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[edit] The Series boxes Politics of {{{country}}}

For all countries a series box on Politics has been made. Most follow the same layout (exceptions Australia and Politics of Romania|Romania. For two countries the series is integrated in a more comprehensive series, Israel and Serbia and Montenegro. Gradually I am working on these templates (consider it a project, see my Project Page. Some settings of the direction I am working to:

• Layout: First the link to the country, followed by the Flag or Arms and the link to [[Politics of {{{country}}}]]. The box continues with links on issues like (when available): The constitution, Parliament, Government (with link to Head of State and Head of Government), Parties and elections. It ends with a link to the Politics Portal, Politics by country, Political parties by country and elections by country. An example of the layout can be found at the German entry.
• We had some earlier debates on listing in the box individual parties and election results. That discussion led to a negative answer. If this doesn't change, I will delete these links in due time.
• The box is placed on all pages linked to, except for the country itself, as well on the entries of individual parties and election results. When a page has an info box, generally a link to [[Politics of {{{country}}}]] is placed.

For the layout two templates are used: politicsbox and politicsboxend. I will try and improve the start in a new template polibox.

If you want to debate the boxes in general, please do it here or add a new section in the general debate, and not at the individual boxes. If you want to debate an individual box, do that in the usual way above at edit this page. Electionworld 14:40, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New Venezuela integration template

Greetings. I can see that you've been doing great work standardizing the politics/elections articles, templates, and formats. All other things equal, I am highly supportive of this. However, we who have been upgrading the Venezuela-related articles are in need of an integrated, cross-theme template, which would follow along the lines of the much acclaimed template:Israelis navigation tool. The exists now a similar feature for the Venezuelan articles (at template:Venezuelans1, which is featured at the right), and we need to replace the template:Politics of Venezuela box with this new tool. Although you have done well standardizing template:Politics of Venezuela, is is unforunately bulky, and is not sufficiently cross-theme. It is not slim enough nor short enough to fit elegantly into all the articles we are developing. I have tried to accommodate your concerns within the new template by adding a link to your politics portal (which also features on the template:Israelis tool). I would be glad to generously accommodate any other concerns you may have, by adding more links to standard politics/elections articles. I, however, feel it is unfair for anyone who protests to behave in a discriminatory fashion by allowing Israel-related articles a common template, but not allowing such a tool for Venezuelan articles. The new template is greatly needed, and we intend to implement it.

Yes, some degree of standardization is good, but each nation has its own unique flavor and culture that cannot be treated justly by a uniform-sized and designed template. The Israel-related articles display this principle with their template prominently. I believe that your suggestions and support of this new template would greatly improve the navigability and integration of Venezuela articles. Please drop me your comments on my talk page. Thank you. Saravask 23:44, 28 October 2005 (UTC)