Template talk:Politics of the United States

message: Most of the items listed in that box involve U.S. Government, not U.S. politics. This primary caption should read "This article is part of the series
Government of the United States" and it should be renamed MediaWiki:GovernmentUS. Kingturtle 16:38, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's save the trouble of having to move this. What the mediawiki is called matters little. Just change the content on the page. --Jiang 20:35, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Government! 

message: I noticed the series "Politics and Government of the United States", and got interested: I
have been looking around for the series to join, and can't find anything. I finally found this
discussion, and its 2 ½ years old. So, I'm trying to find out what happened here. Anyone have
any information? Richiar 00:49, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this "series" active?

message: Does the Libertarian party really merit mention on this template when no other third parties do? --Jfruh (talk) 21:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Libertarians? 

message: ...as per the order they appear in the constitution. Historic anomalies notwithstanding, the executive was never meant to be the dominant branch; privilege of place is unwarranted.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.105.244.192 (talk) 22:46, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Well done! I swapped out House and Senate for the same reason. --Daysleeper47 (talk) 15:34, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swapped legislative/executive... 

message: There is a second template at Template:Politics of the United States sidebar templates. Bebestbe (talk) 23:24, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Template:Politics of the United States sidebar templates

message: Hi. Please replace the beginning of the <noinclude> section with the following, which adds a heading and updates the template's categorization:
<noinclude>


== See also ==

 
(etc.)
Sardanaphalus (talk) 19:42, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeing no objections, I've  the edit. UltraExactZZ  Claims ~ Evidence  13:07, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: "ran of" should be "ran on"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by RCFleischer (talk • contribs) 14:53, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: Can you please add mk:Шаблон:Политика на САД to the interwiki of this page. I cannot do it myself as it is locked. Thank you --B. Jankuloski (talk) 00:10, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: . — Huntster (t • @ • c) 08:14, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki for Macedonian 

message: Could you please add da:Skabelon:USA's politik to the interwiki section of this template. Thanks in advance. --Broadbeer (talk) 20:51, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - Rjd0060 (talk) 03:45, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki for Danish 

message: A new article, Governor (United States)‎, is now on line. Please change: ** Governors 
to: ** Governors‎ (List)Thanks! - BillCJ (talk) 18:01, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit Request

message: Several of the menu names in this list actually link to an article.  It would be appropriate for "Political Parties" to link to Political parties in the United States.  Right now there are links only to specific political parties as far as I can tell; it would make sense for the category to link to an article on US political parties in general.  If an admin could make this edit to create this link I'd appreciate it.  Thanks Locke9k (talk) 20:36, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Renewing request for this link to be added.  Some response one way or another would be appropriate.  I am presently considering requesting unprotection of this page as the talk page seems to be so little monitored that requesting admin changes is nearly impossible.  Locke9k (talk) 17:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit Request - Political Parties link 

message: The section on congressional comparisons with parliamentary systems states that a Parliament is made up of all 3 branches of government, executive, legislative and judicial. This isn't true, generally parliaments only contain the executive and legistaive, the judiciary is independent in all democratic states.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackBeNimble (talk • contribs) 06:06, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: edit request

message: There are a few cases of camel-case in this template: "Political Parties", "Party Leaders", "State Courts", and "Local Government". Parties, leaders, courts and government are not names, nor are they titles (in this context). Should be corrected, but the template is protected. LarRan (talk) 10:46, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. — RockMFR 13:17, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Camel-case 

message: Use  instead of . Locos epraix ~ Beastepraix 20:37, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Template:Tnavbar simply redirects to Template:navbar.  — Jake Wartenberg 21:43, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I know. It will just keep this clean. Locos epraix ~ Beastepraix 05:15, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

text: Done. — RockMFR 13:17, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tnavbar 

message: Please add :Category:Exclude in print to the template page. Kind regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 14:10, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume adding it to the /doc page is okay? If so,  — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 14:36, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's brilliant, thanks. Kind regards, SpitfireTally-ho! 15:17, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit request

message: A bit misleading. The states are not subdivisions of the federal government. The arrow, in fact, points the other way. The federal government is a union of the constituent states. As such, the category called Subdivisions would be better entitled as Federalism and linked to the article Federalism in the United States. -- Foofighter20x (talk) 17:34, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Let's give it a try, see what other people think. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:59, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subdivisions? 

