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By replacing the border-bottom: 6px solid #{{{color1}}}
lines of code for colour handling with border-bottom: 6px solid #{{#sub:{{{color1}}}|-6}}
, the template can now be used with the {{party color}} template, by allowing values starting with #.
Kingdom of Baustralia ( talk) 01:24, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
|party1=
is used, it will automatically get the value of {{
Party color}}. Along with this, why only change |color1=
when there is also a |color2=
and |color3=
? Please provide some examples of when this would be useful as well as make your requested changes to the templates's sandbox first; see
WP:TESTCASES.
Terasail
[✉️]
07:01, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
{{party color|Austrian People's Party (2017)}}
rather than it being hardcoded as a colour. Cheers,
Number
5
7
19:30, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
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Please add "leaders_seat" as a parameter for parliamentary elections. This is necessary for elections in many countries (e.g Australia). I do recall it formerly existing, but it for some reason disappeared. Can someone please add it back as soon as possible? It should go under the "party" parameter and the label should say "Leader's seat". Thanks! Thiscouldbeauser ( talk) 07:07, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Okay, I've worked out that @ Number 57: removed it. Can you please add it back? I think it's necessary for certain countries to include this, especially because due to this articles such as 2023 New South Wales state election and 2024 Queensland state election now have to include it as a blank label, thus putting it at the bottom of the infobox (which looks odd). Thiscouldbeauser ( talk) 07:10, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Another reason I ask for this is because "home_state" is a parameter and is used for American elections. Thiscouldbeauser ( talk) 07:11, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
I've noticed that the 'leaders_seats' and 'leader_since' are no longer part of the infobox, leaving a lot of these infobox entries orphaned across quite a lot election pages; is the template broken? BitterGiant ( talk) 16:00, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
The parameter called "Swing" actually describes vote change. The two may be interchangeable in some territories but they are definitely not in others. See, for example, Swing (United Kingdom). I suggest the label be changed to the more literally descriptive "Vote change" to avoid ambiguity. Utilisateur19911 ( talk) 07:46, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
This template is now showing a weird image "File:3x4.svg" when only one candidate is listed in the infobox (such as in unopposed elections). Anyone know why this is? Kiwichris ( talk) 03:17, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
An RFC about the infobox of the two general elections in Italy, is being held. You are all invited to participate. -- Scia Della Cometa ( talk) 08:38, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
A Request for comments is being held, which concerns the inclusion of the lists about outgoing and elected MPs in the {{ Infobox legislative election}}. Your input would be appreciated. -- Scia Della Cometa ( talk) 13:28, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
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"This infobox describes a presidential, primary, legislative or parliamentary elections." Change "elections" to "election" Needforspeed888 ( talk) 20:54, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
Add a wikilink for the word "Swing" to Swing (politics). -- MtPenguinMonster ( talk) 14:36, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
In cases where it is used for an individual council election, should we use the overall party leader or the leader of that councils party group TheHaloVeteran2 ( talk) 16:48, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
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Please add new parameters like Party/Alliance. Happyjit Singh ( talk) 06:19, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Not done Alliances are between parties. There are seats where alliance members have friendly fight. All the rules and guidelines laid for election articles ask us to use parties only. For example -
MOS:INDELECT states Only those parties that are covered by Reliable Media as a major contender for winning that election are listed in the infobox.
It says parties not alliances. If any admin or senior editor disagrees, then I shall be happy to be corrected.
ShaanSengupta
Talk
09:28, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
I occasionally see infoboxes being changed from nominee to candidate and vice versa, and there seems no hard-and-fast rules about which term is appropriate. Are they just different terms for the same thing, or is there actually a difference? If the latter, can we create a clear definition of when to use each? Number 5 7 22:26, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
I have noticed that when viewing the election infobox on mobile, candidate image sizes are always of unequal size (which seems like a bug to me). It seems like whichever candiate is represented by a blue colour gets a larger image Can anyone replicate it?
screenshot of the infobox from this page - https://i.ibb.co/8cnWhTc/IMG-0622.png - and another from the infobox from 2024 London mayoral election (where I noticed the issue) - https://i.ibb.co/hHbb86h/IMG-0623.png Oliverwinton ( talk) 14:03, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
I would like to propose we change the final section of the infobox so that instead of the defaults being "[Title] before election" and "Elected [title]", the default is "[Title] before election" and "[Title] after election".
