Talk:Berlin Victory Column

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I assume that the statue atop the column is a goddess, but what goddess? -- Jmabel 00:51, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)

It is "Germania". It was to Germany more or less that what was "uncle sam" to the U.S. (unsigned, User:Morgenstern Mar 19, 2005)

Meanwhile, someone has written in the article that it is Victoria, which seems equally reasonable. Morgenstern, are you saying that the article is wrong? -- Jmabel | Talk 03:16, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Link may belong somewhere, but...

I cut this link

Siegessäule.de Siegessäule, the Berlin gay rights movement/magazine

from the article. It may well belong in Wikipedia somewhere, may even merit a disambiguation page for Siegessäule and an article or its own, but it does not belong here: no one calls the magazine "Berlin victory column". -- Jmabel | Talk 05:48, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Title => Siegessäule ?

I know that Wikipedia policy is to use English names for things wherever possible, but I have never heard anyone talk about the "Berlin victory column", and it is not the place of Wikipedia to invent new translations for things without English names. The original text of this article seems to have come from an automated translation, which would of course have translated Siegessäule as "victory column", because automated translators are, generally, stupid. Can we please change this article to Siegessäule? --Stemonitis 15:24, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I don't have a strong opinion, but, yes, I have heard it called this by English speakers at least as often as I've heard them use the German Siegessäule. -- Jmabel | Talk 02:39, 6 October 2005 (UTC)