Talk:Poznań Town Hall

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 05:20, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

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Poznań City Hall → Poznań Town Hall — This shows up 5 or 6 times more often on Google; it is used (for example) on the city's website. [1] It would also be consistent with other titles, like Town Hall Tower, Kraków. Although Kraków and Poznań are certainly cities (as opposed to mere towns) today, there is nothing wrong with using the natural English term for ratusz, "Town Hall", for historic buildings which are not the present administrative headquarters. (Similarly we talk about the Old Town district in these cities.) -- Kotniski (talk) 11:50, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

I agree, we have Tallinn Town Hall, New Town Hall, Munich and New Town Hall (Prague) - all located in cities, but town hall is the usual idiomatic translation. Knepflerle (talk) 12:51, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

• Support Town Hall is the more common term in Europe, and I suspect City Hall in this case is an Americanisation. However, not every city in Europe has a Town Hall : in Birmingham, for example, it's called a Council House for some bizarre reason. Skinsmoke (talk) 02:03, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

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Image warring

What exactly is the issue between these two pictures - they seem practically identical? If an outside opinion would be useful, I think I slightly prefer the one where the top of the tower isn't right at the upper edge of the photo. --Kotniski (talk) 08:58, 29 March 2011 (UTC)