User talk:Aréat

October 2016

Please stop adding data for Hawaii to the table at List of countries and dependencies by population. Hawaii is neither a country nor a dependency. It's a state belonging to the United States. If you want to add Hawaii, then all US states need to be added, as well as all the Australian states and so on, but this is not the purpose of the article. You are already aware that "areas that form integral parts of sovereign states" are not included, so I do not understand why you are adding Hawaii at all. --AussieLegend (✉) 07:55, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

I've tried to delete France's five Overseas Regions -Guyane, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte and Reunion - with exactly the same arguments - they're neither countries nor dependencies but full part of a listed country, yet the changes were removed by differents people, so I thought adding them was indeed "useful information".

If you thinks otherwise for Hawaii, can you do the same for the above regions? Or post your opinion on the matter in the talkpage. It would be helpful.--Aréat (talk) 08:11, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on List of countries and dependencies by population. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Please be particularly aware that Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states:

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• I've given you this warning because you are clearly edit-warring. Your edits have been reverted and yet you continue to reinsert them. It is up to you to convince other editors to accept your changes by discussing the matter on the article's talk page, per WP:BRD. Simply forcing your edits into the article will lead to only one conclusion - you will find yourself unable to edit Wikipedia at all. Per WP:STATUSQUO, the unmodified version of the article rules until discussion is complete. --AussieLegend (✉) 08:26, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

I already posted a request for help and the answer was that the discussion hasn't been fully completed. The other parties aren't contibuting anymore. How long should I wait without an answer for an eventual change to be accepted as not being an edit war?

Beside, if you removed Hawaii on the ground it's neither a country nor a dependencie, would my removal of the above mentioned french regions on the same ground be considered an edit war?

Updated Mali TFR map

I updated Mali TFR map, per your request. (see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Countriesbyfertilityrate.svg ) Thanks for noticing the mistake. Innab (talk) 05:25, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Mauritanian referendum

Hello Aréat. Has the referendum been confirmed? I've seen a few news stories saying that the President wanted one, but none that it's been officially called. Cheers, Number 57 23:22, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

It's been confirmed, voted on during a Council of Minister and officially scheduled for 15 july 2017 by the government, yes.--Aréat (talk) 23:42, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

Cool, thanks! Number 57 15:12, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Second round date

Yes, the source does give a date, but the article I linked reports the electoral commission's chairman as being "silent on when the second and final round will be held". [1] Also, if you object to only part of an edit, could you try to avoid reverting the entire edit? Everyking (talk) 04:53, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

What I meant is that if you got a source to back your change, include it in the article, not in your edit description.--Aréat (talk) 19:12, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

Unsourced content

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Alternative for Germany ‎. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Jytdog (talk) 21:37, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

I answered you on the talk page. I added a full source for the handful of words I added to the back of a sentence to further clarify it. I believe I've been sourcing more thoroughly than most. As for the edit war, I'm rather surprised. Did you read the source ? It contain what I added. Cordially.--Aréat (talk) 04:41, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Your contributed article, Next Japanese general election

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Thanks for the clarification, I was getting a bit confused here.--Aréat (talk) 15:41, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Just wanted to say I know how difficult it can be to contribute in a non-native language. It takes a special kind of willingness and dedication. Thank you. EvergreenFir (talk) 05:40, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Well, thanks you for the message. It look a bit infantilizing to me, to be honest, but I sure appreciate the intention.--Aréat (talk) 13:21, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Salvadoran legislative election, 2018

Hello. Just wondering where you got the seat figures from? I can't find them on the TSE website or on any of the Salvadoran news websites I checked. Cheers, Number 57 21:44, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

I got them from the spanish page. I assume the users here know how many seats these numbers represent once 100 % of the votes have been counted, or have access to Salvadorian medias. Not that it wouldn't be better to eventually have a precise source, but it will do in the meanwhile. --Aréat (talk) 21:52, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

