Portal talk:Politics/Archive 1

I like this better. It is good to be able to gain access to stuff without having to scroll long distances. You are doing good work, let me know if you need any help.

Ace Diamond 15:21, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Political colours
Even if this portal is just a newborn, maybe this is the best place to ask how feels responsible for "political colours", i.e. templates like Template:German politics/party colours/Left -- and where one could try to find a standard that is generally accepted (my problems are a green for the Greens that is not green enough, and different colours used in Wikipedia and in German media for the Left Party). -- till we &#9788; &#9789; | Talk 20:33, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Almost there!
Three days on from its inception, I'm fairly happy with how the Portal looks for now. Obviously, it will continue to evolve - at the moment, the most pressing development is introducing a navigational aid. This could either be a well organised list of categories to help users go straight to the article they want to, and/or a list of 'showcase articles' (see Portal:Cricket - the list there contains plenty for users to browse through), though I'm not sure that an area as large as politics can be showcased with a selection of articles small enough to fit in one box.

Rolling changes are necessary though:
 * News and Current Events - at least every other day
 * Featured article, biography and picture - every Sunday (doesn't have to have official featured status, but should be of similar quality)
 * Useful Links - if other Portals and WikiProjects are formed

I think that's it for now. Once again, many thanks to all those already on board. Hopefully the dust will settle in the next two weeks and the Project can get going with its tasks. --HighHopes (T)&sdot; [ (+)] &sdot;(C)&sdot;(E) 15:52, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Fed up
I'm fed up with Wikipedia - it's essentially 'run' by this ghastly little clan of people who lick each others' butts for sheer pleasure - so do what the fuck you want to this Portal. Not that you were stopped from this before, but basically, I don't give a shit how you edit it. --HighHopes 21:51, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Plato?
Why's plato on the front page? Would Aristotle or perhaps Rawls or Cicero be more logical? Migdejong 08:59, 28 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Cos Plato wrote the The Republic. Wasn't that obvious? He's a damn sight more influential than Rawls. --Oh Dear 01:36, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Non mentioned Politics articles
I think there will be a number of these, as Wikipedia can be quite spread and so forth. So far I have only noticed: Electoral reform. It might also be an idea to have politics by country links. --LeftyG 03:21, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Updates
I've updated all the selected stuff. Did someone get fussy about calling it 'featured'? Either way, I've changed 'selected content' to 'featured content' cos all content listed there is actually featured. --Purposeful 09:47, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Maintenance
By the way, I'm happy to maintain this Portal - I notice that it failed because there was no sign of being maintained, so I'll take that on. Although anyone willing to add news from their own corner of the world is more than encouraged to. --Purposeful 11:11, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Selected Article
Two things 1.) Recently featured currently list Batman and Spacecraft propulsion. I am hoping that these were not actually featured on the politics portal.  Can this list be changed? 2.) Nominations? Is there a place for them, or what? --LeftyG 22:52, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Main page
Currently there is a poll at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Usability/Main Page/Draft/Portal poll for which portals should have a link on the main page. Vote for POLITICS. --GeLuxe 08:31, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Selected article
Didn't change in ages, so I changed it to my passion/geek speciality - Electoral reform in New Zealand. If you disagree, then change it to something other than Hugo Chavez!!! --Midnighttonight 08:19, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

=Topics from 2006=

Portal management
I am saddened that much of the content is dated and several links are dead. I think that a jaded portal is worse than no portal at all. Surely whoever ploughed this field should tend it? Fenton Robb 12:02, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, that person has left Wikipedia and this portal lays essentially dormant. --cj | talk 17:04, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

It only needs a Wikipedian who has edited many portals and has experience with portals. -Code Napoleon
 * That I have. Time, I don't.--cj | talk 01:14, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, having a number of people would also work, and they needn't have had to have experience on Portals before. It is kinda obvious once you've been around Wikipedia for a while.  I changed the featured article a little while back when I got bored of the previous one.  People just need to do it themselves when they have time, until then Electoral reform in New Zealand will remain!! (ha ha).  --Midnighttonight 02:04, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

Hurrah! It's very much improved; but I wonder of it is wise to have a portal quite so 'newsy' - unless the links are automatically updated, this costs a bit of time and effort that mght be better employed enriching the content. Also, it may well overlap other wiki news sources and over time become partial. The changes already made are a great improvement. Fenton Robb 08:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * It's been more or less updated. It will, obviously, still need work going forward. --DMG413 00:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * What is needed now is a list of what will be the next inline, ways of nominating articles etc. I think we have just enough people to make this portal work, the more the better of course.