The default of "Elected [title]" for the post-election situation doesn't work for most parliamentary elections as the Prime Minister or whatever other postholder is mentioned is not generally elected to that position. This results in a huge number of infoboxes having to correct it by using the "posttitle" parameter. Defaulting to "[Title] before election" and "[Title] after election" would be neutral and correct, and avoid having to add a correcting parameter to many articles (or edits like this where the entire section gets removed because the wording is wrong). Cheers, Number 5 7 20:24, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
With very few exceptions, there is no sitting MP immediately before a by-election: that is why an election is needed. Even at a general election, the parliament is dissolved, therefpre MPs cease to be such. It is not reasonable to state, before an election, that the MP before an election is a person who died some weeks previously. Suggest rename this field to Previous MP. As an aside, wikilinking MP twice on the same row, in a context where it can be reasonably assumed that the reader knows what that is, seems something of overkill. Kevin McE ( talk) 13:43, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi all, there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Short description#Proposal to add automatic SDs to Template:Infobox election. As it would involve a potential change to this template, editors are invited to participate in the discussion. Thank you for helping improve WP:Short descriptions on Wikipedia! - - mathmitch7 ( talk/ contribs) 17:46, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Cheers! BD2412 T 16:31, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
I would like to propose that we add support to the template for alternative labels for the party field. Especially in elections to non-governmental bodies, it is common for there to be party-like entities that aren't referred to with the word "party".
For example, in elections to the General Synod of the Church of Sweden (see, e.g., 2021), they use the term "nominating group" because, while some of the nominating groups are political parties (the same parties as in Swedish parliamentary elections), other nominating groups are not. [a] Or, for another example, in many trade unions, candidates run as part of a "slate" (see, e.g., 2021 Teamsters election). Although slates are distinct from parties in that they don't typically exist over more than one electoral cycle, they serve the same function in the context of that election.
It is, of course, already possible to get a custom label using auxiliary rows (1blank
, 1data1
); however, this would put the name of the party-like entity at the bottom of all of the statistical data despite it being the first thing our readers are looking for in most cases. And this would be especially impractical in an article like
2021 Swedish Church Assembly elections as there are no leaders listed.
I have added the necessary code to the sandbox. An example of what this would look like can be seen at Template:Infobox election/testcases § Alternative party label. Graham ( talk) 05:00, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
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|party_label=
and tweaked the code just a bit. I think it is all working now. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
22:02, 21 May 2024 (UTC)Notes
E.g., the Swedish Social Democratic Party (the largest party in the church's general synod and the largest opposition party in the country's parliament), the Centre Party, and the Sweden Democrats are all nominating groups that are parties; the Left in the Church of Sweden, Christian Democrats for a Living Church, and Fria liberaler i Svenska kyrkan are nominating groups that are closely tied to political parties but are fully autonomous from them; and Non-partisans in Church of Sweden, Open Church, and Kyrklig samverkan i Visby stift are nominating groups that, although they each have a distinct ideological bent, have no connection to a party.
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This
edit request to
Template:Infobox election/row has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
By replacing the border-bottom: 6px solid #{{{color1}}}
lines of code for colour handling with border-bottom: 6px solid #{{#sub:{{{color1}}}|-6}}
, the template can now be used with the {{party color}} template, by allowing values starting with #.
Kingdom of Baustralia ( talk) 01:24, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
|party1=
is used, it will automatically get the value of {{
Party color}}. Along with this, why only change |color1=
when there is also a |color2=
and |color3=
? Please provide some examples of when this would be useful as well as make your requested changes to the templates's sandbox first; see
WP:TESTCASES.
Terasail
[✉️]
07:01, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
{{party color|Austrian People's Party (2017)}}
rather than it being hardcoded as a colour. Cheers,
Number
5
7
19:30, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Template:Infobox election has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Please add "leaders_seat" as a parameter for parliamentary elections. This is necessary for elections in many countries (e.g Australia). I do recall it formerly existing, but it for some reason disappeared. Can someone please add it back as soon as possible? It should go under the "party" parameter and the label should say "Leader's seat". Thanks! Thiscouldbeauser ( talk) 07:07, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Okay, I've worked out that @ Number 57: removed it. Can you please add it back? I think it's necessary for certain countries to include this, especially because due to this articles such as 2023 New South Wales state election and 2024 Queensland state election now have to include it as a blank label, thus putting it at the bottom of the infobox (which looks odd). Thiscouldbeauser ( talk) 07:10, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Another reason I ask for this is because "home_state" is a parameter and is used for American elections. Thiscouldbeauser ( talk) 07:11, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
I've noticed that the 'leaders_seats' and 'leader_since' are no longer part of the infobox, leaving a lot of these infobox entries orphaned across quite a lot election pages; is the template broken? BitterGiant ( talk) 16:00, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
The parameter called "Swing" actually describes vote change. The two may be interchangeable in some territories but they are definitely not in others. See, for example, Swing (United Kingdom). I suggest the label be changed to the more literally descriptive "Vote change" to avoid ambiguity. Utilisateur19911 ( talk) 07:46, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
This template is now showing a weird image "File:3x4.svg" when only one candidate is listed in the infobox (such as in unopposed elections). Anyone know why this is? Kiwichris ( talk) 03:17, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
An RFC about the infobox of the two general elections in Italy, is being held. You are all invited to participate. -- Scia Della Cometa ( talk) 08:38, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
A Request for comments is being held, which concerns the inclusion of the lists about outgoing and elected MPs in the {{ Infobox legislative election}}. Your input would be appreciated. -- Scia Della Cometa ( talk) 13:28, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Template:Infobox election has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
"This infobox describes a presidential, primary, legislative or parliamentary elections." Change "elections" to "election" Needforspeed888 ( talk) 20:54, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
Add a wikilink for the word "Swing" to Swing (politics). -- MtPenguinMonster ( talk) 14:36, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
In cases where it is used for an individual council election, should we use the overall party leader or the leader of that councils party group TheHaloVeteran2 ( talk) 16:48, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Template:Infobox election has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Please add new parameters like Party/Alliance. Happyjit Singh ( talk) 06:19, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
Not done Alliances are between parties. There are seats where alliance members have friendly fight. All the rules and guidelines laid for election articles ask us to use parties only. For example -
MOS:INDELECT states Only those parties that are covered by Reliable Media as a major contender for winning that election are listed in the infobox.