The results on es.wiki are now different (they have ARENA on 37 seats not 39), but still unsourced. I am quite wary of using unsourced seats as I've seen a few editors miscalculate them over the years... Number 57 21:58, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello. Just wondering if you got the ping I gave you yesterday? I pinged a few editors but got no responses, which made me wonder whether it worked (it can be quite tempremental). BTW, in the Bhutanese results, I saw one candidate was elected with only 13% of the vote (in Mongar District); I wonder whether this is a record for the lowest amount received by a winning candidate for a national parliament seat... Number 57 12:21, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes, sorry for the lack of message. I'm a bit busy these days and honestly found myself a bit confused by the matter at hand, so I refrained from giving my opinion on a question I don't fully grasp. As for the Bhutanese election, that's quite the original result indeed. With this many candidates it look like there's a growing eagerness to participate in the political life in bhutan. I sure hope so, anyways. Seeing a democracy blooming over the past decade was fascinating. With both wins and struggles. I recall that in the previous election there was a constituency in which there simply was only one candidate, with the vote there turning into a direct yes or no referendum for the candidate. ^^ I find these sort of relatively small sized election very interesting, like the ones in the Falklands or in many of the pacifics islands. Imagine having your representative simply campaign door to door, and the vote being won over a handful of convinced electors. Very neat.--Aréat (talk) 05:25, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Yes, there were noticeably more candidates this time around, and I thought it was also notable that several of the incumbents were heavily beaten, so presumably not impressing the electorate. I wonder whether some of the low vote shares for winning candidates will make them think again about FPTP. I contacted the chap who runs the Election Passport website and he mentioned that candidates used to win regularly with less than 10% of the vote in Papua New Guinea before they moved away from FPTP. Number 57 15:48, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Jobbik

Here, in the Wikipedia, the colour of the Jobbik is black since the 2010 parliamentary election. See, for instance tables and maps. There were/are numerous parliamentary parties which were marked with green in different shades (MDF, KDNP, FKGP, LMP, PM etc.) --Norden1990 (talk) 08:28, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

But none use the distinctive darker shade, and most are <1% very minors parties, while the MDF went extinct before Jobbik was created, so they're not on a page at the same time. If we want to make distinctive colors, it is logical to use either one of the three color used by the aprty instead of a different unused one, or change the colors of the benign parties, don't you think so?--Aréat (talk) 19:02, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Just a little tip

Months (June, July etc) are written with a capital letter! Thanks for all your recent work :) Number 57 21:16, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Question regarding your deletion of quotation attribution

Hi Aréat. Would you please explain this edit. You offered no edit summary and it's not obvious to me why you made the change you did. Thank you. Dayirmiter (talk) 08:52, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

It isn't neutral enough for an intro. That's the sort of details you must add in the article further on. Cordially. --Aréat (talk) 09:01, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Aréat, thank you for the reply. I am very much in favor of maintaining a neutral point of view. I do not, however, believe that this includes or should be understood to allow the suppression of facts. The material you excised ("Researcher Angie Heal, herself hired and then ignored by local officials"), in addition to identifying the source of the quotation, contains the facts that

(1) Angie Heal was a researcher,

(2) Angie Heal was hired by local officials, and

(3) Angie Heal was ignored by local officials regarding child exploitation.

The first two facts, well attested by the sources, are surely uncontroversial.

I understand you might feel the assertion that Angie Heal was ignored by local officials seems condemnatory and thus non-neutral. But this is one of the fundaments of the article: the scandal of local officials ignoring evidence of child abuse over many years. Local officials did, in fact, ignore Angie Heal's warnings, again as is well attested in the sources. To state that this occurred is not non-neutral. To illustrate this ignoring of evidence by local officials with concise reference to a central actor in that aspect of the case is, in my opinion, completely appropriate and desirable at this point in the article. If I have missed something here, please let me know.

In the meantime, I will replace the identification of the source of the quotation. Thanks again for your work on this article.

By the way, at a slightly different level of analysis, I would respectfully suggest further consideration of the idea that material may be "not neutral enough" for one part of an article but okay somewhere else in the article. It seems to me that if it violates neutrality in the lead, it will violate neutrality anywhere it appears. Conversely, if material is sufficiently neutral to appear anywhere in the article, then lack of neutrality cannot be a condition on which to exclude it from the lead.

