Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics/Archive 12

Someone wants to "merge" the U.S. single payer health care bill away
Talk:United States National Health Care Act. Love it or hate it, it has 100,000s of Google hits, 100s of news articles, and it's mentioned in several templates. The same editor who wants to redirect it has removed detailed polling data about the bill. 71.212.232.68 (talk) 22:51, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

AFD Articles for deletion/Bush Derangement Syndrome (6th nomination)
Please weigh in.--Amadscientist (talk) 21:52, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

State power
Term "a body of state power" is widely used in the articles relating to the executive and other bodies of Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, etc., but I could not find it in the articles relating to US or Great Britain. I guess the readers may not understand, what this term mean. Or there may be other term. May we create an article, explaining what it mean, and link such article with the corresponding articles in other languages? In the countries, where English is not a native language, the articles in different languages (e. g. English - Russian) are usually used to check the correspondence of terms and their usage. The terms of this group are very important to avoid misunderstanding in international contracts, for instance. That is why I offer to create such article in English and link it with the corresponding existing article in Russian, and I need help with it and will be thankful for any assistance, -- Zara-arush (talk) 11:48, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Hideki Tōjō
Hideki Tōjō has been proposed to be renamed, see talk:Hideki Tōjō -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 23:44, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Help with Malaysian Palm Oil Board article
Hello. I am looking for editors to review a draft I have prepared for the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) article. The MPOB is a well established government agency in Malaysia responsible for overseeing the palm oil industry, however the current article is very short and unsupported. I have prepared this draft on behalf of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) which is a related organization, so I don't think it is appropriate for me to make the edits myself. I left a request on the article's talk page that provides a little more information, and the draft is here:MPOB draft

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks in advance. YellowOwl (talk) 22:53, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
 * This request has been completed: an editor was able to review my draft. YellowOwl (talk) 15:25, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

AfD
Please see: Articles for deletion/Neo-fascism and religion (2nd nomination) -Kitfoxxe (talk) 03:18, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

National assembly names
I came across this whilst doing something else, and figured that it needed an airing here. It seems that User:Gryffindor went on a spree of renaming National Assembly articles last September, without any apparent consensus that such major change should happen. At least, I've had a look around and not found any discussion. It looks like (s)he started off with some legitimate renames and then decided that the remaining articles would be brought into the same format regardless of local considerations. For instance I came across National Assembly of Vietnam, which was moved to National Assembly (Vietnam). In the English version of its website the official name seems to be National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, but Vietnam is the WP:COMMONNAME of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and indeed National Assembly of Vietnam is used at various places on their website (eg here). It's no bad thing to standardise names even if they don't quite fit the letter of the official name, but it should probably be done after a consensus has been achieved. AFAICT that discussion has not been had, so I open the debate to the floor.... Le Deluge (talk) 20:46, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Biography/Politics and government
Shouldn't WP:WikiProject Biography/Politics and government be flagged onto the WPPOLITICS banner as it is with WPBIO ? Like how then the banner could use WPPOLITICS, seeing as how political parties are already signed it, it would make sense for politicians to also be signed on to the banner. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 02:43, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Ernesto Perez Balladares
I'm working to bring the article on Panamanian president Ernesto Perez Balladares up to GA status. Unfortunately, most English-language sources I've found focus only on his presidency; I've had difficulty finding other biographical facts like the date of his marriage, whether he has any children, or his post-presidency career, in my clumsy Google Translate searches of Panamanian newspapers. Are there any Spanish speakers here who would be willing to lend a few minutes to help round out these aspects of the article? I'd be glad to split the GA credit with you, of course. You can see the GA review here.

Thanks to all, -- Khazar2 (talk) 02:13, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Administrations or governments of Trinidad and Tobago?
Could someone interested and/or qualified please review the List of Trinbago Administrations article and the articles linked from it? Should the titles read "administrations" or "governments" with Trinidad and Tobago having a (semi-)parliamentary system. Please discuss at Talk:List of Trinbago Administrations. —  AjaxSmack  00:40, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Suggestions for Pete Snyder
Pete Snyder is a candidate for lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Virginia, and I have some involvement with him; I am his former employee and current campaign contributor. I'd like to help improve the page, but I want to be very careful about my COI and I do not wish to edit directly. Would someone here be willing to help? I've just posted a request on the article's Talk page a moment ago. I have more suggestions as well, although the fact that his candidacy is mentioned only in the intro and not in the body of the article is most pressing. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 21:50, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Health
the content and naming of health department and list of health ministries is being discussed. See the discussions at talk:health department -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 03:20, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Western European parliamentary model
The article Western European parliamentary model seems to be very small. I'm still new here, and I didn't know if adding the Wikiproject template to its discussion would have alerted your attention. Instead of just putting a stub-tag on it and hoping someone catches it, I thought you might want to know about it this way. Thank you. ~ Nelg (talk) 22:08, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

2013 Bahrain Grand Prix
Bahraini uprising (2011–present) needs updating to cover the new protests concerning the 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 03:54, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
 * 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix may need to be watched to see if protest information is removed to make it a "pure race article" instead of covering actual events surrounding it. -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 09:18, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Neo-Mugwump
The page Neo-Mugwump, which currently redirects to Republican in Name Only (an article about the United States Republican Party), has been nominated for deletion. Your views would be welcome in the discussion at Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 April 22. Thryduulf (talk) 21:22, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Lee Bright
Just a heads up about the article. Someone who is accused of having connections to the topic is removing unfavourable and controversial material. The user also ahares a name with a YouTube user who has posted several videos from a rally which Bright attended. I don't think this is at WP:BLPNOTICE or WP:ANI level yet, but it needs to be watched. Paul MacDermott (talk) 18:07, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Help with updates to Jim DeMint and James Carafano
Hello, I recently proposed small updates on the talk pages for Jim DeMint and James Carafano and am looking for an editor to help review and make these changes. DeMint is the president and Carafano is a director of the Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, where I am an employee so I'd like to have an editor look at my updates rather than make them directly, due to the potential COI. It doesn't look like an editor has yet had time to review my proposed updates, so I was hoping someone here would be willing to take a look and, if the changes seem appropriate, add them to the articles. Thanks!Thurmant (talk) 20:51, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

RFC on Nautrality at Narendra Modi
Asking about whether the article on the prominent and controversial Indian Hindu nationalist politican Narendra is currently neutral.·ʍaunus·snunɐw· 21:42, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

