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"Düsseldorf is increasingly becoming a multicultural city. In 2007, 40% of Düsseldorf's residents, and 65% of those below the age of five were of immigrant background." - i have moved this sentence into the demographics sections a few days ago. i think it is not noteworthy enough for the lead section as it is both a common development and not any more notable than it may be for other large cities. Please discuss if you have a different opinion. ZH2010 (talk) 19:04, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you on both counts.

Plus, I don't feel it is lead section material unless there is some sort of genuine impact. Do I need to learn Urdu before I can visit the city? Is it impossible to eat wurst there?

Varlaam (talk) 21:20, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Trade fairs, and the importance of Düsseldorf

In the first section of the entry on Düsseldorf there is a statement "Messe Düsseldorf organizes nearly one fifth of all world‘s premier trade shows", with an annual report by Messe Düsseldorf cited as the source. I suspect this is 'marketing speak', not an actual fact - first of all, what precisely does "premier" mean? In any case, although I don't have the statistics to hand I find it hard to believe that even Germany as a whole organises a fifth of the world's "premier trade shows" (after all, Germany's economy is less than 4% of the world total, so a fifth would be disproportionately large). Moreover, even if Germany as a whole did account for a fifth, within Germany there are three Messe (Hannover, Köln, Frankfurt) which are arguably bigger than Düsseldorf, and quite a few others besides, so Düsseldorf's share of the German total cannot be more than a fifth at the very most, and therefore no more than a few per cent of the world total. So purely by means of 'armchair logic', it is virtually impossible for this claim to be true.

It does sound like marketing, but one has to say that in Germany trade fairs have a long history and are sort of a domain of its economy. Sort of comparable with investment banking in Britain. Naturally, national stakes in the global economy cannot always be translated 1:1 into every business sector. Also, from within Germany - while Hanover does have the largest square footage, it is at the same time less busy compared to Cologne or Düsseldorf. And last but not least: often times when reading about Düsseldorf (especially if the author is from Düsseldorf), it includes anything within the city's very own metro region (i.e. Rhine-Ruhr) - so in this case the trade fairs and congress centres in Cologne, Dortmund and Essen included. --88.77.147.46 (talk) 05:09, 21 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk's influence on modern electronic music is immense, but it is incorrect to use the term "early" here. Please check the article electronic music which will show that, by the mid-twentieth century, electronic music was already a well developed art form --TS 08:21, 11 June 2012 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks for the edits. I think they're the bees' knees! --TS 23:31, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

History

The history from the 7th century until 1288 is completely uncited! --greip (talk) 13:34, 24 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

photography

Sorry, but i count 6 photos with rhine tower. I find, thats too many. --Solches (talk) 15:11, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]