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[edit] Stub for "non-elected" people
These are the two stub templates for EU politicians:
The first one is obviously very useful, but I think the latter one screams "eurocracy" and "democratic deficit". I think the word "non-elected" is misleading since every leader and commissioner in the Commission are democratically appointed. The President of the Commission is chosen (in line with the result of the Europarl elections) by the directly elected European Council, and can be fired by the directly elected European Parliament. The president chooses the commissioners, who must be approved by the European Council and the European Parliament. I'm not sure if the template is used for (non-commissioner) people who just do practical jobs in the Commission or the Parliament, but in that case it makes even less sense to underline that they are "non-elected."
As far as I've seen, the template is only used for former commissioners, so I propose that we change it to simply "This article about a European Commissioner is a stub." - S Solberg J 21:39, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
- Perhaps you should change the syntax to
- in your comment to avoid this talk page being so categorized. Unfortunately, that doesn't display the actual template message. I also notice that the EU-org-bio-stub (unlike MEP-stub) is not categorized as an EU-stub, but I'm not sure of rules governing stub sorting. I agree that "non-elected" might send the wrong message but I do think we need a general category and I can't think of a better term.--Boson (talk) 07:19, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] European Parliament groups
At Template:European Parliament groups there is a long list of political groups of the European Parliament. Most of these articles are well-referenced but badly written. There is a lot of mistakes and they all need to be rewritten and wikified. Good work to all of you! --Checco (talk) 13:17, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] President of the European Council
I'm looking for a little help with the President of the European Council article. A new user has added information about Bertie Ahern, which while mostly factual, is unrelated to the article. I've tried to explain this but they have repeatedly reverted edits to restore their information. Please help.--Patrick Ѻ 17:06, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Request for consensus
A question has arisen concerning classification of groups in the European Parliament. A discussion has opened up in Talk:Political groups of the European Parliament. Your input is requested there. This notification falls under the "friendly notice" clause of WP:CANVASS. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 02:04, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
