Add a new subrule to the rule called “Stances”, entitled The Spectrum:

Each Stance and each Newspaper has a relative political position, which is referred to as its Wingedness. A Stance or Newspaper’s Wingedness can be Right Wing, Left Wing or Centrist; a Newspaper can also potentially be Hard Right or Hard Left. Right Wing (or Hard Right) and Left Wing (or Hard Left) are considered to be opposite to each other.

The Wingedness of a Newspaper is established as follows:

• If the Newspaper has two Stances that are Right Wing then the Newspaper is Hard Right.
• If the Newspaper has only one Stance, or two Stances of which one has an undefined Wingedness, and that Stance is Right Wing, then that Newspaper is Right Wing.
• If the Newspaper has one Stance that is Right Wing and one stance that is Centrist then that Newspaper is Centre-Right.
• If the Newspaper has one Stance that is Right Wing and one stance that is Left Wing, OR two stances that are Centrist, OR has only one Stance and that Stance is Centrist, then the Newspaper is Centrist.
• If the Newspaper has one Stance that is Left Wing and one stance that is Centrist then that Newspaper is Centre-Left.
• If the Newspaper has only one Stance, or two Stances of which one has an undefined Wingedness, and that Stance is Left Wing, then that Newspaper is Left Wing.
• If the Newspaper has two Stances that are Left Wing then the Newspaper is Hard Left.

The Wingedness of each Stance is initially undefined; however, whenever an Editor can prove the Wingedness of a Stance held by their own Newspaper under the terms of this rule then they may update this Rule to note that fact. Once the Wingedness of a Stance has been noted in this rule it cannot be changed. A Stance’s Wingedness can be defined only if such a definition can both be proved as a result of one of the following criteria and cannot be disproved by any of them:

• If the Pro- or Anti- position of a Stance has a defined Wingedness that is either Right Wing or Left Wing then the opposing position of that Stance must be either Centrist or the opposite Wingedness.
• If three Newspapers have an undefined Stance, and each of those Newspapers has another Stance that shares the same Wingedness, AND no Newspaper has the same undefined Stance in conjunction with a Stance of the opposite Wingedness, then the undefined Stance may be defined as possessing that Wingedness.
• A Stance may not have any Wingedness if it can be proved to have two or more Wingednesses under the terms of the other items in this list.

The current Wingedness of each stance is detailed below: