When to use[edit]

Place this template on articles where you have identified a serious issue of balance and the lack of a WP:Neutral point of view in regards to political parties, politicians, events or governments, and you wish to attract editors with different viewpoints to the article.

An unbalanced or non-neutral article is one that does not fairly represent the balance of perspectives of high-quality, reliable secondary sources. A balanced article presents mainstream views as being mainstream, and minority views as being minority views. The personal views of Wikipedia editors or the public are irrelevant.

When to remove[edit]

This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. You may remove this template whenever any one of the following is true:

There is consensus on the talkpage or the NPOV Noticeboard that the issue has been resolved.
It is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given.
In the absence of any discussion, or if the discussion has become dormant.

Usage[edit]

((Political POV|((subst:DATE))))

This template will categorize tagged articles in Category:Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes or a dated subcategory thereof.

See also[edit]

Wikipedia project pages[edit]

Templates[edit]

Disputed factual accuracy[edit]

Boxes:
- ((Disputed)) For disputing entire article
- ((Dispute about|what)) For disputing part of an article
- ((Disputed section)) For disputing a section in an article
- ((Disputed tag)) For disputing recent promotions or amendments of policies and guidelines
- ((Under discussion)) For use on project pages (e.g., policies and guidelines), not on articles

Inline:
- ((Dubious)), and ((Disputed inline)) Statement
- ((Under discussion inline)) Statements on project pages

Both accuracy and POV[edit]

Boxes:
- ((Controversial)) Talk page

Disputed neutrality (POV)[edit]

Boxes:
- ((POV)) Article, ((POV section)) Section, ((POV lead)) Lead section
- ((POV map)) Map
- ((Systemic bias)) Article

Inline:
- ((Lopsided)) Statement
- ((POV statement)) Statement

Wiki[edit]

v t e Citation and verifiability article maintenance templates
Sourcing	((Circular)) ((Dubious)) ((Excessive citations)) ((Further reading cleanup)) ((More citations needed)) ((More citations needed section)) ((More footnotes needed)) ((No footnotes)) ((No significant coverage)) ((One source)) ((One source section)) ((Only primary sources)) ((NRIS only)) ((Primary sources)) ((Primary sources section)) ((Religious text primary)) ((Self-published)) ((Self-reference cleanup)) ((Self-sourcing examples)) ((Refexample section)) ((Sources exist)) ((Text-source)) ((Third-party)) ((Unreferenced)) ((Unreferenced section)) ((Unreferenced category)) ((Unreliable sources)) ((Unreliable sources section)) ((User-generated))
BLP-specific	((BLP unreferenced)) ((BLP unreferenced section)) ((BLP primary sources)) ((BLP self-published)) ((BLP sources)) ((BLP sources section)) ((BLP IMDb-only refimprove)) ((BLP IMDb refimprove)) ((BLP no footnotes)) ((BLP more footnotes needed)) ((BLP one source))
Topic specific	((Localist)) ((Media IMDb refimprove)) ((More medical citations needed)) ((More science citations needed)) ((Neologism)) ((Science review)) ((Unreferenced law)) ((Unreferenced-law section)) ((Unreferenced medical section))
Dispute-related	((Cite check)) ((Cite check section)) ((Content)) ((Disputed)) ((Dispute about)) ((Disputed section)) ((Disputed chem)) ((Disputed list)) ((Disputed map)) ((Expert needed)) ((Hoax)) ((Original research)) ((Original research section)) ((Speculation)) ((Speculation section)) ((Synthesis)) ((Verifiability)) ((Verify sources))
Citation improvements	((Citation style)) ((Citations broken)) ((Cleanup bare URLs)) ((Format footnotes)) ((Full citations needed)) ((Ibid)) ((Page numbers improve)) ((Page numbers needed)) ((Shallow references))
General advice	Citing sources Reliable sources Maintenance template removal Citation needed Find sources Combining sources Referencing styles

