Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to:

• tie in directly to the Politics Portal to improve accessibility to high quality politics-related articles. The Portal is intended as a front page for Wikipedia's politics coverage, and should aid the reader in navigating around the articles. It should also draw attention to current events and some of Wikipedia's best politics articles.
• support the Portal by ensuring that the Portal has plenty of high-quality articles to showcase and ensuring that readers starting with the Portal can find their way around easily
• be as good in breadth as it is in depth. The namespace 'Politics' is rather broad, so although politics coverage can be augmented by more detailed projects, this particular project should oversee all coverage – this will involve making sure that the articles are well organised (through the use of categories) and ensuring that due attention is paid to the further reaches of the topic - for example, more obscure political theory. For the Portal, this should involve rotating the featured article and biography – rotating through domestic politics, international relations and political theory could be one way of doing this
• be truly international – this project particularly welcomes participants from non-Anglophone countries. The Portal should be used to highlight articles that concern political issues that most readers may not be aware of, and these are far less likely to concern, say, American politics
• Oversee the development of politics-related articles - for example, through the Collaboration of the fortnight
• Provide a clear structure of how politics articles are arranged on Wikipedia and present the Portal so as to facilitate reading and research
• Coordinate efforts and peer review articles

[edit] Templates

The following templates are related to politics:

Stubs

Click on the relevant template and select 'What links here' from the left-hand side of the page to see articles that have been tagged with that stub template - this will give you a list of such articles you can then expand.

Other templates

• {{future election}}

Templates on countries

• For every country a Politics of ... template has been created, linking to Politics of.., List of political parties in ..., Elections in ... and other articles on that country. This template is also placed in every party and election article.

Project templates

• {{WikiProjectPolitics|class=ƒimportance=}} Notice of Wikiproject Politics Assessement and importance grading placed on the article's Talkpage.

User page templates

Show everyone that you're part of this project by adding to your userpage a:
Poster, {{User Politics}}
Userbox, {{User WPPolitics}}

[edit] Infoboxes

The following infoboxes are in use in Wikipedia's politics-related content:

Template:Infobox Politician (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox President (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox Senator (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox BPM (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox PM (talk, links, edit)

[edit] Tasks

Getting the project off the ground

• Compile all templates, infoboxes and categories relating to the coverage of politics and link to them via this page (use a subpage if the list will be too long)
• Assemble a list of all featured content
• Advertise like mad! Add link to the politics portal on as many politics pages as possible – checklist Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics/Add Portal List, please expand in any way you see fit
• That's all for now, but please add to this list if you have further ideas on how to get this project and Portal up and running!

[edit] Featured material

Articles

The following politics-related articles are Featured articles and appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page.

Lists

The following politics-related lists are featured lists:

• Countries with nuclear weapons
• High Courts of India
• Members of the Commonwealth of Nations by continent
• Members of the Commonwealth of Nations by date joined
• Members of the Commonwealth of Nations by name
• Political parties in India
• Portuguese monarchs
• Signatories of the US constitution
• UN member states
• UN peacekeeping missions
• US House committees
• US Senate committees

[edit] Related Projects

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

Please see the project talk page to discuss any issues you would like to raise. Comments on the layout of the project and Portal are more than welcome. If you wish to notify other participants of a new article, please see the #Task console.

[edit] Task console

To-do list for WikiProject Politics:

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Open Tasks for WikiProject Politics (edit) New articles Edit / format Requests Expand New politics-related articles (bot-assisted) Ministerial Committee 2007 in politics Leonard Orban European Commissioner for Multilingualism Romanian European Commissioner Meglena Kuneva Scientific politics Major power anti-Americanism International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance John Keane (US soldier) United States Presidential transition Photographs Political communications Political culture Electoral fraud Integral humanism Portal:Anarchism Harold M. Ickes Scientific politics Merges Discussions Categorisation Maintenance What are the values, or sets of values, that move political participation and activism? How are these to be identified, articulated, verified or validated, known, and criticised? Jack Kemp PR Jesse Jackson, Jr. PR none as yet Keep Portal:Politics up to date.

[edit] Collaboration of the fortnight

Submit your nominations for Collaboration of the fortnight!

[edit] Sections yet to be covered

• Criteria guideline for article inclusion see: Wikipedia:Importance
• Politics article style guide
• Adopt an article
• Other subpages
• Categories