Talk:Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica

message: it is wise to have such section with an entire gallery? it gives no context on what the colors means and if I'm not wrong galleries are suppose to be avoided. It could be better to make a separated article about the subject matter as in Spanish. --TV Guy (talk) 21:41, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, and no other article about parliaments have one. Yet the idea is not bad if it's use in its own article or list. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 02:02, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I have mixed feelings. It is a nice visual representation, so I believe there is a place for the "gallery." However, like TV Guy and Dereck Camacho suggest, it needs some context. I like the idea of a separate page for the Legislative Assembly's history, but until that page gets created, perhaps a collapsible gallery would be best. Mvblair (talk) 13:52, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately, it looks like that Spanish page is almost orphaned. Each legislative assembly has its own page in Spanish ([]) where those graphics make sense. That would be nice for English Wikipedia, but it's not a high-priority. So, I think that gallery belongs somewhere as a placeholder at least!! Mvblair (talk) 14:03, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: A collapsible gallery may work for now, good idea. On the other hand, I do think a separate article or list is better but, do we have any example from other country? to take some ideas. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 17:09, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

text: Oh, but it will be a good idea if the collapsible is done, to add some context to the colors, like explaining what party is represented by each color. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 17:17, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, Dereck. I think this article could benefit from a "history" subsection. I will start working on that later this week. Then we can add it to this article along with a collapsible box. I'll try to add an explanation of the colors and the parties if I can find that information on the Spanish pages. Mvblair (talk) 18:48, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I know the colors by heart, I'm to one who made the diagrams :) 
* ForestGreen = PLN
* Gold = PAC
* Yellow = FA
* Blue = PUSC
* Crimson or Firebrick = ML
* Darkblue = PUN
* Royalblue = PRN
* Several allies of PLN like PD, UCR and PI are in lightgreen
* PADA = Darkorange
* Democratic Force = Orange
* People's Vangard = Red
* PALA = brown
* PUAC = Orchid
* PNI = purple
* PRC = Navy
* PASE = SteelBlue or disability blue 
* PIN = lightblue. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 20:02, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

text: Thanks, it's actually quite entertaining to do those diagrams. I think we almost have it to make it visible, but I will suggest to have the history section on the bottom near Premises. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 18:21, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Entertaining to do those diagrams? Uh, I don't think so!! I made everything visible. I'll work next week on translating the Spanish history section since this English history narrative is not where it should be (at some point, it might be nice to have a separate page for the legislative history). Later in the year, I'll make pages for all the old parties. I'm kind of energized now that I see the work you've been doing on the English and Spanish pages!  Let's keep this going! Mvblair (talk) 23:53, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Great job. I also plan to translate some articles about old parties, but mostly from the 19th century era. Good luck! --Dereck Camacho (talk) 01:57, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Without taking credit from Mvblair's excellent labor, I still think it should have its own article, but it works for now. --TV Guy (talk) 11:44, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree! Mvblair (talk) 13:33, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evolution section 

message: Hi. In the infobox I saw that in the government are included PLN, PREN, one independent and one of the PRSC. Yet, in Costa Rica the system is presidential, so the government and opposition are not so defined. In each case, every of those parties sometimes vote with the officialism, sometimes don't, and in the elections they were not with the PAC. In fact, only FA and PUSC supported PAC in the second round, with PUSC divided, but both parties vote sometimes with the officialism and sometimes don't. For example, in the case of the Ley de fortalecimiento de las finanzas públicas, mostly known as Plan fiscal (an officialist law), FA and some PLN legislators voted against it while some PLN legislators and PUSC voted for it. PREN should be considered as opposition too, since it was the party that was against PAC in the second round. It too opposes to a lot of the politics of the officialism, like the Plan fiscal, homosexual marriage, only to mention some things. They should be considered opposition (PREN) or external support to the government (PLN, PUSC, one independent and one of the PRSC). The government of Costa Rica includes ministers of FA (INAMU), PUSC, PLN, but the politics of those parties are not pro-government. Thanks for your attention. Blessings,
--España de Cerca (talk) 22:42, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the idea is not so much in reference that they are government (as in the Executive Branch) but that they are government in the Legislative Directorate. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 00:27, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no official source that states accurately the fine line between government and opposition in Costa Rica, I think this is a misrepresentation of a concept that applies to other countries (particularly two party systems), but as  says, those parties have mingled, joined, and then distanced over many different laws. This distinction should be removed from the infobox, is mere perception/opinion/subjective bias. --Roqz (talk) 03:16, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Government 

message: As the previous attempt to achieve consensus was futile as it was done deceitfully and in bad faith by the blocked sockpuppet accounts of Dereck Camacho and Elector Factor (who seems to be the only user/account(s) that support the view regarding personal party affiliations) I went ahead with the changes to re-align the parliamentary fractions numbers with spanish Wikipedia.  thanks six-months-later for your support on this article and regarding official sources. --Roqz (talk) 01:14, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi there. Thanks to you for finally making this much-needed change, which was the fairest as per Wikipedia's guidelines. It seems very harmful to me that a person, in order to impose his opinion, uses false accounts, and it is not in fact the first time that this happens with this same user. So again, thank you. Kind regards, --Csavil (talk) 05:09, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-alignment with Spanish Wikipedia