Talk:2006 Czech parliamentary election

Green Party?

Has the Green Party refused to form a coalition with the Social Democrats and Communists? That would create a majority left-wing coalition... --Jfruh (talk) 13:32, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Totally refused any cooperation with Communist Party, before election. --Jklamo 14:58, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

But the Social Dems will? --Jfruh (talk) 15:44, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

They refused it as well. There were speculations that CSSD could form a minority government with tacit support of the Communists, but it's not going to fly. -- EJ 15:59, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, I was a bit confused because the article seemed to imply that the Soc Dems and Communists were natural coalition partners ... I will rewrite a bit to try to clarify. --Jfruh (talk) 16:08, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I wrote something about results and possible coalitions. --Jklamo 16:18, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Senate elections?

Since this page is listed in the "Politics and government of the Czech Republic" menu as: "Elections - Latest: 2006", should there be a note or link about the elections for the Senate of October 2006 as well?

There is a template for the current, post-election composition of the Senate at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Czech_senate_election%2C_2006 ...

No-itsme 21:32, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Template Parties

All the elected parties should be added to the template. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.99.192.220 (talk) 20:02, 6 December 2015 (UTC)

ODS vs. "the ODS"

Hi Number 57, I don't agree that ODS should have an article. I agree that "the BNP" is usually referred to like that, but it does not necessarily follow that all parties with initials follow the same rule. Specifically, I have never heard anyone say "the ODS" or "the CSSD". Jdcooper (talk) 20:46, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

It's a general rule in English. See, for example this or this (Prague Monitor) which refers to the ODS and the CSSD. Cheers, Number 57 20:52, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Fine, but neither the Prague Monitor nor this article reflect normal usage. Jdcooper (talk) 20:58, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

On reflection, I think the reason "the ODS" and "the CSSD" sound so horrible and are never used is because they are actually Czech abbreviations, and Czech would not use a definite article. For example, "the Civic Democratic Party" sounds fine, but "the Občanská demokratická strana" is grammatically incorrect. So whether or not that rule is a general rule in English, it's not in Czech. Our options are 1) use the full English name in every article. 2) Use the English abbreviation. 3) Use the Czech abbreviation without articles.

I'm against 2) as it does not reflect normal use. 1) I could live with, but 3) seems like the simplest solution. I will change it back for now. Jdcooper (talk) 22:02, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

You might be against it, but I'm afraid it's standard English and this is en.wiki, not cs.wiki. Number 57 22:08, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

But "ODS" is not English. Are you suggesting we should use the full English expressions then? Jdcooper (talk) 22:12, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

I've tried to find a compromise solution, hope this is acceptable to you. Jdcooper (talk) 22:17, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

Not really – it seems like an unnecessary overreaction to make some kind of WP:IDONTLIKEIT-based point – there is no problem with using the acronyms, they just need to be used properly. Number 57 11:51, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

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