Template talk:Activepolitician

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[edit] Wording

Is there a reason the template can't simply say "this article is about an active politician" rather than explaining that maybe they're running for office or maybe they're in office or maybe they're in some sort of scandal? Simple is usually best -- Ockham's Template Razor, if you will. JDoorjam Talk 01:28, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bot run

This is not very useful as all info has been intergrated into Template:WPBiography. Can't we get a bot in here to replace {{activepolitician}} with {{WPBiography|living=yes|activepol=yes}} Hbdragon88 04:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

It's certainly mostly deprecated, and quite possibly entirely useless as you say. I've just updated the wording. I'll add some code to my plugin and do a bot run some time (manually checking the transclusions list first of course). If it turns out that every page using the template could actually use {{WPBiography}} we can get this deleted. --kingboyk 21:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. The first two template instances I checked had parameters. The first was small=yes (which doesn't work), the second was some info about why he was tagged (used by the template but probably not really necessary). It's likely then I won't be able to remove many of them unless we have consensus that the parameter isn't needed. --kingboyk 16:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How about dead politicians

Is there a tag for a dead politician whose legacy is still active. There are many articles where people are contributing POV. How can that be tagged ? --Mqmpk 15:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

That's not what this is for. If they're dead they don't have any extra special tag. --kingboyk 18:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)