Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics/Archive 27
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New RfCs have been created (Democratic and Republican Party positions)
Two new RfCs have been created regarding the political position of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, more specifically in the infobox at the top of the page. Input has been gathered for a while now, but for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, you can go to the respective talk page section (I linked them for convenience) and give input after reading what has been discussed so far. Apolitical or non-American Wikipedians may be required to reach a efficient consensus and avoid (perceived) bias. They are some of the few remaining political parties to not list a position in the infobox (especially considering the fact that they have an identifiable ideology), and each time someone tries to bring it up again to possibly change it, people come in from both sides and it ends in no new consensus. This will keep being an issue/will continue to be brought up until a decision is reached. Help is appreciated, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thanks! HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 02:53, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
NRA funding
@Senty78: has recently added information regarding NRA campaign contributions to multiple Republican US House members from the state of New York (e.g. [1], [2], [3]). Is this type of detail generally considered relevant content for political biographies, or is it WP:UNDUE? power~enwiki (π, ν) 20:50, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
- I'd say donations to individual politicians is relevant for their biographies. Number 57 20:54, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
RfC at Karl Marx
Should the categories Ashkenazi Jews, German people of Jewish descent, Jewish atheists, Jewish philosophers, Jewish socialists, Jewish sociologists be added to this article?Talk:Karl_Marx#RfC RolandR (talk) 11:33, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
Roy Moore
I'm removing Roy Moore from my watchlist after this post. There are a variety of issues with the page, and it will be very high-profile through (at least) the general election in December. I request that editors on this project add the page to their watchlists, suggest content improvements, and engage on the talk page. power~enwiki (π, ν) 01:20, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Lion Guard (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
I just wanted to ask more editors who have more experience writing political articles to see if Lion Guard can't be improved somewhat. I've written it about as best I can but appear to be really the only editor who has worked on it. The article has frequently been hit with requests for better citations, almost to a ridiculous level, sometimes with "citation needed" tags added after almost every sentence. Right now, the article history is simply a back and forth between myself another editor with some COI issues surfacing as well. We definitely need more editors to look at it. -O.R.Comms
- Also see Talk:Lion_Guard#Tags_added. Badly need more editors to be involved. -O.R.Comms 20:03, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Discussion at Talk:Yashwant_Sinha#Content_about_September_2017_article
I am inviting editors to a discussion at the Yashwant Sinha article. Another editor has been repeatedly trying to include certain information about a recent article written by Sinha. So I am inviting others to have a look.--DreamLinker (talk) 01:55, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
Rexist Party and Christian socialism
I'd be interested in seeing more voices at Talk:Rexist Party#Leon Degrelle himself described the party a Socialist. Any additions to the discussion are appreciated. Master of Time (talk) 04:48, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
Women in Red November contest open to all
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Editing opportunity
More eyes needed for article improvement on Useful idiots where the current Russian interference in the US elections issues seem to have spilled over. SPECIFICO talk 19:25, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
Newly-elected politicians from Virginia
I've created some stubs for some of the newly-elected politicians from Virginia, and invite all to help expand these articles:
Thanks! ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:10, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
Radical Cause Article
I am new to Wikipedia editing and decided to start my journey by editing a random article selected by the site. The article chosen, "Radical Cause," had issues right off the bat. So far I have edited the grammar and run-on sentences in the first two paragraphs. Let me know if this wording sounds better, and what I can do to further better the article down the road. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mlhanse6 (talk • contribs) 01:52, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
An FLC is in progress about List of Presidents of India which is a topic of top importance .Please review the nomination and add comments ping me add {{ping|Force Radical}} OR [[User:Force Radical]]
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Force Radical
African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968) requested move
There is an ongoing move request for the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968) and similar pages. Please feel free to comment at the move request page. Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 15:41, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
Roy Moore
Requesting any interested editors take a look at Roy Moore. I have some concerns discussed on the talk page, but would appreciate other opinions. If anyone thinks I am off base feel free to say so. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:31, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
Multiple discussions currently occurring at Talk:Roy Moore may be of interest to members of this project. power~enwiki (π, ν) 00:48, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
New Here. Willing to Help.
