Template talk:Fascism/Archives/2018/July

Split it
This is an awfully large template. I can't imagine anyone being helped by it: it simply doesn't facilitate navigation. It is also misleading in that, at that size, it can claim to be exhaustive, but there is absolutely no way that it can be: of all the articles that we (will) have on fascist topics, just some are covered here; to add them all would render the template even huger. As one who has written to some extent on fascism in Romania (but not just), I can tell you for sure this template does not include all the topical articles for all countries, but just a completely random selection.

This brings up another point: the template is already redundant to both Template:Fascism in Romania and Template:Historical Romanian political parties (this as just a sample, for one country). at this point, it would be better to consider creating "by country" ("Fascism in France" etc.) or "by period" ("Proto-fascism"? "Neo-fascism"?) templates and split this behemoth. Those templates would also have the added benefit of dealing with some controversies that are otherwise hard to solve: in topical templates, you can include articles on national movements for which the label is disputed -- they are significant topics for "Fascism in...", but probably not as significant for "Fascism in general". As in: you can argue that Portuguese Integralism was connected to the history of fascism in Portugal, because it has a documented relationship with other Portuguese fascists; but placing it on a generic template about fascism always makes people ask "but was it really?" Dahn (talk) 13:37, 29 July 2018 (UTC)