Opinion polls
Hello. We have a discussion on surveys and opinion polls in this article. Any comment will be helpful. Thanks.Farhikht (talk) 11:13, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Shah Commission files
have been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 07:36, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
 * File:Shah Commission Interim report 1.pdf
 * File:Letter for declaration of emergency.png

A picture-based example
This Ministry (collective executive) article is rather confusing. It's very difficult to differentiate between the ministry (as a British Commonwealth term, I believe) and cabinet. A picture-based is welcome. Komitsuki (talk) 15:52, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

AfC
A heads-up about this submission. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 02:34, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject watchlist broken?
Is it only me? Thanks in advance, XOttawahitech (talk) 19:56, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

105th congress images
Several headshots of the 105th Congress are up for deletion, see Category:All Wikipedia files with unknown copyright status -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 05:57, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

106th congress images
Several headshots of the 106th Congress are up for deletion, see Category:All Wikipedia files with unknown source -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 05:57, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Paul Kagame FAC
Just in case anyone missed it and it interested, the article about Rwandan President Paul Kagame is currently up for Featured Article candidature. I've had two full reviews so far (one of which is still in progress), and it's generally looking positive, but it would be useful to get more pairs of eyes on it and further feedback. The FAC page is at WP:Featured article candidates/Paul_Kagame/archive1. Many thanks! &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 11:16, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Cooperative WikiProject
WikiProject Globalization, with assistance from Outlines WikiProject, has drafted an Outline of globalization. We welcome your input, additions, and comments. Meclee (talk) 17:01, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

County government

 * Category:County government in the United States

Greetings folks, I am having a disagreement with User:Orlady, and in response, he or she has begun posting the issue to all 50 states. I am willing to have a discussion or two, but not 50!

My claim is that although county officials may be elected or appointed locally (i.e. not statewide), the actual county government itself is an arm of the state government. This is consistent with the powers they exercise (elections, law enforcement, etc.). If we could have some academically informed input, I would appreciate it, because the general impression and intuition that people have is that county government is "local government," but to those who actually study political science formally, the difference is known. The compromise that I propose is the persons should be categorized under "local politicians" while the offices should be categorized under "state government."Greg Bard (talk) 01:11, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Gregbard, you started the discussion of this topic on my talk page, at User_talk:Orlady and quite a lot of discussion has already occurred there. I posted on several pages to alert other users to the ongoing discussion, as it's not something that interested users were likely to notice; I did not attempt to start new discussions on those other pages (contrary to your accusations against me). Now you are the one who is inviting people to start de novo discussions on WikiProject pages that you selected; please don't do that. If people wish to comment on this, please join the discussion on my talk page. --Orlady (talk) 02:02, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Not helpful. Greg Bard (talk) 02:08, 18 April 2013 (UTC)

ZOMG you are both describing different aspects and talking past each other: the shire and the home rule movement. It is not one way or the other but dependent on how you squint your eyes ("local" is a pretty ambiguous term) and the state in question. IOW it is viewpoint based (but not in the NPOV sense) and very fluid. Where you both miss the point I think is that it is how the law is interpreted and by whom. You will have one person say this, another say that. It is an active academic discussion, as well as an ongoing legal one. You have what the law says, you have what the courts say before and after changes in laws concerning them, you have what Professors A and B say, and then you have reality in your view.

Historically as I understand it the county was a division for purposes of national administration in England and when the US became independent they became divisions for purposes of state administration. Then you had the "home rule" movement in the early 20th Century and they became more and more independent, but still with responsibilities to the state government. The Sheriff (shire reeve) is not appointed by and responsible to the Queen, but is now often a locally-elected (and locally removable) official. Many states have the "home rule" stuff written into the Constitution. (You may think, oh OK, whatever, but its in there because the state government and the courts pretty much ignored this movement.) You can play the "agency of state government" game and you will only end up with a "state government is an agency of the people" argument, i.e. the home rule amendments. Cities have always been local governments, and have been viewed in law as government corporations (like McDonalds with police and prisons.) Like I said its viewpoint based.

They are not like the shires (county) that they began as. There is no monarchy vs. landlord dichotomy like there was when they were created; sovereignty rests with no one. There is the home rule movement. You have varying degrees of balance, and this balance is usually discussed in the context of a particular state. But you are trying to summarize all states... Int21h (talk) 10:14, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

File:Election poster Albania 1954.jpg
File:Election poster Albania 1954.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 06:05, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Draft article for Alex Castellanos
Hi, I'm looking for someone to help review a new draft I've written for Alex Castellanos's article. Since he is a high-profile political consultant in the United States, I thought to ask here and see if anyone on this WikiProject would be interested to help. His current article could do with some improvement, so I've written a new draft to propose as a replacement. As a note of disclosure, I do have a conflict of interest with the article as I've written the draft on behalf of Castellanos' communications firm, Purple Strategies. Due to my COI, I won't make any edits to the article myself and I'd like to get feedback from others on the new draft and help to take it live, if it's ready. On the article's talk page I've provided some more detail on issues with the current article and how these are addressed by the draft. My proposed draft is in my user space here: User:16912_Rhiannon/Alex_Castellanos

I'd really appreciate if some editors from this WikiProject could take a look at the draft. Please make any small changes needed in the user space draft, and don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 14:18, 4 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I'm still looking for help with this article, if anyone here would be able to give it a look. Thanks, 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 00:54, 18 June 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ This has now been reviewed. 16912 Rhiannon (Talk &middot; COI) 21:27, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

Need pro viewpoints for "Nothing to hide argument"
I am writing Nothing to hide argument. I want to see if anybody can find "pro-nothing to hide" arguments, or people who agree with "nothing to hide" so I can include their statements in the article. Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 05:13, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

