Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Austria/Archive 4

Wikiproject Tyrol
Hello, who is interested in setting up a Wikiproject Tyrol as a subproject of WikiProject Austria? The scope of the Wikiproject Tyrol would include the whole of the historical region of Tyrol, that is the modern Euroregion Tirol-Südtirol/Alto Adige-Trentino: Regards Gun Powder Ma (talk) 16:11, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * the Austrian State of Tyrol
 * the Italian province of South Tyrol
 * the Italian province of Trentino

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Mayerling Incident needs cites
Mayerling Incident is in serious need of cites. This article has apparently already been criticized in the print media for questionable accuracy, so we might want to fix this. -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 20:20, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

WP:NOT#PLOT
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Truce term
Hi. I'm writing an article on truce terms and would like to know what Austrian children use. Truce terms are words used by children, usually under the age of about 11, to call a temporary halt or respite to the game to do something like tie a shoelace or discuss the rules or take off a jacket. I really need a source as well. They're often mentioned in etymological or regional dictionaries.Fainites barley scribs 19:54, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

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GA Sweeps invitation
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The Austria article
Since Austria is a core article for this project, and Wikipedia itself, I believe that members here would agree that it is also highly important. If anyone is interested in substantially improving the article to good or featured article status, please join this discussion at Talk:Austria. Thanks for your help, Hayden120 (talk) 11:26, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft
Can you please take a look at this new article:Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft And would you be so kind and contact User:-Marcus- to answer his question: "Could you provide some hints how to increase it to C-level? Also, would it be possible to assess it on the projects importance scale?" He ist the creator of the article-Phips (talk) 16:15, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

The first theatre and the first actors
Hello! I am interested in theatre history, and I hope some one can answer my question. I wonder: which was the first permanent theatre, with proffesional actors of both genders, in Austria? I am also interested in the first known actor and actress, or the most famous actor and actress, of that theatre's early years. I hope someone can answer my question. I would be gratefull if you could answer on my talk page. Regards--Aciram (talk) 09:56, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Template up for deletion
A courtesy notification (given the nominator failed to provide one) - the Infobox Town AT template is up for deletion. There seems to be a bit of a campaign on against regional templates - the Australian and Swiss ones have also been targeted. Orderinchaos 03:41, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Maria Theresa
I've expanded the article about Maria Theresa of Austria. I'd appreciate any suggestion or improvement. What else should be done to get the article to the Good Article status? Surtsicna (talk) 19:28, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Schloss Eggenberg (Graz)
Any ideas on how to get the Schloss Eggenberg (Graz) article added to the Wikiprojects Austria and Holy Roman Empire and perhaps Architecture? I'm new to Wiki and am not sure how to do this. Smf77 (talk) 06:25, 26 September 2009 (UTC)


 * To add a WikiProject, simply type, with 'X' being the name of the Project. I have gone ahead and done it for you (see the talk page). Thanks, Hayden120 (talk) 06:52, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

Strange....
Is anyone else as confused as I am with the seperation of "Habsburg Monarchy", "Austrian Empire" and "Austria-Hungary" into seperate articles? Considering that there was no dramatic structural change with the coming of the "Austrian Empire" over the "Monarchy", should the two be addressed seperately? And indeed, it is possible to view "Austria-Hungary" in the context of the re-emergence of the Kingdom of the Crown of St.Stephen in the "Monarchy"'s pre-Josephinist's constitutional structure. I personally would prefer "Austria-Hungary" be redirected to "Habsburg Monarchy", as this is a relatively nuetral term that describes all three "eras".... Nicaea (talk) 07:49, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

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Unreferenced living people articles bot
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Districts
I came to Category:Districts of Austria via Talk:District. Per WP:DUPCAT I cleaned Category:Districts of Austria from articles about individual districts.

Categories for individual districts are named X District, e.g. Category:Oberwart District. District articles are named X (district), e.g. Oberwart (district).

The common format for district article names is X District. Any reason why Austria does not (yet) use X District format for the articles itself?

I think it would be good to name them like it is done for the other countries and also for the categories. If articles are named like the categories, Template:Catmain can be added to the categories and will link to the corresponding article.

Please also have a look at Talk:District Schwyz (talk) 22:59, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I applied the common X District format to the Austrian district and added the Template:Catmain to the categories when they existed and were named like the district. Schwyz (talk) 04:42, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

CFD nomination
You may be interested in voicing your opinion at current CFD nomination. The nominator attempts to break the already working categorization scheme about Austrian cities and towns and put them into "populated places" categories. - Darwinek (talk) 11:22, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

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Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil is now a Featured article nominee
Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil's FAC nomination os now open. The link is here. Princes Maria Amélia was the fiancée of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. --Lecen (talk) 21:42, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Deletion of election poster images
I wish to inform you that, , , and have been nominated for deletion. Silver seren C 20:01, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Question
I have a question about the. Don't you think it would be more logical to rename this category to ? German Wikipedia and several other ones have already de:Kategorie:Person (Südtirol). The current category name is just weird and contains de facto only South Tyroleans. For other people should be used. What do you think? - Darwinek (talk) 18:34, 17 May 2011 (UTC)


 * It's more understandable certainly. I had no clue what you meant by Germanophone Italians, but South Tyroleans is clear. But isn't the issue that not all South Tyroleans are German(ophone)? --Bermicourt (talk) 20:14, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, that can be right, although all citizens of South Tyrol (German or Italian-speaking) have the obligation to learn the other language at the elementary and secondary school. So basically all South Tyroleans are bilingual. - Darwinek (talk) 20:34, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Please, follow the proposal for renaming. - Darwinek (talk) 11:35, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Open page move requests
Kauffner (talk) 10:26, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * (Discuss) – Elisabeth of Bavaria →
 * (Discuss) – Mary of Austria, Queen of Hungary → 
 * (Discuss) – Archduke Karl of Austria → 
 * (Discuss) – Albert, Duke of Luxembourg → 

