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Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 27, 2004	Peer review	Reviewed
November 14, 2004	Peer review	Reviewed
November 22, 2004	Featured article candidate	Promoted
May 4, 2005	Featured article review	Kept
August 31, 2006	Featured article review	Demoted
September 25, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
September 13, 2010	Featured article review	Demoted
April 6, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed
Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on April 21, 2017, and April 21, 2021.
Current status: Former featured article, current good article

Biography: Politics and Government / Science and Academia / Core

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Section sizes

Section size for Max Weber (39 sections)
Section name	Byte count		Prose size (words)
Section name	Header	Total	Header	Total
(Top)	7,055	7,055	478	478
Biography	14	34,064	0	3,019
Early life and education	7,277	7,277	680	680
Marriage, early work, and breakdown	6,298	6,298	526	526
Recovery and reintroduction to academia	7,437	7,437	645	645
First World War and political involvement	7,089	7,089	574	574
Last years	5,949	5,949	594	594
Methodology	1,963	13,413	157	1,020
Verstehen markup removed; cannot link (help)	4,683	4,683	300	300
Methodological individualism	1,955	1,955	190	190
Ideal type	2,451	2,451	200	200
Value-freedom	2,361	2,361	173	173
Theories	13	49,637	0	4,357
Rationalisation	5,093	5,093	385	385
Disenchantment	2,255	2,255	175	175
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism	4,268	4,268	339	339
The Economic Ethics of the World Religions	2,181	9,969	185	881
The Religion of China	2,305	2,305	211	211
The Religion of India	3,345	3,345	317	317
Ancient Judaism	2,138	2,138	168	168
Theodicy	3,564	3,564	336	336
The state, politics, and government	4,789	11,747	414	1,102
Bureaucracy	3,404	3,404	329	329
Social stratification	3,554	3,554	359	359
The vocation lectures	3,424	3,424	270	270
Law	2,444	2,444	226	226
Economics	2,685	2,685	256	256
Economy and Society	4,175	4,175	387	387
Inspirations	4,395	4,395	377	377
Legacy	1,597	10,920	135	1,016
Weber studies	6,698	6,698	677	677
Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe markup removed; cannot link (help)	2,625	2,625	204	204
Bibliography	50	50	0	0
See also	68	68	0	0
Citations	34	34	0	0
General and cited sources	39,595	39,595	0	0
Further reading	8,232	8,232	0	0
External links	629	3,883	0	233
Online editions	3,254	3,254	233	233
Total	171,346	171,346	10,500	10,500

National Socialist

Latest comment: 8 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Please use the encyclopedic term 'National Socialis' instead of the low brow term 'Nazi' as a mean of keeping the standard high. ~2025-33500-66 (talk) 10:00, 14 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

The term "Nazi" is much more commonly used in English than "National Socialism" is. Furthermore, there is the possibility that a reader of this article who was unfamiliar with Max Weber might confuse the National-Social Association with the Nazi Party if that were done. The two parties were completely unrelated and did not exist at the same time. ―Susmuffin ^Talk 15:07, 27 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

"Neoweberianism" listed at Redirects for discussion

Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

The redirect Neoweberianism has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 January 4#Remaining redirects created by User:Anti gozo|Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 January 4 § Remaining redirects created by User:Anti gozo]] until a consensus is reached. I₂Overcome ^talk 02:31, 4 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

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