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Hey RaviC. Good idea to expand to cover the territories. However Governor and head of government (ie Chief Executive, or equivalent) should go in the top as they are not under the British Government. The Governor reports to the Crown, while the head of government obviously reports to the territory's government. I think this may be possible by just moving the British Government heading down, and putting them above. However I am not sure it will allow that many leader fields? If not, instead we could use a head_of_government field and a custom "head_of_government_type". Sorry, I don't have time at the moment to test. Rob984 ( talk) 22:30, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
Are we aware of the reasons why the devolved leaders and Monarchy have been removed from the government sections on each of the countries of the UK with devolved governments and First Ministers? Goodreg3 ( talk) 15:34, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I'm proposing to replace this template with Template:Infobox political division. This was previously used exclusively for dependent territories, but has been generic-ised to allow for use to represent any political entity. This alternative infobox is already used in all Crown dependency and British Overseas Territory articles, so adopting this will align UK countries with the other British first-level administrative divisions. A few changes differentiate this template:
On the second point, I believe the current template deemphasizes these countries as sub-national divisions when it shouldn't. It's additionally unclear to me why currency, driving side, date format, and calling code have been chosen to be listed when these are typically not used for integral first-level administrative divisions (see Australian states, Canadian provinces, Russian republics/subjects, etc.). It presents these details as distinguishable from those of the UK as a whole when they're not.
For examples on how the England, Wales, Scotland, and NI infoboxes would look, see my sandbox. For an example on how this looks on a non-UK non-sovereign country, see Greenland. Feedback would be appreciated. Horserice ( talk) 19:09, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
The template lists the Secretary of State under the Parliament of the United Kingdom. However, the Secretary of State is a Government (executive) office, not a Parliamentary (legislature) one. Would anyone have suggestions on a more appropriate heading? Perhaps 'Country in the politics of the United Kingdom' - though that's a bit wordy? Drerac ( talk) 16:31, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Several fields appear to be broken and not displaying. Unfortunately, I'm not savvy enough to do anything about it except highlight them here.
In addition, I think there are some fields which would be helpful to add for consistency with other fields like GINI and HDI, if possible and if others agree:
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Infobox UK country template. |
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United Kingdom Template‑class | |||||||
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This template was considered for deletion on 2015 August 2. The result of the discussion was "keep". |
Hey RaviC. Good idea to expand to cover the territories. However Governor and head of government (ie Chief Executive, or equivalent) should go in the top as they are not under the British Government. The Governor reports to the Crown, while the head of government obviously reports to the territory's government. I think this may be possible by just moving the British Government heading down, and putting them above. However I am not sure it will allow that many leader fields? If not, instead we could use a head_of_government field and a custom "head_of_government_type". Sorry, I don't have time at the moment to test. Rob984 ( talk) 22:30, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
Are we aware of the reasons why the devolved leaders and Monarchy have been removed from the government sections on each of the countries of the UK with devolved governments and First Ministers? Goodreg3 ( talk) 15:34, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I'm proposing to replace this template with Template:Infobox political division. This was previously used exclusively for dependent territories, but has been generic-ised to allow for use to represent any political entity. This alternative infobox is already used in all Crown dependency and British Overseas Territory articles, so adopting this will align UK countries with the other British first-level administrative divisions. A few changes differentiate this template:
On the second point, I believe the current template deemphasizes these countries as sub-national divisions when it shouldn't. It's additionally unclear to me why currency, driving side, date format, and calling code have been chosen to be listed when these are typically not used for integral first-level administrative divisions (see Australian states, Canadian provinces, Russian republics/subjects, etc.). It presents these details as distinguishable from those of the UK as a whole when they're not.
For examples on how the England, Wales, Scotland, and NI infoboxes would look, see my sandbox. For an example on how this looks on a non-UK non-sovereign country, see Greenland. Feedback would be appreciated. Horserice ( talk) 19:09, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
The template lists the Secretary of State under the Parliament of the United Kingdom. However, the Secretary of State is a Government (executive) office, not a Parliamentary (legislature) one. Would anyone have suggestions on a more appropriate heading? Perhaps 'Country in the politics of the United Kingdom' - though that's a bit wordy? Drerac ( talk) 16:31, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Several fields appear to be broken and not displaying. Unfortunately, I'm not savvy enough to do anything about it except highlight them here.
In addition, I think there are some fields which would be helpful to add for consistency with other fields like GINI and HDI, if possible and if others agree: