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Line 1: {{WikiProject banner shell\| {{WikiProject Elections and Referendums}} }} == Untitled == This new template seems to replace the Politics template. I have made a redirect and added to this template the list of politics-related topics. Since the template is not only anout elections, I added politics to the name of the series. I deleted Representation (empty article) and added an image. Furthermore I added the main political ideologies. This leads to two boxes in the series of each ideology and I am searching for a solution. I wonder what is the purpose of caption in the template. [[User:Wilfried Derksen\|Electionworld]] 8 July 2005 07:13 (UTC) Line 8 ⟶ 13: ::::Can you live with he solution of political between brackets. [[User:Wilfried Derksen\|Electionworld]] 8 July 2005 13:06 (UTC) Ignore Alfrem. He's [[WP:POINT\|disrupting Wikipedia to make a point]]. See [[wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Alfrem]] and [[Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration\|Requests_for_arbitration#User:Alfrem]]. Hopefully, he'll be banned from making such edits soon, but until then, the best solution is to keep reverting him. We've shown him 12+ sources saying libertarianism is political, and he keeps reverting. Incidentally, he's reverting this statement repeatedly. [[User:harry491\|Dave]] [[User_talk:harry491\|(talk)]] July 8, 2005 22:49 (UTC) == ~~How~~Can't toget ~~use~~caption ~~this~~to ~~template~~work == As originally intended, the template was to be used like this:▼ <pre>▼ I made this template to cover just elections, as the scope of politics can be very broad. For example, articles like [[Monarchy]] and [[Plutocracy]] could conceivably fit into a politcs template. Already, the template is quite huge - we really should use a separate ideology template. I've also readded the empty representation article, as it needs to be written (I'll stub it myself in a bit). {{Elections\|▼ image=[[Image:vote_stub.png\|180px]]\|▼ caption=this is a caption}}▼ </pre>▼ Note the lack of the thumb tag. Doing this, however, the text would end up double spacing and looking really weird, so I removed it. Putting captions into the image tag using the standard image captioning looks weird, though. If there were some code we could add around the (currently commented) caption subtemplate to make the text not wrap, things would be perfect. [[User:Scott Ritchie\|Scott Ritchie]] 8 July 2005 22:47 (UTC)▼ ~~In a while I'll create an ideology template, as we need an ideology series. If I get it right, both templates can be used on the same page atop eachother.~~ == You are not the owner of the template == ~~Also, someone replaced the image subtemplate with this image: <pre> [[Image:vote_stub.png\|34px\|]] </pre>~~ You created this template but it is really a dubble with the politics template I created a while ago. I suggest to have only one template here (most links in these templates are exactly the same). I suggest not to call it the democracy series (alsdo some non-democracies have elections), but politics or Elections and parties template (I will enact this name). I can agree not to have idologies in, but some of the links you deleted should return. We do not need the article Representation since we can use the article Representative democracy. [[User:Wilfried Derksen\|Electionworld]] 20:01, 9 July 2005 (UTC) '''Don't do this!''' The image subtemplate is there so that each page calling the template can have a seperate image and caption. Doing this broke the special image in [[vote]], for example. Instead, use the template like this: * I agree about representation, and have updated the link at [[representation (disambiguation)]] and will start working on the Representative democracy article to reflect that. I like where the template is going. We still have two redundant links to [[elections]], however. Even though this template contains links to everything that the original politcs template did (hence it is ''currently'' superior), that doesn't mean the politics template needs to die - we can update it to include links not appropriate here, such as to [[Monarchy]]. [[User:Scott Ritchie\|Scott Ritchie]] 02:52, 10 July 2005 (UTC) That seems like an excellent solution. [[User:harry491\|Dave]] [[User_talk:harry491\|(talk)]] 02:53, July 10, 2005 (UTC) Actually, I went ahead and made the [[representation (politics)]] article. [[User:Scott Ritchie\|Scott Ritchie]] 10:34, 15 July 2005 (UTC) == Portal and new layout == ▲<pre> ▲{{Elections\| ~~image=[[Image:vote_stub.png\|thumb\|180px\|this is a caption]]}}~~ ▲</pre> I restored the link to the portal, because I really don't see any reason why these sort of links shouldn't be in this infobox. I didn't restore the old layout, but I liked it much more. I will re-edit the edit box tag. [[User:Wilfried Derksen\|Electionworld]] 07:06, 17 October 2005 (UTC) Also, I have removed some redundant links that got added in to the template. There's no need to link to the elections article twice. Furthermore, I see that someone has removed the capitalization. I was trying to copy the style of the templates in the featured article [[Habsburg Spain]], which in my opinion looks nicer than what we have here currently (small text without caps). ==Some changes== As I keep thinking about it, this template really works better not trying to be too many things at once. This shouldn't be a replacement for the politics template on ''every'' politics page, only the ones about democracy, elections, and voting. After getting input I think I might move it to [[Template:Democracy]]. If I have time I'll also reinvigorate the politics template (which ''would'' be an appropriate place to have the ideology section) and put that on some of the pages where this template moved in. [[User:Scott Ritchie\|Scott Ritchie]] 8 July 2005 22:42 (UTC) I've just made some changes I want to explain. I think the template was far too big and intrusive. So I've split electoral/voting systems off into a separate template, which you can get to by clicking 'electoral systems'. The 'subseries of politics' part at the bottom also made the template very large. It seems more logical to me to click at the top where it says "This series is part of the Politics series" in order to go up one level and see the subseries, rather than to have all these other series listed on every article. Doing it that way also makes the template a lot less intrusive. [[User:Iota\|Iota]] 15:51, 3 May 2006 (UTC) == Redistribution v. Boundary Delimitation == ~~== Can't get caption to work ==~~ ▲As originally intended, the template was to be used like this: Redistribution is a regional term central to the United States and the Commonwealth while Boundary Delimitation is more general. I am switching the two on the template to make the template more international in focus. [[User:Sadads\|SADADS]] ([[User talk:Sadads\|talk]]) 14:01, 10 July 2009 (UTC) ~~<pre>~~ ~~{{Elections\|~~ ▲image=[[Image:vote_stub.png\|180px\| ▲caption=this is a caption}} ~~</pre>~~ ▲Note the lack of the thumb tag. Doing this, however, the text would end up double spacing and looking really weird, so I removed it. Putting captions into the image tag using the standard image captioning looks weird, though. If there were some code we could add around the (currently commented) caption subtemplate to make the text not wrap, things would be perfect. [[User:Scott Ritchie\|Scott Ritchie]] 8 July 2005 22:47 (UTC)