Dayirmiter (talk) 17:51, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Zairean constitutional referendum, 1973

Good spot. It was listed at the African Elections Database at the time I created the article, but was later removed. It was a mistake on the AED's behalf – they had confused it with Republic of the Congo constitutional referendum, 1973. I've deleted the article as I was the only significant contributor to it, and it was clearly incorrect (no other source lists it). Cheers, Number 57 21:57, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Glad I could help. The page had left me rather confused as I couldn't find mention of it. These damn two congos always inducing quiproquo. :P While we're at it, thanks for your tremendous works on election articles and templates. They've been of great help over the years.--Aréat (talk) 22:05, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

No problem at all. If you're interested Antemister and I did some work a long time ago to try and ensure that all the national election templates were complete. There are still quite a few outstanding, so if you have anything to add, please do! Cheers, Number 57 16:07, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

I will be sure to give a hand if I find things to improve. --Aréat (talk) 20:00, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

September 2018

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My bad. I do know it should not be done. It was an error while editing several tabs. Cordially. --Aréat (talk) 22:31, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

November 2018

Your recent editing history at Flag of New Caledonia shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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I've protected the page so y'all can discuss. Be advised that a block for edit warring would also stop the disruption while not inconveniencing uninvolved editors, so consider this is boon.-- Dlohcierekim (talk) 03:23, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Bangladesh General election 2018

How does you change the colour of Bangladesh Awami League. Ehsan2186 (talk) 02:55, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Template:Bangladesh Awami League/meta/color. --Aréat (talk) 03:05, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

2015 Guyanese general election

I think the Caribbean Elections website is wrong. Their totals for Regions 7 and 8 do not match the GECOM reports (7, 8, Overall), and this is the difference between the two vote tallies. Cheers, Number 57 21:27, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks ! --Aréat (talk) 21:28, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

color on SSM map

Salut Aréat,

I'm a little leery of just changing the color of the map per your comment without any indication from you that you think my suggested color would be an improvement, since I just changed that color and I don't want to make things too chaotic. Although, what I came up with in response to you comment does strike me as an improvement. Do you agree?

Please ping me if you answer, or reply on the SSM talk page. — kwami (talk) 02:51, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

@Kwamikagami: I like it. Although imo the green coukd use a less flashy shade. Help:Using colours --Aréat (talk) 05:26, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

I agree about the green, but since the argument was about the distingishability of the colors, I wanted to be sure it was distinct! I'll copy your answer to the SSM talk page and upload the purple map since no-one else has commented one way or the other. (With pigments, purple is a blend of blue and red, so it's an iconic match as well.) — kwami (talk) 08:16, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

I think you could still use green but simply chose a dimmer shade. --Aréat (talk) 08:19, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you!

		The Mauritania Barnstar of National Merit
		Thank you for your contributions at Flag of Mauritania, which solved a year-long question regarding which version of the new flag is to be displayed on Wikipedia! Brendon the Wizard ✉️ ✨ 14:54, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

@BrendonTheWizard: Thank you Brendon! My pleasure, really. Speaking of flags, is there any way you could help me or advise me on how to make Template:Country data New Caledonia fit with the consensus we had on Flags of New Caledonia. The standard template should really be the one with the "both" qualifier, now. Cordially.--Aréat (talk) 15:01, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Perhaps we could start a Request for Comment on the talk page Template:Country data New Caledonia where we mention that a previous consensus was reached to display the two flags together on the main article, therefore to ensure consistency we also make the "both" qualifier the default setting for the template? Since we don't have the Template Editor permission to do it ourselves, I'm sure we could get someone to agree to do it per the consensus we reached. Brendon the Wizard ✉️ ✨ 15:18, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. I'm sadly quite inexperimented with such a procedure. Even more so on the english wiki. Is there any help page in which I could learn how exactly I could do this? --Aréat (talk) 15:22, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

I have started a discussion at Template talk:Country data New Caledonia. For information on the procedure for getting a consensus, there is helpful information on the page Wikipedia:Requests for comment Brendon the Wizard ✉️ ✨ 15:29, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

