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Left you some replies to pick over, when you're ready. Dolescum (talk) 20:20, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

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Opinion polling table

I don't understand why you want to keep all the unnecessary coding in this table? We don't need to have 189 instances of align="center" when it can be put into the main table code with exactly the same outcome.

In addition, by having the {{clear}} function and insisting that the table be 100% width, you are creating a load of whitespace under the section heading that doesn't need to be there.

Also, the second wording in a heading should not be capitalised unless it is a proper noun. Cheers, Number 57 13:47, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I now see that for some reason you have reverted my edits to the Italian elections in the 19th century, claiming "not or. self explanatory under Italian electoral law", and even worse, accusing me of vandalism

I think you must have misunderstood what the issue is here. The sources we have only give the percentage of seats held by each grouping, not the actual number. Nick.mon has calculated the seat totals himself using these percentages. This is why his graphs are WP:Original research.

In addition, he has also misused the infoboxes by putting the % of seats as the % of votes received, even though they are clearly different things. Cheers, Number 57 13:51, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

But thanks for the Ecuadorian seat totals. Number 57 14:04, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Lets address one thing at a time. First, lets talk about the polling table for gr-leg. The coding is the same as used as the table for the next danish election, german election, icelandic election, the italian election we've just seen, and that's just off the top of my head. It's basically the same table as is being used everywhere else, which is in and of itself a good reason not to change it.

There's also a better reason in my opinion, but, first of all, the {{clear}} should definitely be kept, whichever table we end up agreeing upon, as it takes up vastly more space in the article without it. No one but a few users will see the coding, but a vast number of eyes will see the article. You talked about white space, but if you compare there's far more white space in the version without {{clear}} -- it's just located within the table itself, making it harder to read.

As to the other effects of the current coding, I like that it keeps every column the same size, which both makes it easier to read at first glance, and has a certain fairness to it.

You mentioned wanting to narrow the polling table to reduce the white space, but I don't think that's a big issue, as it's only temporary. The sections above the polling table will increase in size quickly once the election begins to approach, so the entire opinion polling section will be below the infobox, erasing the white space.

However, I can see your point, so here's two different ideas to narrow the polling table. If you look at the page for opinion polling for the Spanish election, there's a column for "Undecided/Abstained", but instead of writing that out, its been condensed to "U/A" with a note at the bottom of the table explaining what that means. I suggest we take this format to greatly reduce the size of the "Undecided/Other" column in the gr-leg article. Secondly, we can take a cue from the article for the next Icelandic election and used abbreviated dates to substantially reduce that column as well.

These two reforms should reduce the size of the table by more than your coding simplifications, thus eliminating white space above the table, while also largely maintaining the current coding, which eliminates white space within the polling table and creates congruency with other wikipedia articles. Do you find this an acceptable compromise?

Finally, I apparently wasn't clear on what vandalism means. I did not mean to insult your motives, I just meant to indicate the edit I was reverting was wrong.

(P.S. No problem. ^_^)--4idaho (talk) 15:06, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed response, but I'm not really clear on what you propose. Perhaps we should compare here? I've started below. Regarding the whitespace, I don't see any whitespace with the current version (I can e-mail you screenshots if you'd like). Number 57 15:26, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Here's the table I'm proposing. I'm very confused if you're not seeing white space; do you have an unusually large computed monitor? The white space is being caused by the polling firm and dates column, as since they don't have a defined size anymore, it caused long polling firm names as well as the dates to wrap into a second line that makes the entire table twice as tall as it was previously. This table uses abbreviations for the dates to let it stay both horizontally slim (no long columns to keep them in one line) and vertically slim (no two lines required for the date columns.) --4idaho (talk) 15:54, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

What resolution are you viewing on? Have the changes I've just made to the article helped? I think the debt crisis infobox was causing problems as well for people viewing on IE (I use Chrome so couldn't see any problems). Number 57 16:14, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

I use safari, and that fixed the white space problem, so good job. :-) But lets move on to the fundamental issue here. Is the proposed table an acceptable compromise for you? And if not, what changes do you think should be made? --4idaho (talk) 16:30, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Cool. Yes, I think the new table is good. I've made some changes in the example below simply to remove unnecessary coding (which reduces the bandwidth needed to view the table on the article) but doesn't change the appearance at all. One thing I can't see though is how the Polling firm heading has been forced into two lines. Number 57 16:40, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Alright then, I'm OK with this. If there are no objections lets insert this new table... ? --4idaho (talk) 17:17, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Sure - have done! Number 57 17:57, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

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I esteem this website as the most comprehensive database of European political parties and election data. It is very well-kept, neatly arranged, correct and up-to-date. However, it is a self-published website and not a peer-reviewed publication, and therefore not a reliable source in the narrow sense. I find it acceptable to use it as a source to assess the ideology and/or positioning of newly-established parties or minor parties from smaller countries, where there is no other literature available. However, it is not preferrable over scholarly books published by university presses or expert publishing houses.

Moreover, you made a mistake: Nordieck nowhere describes the CDC as Christian democratic. CDC is the liberal part of Convergence and Union, while UDC is the Christian democratic part. Therefore, I reverted your edit. Kind regards --RJFF (talk) 16:09, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

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Respectfully decline; I don't know what it would involve, but I have very limited time on wikipedia. Good luck with your group. --4idaho (talk) 01:31, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

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You little rascal. First breaching the rule and then asking me to help... ;) --RJFF (talk) 17:33, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

If I am honest, I cannot report the IP without reporting you. The admin will look into the page history anyway and see that you were the other party in this edit war. Of course, I can understand you. But everyone has to play by the same rules, and edit-warring is against the rules, whether we are on the right side or not. Do you want to take the risk of getting blocked, too? Otherwise, I would not do anything, but hope for the IP to stop. Page protection might be an alternative solution. But again, there is the risk that the deciding admin will look into the history and want to block both edit warriors. Kind regards --RJFF (talk) 17:41, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

By the way, I would not draw unto Norsieck's website too strongly. I very much esteem his work, but it's still a self-published website and not a peer-reviewed journal or academic book. He is not a professor of political science, but rather categorises political parties as his hobby (doing a pretty good job at it, if you ask me). But he cannot be a profound expert on the politics of every single European country. So it might be possible, that Nordsieck assesses the Spanish nationalism-unionism-centralism-you-name-it thing differently from, say, the mainstream of Spanish political scientists. And from time to time, he changes the labels, which might be an indicator that he had to revise his initial classification. --RJFF (talk) 17:51, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

I agree and recognize that, which is why I added in newspaper citations where I could find them. Nordsieck's archive is better then no citation though. As to me being blocked, it doesn't matter that much, it seems apparent to me the page needs protection, and I did violate the 3RR. --4idaho (talk) 18:03, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Well, the IP has not done anything for the last hours. If the anonymous user has stopped, we don't need administrative action. --RJFF (talk) 18:28, 23 May 2013 (UTC)