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Happy editing! Cheers, Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 15:09, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, please ask them here on this page, or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:04, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Election maps

Hi! I appreciate your creation of maps like File:2012_State_Upper_House_Elections_V2.png. If possible, could you upload and export these as SVGs instead of PNGs? No worries if you can't, but SVG maps are generally preferable. I usually create SVG maps using qGis and filling in the data with Inkscape. The process of creating new SVG shapes is somewhat complex, most of the time I just edit existing maps too (and for that, Inkscape is sufficient). OutlawRun (talk) 23:38, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Pierre Hellier moved to draftspace

Thanks for creating Pierre Hellier. Unfortunately, it is not ready for publishing because it has no sources. Your article is now a draft where you can improve it undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Reading Beans (talk) 02:10, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Sarthe Departemental Council (France)

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. ✗plicit 23:47, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Pierre Hellier

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 03:02, 24 June 2023 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Pierre Hellier

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In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:10, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

2022 Portuguese election map

Hi there Impaulrators! Thank you for the map image of the 2022 Portuguese legislative election. I just want to ask if it's possible to return to the previous format of the map. The current version has a smaller map which makes it difficult to read in the infobox. I look forward to hearing from you.Tuesp1985 (talk) 16:32, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

I was under the impression that the first version of the map I made was too vertical, but if you believe it looks better under that format, then sure I can return to it. Impaulrators (talk) 20:45, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

This is just a suggestion, but the party bars, below the map, would be smaller in comparison with the map. For example, like this:

Then, the image could become less vertical. What do you think? Tuesp1985 (talk) 22:22, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

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Portuguese elections map

Hello, firstly I'd like to say that I really appreciate your maps, they're really great! I just have a few small corrections to make about these maps:

1. LIVRE doesn't use the name L/TDA since 2015, and has used the current name in the 2019 and 2022 elections.
2. There's a typo in the leader of PSD's name, he's not Rui Sio, he is Rui Rio.
3. In the 2011, 2015 and 2019 elections, the third seat in Évora is colored as a seat for the Left Bloc, when it was actually won by the CDU.
4. In 2002, the PS leader appears as Pedro Santana Lopes, when it was actually Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues.
5. PCP doesn't run alone in the elections, they always run under the Unitary Democratic Coalition with PEV.
6. In 2019, the IL leader was Carlos Guimarães Pinto and LIVRE's main candidate was Joacine Katar Moreira, so both names are missing a word.

Sorry for bothering you, but these were a few mistakes that I noticed in your Portuguese elections map and that's why I brought them to you to see if you can fix them. Thank you very much for your work! H3nrique Bregie (talk) 18:29, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback, as for the communist party, I was aware of that discrepancy but I decided to just call it the communist party for simplicity and since the PEV never runs on its own (similarly to how I didn't include the nuances of the PSD running alone in the territories in 2015) Impaulrators (talk) 22:52, 2 January 2024 (UTC)