Wikipedia nonsense - County of Fürstenberg

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Fürstenberg (principality) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fürstenberg was a county (German: Graftschaft) of the Holy Roman Empire 
in Swabia, present-day southern Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

In the Infobox of the article it says: 1218–1408

This is Wikipedia-nonsense. The county was not a principality.

Only one line of the counts later, namely in 1664, was elevated to the status of "prince"

The article used to be called "Fürstenberg (state)" but since there are many Fürstenberg that were a state, it was suggested 2011-01-19 to rename it to "Fürstenberg (county)". Idiots jumped in and hijack the move proposal, and renamed the article to "principality".

Why? User:Victor_falk wrote /Later elevated noble families like the Fürstenberg, Liechtenstein or Thurn und Taxis dynasties subsequently began to refer to their territory as a "principality" and assumed the awarded rank of a Prince (Fürst) as a hereditary title./

No proof given, that this happened anytime between 1218–1408.

User:Orderinchaos supports this nonsense with " per Victor above - makes the most sense here - we have to be careful re WP:OR, and that one can at least be verified" - Wao. In fact exactly the other way around. It could not be verified and is OR.

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