User talk:ManfredV

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Again, welcome! __meco (talk) 12:34, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

Kreis - district or county?
Hi Manfred, actually we use both on Wikipedia as per the guidelines and in fact the British Embassy and liaison services in Germany use "county" for Kreis. It is a better term because it is more specific than "district" which is used to translate several different German words e.g. Kreis, Landkreis, Amt, Bezirk, Distrikt, Stadtteil, etc. so "district" becomes a bit meaningless. --Bermicourt (talk) 12:21, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

District is correct according to EU use, NUTS and used by german authorities in official translations of documents ManfredV (talk) 16:40, 17 January 2015 (UTC)


 * And the EU guidelines also refer back to.... Wikipedia, which is not supposed to be an authority. So the situation is a bit of a mess. Anyway, let's agree that "district" is not wrong; neither is "county". Both appear in the sources. --Bermicourt (talk) 17:47, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

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Fürth
Hello Manfred, I think we should keep Beiersdorfer, because he was born in Fürth and was a player and now is a manager and he has an article in enwiki. Regards--Buchbibliothek (talk) 18:54, 2 September 2016 (UTC)