[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#14419) New nation: The Westphalians

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14419 >


2005-11-29 kl. 19.41 skrev jmm@xxxxxxxxxx:

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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14419 >
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> Christian Knoke wrote:
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>> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=14419 >
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>> legend=_("Westphalia, before becoming a Prussian province, was the 
>> Western\
>>  region the duchy of Saxony. Present-day it consists of the Northern 
>> part of\
>>  the largest German federal state, Nordrhein-Westphalen.")
>>
>> Sounds wrong English, shouldn't it be 'was the western region of the 
>> duchy
>> of saxony'?
>
> Like nationalities, location information such as "Western foo" is 
> capitalised
> in English, AFAIK.

I think the omission of a 'of' was Christian's point. Sloppy of him not 
to capitalize "Saxony" though. ;-)

Here's my version:

"Westphalia was the western region of the Duchy of Saxony before 
becoming a province of Prussia after 1813. Today it makes up the 
northern part of Germany's largest federal state, 
Nordrhein-Westphalen."

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>> leader =
>>  "Widukind",
>>  "Liudger",
>>  "Hermann von Werl",
>>  "Gottfried von Arnsberg",
>>  "Graf von der Mark",
>>  "Heinrich Aldegrever",
>>  "Jan van Leiden",
>>  "Franz von Waldeck",
>>  "Annette von Droste Hülshoff"
>>
>> Annette von Droste-Hülshoff was a great poet but never a kind of 
>> leader.
>> I didn't check the others.
>
> All the others are religious or political leaders, but as Westphalian
> history is short of female leaders I added her as well. After all
> intellectual leaders are leaders as well?
>

The policy document states that a leader in Freeciv should have had an 
actual political career and a go at ruling the nation, so to speak. 
However it also states that we make exceptions to this rule in order to 
get females on the list.

>> The cities don't have geo tags. Maybe you copy them from Germany?
>
> I'm planning to add them later, I'd rather have the correct ones
> than some preliminary replacements, but I currently lack the time
> to collect the information, and as they're optional I left them
> out for now.
>
> Cheers,
>         Moritz
>

Geo tags are not mandatory and borrowing from German would only account 
for less than half of the Westphalian cities. I'll commit the nation 
with or without them.

-Daniel