RESOLUTION: Can we use the proper name for Weis?

[MrBaggins]

(Instead of all the mispellings that we keep on using... I've seen Wess and Wels so far...)

MrBaggins

[Locutus]

I agree, we should use the correct name and the correct name is indeed Wels, with an L. Well, the correct name, I don't know if there's actually a real town with that name, but it's the name that the game uses for sure. Check civ_str.txt if you want to be sure...

(Plus, it could never be called Weis in German, unless I'm very much mistaken that would be very un-German. If anything, it would have to be called Weiss).

[mapfi]

it is WELS !!! the town has of course its own website www.wels.at

and since this poll violates the polling rules - scrap it!

[Locutus]

LOL, yeah, just found it myself. I don't know if it has any kind of historic importance (knowing the average Activision city list, probably not), but at least it exists (SE of Linz, on the river Traun)

Edit: okay, just found the history section - so the town does have at least some historic significance. Must be a fluke on Activision behalf

[mapfi]

http://www.wels.at/KulturBildung/geschichte.htm

it says that there were people living in the area already in 3500BC and that the town had quite some regional importance under the Roman Empire but after that - not important at all

[Locutus]

Well, the Roman Empire part could be significant, but you'd have to know the history of all of Austria(-Hungary) to be able to say how it compares to other cities. It seems to me that, considering that the Activision seems to have mainly (not exclusively) focused on cities that are in present-day Austria and not in the former Austrian Empire, it could be a good choice. But then again, I don't know too much about Austrian history, so I wouldn't know for sure. In that sense you're probably in a better position to judge that then me, being a neighbour and all...

[Gilgamensch]

Locutus, correct , but I don't think,we want to call a town, white??????

But most important, who cares? As soon as we freed those opressed pur fellowers, we will rename the city anyway.....ups...... sounding to much like WP? Maybe I should not have so many interviews with them

[mapfi]

I wouldn't know much about Austrian history before the Empire of Austria-Hungary, only that the Austrians we're oppressing part of Switzerland in the 13th century which lead to the foundation of it in 1291.

[Locutus]

Originally posted by Gilgamensch
Locutus, correct , but I don't think,we want to call a town, white??????

You've obviously never looked at Dutch city names We have cities with names that translate as Apples, Reds, Mountains (several even, and that in the flattest country in the world ), Weeds, Gross, Animals, Holes, Houses (how original is that? ), Real, Dongs, Borrowing, etc. I could go on for hours So White would be a very acceptable name over here

But most important, who cares? As soon as we freed those opressed pur fellowers, we will rename the city anyway.....ups...... sounding to much like WP?

Couldn't agree more

[MrBaggins]

Country and City Codes for Austria
Austria country code: 43
Austria City Codes :
Ach 7727
Baden Bei Wien 2252
Badgastein 6434
Bludenz 5552
Graz 316
Innsbruck 5122
Kitzbuhel 5356
Klagenfurt 4222
Krems An Der Donau 2732
Linz 70
Linz Donau 732
Neunkirchen Niederosterreich 2635
Salzburg 662
Sankt Polten 2742
Thuringen 5550
Velden Am Wother See 4274
Vienna 1
Villach 4242
Weis 7242
Wiener Neustadt 2622


Source AT&T

Weis is a large provincial town. Wels is a tourism spot

[Locutus]

Well, 7242 is the city code for Wels, according to the website. So, considering that the inhabitants probably know their own name better than AT&T, it's obviously a screw-up by AT&T. Can't say I'm very surprised

(Who relies on AT&T for such information anyway? Never heard of an atlas? )

[mapfi]

haha, AT&T - why would they get the name of a European city right?

Wels has almost 60'000 inhabitants, that's a large provincial town for Austria, as you say.

[mapfi]

Velden Am Wother See 4274

the lake is called Wörther See, while that American company probably can't imagine two dots on a vowel they should be familiar with Rs.

[Locutus]

The Dutch AT&T list is very unusual as well. Granted, everything is spelled correctly as far as I can see (except that they used the English name for Den Haag (The Hague), but that's understandable, I suppose), but they only list a small number of all possible city codes and their choices for which ones are seemingly random (you'd expect they'd pick the biggest cities or something, but that's far from what they did).

[mapfi]

Zaphod is going to like that they spell Aachen in Germany with just one A.