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[edit] Notability

This may be a bit UK/Ireland centric but hopefully we can get some feedback on this from other people too. It is clear that the world is, on the whole, awash with polticial parties. For Wiki, we have election box metadata tables and templates through which parties are linked, and in many cases to get the correct colour and links there must be corresponding articles.

However the United Kingdom is one of many nations in which minor (and sometimes incredibly small) political parties are formed to participate in elections. And if these are "one off" they must be of some extremely clear notability to have an article here. One very good example is the recently Prodd'd Money Reform Party who took part in one by-election for Westminster. They are clearly not a notable national political force, so the article is likely to be deleted without much comment. But then we have Forward Wales or Left List or Mebyon Kernow, which all could be argued as being too "small" for notability, too small for inclusion here.

So we need to decide on policy. We already have notability policy on so many things, I wonder if there is enough for political parties, both within the UK and worldwide. I hope we can get together to discuss this in time doktorb wordsdeeds 17:42, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

A notability policy has been proposed at User talk:Doktorbuk/pp. Comments are welcome there. Terraxos (talk) 19:52, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pagemove

I'm not a member of this project (although I do have an interest in poltics and political parties), but I would like to suggest a pagemove to Wikipedia:WikiProject Political parties. That would allow the categories of this project, such as Category:A-Class Political Parties articles to be renamed to conform to naming conventions for categories and to match similar categories used by other projects (e.g. Category:A-Class Australian history articles). If the members of this project do not object, I could update all relevant pages (mostly Template:WikiProject Political Parties and a few project and category pages) in a few minutes. Thanks, –Black Falcon (Talk) 19:20, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Support - DiligentTerrier (and friends) 14:07, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Doing... –Black Falcon (Talk) 17:03, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Y Done. See Category:WikiProject Political parties. It will take some time for the pages to appear in the new categories. (By the way, I have updated the content of this WikiProject's templates to reflect the pagemove, but I have not renamed them.) –Black Falcon (Talk) 18:02, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Importance criteria

So, what importance do peopel think an ordinary page on a political party should get? High? Or mid? Or should there be a distinction between "major" and "minor" parties (with the latter being classified as lower importance)? IdiotSavant (talk) 11:47, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't really know. That's something we really need to figure out, though. - DiligentTerrier (and friends) 14:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Well that is what we are trying to discuss ! Please look at the progress we have in building a draft policy on notability of political parties. doktorb wordsdeeds 14:55, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I left my thoughts here. GaryColemanFan (talk) 23:45, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Missing political articles

Greetings. I would be grateful if anyone could have a look at my list of missing topics related to politics. Thank you. - Skysmith (talk) 12:10, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Canada

Please keep in mind that there is already a Wikipedia:WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada project. GreenJoe 20:50, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Building the project

While people are debating importance criteria, can we at least start adding parties to the project by going through national lists? Pick a country, any country, and get to it. We can rate for quality and leave importance for later. --IdiotSavant (talk) 13:10, 5 June 2008 (UTC)