I wrote my wikipedia entry about Imre Pozsgay due to the sheer fact that he was Hungarian and I myself have Hungarian roots. Also because he seemed like an interesting character and I couldn’t really find anything else to write about that someone else in the class or wikipedia had written about. Pozsgay was an important man in Hungarian history and a key player in maintaining Hungarian Democracy. He was born in Hungarian and was part of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, a group that played a major part in Hungary’s path to democracy. He was one of the first major figures to recognize that the revolution was a popular uprising and not a counterrevolution. Pozsgay joined the HSWP after he got a degree in English from the Lenin Institute in Budapest. His calls for reform lead to a falling out with the party’s leader Janos Kadar and in turn Moved Pozsgay to head the chairman position of the party’s mass organization, the Patriotic Front. Kadar was soon removed from his Minister of State position and Pozsgay took his place right after in 1988. The Hungarian Socialists Party (formally known as the HSWP) announced Pozsgay as their Deputy President. However in 1991 Pozsgay split off from the HSP to form his own party called the National Democratic Alliance.
My initial wikipedia entry was kind of weak and didn’t fit the protocol of wikipedia entries. However I must have picked a person that sparked some interests in certain people’s lives because corrections, new citations and information, and correct grammar were edited in my paper. Individuals wrote about information about Imre Pozsgay that I didn’t even know about. However the initial phase of my entry on Imre Pozsgay must have faded quickly, because after the first day no one attempted to edit my entry.
What I learned from writing my article on Imre Pozsgay for Wikipedia while basically anyone can write a wikipedia article is that it is a lot harder than it looks and there are guidelines that need to be met. Citations are also crucial in writing an article, all your information should be cited to let the reader know the information is real and the articles, books, and journals cited could maybe even excite the reader into reading more about the subject at hand. I would have never thought I could write an entry for wikipedia, but thanks to this class I proved to myself I can and did something I wouldn’t ordinarily do.