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Roy Moore

I reverted my own edit here to due apparent copyvio, I would however recommend a more recent photo if possible. Valoem ^{talk contrib} 16:46, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

If you can find a freely-licensed image, sure, but I don't think anyone has, unless there's someone on Wikipedia who's gone to a Moore event and gotten a photo. Mélencron (talk) 16:47, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Sondages

Bonsoir,

J'ai vu votre travail ici. Je pense que vous serez intéressé par un travail analogue que j'avais entamé il y a quelques années. Il existait un article sur le Wikipédia francophone intitulé "Popularité de Nicolas Sarkozy" qui fut supprimé en 2012. Je l'ai récupéré et j'avais commencé à rajouter les chiffres de François Hollande : « Popularité du pouvoir exécutif en France ».

Nous pourrions éventuellement collaborer, qu'en dites-vous ?

Kahlores (talk) 20:28, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Thoughts on this page

Hi Mélencron, I've grown accustomed to seeing you regularly edit political pages like myself and was wondering what your thoughts are on this page I stumbled across - List of left and far-left parties in Europe. I have done some fixes to it and added a clean up template. From the looks of its talk page it has largely been abandoned for over five years now. I was thinking it may fall into the category of being an article for deletion and was just wondering if I could get your thoughts as another experienced editor. Thanks for your time. Helper201 (talk) 00:23, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

You could nominate it for deletion, but I'm not sure what article it'd fall under. I don't think its existence is particularly unusual (falls in line with Category:Lists of political parties), but it is true that many of these lists of political parties simply synthesize content from other articles and often aren't well-cited themselves. (The article on the list of far-right political parties, for example, is for the most part unreferenced – basically just a bulleted list.) Mélencron (talk) 00:29, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

OK, thanks for your input. I have nominated it for deletion. Hopefully it will be reviewed by people who regularly edit political pages. Helper201 (talk) 00:44, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

Branflakes452701

Just noting you that I've filled a sockpuppet report at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Branflakes452701 in the case you want to add or provide something else, seeing that you seem to have been involved on this issue before and that this guy seems to have returned as History1245789 after his IP range was blocked. Impru20 (talk) 16:06, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your work keeping Opinion polling for the next German federal election updated with the latest polls! Impru20 (talk) 02:05, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

And you for the incredible amount of work you've put into improving coverage of Spanish elections on Wikipedia! It's something that I've always wanted/planned to do with French articles but finding reliable data on results of older elections is difficult. Mélencron (talk) 14:15, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

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Blocking 67.231.171.38

Mélencron I want to know how many times someone has to vandalize articles until they are block since 67.231.171.38 has vandalized Nathan Bedford Forrest, Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2020, Mike Johnson (Louisiana politician), Lauren Bush and Ken Ham. Jon698 (talk) 15:51, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

Just so long as they've received a level 4 warning and vandalized at least one time after that (within the same month). Mélencron (talk) 16:00, 21 January 2018 (UTC)

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2018 United States Senate elections

Are you aware of how the United States Senate works? CTF83! 00:13, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

You're aware that the Republicans already hold a majority in the Senate? Parties that hold majorities are represented with {{steady}} because... they don't need to lose seats to maintain a majority. Mélencron (talk) 00:26, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

The way I see it, they can still lose 1 seat, have a 50-50 tie, and still have the "majority" with Pence. But I'm not too concerned to argue my case more than that. CTF83! 02:38, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

The way the parameter is used in election infoboxes is to show the swing needed for a party to obtain a majority of seats – I'm aware of how a 50/50 Senate works, but the fact is that the Republicans already hold an outright majority, and in those cases, we don't show how many seats parties can lose and still retain a majority – since you don't need to lose seats in order to have a majority. Mélencron (talk) 02:42, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

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French constituencies

Hello,

Maybe you've noticed (like me) that some French parliamentarian constituencies are spelled wrong (Paris's; Yvelines's; Seine-Saint Denis's). Do you know if there exists a reason for this general error? Thanks.

WhatsUpWorld (talk) 01:38, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Are you saying they're wrong now? Because that's correct (unless you're referring to Seine-Saint-Denis) – only plural forms don't need the s following the apostrophe. Mélencron (talk) 01:44, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Re. what you're doing regard to links, see MOS:SPECIFICLINK – always link to the constituency article and don't pipe the department if a constituency article already exists. Mélencron (talk) 01:46, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm following the American model in the inflow but using the full link in the text. WhatsUpWorld (talk) 18:13, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Well, then, I think the American way of doing it is wrong. Mélencron (talk) 18:23, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

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Wondering if you could please help with this situation

Hi, Mélencron. I was wondering if you could please add your thoughts to what is going on here please - Talk:List of left-wing publications in the United Kingdom. I am constantly being reverted by a disruptive editor who is ignoring what has long been agreed upon (the political position of a British newspaper) and is subsequently removing said newspaper from the article. The newspaper had long been listed there and the position of the newspaper has long stood on its own page after much discussion. Any help you could provide would be much appreciated. Thanks. Helper201 (talk) 17:13, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Please can you add your thoughts Mélencron? Or if you know any other British political editors other than myself, if you could please pass this on to them. This really needs involvement from more editors than it currently has. Helper201 (talk) 02:01, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

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Flag in elections

"usually leadership elections don't use any flag."[1].

