Template talk:European Union elections
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Didn't Greece elect MEPs after their accession and before 1984, too? —Nightstallion (?) 23:19, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
I based this on the pre-standardisation Greek elections template, which suggested they didn't. Might be wrong though! Number 57 09:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
[1] seems to indicate that they did elect their MEPs in 1981... —Nightstallion (?) 15:08, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Size of template and abbreviations
There's two reasons why I prefer my way of structuring this template: Firstly, the abbreviations you used are non-standard in some cases, and do not really help with navigating; secondly, it helps a lot to have the supplementary elections in separate rows. I do realise the template takes up a little bit more space the way I do it, but since it's only at the very bottom of articles, anyway, that doesn't really hurt. —Nightstallion (?) 13:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
No offence, but I think it looks a bit of a mess this way, especially the overlap of country names for the 2004 elections (and coming 2009 elections). This morning's edit tabulised it so they couldn't overlap like this. Perhaps the 1987, 1995 and 2007 elections could have a seperate row, but I don't think it's needed as they are really part of the same election as the previous one.
Which country names are non-standard? The UK is the only non-IOC code, and arguably the only country which it is not needed for (as also the GBR code ignores Northern Ireland).
Anyway, please don't revert it again this time! Thanks, Number 57 14:10, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
I've tried it once more, properly tabularising it this time; I'm mainly against abbreviating the country names because it creates unnecessary confusion (there's no need to save space, really; the space we save is not really used for anything else, as I've tried to reason above), especially since "Spain" is suddenly between "Denmark" and "Estonia"... —Nightstallion (?) 14:42, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
How about this version as a compromise - long names used, but no off year elections in the left hand column? The previous edit came out a bit strange - years didn't line up (possibly set to a certain screen width?). Number 57 14:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Aye, that's a very fair compromise, thanks! I touched it up a bit, italicising the future elections and such. Thanks for compromising! :) —Nightstallion (?) 15:04, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
