Talk:New Democrats/Comments

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I am a Canadian user of Wikipedia and I feel I must protest the choice of subject for this page. "New Democrat" in American usage is just a buzzword term for a faction in the the Democratic Party of the US, and what appears to be a temporary faction, at that. Yet this usage has been given precedence in the article on New Democrat (New Democrats), when the New Democratic Party (NDP), whose membership refer to themselves as New Democrat (New Democrats), is an important and powerful political party in Canada. The New Democrats in Canada have existed since 1960 and will remain an important political party well after the term "New Democrat" in its American usage attenuates to a historical trivia question. That being the case, I submit that the Canadian definition of the term is the most important one for encyclopedic coverage, over the American one. If Wikipedia is indeed an international effort and an internet encyclopedia for the world, then Amerocentric editorial policy (the American definition is most important simply because it's the American definition) has no place in the effort. My position may be biased by my own nationality, and I would invite other contributors from third party, non interested countries to weigh in on this. Again, though, I must reiterate, the definition of an established, ongoing, major political party in one nation is of greater import and should take precedence over a transitory polisci descriptive from another.

24.69.160.130 (talk) 05:03, 17 March 2008 (UTC)ragged-gothic