Talk:Tiefenbach, Biberach

Wrong title
Why is this stub titled Tiefenbach, Tübingen? Tübingen is a at least 40 miles away. Nor is it part of Tübingen but an independent municpality near a lake called Federsee, hence the title of the German page: Tiefenbach (Federsee). I suggest to use the same title and to move the stub to it. Ekki01 16:06, 10 May 2007 (UTC)


 * There was some discussion about how to disambiguate German municipalities, the results can be found here. The bottom line was: if there is no German specifier in use (is it officially called Tübingen am Federsee?), the highest possible administrative distinction should be used. As there are two municipalities called Tiefenbach in Baden-Württemberg, the next administrative distinction was, from my point of view, the Regierungsbezirk Tübingen. I must confess that I only thought about Bavaria first, where the situation is somewhat clearer, as the Regierungsbezirke there don't have the names of cities like in Baden-Württemberg.
 * So the possibilites now seem to be:
 * leaving Tiefenbach, Tübingen in accordance with the naming conventions - with redirects from Tiefenbach (Federsee) ensuring that anyone will find it.
 * moving to Tiefenbach (Federsee) (or Tiefenbach, Federsee), which means loss of unity but which may be clearer (only to locals?)
 * working again on a change of naming conventions - perhaps Regierungsbezirke should be left out when using "the highest possible administrative division" because they may be confusing?
 * Daranios 13:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi Daranios. You wre right about the Regierungsbezirk. Our Tiefenbach is indeed in the Regierungsbezirk Tübingen. The city of Tübingen itself is about 40 miles away, behind a mountain range, and has no direct connections with the lake called Federsee. To make matters even more complicated there is even a subdivision of the Regierungsbezirk called Landkreis, i.e., district. And Tiefenbach is in the district of Biberach. Even though I was at first in favour to rename our Tiefensee to Tiefensee (Federsee), I do think your point that by doing so it would make it clearer only to locals is more than valid. How about encorporating the name of the district? As a local myself, I know that ambiguous place-names are usually distinguished either by suffixing (e.g. Frankfurt am Main) or by using the district name. Hope this helps. Ekki01 15:30, 11 May 2007 (UTC)