I propose that we select a new article/biography/picture each week. News and current affairs can update as needed. Thus, I have added the sections below.--Midnighttonight 08:55, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Nominate an Article
''Please add new articles to the bottom of the list. Articles must not have any tags (stubs, POV etc.), be related to the sphere of politics and be of a high quality''


 * Nomination: Workers' Party of Korea Deiaemeth 07:48, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Nomination: Western betrayal. Poland is grossly over-represented there, the other nations sometimes have nothing at all (eg. Ukraine), or only a tiny paragraph (eg. Croatia) +Hexagon1 (t) |*̥̲̅ ̲̅†̲̅| |>̲̅-̲̅| 04:29, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Nominate a Biography
''Please add new articles to the bottom of the list. Biographies must not have any tags (stubs, POV etc.), be related to the sphere of politics and be of a high quality''


 * I must say that the biography of David Cameron has been improved dramatically. Abcdefghijklm 16:32, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * John W. Johnston was just made a GA plange 03:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I've been working on Wesley Clark's biography, I'd expect it to pass it's GA nomination when someone gets around to it and then I'll be taking it through an FAC. If you feel he's political enough to be featured at the Politics portal, I think this article is of fine quality to be featured. Staxringold talkcontribs 22:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Nominated a Picture
''Please add new articles to the bottom of the list. Pictures must have a relevant article which must not have any tags (stubs, POV etc.), be related to the sphere of politics and be of a high quality''

Feature management
I have two suggestions for managing the "Selected article", "Selected biography", and "Selected picture": Any thoughts? -Aude ( talk | contribs ) 23:53, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Let's set up these in a queue, as done on Portal:Law, Portal:Geography (featured picture), and some other portals.  I suggest these features rotate on a weekly basis, using the  system variable (see Help:Variables).
 * 2) For the articles and biographies, it's my preference to use articles listed as featured articles or good articles.  I have set up a list of these at Portal:Politics/Featured articles, and bolded those articles that have appeared already on the portal.
 * 3) For articles suggested, but not listed as either "featured" or "good" (such as Workers' Party of Korea), I suggest they go ahead and be nominated as a Good article, and then they can be used here.


 * Per WP:BOLD, I've gone ahead and set up the pictures to change automatically each month. I have made a page for May 2006 and one for June 2006.  At some later point, before July 1, we need to queue up additional pictures.  I pulled the Montreal picture from commons:Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Architecute and the Austria picture from Featured pictures.  Such featured pictures that are available and fit for "politics" tend to be government buildings.  Though, I'm open to using other "selected pictures". The one stipulation is that they shouldn't be Fair use pictures (like the Time magazine cover), as issues have arisen over using Fair use images anywhere beyond the article namespace. -Aude ( talk | contribs ) 00:21, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