That's very helpful. Thanks a lot!--Aréat (talk) 15:31, 19 March 2019 (UTC)

PNG files

Hey Aréat. Are you able to fix png files so that the background is transparent? As you can see, the ones used in 1989 Polish legislative election#Results don't work! Cheers, Number 57 17:38, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

@Number 57: Ah, learning how to make .svg is actually pretty far up on my to-do list, as I have run in the same problem with electoral maps in the past. So I can't help you directly there, sorry. BUT I can recommend you the Parliament tool website [2] which I frequently use. It's pretty straightforward, but if you have any question on how to use it, don't hesitate to ask me. The tool add parties starting from the left. ;) The polish article doesn't seem to fit the color template, though, and I don't know about the left/right positions of these parties. --Aréat (talk) 17:52, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

2019 Moldovan constitutional crisis

Hey Aréat, I've had the 2019 Moldovan constitutional crisis on my watchlist for a while, great work. I'll add more to it soon. Could you take a look at the Talk page to discuss the Reactions section? Many thanks.

PS: also, don't forget to write a few words after each edit, it really helps out to understand who is doing what. A très vite. Pilaz (talk) 19:24, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, but while I wrote the french article, I didn't add much to the english one. Cordially.--Aréat (talk) 04:39, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

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My bad, I will be more careful in the future. Cordially.--Aréat (talk) 19:59, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Color

Ok, what is exactly your problem with the color changing? Maps nor even use yellow and most diagrams didn't use it either before I made them with yellow, which is almost never associated with the Broad Front and there are other Uruguayan parties that use yellow. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 09:32, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

All sources I've seen for years have been coloring Frente Amplio with the yellow shade of color [3], [4], [5], [6]. There's been no change of logo or use justifying changing it on a whim.--Aréat (talk) 09:38, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

For years? All thse examples are from 2019. I choose the yellow color for FA for the last election, the polls just started using after me. I also made the polling diagrams using yellow. Before that dark blue was used. And I can proved it in case you wonder. In any case, it never took off in Spanish, the graphics use for Senate and Chamber always used dark blue and also the new graphics for the current election. The maps also were made in blue because I never did them. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 09:45, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Can you please not revert me while I prove that your cherry picking about the yellow color is wrong? Just wait a little, nothing is going to happen just because blue is use for a while. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 09:49, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Yes, for years. I didn't collect random article for an argument a few years down on color. Those are sources of the yellow color use. If you believe a blue shade should be used, then present sources for it. And as I said, on wikipedia if people are disagreeing it's the previous situation which should remain. As you said, nothing is going to happen if you can't add your changes until proving it.--Aréat (talk) 09:51, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Fine, if you don't want to co-operate keep the wrong yellow color while I prove you whu yellow is wrong. First, this is the Broad Front oficial flag, do you see any yellow? Second, do you have any evidence of the use of yellow before 2019 for the FA? --Dereck Camacho (talk) 09:54, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

And this is its logo.I'm cooperating right now by having this discussion. Don't start being unpleasant just because you can't force your changes and only then explain it. I've provided sources of use in medias, where are yours? Listen, I don't intend to discuss this for ages over a color. Add sources, and/or have others users comment to agree with you, and it will be settled.--Aréat (talk) 10:06, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Continuing:

• The idea that FA’s more representative color is blue (whilst PN is lightblue) is old, as you can see here since 2009.
• Blue has being the color for the party’s article in Spanish since at least 2014 (although originally was [red)
• No election map of Uruguay uses yellow for FA, generally the color is red or blue
• Yellow is use only in poll’s graphics made by me btw.--Dereck Camacho (talk) 10:05, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a reliable source. These are colors used by others users here and there, with not one agreeing with the other. Please use real sources.--Aréat (talk) 10:11, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

I havn't finished. Diagrams made by Uruguayans for each one of the legislatures, use blue