RfC at Murray Rothbard article
QUESTION: Which should go first in the lede characterization of Rothbard, "political theorist" or "economist?" RfC here SPECIFICO  talk  23:16, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

user:Rjensen
Someone might want to check edits by. In mid June, he made a series of very weird and bad edits to political articles, such as ; where he duplicated, triplicated, quadriplicated categories, navigation boxes, and used the wrong dates for categories. -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 06:37, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * let's not get carried away. what happened was my sloppy cut and paste of bibliography items that accidentally included categories I hadn't noticed. Rjensen (talk) 06:44, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Request Edit
This request edit by a PR rep for politician John Pérez is more than three months old and I was wondering if someone more interested in writing on politicians might take a look. It comes to mind that the first thing to do is ask them to re-submit the request one section at-a-time instead of offering an alternate version of the entire article. CorporateM (Talk) 23:13, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Suggestion for Education Management Corporation
Greetings, I'm hoping to find someone who can help with a small revision to the Education Management Corporation (EDMC) article. I have prepared a revision for the article's existing Political activities section to provide more information about the company's lobbying and advocacy work, while removing what I believe to be extraneous detail, some of which is not really about EDMC as a company. I ask because I've prepared the draft on the company's behalf; I won't be editing directly myself. The section is fairly short, but could use a review from someone following especially U.S. federal regulatory issues. If you can help, my request on the EDMC Talk page explains the changes I've made in more detail and links to the draft in my user space. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 20:23, 12 June 2013 (UTC)


 * ✅ WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 19:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Request navigational improvement
Wanting to find general information about US Senators, I looked up "Senator" and was redirected to Senate. Not immediately seeing what I wanted, I clicked on Senator (disambiguation), and then saw a link to US State Senator. Thinking that was what I wanted, I clicked on it and then spent some moments of puzzlement. Finally, I realised that the article I wanted was US Senate, which is linked further down the Senate article. I believe that the random list at Senator (disambiguation) (i.e. Australian Senator, Philippine Senator, etc.) should simply be deleted as it is a tiny and apparently random subset of the list at Senate. I would do this, but I don't know what to do with the link to US State Senator, or how to fit that into the links at Senate. Could someone have a look at this and see what is best to do? 86.128.1.46 (talk) 02:32, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Very well, since there has ben no response I have done what seems best to me. 86.171.43.236 (talk) 20:27, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

insignia
See WT:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology where a discussion on how to use is going on -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:56, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

gun control rfc
There is an RFC that may be of interest to this group at Talk:Gun_control. Subject of the RFC is "Is the use of gun restriction legislation or other confiscations by totalitarian governments (Nazi, Communist etc) accurately described as "Gun Control". Are such instances appropriate for inclusion in the Gun Control article. (Details at RFC in article)" Gaijin42 (talk) 16:04, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * This RFC could use additional input. Gaijin42 (talk) 02:19, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Kim Jong-un.jpg
image:Kim Jong-un.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:38, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Help reviewing revised draft of C-SPAN
Hello to anyone watching this page! I'm looking for an editor (or editors) to review an updated draft I have prepared for the C-SPAN article. Back in late April, I requested a peer review of the article and received feedback from two separate editors. I incorporated a number of their suggestions, and what I did not include I subsequently explained at Talk:C-SPAN. Unfortunately, though I've reached out to these editors twice, neither editor has offered any follow-up comment. The reason why I have not been bold and made these changes: I am not just a fan of C-SPAN, but am a consultant to the network. Because of this financial COI, I am avoiding all direct edits to the live article, and my revised version remains in my userspace, here: User:WWB_Too/C-SPAN_(2013_revision) Since this article falls under the purview of this WikiProject, I'm hoping that someone here is interested in reviewing my work. If an editor here is able to review the changes—and perhaps move them live—I would really appreciate it. Worth noting: my explanation on the Talk page is meant to be thorough, so it will take a bit of time. However, I've tried to make it as easy (and fun?) to follow the changes as possible. And my goal is to take this to FA as soon as this is accomplished. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 21:17, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

The Coercion page
First, I was glad to see this page. I had been looking at Tort law categories here. I joined Wiki to be able to comment, and maybe discuss, here. Wiki helped me with my research into torture (I believe I am currently and maybe previously a victim of U.S. and/or MA state and/or local brainwashing or death-by-psychological means (torture), referred to as a 'self' thing on the Coast to Coast talk radio show). I just wanted to say here, that I liked the comment by Wetman 19:37, 21 Dec 2004 on Coercion,as being "...the initiation of force, threat of force, or deception (fraud) to disallow a person from having willful use of his body or property". That may be part of the text here for Coercion, I haven't read the entire article yet. I think that coercion could not turn up anything truthful and should be treated as a crime. The Supreme Court needs to not allow psychological means be to be used by government, as it's so severe an abuse, that it constitutes torture, and is lethal, given the body/mind connection and an individual who is vulnerable. 60's child 60&#34;s child (talk) 23:41, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Predecessor/successor fields in officeholder infobox
A discussion has been started here regarding the "predecessor" and "successor" fields in, and whether the usage should be changed or the fields should be removed entirely. —Designate (talk) 22:40, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Invitation to join a discussion
Through this way, I inform there is a discussion at WT:Disambiguation about partially disambiguated titles, known as "PDABs". This subguide of WP:D affects articles in this WikiProject, some examples can be found at WP:NC-GAL. There you can give ideas or thoughts about what to do with this guideline. Note this discussion is not to modify any aspect of NC-GAL. Thanks. Tb hotch .™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions.  01:01, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

GAR Socialist Left Party (Norway)
Socialist Left Party (Norway), an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.
 * Regards, Iselilja (talk) 17:23, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

NewZealandPartyLogo.png
image:NewZealandPartyLogo.png has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:25, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Kevin Gentry and Kevin Gentry
Dear politicians: Here are two articles about the same political figure. Both have good references and information. Would someone like to work on combining them? The first one may be deleted soon as an old draft. &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 13:36, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Michael Wager (Ohio)
Perhaps someone could have a look at this bio of somebody running for office. Don't think it meets WP:POLITICIAN, although it might meet WP:GNG. But this is not my area and I'd appreciate if someone with more experience in these things could have a look. Thanks! --Randykitty (talk) 07:35, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

RfC concerning the Lavabit email service
There is a request for comments (RfC) that may be of interest. The RfC is at

Talk:Lavabit

At issue is whether we should delete or keep the following text in the Lavabit article:


 * Before the Snowden incident, Lavabit had complied with previous search warrants. For example, on June 10, 2013, a search warrant was executed against Lavabit user Joey006@lavabit.com for alleged possession of child pornography.

