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Angela Merkel was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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December 6, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
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Blatant Censorship

This Wikipedia page is being treated as an advertising mouthpiece, silencing inconvenient facts about Ms Merkel.

Members of the German government and Merkel supporters should be banned from making changes to this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.181.125.186 (talk) 00:31, 1 December 2015

A complaint about censorship that calls for banning people is extraordinarily hypocritical. -- 184.189.217.91 (talk) 22:45, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to point out that 'A complaint about censorship that calls for banning people is extraordinarily hypocritical.' is an accident fallacy, in case anyone cares. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.245.224.232 (talk) 04:32, 6 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It seems odd that "refugee" appears in 4 of the references but only once in the article itself, even though only one of those 4 references is associated with that. 184.145.18.50 (talk) 20:48, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Could use more eyes on Vladimir Putin

That article is considerably livelier than this one of late. It could use more eyes.CometEncke (talk) 00:14, 19 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 21 February 2016

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Ulrich Merkel redirects here, could a template:anchor to Angela Merkel#Ulrich be inserted next to his first mention for a more specific redirect? Already modified it to point to that tag wherever it's inserted. Otherwise it will just default to top. 184.145.18.50 (talk) 20:41, 21 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Partly done: I put it in Angela Merkel#Personal life as that's the only mention I can see or Ulrich. EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:33, 22 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Removed content

Could somebody with the appropriate rights please restore the information deleted in these diffs: [1] and here [[1]]. In my eyes, both contents were sourced and relevevant to the article. LucLeTruc (talk) 00:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

#Asylum_and_inward_migration : One unknown "expert"

This section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel#Asylum_and_inward_migration right now features only one hardly known Austrian (not even German) 'political scientist' and seems to be heavily biased. The labour market of the OIC surely isn't important for this arcticle, and labour migration has no link to asylum. I suggest a more balanced and comprehensive perspective.2003:6A:643F:F382:FCB3:4D2F:E897:99B0 (talk) 20:31, 19 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The section is really quite awful, and unusable. It's quite annoying. I need some decent & convenient research on Merkel. But the whole article is thus polluted and unusable.

Somebody just wants to make a point here that they don't like Merkel. But I don't care about that somebody's point of view. 2602:252:D6A:B2C0:982A:6192:2677:D8B1 (talk) 16:19, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I also don't understand why one biased opinion is allowed to be present in the article alone. This section should be flagged for lack of neutrality. After all there refugees from war torn countries like Syria who come to Europe and Germany. Ich901 (talk) 11:30, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]