User talk:TheGreenwalker

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December 2008

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Regarding your edit(s) to United Kingdom Independence Party, it is recommended that you use the preview button before you save; this helps you find any errors you have made, and prevents clogging up recent changes and the page history. Thank you. Road Wizard (talk) 22:06, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

UKIP

Hi, can you please provide sources (3rd party reliable sources) which show that UKIP can be considered as a 'Conservative' party? This tag - and others like it - have long been debated and the current approach to the article requires such sources to be added. If you are unable to provide such sources, consider removing the label. Setwisohi (talk) 22:09, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello UKIP.

Yes, I have removed the 'Conservatism' tag in respect of your request. However, I only added it on as the UKIP do have some Economic and fiscal views. Thank you.

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The little pictures are known as Userboxes. There are lots of them available on Wikipedia or you can make your own. You just add the code to your own page.

This page will tell you more about them: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User_boxes

Hope that helps! Setwisohi (talk) 13:48, 9 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

I've replied on my talk page but I'll add this for future reference. This page tells you Wiki policy on sources: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources Setwisohi (talk) 10:18, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re Democracy IS an ideology

You wroye on my page:

Democracy can be used as an ideology, because the Popular Alliance in the UK party believes that citizens should get a vote and say on nearly all political matters. In other words, they want the people to have more of a say, and that is Democracy. Also, Populism is a democratic ideology, because it wants citizens to have more of a say. (TheGreenwalker (talk) 00:45, 19 March 2009 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks for your message.

I think you will find that political scientists will agree that democracy is a method of political organisation, a way of organising the action of politics. For example, assuming that Britain is a democracy, within it there are mainstream ideologies of conservatism, liberalism and socialism for each of the main parties (Tory, Lib-Dem, Labour). In fact, you will be hard pressed to find a single party in the UK that does not say that citizens should not have a vote. The British Union of Fascists contested elections; was it democratic? Parties with an anti-democratic ideology can happily exist within democracy and use it to achieve power (Nazis in Germany for example). You need to compare democracy with other political methods, such as totalitarianism, monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, theoocracy. Incidentally, populism is more often than not the antithesis of democracy, since it usually relies on a leadership's appeal to baser instincts rather than reasoned argument; in some ways it can be almost fascism where the state/leader declares itself the embodiment of the popular will, without actually consulting the people. Emeraude (talk) 17:53, 19 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

UKIP again

Please do NOT add unsourced tags such as Libertarian to the info box on the UKIP article. (Please also note that logging in as an anon IP does not make you invisible). Setwisohi (talk) 13:48, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

EU Army

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