Your input on this question would be very much welcome. --Guy Macon (talk) 04:51, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Missing topics page
I have updated Missing topics about Politics - Skysmith (talk) 11:25, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Need help in clarifying which was the first democratically elected communist government
Another user had brought this up in the Kerala state article talk page. I've found some good sources (like this, and this) saying that the country San Marino had the first elected communist government in 1945 but at the same time, some others (like this one) say that the state of Kerala had the first in 1957. I'm convinced that the user is right and San Marino, not Kerala, was the first. I was planning to add this to all related articles, but thought I'll first ask other editor's views on this. Hope this is right and any replies will be much appreciated, Ugog Nizdast (talk) 20:06, 29 August 2013 (UTC)

Geopolitical region templates up for deletion
See Where several are up for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 23:49, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_29
 * Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_27
 * Templates_for_discussion/Log/2013_August_26

International organization templates up for deletion
See Templates for discussion/Log/2013 August 30 where most of the major international organizations templates are up for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:37, 30 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Also Templates for discussion/Log/2013 August 31 -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 00:46, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

RobFordCrackHouse.jpg
image:RobFordCrackHouse.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 04:56, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

Syrian azadi kurdi party flag.jpg
has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 07:10, 4 September 2013 (UTC)

Help with updates to Jim DeMint
Hello, a couple of weeks ago I proposed a rewritten section for the Political positions section of Jim DeMint's article. This section is currently marked with two different tags because it is incomplete and written as a list. I've addressed both of these problems in my revision, but rather than add it straight into the article, I'd like to have an editor look at my updates, due to my COI: I am an employee of The Heritage Foundation where DeMint is the president. I was hoping someone here would be willing to take a look and, if it looks ok, add it to the article. You can see my rewritten section on the article's talk page. Thanks! Thurmant (talk) 17:08, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Who wants to help start an article on money and politics in the United States?
Money and politics in the United States should exist, in my opinion. A rough sketch of an outline is at User:Biosthmors/Money_and_politics_in_the_United_States. Feel free to join in or boldly start the article yourself. Best regards. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) when u sign ur reply, thx 10:23, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

"Libya's reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence" proposed move to "Kosovo–Libya relations"
Please can you voice your opinions here. Regards IJA (talk) 19:16, 25 September 2013 (UTC)

Mass political correction is recommended
I am recommending the mass political correction of Wikipedia:
 * black (pertaining to Americans) → African American
 * policeman/policewoman → police officer, constable (correct towards local authority titles)

Now, there are articles that would actually require "negro" or "congresswoman" or some other term to preserve historical contexts of sorts, which are to be left as is, but saying "black" or "negro" on a biographical article or related articles just sounds racist and unnecessary.  JC  &middot; &#32; History &middot; &#32; Talk &middot; &#32; Contributions 06:17, 28 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Since when is "black" racist? We have the article black people which gets along just fine, and most of the black community refers to themselves as black. Furthermore, not every black person is African American. —  Richard  BB  08:43, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World
I've created the new article about the book Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World, which discusses the subject of targeted killing.
 * Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World

Further suggestions for research and additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at the article's talk page, at Talk:Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World.

Thank you, &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:12, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

John Edward Brownlee
There is an ongoing featured topic candidacy for the articles relating to John Edward Brownlee, a former premier of Alberta. Any constructive contributions you would be willing to provide would be greatly appreciated. Neelix (talk) 15:28, 1 October 2013 (UTC)

Judaism and political radicalism: needs review
I've just taken a look at the Judaism and political radicalism article: it seems to me to be full of unsourced opinion and conclusion-drawing, and very light on references to reliable sources. If anyone could cast an eye over it, I'd be grateful. -- The Anome (talk) 11:09, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Politics of (country) vs Government of (country)
Not sure if this is the proper place to ask this, but not sure where would be best, and having trouble answering this on my own. Maybe this is already addressed and I just can't find the info on it.

I'm wondering why some countries have a 'Government of (country)' page while others only have a 'Politics of (country)' page. In general from what I've seen most countries that have a 'Government' page also have a separate 'Politics' page (usually larger/more developed countries; with more info), but there are several that only have a 'Politics' page (usually smaller/less developed countries; with less info). Is there any general guide to determine whether something should go in a Government vs Politics page? To me some of the 'Politics' pages look like they could be a 'Government' page. I assume countries that only have one such page are due to merging two possible articles into one, but I still wonder what determines the page to be labeled either 'Government' or 'Politics'. It's not that big an issue, but I think it'd help if there is some sort of guide on this for consistency. Tho if this has already been brought up if someone could direct me to the info on it it would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Risuku (talk • contribs) 02:10, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

GAR
Hello everyone,

I'm here from WP:MILHIST, and just wondered if anyone on this project might be willing to review the Committee of Secretary-Generals, an article about the collaborative governance of Belgium during the German occupation in World War II. If anyone could, I'd be most grateful! Brigade Piron (talk) 08:25, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

GAR
Akhenaten, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Dana boomer (talk) 17:06, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Image
We have an interesting image of a conference of 1984 of Commonwealth Nations. Many politicians of various nations can be found here... Please help identify them. §§ Dharmadhyaksha §§ {T/C} 04:57, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

"Colors" label in infoboxes
These are mostly unofficial and should be removed. 198.151.130.64 (talk) 19:07, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello? 198.151.130.64 (talk) 04:34, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Created Category:Targeted killing

 * Category:Targeted killing

I've gone ahead and created Category:Targeted killing, a category to encompass articles related to the topic of Targeted killing.

Suggestions for additional articles to add into the category would be appreciated, feel free to add them yourself or suggest them at Category talk:Targeted killing.

Cheers,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 01:58, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Portal:Freedom of speech - for peer review
I've placed Portal:Freedom of speech up for portal peer review. Comments would be welcome, at Portal peer review/Freedom of speech/archive1. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 23:41, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Portal:Freedom of speech

List of signers of the United States Constitution
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World Factbook GAR
--FutureTrillionaire (talk)

GA reassessment for Murray Rothbard article
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C-SPAN—help before going to FAC?
Hi all, I'm about ready to take C-SPAN article to FAC, but I'd like another editor to review and confirm one final change. And, because I have a consultant relationship to C-SPAN, I'm quite cautious and do not make direct edits, so I'm looking for someone to make this update to the Development section. Right now, one passage about its founding says:


 * Lamb shared his idea with John D. Evans in 1977, who with a number of others helped to co-found the network.[7][8] Early cable-television executive Bob Rosencrans provided the initial funding of $25,000 for Lamb to initiate C-SPAN in 1979 and other cable-television executives followed suit.[4][9]

But the phrase "who with a number of others help to co-found the network" is vague, so I did some additional research, and proposed the following:


 * Lamb shared his idea with several cable executives, who helped him launch the network. Among them were Bob Rosencrans who provided $25,000 of initial funding in 1979 and John D. Evans who provided the wiring and access to the headend needed for the distribution of the C-SPAN signal.