It says parties not alliances. If any admin or senior editor disagrees, then I shall be happy to be corrected.
ShaanSengupta
Talk
09:28, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
I occasionally see infoboxes being changed from nominee to candidate and vice versa, and there seems no hard-and-fast rules about which term is appropriate. Are they just different terms for the same thing, or is there actually a difference? If the latter, can we create a clear definition of when to use each? Number 5 7 22:26, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
I have noticed that when viewing the election infobox on mobile, candidate image sizes are always of unequal size (which seems like a bug to me). It seems like whichever candiate is represented by a blue colour gets a larger image Can anyone replicate it?
screenshot of the infobox from this page - https://i.ibb.co/8cnWhTc/IMG-0622.png - and another from the infobox from 2024 London mayoral election (where I noticed the issue) - https://i.ibb.co/hHbb86h/IMG-0623.png Oliverwinton ( talk) 14:03, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
I would like to propose we change the final section of the infobox so that instead of the defaults being "[Title] before election" and "Elected [title]", the default is "[Title] before election" and "[Title] after election".
The default of "Elected [title]" for the post-election situation doesn't work for most parliamentary elections as the Prime Minister or whatever other postholder is mentioned is not generally elected to that position. This results in a huge number of infoboxes having to correct it by using the "posttitle" parameter. Defaulting to "[Title] before election" and "[Title] after election" would be neutral and correct, and avoid having to add a correcting parameter to many articles (or edits like this where the entire section gets removed because the wording is wrong). Cheers, Number 5 7 20:24, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
With very few exceptions, there is no sitting MP immediately before a by-election: that is why an election is needed. Even at a general election, the parliament is dissolved, therefpre MPs cease to be such. It is not reasonable to state, before an election, that the MP before an election is a person who died some weeks previously. Suggest rename this field to Previous MP. As an aside, wikilinking MP twice on the same row, in a context where it can be reasonably assumed that the reader knows what that is, seems something of overkill. Kevin McE ( talk) 13:43, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi all, there is currently a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Short description#Proposal to add automatic SDs to Template:Infobox election. As it would involve a potential change to this template, editors are invited to participate in the discussion. Thank you for helping improve WP:Short descriptions on Wikipedia! - - mathmitch7 ( talk/ contribs) 17:46, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Cheers! BD2412 T 16:31, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
I would like to propose that we add support to the template for alternative labels for the party field. Especially in elections to non-governmental bodies, it is common for there to be party-like entities that aren't referred to with the word "party".
For example, in elections to the General Synod of the Church of Sweden (see, e.g., 2021), they use the term "nominating group" because, while some of the nominating groups are political parties (the same parties as in Swedish parliamentary elections), other nominating groups are not. [a] Or, for another example, in many trade unions, candidates run as part of a "slate" (see, e.g., 2021 Teamsters election). Although slates are distinct from parties in that they don't typically exist over more than one electoral cycle, they serve the same function in the context of that election.
It is, of course, already possible to get a custom label using auxiliary rows (1blank
, 1data1
); however, this would put the name of the party-like entity at the bottom of all of the statistical data despite it being the first thing our readers are looking for in most cases. And this would be especially impractical in an article like
2021 Swedish Church Assembly elections as there are no leaders listed.
I have added the necessary code to the sandbox. An example of what this would look like can be seen at Template:Infobox election/testcases § Alternative party label. Graham ( talk) 05:00, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
This
edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
|party_label=
and tweaked the code just a bit. I think it is all working now. –
Jonesey95 (
talk)
22:02, 21 May 2024 (UTC)Notes
E.g., the Swedish Social Democratic Party (the largest party in the church's general synod and the largest opposition party in the country's parliament), the Centre Party, and the Sweden Democrats are all nominating groups that are parties; the Left in the Church of Sweden, Christian Democrats for a Living Church, and Fria liberaler i Svenska kyrkan are nominating groups that are closely tied to political parties but are fully autonomous from them; and Non-partisans in Church of Sweden, Open Church, and Kyrklig samverkan i Visby stift are nominating groups that, although they each have a distinct ideological bent, have no connection to a party.