While I would prefer for the CDI to call itself the "Christian Democrat International", they actually have begun to call themselves "Centrist Democrat International".
Also, Communitarianism and Conservatism are indeed proper links for this subject.
BTW, for a link to be included, the topic does not have to be a subset of CD, but just related to it.
GUÐSÞEGN – UTEX – 22:51, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Though I had to search them out, I think the new encyclical additions are on point, though I wonder if of critical importance. They do needs stubs at least. We don't want dead links on the template.
Regarding the Distributism link, while it does build on the same teachings, and involves the worker movement (also linked), no CD party that I know of advocates distributism, so I do question its inclusion. I'm not against it fully, but it does need some consensus discussion.
GUÐSÞEGN – UTEX – 16:28, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Well, from my looking at the website, the agenda seems to be nothing but elections, and the membership is mostly political parties. A group doesn't have to be members of EU parliament to be actively progressing Christian Democracy.
Members All the members seem to be political parties.
Associates Includes several movement organizations and a non-EU CD party.
What makes this organization less worthy of a link? GUÐSÞEGN – UTEX – 22:09, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Many of the political templates have symbols for identification purposes. I added this image on this template for this purpose. It is a fair use image, which allows use "for identification and critical commentary on ... the political movement it represents". In this template it is used thumbnail-sized for identification purposes (and a commentary of sorts). GUÐSÞEGN – UTEX – 05:24, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Berlusconi is not a CD. Neither is Forza Italia a CD party. Itake 00:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I am concerned that the 'ideas' section of this template has grown too big. It seems to be a general problem of most political templates. I propose the following two universal guidelines to determine what ideas should be linked on the template of a specific ideology:
In the case of this template, the 'ideas' section should include ideas that are common within CD and uncommon outside it. Right now it does not meet the criteria because it includes many ideas that are shared by many people who are not CD: Solidarity, Subsidiarity, Federalism, Freedom, Social Justice and Sustainability. I will remove those 6 links, pending your comments. -- Nikodemos 02:24, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
from the Christian Democracy Talk Currently, Angela Merkel is listed as a "famous Christian Democrat" in this article and also as an "important figure" in the CD template. But what did she do to merit this distinction? Did she support any particularly CD policy? -- Nikodemos 04:03, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Philosophers, politicians, popes. What is the coherence in this list? Three 20th century French Catholic Philosophers, only two protestants (at all). Is this list balanced? I think we have to choices. Remove all the persons from the list. Or limiting it to max. 9 really influential people, like Thomas, Leo XIII. C mon 09:04, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
My proposal:
or something of the sort, BTW to avoid missing discussions be sure to watch pages you have created/feel strongly about, you can use the watch page option (next to move) when you're logged on. --C mon 23:33, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
My proposal (if limited to nine):
GUÐSÞEGN – UTEX – 00:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
GUÐSÞEGN – UTEX – 00:18, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I see somebody added Romano Prodi. Hmm. I think Guðsþegn's 11 is reasonable. – Kaihsu 13:01, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
English link of CDA Frei Foindation GUÐSÞEGN – UTEX – 21:59, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I can see most but not Frei (the CDA institute named after Frei is its development cooperation institute, oriented towards the global south, the main thinktank is called "the Scientific Institute" - Wetenschappelijk Instituut), because of his limited importance outside of Chili; and the three "founding fathers" of Europe, I think that Schuman in this case is your man, because his plan (the Schuman Plan) was the main initiative for European Union. I'll settle for the following eight: Aquinas, Calvin, Leo, Kuyper, Maritain, Schuman, John Paul and Kohl. -- C mon 22:35, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good! – Kaihsu 16:35, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I would still prefer one 1950s Eurofederalist, and not three (Pick Monnet!) because we are repeating the same person but only from different countries. --C mon 19:18, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
What is the ideas section based on. For the template:Greens it is based on the Global Green Charter. What about this one? The Dutch Christian Democrats for instance have four key values ([see here (in dutch)]). Justice, Spread Responsibility (Subsidiarity + Sphere Sovereignty), Solidarity and Stewardship. What about the ideas included here where did they come from? --C mon 19:18, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I thought we should revitalize some of the discussion here. Over in template talk:Social democracy, C mon proposed that we use some sort of common standard for the SD, CD and liberalism templates, for the sake of consistency and neutrality. He also proposed that we based the standard on the liberalism template, because it is the oldest and arguably has the most well-developed articles. What do you think? -- Nikodemos 04:34, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I personally prefer templates without "show" buttons. That's why I rollbacked the edit of C mon. --Checco (talk) 19:37, 3 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Making templates expandedable with the "show" button deals with these issues quite nicely. I was hoping we could debate this beyond our personal preferences, but on arguments.
I created a centralized place for discussion about the show/hide-issue here. I invite every one to participate. C mon (talk) 18:05, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Should Luigi Sturzo be included in the list of important people. I removed his name recently added. I hadn't even heard of him, but that could just be my ignorance. He seems to be a founder of Italian People's Party (1919). Should he be considered important for CD in general? -- Guðsþegn (talk) 04:19, 14 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
why is the colour orange used here so prominently? I don't think that this colour is either traditionally associated with Christian democratic parties nor is it nowadays used by most of them (more or less restricted to Germany, Belgium and Switzerland, I'd say).93.104.62.255 (talk) 10:54, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Surely he does not belong here? He was not a thinker in any sense of the word; his achievement seems to be to have been head of government for 16 years in a Catholic country. All the same Fine Gael have the reputation for being a Christian Democratic party (including membership of the EPP) while Fianna Fail are a catch all party with no real ideological roots. It is instructive Bertie Ahern called himself the last socialist in Ireland when Rerum Novarum specifically condemns socialism, and no other ideology. 88.104.144.108 (talk) 16:27, 13 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I've removed the use of custom colors from Template:Christian Democracy, as I have also done with the navboxes for Nazism, Neo-Nazism, Anarchism, Libertarianism, Liberalism, Communism, and other ideologies. None of these color schemes serve any encyclopedic purpose, and are solely decoration for the sake of decoration. -- The Anome (talk) 11:09, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Two extremely small parties, receiving only a few thousand votes in national elections, have been added by @Archives908 to the template. I removed them, but he readded them. They do not deserve representation for the simple reason that they are tiny and unsuccessful. Anyone else is free to remove them again. If there is a more successful CD party in Armenian history, I advise @Archives908 to add that one instead. Trakking (talk) 12:42, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I was wondering how to add a politician, (Alf Svensson) to the template. Thank you for the help in advance.
Good day. BumbleBeeBelle (talk) 15:44, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]