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There are currently 15 (!) years represented on the first two tables, including for every single country. That's about 3,000 data points. Theoretically, a table on wikipedia should be just as readable as regular prose.
The tables currently can't even be searched without planning ahead: go to the top for what year you want to read and then go to the bottom to scroll to the right as much as you need, and then scroll up to find the country you want... after remembering to sort correctly so you can find it...
Perhaps just a few (two or three) landmark years could be kept. Or maybe the historical tables could go altogether, as the "Components" section does everything much more elegantly. Wizmut ( talk) 13:03, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
The map shows Kosovo as a hybrid regime (yellow), yet the Economist Intelligence Unit does not rank Kosovo at all. Peetel ( talk) 08:36, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
I've always learnt that Mexico is North America, but in this article it's listed as Latin America. 62.45.42.33 ( talk) 15:11, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
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In the last table of the page: "Components Year 2023", column "Changes in score" in the line for the country "Chile" the quantity seems right (0.24) but the arrow UP seems wrong, because according to the previous table Chile's score went DOWN from 8.22 (in 2022) to 7.98 (in 2023) 2804:14C:60:9811:B68D:B8B5:4F72:C88F ( talk) 17:12, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Either I'm horribly misreading the legend, or the legend is reversed for the map. The western countries are colored blue which, according to the map legend, classifies them as hybrid/authoritarian regimes. However, the data in the tables in the article show that their scores put them into the flawed/full democracy margin. Those tables are also correctly color-coded to the legend, as in North America's table entries are yellow which corresponds to the map legend's classification of yellow.
I think the legend corresponds to the color-coding of the tables in the article (or vice versa), but the map's colors are reversed. Either the legend + table colors should be changed to reflect the map, or the map changed to reflect the legend. 2001:48F8:7052:EBB:C882:123B:66DE:393 ( talk) 22:16, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
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On 18 May 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Democracy Index to EIU Democracy Index. The result of the discussion was moved. |
There are currently 15 (!) years represented on the first two tables, including for every single country. That's about 3,000 data points. Theoretically, a table on wikipedia should be just as readable as regular prose.
The tables currently can't even be searched without planning ahead: go to the top for what year you want to read and then go to the bottom to scroll to the right as much as you need, and then scroll up to find the country you want... after remembering to sort correctly so you can find it...
Perhaps just a few (two or three) landmark years could be kept. Or maybe the historical tables could go altogether, as the "Components" section does everything much more elegantly. Wizmut ( talk) 13:03, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
The map shows Kosovo as a hybrid regime (yellow), yet the Economist Intelligence Unit does not rank Kosovo at all. Peetel ( talk) 08:36, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
I've always learnt that Mexico is North America, but in this article it's listed as Latin America. 62.45.42.33 ( talk) 15:11, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
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edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
In the last table of the page: "Components Year 2023", column "Changes in score" in the line for the country "Chile" the quantity seems right (0.24) but the arrow UP seems wrong, because according to the previous table Chile's score went DOWN from 8.22 (in 2022) to 7.98 (in 2023) 2804:14C:60:9811:B68D:B8B5:4F72:C88F ( talk) 17:12, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
Either I'm horribly misreading the legend, or the legend is reversed for the map. The western countries are colored blue which, according to the map legend, classifies them as hybrid/authoritarian regimes. However, the data in the tables in the article show that their scores put them into the flawed/full democracy margin. Those tables are also correctly color-coded to the legend, as in North America's table entries are yellow which corresponds to the map legend's classification of yellow.
I think the legend corresponds to the color-coding of the tables in the article (or vice versa), but the map's colors are reversed. Either the legend + table colors should be changed to reflect the map, or the map changed to reflect the legend. 2001:48F8:7052:EBB:C882:123B:66DE:393 ( talk) 22:16, 14 May 2024 (UTC)