Did you check ALL THE OTHER articles on elections in UKIP? There is a handy list at the bottom. — kashmīrī ^TALK 00:01, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

It's not something other parties' leadership elections include: say, Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2017, Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2016, Conservative Party (UK) leadership election, 2016, etc. – and their logos are probably simple enough to be also considered {{PD-textlogo}} as well. Mélencron (talk) 00:13, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Chart

Hello, I've seen that you make a chart for the German federal election and I would like to ask you. Which application do you use to make it? Thank you for your response. ShakalFunxny (talk) 14:50, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi, I just use a spreadsheet in Google Sheets to do the calculations; the image uploaded to Wikipedia is actually tacked together in GIMP (combining the legend, chart, most recent value of the average, and date last updated). The values of the chart itself are a 14-day weighted moving average using the last value from each pollster. Mélencron (talk) 14:54, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

RFC at elections and results project talk page

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The Centrists

Hi The party became NC/LC in 2018. --Panam2014 (talk) 21:00, 20 March 2018 (UTC)

Should we move the article ? And for the logo ? --Panam2014 (talk) 12:35, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Senate election page

Hello, can you point me to a guideline or consensus in that area so I know for the future? My original understanding was that incumbent party was first followed by the others in alphabetical order. 331dot (talk) 00:57, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

It's an assumption based on what I've seen elsewhere on both U.S./non-U.S. articles (order by previous party performance in legislative elections) and the fact that Libertarians are usually listed third in infoboxes. Mélencron (talk) 01:08, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

That works for me. Thank you 331dot (talk) 01:54, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

RI

That's 2 reverts by you within 24 hrs at Rhode Island gubernatorial election, 2018. You do realize you've just breached the 1RR rule for post-1932 American politics articles. GoodDay (talk) 13:34, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

No, I didn't realize that there was a 1RR rule. Mélencron (talk) 13:34, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Recommend you undo your revert, then. GoodDay (talk) 13:36, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

I already did so before you replied. Mélencron (talk) 13:37, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Cool. GoodDay (talk) 13:37, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Ramlati Ali

Hi She is backed by LREM. Also, LR rejet FN's call for Chakrina. --Panam2014 (talk) 11:01, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

(1) only in the second round, (2) my understanding from the articles I saw was that it was rejected on an individual basis, no? I don't recall any official rejection from the party itself (even if it didn't officially accept the FN's support either); see this diff where I try to break the difference. Mélencron (talk) 12:17, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

Anti-chronological order

I do see anti-chronologoical order used very often in US polling, but it doesn't work very well on Wikipedia which is a historical encylcopedia not a voter's guide. Can we find a way to discuss the merits of it to develop a consensus? Its mere prevelance isn't a good reason, it becomes a tautology: it's everywhere because we revert it otherwise, which makes it everywhere. Thanks.—GoldRingChip 13:34, 13 April 2018 (UTC)

• Well what do you think?—GoldRingChip 14:03, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

There was an E&R RfC on this which produced no consensus to change the existing order; sortable tables are ideal as they'd allow using either, but that involves applying "data-sort-value" retroactively to hundreds of articles. Mélencron (talk) 17:02, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

Polling

Your sandbox page User:Mélencron/YouGov is very interesting but the numbers don't match with the pdfs. The results correspond to the date one line above. For instance, on the poll done on 27–28 Mar 2018, the results {5;16;18;20;10;31} are shown on the February line. Likewise, the results of February are shown in January. Haven't checked the rest, except May 2017, which is good. I don't know where the numbers for March 2018 come from. Kahlores (talk) 12:34, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Huh, how'd you stumble upon that? Just curious. Also, the leftmost column in most YouGov PDFs recalls the result of the previous poll (if applicable) and the second-from-left column shows the data for the current poll, usually. I initially made that mistake while entering the data and had to go back to correct it. Mélencron (talk) 13:07, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

I have the same interest in opinion polling as you have. User:Mélencron/baromètre_politique has been put among my large list of favorite pages, following this one for France. Then I peeked at your contributions page.

