Template talk:G7-Interior

Consider here that the functions of the US Interior Department do not match the usual meaning of the Interior portfolio in other countries. As such, Mr. Kempthorne should not be in this template but the Attorney General or the Secretary for Homeland Security.

But the Attorney General is already under the Justice Ministers template and Homeland Security isn't nearly as important as the Interior. The G8 templates generally show the top members of a country. President, Prime Minister, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Justice Minister, Finance Minister, Interior Minister and Defence Minister are generally the most powerful people in a countries executive branch (I consider the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister executive and not legislative). Therequiembellishere (talk) 22:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

US Homeland Security should be listed because US Interior is primarily responsible for land management while Interior in most other countries is responsible for policing, national security, and immigration matters, which is more analogous to US Homeland Security. OCNative (talk) 08:23, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There are plausible reasons for modifying the navbox templates at the bottom of the page at G8. An opportunity for discussion needs to be part of any process which precedes change. Three arguable improvements are:

A. Combining two of the current navboxes at the bottom of the page?

• template name coould be {{G8}}—Template:G8? At present, this is a redirect to Template:Db-g8, one of the Speedy deletion templates
• new template would be similar to {{APEC}}—Template:Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
• this would mean removing {{G8 nations}}—Template:G8 nations?
• this would mean removing {{G8 summits}}—Template:G8 summits?

B. Deleting the current leaders navbox?

This is a poor subject for a navbox because leaders change irregularly over time. The functional utility of this navbox is not greater or better than one which only shows member nations.

• this would mean removing {{Current G8 Leaders}}—Template:Current G8 Leaders?
• this would mean removing {{G8-Foreign}}—Template:G8-Foreign?
• this would mean removing {{G8-Finance}}—Template:G8-Finance?
• this would mean removing {{G8-Defense}}—Template:G8-Defense?
• this would mean removing {{G8-Justice}}—Template:G8-Justice?
• this would mean removing {{G8-Interior}}—Template:G8-Interior?

C.Standardize/harmonize to "G8" without hyphen? "G7" and "G6" without hyphens?

Only G-15 must have a hyphen, consistent with the group's official web site?

D. Perhaps decision-making may be helped by comparing an array of similar groups and templates?

What is the best next step for this article? for similar articles? --Tenmei (talk) 23:54, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]