Talk:Political groups of the European Parliament

message: Okay, I never had the time to follow this discussion properly and as I've missed it I'm not holding up any major banners now its concluded, I just have a few comments. 
NI's have always been positioned on the far right, that would be my preference as that is now they are seated in Parliament and moving them to centre (when did that happen?) then creates the problem of us making a political decision on which centre parties are left of centre or right of centre. 
Second, now we have more groups with the same colour sitting next to each other of the same size, in this eventuality we ought to include some way of telling them apart - perhaps a letter code just the side of that slice of the chart or something? 
As for the depreciated gif image, I think I'd said I'd work on that ages ago in creating a whole new one but, like a lot of things, I never got around to it. I could give it a shot now unless someone else want to with better software. Whatever it is, it should be new and based on the new scheme with a space to put 09 in there. I also do not think it should include by-elections.- J Logan t: 14:37, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I said we should have gone with barcharts! <grin>. Hi, J, nice to see you back: you missed all the fun. I understand the urge to label the hemicycle, but it's not a good idea, for previously expressed reasons and the fact that it'd limit the use to en.wiki. As for who changed it, I guess it's User:Alankazame, for reasons best known to hirself. As for order of  the stripes...er, dunno. (ROYGBIV order? Left-right order? Largest-smallest?). As for the deprecated gif....I'm trying not to think about that (it was wrong when it was added, and now it's just hanging around like a bad smell). A conversation is going on on Commons, but Alankazame is Francophone and my French is...limited. You're fr-1, so care to join us? Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 18:36, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm Fr-1 because there isn't an Fr-0.5. Well, I probably could but it has been a while. And I understand your hemicycle point, which is why IW as just thinking a three letter code or something, not sure, certainly not a full name. Must be some way to sort it. But the order I think should be as they are in the parliament (theoretically that is, now in practice the NI and fascists get pushed to the far back rows (I think due to the dictatorial behaviour of EPP-PES who effectively control the procedures). But by following their order, we don't have to make political choices.- J Logan t: 22:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Oh, and how would bar chars have helped? On the gif, yes we know that's always been a problem. I'll try knocking something up later this week when I have a moment. Someone else can make it more fancy if they want. Any notes on it you want to make before I start, please do so here (and drop a note on my talk page just to make sure I don't forget to check back).- J Logan t: 22:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: My reply here. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 02:13, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The remaining undone images have been updated by User:Fvasconcellos at Wikipedia:Graphic_Lab/Image_workshop. All pages now in sync. Yay! Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 18:42, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
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message: I see that one year ago there has been a huge discussion about the categorization and the colours of EP groups, and I decidedly don't want to reopen it, and less as I usually only contribute to the German (and sometimes Spanish) Wikipedia. However, as the picture with the history of the groups is so useful that it is also used there in prominent position in several articles, I would like to bring up two points which I have the impression sometimes cause confusion among WP users:
* In the first place, I think the history of the Green/Regionalist/Rainbow group would be clearer if light green was used for the Rainbow (84-94) and dark green for the Greens (89-99) and the Greens/EFA group (since 99). By now, the same "Greens only" group is painted in light green between 89 and 94 and in dark green between 94 and 99, which is surely not the best solution.
* Second, I think the European Radical Alliance (94-99) should have a different colour from the Liberal group. I have seen that the categorization of the ERA group has been subject of discussion here and that it finally has been changed from green (Green/Regionalist) to yellow (Liberal/Centrist). However, the consequence of this is that now there are two identically yellow groups between 1994 and 1999, and it is not very clear which one of them is the continuation of LDR/ELDR and which one is ERA. As a solution, I would propose to use light green for ERA if light green is also used for the Rainbow, as ERA was partly a continuation of it. Moreover, light green is half-way between green and yellow, which would fit quite well with ERA's left-liberal position.
Both of these proposals only concern the colours of historical groups, so that none of the articles about current groups would be affected; the categorization in general would not be affected at all. I hope that it will be possible to have a consensus about these proposals, in spite of the extra work it means after all the changes realized after the discussion last year. Greetings,--El Duende (talk) 15:45, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
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message: A used edited Template:European Parliament groups. We can discuss about these changes here or there. --Checco (talk) 07:19, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
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message: I think that in the board of the "current composition of the 8th European Parliament" and exactly at political parties of Non-Inscrits, it must delete the dissolved european poltical party "European National Front" (ENF) and add the european poltical party "Alliance for Peace and Freedom" (APF), that it actually have replace it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.6.83.29 (talk) 08:59, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
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message: It would be interesting to calculate the effective number of parties over the decades. Kaihsu (talk) 10:22, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
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message: Why is there an external link for the 8values political quiz?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.204.174.89 (talk) 12:13, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
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