Talk:Novi Sad/Archive 2

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You miss this section ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.87.147.223 (talk) 22:30, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Neighborhoods and construction

Here are some links to interesting pictures; they even might be free acording to imageshack's policy, but I wouldn't bet on that. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/archive/index.php/index.php?t-404185.html

I reorganized a bit the neighborhoods and building data. However, it should be sourced somehow, the statements I added are fairly general (not to say weasel :-) ). I only heard that Novi Sad is/was the 2nd-greatest construction site in the Europe in the past years, and probably the largest but I can't find anything on the Google. The best I came so far are [1] (nice text, but not a WP:RS, maybe by a stretch) and [2]. JP Urbanizam website mostly sucks. Duja► 10:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Spelling, Syrmia

The article is now a mixture of British (centre) and American (neighborhood) spelling, and it should be sorted out. I don't mind one way or another.

I dislike using Syrmia throughout; sounds strange in modern context. I know the title of that article is result of a "treaty", but the common practice in such cases is that each country uses its own spelling in articles related to it. Duja► 12:04, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

The transliteration from Rusyn says gorod, how a mistake like that can be made is beyond me, it's horod, let's get it together people, stop being retarded! Nroscha (talk) 21:02, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Infoboxes

This is totally ridiculous - everybody who dislike existing infobox want to change it and then when it is changed, other users change it again and that repeat over and over. I really do not care which infobox will be here, but if you do not stop with this constant infobox change, I will revert article to the first infobox that was ever posted in it. PANONIAN (talk) 07:37, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

It's a major mess. I reverted for the time being, but {{Serbia city}} is up for deletion, as well as Template:Infobox_City_Serbia4. They want to replace it by {{Infobox city}}, which in my opinion sucks, as a too general and not customizable per country. I'm not sure what to do either, but substing the {{Serbia city}} by Lord Eru is probably the worst solution of all. I'll join the TfD discussion and try to find a permanent solution. Heck, even Paris uses a country-custom infobox. Duja► 08:10, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

My idea was to have one template for all 4 cities in Serbia, that is why I created one for NS to use on all cities, which looks like {{Infobox city}}. Paris uses template {{French commune}} template. If we have one template for municipalities in Serbia, why wouldn't we have for cities in Serbia (NS, KG, NI, BG) ? --Göran Smith 09:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Sigh. That was my idea too, but the TfD seems doomed. In any case, I gave a try to {{Infobox city}} which seems to work just fine, with almost all links properly customizable. Plenty of work to convert, though (but it should be simpler for the other 3 cities now if we decide so, by just copying/pasting/modifying this one). In any case, I'm against content forking when there's no pressing need to do so; if the community wants to impose Infobox city, so be it. For 4 cities, it's not a big deal, but I'd be heavily opposed if anyone should feel like deleting {{Infobox Serbia municipality}} — it was a major work to fill and convert data in 170 articles. Duja► 10:35, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I really do not care which of the infoboxes will be posted here (they all look same to me), but this really went too far. It is natural that somebody think that template sucks and there will be always the people who will think that for every template that is posted in the article. The problem is: should everybody who think that template sucks to replace this template with another one and then when new users come here to replace it with new one and that to repeat over and over to eternity? Please, people, can you find agreement which template to post here or I should ask for arbitration, like in the Kosovo article? PANONIAN (talk) 19:41, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

By the way, could anybody to fix problem with coat of arms in the infobox, which show both, Cyrillic and Latin name of the city? PANONIAN (talk) 19:53, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

I reverted article to previous infobox. I said that I do not care which of the infoboxes will be posted here, but I meant "which of the CORRECT AND FUNCTIONAL infoboxes". The last one is not one of those, as you can see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Novi_Sad&oldid=125559744 - I see no other solution to solve this problem with coat of arms instead to remove this infobox. PANONIAN (talk) 20:10, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

What is the problem with the coat of arms? Could you restate the question? —MJCdetroit 20:34, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Like I said, I don't mind any kind of infobox as long as it works either. My changes were an experiment to check whether the Infobox city would work satisfactorily, and it seemed so. Now, could you be more specific what was the problem with the CoA? The version you provided looks perfectly fine for me (although I do know that your browser and screen settings are quite unusual—it's not a critique, just, it's well usable for "debugging" purposes). The only problem I saw was the wrong tooltip over the CoA, and it now seems fixed by MJCdetroit. Duja► 08:13, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

You do not see what is problem with coat of arms? The problem is that it say "Coat of arms of Нови СадNovi Sad" instead of "Coat of arms of Novi Sad". PANONIAN (talk) 10:29, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

