Talk:2006 protests in Hungary

message: What are "soccer ultras"? Soccer hooligans? Ultra-nationalist soccer hoolgians? Unigolyn 02:29, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah.  And the radio said that sport shops suddenly ran out of baseball bats.  – b_jonas 17:19, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soccer ultras? 

message: Remark: User:Al345 removed the reference of non-lethal riot countermeasure solutions. No problem with that but note: maybe the situation is not there yet (and hopefully won't be ever) but more news reports underlined that riot police had strict orders _not_ to use any firearms, thus a reference on non-lethal means felt to be in place. Morning reports mention that police is being equipped with bulletproof vests, presumably as those provide better protection against bricks and stones.
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As well as American full-length, reinforced riot shields. I live in Hungary, and seeing the riots on TV and the net every night, I know full well that riot forces are going to need all the protection they can put their hands on...
--ThunderBird 12:41, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-lethal 

message: Im in Budapest atm, will see if anythings happening tonight. --Stevage 20:21, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Off to get some photos 

message: :Prime Minister Gyurcsány Ferenc ordered the police not to let them in the building and to do anything necessary to stop them.
I have removed the above sentence from the article, since Hungarian police is ordered to protect State buildings (and the National Television building is one of these) by law. The Hungarian PM has no authority over the police. 
Furthermore, the preceding sentence is a bit erroneous as it was not a 'smaller group' of people but hundreds who went to the building. However I have no non-Hungarian source to support that at the moment so I will leave it at that for now. AdamDobay 14:05, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence removed 

message: There were several demonstrations of solidarity with the Hungarian protesters on Tuesday evening in at least four mostly-Hungarian cities of Romania. (Source: Ziua, in Romanian). Would this information be worth including in this article? Biruitorul 20:57, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added it in. Biruitorul
In Romania there were other solidarity protests too, for example I have pictures about the one that took place in Sepsiszentgyörgy(Sfântu Gheorghe in romanian) on Wednesday. The event was organized by the mentioned MPSZ(protest in odorheiu), newspapers said that there were about 150 protesters. If I rembmer it well..  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.166.208.136 (talk) 17:00, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romanian demonstrations 

message: Hi!
For more pics, see Commons:Category:Politics of Hungary, and if you have time, please upload your pictures there, puting them into this category. Thanks! --VinceB 09:46, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upload the pictures to the commons, please! 

message: I think the antisemitic, "funny" picture should be removed from the article. I can't believe someone put that up. I presume it's photoshopped, but even if it's not, this issue has got nothing to do with the Jewish people so I think it should be removed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mrs Tremond (talk • contribs).
Which picture do you mean? I don't see anything remarkably anti-Semitic here. These protests indeed have nothing to do with Jewish people, and the demonstrators are well aware of that (except for some right-wing nuts that tend to turn up at every demonstration to cause trouble...) – Alensha  talk 20:53, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this meant to be a joke? 

message: This section is confusing for several reasons. It doesn't distinguish at all between votes for party lists and votes for individual candidates. I also commented out a sentence that suggested that 100% of those eligible actually voted.
-- nyenyec ☎ 19:48, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influences on the 2006 municipal elections 

message: I don't mean to be flippant, but a movie was released this month which ties into this theme. Man of the Year (2006 film) is about a U.S. President-elect who discovers that the election results were fraudulently misreported, i.e., that he didn't really win the election. The drama is about how he learns this, and what he does about it. --Uncle Ed 20:06, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Movie tie-in

message: I think the mentioning of football ultras is overused, contributing to a highly POV and propaganda image of the article. We should mention that police reports said football hooligans have joined the protesters, but why keep it repeating over and over? The word "football" is mentioned six times, it's more than in some football related articles. I leave the question open for discussion before removing football related phrases from all but one more relevant location. --V. Szabolcs 21:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Football? 

