Talk:Free Democratic Party
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 | On 28 February 2026, it was proposed that this article be moved from Free Democratic Party (Germany) to Free Democratic Party. The result of the discussion was moved. |
Vandalism
I have removed the following from the introductory section: "The party's motto is: Wer mehr weniger als 100.000 Euro verdient und FDP wählt, ist dumm, wer mehr verdient und FDP wählt, unmoralisch." Translated it means: "Whoever earns less than 100.000 Euros per year and votes for the FDP, is dumb, and whoever earns more and votes for the FDP is immoral". This quote implies that the FDP's opponents attack the FDP with their allegation that the FDP doesn't place any value on social justice, which is a factual error.
2013 election
I'm surprised there isn't more on this. going from 93 seats to none was a major event--both for the FDP and German politics as a whole. (29 May 2014)
Ideology
What about economic liberalism? that’s a pretty important ideological value for the FDP. 2A02:8071:5A91:2A00:3C5A:28FE:ECDD:1556 (talk) 00:14, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
- Providing it is properly cited with reliable sources I would agree with this being in the infobox. Helper201 (talk) 19:04, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
Historical ideologies
Added historical ideologies with sources. 78.54.61.231 (talk) 15:53, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
Centre-right
Maybe we can write near Center-right “libertarian” ?
To not confuse with the more conservative center-right of the CDU. דולב חולב (talk) 10:54, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- This is not standard practice for the "position" parameter, and would unnecessarily crowd the infobox. – GlowstoneUnknown (Talk) 14:52, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Requested move 28 February 2026
- The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) 1isall (talk | contribs) 03:17, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
- Free Democratic Party (Germany) → Free Democratic Party
- Free Democratic Party → Free Democratic Party (disambiguation)
– WP:PRIMARYTOPIC of "Free Democratic Party". Consistently gets more pageviews than any other party of the same name combined since 2015, and it's not even close. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 02:59, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support It's clearly the primary topic of the name. Other articles with the name refer to parties that either no longer exist, or which have no legislative representation in their respective countries. I will also note that for the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland, its German-language name differs, and what English-language name used to refer to it can be ambiguous. Gust Justice (talk) 16:17, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
- This probably makes sense given that sort of disparity of over 10 : 1 on average. Curious how there's so few clickstreams here that for example latest WikiNav doesn't render the top graph, there's just 9 in that month. I checked the archive and the only thing that's ever on the radar is the proposed primary topic, crossing the anonymization threshold 8 times in the last 12 months. (Support) --Joy (talk) 22:05, 5 March 2026 (UTC)