Generalkriegskommissar
How is this normally translated in en.wp? I've seen a ton of variations in sources: General Commissary, war commissary-general, General War Commissioner, etc., etc. Some English sources leave it untranslated. Tijfo098 (talk) 19:30, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

File:WJStein 1.jpg
File:WJStein 1.jpg has been nominated for speedy deletion -- 70.24.250.110 (talk) 00:49, 1 December 2012 (UTC)

History of Vojvodina
An editor (who is not a member of this project) has recently added multiple project banners to Talk:History of Vojvodina, including this one. Please feel free to remove it of it is not within this project's scope. See this section of the talk page for further background. Voceditenore (talk) 09:24, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Mugshot of Josef Fritzl on the night of his arrest.jpg
image:Mugshot of Josef Fritzl on the night of his arrest.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 12:42, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

ErnaLowSki.jpg
image:ErnaLowSki.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 06:25, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Edgar Meyer watercolour Welfenstein Castle.jpg
image:Edgar Meyer watercolour Welfenstein Castle.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 06:30, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

"Blick auf Rom" (View on Rome) by Edgar Meyer
have been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 06:02, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Monitor Drava-(model-of-the-warship).jpg
image:Monitor Drava-(model-of-the-warship).jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 03:50, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

AFD
Two articles which are of interest to this WikiProject is currently relisted at AFD. They are Your views are welcome. Finnegas (talk) 14:10, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Patricia Rhomberg
 * Renee Pornero

File:Mugshot of Josef Fritzl on the night of his arrest.jpg
File:Mugshot of Josef Fritzl on the night of his arrest.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 03:05, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

HGM Poosch BrentaGruppe 1917.jpg
image:HGM Poosch BrentaGruppe 1917.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 23:20, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

AfC submission - 04/03
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Austrian Silver Vienna Philharmonic. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 14:14, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Greater Romania (political concept)
Would you please tell us your opinion on this matter? All comments are welcome. Fakirbakir (talk) 08:17, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 26/05
Draft:Vienna Philharmonic (coin). FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 01:03, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
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 * Is this not WP:POV pushing? Most areas on Wikipedia just appear to have projects to do this, not campaigns and slogans. Just asking. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:38, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
 * No need to respond - it's being answered at the Village Pump. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:06, 6 June 2014 (UTC)

Peer review/Matthias Corvinus/archive1
Matthias Corvinus ruled parts of modern Austria. The article does not present Austrian historians' POV of his rule, so any suggestion would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. Borsoka (talk) 13:21, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Allied-occupied Austria
A major rewrite of a great topic ... badly needs copyedit for articles, spelling, punctuation and, of all, for flow and consistency. TIA, East of Borschov (talk) 11:54, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Sports Task Force
I think we should have a sports tak force with sub task forces in football and skiing. Kingjeff (talk) 17:59, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Need help translating
VA Tech Wabag needs to be improved using information found in the German Wikipedia article VA Technologie. Also, that article and the German article Siemens VAI will be helpful in fixing some problems with the English article Voestalpine. Vchimpanzee ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 15:51, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Popular pages stats request
I've made a request for this project to get its own entry in Category:Lists of popular pages by WikiProject. Once created, it will be available at WikiProject Austria/Popular pages. The request key is ej88f9d. Bahnfrend (talk) 09:55, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Maximilian Gosseau de Henef
Any information regarding Austrian architect Maximilian Gosseau de Henef is welcome. Is this his correct name, when and where he was born...Thanks. Kebeta (talk) 17:18, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Pageview stats
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Austria to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at WikiProject Austria/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 00:51, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:21, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Project scope: Hallstatt culture
Hi, is the article Hallstatt culture in the scope of the WikiProject Austria? There has recently been a dispute about that. --Eleassar my talk 11:08, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Definition of town and city
I notice there is a degree of confusion about whether to translate Stadt as "city" or "town" because it can mean either. Because the official definition of Großstadt in Germany is a Stadt with a population of 100,000 or more; we have used this on the German WikiProject as the guide. So Städte with less than 100,000 people are called "towns" and above that "cities". We could adopt the same convention for WikiProject Austria too which would provide a degree of consistency. Views? --Bermicourt (talk) 12:42, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Portal:Tyrol
Hi. I have just created a portal for the Austrian state of Tyrol here. It needs some refinement, but the basics are there. Feel free to enhance it or use it to expand and improve articles. Gruß. --Bermicourt (talk) 22:34, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Should we call the language German or "Austrian"
An editor at Myrrha has decided that a scientific reference (number 66) to a Vienese journal should be listed as in the Austrian language. (He's now amended and calling it Austrian German.) The open archive lists the language as "German" and I have never heard people over in Austria there say that they are speaking "Austrian" as a language. Just as in the US, we say we speak English, even though it's obviously American English. What do you all think of this? TCO (talk) 00:36, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The Austrians speak, read and write German, but most speak it using an Austro-Bavarian dialect. They sometimes refer to it as Austrian German or even Bavarian or Alemannian to distinguish it from High German. I don't know the journal you're referring to but I would say it would be very odd to refer to it as Austrian, Austro-Bavarian, etc., unless it was a cultural publication specifically oriented towards the Austrian dialect. --Bermicourt (talk) 07:05, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Marillenschnaps
I found the article Marillenschnaps which was created today. I am not sure if this is notable because I can't read Austrian. I was wondering if someone or some people can help me show the article's notability. Google Books has a lot of books sources. Joe Chill (talk) 02:26, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * It's a translation by a new editor of this article on de.wikipedia, which has been in existence for several years. Both articles are unreferenced.  de.wikipedia is a bit more laissez faire than en.wikipedia about unreferenced articles, which would explain the lack of referencing in the de.wikipedia article.  I agree that someone should reference the en.wikipedia article.  Why don't you add some English language referencing, and then I'll look for some German language referencing as well?