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XLVII_C%C3%A1mara_de_Diputados_del_Uruguay.png
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XLVII_C%C3%A1mara_de_Diputados_del_Uruguay.png
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XLVII_Legislatura_de_la_C%C3%A1mara_de_Senadores_de_Uruguay.png
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XLVIII_C%C3%A1mara_de_Diputados_del_Uruguay.svg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XLVIII_Legislatura_de_la_C%C3%A1mara_de_Representantes_de_Uruguay.svg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XLVIII_Legislatura_de_la_C%C3%A1mara_de_Senadores_de_Uruguay.svg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XLVIII_Senado_del_Uruguay.svg
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C%C3%A1mara_de_Representantes_de_Uruguay_(2015-2020).png
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C%C3%A1mara_de_Senadores_de_Uruguay_(2015-2020).png

What is for you a "real source"? I choose yellow for FA, no one else used it before I suggested. Is not even part of its official flag. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 10:16, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Also we can hold a vote and maybe call the Uruguayan users and/or hold a vote in Uruguay's Wikiproject talk page by the way. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 10:17, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Citing sources That's the basic. Sources are from external medias, like the four I provided above. You have provided none so far. And different language version of wikipedia don't have to follow each other in any way. As I said, Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a reliable source : works by others wiki users aren't valid sources. The example above don't even use your shade of blue! --Aréat (talk) 10:21, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

In fact @Jopevidal: and @Santga: both have English accounts. Maybe they can help to resolve the issue giving us their input. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 10:23, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Any one can cherry pick, if those are your “sources”, I can find sources that show FA in another color, for example:

• Green http://radiouruguay.uy/fa-lidera-intencion-de-voto-con-un-34-segun-ultima-encuesta-de-cifra/ https://planetapolitico.com/elecciones-en-uruguay-ultimas-3-encuestas-dan-resultados-diferentes/ https://www.cifra.com.uy/index.php/2019/09/12/intencion-de-voto-en-las-elecciones-nacionales/
• Darkblue https://ladiaria.com.uy/articulo/2019/10/encuesta-de-opcion-por-primera-vez-cabildo-abierto-se-coloca-en-tercer-lugar-por-encima-del-partido-colorado/
• Torquise https://ladiaria.com.uy/articulo/2019/7/encuesta-de-grupo-radar-posterior-a-las-internas-el-fa-venceria-al-pn-en-las-elecciones-nacionales/
• Orange https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/Encuesta-de-intencion-de-voto-situa-a-FA-y-PN-en-situacion-de-empate-uc717656
• Blue http://www.perfiles.uy/texto-diario/mostrar/1410658/encuesta-opcion-consultores-empate-entre-frente-amplio-partido-nacional --Dereck Camacho (talk) 10:30, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

The idea is to have sources for the shade you're proposing.--Aréat (talk) 10:33, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Well if that's the case your shade is not the exact yellow that appears in your sources. I have no problem to change the shade to another shade of blue if that's what worries you. One that -I guess- corresponds with the graphics of whatever source you like. But the truth is, there's no way to establish which is the right color for FA, as different news reports have use all sorts of colors from blue, dark blue, green, orange and red. So, we have to choose one but certainly would not be by checking polls' graphic as there's no such thing as one. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 10:38, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

It seem to me the sources I gave all use a goldish shade of yellow. Anyways, if you believe there isn't one shade, even adding sources for green or orange, why are you insisting so much on changing it in the first place?--Aréat (talk) 10:41, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Because I'm convince that yellow is not the most representative color, is dark blue. I myself suggested yellow in 2017 but my rationale was that as no one objected, there was consensus. Now, I should be all for keeping yellow as was my suggestion, however I came to realize that most graphics and maps use dark blue, and is easier to switch yellow to blue than the other way around. Besides there are other relevant parties that use yellow, for example Cabildo Abierto. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 10:46, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

It does make sense. Fine, then, let's go with the shade of blue you're proposing. I will make the according change on the french wiki. Cordially.--Aréat (talk) 10:49, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, and I am very sorry if I acted too rude, I sometimes let me carry away. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 10:51, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Well, I won't throw you the first rock, it's not like it didn't happen to me as well in the past. But the wikipedia's way of doing those is pretty solid in the end. After the few first back and forth edit, just freezing it and discussing, with sources and arguments, bringing in others users if needed. It work out way more often than not. Have a good day. ;)--Aréat (talk) 11:00, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

