Template talk:Canadian party colour/Archive 1

message: :Note: This archive was originally at Template talk:Canadian politics/party colours.
I've created more templates for other parties using the existing colour scheme. Some thought could be given to chosing colours closer to those used by the parties, e.g., the National Party used green and white, the Cdn Alliance used green and blue, the Marxist-Leninists use a scarlet red, not gold. Kevintoronto 19:26, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd rather you didn't, for two reasons... one, its nice to distinguish between the UN and the Quebec Conservative party (which does use PC colours) which merged into it.  Second, I don't want to start shuffling things around so as to make allowances for hypothetical parties. Nobody to my knowledge has come anywhere remotely close to forecasting the arrival of a provincial wing of the CPC in Quebec.  -The Tom 05:29, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

message: Are there other "articleS" like this one for the UK and Australia? I cant find them. Keeperoftheseal 05:03, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other nations? 

message: Wow!!! Amazing work this is! Kudos! Earlier today, I foolishy thought French language templates for Canadian elections already existed. I was making a French language version of the Saint John (electoral district) and had spent a while studiously editing the electoral template boxes, saved, and voila... the French templates don't exist. It looks like none of them do: party colours, votes, percentage, etc. So, I think it's time they get done, even if I'm the only one to use them. The old-school computer I'm using at home is not unicode compliant, so, when making French templates, the accents I want to use don't work rendering the templates pretty useless. No problem, I can do that at work. My question is... if a French language version of this was created, would it be necessary to change the names of the colours from English ones to French ones? Any other advice, tips, suggestions... would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, merci and arigatou in advance.DDD DDD 09:17, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Much more work that I thought. You guys obviously worked hard on this. Ah, I ran into a problem today at work when I wanted to work on this... the filter at worked blocked this template. Taking a stab and saying it's because of the Sex party. Hmm. So, I was more lost than I expected to be. A question, I have. What's the difference between Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal and Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Liberal/row and why is this difference/distinction important or necessary? DDD DDD 14:21, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wow! and questions about a French language version 

message: What colour should we use for coalition governments?  Over at Timeline of Canadian elections we're using a shade of purple, but I'm thinking that we should switch to something that stands out from the party colours a bit more, maybe a shade of grey.  --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 17:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coalitions? 

message: At the moment, the ADQ uses the colour     , which is all but impossible to tell apart from the Progressive Conservatives (    ), and rather similar to the Union Nationale (    ). See List of Quebec general elections for these colours in use together. Given that 1) the ADQ's official colours are red and blue and 2) there are two active and one inactive Quebec parties that are already denoted by blue on WP, I propose using a shade of red for the ADQ. As a starting point, I suggest   cc2222   (which is distinct from the Liberal's     ). 
Any thoughts/comments? Tompw (talk) 00:15, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The ADQ was only switched in the last day or two to that colour (which is admittedly too close to the PCs), having been     lightsteelblue for months and months beforehand.  I've reverted, which solves that problem, no? The Tom 07:27, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I strongly agree with this action - the media outlets and the ADQ themselves used blue on election results map and it seems to be the standard and was here on Wiki for quite some time. - Jord 18:33, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Note that two days after The Tom's reversion, the same user who previously changed the colour to a PC-esque dark blue changed it back again. I've reverted again, and advised the user in question that he needs to discuss the matter here if he still wants a colour change. Bearcat 06:11, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ADQ colours 

message: It seems with the old Conservatives to Progressive Conservatives we have set a president for not changing party colours for a simple name change.  However, we do change colours between the Reform/Alliance change and the NDP/CCF change.  The NDP change may be because of the party's new deal with unions, but why does the CA deserve it's own colour?  --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 21:53, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reform/Alliance and NDP/CCF 

message: Why is the colour of the Family Coalition Party of Ontario moccasin? The logo of the party and the party's website are more puce, like the Christian Heritage Party of Canada. Morgan695 21:27, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family Coalition Party of Ontario 

message: I cannot get Patrons of Industry row to work. I can't figure out why!
Template:Canadian_politics/party_colours Ground Zero | t 22:15, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: please help!

message: Should the colours for the various Progressive Conservative Parties, that are not affliated with each other, still be the same as the colour for the former Progressive Conservative Party of Canada? I think the provincial PCs should use a different colour from 2003, which was when the federal party merged with the Canadian Alliance. I don't no if each province should have a different colour or not but they should be different from the former federal party.Jordo72 (talk) 19:57, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I am assuming you are talking about the NL PCs. Do they not use the same shade of blue? 117Avenue (talk) 21:59, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Progressive Conservative Colour 

message: Any ideas for colors for the PA?  They did contest three New Brunswick elections.  I think they deserve more that Independant colors. :) - Wmcduff (talk) 00:06, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No clue. 117Avenue (talk) 00:25, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Could use the yellow of the Acadian star, I suppose.  It would stand out.  Still, I'll try to hit the library in Bathurst and see what the papers of the time used. - Wmcduff (talk) 13:02, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

text: Seems like they used an off shade of red.  See http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/ObjView/MAUM/MAUM2004.b.jpg  #F42211.  Liberal light coral is #FF8080.  Not a lot of seperation...  The yellow of the Acadien star is gold (#FFD700). - Wmcduff (talk) 13:42, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Why do you say their primary colour was red? There is blue in that poster too. 117Avenue (talk) 22:20, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

text: Because the AP logo is red.  They're certainly going to use all four colors of the Acadien flag, mind. :) - Wmcduff (talk) 04:06, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Parti Acadien]] 

message: We are going to need to decide on colours for the Canadians' Choice Party, The Only Party, the People's Political Party of Ontario, the Socialist Party of Ontario, the Vegan Environmental Party, the Paramount Canadians Party, the Pauper Party of Ontario, the Northern Ontario Heritage Party, and the Party for Human Rights in Ontario in order to make riding tables for the forthcoming election. Any suggestions? Carolynparrishfan (talk) 18:44, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New parties for [[Ontario general election, 2011]] 

message: I was thinking that it might be a good idea to replace our current system of hundreds of sub-templates with one master template. I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians%27 notice board#Political party colours.  —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 00:13, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replacing this system 

message: I'm not comfortable enough with templates to feel like I should be editing them, but I noticed that Socialist Labour Party links to a disambiguation page and the link should be Socialist Labour Party (Canada). I don't want to change it and possibly cause problems, so I'd appreciate if someone who knows their way around the template could do the fix. Thank you. SchreiberBike (talk) 17:59, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I can tell, this template is only providing the colour for that party, not a link. Are you talking about the link on this page's table? I've fixed that, but if there is an article that getting the wrong link from a template, let me know. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 18:39, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You got it Arctic Gnome. Thanks. SchreiberBike (talk) 03:10, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Socialist Labour Party]] link to disambiguation page