News archiving
I have set up a news archive page, Portal:Politics/News/Archive. When items are removed fromn the news feature, please copy them to the archives (so they don't entirely disappear, and readers can find them). Also, does anyone has suggestions for improving the archive page? Right now, it follows the same format as Current events, but without the side boxes. -Aude ( talk | contribs ) 13:53, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Portal box-header
One more proposal here... I suggest we update the coding of the portal, to make use of Portal:box-header and Portal:box-footer as done with most of the other portals. The big difference with using box-header is the spacing between the title bar and the feature box would go away, but the spacing between feature items would remain. I have tested it out, and would like to hear any feedback, suggestions, or opposition to this before implementing it. -Aude ( talk | contribs ) 14:27, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I support the reformat.--cj | talk 01:56, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Portal:Communism
Portal:Communism opened, please add it, I would do it, but I cannot figure a nice layout in the related portals box. Thanks! Afonso Silva 14:03, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Western Betrayal
I've nominated the Western betrayal article for improvement. Poland is grossly over-represented there, the other nations sometimes have nothing at all (eg. Ukraine), or only a tiny paragraph (eg. Croatia). I am posting it here too, as I'm not sure how often the nominations section is checked by anyone. (A nom from the 4th May is still there) +Hexagon1 (t) |*̥̲̅ ̲̅†̲̅| |>̲̅-̲̅| 04:29, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Portal plans
What are people's thoughts about ways to develop the portal? Do we think it needs any improvements? Would it be worth having any loose criteria over what news articles and stories to include? --Wisd e n17 14:58, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * When I've updated the news, I have taken items that were posted on the current events page. These include stories about elections, politicians, and things like U.S. constitutional amendments, political scandals, and protests.  Do you have any specific preference as to what to include or not include?  If we could add items not covered on the current events page, that would be fine with me.  (though more work than I can personally take on right now) And, if several people could be updating the news, that would help.  Sometimes, I'm quick in getting updates, and sometimes not. -- Aude  ( talk contribs ) 21:47, 18 July 2006 (UTC)


 * What about including a Did You Know? plange 03:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

ICRC move/creation
Hello all, for the past few months I've been writing a new article for the International Committee of the Red Cross (which is currently just a part of the comprehensive International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement article). I'm finally satisfied enough to propose its move into the main namespace, though it's far from perfect. That article is at User:Draeco/ICRC, and I've proposed a move here. This portal seems like a likely place to find informed opinions, so I hope some of you can take the time to opine here - Draeco 18:00, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Tasks and WikiProjects
I changed the template used in this section to use two columns instead of three as with Firefox, the content was overflowing the box. &mdash; Stevie is the man!  Talk 15:34, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Feminism?
I know its probably a heck of a lot of work but shouldn't feminism be included in the list of "Political theories and ideologies"? Is anyone doing anything with this portal? Lizz612 01:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * The portal is regularly updated, mainly the news and current affair section though. I suppose feminism could be included in the Political theories and ideologies section, although I don't quite follow how it would be "a heck of a lot of work" to include it. --Wisd e n17 19:36, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. That seems worthy of inclusion due to the movements and their successes.Michael 05:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Invitation!
Just wanted to invite you guys over to WP Biography where we are currently voting on implementation of task forces, one of which is Politicians. If you'd like to see it get its own task force, vote now :-) plange 02:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Campaigns Wikia
Hey all! Come help with the new Campaigns Wikia, founded by Jimbo himself! Jfing e  r s  88  19:38, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Executive (government)
I have just done a rewrite so as to be able to remove the globalize tag. All comments and improvements are welcome. Physchim62 (talk) 16:11, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Republic of China note
At Portal:Politics/Topics, the following appears: "Taiwan (see Republic of China1)." However, the 1 doesn't seem to lead anywhere. I'll remove it momentarily, but feel free to revert if I'm just being clueless. Picaroon 01:10, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

=Topics from 2007=

Administration (government)
As part of a clean up of the mess that was the Administration article, I moved the primary part of it to Administration (business) and hived off new articles for the half dozen other meanings. One of these is Administration (government), but it is one that is a long way from being a FA! A clean-up would be useful. --Concrete Cowboy 20:36, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Shortcut
Should the shortcut really be there? Jo e  I  00:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion (forthcoming news)
The third free democratic parliamentary election in the Republic of Serbia is about to be held on 21 January 2007. They have drawn much eyes and attention of the world, making it a global interest. These elections are going to be even more tense than the 2000 ones, when the autocratic dictator Slobodan Milosevic lost. The voters are going to choose the path: powerful radical nationalist right, or numerous democratic parties on the other hand.