As for the PDF... I didn't check the column headers. My bad! Kahlores (talk) 15:26, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

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Ecology Generation

Hi The party has now 2 deputies. Could you create a color ? --Panam2014 (talk) 21:06, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Okay, I already set a color for the specific meta template a few days ago, but I've also updated the other as well now. Mélencron (talk) 21:09, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Media Quotes Wahlkreisprognose.de

There are some quotes in media of wahlkreisprognose.de. For example:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/friedrichshain-kreuzberg-hans-christian-stroebele-der-kampf-um-sein-erbe-a-1164901.html http://www.taz.de/!5436959/ http://www.paz-online.de/Stadt-Peine/Prognose-fuer-den-Peiner-Wahlkreis-Pahlmann-liegt-aktuell-vor-Heil

It's also quoted in german wiki-Version: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahl_zum_20._Deutschen_Bundestag/Umfragen_und_Prognosen — Preceding unsigned comment added by Datadropping (talk • contribs) 23:47, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Quotes aren't the same as clients... Mélencron (talk) 00:52, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress#Capitals

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress#Capitals. —GoldRingChip 12:53, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

Hi wasn't sure where to message you exactly. The candidate would like to change that picture as his default and wants certain information updated. How would we go about editing that? This is regarding Rocky De La Fuente's wikipedia page. -S

May 2018

Sorry, my bad Just wanted to show my support to my current candidate in US Elections T.T

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Talk:Communist Party of China

Hi, Mélencron. I have opened a new discussion at the bottom of this page. I would really appreciate your input on this. Thank you. Helper201 (talk) 16:15, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

French constituency graphics

Hi, thanks for reminding me of my promise to work on the French constituency pages. I noticed you uploaded some maps to Wikimedia derived from existing vector graphics. I'm going to run through quite a lot of them in alphabetical order tomorrow, so I don't want to duplicate effort. I'm also running down in alphabetical order inserting the same template as the Ain constituencies. The French language wiki doesn't have those graphics, so I'm not sure whether to go over and insert them there too. For constituencies created in the 2012 boundary changes I've tried to incorporate text translated from the French wiki explaining this, as without context it seems like they're just incomplete. Maswimelleu (talk) 00:04, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

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Talk:National Rally (France)

I have provided a source on the talk page above about possibly renaming the page National Front Youth and was wondering if I could please get your thoughts on that talk page? Thank you for your time. Helper201 (talk) 02:26, 17 June 2018 (UTC)

Re: Opinion polling for the French regional elections, 2015

Okay, show me a Wikipedia policy where you can use one citation for an entire article. Snickers2686 (talk) 23:25, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

In addition, could you also show me that article that links to this regional elections article thus not qualifying it as WP:ORPHAN? Snickers2686 (talk) 23:28, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

You are aware of the existence of Special:WhatLinksHere, correct? Furthermore, the links within the polling tables, just as with every other opinion polling article, are considered the sources. Seriously, it's common sense. (All other text is essentially a footnote.) Mélencron (talk) 00:32, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Wow, thanks for the response and explanation–I think...next time though, try replying without being so condescending. Happy editing! Snickers2686 (talk) 04:05, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm a bit easily irritated – I shouldn't have responded like that, no hard feelings intended. Thanks for reaching out, by the way. Mélencron (talk) 13:47, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Mistake

Hi, sorry, this revert was a mistake by me. Have a good day.--Concus Cretus (talk) 10:11, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

No worries – I've also done the same before. Mélencron (talk) 13:44, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Maps and Campaign Poll Graphs

Hello Mélencron. This is the first ever Wiki anything I have edited, so apologies if I am breaking protocol. I am looking for a map and a campign wave poll graph for each of the 2017 French, German, and British elections to use in a Pallgrave Pivot (Pallgrave MacMillan doesn't really pay the authors of these things FYI, and require any images or illustrations we use we have secured permission in advance of submission). I notice that you have done France and Germany. Did you do the UK as well? I am really looking for a campaign wave poll graph and map from each country context that looks similarly structured and formatted. We will of course give a proper citation for the graphic in the book

Thanks for any help you provide. Deltondaigle (talk) 18:35, 21 July 2018 (UTC) Deltondaigle (talk) 18:35, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Your work on election polling

First of all, thank you for your up to date work on elections and election polling throughout Europe. I’m looking to start contributing by updating election information wherever needed, but being new to editing Wikipedia, need some pointers. Are there any basic etiquette points I should keep in mind while contributing? I’m not sure if this is where you typically message people or not, so please inform me if I’m in the wrong.

Thank you.

