Commons:Categories for discussion/2016/02/Category:History of Germany by ancient territory

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Category:History of Germany by ancient territory[edit]

Should be Category:History of Germany by former state or Category:History of Germany by historical state. Zoupan (talk) 11:41, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it's fine the way it is. Your proposal to name it 'by state' has two issues: for one, in the context of Germany, state always refers to the w:German Länder. There already is a Category:Historical states of Germany which rightly also includes all those Category:Territories of the Holy Roman Empire. Besides, the cfd currently collects all sorts of historic political units, like Ancient Roman provinces, Frankish kingdoms, dependent Medieval territories, or the w:former eastern territories of Germany (or Prussia respectively). "History of Germany by historical state" is propably not a very desirable category, as it will most likely motivate user to create categories of the likes of "Category:History of Prussia" (what Germans call "Verschlimmbesserung-en"...: Prussia in her entirety should be archived as history). --88.69.88.161 21:24, 13 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: no consensus. --ƏXPLICIT 00:50, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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