I wonder how you would define Slovaks and Hungarians in the th century when ethnicity played little if any role and it was in most cases impossible to measure Having witnessed some Hungarian editors adding the word Hungarian to every article on subjects of the King of Hungary and removing the word Slovak from the same articles I guess the definition of a Hungarian should be as broad as possible ie territorial and the definition of a Slovak should be as restricted as possible ie selfidentification I am not calling it ultranationalism as you have suggested but it surely is an interesting discrepancy I oppose any criteria that would be more restrictive than in other similar lists of Europeans     Here is my proposal Why dont we specify for each entry whether the person was born in Slovakia lived there was a Slovak citizen or was of Slovak descent For example there would be a small note that Kossuth was of Slovak descent or that Elizabeth Bathory lived in what is now Slovakia No readers would be mistaken I think this solution would make everyone happy    Well it would certainly be better than what we have currently