Template talk:Infobox American Political Party

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[edit] Colors

I haven't been particularly interested in getting involved in the various template and infobox wars that go on around here, but this template's apparent requirement of a "colors" line for American political parties is no good, as neither the Democrats nor the Republican have official colors, or even consistently unofficial ones (the Red/Blue States thing is entirely a media creation which neither party has significant adopted in its campaigning). It either needs to be made option or taken out entirely. RadicalSubversiv E 30 June 2005 03:49 (UTC)

  • If you want red, type in "Red" instead. If you want blue, type in "Blue". That's how I just made it, except I haven't done other colors yet. I don't think you should have to type in the party name to get the color, since red is more commonly associated with left-wing socialist parties. thus, making it so you have to type "republican" to get red is stupid. --Revolución (talk) 23:15, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
    • FWIW, the color system now in use on this template has been updated to match the system in use in this templates British, Irish etc. equivalents. The Tom 01:20, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
      • In order for the infobox to display the colors of the political party the code must say colours.

[edit] Position

This really needs to be clarified some. It's clear that Left-wing works for Communist parties... but, what about other parties? What are the options, as well, Left, center-left, center-right, right? Or is centrism the ideology and position of Centrist Party (United States). Please explain. gren グレン 09:25, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

I would actually propose two separate criteria for political position: economic and social policy. The infobox should be modified to have two subheadings for political postion, "Economic policy" and "Social policy." This would be much more revealing, especially with parties like the Libertarian Party, whose politics do not fall into the left-right scale very easily. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 17:31, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

I've edited the template to divide position into fiscal policy and social policy, but I am not sure how to make it display properly, in two lines, so if someone with more template experience could help out, that'd be great. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 20:22, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

You added a column, which threw the balance off. I cleaned that up, and made the default values for most parameters blank just in case some usage does not specify them. ⇔ ChristTrekker 21:48, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
Thank you. I'm not much of a wizard with templates. In fact, I know pretty much nothing about them. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 01:52, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
NP. My own learning process here has been a long, slow accretion. You think you're trying to learn how to do "just this one thing" and that leads to something else, etc. ⇔ ChristTrekker 14:53, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm really wondering why position even needs to be on this template. What are you going to say here that ideology couldn't take care of? ⇔ ChristTrekker 15:08, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Position can specify the extent to which a party follows an ideology. For example, progressivism is a trait of the Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Socialist Party, but they all follow it to relative degrees, and position allows us to easily specify this. -- Cielomobile talk / contribs 18:41, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm concerned with (pejorative) terms like "far-right"/"far-left" being used. ⇔ ChristTrekker 21:40, 9 October 2007 (UTC)