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Boroughs table in New York City
Hi, I hope you're having a good new year.

I take a tiny amount of pride in the "Five Boroughs at a Glance" table I created and I'm not ashamed of the color scheme I originally devised for New York City mayoral elections (the borough colors are so bright because they had to contrast distinctly with the more-subdued shades of the political parties). And I have no problem with the table's conversion into a template for the individual borough articles and some other New York City articles.

[If you created that 5-borough template and were ever inspired to create a similar one (preserving the distinctions and nuances) for all those mayoral elections, it might save a great deal of space on an overloaded article that's well over 100 kB, as well as time, perhaps, for the editors of future election tables there.]

However, there's a problem with using an unaltered color scheme for the New York City article: the colors and the order of the boroughs don't match those of the map that faces it, so I used a modified version of my original table to match the order and shades. The template could be adjusted to have the same effect, or someone with the patience, skills and software could adjust the map's colors and numbers to match those of the master template. (I could do it myself, I guess, but it might take me a couple of clumsy hours fiddling around with Microsoft Office 2000 PhotoEditor, PowerPoint 2000, MS Paint, and/or Adobe PhotoShop 5.0 LE.) You should note that that map is used in several other New York City articles, so if it's changed for this one, you have to decide whether to change all those other map.

What are your thoughts?

¶ (P.S. Your general instructions for starting a new section on your talk page might be greatly simplified by simply directing its author to hit the "new section" tab on top, which is what I just did.)

Best wishes, —— Shakescene (talk) 02:59, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I am having a great new year, and I hope you are as well. I shall attempt to make those templates.  Also I think the colors should be changed for all articles.  mynameinc (t|c) 22:29, 27 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your comments and your offer. I'd want to keep the primary colo[u]rs (magenta/fuchsia, red, lime, aqua/cyan, etc.) at least for the election articles less for aesthetic reasons (half the time I love them and half the time I have my doubts) than because I want to avoid confusion of borough with party: e.g. Brooklyn or another borough shouldn't automatically be associated with the Republican or Socialist Parties by sharing a similar shade of red. It seems to me that it would be easier to do all that fiddling with the map, which only appears in a few places, I think (e.g. NYC, The Five Boroughs, the list or category for New York City parks, and maybe City of Greater New York) although I'd have to check the image file's documentation on Wikimedia. Also the 5 Boro's at a Glance box has now been translated into several other language Wikipedias, to my slight gratification and perhaps yours.
 * (If you'd like me to write out as some very loose and informal kind of protocol the system I've devised to display New York elections, please let me know. I'd be glad to do it, although I might not be able to do so instantly. I've also made similar tables for New York City mayoral election, 1917, et seq., New York City Comptroller election, 2009, New York City Public Advocate election, 2009 and a couple of other articles.) —— Shakescene (talk) 07:28, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

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