 * On the issue of notability, it seems that Marillenschnaps is an Austrian form of apricot schnaps, with a slightly different name from German apricot schnaps. I therefore suspect that it's about as notable as Irish whiskey is by comparison with Scotch whisky, ie notable enough.  I have added an interwikilink to the article, and created a talk page with suitable tags.  BTW, the same new editor has also created Marillenknödel, which is a translation of this article, also in de.wikipedia. Bahnfrend (talk) 12:30, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I was unsuccessful in my earlier searches for English sources, but I admit that it was late at night and I was tired. I would be happy to help by trying to find English sources. Joe Chill (talk) 15:47, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

Template:StatistikAustria
Hi. I've created the above template from the German Wiki version. It provides an automatic external link to the municipal data about an Austria city, town or village at the Statistik Austria site. This seems to be an important official source of info and is heavily used on de.wiki. For examples of use, see Graz, Wörgl or Vorderwaldberg. It would be useful if, over time, editors could copy the template data (which comes with a town-specific code, e.g. ) from German Wiki articles to their English Wiki equivalents. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:35, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Now, 8 months later, I have created 9 Austria-population templates, adapted from interwiki form on German WP, into category:
 * &bull; Category:Austria subdivision population templates - data for 2,475 towns/districts
 * Those 9 templates need to be connected into the Austria town infoboxes to "automatically" set each town population count from the list of population data for year 2011. See topic (below): "". -Wikid77 (talk) 06:51, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Austria population templates - September 2011
I have adapted the Austria-population templates to later "automatically" set the current population of 2,475 Austrian towns and districts, as interwiki templates from German Wikipedia:
 * Category:Austria subdivision population templates - 9 templates for population of 2,475 towns or districts in Austria.

Those 9 Austria-population templates need to be connected to the Austria town infoboxes, to set the current population from inside those template lists of population counts. As you may know, in April 2010, the Germany-population templates were likewise adapted from German Wikipedia, and connected to Germany-town infoboxes, so each year, the town populations can be copied from German WP (in 16 Germany population templates) and update thousands of town articles for Germany. The template-format for Austria is the same as for Germany, but allows the word "date" to get the statistics as-of date. For example, for Vienna:
 * Population of Vienna: {&#123;Metadata population AT-9|9}} = 1899055
 * Population of Favoriten: {&#123;Metadata population AT-9|910}} = 194820

Each year the current population counts can be copied exactly from the 9 Austria interwiki templates on German Wikipedia (or updated from website Statistik Austria), and then those counts would "instantly" appear in the ~2,475 Austria town/district articles. The inhabitant counts can also be extracted to appear in population bargraphs, such as used in the 23 district articles of Vienna. The counts could be used later in live calculations, such as relative size of the Margareten-District population divided by Vienna, as a whole:
 * Relative size of Margareten in Vienna: {&#123;#expr: 54940 / 1899055 * 100}}% = %
 * Relative size of Favoriten in Vienna: {&#123;#expr: 194820 / 1899055 * 100}}% = %

Such population-data templates are extremely fast, designed as MediaWiki markup #switch statements, to quickly extract each town's population count as needed. Wikid77 (talk) 06:51, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

District titles
I know this has been mentioned before, but we still have German and Austrian Kreise articles and their categories variously named "FOO (district)", "FOO district" and "FOO District". Since, in German, the "FOO" and "District" are variably used inseparably as a proper name (not least to distinguish them from the actual town e.g. "Kreis Celle" and "Celle"), my suggestion is we settle on "FOO District" for consistency and accuracy. Views? --Bermicourt (talk) 17:35, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Krampus!
Hello Austrian friends. I'm trying to prepare an article for Did You Know's Christmas article set. Krampus was a stub, so I'm starting a little (hopefully 5X) expansion. Posting here to ask for more eyes on the new material: I wasn't aware of Krampus until two weeks ago, so I'm working from scratch on this topic. Any fact-checking/revisions would be appreciated. I'm also working with only English sources, which are a bit thin. In the spirit of season, I humbly request some help with some good German references, or pointers in the right direction, and ideas for expansion. I still need to add at least 3 or 400 words to get it up to the DYK requirements. Krampus will throw you in his washtub if you don't oblige ;) (Note: this editor not responsible for the "in popular culture" section (grimaces))  The Interior  (Talk) 05:25, 17 December 2011 (UTC) Krampus at de.wikipedia  The Interior  (Talk) 05:27, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

District naming
There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Germany that could have an impact on Austrian district article and category names. --Bermicourt (talk) 15:19, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

An experienced insight is required at Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 2012
Greetings fellow Wikipedians and project members from WP:AUT. There is a lengthy discussion taking place at Talk:Eurovision_Song_Contest_2012 regarding a language grey area for the Austrian entry at Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Official sources at the European Broadcasting Union list the language as being a dialect of the Mühlviertel region. However, there is nothing specific to detail what the name of this dialect is, for the sake of linking it on the article itself. Some users seem to thing it is German, while others think it is Styrian, or Bavarian. Personally I think it would be classified as Austro-Bavarian, as this is a dialect used in the Upper Austria region, to which Mühlviertel is a part of. Would it be possible for someone to assist us on this grey area, and provide information on the dialect used. Thank you - Wesley  ☀  Mouse  16:03, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

