Talk:List of political parties in Germany

message: I think it's confusing to say "Germany has three minor parties" in the top of the article and then have a list with over 20 "minor parties". I have no idea how to solve it, but if anyone have one it would be great. Thanks in advance.77.21.73.116 (talk) 14:32, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: does three a the minor parties that are in parliament the others are not. So they could be described as mid-sized parties when you talk about all parties, yet they are the small or minor parties when you talk about parties in parliament178.210.114.106 (talk) 16:26, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor parties 

message: has not yet been founded according to Bundeswahlleiter. Please provide source for founding before reverting. --Nillurcheier (talk) 14:51, 18 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  FDDV 

message: ===Accomplishments===
The current and historic notability of a party is often not apparent to the average reader. I propose to add their most important accomplishments (no matter how old) in one free-text column. The highest number of seats and/or vote percentage for BT and EP (with year) would be useful. Government participation may include the vice-chancellor position or (on state level) ministers who are members of the Bundesrat. In particular, we could place the coalition details (that have been deleted recently with little explanation (but I am biased) in the table.
Example: FDP has no BT members for now, but they were in the BT for decades and were part of several federal and many state government coalitions. They "provided" two presidents: Theodor Heuss, Walter Scheel.
Example: CSU has controlled Bavaria's government for decades, often as a single-party rule. The CSU has provided two chancellor candidates (a completely informal, yet notable role), which are notable (unlike others from minor parties) because they ran for both CDU and CSU.
Example: The Greens are/were part of several governments on federal (incl. vice-chancellor) and state level (incl. minister-president).
Example: The Left is and was part of several governments on state level, even with a minister-president. Renaming and heritage (SED-PDS-Linke.PDS) and merger with WASG should be mentioned here.
Examples: Pirates, NPD, Republicans and AfD entered several state parliaments. Statt Partei in Hamburg found itself in government.
Example: Free Voters have notable influence below state level, so results from Kommunalwahlen may be useful.
===Notable Parties===
Defunct or merged parties that were notable are still notable. So, yes, I am saying that even minor parties from the 19th century onwards should be checked on notability. But we need criteria to not get swamped, and natural ones would be: parliament representation (maybe except for a single deserting MP), government participation or their role in crucial votes/movements/decisions/scandals/incidents, reflected by sustained media coverage.
Newly founded/running parties would, in my opinion, best be placed in the election article, only to be mentioned here if they gain notable publicity (e.g. by running for decades). On the other hand, even minuscule first-timers get articles of their own, so why not list them here? But if, then this inclusion extends to earlier times. Removing entries because they are outdated will not fit the purpose of this list.
I do not intend or propose to fill this list with loads of details, only with most important facts (in as few words as possible) that give hints to readers who are not familiar with German politics or history. --92.211.192.188 (talk) 18:34, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia has criteria already, we can't decide ourselves what the criteria should be. See Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). "An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not sufficient to establish notability. All content must be verifiable. If no independent, third-party, reliable sources can be found on a topic, then Wikipedia should not have an article on it. Read the whole page for details, also WP:GNG. Doug Weller talk 18:48, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  More information in tables, party notability 

message: Defunct or merged parties that were notable are still notable. So, yes, I am saying that even minor parties from the 19th century onwards should be checked on notability. But we need criteria to not get swamped, and natural ones would be: parliament representation (maybe except for a single deserting MP), government participation or their role in crucial votes/movements/decisions/scandals/incidents, reflected by sustained media coverage.
Newly founded/running parties would, in my opinion, best be placed in the election article, only to be mentioned here if they gain notable publicity (e.g. by running for decades). On the other hand, even minuscule first-timers get articles of their own, so why not list them here? But if, then this inclusion extends to earlier times. Removing entries because they are outdated will not fit the purpose of this list.
I do not intend or propose to fill this list with loads of details, only with most important facts (in as few words as possible) that give hints to readers who are not familiar with German politics or history. --92.211.192.188 (talk) 18:34, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia has criteria already, we can't decide ourselves what the criteria should be. See Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). "An organization is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not sufficient to establish notability. All content must be verifiable. If no independent, third-party, reliable sources can be found on a topic, then Wikipedia should not have an article on it. Read the whole page for details, also WP:GNG. Doug Weller talk 18:48, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable Parties

message: This page lists Andra as leader of the SDP, but the Wikepedia page for Andrea Nahles states she was in the position until June 2019.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.115.245.133 (talk) 05:21, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for bringing this up. It has now been updated. Helper201 (talk) 06:00, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Party Leaders

message: The logo for Klimaliste ist outdated, the logo in the Klimaliste article is the correct one, I tried to change it, but didn't manage :-/ 185.104.137.32 (talk) 08:50, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Helper201 (talk) 17:58, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo Klimaliste 

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