Inline cleanup tags

Attribution

Clarity

Miscellaneous

Neutrality

Precision

((By how much)) ((Definition)) ((Definition needed)) ((Example needed)) ((Example needed span)) ((Explain)) ((How)) ((How often)) ((Misquoted)) ((Quantify)) ((Specify)) ((Vague)) ((When)) ((Where)) ((Which)) ((Who else)) ((Why)) ((Year needed))
Excessive	((Duplication span)) ((Importance inline)) ((Relevance inline)) ((Undue weight inline)) ((Globalize inline))

Time-sensitivity

Verifiability

Dubious	((Contradictory inline)) ((Disputed inline)) ((Dubious)) ((Dubious span)) ((Inconsistent)) ((Needs independent confirmation)) ((Speculation inline))
Bare URLs	((Bare URL inline)) ((Bare URL non-HTML)) ((Bare URL AV media)) ((Bare URL PDF)) ((Bare URL image)) ((Bare URL DOC)) ((Bare URL plain text)) ((Bare URL spreadsheet))
Incomplete or broken citation	((Author incomplete)) ((Author missing)) ((Date missing)) ((Dead link)) ((Edition needed)) ((Episode needed)) ((Full citation needed)) ((Incomplete short citation)) ((ISBN missing)) ((Moved resource)) ((Page needed)) ((Place missing)) ((Publisher missing)) ((Season needed)) ((Time needed)) ((Title incomplete)) ((Title missing)) ((Volume needed)) ((Year missing))
Missing or problematic reference	((Additional citation needed)) ((Better source needed)) ((Better source needed example)) ((Check quotation)) ((Chronology citation needed)) ((Citation needed)) ((Citation needed span)) ((Citation not found)) ((Close paraphrasing inline)) ((COI source)) ((Deprecated inline)) ((Excessive citations inline)) ((Failed verification)) ((Failed verification span)) ((Image reference needed)) ((Irrelevant citation)) ((Medical citation needed)) ((Medical citation needed span)) ((Nonspecific)) ((Not verified in body)) ((Obsolete source)) ((Page range too broad)) ((Primary source inline)) ((Promotional source)) ((Quote without source)) ((Request quotation)) ((Request quotation span)) ((Retracted)) ((Scientific citation needed)) ((Self-published inline)) ((Tertiary source inline)) ((Third-party inline)) ((Unreliable fringe source)) ((Unreliable medical source)) ((Unreliable source?)) ((Verify quote)) ((Verify source))

Wording

General advice

Toolbox

Templates

Welcome	((subst:Welcome)) ((subst:Welcomeh)) ((subst:Welcome-anon)) ((subst:W-graphical-anon)) ((subst:Welcome-anon-unconstructive)) ((subst:Welcome-anon-npov)) ((subst:welcome-t)) ((subst:thanks))
Vandalism	((subst:uw-vandalism1)) ((subst:uw-vandalism2)) ((subst:uw-vandalism3)) ((subst:uw-vandalism4)) ((subst:uw-vandalism4im))
Content removal	((subst:uw-delete1)) ((subst:uw-delete2)) ((subst:uw-delete3)) ((subst:uw-delete4)) ((subst:uw-delete4im))
Check	((subst:Copyvio\|url=source)) ((Db\|...)) ((Di-no license)) ((Di-no source))
Dispute	((Citation needed)) ((Controversial)) ((Disputed)) ((Fringe theories)) ((POV)) ((Unreferenced section)) ((Advert)) ((Multiple issues))
Delete	((subst:afd)) ((subst:cfd)) ((ffd)) ((mfd)) ((subst:rfd)) ((subst:tfd)) ((subst:proposed deletion))

Community

Protocols

Main

Stats

Statistics
- Site map

External

HTML to Wiki Converter for Tables

Wikipedia:Directories and indexes

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Political POV/doc.
Editors can experiment in this template's sandbox and testcases pages.
Add categories to the /doc subpage. Subpages of this template.