Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics

Shortcut: WP:PLT

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better expand and organise information in articles related to politics. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. You may sign up for the project on the Participants list below

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to:

• tie in directly to the Politics Portal to improve accessibilty to high quality politics-related articles. The Portal is intended as a front page for Wikipedia's politics coverage, and should aid the reader in navigating around the articles. It should also draw attention to current events and some of Wikipedia's best politics articles.
• support the Portal by ensuring that the Portal has plenty of high-quality articles to showcase and ensuring that readers starting with the Portal can find their way around easily
• be as good as good in breadth as it is in depth. The namespace 'Politics' is rather broad, so although politics coverage can be augmented by more detailed projects, this particular project should oversee all coverage - this will involve making sure that the articles are well organised (through the use of categories) and ensuring that due attention is paid to the further reaches of the topic - for example, more obscure political theory. For the Portal, this should involve rotating the featured article and biography - rotating through domestic politics, international relations and political theory could be one way of doing this
• be truly international - this project particularly welcomes participants from non-Anglophone countries. The Portal should be used to highlight articles that concern political issues that most readers may not be aware of, and these are far less likely to concern, say, American politics
• Oversee the development of politics-related articles - for example, through the Collaboration of the fortnight
• Provide a clear structure of how politics articles are arranged on Wikipedia and present the Portal so as to facilitate reading and research
• Coordinate efforts and peer review articles

[edit] Templates

The following templates are related to politics:

Stubs

{{Poli-stub}} {{US-poli-stub}} {{US-politician-stub}} {{UK-poli-stub}} {{UK-politician-stub}} {{Canada-poli-stub}} {{Canada-politician-stub}} {{Hong-Kong-gov-stub}} {{Gov-stub}} {{Australia-gov-stub}} {{Canada-gov-stub}} {{UK-gov-stub}} {{US-gov-stub}} {{Anarchism-stub}} {{Election-stub}} {{EU-stub}}

{{Liberal-stub}} {{Party-stub}} {{CP-stub}} {{Liberalparty-stub}} {{Poli-bio-stub}} {{Politician-stub}} {{Canada-politician-stub}} {{France-politician-stub}} {{India-politician-stub}} {{MEP-stub}} {{NZ-politician-stub}} {{Sweden-politician-stub}} {{UK-politician-stub}} {{US-politician-stub}} {{SCOTUS-case-stub}}

Click on the relevant template and select 'What links here' from the left-hand side of the page to see articles that have been tagged with that stub template - this will give you a list of such articles you can then expand.
Other templates

• {{future election}}

Templates on countries

• For every country a Politics of ... template has been created, linking to Politics of.., List of political parties in ..., Elections in ... and other articles on that country. This template is also placed in every party and election article.

Project templates

• {{WikiProjectPolitics|class=X|importance=Y}}
  

  Notice of Wikiproject Politics Assessement and importance grading placed on the article's Talkpage.

User page templates
Show everyone that you're part of this project by adding a...
Poster, {{User_Politics}}
Userbox, {{User WPPolitics}}
to your userpage.

[edit] Infoboxes

The following infoboxes are in use in Wikipedia's politics-related content:
Template:Infobox Politician (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox President (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox Senator (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox BPM (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox PM (talk, links, edit)

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

Please see the project talk page to discuss any issues you would like to raise. Comments on the layout of the project and Portal are more than welcome. If you wish to notify other participants of a new article, please see the task console.

[edit] Tasks

Getting the project off the ground

• Compile all templates, infoboxes and categories relating to the coverage of politics and link to them via this page (use a subpage if the list will be too long)
• Assemble a list of all featured content
• Advertise like mad! Add link to the politics portal on as many politics pages as possible - checklist Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics/Add Portal List here - please expand this in any way you see fit
• That's all for now, but please add to this list if you have further ideas on how to get this project and Portal up and running!

[edit] Featured material

Articles

The following politics-related articles are Featured articles and appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on the date given alongside.

Anarcho-capitalism Mark Antony Article One of the United States Constitution Tony Blair Canadian Senate Commonwealth of Nations Congress of the United States Convention on Psychotropic Substances Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago) European Union First Amendment to the United States Constitution Governor-General of India Government of Maryland House of Lords Irish Houses of Parliament George F. Kennan Mark Latham League of Nations Liberal Party (Utah) Libertarianism Abraham Lincoln Lord Chancellor John Major Sid McMath

Joshua A. Norton Barack Obama Parliament of Canada Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791 James K. Polk President of Ireland Propaganda Louis Riel Royal Assent Separation of powers under the United States Constitution Władysław Sikorski Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs Jean Schmidt Margaret Thatcher Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution Tynwald Day United States Constitution U.S. Electoral College Mordechai Vanunu Robert Walpole Max Weber Gough Whitlam