I did notice, but it seems to be fixed now by MJCdetroit. Besides, it was only a problem in the hovering tooltip (as far as I could see); it wasn't such a big deal to require a wholesale revert. In any case, is everything OK now? Duja► 11:14, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

To me, it looks OK :) --Göran Smith 11:19, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

The problem occurred because there were two names placed in the "official_name" name field when only the English name should have been there. "other_name" and/or "native_name" are where the Cyrillic and Latin names should have gone. It has been corrected and seems to work fine in Firefox (Mac OS 10.4 and WinXP) —MJCdetroit 12:09, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

Density

Somebody should fix another problem in the infobox with urban density... PANONIAN (talk) 11:48, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Done. Because there was a comma in the number, it threw off the automatic unit conversion giving an "Expression error". Only RAW numbers should be entered, ie 1600.00 and not 1,600.00. The template will format the number automatically. There is an explanation table for most parameter fields at Template:Infobox City :)—MJCdetroit 12:36, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

can anyone put any less depressing photo on the top of the page?

bias

Why is there such a detailed description of a massacre against Serbian and Jewish citizens but any attempt to mention Serbian atrocities are immediately eliminated. How else can you explain that the population of Novi Sad has become so homogenous since World War II. This article needs a mention of Partizan atrocities.

Because if you read any book about history of Novi Sad (and I have several), you will notice that all of them speak about fascist genocide from 1942 and non of them say that partizans killed somebody in Novi Sad after the war. I have books that say that partisans killed people in Vojvodina after the war, but none of them do not mention Novi Sad. In another words, provide valid sources for your claims and then we can discuss them. PANONIAN 13:39, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

And population of Novi Sad did not "become so homogenous since World War II". If you compare data from 1931 census (before the war) and 1948 census (after the war), you will see very similar data:

• 1931 census: population 63,985, of whom 32,227 (50.4%) Serbs
• 1948 census: population 69,431, of whom 35,330 (50.9%) Serbs

PANONIAN 13:45, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

The serbian state did had many serbian massacres, even after the 1990's. If you can buy new books, you may try it in serbian language or hungarian. Somewhere after 2001 there was also a genocide court settled by a court in Serbia or U.N.

Bogdan188.25.104.231 (talk) 20:28, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

what percent of the population of Novi Sad is Hungarian today compared to 100 years ago?

Don't you think there was a big change?

What is the purpose of this question? I suggest that you read this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Novi_Sad There you can find data about size of various ethnic groups in the city in various time periods. PANONIAN 17:24, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

You are on the wrong track, both of you. I will copy paste what I wrote in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Novi_Sad: You don't understand why Kingdom of Hungary was so strong. The main strenght came from the diversity. Most people living there who never had any "blood" connection to Hungarians were proud Hungarians (ie. Kossuth and Petofi, also Karoly Kos, Festetich, Grassalkovich, etc.) Today, influenced by nationalism, we don't understand this. Acording to my opinion, we loose a lot of things with nationalism. Abdulka 16:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

1944 raid

Thanks for the good faith, Nemlehetigaz. However, it's not the problem that you provided a Hungarian reference. The problem is that it's referenced from a wiki, and we don't treat wikis as a reliable source, see WP:RS. It's also not mandatory to use English-language sources (although it's preferred), see WP:RSUE. For that reason, I just substituted the Serbian printed reference on 1942 massacre with 2 online English references, one by Hungarian author. You're just kindly invited to find the source for the claim of 2,000 killed Hungarians in 1944 alone. Hint: I won't accept the paper titled "Fifty thousand hungarian martyrs" as a non-partisan source. A peer-reviewed journal, respected book, preferrably by non-Serbian, non-Hungarian source will do. Thanks. Duja► 13:15, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Here's a seemingly respectful one:

Károly Kocsis, Eszter Kocsis-Hodosi (1998). Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin. Simon Publications LLC. p. 23. ISBN 193131375X., quote:

"In areas belonging to former Yugoslavia (Bacska, Banat), in spite of the vendetta of the Serbs in October-November 1944, which claimed approximately 20,000 civilian casualties, the number of Hungarians was dropping far slower"... "In Serbia, Croatia and the Transmura Region of Slovenia, the number of Hungarians either increased or remained unchanged up to the 1960s".