 * Lamb shared his idea with several cable executives, who helped him launch the network. Among them were Bob Rosencrans who provided $25,000 of initial funding in 1979 and John D. Evans who provided the wiring and access to the headend needed for the distribution of the C-SPAN signal.

If someone agrees that's more clear and would be willing to add this to the article, please do. Or if you have any questions about it, I'd be happy to answer any. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 00:12, 21 November 2013 (UTC)


 * This is now ✅. WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 17:46, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Category:Government in Slovenia
Category:Government in Slovenia, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for merge. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the Categories for discussion page. Thank you.

I think that this proposal raises wider issues about the categorisation of government in other countries, so more input would be helpful. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:27, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Freedom of speech portal for Featured candidate
I've nominated Portal:Freedom of speech for Featured quality consideration, discussion is at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Freedom of speech. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:48, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Ban Ki-moon FAR
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Help with update to The Heritage Foundation
Hello, every so often I post messages here asking help with The Heritage Foundation or related articles. I am an employee of Heritage and because of this COI don't directly edit articles about my employer. I'm currently looking for help with a recent request I left on the Heritage talk page.

Last week I proposed a rewritten section for the Funding section of the Heritage article, but it doesn't look like anyone is active on that page right now. My proposed revision is very similar to what is on the page right now. I'm just looking to provide sources for unsourced information and add in some overview information about how Heritage is funded, since this isn't covered.

I am hoping someone here is willing to take a look and, if it looks ok, add it to the article. You can see my rewritten section on the article's talk page. Thanks! Thurmant (talk) 20:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Another editor has responded to this request. This is done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thurmant (talk • contribs) 21:42, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Colleagues, I would like to offer
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GAR
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"Free"
I noticed The Free and Free People have no connotation of the free people in a hatnote or elsewhere. Do we have an article on this concept? -- 70.50.148.122 (talk) 00:49, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

Same‐sex marriage in Utah RfC
There is an RfC here on whether to include purple as a new map‐color for Utah — Info por favor (talk) 00:12, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Two articles under dispute
Aaron Schock and Outrage (2009 film) are currently disputed. You can fix the issues by commenting in their talk pages. --George Ho (talk) 00:39, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

New elections article needs cleaning
I've just accepted the article Electoral integrity from AfC and needs some wiki-cleaning and linking. Would an editor with an interest in elections take a look at it? Alanl (talk) 09:27, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell)/archive2‎
Please comment at Featured article candidates/Four Freedoms (Norman Rockwell)/archive2‎.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 21:42, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Primary legislation, definition of
There's a discussion at Talk:Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom concerning the meaning of the term "primary legislation". Informed comments would be welcome there. -- Red rose64 (talk) 09:48, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

RFC
Could use some fresh eyeballs and voices at this previously stale merge proposal, splitting the content at Opium Wars into the articles First Opium War and Second Opium War and turning the page into a dab between them, to avoid the existing content fork. — Llywelyn II   13:47, 25 January 2014 (UTC)

Notice of a discussion on the Gun politics in the U.S. talk page
There is a Split proposal discussion on the Gun politics in the U.S. talk page that may be of interest to editors in this WikiProject. Lightbreather (talk) 06:05, 29 January 2014 (UTC)

Archived some threads
I've archived some inactive threads to subsections which were notifications about discussions that have since been closed. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:01, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

Invitation to User Study
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DRN
Assistance request. There is a DRN which has run away before a volunteer took it on at Dispute resolution noticeboard. The issue revolves around including sourced material in the article narrative, -- whether to allow both sides of a controversy how PR is "unincorporated" and "incorporated" as alternately sourced, into the article introduction. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 16:25, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
 * This DRN by another editor is closed, my RfC for acknowledging the sourced controversy and one sourced side which remains unrepresented has disappeared. Interesting. I suppose the issue is now gone stale, nothing further requested at this time. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 13:38, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Draft:World domination
I have initiated a draft at Draft:World domination, to replace the WP:DABCONCEPT disambiguation page currently at that title. I suppose this is the right project to notify of this effort. Cheers! bd2412 T 03:10, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Genocide definitions, Definitions of pogrom and Definitions of fascism for deletion
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The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Genocide definitions until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Oncenawhile (talk) 09:51, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Infobox government cabinet
Template:Infobox government cabinet has been nominated for merging with Template:Infobox cabinet. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. Frietjes (talk) 21:07, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

RfC: Pogrom list inclusion criteria
An RfC has been opened at Talk:Pogrom, regarding the appropriate WP:LSC for the events listed. Comments are requested with thanks. Oncenawhile (talk) 11:45, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Network Sovereignty Article
Hi I'm working on a project for the Wikimedia Education Program on Network Sovereignty. I just moved the article to the mainspace and was looking for some feedback. I thought Network Sovereignty was related to this project so I felt like this was a good place to post a request for help. SII&#38;CT Alex (talk) 19:24, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Four-paragraph leads -- a WP:RfC on the matter
Hello, everyone. There is a WP:RfC on whether or not the leads of articles should generally be no longer than four paragraphs (refer to WP:Manual of Style/Lead section for the current guideline). As this will affect Wikipedia on a wide scale, including WikiProjects that often deal with article formatting, if the proposed change is implemented, I invite you to the discussion; see here: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Lead section. Flyer22 (talk) 16:59, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency
I've created a new article about the Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Suggestions for additional secondary sources would be appreciated, at Talk:Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Thank you for your time,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:10, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Template:Infobox officeholder
If the person has resigned, and does other things, should the infobox be replaced with Template:Infobox person? The article I'm puzzled about is Subhash Bhoir‎. Cheers, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:40, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Neutral notice of RfC on Investigative Project on Terrorism
Is here:Talk:Investigative_Project_on_Terrorism.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 23:07, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Seeking comments to improve Voting Rights Act of 1965
Greetings. I am looking for suggestions on how to improve the article Voting Rights Act of 1965, and I would be highly appreciative if folks from WikiProject Politics could leave some comments about it on the peer review I requested at Peer review/Voting Rights Act of 1965/archive1. The article was recently promoted to GA status, and it'd be fantastic if we could get it up to FA status. Thanks! –Prototime (talk · contribs) 03:32, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

