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. Electionworld 8 July 2005 07:13 (UTC)
Libertarianism was deleted from the list. I re-added it, since it is (treated in Wikipedia) as a separate ideology - Electionworld 8 July 2005 11:40 (UTC)
- It is a misleading use to call it simply "political". --Alfrem 8 July 2005 11:46 (UTC)
- It is a political ideology and it is more than taht alone, I agree, but it fits in a list of political ideologies. Your remarks goes also for green politics, anarchism, liberalism, conservatism etc. I place (political) between brackets. Pure non-political ideologies should not be included. --Electionworld 8 July 2005 11:50 (UTC)
- No, it is not a political ideology at all in its core. And it is a misleading term of people who believe that what smacks of politics must be political. --Alfrem 8 July 2005 12:25 (UTC)
- Can you live with he solution of political between brackets. Electionworld 8 July 2005 13:06 (UTC)
- No, it is not a political ideology at all in its core. And it is a misleading term of people who believe that what smacks of politics must be political. --Alfrem 8 July 2005 12:25 (UTC)
- It is a political ideology and it is more than taht alone, I agree, but it fits in a list of political ideologies. Your remarks goes also for green politics, anarchism, liberalism, conservatism etc. I place (political) between brackets. Pure non-political ideologies should not be included. --Electionworld 8 July 2005 11:50 (UTC)
Ignore Alfrem. He's disrupting Wikipedia to make a point. See wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Alfrem and 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. Dave (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:
[[Image:vote_stub.png|34px|]]
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:
{{Elections|
image=[[Image:vote_stub.png|thumb|180px|this is a caption]]}}
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. Scott Ritchie 8 July 2005 22:42 (UTC)
Can't get caption to work
As originally intended, the template was to be used like this:
{{Elections|
image=[[Image:vote_stub.png|180px|
caption=this is a caption}}
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. Scott Ritchie 8 July 2005 22:47 (UTC)