Talk:Fraunhofer Society

MP3 development date

The year 2000 marked a noteworthy success at Fraunhofer-Institut for Integrated Circuits (IIS): the development of MP3, the widely adopted method for coding and compressing of audio data. Wasn't mp3 developed in 1991, as the mp3 page states? At least I remember using it prior to 2000. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.151.73.104 (talk • contribs) 01:46, 9 February 2006 - MP3 page speaks about call for proposals' lasting to 1991, but MPx formats were standardised in 1992. There is no mentioning of Fraunhofer having something with the development (page of Fraunhofer claims different), though, only mentioning the l3enc encoder from 1994. Anyway, I "correct" the date stated above to 1992, hoping it's correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Picasso Pablo (talk • contribs) 17:58, 5 April 2006 - Hey, the translation from German was incorrect :). Read it now... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Picasso Pablo (talk • contribs) 18:15, 5 April 2006

Logo

Can someone upload the logo of the institute! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.23.161.113 (talk • contribs) 21:44, 14 February 2006

Otto Mohr

The link to Otto Mohr is false.. I don't know how to fix it. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.207.160.237 (talk • contribs) 08:31, 31 March 2006

-> I noticed it too, it directs to another Otto Mohr, one from te 19th century — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anzbevrct (talk • contribs) 19:54, 9 July 2006

Number of institutes

The list of "60 Fraunhofer Institutes" contains 66 or 67 entries; I changed the list heading to say "over sixty" and it was changed back by someone who claims some entries are only facilities of the 60 Institutes. If that's the case, the list title is false, since it refers to the entries on the list as Institutes (if some aren't, the heading is wrong; if all are, the count is). This requires more specific knowledge of which facilities on the list are not independent institutes... currently this list, in a sense the core of the specific practical info of the article, is somewhat incoherent as a result. The entries themselves are unclear and not really labeled; in my judgement further work and verification is required here. Grinq (talk) 22:15, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: No consensus to move. Cúchullain ^t/c 18:07, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

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Fraunhofer Society → Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft – Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft does not use a translated brand name in english, they use their normal Name Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft or Fraunhofer if it only the brand logo is used. See also http://www.fraunhofer.de/en.html

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  — Amakuru (talk) 10:44, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

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Jjaervin (talk) 10:06, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

• Comment gsearch "Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft" (362k) "Fraunhofer Institute" (265k) "Fraunhofer Society" (288k) "Fraunhofer Institut" (310k) -- seems pretty much a wash as to usage. -- 70.24.244.51 (talk) 05:47, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
• Comment The Institutes are seperate entities, Fraunhofer society as a brand name does not really exist and the Wikipedia page should reflect the correct term — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjaervin (talk • contribs) 13:15, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
• Weak oppose With mixed usage as demonstrated by the IP, I'm fine ignoring the official name in favor of English. "Gesellschaft" to "Society" is a fairly direct translation, anyway. --BDD (talk) 20:09, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose. Usage could go either way, but as Fraunhofer is also used on its own, Fraunhofer Society is the more recognisable to English readers generally. The arguments based on what is correct are contrary to policy, but this probably needs to be put more clearly than it is currently. Andrewa (talk) 21:42, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
• Comment As a german I can't really tell which name is more common in english, but a redirecht would keep the more common english name Fraunhofer Society, while redirecting to Fraunhofer, which I assume is just as common and correct? Jjaervin (talk) 10:13, 9 December 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjaervin (talk • contribs) 10:01, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
  • Comment in reply: There is already a redirect here from Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, while Fraunhofer is a disambiguation page. If the page were to be moved, yes a redirect should be left. But there seems to be neither justification nor support for the move. No change of vote. Andrewa (talk) 08:47, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

• Support I note that the American subsidiary is known as "Fraunhofer USA"; also that other wikis use "Gesellschaft". "Gesellschaft" is part of the name, just like we have Société Générale and not General Society. ^walk victor falk ^talk 10:05, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

But do English-language sources refer to Société Générale as "General Society"? --BDD (talk) 17:26, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

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Infobox type

This article uses an {{infobox company}} template despite being an incorporated society (e V). Should it not use an {{infobox organization}} or {{infobox laboratory}} template? If someone agrees, perhaps they can change it? Best wishes. RobbieIanMorrison (talk) 23:25, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Fraunhofer-Center for High Temperature Materials and Design HTL

This is just one of dozens of research institutes of the society. It appears not to have sufficient independent notability to meet our requirements for companies and organisations, and so to justify having a stand-alone article. There is not one independent reliable source in the page. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:08, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Not exactly. The HTL is a subentity of the ISC, which is one of 72 Fraunhofer institutes. Of course, all institutes should have an english article as they have in German. The HTL should be mentioned in the (to be written) ISC article. Merging it with the main Fraunhofer lemma is obviously not a helpful idea. --Nillurcheier (talk) 18:33, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I am the author of the page Fraunhofer-Center for High Temperature Materials and Design HTL. I was tasked with creating the English page for Fraunhofer-Center for High Temperature Materials and Design HTL, since we do have a sizeable number of customers from English-speaking countries. Now, I do - to a certain extent - agree that a merge with the ISC (to be created) page would make sense. However, the problem is that I do not have the permission to create a page for the ISC and none of my colleagues at the ISC have the resources to do that either. Plus, our German page is a standalone anyway, which is why I would argue that no merge is necessary. But, alas, this is getting off-topic (I will start a discussion for Fraunhofer-Center for High Temperature Materials and Design HTL on those issues). In any case, a merge with the main page Fraunhofer is definitely not helpful. Kub htl (talk) 11:25, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Proposed Changes

• Specific text to be added:

Additional Info

Since 2020, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has offered its own portal for awarding public contracts. A large part of the tenders of the individual institutes are processed via this.

Weblinks

• Tendering Platform Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

• Reason for the change:

This change is aimed to update the Fraunhofer Society's wikipedia to the latests status quo. Just recently the society established its own e-tender portal which is an important information about the company and may add value for many readers of this Wikipediapage.

• References supporting change:
• http://www.hwk-leipzig.de/
• https://www.hk24.de/produktmarken/beratung-service/unternehmensfuehrung/auftragsberatung/aktuelle-ausschreibungen-4908216
• https://www.sihk.de/recht/oeffentliches-auftragswesen/online-dienste-fuer-ausschreibungen-804662

PBZM (talk) 07:00, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for using the edit request procedure, PBZM. For the future: you are expected to disclose your paid interest whenever you make any edit relating to your employer; that includes requests such as this.

I'm declining your request, mainly because you haven't indicated any independent reliable source to support any of the proposed content (please note that Wikipedia cannot be a reference for itself), but also because "aligning" our article with a page on another Wikipedia is not something we have any conceivable reason for, or interest in, doing. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:51, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Dear Justlettersandnumbers, I removed the text for which I do not have any independent or reliable sources other than Fraunhofer itself. However, for the rest I inserted 3 independent reliable sources. I hope this is to your satisfaction. Best regards

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