Talk:Ostrava

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taken from the User:Matt Borak's talk page:

Ostrava Are you sure that there are some Czechoslovaks?? 217.185.196.74 15:32, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

You are probably right that using "Czechoslovakians" is not the best thing to do, as it might lead to a confusion. There indeed was NO official Czechoslovakian nation (and thus no Czechoslovakians either). On the other hand, the term Czechoslovakians was used commonly before, refering to the people living inside the borders of the former Czechoslovakia or originating from it.

The article mentions Czechoslovakians while talking about WWII so the term in the sentence Historically, among the most influencing ethnic groups besides Czechoslovakians in Ostrava were Polish people, Germans and Jews. IMHO should be OK. The sence (in terms of time) of the second sentence in the same paragraph (Thus, the population of the city, has become a mixture of Czechoslovakians and Poles.) continues to present time, which is invalid, though. I changed the second occurence of the word to "Czechs and Slovaks" (the Slovak minority in the town is still important, which is reasonable considering that Ostrava being so close to the Slovak border).

If you or anybody else have any more objections, please feel free to incorporate them in the text. -- Matt Borak 17:27, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mayor name

It was discussed someplace (sorry, but I don't remember where) over the creation of a former template which was used for many Czech towns which I created (

{{{official_name}}}

) and which, in its original version, contained a field for the mayor's name but after many objections that it's not very important for an international reader I removed it. And I concur with that opinion now. It might be used with large towns such as London, Paris etc. where the mayor's known internationally, but if you look for some basic data for say a Spanish town of the same size as Ostrava, would their name be of any importance to you? I'm not going to do any reverts or remove it again in this article, I removed it when I was applying the new infobox, from the above mentioned reason. --Caroig 08:22, 28 December 2006 (UTC)