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Please do not edit war in a source which does not support the claims being cited to it. Nick-D (talk) 03:31, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Well, no. I'm not in an edit war. I did one revert, and another later on with the addition of a . R3R does not apply. Please don't hastily put such a message on my page. Cordially. --Aréat (talk) 03:44, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes, you have edit warred this material into the article twice. There's no kind of opt-out for adding a citation needed tag - if anything, this makes it worse as you can't prove that what you are re-adding is actually true. Nick-D (talk) 03:57, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

If you see something wrong, you prove it or ask for a source. Don't recklessly delete entire sections on a whim. I already provided sources after a short timed search. I know it take some minutes doing so, but don't go the lazy way. --Aréat (talk) 04:03, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for adding sources which support the material. It's a much better thing to do than restoring faked references which do not (which is both lazy and unhelpful to readers). Nick-D (talk) 04:05, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes, yes. You're absolutely. Now stop bothering me.--Aréat (talk) 04:09, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

Incomplete results category

Hello. I noticed you removed this from a few articles. In some cases it was added because the results were not final (e.g. 2019 North Macedonian presidential election is based on only a 98.63% vote count). Maybe worth checking before removing the category! Cheers, Number 57 13:09, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

Sorry about this. I will try to be more careful in the future.--Aréat (talk) 13:13, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

No problem, it wasn't obvious! Number 57 13:14, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

2019–20 Croatian presidential election

Greetings, please go to this source: https://www.izbori.hr/pre2019/rezultati/1/ and see that You have removed the correct percentages from the results table. Please check before reverting the correct changes. The percentages changed when 100% of the votes have been counted. Thanks in advance. --Tuvixer (talk) 18:33, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

The source always round down even when the next number is 9, leading to a total of 99.93. On Wikipedia we round up when it's above 5, as to have a total of 100. As for the boldening, we've been several users telling you it's unecessary. Cordially.--Aréat (talk) 18:39, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

You are wrong. According to the Croatian electoral code, in the first round of the Presidential elections the percentage is calculated with the number of voters who have gone out to vote, so the votes a candidate got are divided with 1.904.461. That is why, for example, Milanović has 29,55% and not 29,56%. Please stop reverting. Please read this: https://www.zakon.hr/z/358/Zakon-o-izboru-Predsjednika-Republike-Hrvatske it is the law regulating elections for the president in Croatia. If You don't understand Croatian then please don't revert, ask what You don't understand here and I will try to answer or open a topis on the talk page of the article, just please stop reverting with wrong percentages. Thanks in advance. --Tuvixer (talk) 18:50, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Well, do you agree that the current percentages, once added together, make 99,93 and not 100? And that for example 562783/1903861 make 29.56 and not 29.55?--Aréat (talk) 18:53, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Again, you don't divide the votes for Milanović with 1.903.861 but with 1.904.461. Thanks in advance. --Tuvixer (talk) 18:59, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Could you tell me what these two different numbers refer to?--Aréat (talk) 19:03, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

pristupilo glasovanju = 1.904.461 means those who have gone to the polling stations.

glasovalo birača (prema glasačkim listićima) = 1.903.861 means those who have actually voted (according to the ballots) Thanks. --Tuvixer (talk) 19:08, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. Could you update the table with the proper total and add a line for these missing votes, then?--Aréat (talk) 19:30, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

I don't think that is necessary, but OK. --Tuvixer (talk) 19:38, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Well, this whole discussion is a consequence of that lacking info leading users to think there's an error in the data, isn't it? Thanks, anyways. ;) --Aréat (talk) 19:41, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Article deletion

Hello. Just to let you know, as I'm an admin, I can recover deleted articles if they need to be reinstated. If the Malagasy referendum does come back, I can undelete the article exactly as it was (including the full history). Cheers, Number 57 12:30, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

Ah, that would sure come in handy. I didn't knew. --Aréat (talk) 12:35, 18 January 2020 (UTC)

