Will we need to create a separate politician type for each country? Currently we've got them for the USA, UK, Canada ... will we create them for France, Germany, Russia, ... ? I guess that's useful because you can group all the UK politicians easily, but couldn't this be done as a search on "Politician" and "Nationality: UK"? Otherwise we could end up with hundreds of politician types, but maybe that's not a problem ...
Types of Politicians for all countries?
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Yes, that's the idea, because different systems of government have different properties associated with the position.
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Fair enough. In that case, would it be worth creating some sort of template for a politician type?
Also I see that "UK MP" includes "UK Politician" as a type - is this pattern worth following in general? -
Sorry tp be slow responding. I think the UK Politician pattern is worth following since it creates a useful pattern for completion, since the same pool of people tend to hold multiple offices.
It rare for a politician from one country to hold an office in another, so I don't think the general polician template is so useful, and I think people would tend to overuse it.
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No problem - I notice that lots have things have changed today ...
I've started on a few types for Australian politics in my domain, so I'll keep adding to those following the types for UK and/or US politics as appropriate. -
Just let me know when you think that Australian politics is ready share,
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It should be ready now - I wanted to add a few more politicians, but I can always do that later.
I tried something a bit different - the "Australian MP" type links to an "Australian House of Parliament" type (via a compound type). So you can tell whether an MP is federal or state by which house of parliament they belong to. Not sure yet if this is the best way to do it ...
So the types in question are "Australian Political Party", "Australian Politician", "Australian MP", "Australian House of Parliament" and "Australian Parliament Membership", which are all linked together.
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