PacMan Legislator
If a Congressman or Senator were to make a campaign promise to vote for any legislation that included the repeal of ten federal laws, then a list of suitable laws is required. For such a proposal to be viable the list would be of out of date laws that no lobbyist would care about defending. It would take years of such PacMan activity and a severe cleaning of the Congressional Record before it would be scrutinized and bargained over by the politically active. In the meantime such a list needs to be generated and then graded by interested parties, yes even lobbyist, so that those laws that are clearly outdated and non controversial were eliminated first. In that manner a Representative of low rank and influence can always vote no until the leadership pushes for a vote in a tight legislative battle whereby he caves by giving a yeah as long as the top ten most inoffensive laws listed are repealed. I ask the Wiki community for help in generating such as list VincentLibertarian (talk) 22:01, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

Twevle Visions Party.KEEP.
KEEP.Twelve Visions Party should not be deleted.Wikipedia has many other political parties on website yet is considering deletion of this one.Why??TVP is a legitimate political party.Being in the running for President is no small achievement at all.Why the singling out of this Party.Can ONLY be Bias.Fair go.{SashaSasharain (talk) 00:39, 25 March 2014 (UTC)}

The usage and scope of is under discussion, see Talk:United States Declaration of Independence -- 70.50.151.11 (talk) 06:11, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Notification of nomination for deletion of Mike Maguire (Canadian politician)‎
This is to inform the members of this Wikiproject, within the scope of which this article falls, that this article has been nominated for deletion at Articles for deletion/Mike Maguire (Canadian politician)‎. - Ahunt (talk) 00:32, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

CfD discussion for societies and cultures
There is a discussion going on right now at WP:Categories for discussion that involves changing the category names for all cultures, from, for example, "Afghan society" to "Society of Afghanistan". I can see that next will be changing "German culture" to "Culture of Germany" and the like. This would be for all ethnicities, nationalities and cultures. If you would like to weigh in, the conversation is occurring at Categories for discussion/Log/2014 March 27. Liz Read! Talk! 15:04, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Hillary Rodham Clinton move request
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Suggestion for inclusion of a blurb at the history of democracy
I began a discussion regarding inclusion of some information about obscure elections in an isolated part of the Mideast at Talk:History_of_democracy. I was hoping those editors who are interested could provide feedback and suggestions. MezzoMezzo (talk) 06:08, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Indian general election, 2014
Hi, can anyone solve this problem here at Talk:Indian general election, 2014. Thanks! RRD13 (talk) 03:41, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Hi,

Could some one help in this? From the wiki page, only two main leaders are highlighted for Indian Elections. The format if the page is such a way that it gives importance to certain leaders and special consideration is being given. The page should not make impression on people's mind that UPA and NDA are the main parties. Until Election is over, all parties are equally important. Highlighting only two leaders in the user box is the highest level deception by wikipedia to the readers. Wiki page has to be restructured in such a way that this mistake is corrected. There are also many other points as listed below that was suggested but not considered.

1. The photos of PM candidates of UPA and congress has to be removed or else include PM candidates of all parties

2. Remove parties from 'other parties'  in contents section and give equal importance as given to UPA and NDA

3. Make the character size of UPA NDA and AAM AADMI Party same

4 .Change the Order of Display of content- Put AAM AADMI PARTY first if it is being said that there no importance in the order in which parties are listed

Thanks Soorej Soorejmg (talk) 15:45, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

Peer review request
Would anybody be willing to peer review Theodore Roosevelt? It got demoted from FA back in June 2008, and I have been actively working with and  to try to at least bring it back up to GA. Beforehand, a peer review would be much appreciated. Please click here to review. XXSNUGGUMSXX (talk) 21:22, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

We demand a referendum party > we demand a referendum now party
According to electoral commission it's actually the we demand a referendum now party. Could we change the page name?

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Discussion at Talk:Australian Senate special election in Western Australia, 2014
There is a discussion taking place at Talk:Australian Senate special election in Western Australia, 2014 regarding the use of an infobox on the article. Please feel free to add your imput. LordFixit (talk) 20:15, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Italian Pirate Party
Hi, I just finished translating the page from it.wiki. Can someone proofread and change the template in the talk page? Thank you very much, -- → A ir  on  16:01, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

UK Independence Party
Please see the discussion at Talk:UK Independence Party about whether academic sources describing the UK Independence Party as far-right are reliable. LordFixit (talk) 07:09, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Which article does this go in?
I found:
 * Gilens, Martin. "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" (Archive). Princeton University.

Where does this go? WhisperToMe (talk) 18:00, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Seeking feedback on FAC Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which is ranked by WikiProject Politics as an article of "Top-importance", is currently a Featured Article Candidate (FAC). Feedback on the article's candidacy would be greatly appreciated! Please post feedback on the candidacy page at Featured article candidates/Voting Rights Act of 1965/archive1. Please note that FAC reviewers are not required to review or offer feedback on every aspect of an article. Thank you! –Prototime (talk · contribs) 17:10, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Greater Romania (political concept)
Would you please tell us your opinion on this matter? All comments are welcome. Fakirbakir (talk) 16:03, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Leaflet For Politics At Wikimania 2014
Are you looking to recruit more contributors to your project? We are offering to design and print physical paper leaflets to be distributed at Wikimania 2014 for all projects that apply. For more information, click the link below. Project leaflets Adikhajuria (talk) 16:50, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

List of heads of government of Russia
Feel free to review List of heads of government of Russia here. Regards.--Tomcat (7) 14:53, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

Nationalism vs pan-nationalism
Some extra opinions are needed at Template_talk:Pan-nationalist_concepts. Avpop (talk) 12:59, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

Help with US Congressional maps
Hello all, I am updating district maps for the United States House of Representatives. For this project I have been updating the following two page types: example 1: district pages (Florida's 5th congressional district), and, example 2: state wide pages (Florida's congressional districts). This project is mostly complete, but I could use help finishing the last stage, which is pretty formidable.