This could be placed at the news. --PaxEquilibrium 20:45, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Serbian parliamentary election, 2007. --PaxEquilibrium 19:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Format and side-box
This article needs a sister format that sits in a side-box or bottom-of-article box that can accompany articles.Dogru144 21:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Help requested
Cross post starts On Talk:Politics of present-day nations and states I have asked a question about what articles should be linked into by these templates. This relates to a dispute on Template:Politics of Iran regaring Iran international crisis. Anyone who could help with their views would be most appreciated. AndrewRT(Talk) 16:00, 18 February 2007 (UTC) Please respond on the above talk page and not here. Cross post ends

List of political parties by UN geoscheme
I proposed, and after a while, just went bold and started it, a change to the previous huge list of political parties by country into one divided by the sub-regions of the UN geoscheme.

So far I have transfered only three sub-regions from the previous alphabetical listing, and this is proven too timeconsuming for me to do faster. So I ask for help from my fellow editors...

In the talk page of List of political parties by UN geoscheme I proposed a method on how to do so, created a template for the intro, and a new category. Any and all help would be welcomed in this effort so we can get it finished faster. Thanks!--Cerejota 08:49, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Another Portal Idea
Maybe this is a bad idea and forgive me if it is. Should I/anyone make a Libertarian Portal of sorts? I 'm sorry if this idea has already been suggested.

Eco-socialism
The page Eco-socialism has been substantially updated and is now a very long, thorough article (I've done a lot of work on it over the last months). I have two questions:

1) Where can I get is assessed? If the answer is here, I would be very grateful is someone could assess it.

and

2) Is it possible to get it added to the Socialism side banner under Types of Socialism? Some of the types of socialism listed are, while obviously worthy of the place there, just as if not less prominent than Eco-socialism, so I think it's inclusion is valid.

Thanks! Aled Dilwyn Fisher 18:39, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Zeitgiest
Could somebody please write an article on the documentary Zeitgeist released in 2007. I do not have the knowledge to create a page, or one of the calibre this movie/documentary deserves. This is an amazing film, which is free to watch at zeitgeistmovie.com, and is a mind blowing presentation of how governments use fear and panic to manipulate a populace. I believe it is essential viewing for any free thinking cultured human being and needs a page to further knowledge about it as well as create a base for discussion. I am using this area because i believe i may be able to contact like minded people who believe that truth should be taken as the authority, not authority taken as the truth Gerald121 12:14, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

=Topics from 2008=

Retrofit topic-year headers
13-March-2008: I have retrofit the subheaders "Topics from 2006" (etc.) to help emphasize the dates of discussion. Replies can still be added to older issues, but the year titles just help to focus on more current concerns. Also, noting the year might help in adding new topics to the bottom (rather than have new entries slip in at the top). I moved newer entry "Zeitgiest" to the bottom. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Multiple divs handle oversized subboxes
13-March-2008: I have changed "Portal:Politics" to put right sub-boxes in separate &lt;div>-sections to continue formatting of side-by-side boxes even when one box is edited to become oversized and no longer fit within the page (especially on 800x600 windows). Oversized subboxes are most often due to having an image wider than 220px (or such). Now that each sub-box is a separate div-section, it is easier to spot which sub-box has become wider, too wide to fit within the side-by-side format. The most often "too-wide" is the featured picture. People editing portals on wide windows often forget to narrow the window to check the display for the many users who have 800x600 resolution (such as on library PCs). Multiple div-sections repeat the same float on each side: (subbox here) (subbox here) (subbox here) (subbox here) (subbox here) (subbox here) There are actually more than 6 div-sections in Portal:Politics. Any overwide sub-box will cause a shift further down the page, but the subsequent boxes can still re-align to display side-by-side afterward, minimizing the impact of an overwide sub-box not narrowed until a later date. Otherwise, the spacing looks the same as the prior div-sections. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:52, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Opening Sentence
"Politics is the process and method of gaining or maintaining support for public or common action: the conduct of decision-making for groups. This notion predates human society." In what way can the second sentence be stood up? 90.194.47.59 (talk) 19:38, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

OVC - Open Voting Consortium
I am not familiar with how portals are managed so rather than edit the main article and creating problems I am suggesting that a link to the Open Voting Consortium article be added under Section 10.7 either under "Voting and counting systems" or "Miscellaneous on elections". Low Sea (talk) 20:46, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

