Template talk:Infobox Political party
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[edit] Syntax
{{Infobox_Political_Party
| party_name =
| party_logo =
| colorcode = #FFFFFF
| leader =
| chairman =
| spokesperson =
| foundation =
| ideology =
| headquarters =
| international =
| website =
}}
[edit] Addition for 'dissolved'
Could someone more knowledgeable with the conditional template variabled please add an optional "dissolved" or "disbanded" parameter? I would like to use this infobox with historic parties. Thanks, dewet|✉ 08:05, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] New proposal
I have made a new proposal for an update on this template so that we can get rid of all the national "Template:Infobox National Political Party" and use this template for all of them, see Template:Infobox Political party/test.
Some general issues that it would be good to have some input to are:
- Should the fields {{{leader}}}, {{{chairperson}}}, {{{spokesperson}}} be abolished in favour of using only the {{{leader[1/2/3]_title}}} fields? This is how this is resolved in Template:Infobox Country, and I would say that this is quite a similar case. There are many kinds of political parties that use different styles for their leaders, such as the "General Secretary" (not the same as Secretary general or Party secretary I suppose) of the Communist Party of China, and other parties who use one or more spokespersons as their leaders. Whatever the case, I think there must be some customizable fields for leader titles that are used in only on country (such as Senate and House Leaders from Template:Infobox American Political Party.)
- How should the fields for international affiliations be organized? Should there be only one {{{international}}} field that should be used for all international organizations that the party is affiliated with, or should we add separate fields such as {{{european}}}, {{{nordic}}} etc. as is done in the infobox templates for European political parties? Or should we use customizable fields such as {{{leader[1/2/3]_title}}} above?
- The phrase "Political ideology" have been changed to "Official ideology" to point out that this field should only state what is the official, self-stated ideology of a party, and not what is the opinion of media and other outside observers. To use anything else than the party's official position here would be against WP:NPOV and will only lead to edit wars and disputes over what is to be considered a reliable source.
- The "political position" fields that is used in templates such as Template:Infobox British Political Party and others have been added. However I would propose that this field is removed, as there is most of the times no neutral way to place a political party on the left-right scale and this is often very disputed and controversial.
/Slarre 15:19, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