What’s left? The state level pages need to be updated with the new maps in wiki-tables. Here is a page listing all of the state-level pages.

All maps have been created, and have already been linked to the appropriate district level pages (see first example above). However, several state-level pages still need updating (example). I am trying to bring the state-level lists into a particular format which includes a wiki-table with the new maps, CPVI, and portraits (see second example above). Here is a list of these state level pages which I could use help with to bring this project to a close before the 2014 election commences. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

These pages need wiki tables with the new maps: And more... --7partparadigm talk 18:14, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * North Carolina's congressional districts
 * Virginia's congressional districts
 * Massachusetts's congressional districts
 * Indiana's congressional districts ✅
 * Tennessee's congressional districts ✅
 * Missouri's congressional districts
 * Minnesota's congressional districts
 * South Carolina's congressional districts

Bolding of winners in election infoboxes
Please join the discussion here. Thanks, Number   5  7  08:18, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
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Anarcho-capitalism RfC
Please see this RfC re including content on the Anarcho-capitalism page re its relationship with mainstream/traditional anarchism.  N-HH   talk / edits  07:58, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

The usage of is under discussion, see Talk:August Faction Incident -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 04:50, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

Natural and legal rights RM
Opinions at Talk:Natural and legal rights would be appreciated. Cheers, Jenks24 (talk) 15:26, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

Please check out
At Template_talk:USRepSuccessionBox I started a discussion about adding ceremonial seniority to the succession box at the bottom of American politicians' biographies. Needs some more viewpoints expressed. Binksternet (talk) 15:00, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Defunct political party categories
Currently Category:Defunct political parties by country is largely a collection of "Defunct political parties in Fooland" categories, but includes the odd "Political parties in Fooland" for now-defunct states. I have a slight issue with this, in the fact that not all those political parties are actually defunct, as they continued to exist in successor states (e.g. the Czech Social Democratic Party, which is in Category:Political parties in Austria-Hungary, which in turn falls under the defunct category tree).

I have three suggestions for how this could be resolved:
 * 1) Do nothing and have some miscategorisation
 * 2) Create new "Defunct political parties in Oldfooland" categories for each historical state, put the majority of relevant articles into those categories, then put these categories in the defunct category tree instead of the current ones.
 * 3) Create a new category named "Defunct political parties from historical states" and add parties from historical states that are actually defunct to it, then remove the "Political parties in Oldfooland" from the Defunct political parties category tree

Thoughts? Number  5  7  15:52, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

Anarchy and Stateless society
FYI, the scope and purpose of these articles are under discussion, see talk:Anarchy -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 02:43, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

Notability of political parties?
I recently started United Independent Party, a small independent party in Massachusetts which is running Evan Falchuk for Governor in 2014. The article has since been nominated for deletion despite multiple sources confirming its existence and covering its goals and Falchuk's run for Governor. It seems to me that if a political party registers and runs a statewide candidate AND multiple secondary sources cover it, the party should be notable. What are your thoughts? You can comment directly on the AfD Articles for deletion/United Independent Party. More broadly, however, we need to define notability guidelines for political parties.--TM 16:27, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Requested review of proposed revision for Heritage Action
I see that this WikiProject is semi-active, but I wanted to post here about this in the event that this page is being watched by interested editors.

I'm looking for editors who can review a proposed article revision I have prepared for the Heritage Action article. Though this WikiProject is not listed on the article's Talk page, I believe Heritage Action would be of interest to members of this WikiProject.

As part of this request I would like to acknowledge my conflict of interest with this topic. I have prepared the revision on the organization's behalf and, due to my relationship with the subject, I am requesting that editors review the draft I have prepared and provide feedback so I can improve my draft.

I've left a more detailed message at Talk:Heritage Action, as well as brief notes similar to this one at two other WikiProjects, but have yet to receive a response from editors there. Thanks! Morzabeth (talk) 21:06, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

Campaign website links in election articles
A discussion about whether or not external links to official campaign websites should be included in election articles is underway on this page; I invite anyone with an opinion to comment. 331dot (talk) 08:28, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Notice re film discussion underway
Discussion regarding a recent documentary film is underway here: Talk:America (2014 film). – S. Rich (talk) 19:33, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Presidency of Shimon Peres
The article Presidency of Shimon Peres needs a lot of work. As this term is now in the past, it's a good time to work on it. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 03:46, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

Looking for input at Talk:Potential superpowers/GA1
This is an article that focuses on three potential superpowers that could dethrone the US: China, India, and the EU. (I think China's the only one of these with a realistic shot, but that's beside the point.) These three are all well-substantiated, but as far as I can tell, there are no sources that list all three of these as the, and the only, potential superpowers. As such, I raised a concern while reviewing it for GA status that other countries with some discussion as potential superpowers (mainly Russia, and to a lesser extent Brazil) ought to be given real estate somewhere on the page, because it seems artificially black-and-white to focus on these three, and only these three, nations. The community cannot come to a consensus on whether this is appropriate, and the discussion has whirlpooled into a bizarre debacle involving IPs and accusations from both sides of nationalist bias. I'm asking here because I'd appreciate input on whether - and, if so, to what extent - coverage of countries besides the big three is appropriate. Tezero (talk) 20:20, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I must add that there are really RS for Russia's support being potential superpower (book called "Russia in the 21st Century: The Prodigal Superpower"), but it has been denied to be "reliable". I must thank User:Tezero for his valuable input in resolving the tension. He proposed to remove the map from the article and list countries based on RS they have (as I understood this). I think that this can actually resolve the tension. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Effervescency (talk • contribs) 20:53, 6 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Well I think you and I Tezero are quite happy about your suggestion of a section where we can include commentary on other countries (Russia and Brazil etc). Nobody else has expressed their opinion on it yet. As for the IP -now known as Effervescency above- I have already contacted the admin (The Bushranger) who is familiar with his disruptive behavior. He agrees this IP and the previous IPs are suspiciously similar (arguing for the exact same pov on the same article, the exact same language style and both say they need the article for their "research paper"!), however, the admin expressed he had little time to deal with matter at the moment -due to real life issues, hasn't been active for a few days- and suggested that for the time being I collapsed the IPs comments, which I probably should do at this stage. Furthermore, the IP unwittingly provides more evidence he is the same disruptive IP when he starts negatively referring to my edits of the article back in January of this year! Note that back in January, the only person who objected to my edits was the disruptive IP. Obvious WP:DUCK. As The Bushranger said with regards to the IPs edits; "your behavior has been such that any edits by you are de-facto disruptive". Antiochus the Great (talk) 21:28, 6 July 2014 (UTC)


