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Date format[edit]

Per MOS:DATE, date formats should be dmy or mdy as appropriate with the month spelled out (e.g. "31 December 2015"). The "big-endian" ISO 8601 (yyyy-mm-dd) should be used "only where brevity is helpful", but in the context of {{Infobox German state}} at least, there is plenty of space to expand to the version with the month spelled out. Very few people use ISO dates in practice, and in particular in an encyclopedia for general readership I think it's inappropriate. Hairy Dude (talk) 13:22, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note that the data templates need not be changed to use a format other than ISO 8601. We can use {{date}} to format it. Hairy Dude (talk) 13:26, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Link to source is broken[edit]

This link http://www.destatis.de/gv/suche_gv2000.htm is broken, could not find the target at the new database, anyone got an idea? tokes 19:39, 10 February 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tokes (talk • contribs)

If you're looking for data (area, population, identification number) for one specific municipality, you can use https://www.statistikportal.de/de/produkte/gemeindeverzeichnis. If you're looking for more data on the municipal level, for instance the areas of all municipalities of Bavaria or Brandenburg, you can use https://www.regionalstatistik.de/genesis/online/. Markussep ^Talk 08:28, 11 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Something out of step?[edit]

Various articles (eg Ahrensfelde) are showing Text "https://www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de/publikationen/Stat_Berichte/2019/SB_A01-07-00_2018m12_BB.xlsx" ignored (help); Missing or empty |url= (help). It is clearly something in this template, but I'm not sure what: it looks as if it is interpreting the URL as the text, but I don't know why. (Posted in response to a question at the Teahouse by Quebec99). --ColinFine (talk) 18:09, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Solved by adding a missing url= [1] in Template:Metadata Population DE-BB. I saw the report at Wikipedia:Teahouse#Template:Historical populations problem? PrimeHunter (talk) 18:19, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]