Talk:University of Berlin (disambiguation)

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Hmm? There isn't just one "University of Berlin". There's the HU, FU, TU, or is this a historical entry? please clarify. --snoyes 00:14, 1 March 2003
 * That's right, there is not only one University of Berlin. That's why it should link to the List of Universities in Berlin - like in the German Wikipedia. --Wikistar 13:00, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * see also Talk:Humboldt University of Berlin --Wikistar 12:19, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

For 200 years, Humboldt was the University in Berlin, which is reflected in hundreds of links in hundreds of articles - in case somebody wants to contest this, let him or her go and change all those links. I have added a template at the top of "Humboldt's" page, which hopefully gets rid of this little problem. This looks to me like a matter of POV, local pride, and original research. Dahn 13:39, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

“POV, local pride, and original research.” Strange contribution. User:Dahn simply ignores the discussion sides, but we should not subordinate him bad will. In the discussion of the article Humboldt University of Berlin User:Wikistar gives us the reasons, why it should better redirect to the List of Universities in Berlin. The German Wikipedia proceeds in such a way and we better should follow.


 * Virtually all pages that have links to Berlin University or University of Berlin have the Humboldt in mind. For 140 years, "University of Berlin" meant the university today called Humboldt; it has never meant anything else. —Angr 11:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Dahn and Angr; "University of Berlin" overwhelmingly refers to Humboldt University of Berlin. Olessi (talk) 21:01, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

While it is "overwhelming" it is still nor correct, the "University of Berlin" ceased to exists in the wake of WW2, it was only later that two new Universities were founded in Berlin, both using former buildings of the "University of Berlin", and both claiming to be "the one and only real "'University of Berlin'", but none of them is a true successor of the whole. Why do most of them link to the HU nowadays? Because of intentional missinformation on sites such as this one and because they happened to get to use some of the older buildings of the former "University of Berlin" in the center of the city due to the Wall. <-This unsigned edit was done by User:2003:45:436E:637E:6072:57AC:ABAC:92E1 25 November 2014 15:57

Redirects
Right now, University of Berlin redirects to Humboldt University of Berlin and Universität Berlin redirects to Frederick William University. There is then also this disambiguation page that gets linked to at the top of the HU Berlin article. It seems to me that at the least, University of Berlin and its German-language counterpart Universität Berlin should point to the same place, but I don't much care where they point. Can I get consensus about making Universität Berlin point to HU Berlin to go along with University of Berlin? Please comment at Talk:Universität Berlin. Thanks Remes (talk) 00:06, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * It should be helpful too to add to Universities_and_research_institutions_in_Berlin when the universities were founded. As only after World War II the other universities arose it immediately becomes apparent which was the University of Berlin. 83.85.143.141 (talk) 19:39, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * The HU was founded only after WWII as well. Actually, the UdK is the oldest University in Berlin still around. 2003:E4:8F1D:69E9:39DE:B5FD:65ED:E3B0 (talk) 14:08, 6 March 2023 (UTC)