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I propose to

• move the article "Lippe" about the district of Lippe to "Lippe (district)",
• move the article "Principality of Lippe" to "Lippe", to be generally about the state of Lippe,
• merge the article "Free state of Lippe" into said article "Lippe".

Currently there is no article about the state of Lippe, but two about two different historic periods of it, one of those being a stub. There should be one article about the state as such, and I don't see enough content to have main articles about historic periods.

Furthermore the article with simply "Lippe" should be about the state, not the district. --Caballito (talk) 14:18, 14 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]