Talk:Bundestag

Name of article

According to the naming conventions, the file should be named Federal Diet. Gangulf 18:56, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Gangulf/Wilfried Derksen,

I've moved this article to Bundestag_(Germany) for the same reasons I give on Talk:Bundesrat of Germany: (I) you should have allowed a reasonable amount of time for people to register objections to your proposal before going ahead with the move. (ii) I think you misunderstand Wikipedia naming conventions. The convention is usually to use the most commonly used name. Also, words like Tsar and Bundestag that have been absorbed into the English language are used as if they were English words.

Of course as far as i am aware there is only one Bundestag so the "(Germany)" disambiguation is redundant. As soon as possible someone with administrator access should move this article back to Bundestag until a consensus is reached to move it elsewhere.

Iota 03:44, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I meant the convention listed at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English): That means: names in the English translation and the original native name is placed on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the English form. Rationale and specifics. The debate can be on the question if Bundestag is more commonly used in English than the translation. Gangulf 21:39, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sure. Going on my own experience Bundestag is almost universally used in English media while terms like federal assembly and federal diet are rare. This is hard to prove but (for what it's worth) Google (restricted to English language pages) turns up far more hits for Bundestag. Also the English language version of the official webpage of the Bundestag uses the German term, while, for example, the presidential webpage uses Federal President rather than Bundespräsident. Iota 19:01, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

OK Gangulf 10:59, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

the current number of members

at this date, the current number of Abgeordnete is 620. But I cant change the Graphic.

Official Final Results

According to last Wednesday's official final results, the SPD gains another seat and will have 193 MPs in the 18th Bundestag, not 192. Please correct.