Talk:Duisburg: Town and Harbour

Translation tag

I think the translation tag is inappropriate as many of the terms are proper names and therefore should not be translated: e.g. Speicher Allgemeine is named from the Allgemeine Speditions AG, rather than being a general storeage facility. Likewise, Küppersmühle and Werhahnmühle combine a proper name with postfix "Mühle" meaning "Mill". Or with Schwanentorbrücke, the English page retains the German name rather than rendering it as Watch Tower Bridge, a point covered in the article itself. One solution worth considering is placing an English translation in brackets after each name.Leutha (talk) 08:55, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

I agree with you on some of them, but "city wall" and "Jewish Community Center" are among terms that people are unlikely to know sites by in all the languages of places in the world that have such things. These are the sorts of things that are likely to be written in the language of whatever travel guide one is reading rather than in the language of their location. Largoplazo (talk) 10:57, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks to ClemRutter's idea of using photographs, perhaps a table like the one I have started will provide a good approach? Leutha (talk) 11:02, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Focus

Grüssen Sie Alle! Ich habe die Kommentar wiedergelesen. The title is Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail but the page is just a list of wonderful places. What though is the trail? "ERIH's History and Goals - ERIH". www.erih.net. Retrieved 7 November 2019. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 25 (help) Tells us all we nned to know and finally puts to bed the notability arguement in the AfD. The first four countries in 1999 were DE,NL,BE mit GB which explains the Denglisch. So we need restructure the first paragraph to give the article the missing focus. --ClemRutter (talk) 17:27, 7 November 2019 (UTC)

German source article- aged

There is a difficulty in reconciling the information we have here with the ERIH website. Going back to the German source article, de:Route der Industriekultur – Duisburg: Stadt und Hafen shows that they have the same data as we have here- and no mention of ERIH, but examining their history we see it is a very old article and predates the ERIH funding/ refocusing in 2014. Google Styrian Iron Trail, in industrial-tourism.eu we read The Styrian Iron Trail, which has been developed as a tourist adventure road since 1986 comprising 18 municipalities, promises an exciting journey through the past and present of ore mining and smelting over a length of around 100 kilometres. . From this I surmise: the 3 Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trails predate the ERIH foundation,and probable were its inspiration; and they have been superceded by the EU Industrial Heritage Trails hence are not mentioned. They probably still exist as Federal or NRWische Tourism initiatives or have quietly been dropped from the annual budget. --ClemRutter (talk) 15:45, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Interesting, I have added the category of Industrial tourism. Leutha (talk) 18:11, 9 November 2019 (UTC)