Talk:St. Pauli Piers

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The result of the move request was: No consensus, not moved (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 01:48, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

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St. Pauli Piers → St. Pauli Landing Stages – This appears to have been recently moved, possibly based on WP:GOOGLEHITS. However, there are two reasons for preferring "St. Pauli Landing Stages": first these are more like landing stages (i.e. floating platforms) rather than piers (generally on fixed pillars); second a more authoritative search on Google Books reveals that "Landing Stages" is by far the commonest English name, viz:

• St. Pauli Landing Stages: 419 results
• St. Pauli Piers: 60 results
• St. Pauli Landing Bridges (a literal and inaccurate translation): 5 results. Bermicourt (talk) 08:47, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Oppose - Landing stage doesn't even have its own article here. Besides, it's integrated at pier. Opting for more common and more compact names. Cheers Horst-schlaemma (talk) 14:31, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Comment. Whether Wikipedia has a landing stage article is not strictly relevant. And whilst "St. Pauli Piers" is more concise, that's not decisive when "St. Pauli Landing Stages" is far more common (at Google books). --Bermicourt (talk) 20:59, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

You have to admit though, it's a rather mediocre and bulky attempt at translating the German name. In all other places of the world, these would most probably translate as "piers". -- Horst-schlaemma (talk) 12:46, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Landing stage is a perfectly normal English term - see the Oxford Dictionary of English. Arguably it embraces pier and this should be reflected on Wikipedia. I don't disagree that "pier" is shorter and sounds "neater". However, the key here is what most authoritative sources use - as far as I can tell from Google books it's Landing Stages. However, apart from you and I, Horst, no-one seems too interested! --Bermicourt (talk) 21:04, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

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