussia were taking part in Sejms way before 1569. If you will continue your action I will consider them vandalism. Marcelus (talk) 03:19, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

• Its magnates could participate in the election of its titular monarch, the Polish King - it wasn't a titular monarch, that's a serious agenda pushing
• Royal Prussia did not participate in the Sejm, the Polish parliament - that's incorrect. Sejm in years 1493-1505, Prussian delegates participated in it occasionally since the beginning (most notably in years 1529-30), since 1563 continuously until the end of PLC existence Marcelus (talk) 03:43, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for using the talk page to solve the issue.

First, please check the definition of vandalism.

Second, the above information has been on Wikipedia for a long time and was not added by me. The information itself is not even important to me. I reverted because you deleted it without giving a source yourself. So can you please cite a source that supports your statements (regarding the period before 1563)?

Third, you again deleted a source without explanation. Please stop doing that.

I have again reverted those changes which in my view are not an improvement and restored the deleted citation. Apart from that, the current version is fine with me (if you give a source). I will continue to revert unconstructive edits in the future. Please stop edit-warring now, thank you. JeanClaudeN1 (talk) 02:18, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

Why you reverted my change? That version is better because it mentions that land of Teutonic Order were divided, one part was a Polish fief, one was incorporated to the kingdom. Nothing factually wrong about that plus it adds more information. That's an improvement of the article Marcelus (talk) 11:35, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

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Do you mind telling me where did you get this from please? GizzyCatBella🍁 00:44, 1 November 2022 (UTC) 👉 [1] - Quote - Samuel Hartlib (c.1599-1670) was born in Elbing in Prussia c.1600 the son of George Hartlib, a Pole, and Elizabeth Langthon. His maternal grandfather John Langthon was a wealthy English merchant.. - GizzyCatBella🍁 00:49, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

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Please note that I have set up a section related to the Talk:World War II reparations dispute regarding the two sentances on the 1970 treaty talks and the 2004 declaration by the Council of Ministers on the Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard. E-960 (talk) 16:20, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

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