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Did you know... that it is claimed that the Reiterdenkmal(pictured), an equestrian monument in the centre of Windhoek, Namibia, is the only monument in the world where an ordinary soldier is placed on horseback?
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It's certainly unusual, but as well as the Karlsruhe one, there's a few others with "unnamed" soldiers on them - generic figures rather than named senior figures. At least one has an article on enwp - the South African War Memorial, from 1903. Shimgray|talk|12:44, 7 February 2012 (UTC)Reply
I assumed such examples would pop up on DYK day, thanks for your input. Does anyone want to insert a sentence putting Vogt's claim into perspective? -- I don't really have a good idea how to word this, and to which reference(s) to link it to. --Pgallert (talk) 22:17, 7 February 2012 (UTC)Reply
Uhm, I wouldn't just delete that. Vogt's claim was one of the core arguments against moving the statue to its new place, and he is quite prominent as the only researcher on Namibian National Monuments. Besides, I have yet to see a reference stating the (even approximate) rank of the depicted soldier--even for the South African War Memorial mentioned above we only know what rank the artist's model was but not whether the statue was actually meant to depict a warrant officer. So I am not even sure about the "incorrectly" yet. --Pgallert (talk) 00:10, 8 February 2012 (UTC)Reply
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Vogt says "Seit der Antike guerra ein Denkmal zu Pferde (Reiterdenkmal) nur Kaisern, Königen und Fürsten vorbehalten" - something like "Since ancient times equestrian monuments have been reserved for emperors, kings and princes". Nothing about "usually" or "officers". Bagunceiro (talk) 22:36, 7 February 2012 (UTC)Reply
Change "Herero and Nama Wars" to "Herero and Nama Genocide" in lead
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"Herero and Nama Wars" is misleading in the lead section of this article, and the event is most commonly referred to as the Herero and Nama genocide; stating that the monument "honoured the soldiers and civilians that died on the German side of the Herero and Nama Wars of 1904–1908," is even further more misleading, even not too far from whitewashing.
Additionally, the following part of the sentence read awkwardly, and is hard to understand: "...a situation that caused controversy about its role in a democratic Namibia that has shed its colonial occupation and gained independence." For this reason, it has been slightly rewritten to highlight Namibian independence rather than democracy, and reference German South West Africa. Aren Noronha (talk) 21:49, 12 May 2026 (UTC)Reply
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