Talk:List of Hungarian Americans

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[edit] Ethnicity lists discussion

Please see discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) for current discussion of a potential policy to apply to all ethnicity lists on Wikipedia, including this one. JackO'Lantern 20:40, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A chaotic list

This list BADLY needs to be cleaned up. There is no order whatsoever here at this time.---Heff01, 4-17-06

[edit] Edward Teller and Johnny von Neumann...

Are both quite hungarian. I moved them up from the Other category into the Scientist category. Yes, they aren't cited and should be, but I'm confused as to why those two were removed when none of the other myriad of uncited exampled were left untouched. I put them back. Acornwithwings 05:25, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] who goes on this list?

This list refers to Hungarian Americans, which in turn mentions Hungarians. The latter article discusses Hungarians as members of the Magyar ethnic group. Is this list supposed to be limited to Magyars or is it to encompass American people and their descendants who were born in the territory of the country called Hungary, regardless of ethnic group? Hmains 21:42, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Elie Wiesel?

Can someone please explain how Elie Wiesel is Hungarian? He is not an ethnic Hungarian, he spoke Yiddish at home with his family, the town where he was born was part of the Kingdom of Romania at the time. If you have read his book "Night" he makes a clear distinction in that he refers to the Hungarian gendarmerie who deport him and his family to the ghettoes as "the Hungarians." If he were Hungarian himself he would not refer to a group of people of the same ethnicity in that way, would he? His only connection to being Hungarian is speaking the language, well, he also speaks German, French, Hebrew, and Romanian, why not list him as German-American, French-American, Hebrew-American and Romanian-American as well? --67.149.150.252 (talk) 04:40, 12 May 2008 (UTC)