Talk:Technische Universität Darmstadt

Action Plan: Making this artice a good arcticle
All good and featured articles on universities seam to have kind of the same layout:

and Rest
 * 1) History
 * 2) Campus
 * 3) campusses as sub catagories
 * 4) Academics
 * 5) Research
 * 6) Student Life
 * 7) Athletics
 * 8) Alumni

Since athletics dont seam to be as important for a university here as in american univesities, sport activities should be in the Student Life section

Future Layout Plan:


 * 1) History
 * 2) Founding
 * 3) something in between
 * 4) Recent History (Renaming, TUD Law)
 * 5) Campus
 * 6) inner City Campus
 * 7) Campus Lichtwiese
 * 8) Botanical Garden
 * 9) Griesheim
 * 10) Other
 * 11) Academics
 * 12) Organisation
 * 13) Study
 * 14) Research
 * 15) Student Life
 * 16) Housing Situation and culture in Darmstadt
 * 17) Organisations at the University and Sport
 * 18) University Politics?
 * 19) People
 * 20) Professors and Scientists
 * 21) Alumni

history part
is it ok to just copy large parts and translate them? propably not! The Layout should include: Founding first and recent history last

to do list

 * get new pictures
 * apply new layout
 * logo: allowed to use it? it doesnt look sharp!

Move of the page
Technische Universität Darmstadt cares a lot about not being translated as Technische Universität Darmstadt is a brand name. As a faculty member of Technische Universität Darmstadt, I have taken the liberty of moving the page to its proper name. If there should be any trouble, please contact User_talk:Janrpeters.

Official name vs. english translation
The article states that the official name of the university is "Technische Universität Darmstadt". So I'm wondering... why doesn't the article name match the official name? --70.64.15.226 (talk) 06:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was not moved. --BDD (talk) 20:47, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Technische Universität Darmstadt → Darmstadt University of Technology – It's not like I'd perfer one or the other option, just felt there should be a discussion, because the English variant is the one usually applied in similar article's names (like the ones linked by the Template:TU9). There also is the problem of the related category having kept its name. The move had been performed by User:StG1990 on the basis of the following rationale: "Technische Universität Darmstadt is also the offical english name". As stated above by himself, User:Janrpeters had performed a move just before that, which, however, had been done in cut & paste fashion. So the questions are if a) "Technische Universität Darmstadt" can really be considered a unique brand name comparable to, say, RWTH Aachen, or if "Technische Universität" should be considered a mere generic name instead, and b) if this should be considered the essential point in naming the related article. Relisted. BDD (talk) 17:48, 30 July 2013 (UTC) Axolotl Nr.733 (talk) 19:00, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The TU Darmstadt does not use an translation. This ist clearly marked in der Corparate-Design-Guide. Sadly the text which is explaining this is only accessible to members of the university. But I can give an citiation: Die Technische Universität Darmstadt tritt in ihrer Außendarstellung prinzipiell mit ihrem vollen Eigennamen auf und verzichtet auf eine englische Übersetzung. Diesen für alle Mitglieder der Universität verbindlichen Beschluss hat das Präsidium der TU Darmstadt im März 2008 gefasst. (Google-Translation) By this the official name in is here also Technische Universität Darmstadt. Also allowed is TU Darmstadt but this is only an abbreviation. --StG1990 (talk) 19:56, 23 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Oppose -- The refusal to use a translation is clearly stated in a comment above. WP should not impose this on the university.  Peterkingiron (talk) 23:24, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * oppose The english language website uses TUD. I was able to find english language news sources that use it. I don't think there's a clear commonname here, so we should default to other naming guidelines - in which case, both are equal and equally recognizeable, especially since the university itself brands itself in the German even when writing in English. As such defaulting to the german version seems reasonable.--Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 20:04, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support This is the English Wikipedia, and generally article names are in English.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:32, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose We do not create our own translations when something uses a name not in English. - The Bushranger One ping only 07:13, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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Introduction
The introduction is absurdly long and was most likely written by an editor in a conflict-of-interest-position to create a prestige image.

The extent of the introduction is unprecendented for German universities even of higher caliber and reputation. Herr Endgegner (talk) 21:48, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Only two women listed in notable alumnis
Read through the alumni list on a mission to solve an orphaned article and noticed there are only two women listed in the notable alumni section — if someone is familiar with this topic please take the time to update this. Marleeashton (talk) 07:11, 18 February 2023 (UTC)