Nis > Novi Sad

Nis

• City: 375,027
• Urban: 225,025

Novi Sad

• City: 299,294
• Urban: 216,583

References

Popis stanovništva, domaćinstava i Stanova 2002. Knjiga 1: Nacionalna ili etnička pripadnost po naseljima. Republika Srbija, Republički zavod za statistiku Beograd 2003. ISBN 86-84443-00-09

You can't compare the City population of Novi Sad to the Urban population of Nis and say that Novi Sad is bigger than Nis. Any reference except the National Census of Serbia can't count as a valid reference if they misinterpret obvious facts. --GOD OF JUSTICE 23:45, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Agree, but could you offer an official on-line source, such as http://webrzs.statserb.sr.gov.yu/axd/Zip/SN31.pdf. Can't believe that there are two different official numbers. As you will see in provided link, Nis has 250,518 CITY, not urban inhabitants (page 12 of 36). Novi Sad 299,294 (page 8 of 36). Jdjerich 00:10, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

I have the reference in question (Knjiga 1, census data, not online, courtesy of PANONIAN). 2006 reference can also be found on the statrzs website. Here are the figures:

2002 census:

• Novi Sad: Novi Sad proper 191,405 + Petrovaradin 13,973 + Sremska Kamenica 11,205; City of Novi Sad 299,294
• Niš: Niš proper 173,724; City of Niš 235,159

20 June 2005 est (no per-settlement data, only the City area):

• City of Novi Sad 310,185
• City of Niš 253,124

So, whichever way you count, the order is the same. Did someone fake Niš data? A be Nišlije, to neće da vam prođe... Duja► 08:04, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

What about Pristina? --GOD OF JUSTICE 22:56, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

What about the polar bears? What Pristina has to do with population of Nis and Novi Sad? As you may check, or remember, census was not undertaken on Kosovo in 2002. Jdjerich 00:32, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what polar bears you're talking about, and please be serious, this is not child's play, we're writing an encyclopedia. I'm not sure if you noticed that piece of paper some people like to call UNSC Resolution 1244 that says that Kosovo is a part of Serbia, meaning that Pristina is the second largest city in Serbia (with estimates showing 500,000-600,000 people). However, since I don't believe that estimates are enough to cite, I was wondering if anyone had the last census in Pristina info, so that we can change the order of largest cities of Serbia. And Jdjerich, you might be looking for this page: Polar bears. cheers, --GOD OF JUSTICE 17:40, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

I was not aware that point of this discussion is to prove that there are cities in Serbia that have more citizens than Novi Sad (apart from Belgrade)? I though dispute is between Novi Sad and Nis? Please notice that only official statistical body of Republic of Serbia can give valid data on population of cities in Serbia. Since census was not held on Kosovo, I don't see how can we believe any estimates. An official census, that will some day be organized on Kosovo (by Serbian or any form of authority that may govern the Province) will give us answer to your question. Thanks for link to Polar bears, I would never remember it. Seriously. Jdjerich 21:42, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm afraid you don't understand what I'm trying to say. Maybe there wasn't a census taken in Kosovo at the time when it was taken in the rest of Serbia, but it was taken before, right? Does someone have those stats? Thats all that I was asking. :) --GOD OF JUSTICE 05:00, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Anyone? :) --GOD OF JUSTICE 20:48, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

http://www.osce.org/kosovo/13982.html Duja► 07:59, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

http://www.citypopulation.de/Kosovo.html if you scroll down it gives data from the 1991 census (which was an estimation since the albanians boycotted, and the 1981 census). Cities in Serbia go like this: 1. Belgrade 2. Novi Sad 3. Nis 4. Pristina 5. Kragujevac 6. Subotica 7. Prizren etc. Yugo91aesop (talk) 01:55, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Dnevnik article

This page and related ones were (sort of) analysed in a recent article in Dnevnik (Novi Sad):

http://www.dnevnik.co.yu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=31810

Duja► 09:41, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Hungarian sources

This article uses a lot of Serb sources. For example Branko Ćurčin, Slana Bara nekad i sad, Novi Sad, 2002 is used to prove that the etymology of village names are of Slavic origin. If we can use Serb sources to prove various aspects of this article, then it is hypocracy saying that using Hungarian sources is not independent. Either we remove all statements that are based on Serb and Hungarian sources, or we keep them both. If you want to prove that the Hungarian source is BIASED, then prove it! Find a book that proves there were no attrocities in Novi Sad in 1944. Until proven otherwise, the Hungarian source is true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.62.54.149 (talk) 00:31, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

What Hungarian sources? You haven't provided any that proves that there were attrocities in 1944, and you expect us to prove otherwise??? (By the way, I don't doubt there were killings, but the numbers and scope are very unclear)
I provided a couple of sources above, in the #1944 raid section. On request, I also changed sourcing for the contentious material from WWII from Serbian to non-Serbian (moreover, Hungarian) sources. You provide a reliable source—you include the contents. If you ask me, I'll gladly dismiss the Ćurčin's thesis on Slavic etymology (hard to tell on the book's reliability, but looks like a local chronicle far more than a thorough historiography book) and remove that material, but WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS has never been a good argument. Duja► 09:55, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

