Talk:Vehicle registration plates of the European Union

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What about Gibraltar? Isn't it part of the EU too? And French overseas regions and departments that are part of the EU? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.218.131.15 (talk) 23:17, 11 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I reckon this page should be merged into the broader european page - there is no need for both and the broader page is more valuable.--Jeremy Young (talk) 14:18, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. The EU context is clearly very relevant in the field of vehicle registration plates. The Europe article could never be as specific as this article. - SSJ ☎ 00:00, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Out-of-date / incorrect images[edit]

A few observations:

The Dutch plate is not of the currently issued format, which is 23-ABC-4
Some plates are shown with black borders that, as far as I am aware, are not present on the actual plates.
The British plates are very wrong, specifically:

The plates are plastic with printed numbers, not die-pressed metal. There is no raised border around the edge of the plate as shown.
The Q234 ABC series is a special series reserved for vehicles that cannot carry a standard registration and is VERY rare. Standard sequence numbers since 2001 are in the AB!! CDE format, where !! is the year the registration was issued (for registrations March - August) or the year + 50 (for registrations September - to February). Current issues (Nov. 2009) are --59 ---, this wil change to --10 ---- in March 2010, etc.
The motor cycle plate is a fiction:

- Plate should be yellow (motor cycles do not have front plates, and all British rear plates are yellow).

- Plate should be (slightly) squarer.

- Plate is plastic, and does not have a raised border

- Letter/number format shown does not exist. Format is the standard sequence split over two lines, eg AB59 // CDE

Petecollier (talk) 21:18, 6 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Belgian image is not from the most recent series. The image for the new Belgian plates is this one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/BE_license_plate.jpg/300px-BE_license_plate.jpg 94.208.18.55 (talk) 01:22, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

More errors[edit]

All pictures of the German plates are wrong.

- Car plate: am umlaut cannot be used after the stickers. The number part never starts with a 0 (only used for temporary plates)

- Motorcycle plate: both stickers are wrong. The yellow one was never used on motorcycle's plates and is now even outdated for car's plates. The other sticker is only used for government registered plates, not for the here shown.

--85.181.65.177 (talk) 19:33, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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non-EU car with ‘faux-EU’ plate in the EU[edit]

Some non-EU states now issue EU-standard plates without the ring of stars but instead with their own symbols. I suppose these also still need the oval sticker when driving in the EU? – Kaihsu (talk) 14:58, 8 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Swedish license plate image[edit]

I see an editing conflict regarding the image for the Swedish License plate. I know nothing on the subject, but I am reverting to the more recent image on the basis that a more recent image is more likely to be accurate. Please discuss the issue here on this talk page rather than Edit Warring the article page.

Editors are expected to remain Civil. Abusive language and Personal Attacks are prohibited. An administrator may block any account or IP-range from editing Wikipedia if the sort of language in this edit summary is repeated. Alsee (talk) 23:49, 28 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Alsee! If you read the article Vehicle registration plates of Sweden you learn that there is no tag need anymore. Therefor I wanted to update the Swedish plate picture to a more now-like one. But he or she just kept undoing id, I couldn't do anything but to reverse the undos.Jonteemil (talk) 11:52, 29 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 15 December 2016[edit]

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Please change the Hungarian plate image to as the current one is not a picture of a real plate. Thanks. Somness (talk) 11:39, 15 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. ^BE _CK ^Y _SA ^{Y L}E _S 04:53, 30 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]