message: Responding to the copy-edit tag, I came to this article, and found the following sentences that do not really make sense. Not knowing anything at all about the event, I will leave them to someone more knowledgable to rewrite:
*"Mr Gyurcsány also made clues which can be understood as admitting having called for clandestine media or private capital support." You don't "make clues", you can "give clues", but that still doesn't make sense with the rest of the sentence.
** Tried to fix this one. Not sure it's good, though.
*Approximately 10,000 protesters demanded the resignation of Gyurcsány and his party for lying throughout the cycle and then during the campaign to win the next election. What is "the cycle"?
** Translation mistake; the Hungarian word for "term" and "cycle" are the same. Fixed.
*After 23:00, a smaller group of the demonstrators tried to get into the Magyar Televízió public television building at Szabadság Tér (Liberty Square) to announce their demands on air, peacefully. Is this meant to say: "After 23:00, a smaller group of the demonstrators peacefully tried to get into the Magyar Televízió public television building at Szabadság Tér (Liberty Square) to announce their demands on air" or "After 23:00, a smaller group of the demonstrators tried to get into the Magyar Televízió public television building at Szabadság Tér (Liberty Square) to peacefully announce their demands on air"
**Couldn't figure this out... the Hungarian version doesn't even mention that anything was peaceful here.
*blocked the main entrances but were unable to stop the attackers so the attackers did or didn't get inside? if this explained under the next heading then it shouldn't be included at the end of this paragraph because it does not link to the first sentence of the next paragraph.
** Fixed.
*They also set several parked cars ablaze (which led to part of the building catching fire too) and eventually managed to enter the building, forcing the police back. The demonstrators managed to voice their demands, but since the television station had already ceased its transmission due to the riot, it was not aired live. The building was abandoned about 02:30 by the police. After that, the mob entered the premises. So the attackers who set several parked cars ablaze and managed to enter the building to voice their demands were not "the mob"?
** It seems that even more people entered... if "mob" was translated from the Hungarian word "tömeg", it's possible it wasn't meant as a pejorative word, just means a large group of people.
*The article says first (injuring 141 police officers) and then Over 150 people were injured, including 102 policemen.
**Again impossible to know, neither the referenced sources nor Hungarian wikipedia mentions these numbers.
*Larger numbers of riot troops were deployed Larger numbers than what? than the night before? or just " a large number" ?
** A large number. (Possibly it was erroneously translated frm Hungarian where "larger" is used without saying larger than what.)
*At 01:00 CET is CET a timezone? It is not used in the first mention of a time back up in the Day 1 section. It should appear at the first instance if all times quoted are in the smae timezone.
** I deleted it since it was probably wrong – the riots were in late September - early October, when Hungary was using CEST (Central European Summer Time). There's no reason why Index.hu, the referenced source would use CET, the standard time zone to which Hungary switches back only in late October. (BTW Index.hu cannot really be used in references, it seems many of these pages have been moved since then and it's impossible to find any of them.)
*Live reports suggested that part of the mob also made some verbal efforts (shouting claims) to depict the violent acts similar to those of the 1956 Revolution. Is this meant to say "Live reports suggested that part of the mob shouted claims that the violent acts were similar to those of the 1956 Revolution"?
** Fixed.
*Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány was faced by his actions, and the protesters' demands, by reading their petition which they managed to hand over the previous day. He was faced by action by reading their petition? Perhaps "He was faced with the consequences of his actions, and the protester's demands, when he read their petition which they managed to hand over the previous day."
** Fixed.
*he was committed to pushing through his tightening package in any circumstances, without the possibility of even a minor change to it. "tightening package" what is that? And perhaps the sentence would read better "he was committed to pushing through his tightening pagakge without even any minor changes made to it, no matter what the circumstances".
** "Tightening package" is probably the translation of megszorító intézkedések (basically a set of new laws that try to eliminate the deficit in the state treasury by making life worse for the average citizen, e.g. higher taxes, tuition fees, etc.) According to my dictionary the correct translation of this is austerity measures, I changed it to that, I hope it's correct now.
*Why does the "Other cities" section contain details of Monday and Tuesday but sit only in the "Tuesday" section?
** Fixed.
*saying that Gyurcsány might as well join MIÉP The chairman of the party wanted Gyurcsány to join because he was a liar and he admitted to it?
** He was joking, pointing out that Gyurcsány is now called a liar both by MIÉP and himself.
*Demonstrators also requested the city's otherwise popular Socialist mayor This implies that normally he is popular but at the moment he is not. What has done to be not popular at the moment?
** It was meant that he is popular, but during these protests Socialist politicians weren't exactly held in high esteem. Anyway, I deleted "otherwise".
*he approved that his party was still planning to keep a rally in Budapest on Saturday He acknowledged? or He claimed?
** He liked the idea of the rally and he supported it. Tried to fix it.
*Some of them made anti-government signs in English and wanted to take part with them in the official celebration on Kossuth Square With them => with whom? with the signs? If so "wanted to take part in the official celebrations on Kossuth Square with them".
** Fixed.
*Despite their readiness (during the previous few days, hundreds of policemen were called in from the country to the city), police did little to defend the crush of radical anti-government protests that took place only 300-500 metres away and pressed nearer and nearer by police's gas attacks in the wide Erzsébet Boulevard (that night and the next day many political analysts and congressmen brought up the idea that this police behaviour was not by chance. This sentence is just so convoluted I don't have any suggestions except to break it up into 2 or 3 sentences.
** I broke it up to 2 sentences.
*Policemen in most of the restaurants and pubs drove in guests (referring to safety risks) or drove them out (referring to that they search for radical demonstrators) and they used wayside phraseology. "referring to that they search for radical demonstrators" what does this mean? and what is "wayside phraseology". By phraseology is it meant terminology? But what is "wayside" phraseology/terminology?
**It's possibly a literal translation of útszéli beszéd, which means they used foul words. Tried to fix that.
This is not meant to seem critical, but merely help with the improvement of the article, so if you can fix any of the above sentences, please do so, and then perhaps strike out using   any points you have fixed. JenLouise 23:29, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy-edit 

