Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics

Propose infobox political movement

I propose that we create a new {{infobox political movement}} template to support articles like America First, Antifa (United States), etc. I envision that it will have many fields similar to {{infobox political party}}, plus a field for "Methods" and minus fields for leaders and headquarters. If this moves forward, I will need a ton of help for how to create such an infobox. For example, can I simplify the work by first copying several articles/files from {{infobox political party}} and then modifying them? Thank you —Quantling (talk | contribs) 13:39, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Support; There needs to be a more appropriate range of infoboxes for articles surrounding loosely-defined political bodies, particularly movements and party factions. Maybe this template could be designed for bodies that don't cleanly fit into the 'party' or 'organisation' boxes?

Alternatively, perhaps the main political party infobox could be reworked to be more applicable to groups such as factions and this new 'movement' infobox could exclusively be designed for loose groupings that don't have any formal organisational structures (e.g. Trumpism, Antifa (United States), teal independents, etc.)

I've often found that articles for both factions and moments tend to use either the organisation infobox or party infobox and that neither are particularly well-suited for this purpose, so a change is definitely needed nonetheless. Loytra^✨ 13:26, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

• Support, unless someone can find a better one. The organization boxes aren't really designed for political movements, and movements are not (necessarily) political parties, so having a box independent from them would be best. --Aquillion (talk) 16:13, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• Oppose. I don’t think this sort of topic lends itself to an infobox, which primarily includes precise facts, written as short as possible. There are many such fields for political parties (office-holders, membership, headquarters etc.), but few would make sense for a loosely-defined movement (start year, slogan, predecessor). Some fields which could make sense and have a precise content are likely to be very debatable (leader, spokesperson, affiliations). And the most relevant sorts of information are going to be a battlefield (ideology, methods, affiliation). Movements of this sort seem closer to an ideology than to a formal political party, and you’ll notice that there are no infoboxes for ideologies. Keriluamox (talk) 17:51, 27 September 2025 (UTC)
• Oppose.- per Keriluamox, he explained and summarized everything well. Volodia.woldemar (talk) 18:41, 6 October 2025 (UTC)
• comment - I just took a look at Occupy Wall Street and found they're using the {{infobox civil conflict}}. Which is OK, except then I checked the Occupy movement page and found it's doing the same thing... for the whole movement?! Seems like there isn't a good consistent standard and it might be worth the experiment to create one, or at least, something like {{infobox political party}} could perhaps be changed to something broader ("political faction" etc) to encompass political movements without electoral ambition. Hornpipe2 (talk) 14:00, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Support: I fully support this idea. However, I believe if we want to do this, we need to have it so that all possible parameters for a potential ideology infobox are included in this movement infobox. So many articles across Wikipedia, about ideologies and movements, have to make do with other infoboxes and I think that is really detrimental. As @Hornpipe2 already mentioned, the Occupy Movement article has to try and make do with the Infobox civil conflict. Another example would be Trumpism which currently uses the political party infobox to portray the movement. I am also open to Hornpipe2's idea of expanding the political party infobox to a broader political faction infobox. — EarthDude (Talk) 03:45, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

While we are at it, we should discuss what parameters such an infobox would include, so as to make the proposal more clear. — EarthDude (Talk) 03:46, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

• Oppose- per Keriluamox. Parameters would be difficult to fill accurately. Magnolia677 (talk) 20:23, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Comment I will note that Black Lives Matter has an infobox while being a decentralised political movement. Koopinator (talk) 14:20, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

It uses {{infobox historical event}}, which is actually not a bad idea. Keriluamox (talk) 07:38, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

New article: Alberto Forchielli

Hello, I've created a new article on Alberto Forchielli, a biography of a living person (BLP), translated from the current, accepted Italian Wikipedia page (it:Alberto Forchielli). This new version is based on current notability and sourcing, which resolves the concerns from the 2017 deletion. Feedback is welcome. Thanks! Digressivo (talk) 18:56, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

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Discussion regarding WikiProject Listing for Donald Trump

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Requested move at Talk:Cabinet crisis#Requested move 6 November 2025

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Proposed deletion of Internationalist Struggle

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ECP backlog: Political party colors

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Requested move at Talk:2025 Interim Constitution of Syria#Requested move 3 November 2025

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Andrei Kirilenko

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Issue with Article assessments

Hi all. I noticed in reviewing the importance scale for this WikiProject that there are a number of pages listed as high importance that arguably don't fall into that category, especially given the fact that whole swaths of the political world outside of the West and India are consistently rated as low wholesale, without any real acknowledgement of their importance both nationally or regionally. For instance, neither the 162nd Virginia General Assembly, nor the 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho would be considered highly important anywhere outside the United States, or arguably even in the United States for that matter. Additionally, a number of articles about relatively insignificant political events in India are listed under (Category:High-importance politics articles (Link not listed because for some reason it doesn't appear)) as well. From what I can tell, a number of these were changes made by anonymous, potentially bot-managed accounts with shifting IP addresses that have increasingly caused problems on the website even far beyond the South-Asian political sphere. Though I recognize that it's largely subjective, and that it cannot be routinely monitored by editors due to the fast pace at which such changes are made, I feel there's a need for greater quality control when it comes to categorizing article importance, as it makes it far more difficult for editors seeking to assist in improving articles of genuine import to do so. I think this needs to be part of a larger conversation both in this WikiProject and across the community, as bot accounts are only going to increase in quantity and capacity as time goes on. I've reached out to one editor who appears to have been responsible for a fair number of such assessments in relation to United States politics, but would appreciate assistance in tackling the issue beyond that. Any input would be greatly appreciated, and I'll look forward to the discussion to come. Best, CSGinger14 (talk) 02:10, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Please be bold. I would suggest as a rough rule of thumb that country-specific politics is not going to be high-importance on a project this broad. CMD (talk) 16:51, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi @CMD, I appreciate the response. Unfortunately, there's only so much I can do on my own, which is part of the reason why I posted this comment here, to ask that others assist me in cleaning up the assessments page, at least those that have been marked as high importance.

Best,

CSGinger14 (talk) 04:33, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Frankly looking through this there's a massive amount of bias that's being perpetuated in the system through the importance ratings listed there. Frankly, it's also telling that Bondage pornography was among the high-importance articles, and Pornographic film a top-importance article, which if nothing else shows that no one has done a proper sweep of the classifications in a long time. With that in mind, I think this serves as support for my argument that there needs to be a concerted effort by the WikiProject at-large to review these classifications. I'd appreciate help in boosting that point, if at all possible.

Best,

CSGinger14 (talk) 05:47, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

@CMD I invite you to go look at my contribution history to see what kinds of articles were included in the top-importance classification for this WikiProject. Though I've now cleaned up most of that branch specifically, I'd really appreciate some help in doing broader review, as it's clear that this is being used as a platform for people's personal politics

Best - CSGinger14 (talk) 23:33, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Those edits make sense to me, individual biographies are probably of lower importance. A broad review should start by figuring out what is needed at each level, I’ve seen 10, 100, 1000, the rest suggested before. CMD (talk) 04:03, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

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