User:Kahlores/Sandbox/Why Wikipedia needs to adopt the left-right arrangement

This draft article will be intended for Wikipedians who are mostly working on Politics and Opinion polling pages.

Wikipedia has hundreds of articles on political parties all over the world. While infoboxes and lead sections often refer to a political position on the spectrum ("center-left", "far-right"), it has not fully embraced the concept. This is especially visible in pages relating to opinion polls, where the parties have to be sorted in one way.

In this essay, I will show
 * 1) Why the left-right spectrum is objective
 * 2) What are the benefits of a clear arrangement
 * 3) Why the left-right spectrum fits that goal

I shall clarify that my generalizations will be based on the commonly accepted liberal democracies of Europe and America. Japan and India also fit the paradigm, but very few FSU countries do, let alone dictatorships and rump states.

Examples

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 * - style="height:40px;"
 * MMR
 * data-sort-value="2018-12-11"| 5–11 Dec 2018
 * 975
 * 4.2
 * 12.9
 * 14.4
 * 16.9
 * 8.5
 * style="background:#C6ECFB;"| 22.1
 * 12.5
 * 5.9
 * 2.6
 * style="background:;color:#FFFFFF;"| 5.2
 * MMR
 * data-sort-value="2018-11-21"| 21 Nov 2018
 * 7.6
 * 10.3
 * 11.3
 * 16.3
 * 8.6
 * style="background:#C6ECFB;"| 21.1
 * 7.5
 * 13.1
 * 4.2
 * style="background:;color:#FFFFFF;"| 4.8
 * }
 * {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;line-height:14px;"
 * 13.1
 * 4.2
 * style="background:;color:#FFFFFF;"| 4.8
 * }
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! style="width:150px;" rowspan="2"| Polling firm ! style="width:125px;" rowspan="2"| Fieldwork date ! style="width:35px;" rowspan="2"| Sample size ! style="width:30px;" rowspan="2"| Resp. ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| D ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| V ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| S ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| M ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| B ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| P ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| F ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;"| C ! class="unsortable" style="width:40px;" rowspan="2"| Others ! style="width:30px;" rowspan="2"| Lead ! style="background:;"| ! style="background:;"| ! style="background:;"| ! style="background:;"| ! style="background:;"| ! style="background:;"| ! style="background:;"| ! style="background:;"|
 * - style="height:40px;"
 * MMR
 * data-sort-value="2018-12-11"| 5–11 Dec 2018
 * 975
 * style="background:#C6ECFB;"| 22.1
 * 12.9
 * 16.9
 * 5.9
 * 12.5
 * 14.4
 * 4.2
 * 8.5
 * 2.6
 * style="background:;color:#FFFFFF;"| 5.2
 * MMR
 * data-sort-value="2018-11-21"| 21 Nov 2018
 * style="background:#C6ECFB;"| 21.1
 * 10.3
 * 16.3
 * 13.1
 * 7.5
 * 11.3
 * 7.6
 * 8.6
 * 4.2
 * style="background:;color:#FFFFFF;"| 4.8
 * }
 * 7.6
 * 8.6
 * 4.2
 * style="background:;color:#FFFFFF;"| 4.8
 * }