Talk:Red-green alliance
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The explanation submitted for "Red-Green alliance" is unfamiliar to me. The more widely accepted definition is the alliance between communists and Islamists, not communists and environmentalists. This can be easily shown by Googling "red green alliance islam" then "red green alliance environmentalists". You will observe around 1,800,000 vs 270,000 hits respectively. So the former definition is about 7 times more commonly used.
-Freedom Fan
- In Europe, the communist-environmentalist alliance would probably be the more familiar term - since these sorts of alliances have seats in national parliaments and the European Parliament. --metzerly 06:28, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article update
Okay, I've updated the article for grammar and wikification. I also restructured it to more clearly differentiate between the SPD-Green coalition government and the Danish Red-Green Alliance. I also moved the article from Red-Green Alliance to red-green alliance. This is because it is not referring to a specific group and, therefore, not a proper noun. --metzerly 07:43, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
- I disagree. It is referring to followers of a specific philosophy and is therefore ordinarily capitalised in English. A red or green party would just be one with that colour logo. However, Reds are followers of socialism and Greens are ecologically-based holists (both from a number of parties across the world).
- —Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 00:56, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
- I'm moving this back as the original move was done without consensus by a now inactive user. —Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 13:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
