Talk:Parliamentwatch

Award?

The reference for the Adolf Grimme Award is broken, and I cannot find any other link that supports the assertion. The published nominees and winners[1] don't seem to include Parliamentwatch, at least not that I can see through Google Translate. Can anyone provide a working reference? ⌘macwhiz (talk) 23:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Copy edit

I performed a long-overdue copy edit on the page. I changed several translations to better match other articles on Wikipedia. I added a number of links. I found that many of the references back to the organization's website no longer work. Also, some of the information is well out of date and hasn't been updated in a while. This seems like an interesting project, and I think it'd be a shame if this article were deleted. Toward that end, I added incoming links from a few related pages, in hopes of de-orphaning it. // ⌘macwhiz (talk) 00:25, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Merge and move

I am confused.
I cannot find an entity called Parliamentwatch. I found a blog called Parliament Watch (with a space), but the article is not about that. There is an entity called Parlamentwatch GmbH (without the 'i'), a private limited company in Germany. The portal run by the company appears to be called abgeordnetenwatch.de. There is already an article about that, called abgeordnetenwatch. If both articles are basically about the same thing, they should be merged. The appropriate title would seem to be Parlamentwatch (which is currently a redirect).

So my proposal would be to merge abgeordnetenwatch and Parliamentwatch at Parlamentwatch. The new article would probably also need a rewrite.

I am also not sure this topic warrants a See also entry at European Parliament. That would appear to give it undue weight. --Boson (talk) 09:11, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Concur that the articles should be merged as they are duplicative. However, I'm not sure if the best name is "Parlamentwatch" (from the German name of the entity) or "Parliamentwatch" (the English translation of abgeordnetenwatch). My concern is that readers of the English wikipedia might mistakenly assume that the German spelling is a correct English spelling.

As for European Parliament, it seemed borderline to me too, but I think it merits some mention, especially since it seems like the idea is spreading in Europe. Perhaps there's a better way to do it? As I said, this seems like a good thing to have in an encyclopedia, and I'd hate to see it up for deletion because it's orphaned. // ⌘macwhiz (talk) 17:34, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Putting a link where it does not really belong does not convince anyone that the article should be here. There is an easy and sensible way to link here by just adding links from the pages of politicians listed in the project. I would very much prefer this article to appear under abgeordnetenwatch because that's the lable under which it is known. Hardly anyone knows that there is an entity behind it with a mixed German English name, and translating it here violates the rule that articles should be named after what the topic is typically referred to. Omikroergosum (talk) 10:32, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

External sources and suspicion of Conflict of Interest

The English version of this article is practically solely based on the self-representation of the project. There are many independent sources in the German article. Probably there will also be articles in English about the idea. To me it seems likely that this article has been edited by some kind of PR team of abgeordnetenwatch that does not understand what Wikipedia is for. If so, you are welcome here, but you need to reveal yourself as per Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Please read those rules. Omikroergosum (talk) 10:35, 26 September 2018 (UTC)