Talk:Vienna

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I've just rolled back the addition of {{American English}}. I don't believe it's appropriate here, or that it's appropriate to add it without discussion. Ben Aveling 07:14, 6 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

All it does is make editors aware that the article itself is written in American English. I don't see why it was thought necessary to suddenly put it here either, but it's not wrong. Remsense 🌈 论 07:17, 6 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Is it in American English? I see 'colour', I see metric. And the tag doesn't just say "it is", it says "it should be", which I don't accept. Ben Aveling 07:24, 6 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

If it wasn't originally per the WP:ENGVAR criterion, then it wouldn't be the first time the tags have lied to me. All I care about is that if one is set, it's either that originalist one or an otherwise clear choice so no one has to argue about it going forward.

Though, this IP does give me a little pause, they seem to be particularly energetic about "locking in" ENGVARs for their own sake, and that is frankly never a net positive. Remsense 🌈 论 07:26, 6 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

Topic was closed years ago/tag's already in place. (Do not randomly change tags). No reason for further changes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vienna/Archive_1#Variety_of_English — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.212.114.107 (talk) 03:03, 7 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

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tag to the article—any article that, over a period longstanding, that has entire paragraphs, entire subsections without a signle source (content thereof not WP:SKYISBLUE) is presenting WP:VERIFY as an option, and encouraging, for lack of clear policy elaboration, further additions along the same path.

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Change "Ethnicity: 46% Austrian; 54% other" to "Foreign background: 51.3%" – source: https://www.statistik.at/en/statistics/population-and-society/population/migration-and-naturalisation/foreign-background#accordion-heading-1-0-0 – STATISTICS AUSTRIA, Labour Force Survey (Microcensus), average of all weeks of a year. Compiled on 16 March 2026; retrieved on 5 June 2026.

Calculated percentage based on absolute numbers in the referenced table: 1019300 / 1986900 * 100 ≈ 51.30%

The currently cited BAM Project page contains no inline citations, methodology, or data-source references; see https://www.bamproject.eu/cities/vienna

Austria does not record "Ethnicity" in its official statistics, the appropriate term is "Foreign background" and aligns with the German version. Hans Super (talk) 13:07, 5 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Partly done: I have updated the stats to use the source you provided, however the name of the section, "Ethnicity," is the same. The German version should not influence the naming. Thank youuu for the request! pattersonuwu ^njz (talk) 05:56, 12 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Is this a matter so important it should be contained in the leading section? There are many other scientists, people of culture etc which would be comparable in importance/famousness with the man mentioned, but it's not a core thing to the extent that it should have a lead mention W144rd (talk) 18:16, 2 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

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In the section on Museums, add a sentence: In 2017 and 2021, representative opinion polls for Austria showed that Austrians consider Viennese museums as one of the strongests stakeholders in Vienna, in terms of contributing to making the city higly livable. SOURCE: This is based on one of the studies reported in this open access article (see Table 1 in scientific journal article): https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261464858

In the section on Universities, add a sentence: In 2017 and 2021, representative opinion polls for Austria showed that Austrians consider Viennese universities as one of the strongests stakeholders in Vienna, in terms of contributing to making the city higly livable. SOURCE: This is based on one of the studies reported in this open access article (see Table 1 in scientific journal article): https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980261464858 ~2026-43160-12 (talk) 07:12, 5 August 2026 (UTC)Reply