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German source review

Hello, I'm an employee of Beutler Ink posting here on behalf of our client Jedox. Recently, Jedox the Wikipedia article was deleted due to notability concerns.

Many of the comments in the deletion discussion were looking at the article's sources in use (note: none of the sources I ask about below were used in the now-deleted article). I presented a draft which used German sources, however access and language barrier posed problems.

I have made a new user space draft. Before I submit it through AfC, I wanted to ask editors here if anyone is able to access the German sources below and can weigh in on their reliability and whether they contribute to WP:NCORP?

Freiburg ist das Silicon Schwarzwald^[1]
Geschäftsmodell: Verkaufen, wenn der Laden boomt^[2]
Software-Spezialist Jedox sammelt mehr als 100 Millionen Dollar ein^[3]
Freiburger Softwareunternehmen Jedox setzt zum großen Sprung an^[4]

References

^ Kroker, Michael (6 June 2013). "Freiburg is the Silicon Valley of the Black Forest". WirtschaftsWoche. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
^ Röderer, Joachim (10 June 2014). "Geschäftsmodell: Verkaufen, wenn der Laden boomt". Badische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2025.
^ Höpner, Axel (January 12, 2021). "Software-Spezialist Jedox sammelt mehr als 100 Millionen Dollar ein". Handelsblatt (in German). Retrieved 15 December 2025.
^ Peters, Philipp (15 January 2021). "Freiburger Softwareunternehmen Jedox setzt zum großen Sprung an". Badische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2025.

Thanks for taking a look! Happy to discuss the sources, cheers BINK Robin (talk) 22:27, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@BINK Robin, the Badische Zeitung articles look likely to be good coverage to me, especially given that one is dated 2014 and one 2021, that is, this is a company that has some "lasting" amount of press coverage outside of press releases. But these sources were all known to editors in the previous deletion discussion, so I'm not sure there's much room to challenge this. I have to say, as an admin I wouldn't have deleted the article as a result of that discussion, which was quite poor overall. (I'd have relisted it with a pointed note that editors should explicitly respond to the German-language sources and not just drop "not notable" as rationales.) -- asilvering (talk) 22:57, 4 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Asilvering, thanks for taking a look! Do you think it would be a candidate for a deletion review? Or is proceeding with AfC with better sources still the best approach? Cheers, BINK Robin (talk) 18:39, 12 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

AFC. The deletion review will be unsuccessful as the consensus of the AFD was very clear. -- asilvering (talk) 01:46, 13 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense, thank you! BINK Robin (talk) 15:44, 13 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

These sources were retrieved in December 2025; which is before the AfD took place. @BINK Robin:, do you have access to the full text of all the sources you dropped? If so, why did you not engage in discussion during AfD showing in what way they make the article meet WP:NCORP requirements while AfD was still taking place? If you do not, I can't even imagine how you can even try to claim NCORP based on sources you can't access. Graywalls (talk) 14:02, 31 March 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Natural History Museum, Berlin#Requested move 7 March 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Natural History Museum, Berlin#Requested move 7 March 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 10:36, 3 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for FC Bayern Munich

FC Bayern Munich 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. Z1720 (talk) 18:43, 9 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Challenge - "Mountains of Germany"

Greetings, In my wanderings for Unreferenced articles, I found Category:Articles lacking sources from February 2016 with Hundreds of articles, all in need of at least one source. It would be great if several editors here can help improve these articles. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 14:59, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

ω Awaiting - JoeNMLC (talk) 23:15, 27 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

ω Awaiting - Wondering if these should be PROD? without source to establish notability. JoeNMLC (talk) 12:47, 20 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I found several of these mountains and hills on Peakbagger, for instance Armesberg. Some others could be prodded indeed, like Auf der Baar (not to be confused with the region in southwestern Germany). Markussep ^Talk 14:21, 20 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Markussep, Thanks for this info. Today I completed the category "B" section. In addition to Peakbagger, I sometimes found a decent Ref in the German article. Plus I also stumbled upon https://peakery.com/, a mapper site, published by Apperies, LLC (hoping it is a reliable source). Cheers, JoeNMLC (talk) 20:05, 20 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Partly done - Currently at letter "H" in the alphabet and moving forward. JoeNMLC (talk) 14:36, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Partly done - Starting letter "M" today, with approximately 100 articles remaining. JoeNMLC (talk) 15:01, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Partly done - Starting letter "S" today, with approximately 65 articles remaining. JoeNMLC (talk) 16:20, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done - There are a small number of articles that remain unreferenced, so I added the "Notability, Geo" tag for those. Cheers! JoeNMLC (talk) 21:23, 19 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Name of Austria area in 1000

