Template talk:United States political party shading key

message: How about the Libertarian part? I've had this issue in the California State Assembly/Historical page. Cmdrbond 01:37, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Libertarian? 

message: Can someone add an entry to the party shading key for the Opposition Party (United States) and the matching party shading template?.  There seems to be about 100 members in the 34th United States Congress.  Thanks.  --G1076 03:49, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opposition Party 

message: Both the Socialist Party of America and the American Labor Party have sent Representatives to the U.S. Congress in the 20th Century.
* Socialist Party: Victor L. Berger and Meyer London
* American Labor Party: Vito Marcantonio and Leo Isacson
According to the :Category:Party colours templates (United States)
The Socialist color is |- |bgcolor=#999999|. 
Sample:
Socialist Party of America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:American_politics/party_colours/Socialist
This is the same as the Independent color |- |bgcolor=#999999|.
Sample:
Independent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:American_politics/party_colours/Independent
This is misleading. The politics of the SPA are very different from that of an Independent like Bernie Sanders, Virgil Goode or Jim Jeffords.  I'm proposing the red color
Socialist Party of America
I believe this will satisfy the requirements of Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Color_coding
The American Labor Party does not yet have a color on this page. Since it is a party that included many former Socialists, the color should be the lighter shade of red, Salmon: American Labor Party
DJ Silverfish 02:36, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Socialist Party and American Labor Party colors needed 

message: Why is this just for Congress?  If we're calling it the Party shading key (rather than the U.S. Congress Party shading key), why aren't we including (at minimum) the U.S. party colors listed in :Category:Party colours templates (United States)?  --Tim4christ17 talk 09:53, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why just congress? 

message: Who came up with these colors? Why is there a self-reference at the bottom of this template? Shii (tock) formerly Ashibaka 02:52, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is this?

message: The Crawfords in my opinion should be green like the Democratic-Republican color because the Crawfords are more similar to the orginal Democratic-Republicans than the Adams and Jacksonians. I could add the Crawford Republican (C-DR) to the Party shading key template in the Democratic-Republican column if there is no objection.Farkas2029 03:08, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What color is or should be the Crawford Democratic-Republicans? 

message: On the greyscale some of these colors are very similar, most notably the Democrat and Republican shades. Example Perhaps a slightly darker shade of Democrat blue or lighter shade of Republican red? --maclean 07:00, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: 
Existing  	Proposal 1	Proposal 2	Proposal 3
Republican	Republican	Republican	Republican
Democratic	Democratic	Democratic	Democratic
The Republican color is left the same as FFE8E8 because adding more pink or peach would have no effect on the grayscale. Instead the Democrat color can be made darker (the above are progressively darker). As you can see in the articles (using the tool above) there is a little better contrast. The Proposal 2 and 3 would make better constrasts. --maclean 04:20, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Color blindness

message: The Republican, Unionist, Jacksonian, and Know-nothing shades are all very similar and sometimes difficult to tell apart.  The Democrat-Republican and Populist colors also have the same problem since they are nearly the exact same shade of green.  In addition, the Non-Partisan League appears to not even have a color because the chosen one is so light.  I made changes to several of these templates yesterday and many of them were changed back.  I know some of you may have spent a lot of time determining what colors are "best" but I really think new colors are in order.Padfoot714 06:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This discussion has been moved to :Template:United States political party shading for a broader audience.Dcmacnut 14:51, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Color Similarities

message: I added a shading template for the Constitution Party
(which was on the ballot in a majority of states, 
with results reported in several Wikipedia pages, some with shading).
The URL is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Party_shading/Constitution
BAM ("tripodics") (talk) 20:38, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Constitution Party shading template 

message: Before adding another party to the mix, I thought I'd add a discussion point here.  It appears many of the southern states just prior to the Civil War elected States Rights representatives to Congress.  The Biographical Directory lists them as a separate party from the Democrats. The Unionists are referenced as a unique party, so I'm guessing we should reference the States Rights Party as such as well? It should also be distingushed from the States Rights/Dixiecrat Party.  Ideas?.....Pvmoutside (talk) 12:11, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: States Rights Party

message: Does anyone have any objections to eliminating the Pro-Administration Color, and instead using the Federalist color? It matches more with the views of the so-call Pro-Administration Party, and the color is much easier to read over links. Or would it cause too much confusion down the road. I only ask this, because 3rd Congress uses both Pro-Administration shading and Federalist shading the same party. Another option would be come up with a more subdued color than currently being used.DCmacnut<> 02:03, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to Merge Pro-Administration with Federalist? 

message: The Conservative Party of Virginia should be on here. They won six House seats, which easily makes them as worthy for a spot on the template as the Prohibition party or Socialist Party. -LtNOWIS (talk) 08:00, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conservative Party of Virginia