Talk:Megyeri Bridge

message: I feel that the following reference...
"   1. ^ "Chuck Norris leads vote for Budapest bridge name", Yahoo News, August 1, 2006.     "
...is no longer relevant to the article. Anyone else agree?
:I disagree... it provides background for the ongoing bridge naming contest especially since Norris is still in the top ten (9/3/04).
:--DatraxMada 03:58, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Umm...9/3/04? I'm quite sure the voting hadn't started ::yet.--192.168.1.2 18:34, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Chuck Norris relevance

message: On August 16 Colbert requested that viewers vote by following a link on his "Colbert Nation" website, not August 11 as previously stated. On the 11th he requested votes but, as stated above, he did not include the link from his website.
--DatraxMada 03:58, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not true.  Colbert Nation is an official Comedy Central website (check the copyright line in the footer), it's just made to look like a fan site. --Goblin ›talk 16:27, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Colbert date correction in re website link

message: So. IS the bridge really gonna be named after him?
:Yes.
BTW, we're going to see some vandalism. I suggest semi-protection. Axeman89 03:49, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was suprised that there was no vandalism, but the bridge is also not the easiest wikipedia entry to find.  You can't find it by stringing together any search term that has colbert in it, like "colbert bridge," "colbert hid bridge," "colbert hungarian bridge," which I found a little odd, because I knew that the article had been updated to include all the name troubles.  I finally found it under a list of all hungarian bridges.TStein 07:18, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

text: No, it's not going to happen.  The Hungarian ambassador to the US was on Colbert's show today and said in order for Colbert to be accepted, he had to 1) be fluent in Hungarian, and 2) be dead.  Not to mention the poll is simply a suggestion of the name (with the top 3 being considered), not an official "winner take all" poll. WTStoffs 05:47, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea, my guess is that it's going to be named Zrínyi híd as that would be the most sensible one. I'm pretty sure the Hungarian government isn't going to name it after Colbert (as awesome as that would be). Sasquatch  t|c 06:44, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: And the winner is?

message: I just did a little clean-up of the talk page.  I changed how the sections were divided so that there was a table of contents and just gave the sections the most applicable names I could think of.  I also indented responses--the whole thing was getting really messy and even though the page is really short, when I wanted to find what someone had said it was suprisingly hard too.  This didn't change any of the content on the page--I didn't even change where the section breaks were, just how they were done.  Obviously, feel free to change your content headings.
Also, as this article will only be growing in the future days, and with it the talk pages, I wanted to remind people of a couple things.
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And please use wikipedia formating for subsections (==title goes here==) instead of just doing doing this: ------.  It's cleaner and means that there's a table of contents (or that if a table of contents already exists your comment gets filed into it). If you need help you can always open editing help (located next to save changes).TStein 08:40, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Talk: page cleanup

message: Half of this article is about the naming controversy and there's no info on the dead person who spoke fluent Hungarian who this is named after?
"On September 28, 2006, it was announced that the bridge will be named "Megyeri Bridge", even though that name did not make it to the second round. The Hungarian Geographical Name Committee justified the final name by explaining that the bridge connects Káposztásmegyer and Békásmegyer."
And that means what exactly?  There's no Wikipedia entry for Megyeri, so this page can't link to that the way it could to Zrínyi, and this article has no information on who Megyeri was or what connecting the Káposztásmegyer and Békásmegyer means.  Even bridges that didn't have this all this hullabulloo going on would give some information on who the bridge was named after--we don't even have his full name!.  And considering that only seven lines in the entire article aren't about the name, it might be just a little more important in this case.
:I don't think it's actually named after a person. Káposztásmegyer and Békásmegyer both end in -megyer, so the explanation in the article makes sense to me -- it sounds like the bridge was named for the two cities it connects. I'm reluctant to rephrase, though, since I don't speak Hungarian. -- Bailey(talk) 22:34, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  And the name comes from where?  and wrong language link 

message: One other thing--how did this link: "The M0 Bridge named as Megyeri Bridge", RTLKlub.hu, September 28, 2006"--come to have an be in English on this page?  Because it links to a page all in Hungarian, where the title of the article is in fact in Hungarian.  Shouldn't we therefore either link to a translated version of the page (if we can even do that) or change the name of the link so that it is in Hungarian? TStein 22:04, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: '''Wrong Language Link?'''

message: In re the revert I just performed:
There's no need to say, "colbert jokingly tried to bribe..." as the nature of Colbert's show and his character come through earlier in the article.  The section as it is currently written:
...10,000 HUF Bill, with an approximate value of, as the ambassador put it, 'fifty dollars, fifty good US dollars'. Colbert promptly tried to bribe him with said money.
already gives readers the sense that Colbert wasn't actually trying to bribe someone (especially as this was taking place on camera).
The current version of the article is much better written and I think gives a better sense of Colbert and the situation then spelling out for the readers that Colbert (the person, not the character) was in fact not actually making a serious attempt at bribing the Hungarian Ambassador on television. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TStein (talk • contribs) 11:11, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. "Colbert promptly tried to bribe him with said money" is cute, but not strictly accurate, nor encyclopedic in tone. Spelling things out for the reader is pretty much what encyclopedias do ("a house generally has walls and a roof...") and besides, this is an article about a bridge; giving a "sense" of Colbert and the bit on his show isn't really the priority. -- Bailey(talk) 15:05, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Does it really even need to be noted that Colbert tried to bribe him with the money?  If there isn't an agreement on how to state it, it's not really a necessary fact.DavidFuzznut 06:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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