Lists
The following politics-related lists are featured lists:

• Countries with nuclear weapons
• Countries where UN peacekeepers are currently deployed
• High Courts of India
• Members of the Commonwealth of Nations by continent
• Members of the Commonwealth of Nations by date joined
• Members of the Commonwealth of Nations by name
• Political parties in India
• Portuguese monarchs
• Signatories of the US constitution
• UN member states
• UN peacekeeping missions
• US House committees
• US Senate committees

[edit] Related Projects

Australian politics Campaigns and Elections Fascism Law U.S. Supreme Court Cases WikiProject Biography/Politics and government

Peerage Political figures US Congress Voting Systems UK Parliament constituencies Pak-Afghan Relations

[edit] Task console

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics:

edit · history · watch · refresh

Please edit Open Tasks for Politics New articles Edit/format Requests Expand none as yet Politics of Uruguay Major power International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance Political communications Political culture Electoral fraud Integral humanism   Merges Discussions Categorisation Maintenance none as yet What are the values, or sets of values, that move political participation and activism? How are these to be identified, articulated, verified or validated, known, and criticised? none as yet Keep Portal:Politics up to date.

[edit] Collaboration of the fortnight

[edit] Participants

	Username	Nationality	Areas of interest
1.	Ace Diamond (talk • contribs)	United States	How to Politics
2.	Robert Harrison (talk • contribs)	United States	Category maintenance, local politics
3.	Electionworld (talk • contribs)	Netherlands	Elections, parties, Series maintenance
4.	RegalLion (talk • contribs)	United States	United States politics, Parties and Elections
5.	wjkellpro (talk • contribs)	United States	The study of political behavior, scope and method.
6.	Thorsen (talk • contribs)	Norway	Political theory and philosophy, the philosophy of social science and comparative politics.
7.	Hahaandy1 (talk • contribs)	United Kingdom	UK politics, parties and elections, as well as political theory.
8.	Purposeful (talk • contribs)	United Kingdom	Maintaining the Portal.
9.	rory096 (talk • contribs)	United States	United States politics, third parties and political theory.
10.	Midnighttonight (talk • contribs)	New Zealand	Electoral systems, New Zealand politics
11.	Nobleeagle (talk • contribs)	India	International Relations and Foreign Politics, have long worked on Superpower and Major power.
12.	Ekmekparasi (talk • contribs)	Turkey	Revolutions, Ideologies, Turkish Politics, Left-wing politics
13.	Editor19841 (talk • contribs)	United States	United States political science, history, elections, and US social policy
14.	FayssalF (talk • contribs)	Morocco	International Relations, Government operations and Communications
15.	Impaciente (talk • contribs)	United States	General maintenance of articles, American politics, right-wing politics
16.	Captainj (talk • contribs)	United Kingdom	UK politics, government, parliament and elections, as well as US government.
17.	Green01 (talk • contribs)	United Kingdom	UK politics, UK Labour Party, imperialism and socialism, and pop singers.
18.	sydbarrett74 (talk • contribs)	United States	Political theory, rôle of technology in democracy
19.	Wisden17 (talk • contribs)	United Kingdom	Updating and archiving the portal, US & UK politics
20.	Meyer (talk • contribs)	United States	Japanese politicians
21.	RonCram (talk • contribs)	United States	U.S. foreign policy, intelligence and military operations
22.	JMcDermott (talk • contribs)	United Kingdom	Sociaty and Politics, International Relations
23.	Joeblakesley (talk • contribs)	United Kingdom	Wales, Green politics, UK elections, electoral systems, categorisation, human rights, UK & EU policy, rôle of tech. in democracy (when I have time, which may not be much ATM)
24.	Joey_AFG (talk • contribs)	Afghanistan	Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations, World Affairs, Afghanistan Politics, East Asian Politics, China-Japan Relations, US-China Trade Disputes
25.	Good Intentions (talk • contribs)	South Africa (in New Zealand)	anarchism, political philosophy, history, South African politics, New Zealand politics
26.	Marwatt (talk • contribs)	Pakistan	Pakistani Politics (Both internal & External), World Affairs
27.	Tree Biting Conspiracy (talk • contribs)	United States	Politics in China, India, and the United States; freedom, rights, and censorship
28.	Mnemeson (talk • contribs)	United Kingdom	US and EU politics
29.	Selmo (talk • contribs)	Canada	Canadian, US, and Middle-Eastern politicians
30.	S.Skinner (talk • contribs)	United Kingdom	Scottish, UK EU and US Politics, Scottish Nationalism
31.	Stealthound (talk • contribs)	United States	New World Politics, Politics of the U.N.