New welcoming template
I have created Welcome-aut. This is a welcoming template which can be added to the talk pages of new Wikipedia users that appear to have a particular interest in topics covered by this project. __meco (talk) 10:25, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Clemens August Andreae
For Clemens August Andreae - Is he known as a notable figure? WhisperToMe (talk) 07:41, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I just started his article WhisperToMe (talk) 06:18, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Alerts
WikiProject Austria/Article alerts. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:54, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Population template issues
There seems to be a problem with one or more metadata templates that display population in Austria town and village infoboxes e.g. Template:Metadata population AT-6; the problem can be seen, for example, at Zeltweg. There is another issue e.g. at Mürzzuschlag. Can someone look at this; I don't have the expertise to sort it out. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:28, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * At first sight it seems to be mostly (but not all) of the towns in Murtal, so I guess what's happened is that a code has got changed somewhere to reflect the new district. There's a secondary problem which I've only started to scratch - the error was making the articles members of the non-existent rather than what I assume was the intention, . Now it seems that latter category is intended only for errors in German infoboxes but Infobox Town AT reuses some of the same code, and it's not an ideal category name with that hyphen in it. I changed Metadata population AT-1 and Metadata population AT-6 to use the latter category before realising that it was starting to look complicated, so I thought I'd better stop and consult with you guys, I was just passing through during a review of all the red-linked categories, during which the former category came up.Le Deluge (talk) 18:59, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Request for help
Folks, we received an e-mail from a teacher about an article created as a school project: Hlfs ursprung. Obviously it needs a lot of work (formatting and referencing to name but two areas), but rather than load it up with maintenance templates and risk discouraging the article's creator, would someone who has time please take a look at and see what can be done. I have also asked the folks at WP:WikiProject Schools for help. Thanks.--ukexpat (talk) 15:57, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Austrian Literature Online
I have just translated a short article on Austrian Literature Online (ALO), but perhaps more usefully the related Template:ALO which allows automatic linking to documents at ALO. I've left the parameters in German in order that references/links that come across from de.wiki are automatically handled every time. I guess in due course, we could make it bi-lingual! --Bermicourt (talk) 17:02, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Question about sound file de:Datei:ÖBB-Budapest.ogg
About de:Datei:ÖBB-Budapest.ogg, is it something that is freely licensable? Should it be uploaded to the Commons? If so, a German speaking Wikipedian should add subtitles to it Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 15:55, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * It's a railway station announcement, in German followed by English, of the arrival and foreshadowed departure of the train EC 41 Lehár to Budapest at platform 8 of the station concerned (Wien Westbahnhof, perhaps (?)). I believe that it's a re-recording of a recorded announcement over which the ÖBB holds copyright.  However, it is placed in the German language article de:Österreichische Bundesbahnen to accompany a properly referenced comment to the effect that for 30 years the actress de:Chris Lohner has recorded the majority of the ÖBB's recorded announcements (actually, she's been doing it for longer than that; she featured in the "Changing Trains" episode of Great Railway Journeys of the World, which was shot in 1980).  There's another (different) clip (this time an onboard announcement) included in the de:Chris Lohner article.  As the identity of such an announcer is a fact worthy of inclusion in an encyclopedia, and as each of the clips is a short one accompanying a referenced comment, I believe that both clips can be published in English Wikipedia under the "fair use" exception, but I wouldn't support uploading them to commons.  Incidentally, Chris Lohner's recorded voice may also have featured in Before Sunrise, part of which was shot aboard an Austrian train - I'll have to watch it again to find out. Bahnfrend (talk) 16:27, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Okay. How do I attach subtitles to a locally uploaded file? I want to be able to have subtitles in both German and English, uploaded to accompany the fair use audio clip. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:17, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't know the answer to that question. You might want to try posting your question on another page dealing more specifically with questions about technical issues. Bahnfrend (talk) 11:13, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Hauptbahnhof
FYI, after Talk:Berlin Hauptbahnhof result, I undid undiscussed moves to Wels Hauptbahnhof and Leoben Hauptbahnhof, however there were 121 undiscussed moves in total. See Talk:Central station for further information. In ictu oculi (talk) 08:31, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

German/Austrian station naming
There has been an issue raging for some time over the naming of German and Austrian central or main stations aka Hauptbahnhöfe. Essentially the debate is over whether we use the English name "Foo Central Station" or leave the article title in German i.e. Foo Hauptbahnhof. The truth is there are arguments both ways, but the debate has polarized opinion and is leading to inconsistency as we change titles based on our own perspectives. I will try to summarize the essentials in an objective a way as possible:
 * Many English sources use Foo Hauptbahnhof alone
 * Many English sources use Foo Hauptbahnhof and an English translation – either may be in brackets
 * Many English sources use "Foo Central Station".
 * Quite a number of English sources use "Foo Main Station", for certain stations this is even the most common name used.
 * The national railways of Germany and Austria use "Foo Central Station" and Foo Hauptbahnhof (and sometimes both) in English publications and web pages
 * Depending on which side of the debate editors lie, "Foo central station" and "Foo main station" may or may not be counted. Those "against" argue these are descriptive, those "for" argue they are proper names.
 * Leading and specialist dictionaries recognise that Hauptbahnhof can mean "central station" or "main station". Some editors vehemently oppose the former term (see Talk:Central station).
 * There is confusion because "central station" could mean geographically central to the city or operationally central to the railway network.
 * In reality the most common name in English sources varies from station to station. It may be Foo Hauptbahnhof "Foo Central Station" or "Foo Main Station".
 * For some stations there are few English sources.
 * For others, especially the big stations, there are thousands of online English sources.
 * There have been at least 4 heated discussions on talk pages to change names. Of these 3 have supported "Foo Central Station" (Nuremberg, Leipzig and Berlin I).
 * Following the latest debate, Berlin Central Station was moved to Berlin Hauptbahnhof. There is a proposal to do a mass move back to Foo Hauptbahnhof, possibly following a short RM discussion based on the top few.
 * Meanwhile sporadic moves continue.
 * Current Wiki practice for ordinary stations is to translate Bahnhof Foo as "Foo station" or "Foo railway station"

I’m not aiming to spark yet another argument over the merits of the different names or to debate the above, which is only intended to indicate the complexities and the need to do some research before forming an opinion. I am really seeking views on the best way forward.

