File talk:Historical German linguistical area.PNG

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Could someone please revert this back to the darkgreen version? Version 11:26, 29 April 2009, seems extremely inaccurate. What happened to Luxemburg? Why does it seem like the germans on the dutch border don;t speak German? I'm pretty sure they did, even the Dutch on the borders spoke German. Taketa (talk) 15:52, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes you are right, Taketa. Luxembourg and the border between Germany and Belgium are missing in User:HP1740-B's map. The problem is: The map can show the official language or the dialects of the language spoken in a specific area. The border between Germany and the Netherland was also the language border for the official languages Dutch and German, but the dialects on both sides had different borders, which were not shown by User:HP1740-B's new map version.
Dark green should be kept, as it is used in other maps of this series as well. However, some details of the dark green map should be fixed (e.g. Cilli [now in Slovenia] is at the wrong place).
User:HP1740-B's version has doubles at File:German language in 1910.png and File:Germangreen.png. So there is no reason to overwrite this file. HP1740-B, please edit your map there.
-- PhJ (talk) 11:03, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fact disputed[edit]

The description doesn't explain what the map shows.

  1. It uses 1910 demographic data and 1937 borders, which misinforms, because many German speaking people moved after WWI and the creation of many non-German independent states.
  2. The area marked green is the area where more than 50% of the population spoke German, bilingual regions should be however marked with two colors.
  3. The map is used either as German nationalistic POV or as a description of German nationalism (Drang nas Osten) rather than neutral data.
  4. The map isn't quoted in any article in English or German Wikipedia and the author was banned in the English Wikipedia so it's impossible to ask him for explanations. It's used in Wikipedias which sometimes reject foreign (eg. English) language critics.
  5. Millions of people spoke German dialects at that time and didn't understand each other.Xx234 (talk) 07:55, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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