You see, I do not refuse to include the said info, but I do like being treated with some honesty and respect in return. "Yes it does, read the book" is a lie. You can't even be bothered to include the book in the <ref></ref> tags. You weren't even aware about existence of the book until you saw it mentioned above, did you? Since you have read the book, you won't have the problem to briefly quote or point the page where Novi Sad is put in the context of 1944/45 killings, will you? Duja► 13:28, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

I understand that you are used to people lying, because you are living in a society where everyone is a liar. So here's a quote from that book

From those Hungarians who remained in Vojvodina ca. 20,000 innocent civilians became the victims of the bloody Serbian vendetta[3] in October and November 1944 (our estimation and see Cseres T. 1991).

Quote from Tibor Cseres: Serbian Vendetta in Bacska

During the first week some 1,500 men were killed on the island. Most of them were shot and pushed into the Danube. Some are buried in a land called Shanghai, on the floodplain behind the slaughter house between the highroad to the village of Katy and the Danube. From 1941 to the fall of 1944, this floodplain area had been a frontier zone, where the Hungarian corp of engineers had built a primitive defense line with trenches made from wood and earth. These trenches served as common graves later. Partisans were patrolling railway stations, roads, and trains, and ruthlessly killing everyone who did not have a travel document issued by them.

Links:

• http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/hmcb/hmcb06.htm
• http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/cseres/cseres05.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.46.189.54 (talk) 13:47, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

So, Novi Sad is not mentioned in the book you cite, but in quite another one. However, you feel inclined to add some racist comments to illustrate that your misrepresentations do not really matter, as we all are liars? Great. Duja► 15:02, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Racist? Did I insult your race?
Like I said, it may be normal for people in Serbia to call others LIARS, but in normal parts of the world people think before they accuse someone of lying.
You have your proof, it's in those books. What more do you want? 77.46.189.54 15:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

External links

I recommand this one for deletion: "City's assembly - Official site"

The first one is official. See for yourself...

Actually, both are official. The first one is of city major and "city government", and the second one is of city assembly. Both should stay. Jdjerich (talk) 23:28, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Hungarian name

Hello, The Hungarian name of the city should appear alongside the latin and cyrillic Serbian versions.George Adam Horváth (talk) 16:53, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Why? Jdjerich (talk) 17:24, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

The Hungarian name of Novi Sad is already in the "Name" section of the article. I understand why you would want the Hungarian name in the first sentence of the article, since Novi Sad is the capital of Vojvodina and in Vojvodina there are several official languages, however that would be an aesthetic catastrophe, because then we would have to add the name of the city in other official languages as well. It is Wikipedia policy that the different name of the city is listed in the opening sentence only when there is a different ethnic majority in the town compared to the largest ethnic majority in the country. This is why Vojvodinian towns such as Subotica, Backa Topola and Mali Iđoš, which all have a Hungarian majority, have the Hungarian name in the first sentence as well. Novi Sad is predominantly Serbian (ethnically), but as I've said, ALL the names are already in the "Name" section. Cheers, --GOD OF JUSTICE 22:37, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

1. The name of the city should be in a list, and not in a sentence.
2. The name should be in the english alphabet, since my keyboard lacks some oriental & arabic diacritics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.25.104.231 (talk) 20:48, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

translation of motto souds way off

"grad"= city "gradana"= citizens, but "po meri" to me translates into "as a measure of its'" or "as measured by its'", even "defined by its'" would be a more appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.60.184.241 (talk) 09:17, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Actually, the chief source for the motto is Wikipedia itself, and the exact phrase yields grand total of 170 Google hits, many of those being Wikipedia mirrors. There is something like an action by the city government called like that, but it's not even mentioned on the city's official page, at least I cannot see it. No such user (talk) 09:31, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Name

Did Novi Sad get it's name due to vineyards in surrounding area (e.g. Fruska gora)? -- Bojan  04:18, 20 April 2009 (UTC) Novi Sad has little Industry. It lays on Danube and has machinery industry to build ships, airplanes, electrics, and machines for agriculture. The second branch of industry it the clothing & foot-wear manufacturing. The third one is public alimentation related and woodworking. Since agriculture is the oldest human habbit, and the surroundings are in low plains terrains, you could overlook wine, or the grapes- culture since, there is three hills, if you look up closely. Yes, the climate is able to sustain vineyards for wine production, and even exports. The main advantage is the Danube river which gives it magnificent acces routes to Europe, and to the Far-East laying over the Black Sea. Bogdan188.25.104.231 (talk) 21:13, 18 November 2010 (UTC)