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:I agree with C mon, but it is also true that the progressive Democrats, those of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (which includes also Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed "democratic socialist") are probably to the left of most European social-democratic parties. I say this for personal experience in talking with some CPC members and Sanders himself. Anyway, C mon is right also on this: we need sources, so let's look for them! --[[User:Checco|Checco]] ([[User talk:Checco|talk]]) 10:48, 19 September 2008 (UTC) |
:I agree with C mon, but it is also true that the progressive Democrats, those of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (which includes also Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed "democratic socialist") are probably to the left of most European social-democratic parties. I say this for personal experience in talking with some CPC members and Sanders himself. Anyway, C mon is right also on this: we need sources, so let's look for them! --[[User:Checco|Checco]] ([[User talk:Checco|talk]]) 10:48, 19 September 2008 (UTC) |
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::If you want to base stuff on personal experience start a blog. As for wikipedia, find sources. Thirdly: there is no law in political science that says that a social-democratic party necessarily is more or less leftwing than a social-liberal party. [[User:C mon|C mon]] ([[User talk:C mon|talk]]) 20:51, 19 September 2008 (UTC) |
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European Democratic Party
Hi! I have responded on the corresponding talk page: Talk:European Democratic Party. C mon (talk) 18:54, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Centrist liberal
I think that is very creative, but without proper sources to back that up, there would be no place to put that up on wikipedia. See wikipedia's rules about "original research". C mon (talk) 19:24, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
- To state my point more clearly: I do not know what the right solution (centrist-liberal/liberal centrist) would be, but any solution would need to be backed up by external sources. C mon (talk) 19:25, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
Original research
Before going into detail with the exact cases, I want to stress these two things:
- Wikipedia is not about opinions, it is about sourced fact. You need to back up your edits with sources.
- It is flawed reasoning to say
- On average /in general, A are have value B on variable C
- D is an A
- D has value B on variable
The flaw is that although on average/in general A might have value B, there may still be variance on variable C. So for example:
- On average social-democratic parties (A) are centre left (B) on the left-right dimension (C)
- The UK Labour Party is a social democratic party
- The UK Labour Party must be centre-left on the lef-right dimension.
But this is simply not true, because the Labour Party may deviate from the average position taken by its peers. That is the nature of an average value. You make this flawed reasoning all the time.
So now lets look at the reverted edits:
- Factions in the Democratic Party. I reverted the edit because you a) a removed a reference (that is not just an external link, but a link where a particular statement on wikipedia is based upon) without any reason and b) because the statement you inserted was an irrelevant unsourced opinion. The statement "the American progressive democrats are like the European democratic socialists" without a source is just an opinion, or original research. Which is irrelevant to the subject, which is about positions of the progressive democrats and not their similarities to other organizations.
- Liberal Forum. Here you show a reasoning I called flawed just now: that a lot liberal party rejects the left-right spectrum (altough I would like to have a source for that) does not mean that the Liberal Forum does that. You need to provide proof that the Liberal Forum does so.
- Czech Social-Democratic Party: idem 2.
- Irish SP: you said that it was "not at government" that is why I reverted your actions, because being in government was not a criterion.
I would like end by pointing out two things to you: take a look at the rules, guidelines and principles of wikipedia. The five pillars of Wikipedia is a good start. The principle of not doing original research and providing sources for statements is of the highest priority on wikipedia. Second, please sign your posts on talk pages with four tildes ~~~~, so we can see what you posted. C mon (talk) 11:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Constitution Party
Please see the discussion I have started regarding your recent edit to the Constitution Party article. Thanks. Have a wonderful day! JBFrenchhorn (talk) 03:31, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
EUL/NGL
I agree with you on EUL/NGL, but we should stick to the compromise we reached at Talk:Political groups of the European Parliament. I stated my opinion there, if you want you can discuss it and try to change the description of the group. --Checco (talk) 22:21, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
- Sometimes I disagree with you, but in general I think that you have a great deal of knowledge about parties and ideologies. Welcome to Wikipedia and keep in touch! --Checco (talk) 08:12, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Italian newspapers
"Political allegiance" does not mean strickly "ideology", so please don't revert my edits on Italian newspapers... --Checco (talk) 07:09, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
- ...and also please stop cancelling "centrism" from the articles. I agree with you that "centre-right" or "left-wing" are not ideologies, but "centrism" is different: it is very useful to describe parties which don't have a clear ideology or which are both something and centrist. Rememeber also that in the US, centrism is regarded as an ideology, as conservatism and liberalism, and they correspond to the centre, the right and the left, respectively. --Checco (talk) 07:12, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
- First, newspapers: Corriere is liberal but is close to the political centre-left, Repubblica is progressive/social-democratic and is close to the left-wing, and so on... political allegiance is useful to give to the reader an idea of where the newspaper is located in the political spectrum.
- Second, Italian PS. It is definitely a centrist social-democratic party. I would describe it as simply social-democratic, but if you add third way is not a problem for me, what is problematic is in fact its carachterization as a democratic-socialist party, which it's not. I know how the internal factions of PS describe themselves, but remember that politicians are politicians not political scientists and they often use political terms erroneously. Anyway, if you really want to put "democratic socialism", I can live with it.
- Finally, Brazilian PDT. Socialist International includes both centrist parties and more left-wing ones. PDT fits the second category: it is a populist and democratic-socialist party, very to the left of Lula and most SI social-democratic parties. Even in this case I could live with the "social-democratic" classification, but in my opinion that party is more to the left than social democracy. The best thing we can do is to ask to some Brazilian users or start a discussion in talk page.
- Take care, --Checco (talk) 10:45, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
US & Dutch parties
Hi! Please understand that wikipedia is about facts and not opinions. It does not matter what you or I think of a particular party on basis of our own criteria. What matters is what external reliable academic sources think of political parties.
I advise you to get a basic text book on American politics to find references for your claims about the social-liberalism c.q. social-democracy in the U.S. Democratic party. I assure you that they will all say that the U.S. Democratic Party is a liberal party, and specifically a social liberal party.. But if you can find a source (a peer-reviewed journal article, a book authored by a political scientist or recognized pundit) that sustains your claim, than that will be fine. But asssigning the U.S. Democratic Party an entire ideology merely because what you think their trade policy is, is not how wiki works.
About the GreenLeft: Essentially its economic policy is a green economic policy. Their economic proposals center around shifting taxation from labour to capital and pollution in order to boost employment and fight pollution. For more information see green tax-shift. Trying to assign this position in the rigid categories of social-liberalism and social-democracy without specifying criteria what characterizes this, is completely pointless.
About the VVD. You may add centre-right to VVD. If you can provide a source for it. Without a source this is just your opinion and not a fact sustained by reliable, external, academic sources.
-- C mon (talk) 08:23, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
- I agree with C mon, but it is also true that the progressive Democrats, those of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (which includes also Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed "democratic socialist") are probably to the left of most European social-democratic parties. I say this for personal experience in talking with some CPC members and Sanders himself. Anyway, C mon is right also on this: we need sources, so let's look for them! --Checco (talk) 10:48, 19 September 2008 (UTC)