I
am not familiar with the enlish wikipedia discussion about No original research. In de was the german artical from Policy Laundering deletet after a discussion.--Ot (talk) 05:11, 12 August 2008 (UTC)


 * In the .de wikipedia the german translation of Policy Laundering was delete because some argued that the German translation was not widely used. The Discussion was controversial and some argued that the article should remain or at least be created again later when the term was more commonly used in german. See: here Mond (talk) 08:12, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Biggest Problem With This Portal
I think the biggest problem with this portal is that it doesn't encourage anyone visiting to help with these articles, or show them ways that they can help such as common tagging and stuff like that. User participation is key to a good portal, but this looks more like a list of places to check out rather than a helpful place to contribute. QuirkyAndSuch (talk) 20:05, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

New political system
I was wondering whether the suggestions about a reform of the current polical system can be added to some wikipedia-articles. See these suggestions on political reform.

I guess this is relevant seen how bad the parties/politics have done in the past and made a mess of the economy and environment. The movie Man_of_the_Year_(2006_film) also makes fun of the parties so I guess it is relevant, especially now.

81.245.187.242 (talk) 17:54, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

TO THE BELIEVERS

Very good day,

This is to invite your attention towards the desirability, in today’s World__ where no one, be it a super power or a super-populated nation, is in a position to influence events __ of an inter-state alliance for the resolution of regional and global issues.

The present time demands a new World Order achievable through a Global Alliance of Jews, Christians and Muslims who need to get their vision adjusted to the logic of events as they have unfolded in the beginning of the 21st century. If, thus, the believers correct their course to pursue such values as conform with God’s universal plan, design and order, they will be rewarded with world leadership. Otherwise, Nature will, for the correction of course, permit the evil to gather momentum and rush with fury to a WAR ON THE BELIEVERS who will suffer substantial loss before reuniting to once again play a role on the world stage.

While the human beings have been waging bloody wars to block the transformation of one Culture/World Order into another, the forces of nature have continued for millennia to smoothly and peacefully transform day into night and darkness into light. I, therefore, request the sons of Ibrahim (Peace be upon him) to learn from nature and be united for replacing the illuminati World Order of the Industrial Culture era with a New World Order for the I.T. Culture era.

Having been blessed with a crystal clear vision of the centuries ahead, coupled with the expertise to develop a practical shape of the I.T. Culture, my suggestions are not only compatible with the prevalent democratic system but also have an inbuilt mechanism for the evolution of I.T. Culture in accordance with the divine order and design. In this context, briefs of the fundamental principles of “IN GOD WE TRUST”, Constitution, Smart Government and Structure of I.T. Culture Government are enclosed.

Since, besides, the United Nations (UN) has unfortunately failed to maintain global peace and its subsidiary organs have been unable to achieve their respective objectives, we need, on the one hand, to replace the UN with a new World Organization of the Nations (WON) and on the other, establish new subsidiary organs, namely GRACE, GOOD, JOIN, TOP and PACT, a brief of the fundamental principles of each of which is also enclosed.

Hoping we can all join hands to develop an inbuilt mechanism for Global Peace in the New World Order,

Sincerely yours,

SYED AMMAR BUKHARI Cell: +92-321-2345617 www.goodgovernance.org.pk WWW.THERADIANTPATH.ORG —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.71.57.159 (talk) 07:32, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Binational relationships
A series of almanac entries are being deleted on the relationships between pairs of countries. Here are typical ones: Greece-Kyrgyzstan relations and Germany–Uruguay relations. Anyone who has an opinion either way come and read the article. If you have an interest in foreign affairs and diplomacy help add references to the articles in the series. Here is the full list]. About 50 or 60 have already been deleted. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 23:18, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm moving this discussion over to Wikipedia_talk:Notability. Habanero-tan (talk) 12:57, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

TO THE BELIEVERS

Very good day,

This is to invite your attention towards the desirability, in today’s World__ where no one, be it a super power or a super-populated nation, is in a position to influence events __ of an inter-state alliance for the resolution of regional and global issues.

