Talk:Joschka Fischer

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[edit] Honorary degree

He has an Dr h.c. from the University of Haifa.
What is a Dr h.c.? -- Viajero 22:51, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)
A doctorate honoris causa, a PhD title given not for a scientific work, but as an act of honour. -- till we *) 23:06, Aug 1, 2003 (UTC)
I see. I guess you mean an honorary degree. Perhaps we could change it to that? I don't believe that Latin abbreviation is common in English. Perhaps it is in German?... -- Viajero 13:21, 2 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Yes, it is. -- 217.225.208.51 18:40, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Wifes

Do we have his wives' last names? RickK 04:03, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)

At the moment I have only Claudia Bohn and Nicola Leske. --Wik 04:08, Sep 21, 2003 (UTC)
Edeltraut Fischer, Inge, last name unknown, Claudia Bohn and Nicola Leske are correct. Madayar, --80.171.188.153 21:33, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
"Claudia Bohn" is not the correct spelling of her name. Her name is Claudia Bohm. I just corrected the article. --213.61.190.207 11:10, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Marathon

would it be interesting enought for inclusion that he finished the New York Marathon 1999 in 3h55min using his second name for security reasons (1999 MARTIN FISCHER M50 9990 8916 3:56:13 3:55:07)

[edit] Page title

Why is this page suddenly named "Joseph Martin Fischer"? Nobody knows Joschka Fischer by this name, it would be as gruesome as a William Clinton article (which in fact is a redirect to Bill Clinton). Could it be changed back, please? -- till we *) 17:45, 6 May 2004 (UTC)

Nephelin, I think the vast majority of English speakers refer to him as Joschka Fischer. Please read Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names), and unless "Joschka" is BPOV, revert your changes. - Jeandré, 2004-05-06t23:10z
An anonymous user is trying to undo the move, but does it by copy-and-paste. Despite several attempts to make him discuss the topic before repeating the move he continues with it. I have protected the page to finally force him to go here, hopefully noone will count this as sysop abuse as I reverted his wrong moves several time before already. I hope the protection can be short time. andy 11:58, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
Note that this user now knows how to move pages, since he moved around my user page several times. Dear anonymous, I don't care where this article should be, but you don't gain anything by vandalism attacks. andy 12:32, 12 May 2004 (UTC)

Can we unprotect this page, and leave the redirect page protected, to foil the anon? john 06:19, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

Joschka really is a nickname. It's so common that even the media or members of other parties never call him Joseph. But it's his official name. So I guess you can use it. Joschka Fischer redirects to this site, so I guess it's a-ok. Madayar, --80.171.188.153 21:29, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

Many comments sound suspiscious, such as the book-stealing one (Copyied from article by me. -83.129.6.207 02:37, 19 September 2005 (UTC)))

Honestly, it's going to take more than that to lodge a real NPOV Compalaint. User:Torbjorn 22 September, 2005

[edit] POV tag

This article is in horrible shape! It is formulated in an incredible suggestive manner, and in some cases I doubt whether the facts are accurate. This needs some serious attention. The Minister of War (Peace) 00:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree that the article could use cleanups and definetly more information. However I don't quite follow how is it POV? Which parts in specific are so suggestive? Gryffindor 14:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Translation?

From the "Green politician" bit:

"With respect, sir, you are an asshole" (german: "Mit Verlaub, Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch.").

I don't know German that well, but shouldn't "sir" be something like "Mr. President"? 68.39.174.238 06:05, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

You're right. --Abe Lincoln 07:11, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] POV Weblinks

The external links following the sentence "The following sources reflect the views of U.S. adversaries of Fischer and his policies, especially Germany's decision not to participate in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq." are extremly POV, they do not show opinions of the other side and the Paul Berman one is not even fact-based (quote: "Saddam and the terrible weapons he has") yeah, Saddam and his WMDs... -- Imladros 22:17, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Foreign Minister

I find it interesting that as a high school drop-out and former unskilled worker he made it to the presidency of the United Nations Security Council and chaired the session on 5th Feb 2003 on Irak where Colin Powell gave his now infamous presentation about the Irak's WMDs. http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/PRO/N03/236/00/PDF/N0323600.pdf?OpenElement

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