The whole subject is crying out for a proper review of English-language sources. I feel that is best led by WP:WikiProject Trains, with the support of WP:WikiProject Germany and WP:WikiProject Austria. It may also make sense to avoid wasting everyone’s time, that no more moves take place until this is sorted out. Ultimately I don’t mind which way this goes as long as it is based on sources not POV, that there is some consistency amongst articles and that article text recognizes all significant usage, both English and German usage. Bermicourt (talk) 19:52, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Multi RM
As discussed by among others User:Wheeltapper and User:Bahnfrend at Talk:Central station, the multi-RM for 121 stations is at Talk:Kaiserslautern Central Station. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:17, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

English exonyms for place names
English_exonyms. Can someone check this please. See also article Talk. Many thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:08, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Ludwig Passini
Can a project member Talk page assess this new article on Ludwig Passini, please ? Thanks. Acabashi (talk) 22:07, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

A discussion of interest
Please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Poland. It would be nice to confirm this with Austrian sources, adding them as references or at least external links/further reading. Thanks, --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 15:34, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Popular pages tool update
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Litteris et Artibus
The current article talks about a Swedish award, but I see occasionally a mention of an Austrian award of that name. Could someone stub it? It was aware to a number of notable artists in 19th century. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:17, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

RfC: Should Nikola Tesla's birthplace be changed?
An RfC Should Tesla's birthplace be changed? has been created. Comments are welcome.- MrX 15:43, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Living people on EN wiki who are dead on other wikis
The following individuals who are in the scope of this project are showing to be alive on the English wiki, but deceased on another language wiki:


 * Gertrude Liebhart: de:Gestorben 2008 / no:Dødsfall i 2008
 * Karl Giesser: fr:Décès en 2010 / ru:Умершие в 2010 году

Please help to find reliable sources to confirm if these individuals are alive or dead, or correct any mis-categorization on the relevant foreign-language article(s). Please see WP:LIVINGDEAD for more info and raise any issues on the talkpage. Thanks.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 17:57, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

RfC - Galicia (Eastern Europe) title
I have opened a Request for Comments here, regarding the disputed title of the article. There is no consensus regarding it's title and the lead section of the article remains in conflict with the title.

Any comments are welcome. -- hmich 176 00:56, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich
An article on Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich has been created. Please consider expanding the article or adding references to establish help notability.

Most people listed in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich are probably notable by English Wikipedia standards. I believe that the copyright on the work has established, so text and images from the work should be available for free use in the English and German Wikipedias. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 23:51, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 04:22, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Amon Göth
Is there any justification for spelling Göth as "Goeth", is this real or a Hollywoodism? In ictu oculi (talk) 15:27, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I would have said no, but then I saw his prisoner photo and that made me think... So I guess it's ad fontes: we should go with the majority of authoritative English sources. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:00, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
 * We don't normally use US army 1945 photoboards as our MOS. I'm asking about reliable German sources. In ictu oculi (talk) 00:05, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The photo was just a trigger. And I thought we used English sources, not German ones, as our guide. Or has the policy just changed? --Bermicourt (talk) 06:30, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello, is there anyone who can answer the question please? In ictu oculi (talk) 09:35, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
 * According to google books the verdict appears to be "Goeth":
 * Amon Goeth - 4570 hits
 * Amon Göth - 1700 hits
 * Amon Goth - 671 hits
 * These include German as well as English sources. --Bermicourt (talk) 10:55, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Hello, is there anyone who can answer the question please? Is there any justification in German sources for spelling Göth as "Goeth", is this real or a Hollywoodism? In ictu oculi (talk) 23:46, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I've answered the question. The sources mainly spell it Goeth. But go ahead and change it to Göth; clearly no one's really interested. --Bermicourt (talk) 06:14, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Template:lang-de and Template:lang-de-AT
I think that "lang-de-AT" is useless, as it is used by only Austrian Empire. Someone reverted the edits I made to make things simple. Perhaps discuss this at Template talk:lang-de regarding "lang-de-AT" and inserting "Austrian German" parameters into the parent template. --George Ho (talk) 20:17, 14 August 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Austrian castle database template
I've just created Template:Burgen-austria which produces a standard link to a comprehensive Austrian castles online database, "Burgen-austria", that is widely used on German Wiki and by other sources. --Bermicourt (talk) 18:04, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Problems with "Gemeindekennziffer"?
Hello, greetings from WP:WikiProject Germany. Seems like some new "Gemeindekennziffern" in Styria, Austria are no longer supported or have been changed: see Category:Template:Metadata_Population/Error. Looks like the metadata for those towns is outdated and/or transmitted incorrectly - but I have little knowledge about templates and zero knowledge about metadata. Can someone more experienced look into the problem? It might also be related to template:Infobox Ort in Österreich. GermanJoe (talk) 15:39, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Tried, but failed …    FDMS   4    20:51, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, tried the same on a different town, with the same result. The issue must be somewhere deeper either in the data or in the template handling of it (more wild guesses). GermanJoe (talk) 22:50, 5 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Found one error, if any template editor wants to fix it. The sub-template Template:Get Austria location code still has the old name <-> key relations from 2013 hardcoded and needs to be updated in sync with the other lists (f.e. in Template:Metadata population AT-6). Alternatively the correct "Gemeindekennziffer" can be set as infobox parameter, but the parameter is "key = ", not "Gemeindekennziffer = ". See Allerheiligen im Mürztal, where i added this value as fix. (In this case area, population, and "date as of" should not be added manually) GermanJoe (talk) 17:49, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Need more commenters at Austrian Federal Government
A user wants to move Talk:Austrian Federal Government to "Cabinet of Austria" [..Removed argument..] Perhaps someone [..] familiar with Austrian politics might like to come over and comment. RGloucester — ☎ 03:20, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Removing/changing part of original wording to make notice neutral per the WP:Canvass policy. Changes marked by square brackets. Iselilja (talk) 18:39, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

