62.158.3.142 wrote: "Brunswick was founded by Bruno II (died before 1017 AD), a saxonian count." I didn't know, what to do with this sentence, but it seems to be wrong. The Brunswick website says, that the origins of the town are unknown, and that it may be founded by traders. So do other websites. No word about a Bruno. Instead of deleting the sentence I turned it to the version: "Legend says, that..." But actually I don't know about such a legend. Does anyone else know more? - Cordyph 15:56 Nov 6, 2002 (UTC)
Why is this article not simply at Brunswick? The other places listed there don't seem to be important enough not to have that page at Brunswick (disambiguation). - Sandman 09:36, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Why don't we move this page to Braunschweig, which is the city's name and is the most common way English speakers refer to the place (in my experience)? --Robert Merkel 06:02, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Is it? Google returns 1,450,000 results for Brunswick+Germany and 339,000 for Braunschweig+Germany. - Sandman 10:35, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- That's not my direct experience. Also, my Lonely Planet guide lists the place as "Braunschweig" with (Brunswick) in brackets. However, if you don't think it should be moved to Braunschweig, I definitely agree it should be moved to Brunswick.--Robert Merkel
- While you get lots of hits on "Brunswick Germany", many are not relevant. First, I used the advanced search feature and searched only for the exact phrase - only 3,640 hits, some of which are Wikipedia. Second, even of those, many refer to the historical Duchy which, while related, is not the same as the city. Third, a quick review showed that most of the relevant google hits were listing Brunswick in brackets or parentheses after the more commonly recognized "Braunschweig". A search on the exact phrase "Braunschweig Germany" finds 208,000 hits. (Note that searching for Germany instead of Deutschland will filter it down to the english language sites so we have a fair comparison.)
- The Rand McNally World Atlas index lists "Brunswick, Germany" but the entry says see Braunschweig. Even the Wall Street Journal uses "Braunschweig" instead of "Brunswick".
- I propose to move the contents of this page to Braunschweig, expand the disambiguation page to make the issue clear to everyone, redirect "Brunswick" to the disambiguation page and then run a "what links here" and start cleaning up all the links. Rossami 02:51, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Copy from Votes for Deletion
- Delete Brunswick to make it possible to move Brunswick, Germany there. - Sandman 16:41, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Keep - very full disambiguation page. Andy Mabbett 22:00, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- We need disambiguation instead for other Brunswicks, like New Brunswick, Canada, perhaps, or New Brunswick and East Brunswick, New Jersey. Or Brunswick, Australia. Wiwaxia 06:08, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- I support moving Brunswick, Germany into Brunswick, rather than redirecting Brunswick to a disambiguation page. Brunswick, when used alone, almost always refers to the city in Germany so I see no problem in doing this. Maximus Rex 11:19, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Brunswick, Germany, should be at Braunschweig. The English name has fallen out of use for the present city (compare Google results for "Brunswick Germany" vs "Braunschweig Germany"). --Wik 18:30, Nov 25, 2003 (UTC)
- Agree with Wik: keep redirection page, consider using Braunschweig for the German place since I personally believe the Brunswick anglicisation is rarely used anymore --Morven 02:10, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- That's not true. Google results limited to English: ~1,900,000 for Brunswick Germany and only ~330,000 for Braunschweig Germany), so it's clearly the dominant form in English. --Delirium 08:38, Nov 26, 2003 (UTC)
- You have to include the quotes, otherwise you get a lot of pages relating to the historic duchy, or to one of the U.S. Brunswicks, or New Brunswick. With quotes you restrict the search to the present city: "Brunswick Germany" - 2,430; "Braunschweig Germany" - 135,000. --Wik 12:54, Nov 26, 2003 (UTC)
- Keep. Add to Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links and give me some time to clean them up. (I should be able to get to in next week.) By the way, I strongly recommend that the correct ___location for the "Brunswick, Germany" content is under "Braunschweig". I can find no recent reference to "Brunswick, Germany". Rossami 03:14, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Always looking for lebensraum, aren't they? orthogonal 14:08, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Brunswick must be a disambiguation page for all Brunswicks. How can that really be questioned? Kingturtle 03:21, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Brunswick, Germany should not be at Braunschweig if Brunswick is the more common name in English. The city's own website calls itself Brunswick on the English pages. [1]. Angela 04:00, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- I agree. Wikipedia policy is not to have the english version of a name but the most common version used in english. That clearly is Brunswick, not Braunschweig, so Brunswick is where the page belongs on the english wikipedia. German wikipedia, would needless to say be different. Sorry. FearÉIREANN 03:33, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- In addition, remember even if Braunschweig is used increasingly in American english, that does not mean the same phenomenon is happening in other forms of english. AE has tended to adopt nativised forms of names, eg, Turino, Milano, Roma, but that simply is not happening in British English, Hiberno-English or Indian English and I wonder if it is happening in Canadian English or Australian english. This is english wikipedia, not American English wikipedia and we must use forms of names that are internationally recognised. Google searches throw up largely American websites as most websites are American. That is no evidence that worldwide Braunschweig is either used or even recognised by people. The only people I have heard ever use that name are (i) Germans, naturally, and (ii) some users of American English on the web (never even in person). I have never heard it used by anyone else. We would want pretty clear evidence of its universal usage before opting for it. FearÉIREANN