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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)
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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 to use this template ==
 
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).
 
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.
 
Also, someone replaced the image subtemplate with this image: <pre> [[Image:vote_stub.png|34px|]] </pre>
 
'''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:
 
<pre>
{{Elections|
image=[[Image:vote_stub.png|thumb|180px|this is a caption]]}}
</pre>
 
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).
 
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)
 
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