message: Some sections are simply too long the others are too short. The details about the municipal elections don't belong in this article at all.
It's full of irrelevant details that don't have any connection to the rest of the text, making the page hard to read.
The strict chronology should be given up, important events should be summarized properly, unimportant details should be removed.
-- nyenyec ☎ 22:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is a mess 

message: Above, under "This article is a mess", user Nyenyec suggested that "the details about the municipal elections don't belong in this article at all"; and I disagreed, pointing out that "the demonstrations served to mobilise the opposition to the government in those elections - and were partly intended to do so". 
I did suggest that the section could be incorporated into the "Elections in Hungary" page, but that a brief section would then have to be left here with a link.
However, user Kissl deleted the entire section on 21 April and moved it in extenso to the "Elections in Hungary" page, leaving neither brief summary nor link here.
Considering that this was a major deletion, and that contradictory opinions had been voiced on the Talk page on the subject, this should not have been done without first going to the Talk page.
The deletion in extenso also broke the narrative of the entry here, with the phrase, "Following the elections", with which the subsequent section ("Further demonstrations") started off, coming somewhat out of nowhere.
I have therefore now reinserted a much shorter version of the "Influences.." section, rounded off with a link pointing to the full detail on the "Elections.." page. No-itsme 16:10, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No prob. Reading back what I wrote above, I was being needlessly pissy about it, sorry about shooting from the hip. No-itsme 13:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on "Influences on the 2006 municipal elections" 

message: Maybe it's a bad idea, as I see the title of this article, but can we write the events of March 15, 2007 there? There were riots that day, too (sadly, in the another National Day of Hungary) with some reasons. First, the demonstrators heard the news about arresting György Budaházy, who according to the Hungarian police, destroyed the Soviet monument at the Liberty Square, where the siege of the Hungarian Television headquarters happened. This was one of the reasons. Second the usual, because of the close-doored speech of the Hungary's Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsány admitted that he and his party, the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) lied in the "morning, evening and night" about the economy of Hungary. The demonstrators earlier planned to take over the Kossuth Square, but it didn't work. Some of the events was covered on BBC and CNN. 80.99.130.116 07:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems there is some misunderstanding even at the CNN and BBC. The arrest of Budaházy happened in the afternoon, and the hissing at the PM and the egg-throwing at Demszky had happened sooner. The arrest supposedly only sparked the nighttime protests and barricade-buildings. And it is also sad that nearly all of the protesters are referred to as hooligans and right-wing extremists (even Nazis by some sources), without any visible clue of their political alignment. --V. Szabolcs 10:55, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I must remark that BBC oftenly cite "critism" against Fidesz ("far-right etc.), but I never heard they cited criticism against the police, saying the arrest of Budaházy was a well-timed action to generate riots, so a socialist PR-action to find excuse to accuse fidesz. And I must remark the "traditional" Arpad-flag has never been used by the pro-nazi regim of Szálasi. It's a whole stupidness. The Arpad-flag were not been used, only it's red and white-striped motifs were put onto the Nyilas-flag as a part of it. But the Nyilas flag basically were a red (socialist) flag with the Arrow Cross on it's left part. But it is a totally different flag, in its history and in its appearence, too. See  (can you see the bald, agressive young szálasi-fan skinhead holding it, being on the alert to muck constitutional order?) and see . And what does it mean The "Árpád-flag" is "the modified version of the pro-nazi-flag"? The fact is the converse of this fool sentence: the nyilas party "modified" the Arpad-flag, using its stripes to construct their own redflag-based one (the "Arpad-flag" has a more-than-800-years history; and the nazis were rise up in the 40's, so it is a totally stupidness to say that the Arpad-flag were the "modified version" of the nazi flag). The historically Arpad.flag is used often by extremists, pro-nazis and skinheads, too, but it is present on the official governmental occasions, also (e.g. when the prime minister makes its oath, a row of the "historical" flags are taken ceremoniously in the Parliament, and the traditional "Arpad-flag" isamongst them). But: the pro-nazi regime never, NEVER used it. ♥♥♥: Gubb   ✍    2007. April 21 11:47 (CEST) 11:47, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Events in March 15? 

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