Template talk:Infobox American political party

message: I haven't been particularly interested in getting involved in the various template and infobox wars that go on around here, but this template's apparent requirement of a "colors" line for American political parties is no good, as neither the Democrats nor the Republican have official colors, or even consistently unofficial ones (the Red/Blue States thing is entirely a media creation which neither party has significant adopted in its campaigning). It either needs to be made option or taken out entirely. RadicalSubversiv E 30 June 2005 03:49 (UTC)
* If you want red, type in "Red" instead. If you want blue, type in "Blue". That's how I just made it, except I haven't done other colors yet. I don't think you should have to type in the party name to get the color, since red is more commonly associated with left-wing socialist parties. thus, making it so you have to type "republican" to get red is stupid. --Revolución (talk) 23:15, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Colors

message: I recommend dropping the sexually biased language "chairman" as a party title in the "american political party" infobox and replacing it with simply "chair".  This is not only more socially appropriate, it is technically and semantically correct.
For similar reasons i recommend dropping the awkward use of "chairperson" in the "political party" infobox and replacing it with the common and correct term "chair". Bcharles (talk) 19:08, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Chair

message: User:Thumperward decided to change the template; I've reverted the changes, as they represent a significant break from standard political party infoboxes (even though they are much like other infoboxes). Here's the diff: . 
I'm personally against changing this box, unless all other party boxes are similarly changed. That'll raise a stir in WP Politics...Lockesdonkey (talk) 00:20, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's trivial to take the updated code (which is a clear improvement over the old wikitable layout) and apply the style of the old one using a couple of lines of CSS. I'll work on doing that when I get a chance, and then we can discuss the styling. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 10:38, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

text: Done. Further changes to the template styling can be trivially added to the  parameter. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 10:23, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing the template 

message: I haven't figured out how to do it. Will keep trying. But if anyone else does... CarolMooreDC (talk) 04:18, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Need Foreign Policy line under Political Position

message: Alright, I find this to be kind of an issue.
It's required that fiscal and social policy be listed seperately. Should this not be changed? JPuglisi (talk) 10:17, 24 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Position 

message: There seems to be no parameters for colour-coding in this template! Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 00:36, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Color/colour-code

message: Just looking at the infoboxes for the two major parties (Democratic Party, Republican Party) and the three largest third parties (Constitution Party, Green Party, Libertarian Party) shows you how insufficient the parameters are for this infobox template. This template is barely used because of it. Charles Essie (talk) 21:10, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally i think nation-specific political party infobox templates are rather unnecessary, since it seems the regular template have practically all the parameters we could possibly want and more! Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 01:51, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs more parameters