Talk:Young Plan

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Are you sure that the reperations were set to over 25,000,000,000? i have reason to believe that the reperations were around $9,150,000,000? It as around £4,900,000,000 if you look at the German reperations page.

"The Young Plan—which set the total reparations at $26,350,000,000 to be paid over a period of 58½ years...A final effort was made at the Lausanne Conference in 1932...reducing the German obligation from the original $32.3 billion to $713 million"

So which is it, 26 billion or 32 billion. Because i don't see where this 'original' comes from. The original from the Dawes plan? that was 132 billion, and so was the Versailles reparation bill. Please clarify what these amounts are referring too.

My source tells me the young plan set it at 37 billion gold marks and i don't know what that converts too at that time, but this article doesn't mention specific enough changes from Dawes to Young. It would be easier to keep values in marks for the purpose of comparing Germany's own economy from other articles and so forth.

[edit] Merger proposed (Liberty Law)

I propose to merge the content of Liberty Law into here. That article is currently without any sources and needs cleanup; but it is also best covered in a broader context, I think.

Please add your comments below. Proposed as part of the Notability wikiproject. --B. Wolterding 14:35, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

Liberty Law clearly is discrete from the Young Plan. However, as the current entry does spends some space on explaining the context (Young Plan & war reparations), and that it is not that big, they could be merged together, with "Liberty Law" fitting in a sub-section of "Young Plan" as "Opposition to war reparations: Liberty Law" or something like that. Maybe that would help reduce words & gain space, in view of WP:WPNN. Since this merge proposal is not evident, I suggest Wolterding to make a draft of the merge which would demonstrate that merging both articles wouldn't be simply adding one to the other, but actually reducing the lenght of the "Liberty Law" entry by merging it here. If in the future the Young Plan article becomes too long, a spin-out would still be possible. Tazmaniacs 17:51, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I have merged the text directly, and added two references (unfortunately in German only). Please feel free to improve it, or if you find it absolutely unacceptable, to revert it. --B. Wolterding 18:56, 1 September 2007 (UTC)