Talk:Zürich Town Hall

Latest comment: 8 years ago by Mike Cline in topic Requested move 13 January 2016

Requested move 13 January 2016

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The result of the move request was: Not moved Mike Cline (talk) 11:36, 2 February 2016 (UTC)Reply



Zürich Town HallRathaus, Zürich – Following (local) conventions – ZH8000 (talk) 10:13, 13 January 2016 (UTC) Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 09:16, 25 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

This is a contested technical request (permalink). EdJohnston (talk) 18:36, 13 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
  • On en-WP, there is a strong tendency in articles about Swiss subjects to prefer the local naming (instead of somehow translated and somehow arbitrarily translated). ... Because of better recognizability, perhaps?
  • Rathaus is also the name of the building, not only its function.
  • There are many Rathäuser in German Sprachraum, actually almost in every town, so we do indeed need a disambiguation. Here, the most general is Zurich.
Therefore I propose to move it to "Rathaus, Zürich". And eventually to claim it a naming scheme. -- ZH8000 (talk) 16:52, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
So you would rename everyting in Category:City and town halls in Germany to use the 'Rathaus' form? And you would use comma disambiguation rather than parentheses? Back in 2013 there was a move request for German train stations at Talk:Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof#Requested move. The logic was more obvious there because 'Hauptbahnhof' was not adequately translated by 'central station', and there was chance of confusion. There were some good comments in that discussion. EdJohnston (talk) 19:04, 15 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
  • Actually, the current list is quite diverse: some use "<building>, <place>", some "<building> <place>", some "<place> <building>", and other even use "<building> (<place>)", while bulding can be either Rathaus, Town Hall, or City Hall!! Nothing what I would call a distinctive pattern, nor even a convention. ;-) -- ZH8000 (talk) 12:32, 30 January 2016 (UTC)Reply
  • I acknowledge your input. So I agree that there is no reason to use the <Building>, <place> pattern anymore (if you are right). But see also my answer to EdJonston above about the missing pattern in general. Actually, the "<building> (<place>)" pattern is rather seldomly used for Rathäuser! -- ZH8000 (talk) 12:32, 30 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

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