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this definitely needs some love...hopefully from someone who lives there...

How about a cleanup tag? --Rednaxela 12:01, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Any particular reason for this? The remark you are responding to was made in October 2002, and the page has changed a lot since then. Martg76 18:23, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
The one world lines along the left of the infobox certainly caught my eye, plus the large number of lists there are in this article. Just a little bit of pruning here and there? --Rednaxela 15:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] So many city names!

Hmmm, so many versions of the city's name in different languages is overdoing it a bit, maybe? Perhaps just the English and German are sufficient?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proper_names#Place_Names

Alexd 21:18, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The two obvious ones should remain in the first paragraph. There is historical context that gives value to the others, but they don't need to clutter up the beginning, I'll move them to the end. (For various Austrian monarchs, their alternative names are also listed after the content.) --Shallot 23:16, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)
It’s particularly relevant to include Vienna’s name in other Central European languages, given the city’s history as an imperial capital to so many nationalities in the region. Certainly it’s appropriate to mention them in the tongues of the former crownlands, at least the more major ones. -- GJK 10:45, 18 Oct 2005 (GMT+1)

Can anyone explain to me why reorganizing this article automatically means removing all but one photograph? <KF> 14:24, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] External links

The external links section in this article is huge. Can someone who knows the subject check and trim the list? See Wikipedia:External links for criteria. Rl 13:18, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Vienna second biggest German-speaking city?

I wonder are Munich and Frankfurt not bigger? In terms of population they are larger, according to CityPopulation.de. Robertbyrne 19:55, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, Hamburg and Berlin certainly are. And I don't think it's important to rank it in this way in the introduction anyway. Tfine80 20:05, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Robertbyrne: According to that website, that city population of Vienna is larger than that of either Frankfurt or Munich (much larger than that of Frankfurt, which has a population of 643.000 only). Things look different if you look at agglomerations, where there are several larger ones in Germany. Martg76 21:30, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
As far as I know, it's #3 after Berlin and Hamburg. #4 is Munich. -newkai | talk | contribs 03:34, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Romani

I Think the Romani Name of Vienna is Betschi. Look at here.

[edit] celtic name

User:213.152.56.60 added the claim that the name comes from from the Celtic Uindobona 'Fair Bottomland' , but does not give a source. The Encyclopedia Britannica says that the Celtic name "Vindobona" means "white field". For the moment, I have removed the translation. --Austrian 21:16, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Translations of Vienna

I really don't like how the translations of "Vienna" clutter the introduction. I would suggest we move that to another section all on its own, and provide maybe only one or two in the introduction (German, Czech, Hungarian maybe?) - grubber 17:50, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

We only really need the German, with the others listed somewhere else. -newkai | talk | contribs 18:09, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
I was bold and moved them to the infobox. -newkai | talk | contribs 22:27, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for moving the translations to the infobox! However, I am wondering if all those translations fit here. I quite like the translations into central european languages and english, but why are Swahili, Dutch, Greek, and Afrikaans listed? I'd rather keep the list short. --tomst | talk 14:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

As much as I hate to say it... This article needs some NPOV work. Sentences such as Excellent, enormous and authentic Wiener Schnitzels are available at the Figlmüller restaurant (Bäckerstraße 6) are simply blatant point of view, and not fact! -newkai | talk | contribs 19:09, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

A similar reference to Figlmüller was removed from the german Vienna article some time ago. I do not see the value of that information either. Tomst 07:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mayor of Vienna in April 1997?

Not for this page, but I'm seeking to confirm the identity and full name of a "Dr. Zulk, mayor of Vienna" appearing in an archival photograph (Cat. No. 15106) of a speaker at an international conference on Janusz Korczak held April 2-5, 1997. I suspect the surname may be misspelled, as searching "Zulk" yields nothing in either the English or German Wikipedia. --Thanks, Deborahjay 13:45, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

His last name is spelled Zilk See: Helmut Zilk -newkai t-c 15:38, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Missile reach circle

By my calculations, Vienna has the dubious honour, if Iran positions missiles in the far north western corner of Iran of being the most distant and most important European city that can be threatened with atomic destruction by Tehran's world-famously lovely politicians in a few year time, with current missile technology. I don't suppose anyone in Vienna has actually noticed this? (Good job the Israelis have.) Iran won't attack, of course, but at least the Vienna papers would shy from "depicting" the prophet. --LeedsKing 11:52, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Complement EU

On December 16, 2004, The World Factbook, a publication of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) added an entry for the European Union. [1] According to the CIA, the European Union was added because the EU "continues to accrue more nation-like characteristics for itself". Their reasoning was explained in this small statement in the introduction:

The evolution of the European Union (EU) from a regional economic agreement among six neighboring states in 1951 to today's supranational organization of 25 countries across the European continent stands as an unprecedented phenomenon in the annals of history... ... for such a large number of nation-states to cede some of their sovereignty to an overarching entity is truly unique... ... the EU ... has many of the attributes associated with independent nations: its own flag, anthem, founding date, and currency, as well as an incipient common foreign and security policy in its dealings with other nations. In the future, many of these nation-like characteristics are likely to be expanded. Thus, inclusion of basic intelligence on the EU has been deemed appropriate as a new, separate entity in The World Factbook. However, because of the EU's special status, this description is placed after the regular country entries.

I might add that EU citizens have EU- numberplates, -passports, drivinglicense, the EU institutions, and regular election. I hope you support the small extension I made... all the best Lear 21 18:41, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vienna's vineyards

Vienna is not the only city with its own vineyards. Paris has them too, on the Montmartre Hill.

Paris, it seems, has only one vineyard [2]. So, the statement that Vienna is the only capital with vineyards (plural) is actually correct, although it is a bit confusing. I'll add a note about Paris. --Stemonitis 09:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cathedral?

I tought that Steffl is one of the most famoust vienna sights but there is no picture of it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.200.89.32 (talk • contribs).

You're absolutely right of course. I have replaced a picture of a flak tower (not such an important tourist attraction, although interesting in their own way) with one of the Stephansdom. --Stemonitis 14:25, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] nations

There are a lot of nationalities living in vienna but there is no any nummber about it.(although there are per cents of religius in vienna)

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