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Artsakhian election

In case you're also doing the calculations, I've totalled the figures from the CEC website for both president and parliament, although the CEC did not have party details for the presidential candidates. The number of registered voters is different due to the results from one district for the president being slightly different to the others (this one, which has two fewer registered voters than the parliamentary election and is in a different colour, which may mean it is even more preliminary??). Cheers, Number 57 21:35, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

You went way farther than I did. Thanks! Luckily there's good sources in french about Armenian and Artsakhian events because of the diaspora there, so I think it won't be too hard eventually getting the full results. ;) --Aréat (talk) 00:38, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

@Number 57: This source here [7] has an explanation for the difference in votes, as well as giving the party affiliation of the candidates. ;)--Aréat (talk) 01:56, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Uruguayan primaries

I also questioned this when Fadesga added them. However, they are actually national elections, where every citizen is entitled to vote (see this story). I did wonder, however, whether they could just be included in the main general election article articles, although I guess they are several months apart. What do you think? Probably defintely worth a discussion with Fadesga as he does some good work on Uruguayan elections. Number 57 12:08, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Every citizens being able to vote in a party's primaries doesn't seem unusual to me. It's what happen in France, 2016 The Republicans (France) presidential primary for example, and we don't include them in the french template. I don't question the existence of the articles, and they definitely earn to be more than mentioned in the related elections pages, but they don't belong in a template national elections, in my opinion. They're not elections for a governing mandate in itself.--Aréat (talk) 12:27, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

There's also how we don't have a separate line of primaries for Argentina.--Aréat (talk) 12:34, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

Fair enough. As long as they are linked to in the general election article, that should be fine. Cheers, Number 57 13:00, 9 April 2020 (UTC)

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Template:Zimbabwean elections

Hi, just wanted to reach out and see if we can reach an understanding about Template:Zimbabwean elections, my edit of which you reverted. I definitely don't want an edit war, so I just want to talk to you privately and share why I think they should be removed, at least until even one (1!) is not still a red link.

First, I'm guessing you're not Zimbabwean (correct me if I'm wrong) but local elections in Zimbabwe are not on the same scale as in countries like the US and UK, for instance. There are mayoral elections, city council elections, and things like that, but overall Zimbabwe has a very centralized political structure and many local/regional offices are appointed by the national government. So to say "local elections" really refers to a scattering of municipal elections, and not much else. I think it would be better to have that content on individual city articles for clarity. I doubt the user who added those links to the template is Zimbabwean, and he probably does not realize this either. Looking at his contribs it appears almost all of his edits are to election-related navboxes. In good faith of course.

Second, removing them would be in accordance with WP:REDLINK, which states, "Red links may be used on navigation templates with links to existing articles, but they cannot be excessive. Editors who add excessive red links to navboxes are expected to actively work on building those articles, or they may be removed from the template" (emphasis mine). The user who added them is clearly not actively working on building those articles. Furthermore, the user neglected to add red links for all years, even though local elections (however small!) happen every year and not just every time there is a parliamentary/presidential election. If as in your words, there's "no reason to remove them. They happened, the article simply hasn't been created yet," should we add red links to the template for every year since 1980 -- and even before? I think that would be far too cluttered.

I think I've made a good explanation of why they should be removed. Feel free to let me know if you have thoughts on this. If I don't hear back, I will assume you understand what I'm saying and I'll remove them. Best, Jgefd (talk) 17:29, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Ah, I'm more of a secondary user here, as I'm mainly on the french wiki. @Number 57: would be way more capable than me in argumenting this. Still, in election templates, we usually add the elections even if none has a page for now. I understand your concern about election years not being national wide, but Zimbabwe is hardly the only country doing it this way, and we still add the years in their templates. Surely you can see that removing them entirely isn't helping ? There would be no difference from a country that doesn't hold local election.--Aréat (talk) 19:13, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

