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168: 99: 282: 264: 292: 797:. This is consonant with another recent discussion about making the colours used on Canadian legislative templates match (as closely as we can muster) the official colours used by the parties. PS: Just ensure that the readability problem reported in the thread above this one is resolved, which I think the proposed replacement template will already handle; just sandbox and test case before actual implementation. 216: 158: 236: 130: 451:
Currently the highlighted colours for the different senator affiliations are not distinct enough. Independent and Conservative are almost indistinguishable as are Independent Liberal and Progressive Conservative. My attempt at a change may have been too stark but there needs to be some happy medium.
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Update: I've made a minor change to the template formatting; if we're using background colouring to denote party affiliations, then we don't also need a party abbreviation in brackets after each individual senator's name. This does bring the vertical size down somewhat, and makes the template look a
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I would argue the opposite, particularly as the Senate becomes more independent. The purpose of the Senate was to provide a house of "sober second thought", and achieve a balance of regional interests. Furthermore, a senator's affiliation may change, but the province they are appointed to represent
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added to this template's uniquely pale scheme, because lumping ISG, CSG and N/A under the same colour is inaccurate and misleading, as is keeping the PSG under the Liberal colour (albeit less so). Of course, adopting the Canadian colours used elsewhere would solve this problem nicely. โ€”
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I've gone ahead and been bold and radically changed the template. Before, it was sorted by party; I've changed it to sort by state (with party colors), just as the Australian and American templates do.
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Another option might be to list members by party affiliation rather than by province. I might suggest that (for now) affiliation to party is more important than what province they come from.
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can be arranged into multiple columns, and in Australia, there are only six states and a territorial section. But here, using the same format results in a template that's
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templates. So, I propose, for the purposes of simplicity, streamlining, and using the Canadian context, that we update this template's party colour shading template to
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The colour choices for party identification are also too subtle, in my opinion; on the screen I'm looking at right now, the PC and Liberal colours are at best
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distinguishable from each other if I'm looking at the screen straight on โ€” and if I look at the screen even slightly askance, the colours completely
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As currently formatted, it's massively oversized. Because the United States senate is structured differently each state has exactly two senators, so
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I agree the colours are almost indistinguishable, but my concern is that increasing the colour's prominence will not be consistent with
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I can hardly read the text in CPC in the new format. Dark blue background with blue text. --
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There is a clear consensus to update this template's party colour shading template to
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bit less busy and more organized. I'm not entirely convinced that it reduces the size
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top and bottom templates and consensus decision reached. Thanks. --
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will not; why categorize them under the less static grouping? --
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