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List of political parties in Italy
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I think the article is better without links to date fragments. I tried to remove them but was reverted. Lightmouse (talk) 11:34, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, Lightmouse (talk) 11:34, 25 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I think that date fragments are very useful and I don't agree with Lightmouse's work of unlinking. --Checco (talk) 11:58, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Ruhrfisch comments: Interesting article that makes clear just how many parties have been involved in Italian politics since the Second World War. I assume the goal is to get to WP:FL status, so here are some suggestions for improvement towards that goal: Hope this helps, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 01:25, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The major problem with the article that I see is that it has no (zero) references. For WP:FL the material will all have to be cited - see WP:CITE and WP:V
 * If this is a FL, the lead will have to be referenced too. I have some suggestions about the lead / intro paragraphs, but will give my other big idea first
 * I think this list would really benefit from being a sortable table - the first column could be the English name of the party, the second column could be the Italian name, and I leave it to you to decide what other information could be included. I would probably include some indication of position in the political spectrum (right, left, center), the years they were active (probably in two columns - one for the year they entered parliament or made whatever threshhold, a second for when they left (or noting they are still active). Other possible information would be a comments column, highest vote (%) received or perhaps largest number of seats, perhaps notable politicians who were members of this party, etc. This way of someone only knew the Italian name they could sort by that and find it, or if they wanted to sort by year of entry into parliament or whatever they could sort by that.
 * Per WP:LEAD I would rewrite the first sentence to something like "This is a list of political parties in Italy; as of 2008 several parties are active in Italian politics, and historically there have been even more." Avoid using "today" as next year the sitaution may be different.
 * I would mention in the lead that these are parties since the Second World War - define the start of the list too.
 * Since the list is historical, I would mention that in the lead too - it should summarize the whole article.
 * I would give the exact number of years here: During its almost fifty years in government, Christian Democracy chose its coalition partners... (i.e. be more specific that almost fifty years)
 * I have several guesses, but no clear idea what this means: Christian Democrats led the government consecutively for 46 but five years. 
 * Provide context for the reader - for example in this sentence In 1992-1994 the political system was shaken by a series of corruption scandals known collectively as Tangentopoli and the subsequent police investigation called Mani pulite. explain the clean hands (Mani pulite) and give some idea of the nature of the Tangentopoli scandals. See WP:PCR
 * I would also explain all abbreviations - many know MP, not all know MEP, for example.