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Angela Merkel has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
December 6, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
September 29, 2006	Good article nominee	Not listed
August 7, 2023	Good article nominee	Listed
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 17, 2023. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that former German chancellor Angela Merkel's grandfather likely fought against Germany in World War I?
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on November 22, 2006, November 22, 2007, November 22, 2011, November 22, 2013, November 22, 2015, and July 17, 2024.
Current status: Good article

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 14:15, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Merkel's grandfather in his Blue Army uniform

... that Angela Merkel's grandfather (pictured) likely fought against Germany in World War I? Source: "Fachleute wie der polnische Historiker Wolodzimierz Boriodziej bestätigen dieser Zeitung nun, dass es damit nicht ausgeschlossen sei, dass auch Großvater Kazmierczak die Waffen gegen Deutschland erhoben haben könnte" from this article.
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Improved to Good Article status by Actualcpscm (talk). Self-nominated at 11:11, 7 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Angela Merkel; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

I'm not going to review this nomination as I was involved in the good article review but I think it was World War 1 not World War 2. http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/research/2014/06/18/picturing-the-family-media-narrative-memory/ Llewee (talk) 11:39, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That was a typo, fixed! Thanks :) Actualcpscm (talk) 11:50, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Very interesting fact indeed. Congrats on getting an article this big to GA status! Earwig is clear and there are no other concerns I can see so this is good to go.--N Ø 18:01, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Actualcpscm: I wonder if the hook should include "former Chancellor of Germany" as a qualifier? Merkel was also the first female Chancellor of Germany. Seems there is much that is interesting about her. But this tidbit about her grandfather is also interesting. Bruxton (talk) 14:14, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Pro-Russian policy must be noted somewhere in the lede

Blocked suspected sock. Clyde _{[trout needed]} 22:26, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

She is not seen favorably at all since 2022, neither in Germany nor elsewhere. This article should note this. Malecide (talk) 16:01, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Could you provide some sources for that? It‘s quite a strong claim and would probably need at least two good reliable sources, unless we attribute it as an opinion. Actualcpscm^{scrutinize, talk} 16:15, 4 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Blocking negotiations of accession of Ukraine and Georgia into NATO in 2008 while Russia was still weak, green-lighting Russia's invasion of Georgia afterward, Nord Stream 1 and 2, pushing for Minsk treaties, not doing anything about Russian spy infiltration of Germany, tolerating Putinverstehern in her party etc. Malecide (talk) 05:32, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That’s your own analysis, but Wikipedia is not a place for sharing personal opinions in articles. We can’t write that Merkel is „not seen favorably at all“ based on individual editors objecting to her policies. Actualcpscm^{scrutinize, talk} 09:06, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Official website

I've updated the official website of Angela Merkel. During her active time as politician, she used https://www.angela-merkel.de/ but that site has now been blanked since at least 20 December 2021. As former chancellor of Germany she has a federally funded office which has an official website since June 2022: https://www.buero-bundeskanzlerin-ad.de/. This gets regularly updated with official statements, events, contact info etc. while the former website remains blanked. --AFBorchert (talk) 07:23, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe an archive of the old website could be included. JackTheSecond (talk) 11:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@JackTheSecond: Good point, I've updated the external links accordingly. --AFBorchert (talk) 15:29, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Name IPA wrong

The IPA doesn’t correspond to the linked audio file reading her name. Angila would be pronounced aŋˈɡɪːla, but Angela is aŋˈɡeːla.

See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Angela#German and https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Angela Basxto (talk) 18:30, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Angela Putin

Her elimination of germanys domestic sources of energy under the lie of “renewables“ while tying the German economy to Russian energy sources should be viewed as a crime against humanity. She helped fund Russian aggression and weakened Germany’s economic engines of manufacturing and industrial output. 2601:584:101:B0D0:D139:B23A:3DFC:CD27 (talk) 02:09, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]