Template talk:New Democrats

Semi-protected edit request on 15 June 2018
As Third Way (think tank) has been moved to Third Way (United States) as a result of the former title's ambiguity with Third Way (United Kingdom), can the link in this template be changed to the new title? Thanks, 142.160.89.97 (talk) 16:16, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Alexander Levian (talk) 16:27, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

Issues with WP:SIDEBAR compliance
WP:SIDEBAR provides the following guidelines for navigation templates:

Browsing some of the articles linked from this template, I get the impression that these are not well satisfied. Out of 6 randomly selected articles in the "People" section, only 2 used the phrase "New Democrat" in the article text (cf. criterion 2). I also checked a couple articles under "Ideology" (Economic liberalism and Radical centrism) and neither of them referred to New Democrats. I also don't see much interconnectedness in terms of the articles linked in the template referring or linking to the other linked subjects in the template (criteria 3 and 5).

There's also an issue with WP:BIDIRECTIONAL. The template currently links to 50 articles, but has 33 transclusions, so by the pigeonhole principle at least 1/3 of the articles linked in the template don't transclude it (possibly the template was added to some of these articles at some point, but there was consensus to remove it?). I think this is more a symptom of overall lack of coherence rather than a separate problem.

I guess there are 3 possible solutions: 3 seems misguided to me. I find it unlikely that so many articles (including featured/good articles like Hillary Clinton and Al Gore) happen to have a blind spot regarding New Democrats in spite of that being a core part of the topic. I think it's more likely that many of these articles are only peripherally related to the 'New Democrat' label. Between options 1 and 2, I would lean a little more toward 1, just because I think the core set of articles you'd be left with under option 2 would be so small it might not be worth having a navigation template (rather than just using "See also" links). Thoughts? Colin M (talk) 19:20, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) Delete/deprecate the template
 * 2) Pare down the set of links to a coherent core of highly inter-related articles
 * 3) Modify the content of the linked articles to add references to the New Democrats and links/mentions of New Democrat-related articles