Talk:European Green Party

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There are at least 3 reasons why this information is removed:

1. The scope is unclear: ‘European’ means just the EU countries or the whole Europe (whatever that can mean)?
2. Upper and lower houses have no meaning or are ambiguous for some countries: e.g. unicameral, federal systems.
3. The statistics are almost unverifiable from sources and quickly go out of date due to e.g. floor crossing, byelections, local elections changing the seat allocations.

– Kaihsu (talk) 11:16, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Julius Schwarz: I have not dared to change the infoboxes for other europarties along the lines I proposed above. Kaihsu (talk) 19:24, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's a tough one. I actually really agree with your points and I do not think that the current system allows for useful information: numbers are not consistent across parties and it becomes too much work to keep them updated and relevant, so the information is not meaningful.

Until the EU has a coherent system of political parties across governance levels (with the same parties found at each level), I would support removing that information too, and just focus on European-level bodies.

PS: already keeping the bars up to date in the body of the article, including the Council of the EU, would be good. Julius Schwarz (talk) 20:20, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

actually, this is an open and potentially silly question, but can we use Wikidata to have a small database ofthe composition of national governments which we could use to update the composition bars for the European Council and Council of the European Union? Julius Schwarz (talk) 20:30, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

by colouring Lithuanian green as it has new member party 78.58.3.21 (talk) 20:44, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of changes should be made as the map is very outdated. There aren't 3 membership types anymore as the "candidate" status doesn't seem to exist anymore. Croatia and Montenegro should also be coloured (dark) green as they have full member parties now, URA and Možemo!. Belarus doesn't have a member at all anymore so it should be coloured grey.

Maybe since it's quite outdated and false rn, until it's updated it should be removed. It's not neccessary (other europarty articles don't have maps) so until there's a new 1 that there isn't confusing info. CroatiaElects (talk) 21:10, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]