Template talk:Labor

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1 Comparisons?
2 Major revision
3 Famous organizers
4 Please consider adding "hide" option to box
5 Standardisation

Comparisons?

All the entries in the list are concrete issues in labor except 'Comparisons'. While a valid page in its own right, I don't think that comparisons should be included in this list. There are a lot of possible links to the Comparisons page, but this template does not have to be one. The Gomm 02:37, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Major revision

A large-scale revision of this template was completed on 19 August 2007. Discussion can be found here; the old template still exists at Template:oldlabour. -- Scartol 05:26, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Famous organizers

Just thinking out loud here - but would it be possible to cycle through a larger list of organizers, in somewhat the same way as the Portal:Organized Labour cycles randomly through DYK tidbits? I don't know if this is even possible, but it would ease the conflict of deciding which handful of people are the most important. Essentially a random number generator that calls five (or 7 or 3) of the twenty (or 11 or 32) names listed in the template. --Bookandcoffee 20:05, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi Bookandcoffee, I have to disagree. I think that any attempt to identify five or a dozen or three dozen leaders is bound to artificially limit this list. To be an effective list, it has to span centuries and continents, and would swamp the rest of the template. On the other hand, any one leader will be much less significant than any of the concepts in the rest of the template, and thus out of place on the template.

My suggestion is to make a big section header Trade unionists or something, which links to a proper list page, which can be properly organized and annotated to actually do justice to the people on the page. -Gomm 22:53, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Please consider adding "hide" option to box

~~Reading an article with this box fullblown can be very distracting. Thanks~~. Never mind, figured out how to add it to template with out screwing it up... Awotter 03:27, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Standardisation

This box has been a few times between "Organized labour" and "Organized labor". Personally I'd prefer "The trade union movement", or "Organised labour", but ok, comprising I guess "Organized labour" is ok as it is the name of the Wiki Project. - Francis Tyers · 16:29, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

This has been discussed ad nauseaum on the Organized Labour Project talk pages. Not every union is a trade union, and English vs. American spellings vary widely across Wikipedia. "Standardising" or "Standardizing" the template box goes against the multiple, lengthy discussions the Project has had on this. Per Wikipedia's guidelines, the spelling of a given word will go with whomever wrote the article originally, and whether the article addresses an issue in an English-spelling or American-spelling country. - Tim1965 (talk) 18:39, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Or in this case, Canadian :) - Francis Tyers · 06:35, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

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