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So, are we using red, orange or a light shade of blue?-- Aréat ( talk) 22:25, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
I'm asking this on behalf of the user who asking me in my talkpage regarding the colour that was used by the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition in the recent election. While it is acknowledged that the red colour (#C63B38 colour pattern) has been part of the colour symbol of PH coalition, the coalition was recently legalised when they won the 9 May election with the colour began to be used officially. During the election, each parties in the coalition contesting using the flag of People's Justice Party (PKR) with blue colour (#00ADEF colour pattern) for West Malaysia, while in East Malaysia each parties are free to use their respective flags with their own party colours. Both BrundtBank and Lazybugger13A agreed that the main colour that should be used for the entire election articles for consistency are the red one while *angys* disagreed with the decision as during the election, the coalition was not legalised yet with the parties in West Malaysia contesting under the PKR banner with the blue colour pattern. Due to this endless dispute, I'm inviting other editors especially those who spend their entire time here editing political related articles to find a final consensus on this issue. Regards. Molecule Extraction ( talk) 03:56, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
So, this is what I get: Election boxes should use what they are using at that time (if they use PH red logo at that time.) No one is replacing any logo, but this conforms to using historical logos and this isn't anything that violates consistency.
At the same time, however, in the parliament, red shall be used as it is common sense. No one is attempting to change the coalition colour templates in the newer or future election article results tables. What in here actually means the following: The article results tables shall use what is printed on the ballot paper: if they are using Star Wars logo (though not possible for them), then just do it. Use black / yellow to represent even they changed the logo afterwards. We need to know that the MCA chooses not to use BN logo for the ballot paper in the next by-election. Same, if the DAP did not use the PH logo for the ballot paper, then use the DAP red instead of the PH red. It is simple as that. For the past elections, we need to know what logos / flags are printed on the ballot paper at that time to achieve the highest consistency in between articles.--
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So, are we using red, orange or a light shade of blue?-- Aréat ( talk) 22:25, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
I'm asking this on behalf of the user who asking me in my talkpage regarding the colour that was used by the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition in the recent election. While it is acknowledged that the red colour (#C63B38 colour pattern) has been part of the colour symbol of PH coalition, the coalition was recently legalised when they won the 9 May election with the colour began to be used officially. During the election, each parties in the coalition contesting using the flag of People's Justice Party (PKR) with blue colour (#00ADEF colour pattern) for West Malaysia, while in East Malaysia each parties are free to use their respective flags with their own party colours. Both BrundtBank and Lazybugger13A agreed that the main colour that should be used for the entire election articles for consistency are the red one while *angys* disagreed with the decision as during the election, the coalition was not legalised yet with the parties in West Malaysia contesting under the PKR banner with the blue colour pattern. Due to this endless dispute, I'm inviting other editors especially those who spend their entire time here editing political related articles to find a final consensus on this issue. Regards. Molecule Extraction ( talk) 03:56, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
So, this is what I get: Election boxes should use what they are using at that time (if they use PH red logo at that time.) No one is replacing any logo, but this conforms to using historical logos and this isn't anything that violates consistency.
At the same time, however, in the parliament, red shall be used as it is common sense. No one is attempting to change the coalition colour templates in the newer or future election article results tables. What in here actually means the following: The article results tables shall use what is printed on the ballot paper: if they are using Star Wars logo (though not possible for them), then just do it. Use black / yellow to represent even they changed the logo afterwards. We need to know that the MCA chooses not to use BN logo for the ballot paper in the next by-election. Same, if the DAP did not use the PH logo for the ballot paper, then use the DAP red instead of the PH red. It is simple as that. For the past elections, we need to know what logos / flags are printed on the ballot paper at that time to achieve the highest consistency in between articles.--
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