Hi, I am creating history map, in the Hungarian history atlas Austria called as "Ostmark", or should I caption it as "Margraviate of Austria"? Which would be more proper in the English map?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kingdom_of_Hungary_in_the_11th_Century_–_German_Wars.svg OrionNimrod (talk) 11:20, 16 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Edgar Lissel

The article Edgar Lissel has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Unreferenced BLP, for 14 years, except for his own website. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Fails the relevant notability guidelines. Lacks significant coverage.

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Good article reassessment for German involvement in the Spanish Civil War

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Good article reassessment for Sängerfest

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Requested move at Talk:National Democratic Party of Germany#Requested move 5 May 2026

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:National Democratic Party of Germany#Requested move 5 May 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 01:31, 15 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Search for sourcing?

Can someone fluent in German see if they can find any sourcing for Hans Krüger (pharmacist)? My skills are kind of bare bones and for a topic like this I am heavily reliant on Google Translate. I'm getting the impression that there may be more sourcing out there. It's kind of slow going because I have to stop and run a translation program, along with much of what I can access being paywalled to some extent like with this source that came up in a Google Books search. It seems like if more in-depth sourcing does exist, it's going to exist offline. This one mentions that he was a member of Bezeichnung Deutsche Apothekerschaft, but I don't know anything about that organization. I think it's part of ABDA, which doesn't look like it's on the level of a Royal Society. ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79) (｡◕‿◕｡) 14:07, 18 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Silesian language § Requested move 24 May 2026

An editor has requested that Silesian language be moved to Upper Silesian language, which may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to participate in the move discussion. Fortek67 (talk) 23:53, 24 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

German_humour

Please join Talk:German_humour#Black_humor. --Altenmann >talk 19:23, 27 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Klaus H. Carl

Please add reliable sources, or send it to WP:AfD. Danke. Bearian (talk) 04:52, 29 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Edgar Lissel

Here is another stub of a BLP that has been unsourced for 13 years. The prod tag was removed. Please either add sources or send to WP:AfD. Bearian (talk) 04:55, 29 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Stefan Gradmann

The article Stefan Gradmann has been proposed for deletion because it appears to have no references. Under Wikipedia policy, this biography of a living person will be deleted after seven days unless it has at least one reference to a reliable source that directly supports material in the article. The nominator also raised the following concern:

Unsourced except for unreliable ELs

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can someone help me with reading blackletter?

Lotte Reiniger has reference with the title "Making sure you're not a bot"; I have been trying to replace all references with this title with their actual name. The reference points to this, which is a newspaper page from 1915. I can read individual words but I'm not sure I'd trust myself to search the entire page and confirm that it contains the info needed (and work out what the title= should be)... Morwen (talk) 15:15, 19 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Cheers. In solidarity, asilvering (talk) 01:17, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

[Kroker_2013-1] Kroker, Michael (6 June 2013). "Freiburg is the Silicon Valley of the Black Forest". WirtschaftsWoche. Retrieved 9 December 2025.

[Röderer_2014-2] Röderer, Joachim (10 June 2014). "Geschäftsmodell: Verkaufen, wenn der Laden boomt". Badische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2025.

[Höpner_2021-3] Höpner, Axel (January 12, 2021). "Software-Spezialist Jedox sammelt mehr als 100 Millionen Dollar ein". Handelsblatt (in German). Retrieved 15 December 2025.

[Peters_2021-4] Peters, Philipp (15 January 2021). "Freiburger Softwareunternehmen Jedox setzt zum großen Sprung an". Badische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2025.

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