message: This template should be linked to :zh:Template:美國政治 instead of :zh:Template:美國政冶. I have no authority to correct it. Please fix it. --Pubuhan (talk) 04:16, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong link with Chinese interwiki

message: State court should be disambiguated to State court (United States). StAnselm (talk) 21:28, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: The article states that, "The second youngest governor ever elected was J. Neely Johnson of California, when he was elected in 1855 at the age of 30," but William Sprague was 29 when he became governor of RI in 1860.
192.133.12.101 (talk) 21:55, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It is not this template which states this, so you are probably posting this to the wrong page. Please try the talk page of the article which says this. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:16, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from 192.133.12.101, 21 February 2011 

message: Please add Category:"Part of a series on" templates into the template. A. Z. Colvin • Talk 23:39, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add category 

message: Hello I would like to add Term limits in the United States in the Election secton of this templete because it is part of US politics and it should be in there.
Thank you
Nhajivandi (talk) 02:41, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure where they would fit. Perhaps you would like to experiment on Template:Politics of the United States/sandbox and then give time for other editors to comment. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:14, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Nhajivandi, 3 September 2011 

message: Would it be possible to change the Presidency header to Executive as this is how it is laid out in the constitution plus the section contains things like the Cabinet. --Barryob  (Contribs) (Talk) 16:34, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done The original justification for "Presidency" seems to have been changing adjectives to nouns. But "Executive" can also be a noun with this meaning. Anomie⚔ 19:46, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presidency/Executive 

message: I noticed that this doesn't show up correctly on the articles it is put on. It shows "This template is part of the series:" even on articles where it should change to say "This article is part of the series:". It used to say "this article" and really should say that since it is generally used on articles (I hesitate to say only used there, because I don't know that for a fact). I'm not an admin, so I can't change it. Started looking into it and saw where the code was changed from  to . Really, a live template like this shouldn't ever point to a sandbox. There are plenty of other ways to show examples of proposed changes. I see some of the discussion at Template talk:Politics box#Revamp and might post there if no one replies here after a while. But needing/suggesting changes like that doesn't mean we change the live template first. Anyway, I think correcting this will also answer the CapitalR's question in their last edit on this template about VTE not working right. This does show, then, that the sandbox template being proposed needs some fixing to make it work correctly. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 04:12, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the sandbox template to say "article" instead of "template".  Simply changing this template to not use the sandbox messed something up so I couldn't do it -- I'm not sure what the issue is yet. --CapitalR (talk) 20:43, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Change back to point to politics box, not sandbox

message: House word, means Home, the House word calling for House of Representatives 
No name of Speaker of the House of Representatives, Name of Parliament Speaker in all Politics templates 
No name of President of the United States Senate, Name of Parliament Speaker in all Politics templates Medo9 (talk) 15:11, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. You'll have to be much more clear in what you want changed. Anomie⚔ 16:57, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Medo9 

message: Could somebody make these fixes? All are permitted under R2D as templates are exempt from the "Do no fix redirects" guideline. Just some link fixes:
Party leaders 
Other countries
TJ Spyke 06:52, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixes 

message: The template mention state governors before state legislatures, but nearly all states mention the legislative before the executive in their state constitution. So it must be modified. John Doe 1346 (talk) 22:43, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  States governments 

message: please replace the code of this template with this version of the sandbox (see diff and testcases).  this change does several positive things
# Uses , rather than a sandbox template, which allows us to eliminate all the messy div statements, and not worry about someone actually using the sandbox.
# Fixes the "atlas" link at the bottom of the sidebar, which was missing the "the" before "United States".
# Fixes the "view / edit / discuss" links at the bottom of the sidebar, which were missing the "the" before "United States".
# Fixes the wrapped title, by slightly increasing the sidebar width
let me know if there are any problems.  you may also want to semiprotect the two  meta-templates if you are worried about vandalism.  Although, I guess that isn't a problem if we were using a sandbox template before? Frietjes (talk) 16:06, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Anomie⚔ 22:28, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  update to use a standard sidebar template, rather than a sandbox template 

message: per discussion at MOS:ACCESSBILITY, I have undone the overstyling. Frietjes (talk) 14:38, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overstyling 

message: The first sentence of the second paragraph of this article is factually incorrect.  The current occupant of the Oval Office is the 45th individual to hold the office. 137.254.7.172 (talk) 21:40, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the template . Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned.  B E C K Y  S A Y L E S  02:57, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 3 February 2017 

message: Oh, bother, please ignore the previous edit request.  It is correct that 44 PERSONS have held the office.  Sorry ... 137.254.7.172 (talk) 21:41, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Done  B E C K Y  S A Y L E S  02:57, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 3 February 2017 

message: Per WP:ICONDECORATION, the seals should be removed as they are purely decorative, and quoting User:Howard the Duck, "The seals are horribly indistinguishable at that size." Jeremy (Message) 14:29, 14 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting removal of seals 

message: Can you use the  template? Thank you. 143.44.165.210 (talk) 03:52, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Lightoil (talk) 05:13, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 27 January 2023 

message: When the implementation of collapsible lists changed from for using class collapsible to mw-collapsible, the show/hide links got same color as other links, blue, which are difficult to see on the red background. I suggest the color is changed back to white. It can be done with a rule for .mw-collapsible-text in a templatestiles page. Dipsacus fullonum (talk) 08:29, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: My suggestion is in Template:Politics of the United States/sandbox. I moved styles parameters and inline styles to Template:Politics of the United States/styles.css. The show/hide links are white. They and the link in the title line also now have white underlining when you hover over them. Dipsacus fullonum (talk) 10:57, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I see no objections, so I'll use sandbox version now. Dipsacus fullonum (talk) 08:26, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Color of show/hide links