Talk:Germany's Aims in the First World War

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no need for this article. the subject is covered in more detail in Fritz Fischer article. Auntieruth55 (talk) 23:13, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

There is a paragraph in the Fischer article. I have expanded this article a little Francium12  00:40, 14 November 2009 (UTC)


 * this is just a book review, and a cursory one at that. How about subsuming this, and other material, and writing a real article (not a stub) on the Fischer controversy, which is why this book is notable.  Rename the article "Fischer controversy" etc.  Wikipedia needs an article, not just a paragraph, on it.  To rate this present article as "start" is generous.  It barely scratches the surface of why this book is notable, and even though it directs readers elsewhere, the direction doesn't really cover the topic.  Auntieruth55 (talk) 19:05, 15 November 2009 (UTC)


 * In terms of world war I origins historiography this book is a canonical text, if not the canonical text. The idea that it is not notable is simply wrong. As Wikipedia has no deadline I will expand as and when. My personal preference would be to redirect Fischer thesis/controversy here. I'll add some balance soon as clearly there are many academics (and understandably many Germans) who don't take to Fischer's views. Francium12  20:15, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * that's fine, but I still think you should call it Fischer Thesis, or Fischer Controversy. As it stands, it looks like an article about German's goals in WWI, rather than a book about a scholar's (and his followers') interpretation of Germany's goals in WWI, and it is also a book that is seriously controversial, when it was published in German in 1961, translated into English in 1967, and now.  As for it being a canonical text, we could argue until the cows come home on that one.  Yes, it is an important text, but there are many others.  For example, The making of the English working class, by E.P. Thompson, is also a "canonical" text.  Does this mean it warrants an encyclopedia article?  Or does this mean that it should instead be part of a larger article on Historiography of the Industrial Revolution?  Auntieruth55 (talk) 21:40, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

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