Talk:German aviso Grille

Documentary
I just watched a National Geographic documentary where the yacht's toilet was sold to a military memorabilia merchant by the New Jersey auto shop owner. The merchant wanted to sell the toilet to a boat restorer, restoring a Schnellboot. 25th June 2017. --2A02:1812:1732:B600:84BE:5A2B:A4AB:20D6 (talk) 15:46, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Fate of the ship
There was a conflicting situation with regards to where the Grille was sent after being seized by Britain post war. The article originally said the ship was sent directly to the US, but this conflicts with Friedman's book which actually includes a picture of the Grille in Beirut harbor. This relies a lot on Friedman's account which itself is sourced from a firsthand account by Isaac Shoshan and "Israeli official navy history". For what it's worth I saw another site which mentions a Beirut expedition of the Grille, from another independent source (German Warships 1815-1945, Volume 1 by Erich Groner) though I don't have access to it. Still, it's a good story and well enough sourced to be included I think.Raving Colonel (talk) 20:17, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Placenames
Hi there. It's simply not correct that "local usage is irrelevant". Please see WP:USPLACE, WP:UKPLACE etc. Thanks and best wishes, DBaK (talk) 12:27, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Moved from my talk page
 * You realize those are part of the article naming conventions, and have literally nothing to do with how we write prose, correct?
 * To the point: this issue is, at heart, a tendency amongst Westerners (predominantly those from US and UK) to assume the world revolves around us. As I said in the edit summary, we are an international encyclopedia, and there are more than a few English speakers outside of either of our countries. We should write articles so as to be as easily accessible to as broad an audience as possible. Local usage is irrelevant if one has that purpose in mind. Parsecboy (talk) 15:01, 14 July 2021 (UTC)