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Q: Why is this article called "War guilt question", when every other Wikipedia calls it the same thing, after the German word for it?
A: Because a careful search of books and other reliable sources in English, shows that the English phrase is the more common one in English sources. Sources generally do mention the German word from which the English calque is derived, but then they use the English expression, or after the first time, a shortened version of it ("the question", "the issue", etc.). There are some English sources that do use the German word throughout, but they are a minority.
Q: What about the capitalization? Why not, "War Guilt Question"?
It also has other names in English, including: war guilt thesis, question of German guilt, question of German war guilt, and war guilt problem. But some are just elegant variation, and none are as common in English as "war guilt question", which started to appear almost immediately, for example in 1920,[1] and 1930.[2]
Two articles on foreign Wikipedias have "Featured article" status: the French article, and the German article. (Note that they have the same name; the French article borrowed the German word as the title, because that's what reliable sources in French do.) Details on the section structure of these two articles follows. Mathglot (talk) 00:26, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Checklist of tasks for draft prep before and at launch
Complete initial translations.
Mark expansion possibilities where only partly translated. (indicate useful, underutilized sources)
Brief intro paragraphs for #In the Weimar Republic, #Treaty of Versailles, #Reactions, #In other countries, #Post World War II.
Section #Dealing with the issue and responsibilities: not clear what the unifying theme is of this H3; also, needs intro para. Mathglot (talk) 21:08, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Section retitling and re-org – some of the section headers are far from ideal (blame the French article), and the overall section structure could be improved.
Start adding more English sources to the #Sources section, so they can be used to supplement, or in some cases replace, French or German sources if the English sources are as good. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mathglot (talk • contribs) 22:51, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Pre-release: check {{Further}} templates with fr/de links, and possibly convert to {{Expand French}} or German. Mathglot (talk) 20:44, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
check Sfn linkage
Section Further reading: translate untranslated bits (month names, etc.), drop fr templates ('numero', etc)
Watch for efn notes > 26 which generate 2-letter bracketed superscript [aa], [ab], etc, when they are adjacent to {{ill}}s
Draft categories
Draft cruft at top
Section top links: {{Main}}, {{Further}}, Further ill; ill's in line..
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Arbeitsausschuss Deutscher Verbände --> ~#Working Committee of German Associations (section, subtopic, lang(de>en), possibilities, printworthy)
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