I don't know if this is the right place to do it, but I'm just introducing myself, as per someone's instructions. Because I'm new, I don't know how useful I will be, but I am willing to work for food (for thought). This was the first group i looked at, so I don't have much perspective, but it seems like U have a lot of participants. Would I be more useful in a less populated area? And, if so, can U point me to that area?
If anyone has anything more pressing than what's already listed here, please feel free to try and put me to work. I've familiarized myself with many of the policies but still have things to learn about actually editing the text, with whatever program this is. It took me 3 times to just get my username on the participants list, and it's still not right. (Where do U find a list of those flag icons?) Also, could someone point me to a resource that has instructions for the text editor (e.g. what character creates paragraphs or page breaks? I tried |p| but that didn't work.) Psylocyber (talk) 10:33, 25 November 2017 (UTC) Thanks
OK. Me Again. I decided to jump right in and start working on adding infoboxes to articles that are on the list of missing infoboxes, and I already have some questions. I started at the top of the list and the first 2 already have infoboxes. So I'm thinking, I need to edit the page with the list so I can remove those 2 items, and any others I should find, that are already completed. Should I do that? There is not much of a talk page on the page with the list, it even says that it rarely gets read or visited. Should I remove them from the list myself, with notes? Or, should I just leave someone a note (somewhere) so they could remove them?
Also, the first item on the list has zero citations yet has very specific information (people's names, dates, etc). It has already been flagged for this by someone. This item already has an infobox, as I said, but as an example, should I even bother to add an infobox if I find a similar page, where the content might be taken down anyway? Lastly, could anyone that has experience working with infobox templates, please get back to me, and be willing to answer a few technical questions, that I know I'm going to have, about creating them. This is especially true in regard to maintaining the micro formatting architecture, within the template. Thanks Again, Psylocyber (talk) 02:41, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- Welcome! If you enjoy confrontation, Talk:Roy Moore is the place for you. If you don't, the various ideology pages (such as Conservatism in the United States might be a good place to start editing. If you enjoy purely gnomish work, I have to suggest you find a different WikiProject until you have at least 200 edits under your belt. power~enwiki (π, ν) 02:50, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- I don't consider myself an expert, but I might be able to answer questions about infobxes. They're fairly straightforward. If you haven't already, look at Help:Infobox. Txantimedia (talk) 04:15, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
President Donald Trump
I am not donating to Wikipedia but telling Donald Trump if he can get my house and Band of Believers Church in salina Oklahoma he could keep the GED building which is paid. The Tornado hit the buildings and I had built it back up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.79.141.58 (talk) 19:37, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject
Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.
A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Politics
Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod talk 18:03, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
The "far-right"
I think this the best page for this discussion. We are trapped in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. They all generally discuss political ideologies generally considered to be tied to Conservatism, but with "more extreme" views than "mainstream" parties[a], such as the Conservative Party (UK) or Republican Party (United States).
- Right-wing populism
- Far-right politics
- Alt-right
- Radical right (United States)
- Radical right (Europe)
All of those topics have some overlap. Some (but not all) of them overlap with these topics:
- Conservatism in the United States
- White nationalism
- White supremacy
- Neo-fascism
- Neo-Nazism
- Dominion Theology
- Tea Party movement
- Dark Enlightenment
Writing about this is made more difficult due to the perennially contentious nature of editing American Politics-related topics on Wikipedia. I have no suggestions yet, and don't even feel that the list of topics above is complete yet. Feedback is appreciated. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:05, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
- It's further complicated by the fact that it's all relative. The Republican Party might be deemed right-wing in the US, but to Europeans they seem very far to the right; the Democratic Party would also be be deemed a right-wing party in much of Europe. Number 57 19:15, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
A digression that belongs at WP:RS/N
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Notes
- ^ I feel unable to clearly define either "more extreme" or "mainstream", but expect readers to generally understand this to mean that these groups are very much opposed to the views of the Democratic Party (United States).
I note a discussion at Template talk:Alt-right footer which may be of relevance here. power~enwiki (π, ν) 07:22, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
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Scope question
Would the subject of an article holding an office itself qualify the article as within the scope of this WikiProject? Note that I'm asking for a plethora of articles on Roman senators. SpartaN (talk) 08:47, 14 December 2017 (UTC)