Talk:2021 Icelandic parliamentary election

Notes to self
Mélencron (talk) 03:39, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
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 * http://www.hringbraut.is/heilsa/midflokkur-og-flokkur-folksins-naedu-ekki-manni-a-thing

Key to single letter abbreviations needed
In the opinion poll section, there are single letter abbreviations which to the outsider mean absolutely nothing. So a huge proportion of the readers of this article will have no idea of what’s going on. For ease of use, the key should be available to see on the graph image and on the table, not merely on the earlier section which details the parties, although it would be sensible perhaps if the letters were there too. But as things stand, there is no connection at all between letters and party names. Boscaswell  talk  04:11, 21 March 2019 (UTC)


 * They don't even mean anything to an insider, I can maybe remember the election symbol letters of the top three parties. I've added a key below the graph. – Þjarkur (talk) 13:37, 21 March 2019 (UTC)


 * That’s very helpful, thank you.  Boscaswell   talk  23:36, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Incomplete Zenter poll from March 2019
https://www.visir.is/paper/fbl/190306.pdf Mélencron (talk) 23:37, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

Infobox
I really don't care for the huge infobox used here (as well as on articles about past Icelandic elections). For the first thing, this infobox does not suit an election with eight different parties being elected. It gets way too big and clunky, particularly when viewed on mobile. Secondly, it is entirely built around pictures of party leaders. This can work when there is a plenty of free images available but this is not the case for Icelandic politics. Some of the leaders are missing pictures, resulting in a huge waste of space for a big party letter, and some of the pictures that do exist are of low quality, are rather unflattering or severely outdated. Bjarni Benediktsson for example is 51 years old now, he is represented here with a 12 year old picture from his late 30s. It's silly. I would much prefer this style of infobox for Icelandic parliamentary elections. --Bjarki (talk) 17:45, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I would support this change. Infobox election is not an effective summary once you go beyond three parties. The pictures are an unnecessary distraction as this is a parliamentary election in which people are electing parties, not individuals. Cheers, Number   5  7  17:47, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I would also support this change. The same situation applies to 2021 Czech legislative election. Is there any consensus or precedent about when to use Template:Infobox legislative election or Template:Infobox election? Jdcooper (talk) 21:59, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * There is no across-the-board consensus on when it's appropriate to use one or the other, although it has been more easily accepted for countries where large numbers of parties win seats. The change of infobox has generally happened on a country-by-country basis either via an editor being bold and just doing it, or following discussions on a talkpage of an election in the series (as is happening here). One thing I would say, is that when a change is made, it should be applied to all the articles in the series (starting with the most recent and then working backwards) – if only one is changed, it usually ends up getting reverted with the argument that it's inconsistent with the rest of the series. Cheers, Number   5  7  12:58, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I would add that an exception would be a country that changed electoral system. The inconsistency make sense in such a situation.--Aréat (talk) 19:18, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
 * If there are no objections, I will switch over to the other infobox type later this week, and then start working backwards on previous elections. Any help would be appreciated. :) --Bjarki (talk) 10:17, 11 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I also support the switch to the legislative election infobox. Bondegezou (talk) 08:19, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I have converted the election articles to the legislative election infobox all the way back to 1991 (earlier elections don't yet have any infobox). --Bjarki (talk) 09:28, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

Seat Diagram Problem
The diagram File:Althing 2021.svg is being updated to include seat changes that occurred following the election, unrelated to the election. The only change I see so far is the fact that the Centre Party lost an MP, who defected to the Independence Party.

The diagram on this article really should show the political-party affiliation of MPs when they were elected. The update should either be reverted, or a separate diagram should be created to show the seat composition immediately following the election. --1990&#39;sguy (talk) 20:17, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
 * I've restored the election result version. Hypernormal1 if you want to create an updated version for use elsewhere, please create a new file. Cheers, Number   5  7  21:50, 31 January 2022 (UTC)