Talk:Weinstadt

message: About the influx of Catholics following World War II: My impression when I lived in Beutelsbach (1961) was that the majority of newly arrived Catholics were refugees from the Ostzone. I don't have any source to support this, though; I guess it would be considered as "original research". Does anyone know if my impression is correct? --MelanieN (talk) 18:44, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Catholics

message: The article translates the name Weinstadt as "Wine City". A while ago someone changed it to "Wine Town" and I changed it back to "Wine City."  But I would be glad to hear other opinions as to which is the better translation. English makes a distinction between "city" (larger places) and "town" (smaller places), but both are translated as Stadt in German. In addition to suggesting size, "town" in English can be considered a more informal or casual term, while "city" is more dignified and formal - that's the main reason I preferred "city".  --MelanieN (talk) 19:40, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I find "city" more appropriate, too. I suspect that even in English, the usage of "city" and "town" is somewhat inconsistent. That is, the same person will use "city" to indicate that a place is larger than a "town", but one person's "town" might be another person's "city."  Also, Weinstadt is big enough to be a "Große Kreisstadt", which makes it, at least on some scale within Germany a larger "Stadt." --Paigemorrison (talk) 11:27, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

text: On the other hand, this seems to indicate the it should be a "town": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Germany/Conventions#Translation_of_Stadt.  --Paigemorrison (talk) 11:41, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

text: And... one more point... I found the explanation in the Town article very interesting.  Apparently the British usage significantly shifted from the American usage -- so that, for example, the "city" of 30,000 people that I grew up in would be a "town" or "small town" to the Brits.  In my native California, the terms "city" and "town" are apparently even legal synonyms.  So *I* still find "Wine City" a better translation of "Weinstadt," but I'm less convinced that it's a better translation for the public at large. --Paigemorrison (talk) 12:37, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That translation link is interesting, but I'm not sure we have to follow it in translating the name. I recently was involved in an argument at AfD about how big a place has to be to be called a "city" or "town"; some people suggested an arbitrary cutoff such as 100,000 people, but we went with the city's own description of itself. As you say, in the U.S. it seems to be up to the local inhabitants whether they want to call themselves a "town" or a "city". In the case of Weinstadt, I admit it doesn't feel much like a "city" - its character is definitely not urban. I chose "Wine City" just because I felt it was a little more respectful, rather than because of its size or character. To me, calling a place "such-and-such town" is kind of flippant, as in "Bean Town," "Funky Town" "Cow Town", etc. I guess if you and I are the only people currently working on this article, we amount to a consensus - until someone comes along to overrule us! --MelanieN (talk) 15:18, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Works for me! --Paigemorrison (talk) 18:48, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: "Wine Town" or "Wine City"?

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