Talk:Luxembourg

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Luxembourg article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Archives: 1, 2: 3 months

Countries

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Countries, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of countries on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CountriesWikipedia:WikiProject CountriesTemplate:WikiProject Countriescountry

WikiProject Countries to-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Check out the article alerts; see if anything catches your fancy.
Cleanup : clean-up listing for Countries
Stubs : de-stub articles in Category:Stubs by region.
Other : add {{WPCountries}} to talk pages of related articles, and assess.

Europe

	Europe portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Europe, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to European topics of a cross-border nature on Wikipedia.EuropeWikipedia:WikiProject EuropeTemplate:WikiProject EuropeEurope
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Luxembourg Top‑importance

	Luxembourg portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Luxembourg, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LuxembourgWikipedia:WikiProject LuxembourgTemplate:WikiProject LuxembourgLuxembourg
Top	This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale.

This article has been mentioned by a media organization:

Sierra Schellenberg (2013-04-30). "Wikipedia Sexism: Amanda Filipacchi is Owed An Apology". PolicyMic. Archived from the original on 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2013-05-01.

Archives

Archive 1

Archive 2

This page has archives. Sections older than 90 days may be automatically archived by when more than 5 sections are present.

GDP (PPP), Per capita: Contradiction with Liechtenstein

Both articles claim that Luxembourg and Liechtenstein rank 2nd.

Letzemburgesch

This article mentions, at the end of the first paragraph, that one of the languages spoke in Luxumburg is "Luxembourgish". Would it make sense to put this language in its Letzemburgesch name and put in "Letzemburgesch"? Rollo August (talk) 09:26, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The language itself is referred to on the English Wikipedia as Luxembourgish; and given my previous experience reading Wikipedia, standard procedure seems to be to refer to languages within articles on the English Wikipedia with their English name, e.g. German and not Deutsch, French and not Français, Japanese and not 日本語.

Cheers, Aethervibes (talk) 22:45, 3 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also, it’s Lëtzebuergesch, not Letzemburgesch. T v x1 21:42, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Also it's 'Luxembourg' not 'Luxemburg', that's German and it's not 'Letzemburgesch' it's 'Lëtzebuergesch' and no, on the English Wikipedia, the language is in English as it is the English Wikipedia. Atharva210 (talk) 18:58, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Banking and financial services in Luxembourg

The article briefly mentions that financial services is an important economic activity. I believe this subject deserves its own subsection. I do not have much knowledge on this subject, so I cannot write about it. I actually came here in the hope to find more information on the history of banking in Luxembourg, which used to be an important tax haven (similar to Switzerland?), and on the role of e.g. the European Union in how it changed to the present situation.

Using British English

Alright, I have a question. Why on earth shall we use American English for a country that teaches British English in its schools, and when spoken, more use British English, with the exception of Americans or those who lived there. Just asking, but doesn't it make more sense to assign the template "Use British English". Personally, it seems more logical. Please let me know your fellow inputs and opinions on this matter. I go to school in Luxembourg City and they teach British English and it's quite literally the case in most schools across the country. Kindly do let me know your opinion.

Thank you and have a nice morning/afternoon/evening/night! Atharva210 (talk) 18:55, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Maps

Article needs a far better map to position it in Europe. The current one is terrible! The info-box (or info-box adjacent) map is useless - other than the circle showing it "someplace in Europe, East (or Northeast) of France". There *should* (imho) be a map - early in the article - showing its location relative to Brussels, London, Paris and Frankfort. I suggest the most useful map would include Northern Switzerland and all of the Nederlands to allow easy mental positioning in Western Europe.98.17.42.35 (talk) 14:13, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]