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{{Active politician}}
is intended for use on article talk pages only, and adds pages——to Category:Active politicians.
This template has been mostly deprecated in favour of {{WikiProject Biography}}
. Since active politicians are by, definition living, please use {{WikiProject Biography|living=yes|activepol=yes}}
on the article's talk page.
If {{WikiProject Biography}}
is nested within {{WikiProject banner shell}}
, please use {{WikiProject banner shell|activepol=yes}}
——to display this template outside of the "banner shell."
In extremely rare cases where {{WikiProject Biography}}
and {{WikiProject banner shell}}
are not used and "might not be relevant," {{Active politician}}
may be placed on a talk page directly.
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