German speaker needed at Stiftskeller St. Peter ("oldest restaurant in Europe", 803 AD)
A German speaker is needed at the article for Stiftskeller St. Peter (an Austrian restaurant), which is claimed to be oldest restaurant in Europe, dating at least to 803 AD, the time of Charlemagne and Alcuin, according to a claim on the restaurant website. The English article lacked any citation beyond the website, so another editor rewrote the article a few days ago to reflect more skepticism. I noticed that the German article on the same restaurant linked to a Google Book citation in German that did seem to mention the restaurant as well as Alcuin (Alkuin). I added the citation to the English version of the article. But since I don't read German, I have no idea what the Google book citation is really saying, and whether it should be regarded as a reliable source that fully backs up the claim that Alkuin mentioned the restaurant. It would be great if someone who speaks German could give this some attention. (And what a fascinating bit of trivia, if true). Thanks -- Presearch (talk) 18:46, 22 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I've had a quick look and the source mentions a vineyard, but not a restaurant or equivalent AFAICS. --Bermicourt (talk) 20:24, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp FAR
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Georg Johannes von Trapp listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Georg Johannes von Trapp to be moved to Georg von Trapp. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:29, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

RfC: Nikola Tesla
An RFC: Should all discussions and proposals about Nikola Tesla's nationality, ethnicity and country of birth (broadly construed) be limited to the sub-page: Talk:Nikola Tesla/Nationality and ethnicity? has been posted here. Interested editors are invited to comment.- MrX 20:53, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Thousands of Austrian cityscape and other images may be deleted from Commons
Please see discussion at Village_pump_(miscellaneous). I think it is an item of major interest to the editors interested in this WikiProject. The (very underestimated) counts for how many images may be affected have been posted to commons:Commons_talk:Freedom_of_Panorama_2015. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 01:01, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Proposed disambiguation of Southern Alps (New Zealand) and Southern Alps (Europe)
Currently Southern Alps is an article about a mountain range in New Zealand and Southern Alps (Europe) is about the range in the south of the Alps. So there is a move request to move the former to Southern Alps (New Zealand) and make Southern Alps the disambiguation page, on the basis that the Southern Alps of Europe are at least as notable as the Southern Alps of New Zealand. See Talk:Southern Alps. Bermicourt (talk) 12:05, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Article for deletion
The article on the Fritz Pflaum Hut, a mountain hut in the Austrian Alps run by the German Alpine Club, has been nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion/Fritz Pflaum Hut. The outcome of this may decide the fate of all similar Alpine hut articles. --Bermicourt (talk) 12:08, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Naming and spelling conventions for Austrian articles
Hi team, I've drafted the missing naming and spelling convention for Austrian articles at WikiProject Austria/Conventions which I hope editors will find helpful. It is largely based on its German WikiProject equivalent, but I have tailored it to Austria, where some of the conventions are different. Please feel free to proof check and suggest any additions or alterations. Cheers. Bermicourt (talk) 20:01, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
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Category:Grand Masters of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria has been nominated for discussion
Category:Grand Masters of the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. RevelationDirect (talk) 02:06, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

Wiener klinische Wochenschrift
I started an article on an Austrian medical journal, Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, and wanted to suggest that someone fluent in German might want to add an article on the journal to the German-language Wikipedia. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:43, 15 July 2016 (UTC) ]]

Category:Order of Elizabeth has been nominated for discussion
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O.Oe. Energiesparverband
Hi, this article has been tagged for notability since 2008. I wonder if a member of the project could check if it's a notable agency or not. Otherwise, I plan to propose this article for deletion. K.e.coffman (talk) 07:05, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Updated Austria populations & Styria structural reform
I have updated ~2,500 Austria town populations for 2016-01-01, with the auto-population templates (Template:Metadata_population_AT-1 to ...AT-9). However, the massive re-districting of the 542 Styria (state) towns, in 2015, needs to be noted among those pages, plus I think 36 new towns in Styria, of the remaining 287 towns after the merger. I have begun translation of the German WP page "de:Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform" as English page "Styria municipal structural reform" (can be renamed later).

