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Latest comment: 2 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion
Tet another anti-German page on Wikipedia. Do you have pages on the intense Polonisation exersizes of Poland in all the surrounding lands (belonging to others) they invaded over the centuries, not least since 1919 and 1945? Thought not. 2A00:23C4:B607:CF00:F92B:9A1:8477:FF6E (talk) 15:12, 22 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
But suppose that we didn't have the article on Polonization, and that subject just happened to have slipped through the cracks, how would that make a bit of difference to the validity of this article, which is sourced to reliable sources? The answer is, it wouldn't, because the existence or non-existence of other articles is not a reflection on the accuracy of this one. I do not think that Wikipedia is in any way "anti-German", but it is pretty clearly anti-Nazi, not to the extent that we allow our articles on Nazism to be propagandistic or inaccurate -- they have to fulfill the same standards as any other article -- but to the extent that the vast majority of Wikipedia editors reject Nazism, neo-Nazism, and fascism. In my view, that's not a bug, it's a feature. Beyond My Ken (talk) 08:43, 18 September 2022 (UTC)Reply
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The lead says "Germanisation also occurs when a word from the German language is adopted into a foreign language (for this purpose, German has a special word, Eindeutschung, in contrast to the general translation, Germanisierung)." However, this (taken together as a whole) is unreferenced, unsupported by the article body, and incorrect. The first half of the sentence, before the parenthetical, could plausibly either be a mix-up which was supposed to be the other way around (when discussing the German language, Germanisation occurs when non-German words are adopted and adapted into German, and this is, as the parenthetical states, also called Eindeutschung), or else it could be a (slightly confusing but technically accurate) summary of how languages like Czech were Germanised by importing German words (but in that case the unreferenced and unsupported-in-the-article-body parenthetical must be dropped, because Eindeutschung is the opposite process). -sche (talk) 22:45, 29 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
