Wikipedia talk:WikiProject European history/Archive 4

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Jacob Frank now a mascot for Wikipedia sister project Wikiversity
Hi, I'm developing Jacob Frank (an 18th-century European Jew who developed a religious movement called Frankism) as a mascot for Wikipedia's sister project Wikiversity. Wikiversity aims to be an online open school and university, and was also created to host original research. Because of its nature, it's open to educational resources in almost any format. Wikiversity's mascots appear on User talk pages when new Users are welcomed. In my opinion, the Wikiversity mascots could be used more fully as an opportunity to teach. The previously developed Wikiversity mascots lack intrinsic educational value. For example, they include a jack-o-lantern, a goat and twin babies not noticeably tied to anything else. In contrast, Jacob Frank is tied to a chapter of history that is relatively little-known and is probably interesting to some people who might not have heard of him beforehand. I'm also hoping to use his professed ignorance in real life and his doctrine of "purification through transgression" to introduce the Wikiversity policies of "Be bold" and "Ignore all rules" (Wikipedia has very similar policies with the same names). I would appreciate your going over to Wikiversity to provide feedback on the pages about the mascot: v:User:JacobFrank and v:Template:JacobFrank. The Template is left on new Users' talk pages; the Userpage is linked from the template and provides more information about Jacob Frank. Also, any ideas for other Wikiversity mascots? Thanks. -- AFriedman  (talk)  04:16, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Opinion needed
Was the Courante published in the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (The Netherlands)" or in the "Dutch Republic (The Netherlands)"? See Talk:List of newspapers by establishment date Gun Powder Ma (talk) 12:36, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Locations of concentration camps
A number of articles about concentration camps in Europe need to have geographic coordinates added. User:The Anome/Concentration camps needing coordinates contains a list of these articles, and WP:COORD contains instructions for how to add coordinates to articles. I'd greatly appreciate any help you can give on this. -- The Anome (talk) 07:30, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Naming dispute at Prince-Bishop
We're having a minor revert war over the name used for the prince-bishop of the place now known as Olomouc, which was known as Olmütz in German. This prince-bishopric was a vassal of the Bohemian Crown within the Holy Roman Empire.

If anyone has strong feelings on the matter, they may wish to contribute to the conversation at Talk:Prince-Bishop, where I am trying to seek consensus. — OwenBlacker (Talk) 13:54, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Assistance with Eastern Europe needed
The Eastern Europe article is fraught with geopolitical errors, mislabels and slanted facts as if much of it was written by ultraconservatives during the Cold War from an ethnocentric position. If you agree with that Central Europe is more than a backwards ex-Soviet satellite, please assist in rewording/correcting the article lead and body. Gregorik (talk) 17:36, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

European history articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Who is Fred Kautz? - UNDUE issues connected with Hitler's Willing Executioners
Hello history people,

I've noticed that on the pages connected with the controversy about Daniel Goldhagen's writing - Hitler's Willing Executioners, Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Hans Mommsen Eberhard Jäckel, and also the historian Theodor Schieder, there is reference made to "Fred Kautz", a Canadian historian. He makes some fairly strong comments about some of the people mentioned above. Because of this I checked out who he was, puzzled that he didn't have a wiki article. It turns out he's a "freelance" writer, not an appointed academic, who has written two books. The first is the attack on Goldhagen's critics, published by a minor non-academic publishing house, and the second, written in German in 2004 appears to be unnotable - certainly ignored in English. Should his views be given such weight, especially in the HWE page? VsevolodKrolikov (talk) 04:23, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Getting Started
Hi I'm a big fan and admirer of European History. I was looking the Task Force and Project listings to find one that sounded interesting. I was wondering what are the steps to becoming a member of this Task Force, I'd be eager to donate time to help out. I understand that I'm a fairly new Wikipedia User and that may cause a little apprehension, but I'm really eager to help out and I'd really appreciate any feedback anyone could give me. Thanks! (so you know, I had an account that I started last year and that I was a big contributor on but I lost my password so I started this account a few days ago.) Magister Scienta (talk) 19:40, 22 December 2010 (UTC)