The dissolved 255 town pages need to have infobox population set as "Einwohner=nnnn" (no commas) with "Stand = 2014-01-01" (as 2014 data), and also add infobox "key = -mmmmm" as a negative town code to no longer hunt recent population data for each defunct old town. This is a massive change, as all 255 former municipalities must be updated, but the German WP equivalent pages contain such relevant text +sources as some help. -Wikid77 (talk) 15:50, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Cannabis in Austria needs improvement
We have a new article Cannabis in Austria, but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read German sources. With a little polishing, it'd also be really useful to make a translated version for German Wikipedia since it's a topic of increasing interesting these days. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 03:01, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages
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Category:Recipients of Austrian military awards and decorations has been nominated for discussion
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Popular pages report
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I may have accidentally messed up the project page
When I came to the WikiProject Austria page today, I found that everything was grouped with the sidebar for some reason. I checked the edit history, and the last edit was the edit in which I added the tab header to ease navigation. The tab header was working fine when I first added it yesterday, but now, it seems to have moved the whole page into the sidebar. What happened?

Thanks, DraconicDark (talk) 16:02, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

I just checked again and found that the project page is back to normal, but I still don't know what happened. DraconicDark (talk) 19:11, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

And, now it's all under the sidebar again. DraconicDark (talk) 01:38, 26 July 2017 (UTC)

Austrian expressways (Schnellstraßen)
As I was going through the articles on motorways in Austria, I noticed that there were no articles on the expressways (Schnellstraßen) of Austria. In Austria, Schnellstraßen are limited-access roads that are similar to Autobahns, but are built to account for topography. Despite this, German Wikipedia has articles on these roads.

I am willing to translate these articles from German to English, but I have a question about the title of the articles. Should I title them by the designation of the road (ex. S1 expressway (Austria)) or by the alternate name of the road (ex. Wiener Außenring Schnellstraße), as is done by the Autobahns?

Thanks, DraconicDark (talk) 16:55, 26 June 2017 (UTC)


 * I think that's a great idea. As to naming, it would be good to find out what EU English sources call them. And are they expressways (which is a North American not European term) or motor roads or just roads? --Bermicourt (talk) 17:51, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

I found that the S10 expressway has an article already, and it is called an expressway there. It is referred to by its alternate name there, so that s what I will title the articles by.

Thanks, DraconicDark (talk) 02:35, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

High-resolution images of maps of the 17th century
Hi! Please take a look in commons:Category:Atlantis Magni Tomus Tertius (Biblioteca comunale di Trento), new high-resolution files uploaded by User:Francesco Serra (BIBCOMTN) from the Public Library of Trento.--Alexmar983 (talk) 04:44, 13 September 2017 (UTC)

Civil procedure code of Austria
It's not a Wikipedia page but rather an entry from a dictiobary.Xx236 (talk) 09:06, 31 October 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

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Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.&mdash; Rod talk 13:16, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Merge proposal: Schallaburg - Schallaburg Castle
Hello, I don't really know if this is the right place where to insert this notice, but since the argument concerns an Austrian castle I thought to write here. I suggest to merge Schallaburg article in Schallaburg Castle, as proposed in the discussion page. --Goemon (talk) 09:24, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

Niklasdorf train collision
I've created the Niklasdorf train collision article, covering yesterday's accident. Assistance in correcting any errors and expanding from German language sources is requested. Mjroots (talk) 18:28, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Village Pump proposal to delete all Portals
Editors at this project might be interested in the discussion concerning the proposed deletion of all Portals across Wikipedia. See Village_pump_(proposals). --Bermicourt (talk) 17:56, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

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Background
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RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:34, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Austrian museums on the List of music museums
Hi there, I have introduced the List of music museums, and a number of Austrian museums are written in Austrian (and a number in Dutch) but not in English. Are there users at this project that like to write some of these articles? Best regards, Ymnes (talk) 19:36, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
 * In order to not only ask, but to give something back as well, I have written two articles for your project in return: Composing hut of Gustav Mahler (Attersee) and Composing hut of Gustav Mahler (Wörthersee). Happy editing! Ymnes (talk) 13:19, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

WP 1.0 Bot Beta
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Community reassessment
Johann Mickl, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. MisterBee1966 (talk) 08:04, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

RfC: Rota
Talk:Anti-German sentiment/Archive 2 may be of interest to this project.Icewhiz (talk) 09:10, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride!
 You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride!


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Portal:Lusatia up for deletion
Portal:Lusatia, a page relevant to this project, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lusatia and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Lusatia during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Bermicourt (talk) 21:03, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

FYI: Request for comment regarding Austrian German
Hi, I would like to call your attention to the following request for comment because it is relevant to Austrian German:
 * Help talk:IPA/Standard German --mach &#x1f648;&#x1f649;&#x1f64a; 14:18, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Locality categorization by historical subdivisions
Your input about the categorization of settlements is requested at Village pump (policy). Thank you, Ejgreen77 (talk) 11:33, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

Battle of Austerliz FAR
I have nominated Battle of Austerlitz for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. buidhe 02:50, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

RfC on whether MOS:ETHNICITY should be ignored or not for the Nikola Tesla biography
Talk:Nikola_Tesla/Nationality_and_ethnicity Notrium (talk) 16:35, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

Imperial Diet (Austria) & Kremsier Parliament deal with the same subject
In my opinion, Imperial Diet (Austria) and Kremsier Parliament should be merged. Links to different languages should also be merged to one list. Calle Widmann (talk) 14:53, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Assessments department, updated
Greetings, For Austria WP, I added progression, pie graph, rainbow; added "Popular pages" section. JoeNMLC (talk) 16:02, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Hackers and Ponies Targeting Austrian Parties
Can someone expand on the hacking incidents targeting websites of Austrian political parties that involve My Little Pony characters right here? I feel that there's more than the incident that targeted SPÖ in 2011 and one targeted WKR in 2012. We need more than the two Kurier reports that we already cited. Also, as I can't understand German language after all, can anyone highlight which part of these ORF posts (1, 2, 3) to cite? JSH-alive/talk/cont/mail — Preceding undated comment added 16:52, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