The present time demands a new World Order achievable through a Global Alliance of Jews, Christians and Muslims who need to get their vision adjusted to the logic of events as they have unfolded in the beginning of the 21st century. If, thus, the believers correct their course to pursue such values as conform with God’s universal plan, design and order, they will be rewarded with world leadership. Otherwise, Nature will, for the correction of course, permit the evil to gather momentum and rush with fury to a WAR ON THE BELIEVERS who will suffer substantial loss before reuniting to once again play a role on the world stage.

While the human beings have been waging bloody wars to block the transformation of one Culture/World Order into another, the forces of nature have continued for millennia to smoothly and peacefully transform day into night and darkness into light. I, therefore, request the sons of Ibrahim (Peace be upon him) to learn from nature and be united for replacing the illuminati World Order of the Industrial Culture era with a New World Order for the I.T. Culture era.

Having been blessed with a crystal clear vision of the centuries ahead, coupled with the expertise to develop a practical shape of the I.T. Culture, my suggestions are not only compatible with the prevalent democratic system but also have an inbuilt mechanism for the evolution of I.T. Culture in accordance with the divine order and design. In this context, briefs of the fundamental principles of “IN GOD WE TRUST”, Constitution, Smart Government and Structure of I.T. Culture Government are enclosed.

Since, besides, the United Nations (UN) has unfortunately failed to maintain global peace and its subsidiary organs have been unable to achieve their respective objectives, we need, on the one hand, to replace the UN with a new World Organization of the Nations (WON) and on the other, establish new subsidiary organs, namely GRACE, GOOD, JOIN, TOP and PACT, a brief of the fundamental principles of each of which is also enclosed.

Hoping we can all join hands to develop an inbuilt mechanism for Global Peace in the New World Order,

Sincerely yours,

SYED AMMAR BUKHARI Cell: +92-321-2345617 www.goodgovernance.org.pk

RfContributions
I've added Arab republic into Islamic republic and it would be good to have some "style of government literature citations and notations by scholars added to it. Sadly, I don't have the time to expand further than I've already added so I invite others to put some love into the article.  Jaakobou Chalk Talk  04:53, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Related Portals
i think United Nations must be in that list--201.255.10.36 (talk) 22:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Peer review requested!
To all interested persons :P

I've listed the Monarchy of Spain article for peer review because…

My eyes have been on it too long and not enough views that have generated comments! lol. I have watched the page for a year looking to see if there were improvements, but none. So, this past summer I started editing the artical answering questions that I myself would have for the Spanish monarchy. There are other sections I wish to add (such as the Monarchy, media, and the people), but before I go further I wished to get comments on what is present.

Thanks, ♦Drachenfyre♦ · Talk 07:05, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Request for help improving article about Alan Khazei
I've listed the article on Alan Khazei for peer review--I've been working a bit on improving it, and would really appreciate if other wikipedians would be interested in working on this too. Khazei is a Democratic candidate in the special election to fill the Massachusetts US Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. Since the primary election will occur on December 8, I think lots of people are likely to look at this article over the next week. It would be great if this and other articles related to the upcoming MA Senate election are made really accurate, thorough, and up to date. Thanks, CordeliaNaismith (talk) 07:11, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Close Up Foundation
"The Close Up Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization in the United States. ..." I was hoping to get this article adopted by a few portals. Guy M 23:06, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Heads of State & Government Salary
Hello. I'd be interested in creating an article about the salaries of Heads of State and Heads of Government around the world. I'm thinking a large wikitable showing the salaries in local currency and the value of that salary in Euros, Dollars & Pounds. It could then have a section on controversies about government pay and how it is decided in different countries. I realise this'd be a large undertaking, perhaps a full day or two of research, but I'm up for doing it in my User space and then making it live. I'm just wondering if people would be in favour or against this article, and if there would need to be an element of 'benefits' of the job - for example one head of state might make $500,000 while another makes $350,000 with a house... it should be noted, perhaps?

Please discuss. Smoking Newton  (MESSAGE ME)  13:03, 7 June 2010 (UTC)