Talk:Bavarian Soviet Republic

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I took the initiative to move this article from Munich Soviet Republic because most English language academic sources refer to it as Bavarian Soviet Republic. I intend to spend a lot of time improving this article, and look forward to any one else who may want to contribute. —ExplorerCDT 05:24, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Categories 2 Category 3 Thurn und Taxis 4 Name change

[edit] Categories

If the article is in "History of Bavaria" category (which is a subcategory of "German history" and "Germany") there's no need to put it in "Germany" and "German history" categories as well. This is the category policy of Wikipedia.

That is because otherwise would make hard to browse the main categories, as for example "Germany", because there would be too many topics on them. The same way, we put a German musician under the "German musicians" category and not in the category "People". Bogdan | Talk 17:50, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Fuck policy. Some of Wikipedia's conventions are convulted, self-contradictory and downright stupid. —ExplorerCDT 18:07, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • that's right, man! the more categories the better, keep up the fight against wikipedia paper-shufflers (they already dominate in the German Wiki). --85.178.100.7 20:22, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category

Bavaria is a part of germany,and putting history of Bavaria separate is like putting Hurricane Katrina to Texas/Lousiana History.Its should be included,and size of category isn't a valid argument . "Harder to browse" would be hard to navigate many topics far exceeding germany categories. And for the record grouping people by nationality isn't a really good idea in perspective(emigrants,travellers,national minorities,etc) and better adressed by grouping in terms of subject area(i.e. Profession,Religion,Occupation) internationally. ex:German scientists vs scientists by field(Chemists,physicists,Biologists)

[edit] Thurn und Taxis

The article says that a prince of the House of Thurn and Taxis was executed for spying by the revolutionaries, but I haven't found any further information about this individual on the web. The German article does not mention anyone from the house, and the Thurn und Taxis article does not have any princes dying in 1919. Is there a source for this inclusion in the article? Olessi 22:37, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[1] Aufgabe 10 Was wird den roten Exekutionskommandos in München allerdings zum Verhängnis? Wo gehen sie zu weit?

Lösungshinweis: Nach der Erschießung des Grafen Thurn und Taxis und der Gräfin Westphal schlägt die Stimmung unter der Bevölkerung endgültig um. Die Bürger haben genug; in München stationierte Soldaten wenden sich nun gegen die Räte-Anhänger.

This infobite seems to be an angle to pursue. Agathoclea 08:29, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

This lead me to the following radioprogramme transcript descibing the events: [2]Agathoclea 08:32, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Events are also alluded here: Thule_society#Activities. Agathoclea 08:34, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the links. Looks like the executed are Gustav von Thurn und Taxis and Heila von Westarp. Olessi 15:18, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Name change

Per Naming Conventions (common names), I reverted this page back to Bavarian Soviet Republic from its 3 month captivity at Munich Soviet Republic. Why? Because BSR is the common name in English especially given its academic usage compared to MSR. If the Germans refer to it differently, let them do so on the German Wikipedia. —ExplorerCDT 03:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)