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[edit] Poland should be red
Please see the discussion here: [1]Wikitiki666 (talk) 01:07, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
- The map "State recognition of same-sex relationships in Europe" is wrong, because Polish constitution banned same sex marriage in 1997, please correct this country to red color.
- Article 18 of Polish Constitution:
- Marriage, being a union of a man and a woman, as well as the family, motherhood and parenthood, shall be placed under the protection and care of the Republic of Poland.
- (http://www.sejm.gov.pl/prawo/konst/angielski/kon1.htm)
- Davaj (talk) 12:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
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- This is typically how same-sex marriage "bans" are worded, at least in the US (see en:List of defense of marriage amendments to U.S. state constitutions by type#Amendments that ban same-sex marriage for US examples). These are often referred to in the media as "bans" -- however, persons in favor of the amendments do also call it "defining" marriage as between a man and woman. The legend could be changed from "bans" to a more literal wording such as "defines marriage as between a man and woman" (if consensus was there for the change), but this would also require changes to all of the non-English legends (and to legends on all of the non-English Wikipedias that use this map). Wikignome0529 (talk) 23:16, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Biased colours?
I think the choice of colours is rather biased, i.e. taking blue as a positively connotated colour for pro-SSM countries, and "red" for those "evil" countries that have (democratically) decided otherwise. If the majority of people in Poland opposes SSM than that must be respected, but not be shown as something backward or "bad" -- it's just differing views on the same subject. In my view, it would be better and more neutral to use different shades of the same colour (e.g. of blue) for all options. --77.6.23.12 17:29, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
- There is no way we are going to add yet another color of blue — it's confusing enough as it is. There is nothing "biased" about it being in red — and red or some form of other warm color is most typically is associated with banned — not blue or another cool color. VoodooIsland (talk) 18:25, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
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- Agree, I tried to add a fourth shade of blue to the North America version of this map (to move foreign SSM from purple to a blue), but once you have more than 3 shades of blue it starts getting harder to distinguish between the colors. The red color is more intuitively associated with bans of things on maps. Wikignome0529 (talk) 23:25, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
