Talk:Jerzy Buzek

Biography: Politics and Government Start‑class

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
	This article is supported by the politics and government work group.

Poland Start‑class High‑importance

	Poland portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Poland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Poland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PolandWikipedia:WikiProject PolandTemplate:WikiProject PolandPoland articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

Lutheranism Start‑class Low‑importance

	Jerzy Buzek is part of WikiProject Lutheranism, an effort to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to Lutheranism on Wikipedia. This includes but is not limited to Lutheran churches, Lutheran theology and worship, and biographies of notable Lutherans. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.LutheranismWikipedia:WikiProject LutheranismTemplate:WikiProject LutheranismLutheranism articles
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

A news item involving Jerzy Buzek was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 14 July 2009.

Wikipedia

Comments

Why does this Polish dude have a Nazi flag in his infobox? (Racist statements removed) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.31.42.120 (talk) 04:05, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Technically, he was born in Nazi Germany but you are free to remove that flag. By the way, per WP:FLAG, all flags should be removed from infoboxes. - Darwinek (talk) 13:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

He was born in Smilowitz, Landkreis Teschen, Germany. Mrandsl (talk) 22:11, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"English, French, and Polish are the most important languages of the EU"?

Did he really say such a stupid thing? What's next? A Swede gets elected and claims that Swedish is the most important language of the EU? I can think of at least half a dozen European languages that are way more important than Polish in the EU, Polish is a relatively unimportant language in Europe, being spoken in a smaller country and not used outside that country at all. Mrandsl (talk) 22:14, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

He did say that ([1], as cited). Otumba (talk) 22:36, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

POV

This article lack neutral POV. Why there are no mentions about high controversies surronding his Prime Ministership and agenda (opinions about his "achivments" are still highly divided) and landslide defeat in 2001? Darth Kalwejt (talk) 23:37, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I assure you that the lack of information on these controversies is not by design. Looking at who's edited the article, [2], it seems clear that most if not all contributors to this article have only added snippets of information, rather than detailed analysis. Again, this is not by design; to develop an article to represent all sides requires interest from contributors, and it doesn't seem people have been interested enough on Buzek to do that. I mean, I just came to the article today, and already I've made the most edits any one single editor has made to this article in its history. It doesn't exactly help either that any detailed analysis of Buzek's time as PM is probably in Polish, and considering this is an English version of Wikipedia Polish readers will be spread thin. However, this is Wikipedia, so you can add information on these controversies if you wish, making sure such information is cited to reliable sources. Otumba (talk) 23:59, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with vandalism

There seems to be a problem with vandalism[3] to this article. Some Polish user keeps changing the sentence "after the 1939 German invasion of Poland it was annexed by Germany" to the rather meaningless "after the 1939 it was annexed by Germany". It may be that he is not a native speaker of English, but in that case he should refrain from making continuous reverts after being told he is in error. The same user also pushes the "Zaolzie" theory. The details of Buzek's birth place in dealt with in a separate footnote, there is no need for duplication in the main text. Especially since his birthplace was not in Poland or "Zaolzie" at the time of his birth (the only time it was Polish, ever, was one year of Polish occupation before his birth). Also, moving the end ref tag is inappropriate, since the history of his birth place should be kept in the footnote. When "Zaolzie" is dealt with in great detail, there is also no reason for removing the fact that the area was part of Cisleithania rather than Hungary. 158.143.166.124 (talk) 19:34, 19 July 2009 (UTC) [reply]