Talk:Zürich Flughafen

An editor providing an incorrect redirect.
An editor redirected this redirect to Zürich Airport railway station. Though technically, Google maps confirms that the airport is "Flughafen Zürich", and that the attached station is signed as "Zürich Flughafen", the difference would be totally lost on the average English speaker (and this is after all, the English Wikipedia not the German or Swiss Wikipedia).

This is a redirect page intended for anyone looking for Zürich Airport but types in "Zürich Flughafen" as the German name, which according to most available internet translation pages translates as "Zurich Airport" (with or without the umlaut), so would be a valid search key. Regardless of whether "Zürich Flughafen" or "Flughafen Zürich" is the technically correct German name, an English user with even a rudimentary grasp of German who was really looking for the railway station would likely include the word "Bahnhof" (en:station) in his search if he really was determined to exercise his German skills.

Judging by the edit summary of, "Check the links and pictures, first, if you would be so gentle (sic) please!!", one wonders if there is an issue with a failure to understand English or the way the English work (or both), but it is clear that this editor is not an English speaker. 109.153.20.90 (talk) 12:51, 20 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Well, dear IP, I see your point. But your thoughts are totally unrelated. Let me simply list all possibilities in order to make it obvious to you:
 * {| class="wikitable"

! Object referenced by !! German !! English !! English Wikipedia current consensus
 * + Zurich Airport and its "relatives"



! City of Zurich


 * Zürich || Zurich || Zürich



! Canton of Zurich
 * Kanton Zürich || Canton of Zurich || Canton of Zürich

! Zurich Airport It is also a brand!


 * Flughafen Zürich Defined by German grammatics || Zurich Airport Official wording by the airport itself! || Zurich Airport

! Railway station serving the airport The building !


 * Bahnhof Zürich Flughafen || Zurich Airport railway station || Zürich Airport railway station



! Railway stop name serving the airport Officially defined by Federal Law (SR/RS 510.62)!


 * Zürich Flughafen || Zürich Flughafen There is no official translation, since it is a proper name! || Zürich Flughafen as redirect to Zürich Airport railway station



! Tram and bus stop name serving the airport Officially defined by Federal Law (SR/RS 510.62)!


 * Zürich Flughafen, Bahnhof || Zürich Flughafen, Bahnhof There is no official translation, since it is a proper name! || n/a


 * }


 * You can easily understand now that 'Flughafen Zürich', the airport, and 'Zürich Flughafen', the railway stop, are two totally different things, and therefore two different terms, though – geographically – related! In German it is simply not the same!! My changes do nothing else than make this dinguition obvious!


 * And, if you still think you are mislead by google – probably you are – then you can easily add a hat note to the respective article(s), though not necessary IMO, but please apply this undisbutable logic. Thanks. -- ZH8000 (talk) 19:45, 20 May 2019 (UTC)