I don't agree with the removal – I don't think the list is excessive, and it provides a record of the years in which they were held (if it's incomplete, the answer is to add the missing ones, not delete the ones we know). Also, it's very disappointing to see a 'you don't know because you're not from here' attitude taken. Number 57 19:33, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi, @Aréat:, thanks for your response. @Number 57:, no offense intended, and sorry if it came off that way. It's just that I often notice people editing articles about Zimbabwe are not very familiar with the country's politics, especially with surface-level edits such as this. Large-scale local elections do happen in many countries and in those cases deserve articles - but I suggest you search up "local elections in Zimbabwe [year]" and you'll notice nothing comes up. I think in this case they will be red links forever. But if you both think we should leave them, I respect that. Jgefd (talk) 18:47, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Please do not remove accessibility features and make the site hostile to the blind

As I mentioned in my edit summaries, see MOS:TABLECAPTION, MOS:SMALL, etc. Please ping me if you have any questions. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:30, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

And you have done this again. Why are you doing this? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:34, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

There's simply no reason to use such a table, with unecessary centering of party's names, greying of background, which make it more difficult to read on first glance.--Aréat (talk) 09:35, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Aréat, There is, which I have explained to you: accessibility. If you want to change stylistic things like the color grey, that can be done with style sheets. Did you even read the pages where I referred you? Do you know anything about accessibility and semantics? Did you consider users with disabilities at all when you reverted? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:39, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

I've read it, and seen nothing indicating the left column must be centered, bolded on dark grey background. It make it less easier to read in the first place. This is absurd.--Aréat (talk) 09:41, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Aréat, Centering, grey color, bold, etc. are all style issues as I have said multiple times. Have you ever read Help:Table#Scope? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:42, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Look at the table you're proposing and honestly tell me it's easier to read a text that is black on dark grey? This is obviously wrote by people who don't use it. You can't make it less easier to read on a whim.--Aréat (talk) 09:46, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Aréat, If it's hard to read on a whim, then why don't you change the styles? You didn't answer my question. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:56, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

So just to be clear here, even tho Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Data tables tutorial explicitly says to use scopes for columns and rows and you have read this, you are refusing to do it? And that page makes it clear that this is for the benefit of our blind readers but you don't care because it makes bold text with a grey background? I just want to make sure that I've got the facts here. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:47, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

And you have also read WP:3RR and yet you reverted four times on that page. Again, just want to make sure that I know that you know better. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:49, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Don't grand stand me. I have a very poor vision and I reverted the changes you made to a table that made it way more difficult to read, and that isn't used anywhere on the election pages I've been participating on for years, where the tables have been fine to read. I reverted the pages to the version they were before you went there, imposed your changes and kept reverting despite being asked to go to the talk page.--Aréat (talk) 09:55, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Aréat, So that is a "yes", you read those obligatory policy pages and refused to abide by them because you don't want to. And you did this in spite of the fact that it makes the site easier to use for the blind and refuse to use stylesheets in order to make it more appealing to you visually. And you reverted four times because you felt justified in making the site less accessible. Is there anything I'm missing? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:57, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

You're obviously not here to discuss why your change is better. It's worse, but it's written somewhere it should be better, so you're applying it, and threatening those who alarm you that it is worse. That's not a good way to do things, you know?--Aréat (talk) 10:04, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Aréat, Please tell me the best way to make other editors care about accessibility for the blind and convince them not to edit-war to remove those features and I will do that in the future. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:06, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Also, as I have asked you several times now, why don't you use style sheets to change the styling of the cells that you want changed? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:07, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

That's the current table.--Aréat (talk) 10:11, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Aréat, That in no way answers my question. Please see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Edit_warring ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:15, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Aréat, there is project-wide consensus in MOS:DTT that data tables should be marked up with row and column headers and proper scopes for them. This is to benefit screen readers and is not something that may be changed at an editor's whim. It is unfortunate that you find particular colour combinations difficult, but even with my fading eyesight in old age, I am able to read the text against the standard row header's background quite well, and the combination passes WCAG 2.0 AAA standard. In your case, you could add something like

th { background-color:#FFF }

to your personal user stylesheet to provide a white background for you. It is also possible to add the class "plainrowheaders" to the table, which will remove the bold and centring from the table row headers for everyone. The table needs to be updated for those using screen readers, and I'm happy to help you if you need any. --RexxS (talk) 16:59, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Partial block from 2020 North Macedonian parliamentary election

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