The Knickerbocker Gang
Hi! I was wondering if someone could help me pull up sourcing for The Knickerbocker Gang, which is currently up for deletion. From what I can see, the series should pass notability guidelines but I need help searching through German language sourcing. I have a very basic understanding of German (studied it in high school, only remember some of the very basics) and need to use Google Translate, so I can't go through the book sourcing. I'd be shocked if there was't sourcing, to be honest. ReaderofthePack (formerly Tokyogirl79)  (｡◕‿◕｡)  03:12, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The TV series page needs some TLC as well, it seems. ReaderofthePack (formerly Tokyogirl79)  (｡◕‿◕｡)  03:13, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Otto Hitler date of birth discussions
Members of this project may be interest in the related discussions here and here. Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:59, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ... and on Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard about the current version of the article Hitler family created by the thread starter. --KnightMove (talk) 08:40, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Austria-NM
This RfC might be of interest to you. cheers,  Sadkσ  (talk is cheap)  19:58, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

Help with editing The Austrian Green Party
Hi, I’m looking for some help with editing The Greens – The Green Alternative. A lot of the information badly needs updating and improving. For my part, I worked through some grammar cleanup. One sentence stood out to me from the Vorarlberg section: “The charismatic alpine farmer Kaspanaze Simma from Bregenzerwald was the leading candidate, it was mainly due to his efforts why the party was so instantly successful.”

Who’s to say how charismatic he is if at all? And how much it was due to his efforts? The references at the end are not being used to support any of such claims and the detail throughout the article. I’m fairly new here on Wikipedia editing so not too sure where to go but I hope someone (if you are more connected with the subject and/or speak German) can help me here? Thanks! 314WPlay (talk) 19:57, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

Women in Red Europe contest
After successfully completing our Asia and Africa contests over the past six months, we now welcome contributions to our Women in Europe contest which runs for three separate months from April to June 2021. To qualify for the contest, articles have to contain at least 160 words or 1,000 characters of running text and participants need to be members of Women in Red. We look forward to lots of new biographies of women from Austria.--Ipigott (talk) 06:36, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

Category:Austrian and Austro-Hungarian sailplanes has been nominated for merging to Category:Austrian sailplanes
Category:Austrian and Austro-Hungarian sailplanes has been nominated for merging to Category:Austrian sailplanes. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Place Clichy (talk) 15:26, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Outdated population numbers
The population numbers of most Austrian municipalities are outdated since three years (since these template https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Metadata_population_AT-1 and 8 others of the same type were deleted). Who is going to keep the numbers up to date? --Septembermorgen (talk) 11:21, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 14:40, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

Distribution of Races in Austria-Hungary. 1911
Wold like to see someone write a summary of Distribution of Races in Austria-Hungary. 1911 153.33.60.173 (talk) 08:19, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

Women in Red translation contest: April to June 2022
At the beginning of April, WikiProject Women in Red is launching a three-month translation contest focused on increasing our coverage of women's biographies. As the German version of Wikipedia is one of the most popular sources for translation, members of WikiProject Austria may be interested in participating.--Ipigott (talk) 10:33, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Empress Elisabeth of Austria
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Empress Elisabeth of Austria that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 04:52, 9 May 2022 (UTC)

Münchendorf derailment
I've created the Münchendorf derailment article. Assistance is sought in expanding the article from German language news sources. What is the Austrian equivalent of the British RAIB? They will be leading the investigation. We don't seem to have an article about them. Mjroots (talk) 07:51, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 14:14, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Clemens Salvator, Prince of Altenburg
Can anyone help me source the draft for Clemens Salvator, Prince of Altenburg? Thank you, Thriley (talk) 05:37, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Austria-Italy border
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Austria-Italy border that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Bermicourt (talk) 08:03, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

"Southtyroleans"
Can we get some eyes on Southtyroleans please? I tried to at least correct the name and move it but there's a redirect to South Tyrol. The author | seems to have some strong feelings about things like standard German.--Ermenrich (talk) 16:26, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
 * See also [Talk:Southtyroleans#Name|here] where he argues that "South Tyroleans" is a political statement rather than proper English.--Ermenrich (talk) 16:28, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

Native knowledge needed
Hi, we can't find offline or in-depth online source for Articles for deletion/Prosper Anton Josef von Sinzendorf. So we need help. Thanks Taung Tan (talk) 15:41, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments are used by Wikipedia editors to rate the quality of articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project decides to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 14:35, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 14:28, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Siege of Mantua (1799)
Siege of Mantua (1799) has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 02:56, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

An RfC of interest
An RfC of possible interest to this WikiProject can be found here.

Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:57, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

Siege of Vienna: continuous vandalism by many possible sockpuppets
Hi, there are many strange same edits by several new users, all of them relating Ottoman battles, decceasing the Ottoman losses, increasing the Christian losses, and denying the Christian victories, he pretend the Ottoman defeats were just a (friendly visits) trips then they went home (even at the Siege of Belgrade 1465 the user wants to show an Ottoman victory) : Sockpuppet investigations/Keremmaarda

Siege of Vienna 1529, massive edit war activity, he always removes the "Austrian victory" he pretend the Ottoman retreat was not an Austrian victory:

I think Ottoman retreat after 2 weeks of siege = Austrian victory. Simple 2+2=4

(even his marked source say, the Ottomans left their siege engines in Hungary and Bulgaria (very far from Vienna) due to the bad weather.) OrionNimrod (talk) 09:43, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
 Hello WikiProject Austria:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there! Grnrchst (talk) 12:39, 21 September 2023 (UTC)