Talk:Political movement

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 September 2020 and 11 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Coffee1799, Mberk11. Peer reviewers: Lshane23, Crazy326459, Cw1120.

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September 2005

In mid-August, 2005, User:Fenice nominated this article to be a Wikipedia:Collaboration of the Week. Presumably, the nomination failed, although I could not find any record in the archive of failed nominations.

In early September, 2005, I came across this article on Wikipedia:Most wanted stubs and began making edits to expand it. I welcome collaboration! Mamawrites 11:59, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

April 2020

Hello, I will be making some changes and additions to this article for a university assignment that I am doing. All in all, I want to expand the article and create more sections. I want to include a section on the different forms of political movements and try to explain what distinguishes political movements from other types of movements. Then, I would also like to delve deeper into the relation of political movements to social movements and ideologies. Here, I would categorize political movements as a type of social movement. Besides that, I want to touch on how movements within political parties are handled. This means I would also create a section on political parties and their relation to political movements. Please let me know if you have any critique or further suggestions. --BlueSofa (talk) 14:48, 9 April 2020 (UTC) @BlueSofa: I've left a welcome message on your talk page, please read the links, etc. first. If your tutor isn't in touch with our education people they should be. Please post the reliable sources that say that political movements are a type of social movement and search for any that disagree (see WP:NPOV. I'd like to see something here also about the section on political parties. All the best. Doug Weller talk 15:34, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

@Doug Weller: Thank you for your advice! In the coming weeks I will be working on my outline and will write further comments here on any other ideas and proposals that I have. Of course, I will also support all the information with reliable sources. I was not aware that this already had to be done in the talk page, but will make sure to be more careful in the future. --BlueSofa (talk) 20:12, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

@BlueSofa: it doesn't, but for a new editor it's not a bad idea. You don't need anyone's approval. Doug Weller talk 05:34, 10 April 2020 (UTC)

Feedback on purposed improvements

I think the introduction section needs to be cleaned up, social movements can be mentioned but in a way that links political movements to a subcategory of the social movement umbrella term, which you are saying it does. I am interested in the other types of movements you mentioned, because I can think of any. I would also remove the part which describes political parties, from the introduction section as this distracts from the main topic of the article. Instead I would include any discussion about political parties in your suggested section on political movements versus other forms of movements if you want to call a political party that. Tracing the history of political movements and parties is a good idea and could be included in the section above or perhaps deserves its own section, I can think of how the labour movement transformed into the labour party and how the green movement has done this as well but less successfully. I would advise to think thoroughly about how you are going to separate political movement from social movements, and how political movements exist uniquely in comparison to other movements which already exist, as these are issues I have diffucly making sense of based on your plan. WikiNicholasUvA (talk) 11:09, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your extensive feedback! The introduction will definitely be adjusted once I publish the new sections, since right now it serves as the main explanation of political movements rather than a summary of the article. The new sections will encompass a definition section, where the term “political movement” is explained and linked to other types of movements, and a section on how political movements are related to political parties. --BlueSofa (talk) 19:06, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Hey! Your plans already look very well. (If you have the time) you could maybe also look into some theories on political movements, which I currently don't notice in the article. Examples are political opportunity structure (POS) or resource mobilization approaches (RMA). You could use articles by Kriesi or Koopmans. But of course only do what feels manageable. Good luck! :) Marciojoseph (talk) 14:58, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice! Including those two theories on political movements is actually a good idea and I will try to include a brief section on them. --BlueSofa (talk) 20:17, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

I really like the plans and the improvements made to the article! A small thing I would possibly change is the 'Political movement theories' section. Although the subject-matter of this section is factual and important, the section can be even more relevant to the overall article. In my opinion this can easily be achieved by emphasizing (in the title and in the introductory sentences) that these theories are theories on the 'origin/emergence' of political movements. Anyway, great job! PokingNicolas (talk) 15:14, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

That's a good idea, thanks! --BlueSofa (talk) 15:54, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Oct 2020

A few comments about this source:

I am not sure if a political movement is solely for political reasons as this article states. I think as we have seen in real events, some say that some movements stem from political ideologies but also, argue for something much more than that. Movements argue for human rights, actually.. basic human rights matter of fact. I think a lot of the edits I will be making are going to be to make the article a little bit more advanced for the society we live in today. I think as of right now, there is so much more to movements rather than just politics.

I think my two-three areas for revision are as follows:

- Making this article seem a little less biased and fixated on the idea of "political movements are JUST for political goals." - Second, I'd like to elaborate a little bit more on the theories. - Add images from Creative Commons. I think the first image that we see on the page is very uninviting and makes me wonder the validity of the article.

Source I'd like to use:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2084866?seq=1

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.an.02.100173.000431?journalCode=anthro

I think the sources above will help me broaden the definition of a political movement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coffee1799 (talk • contribs) 01:15, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

@Coffee1799: I've started. I've used the first academic source, take a look at my changes. I think both sources are too old. Doug Weller talk 15:54, 13 October 2020 (UTC)

A few comments about the article

A few revisions that could be made are adding some more information about the political movement theories and where they came from, both the theory sections and the sections highlighting teh two theories mentioned could be updated. I would also want to categorize the examples section into smaller sections to make it more organized, either by type of by year could be helpful.

Some sources that can help me do this are:

https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781954706.00018

https://doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2011.592080

Between these two sources, I can use them to gain more information on the history and theories of political movements, through teh first source which analyzes political movements and their causes. Through the second source, I can learn of new and updated theories with the incorporation of technology to analyze and learn about political movements in the modern age.

Mberk11 (talk) 03:28, 15 October 2020 (UTC)mberk11