Talk:Linz

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Why not title this article Linz, Austria and have Linz be a redirect? --maveric149

Why, are there any other "Linzs" around? jheijmans

No, not that I know of. The problem is that around here there is an informal method for automatically disambiguating pages that lists the city then the country. Seeing this as the normal way of naming articles, another user might automatically make a link for Linz, Austria when wanting to link to the city Linz. Usually only very well known cities, such as Paris or Rome are listed w/o their country name. Again, there is not a set naming convention on this issue and is something that needs to be further worked out. However, at the very least whoever makes an article with just the city name should also make a redirect to catch any links to "city, country". --maveric149

After submitting, I thought you'd come up with this. I just checked the list of cities (City listing), and almost none of the cities there is named like that, usually only for disambiguation. One of the reasons nobody does this is because the "city, country" thing is mostly American (I think). Nobody in Europe will ever say "Linz, Austria". Also, in most contexts of encyclopedia articles, this will be a weird way to link. Another thing bothering me about this format is that the US towns are listed "city, state". But maybe we should open a real discussion on this at an appropriate place? Anyway, making extra links doesn't sound like a bad idea, so I'll try to keep that in mind. jheijmans

I'm inclined to believe that using the same name twice is an anglo nostalgia for places left behind so it will be pretty rare outside of the colonized world to find the same name used twice Except in the colonies, which you could easily argue is fairly large, most of S and N America for example. There are a few teenie tiny places in Austria and Germany that use the same names but you'd be hard pressed to find them on a good map...my .02$--dgd

I can think of half a dozen towns in the Netherlands that have the same names as towns 20 miles or so across the border in Germany. But we have already had this debate several times, see Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (city names) (four pages of it) for starters. Oy! --rmhermen

ohhhmygod. can of worms there...well, until there's another linz I'm going to leave it the way it is.--dgd

Well Linz at least for the german speaking part of the world is referred following:

• Linz without anything is the Linz in Austria
• Linz, Germany is the one in Germany which is rather a village.

Dreifaltigkeitssäule and Pestsäule aren't the same thing, although even in Linz they are confused. The Pestsäule on the Auerspergplatz (near the Kreuzschwestern school) is much older, but also much smaller. There, infact, exist other Pestsäulen, namely in the southern suburbs of Linz.

There was too much emphasis on Hitler in the original article. Not that you can deny the links to Hitler which existed in the city. The city had a past before the second world war, although it was rather dorment for huge periods of time. So I felt free to add several other important milestones the city had in the past, and some additional locations in the present. There aren´t too many of those anyway, given the provincial character of it.

[edit] Plague?

Just curious: If the plague was important enough for them to build the column, why isn't mentioned in the history? Plagues tend to warp history in different directions. John (Jwy) 22:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

The column wasn't built only because of the plague. Its name should correctly be translated into Trinity Column. It was built to commemorate the deliverance from the dangers of war (1704), fire (1712) and the plague (1713). The plague actually spared the city. I don't think the inscription says anything about the victims or that the column was built to remember them like it is said in the article. --cay

[edit] Third-oldest Soccer Club

I have no idea if Lask is, but I don´t think that POV comments (which I have twice deleted) are of much help, or use.

--andreasegde 20:41, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

LASK is definitely the oldest Soccer Club of Upper Austria. --Ricky59 16:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cam stem!?

"Kepler is the namesake of the local public university, the only one in Austria that embraces the cam stem."

Am I missing something here? I can't find a reference to that phrase "cam stem" on Wikipedia or Google.