 * It wasn't my suggestion - it was suggested by Tezero, which I actually didn't support. I support his suggestion about removing the map. Read carefully.
 * I have no idea about what "IPs" you're talking about, I've stated two times already and I state again: I've never been in discussion about superpowers, nor I was trolling GA review. If there was person who tried to push Russian POV in the past - I don't care, if he was actually doing his own research and used this as argument - I don't care. It wasn't me.
 * I was, I am and I will negatively refer to your edits, if I would be feeling that they were made with bad intentions. Anyone can go to the Talk page and see themselves - I've colored it in red. I consider them as a proof that you're pushing non-NPOV, and that your words should not be trusted. I don't trust your words anymore.
 * Admin didn't say this about MY edits, if he said that about someone else - again - I don't care. Effervescency (talk) 21:48, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * , I don't see why it matters whether the IPs are the same person, as far as the validity of everyone's points is concerned. What if I'm one of them? What if Jimbo Wales is one of them? We're looking for solutions that make sense, and those can come from anyone. I don't care what The Bushranger thinks unless he (?) can give reasons why countries outside the big three should or shouldn't be covered. Tezero (talk) 22:03, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

I understand your point, however there are certain policies that need to be upheld. The IP has abused proxies for starters! With which he has avoided countless blocks and bans for his behavior. Even after warnings, blocks and bans the IP persistently vandalised articles for months on end! Good-faith no longer applies, perhaps if you knew the details as well as I or The Bushranger do then you would view it differently? I am sure you can understand my reluctance to put any trust in the validity of this IPs comments, especially as he continues to try and hide the fact he is the same person.Antiochus the Great (talk) 22:33, 6 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Also Tezero, you've probably noticed the IP likes to post comments with sentences in bold? Well that's another trait exhibited by this disruptive IP, and yet another strong indicator that they are both the same person. Scroll down to the bottom of this articles talk page to see what I mean. Notice any striking similarities between both of their language style and tendency to type in bold?Antiochus the Great (talk) 22:36, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I suppose users with histories of vandalism are more likely to deliberately reference Wikipedia policies in a misleading way during talk page discussions, but so can anyone. It just serves as a reminder that we should be vigilant in assessing the validity of these arguments. And I'm well aware that these users do have histories of vandalism, but a good point can spring from them at any time, possibly without them realizing. Tezero (talk) 22:45, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * As I said - I've never been in this article, I've never talked to you before June, but when I did - you've insulted me and see no reasons why you try to excuse yourself with jumping around, showing links, trying to make similarities based on fact that this guy used "bold" (it's not even funny). I may just say, that there are at least two people (yeah, again, this guy you linked - isn't me) in this project, who think that you're bad person, and that you're trying to push anti-russian non-NPOV. I don't understand why you published links which proves this (but no one will read them anyway...)., I think this is going to be endless, what's your decision about removing the map and listing the countries based on RSs? - (Also, I hope term "big three" won't be used in the article, since I'm completely opposite to it) - it was real proposal or just a thought? If real proposal - I'd want to continue with this.. Is there any deadlines for waiting user contributions? Effervescency (talk) 23:21, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * , I can't make a decision yet because this discussion hasn't been open long, and maybe there are users who would be interested but who haven't shown up... That being said, I'm leaving on Wikibreak pretty soon, probably within the next day or two (I'm really just waiting on a GAN of my own finishing up), so if nothing's happening, I'll pass it either without an "other countries" section or after cobbling together a quick one. Tezero (talk) 23:50, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
 * And no, rest assured I wasn't planning to utilize the term "big three" in the article - in fact, I meant it slightly sardonically, as there's nothing special about those three besides them being the three most widely covered. Tezero (talk) 23:50, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Okay, this has gotten way out of hand. Some IP keeps decrying the quality of the article and insisting that I'm Russian and don't know what the word "current" means. It's gotten disruptive; I can't pass the article like this. , any ideas? Tezero (talk) 22:38, 7 July 2014 (UTC)


 * The IP does have a point, mentioning any discussion on Russia being a current superpower is probably inappropriate. Firstly, we don't have any reliable scholarly publications that refer to, or argue in favour of Russia being a superpower. Secondly, the statement is only supported by two online news aggregators which merely quote the words of two politicians seeking political favour from the Kremlin. Hardly reliable, as politicians will say literally anything if it suits. Also, Hugo Chavez has a notoriously pro-Russian bias. I totally agree with you regarding the IPs behavior, from reading his comments I get the feeling he has a bit of a battleground mentality. Antiochus the Great (talk) 23:56, 7 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Comments made by politicians, diplomats, scholarly publications, presidents regarding Russia as a superpower are appropriate and valid facts for support for countries on potential superpowers, not just one country but all countries.--198.134.105.98 (talk) 18:19, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

West Germany and East Germany
Germanies, West and East have been requested to be renamed to their official names of FDR and GDR, see talk:West Germany for the discussion -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 05:01, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
 * This closed as not moved. A discussion is continuing at Talk:East Germany -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 03:53, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The new discussion has been closed -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 07:57, 27 July 2014 (UTC)

Anarcho-capitalism FAR
I have nominated Anarcho-capitalism for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Binksternet (talk) 17:48, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Rename proposal if a high-profile topic
Please see Talk:Freedom Oiyarbepsy (talk) 04:51, 12 August 2014 (UTC)

Category:New Democratic Party (Canada)‎
has been proposed to be renamed -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 05:22, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Michelle Obama/archive3
Please come comment at Featured article candidates/Michelle Obama/archive3.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 01:53, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

States and capitals
'Bold text''--M.J. Winters (talk) 18:56, 12 October 2014 (UTC) I think that this page needs a game review for the people to practice their states and capitals. Like studying for a test.--M.J. Winters (talk) 18:56, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Updated parliament diagram tool!
Hi all,

I've put my parliament diagram tool up on Wikimedia Labs, with a new, easier interface. Please let me know if it works for you - I need some testers. The source code is now also hosted on github. --Slashme (talk) 17:18, 7 August 2014 (UTC)