Talk:Tea Party movement/Archive 2

Off to a good start

The article is off to a good start but I must quit for today. Have to go do mundane things like clean out cat litter boxes, clean house and pull weeds. The joys of domestic homekeeping! :-) Have fun everyone!Mary Ash 17:03, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Duplicate topic to existing article

There already is an article, Tea Party Movement, to which several Citizens have contributed. The material here should be added here; there's no point to a new article. I have carefully not looked at the contents of this article any more than to verify the subject, so this is not a criticism of content.

Also, there is tea party (disambiguation). Howard C. Berkowitz 17:49, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I did a general search for Tea Party at CZ and nothing showed up. I started writing. Mary Ash 18:14, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Dratted search engine. Hmmm...maybe we need Tea Party (disambiguation) as well as tea party (disambiguation) Howard C. Berkowitz 18:21, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

"The material here should be added here;" - we're missing a 't'.

Let's decide which one the article should live at and place a redirect at the other. My gut feeling is Tea Party Movement, with appropriate disambiguation, but I do not have strong feelings either way.

And I hope that was tongue-in-cheek Howard, only one disambiguation page, I'm begging you! :)

Aleta Curry 23:14, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Aleta, I was serious: let me explain. Mary might have found the existing article if the search tools weren't so case sensitive. This is something that could go to the tech forum, but I was thinking of a short term fix for the case-caused ambiguity. Mary, I suspect, hasn't been here long enough to fully appreciate the evil search engine and the way it can mislead.

Redirects are good.

Now, we may have to disambiguate at least some California Tea Parties, where they smoke it rather than drink it. (Cannabis, if that usage of "tea" isn't AuE).

Seriously, we can think carefully about some original synthesis with some issues here, such as the history of populist movements in the U.S. Speaking as a Politics Editor, the Tea Party Movement has a core of fiscal conservatism, but potentially conflicting libertarianism, paleoconservatism, and social conservatism. Also see restructuring of the U.S. political right. It may have been there that I put some material about the reality versus perception of several perceived "conservatives" (Reagan) and "liberals" (Clinton). Howard C. Berkowitz 00:17, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Oh, I agree, we just don't need several tea parties floating around, so to speak. I'd completely forgotten about that other type of tea party! You guys have fun with the political tea party, just come to an agreement about where it should live, and I'll be happy. Aleta Curry 00:24, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

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A technical remark: Usually it is not necessary to have redirects for lowercase/uppercase variations. While capitalizatinon makes a difference in links, the page is found by "Go to page" even if capitalization is wrong. Tea Party nation does not exist but going to it finds Tea Party Nation (even with our search engine). Thus it is better not to have the redirect: It shows when the link should be spelled differently.
By the way: Ist "Tea Party Movement" correct, or should it be "Tea Party movement"? --Peter Schmitt 12:12, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Since this has not the right format for an article I suggest to move it (and its talk page) to a Talk page archive of Tea Party Movement. This preserves the history and allows to easily copy material from it.