Talk:1930 Japanese general election

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On the issue about renaming parties from their Romaji name to the English translation.[edit]

This might be confusing, as when someone hovers over a party which has had its name translated to English, they will still see the original Romaji version of the Japanese name. Translating the names to English might make sense for newer parties (such as the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP), Socialist Party of Japan (JSP) etc, Democratic party of Japan (DPJ), etc.), where the titles on their wikipedia pages are already translated into English, but translating party names to English when the wikipedia page of said party is still in Romaji is guaranteed to provoke confusion, especially when considering that some party names do not have accurate English translations.

For this reason I believe that english names should only be used for parties that already have the titles of their wikipedia pages in English (such as the Social Democratic Party, Labour-Farmer Party, Japan Labour-Farmer Party etc.). Either that or every Wikipedia page name should be converted into English, which I believe is a bad idea because

1) Not every party has a satisfactory translation from their Japanese name into English (and, in some cases, certain parties do not even have an English translation listed on their page - such as Kokumin Doshikai - and would require someone who understands Japanese in order to achieve an accurate translation)

2) Some party names (like 'Association of Friends of Constitutional Government' for the Rikken Seiyukai) would be simply too long and would clutter the infobox Vladimir Budinski (talk) 09:19, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. The issue was not directed to it, but the Rikken Minseito page should be fixed since the preview shows the Romaji name (ie. Rikken Minseito), which is also used as the first group of words in bold on the wikipedia page, but said page has the title in English (thus lacking constistency). Vladimir Budinski (talk) 09:25, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Are you basically saying that in the infobox, we should change the short names for Rikken Minseitō, Shakai Minshūtō, Taishūtō and Rōnōtaishūtō because the article names are English? I would also question whether Rikken Minseitō is actually the common name (even in English for the party) and perhaps that particular article should be moved? Cheers, Number 5 7 11:36, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Honestly, I'm not sure. Personally I would prefer for all the names to be in Romaji, but then again, changing the names of the articles of the above mentioned political parties from English to Japanese would most likely break a lot of hyperlinks, so I'm genuinely open to any suggestions. My main grip was mostly the fact that the names were written in their native languages in the Infobox on the right, but in their English translation on the infobox with the Parliamentary composition diagram immediately below the article. As for the Rikken Minseito, I also don't know, some help from a Japanese speaker would be really handy. Cheers Vladimir Budinski (talk) 10:53, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Colors don't match[edit]

The colors in the half-donut representative diagram don't match the colors in the legend. For example, according to the legend, the party that got the most votes and reps was Constitutional Democratic Party (blue), but the diagram shows the majority in light green.

Several of the other pre-war Japanese general election articles have this issue too. I'd love to fix it myself but wouldn't know how to do it easily. 97.118.239.86 (talk) 12:15, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the colours were originally matching the party colours on en.wiki, but Elector Factor uploaded a revised version of the diagram with amended colours (which don't match). Someone could revert the upload of the amended colours on Commons to restore the original where the colours matched. Another option to avoid this happening is to create the diagram in the article using {{Parliament diagram}}, where the colours can be made to match the party colours in the module. See 2022 Latvian parliamentary election as an example. Cheers, Number 5 7 19:43, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]