Thank Fhearguis (talk) 02:39, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Hi Fhearguis, where are you looking to start? I don't have a particular guide or anything, but Help:Getting started might help you get to know the ropes in terms of basic formatting/syntax as well as notable guidelines and policies. A good way to learn is really by observing what other editors do and don't do on the types of articles you're interested in working on, but it could also be helpful if you could offer a few examples of areas you'd be interested in working on or what kind of tasks you'd like to accomplish in order for me (or others who watch this talk page) to offer more specific advice. Best, Mélencron (talk) 03:26, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Election editing

First of all, apologies if I’m incorrectly replying to your last message on your talk page. Please do let me know if there is a better way to respond to you. Secondly, in reference to your question about what I’m looking to focus on for the time being, I am currently looking to work on adding portraits to the pages of legislators/candidates. Specifically, I’ve found the National Assembly of South Africa to be rather lacking in portraits and thus would like to add portraits for the leaders/presidents/chairpeople of multiple parties. Any help you could recommend would be appreciated. For one thing I am having issues finding reliable images that are not limited to non-commercial purposes, as, from what I can tell, Wikimedia does not allow copyrighted images free to use in a non-commercial capacity, which is the copyright standard for the Government of South Africa website. Fhearguis (talk) 17:31, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

@Fhearguis: As far as I know, images under a non-commercial license can't be uploaded to Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons, unfortunately. Freely-licensed portraits are hard to come by as they're also usually not covered by fair use. In that case, either a user has to upload a photo they took of the individual under an open license (e.g. a compatible Creative Commons license or release into public domain), or find one under a Creative Commons or other open license that allows non-commercial reuse elsewhere. Google Images lets you filter images by copyright status, and both Flickr and YouTube can be useful places to look for freely-licensed images of individuals, but even in most of those cases it can be difficult to find an appropriately-licensed image. Feel free to let me know if you have any other questions, but know that I'm just one editor and you'll probably get a quicker or more comprehensive response on the help desk or one of Wikipedia's many noticeboards. Happy editing, Mélencron (talk) 01:22, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress#Chronological order of polls

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress#Chronological order of polls. —GoldRingChip 12:40, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Opinion polls

Hi, I have seen that you have created graphs of Opinion polls and I would like to know with what program you do them, so that I can also contribute to make diagrams of that quality. Thanks! --Stalin990 (talk) 23:23, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

@Stalin990: Hey, I use Google Sheets to create a spreadsheet listing the opinion polls to calculate averages and create the graphs, and stitch together the part on the right (with the most recent values) in GIMP. For that diagram at least, I use a two-week weighted moving average, line thickness of 3px, point size of 1px, and fade the color for the individual points so that the lines are more visible in comparison. Hope that helps! Mélencron (talk) 23:29, 22 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! I will start with the creation of the graphics! --Stalin990 (talk) 00:28, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

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Candidate photos

Hi, sorry to bother but I was wondering whats the criteria for uploading candidate images correctly? I've noticed that there aren't images for Josh Hawley or Mike Braun in the Missouri/Indiana senate races yet. Thanks! VietPride10 (talk) 19:10, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

@VietPride10: the main thing is that the image has to be freely licensed (i.e., usually either with a Creative Commons license that permits both commercial and noncommercial use or a public domain image). This almost always means that you'll be able to find images for incumbents (just search their name in Google Images and add "site:.gov" at the end) but it's more difficult for challengers because the contents of their site are subject to copyright. In that case, you could try hunting for images by, for example, asking someone with the campaign itself to upload it and send permission for use to WP:OTRS – that's how we got the first image of Doug Jones! – or combing through Flickr for images that are correctly licensed (i.e., CC but not "NC" – can't upload noncommercial images), YouTube for footage that might contain them (I think it's a standard Creative Commons 1.0 license for those using the CC rather than the standard YouTube license), or searching "site:.gov" or "site:.mil" for their names. Most of the time, though, you won't have luck with these methods for finding challengers' images unless they're already in images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (occasionally a candidate might have appeared at some other event but might not be mentioned in the initial description). Hope this helps – it's certainly a challenge to track down images that are appropriately licensed for Wikipedia, which is why there often aren't any in the first place. Mélencron (talk) 20:09, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

@Mélencron: Screenshotting youtube ads for candidates is fine right? I've seen it done w/ John James & Andria Tupola. I'm trying to find a better image for Gretchen Whitmer, and the senate candidates that still don't have a picture. VietPride10 (talk) 20:15, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

@VietPride10: If they're under a Creative Commons license, should be fine (you can see the license below the description). Mélencron (talk) 20:47, 15 August 2018 (UTC)

Discussion on Libertarian candidate in Virginia senate race article

Hey, I noticed you have edited the United States Senate election in Virginia, 2018, and just wanted to invite you to participate in a vote on the talk page about whether or not Libertarian candidate Matt Waters should be included in the infobox.74.110.185.157 (talk) 12:09, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

US election articles

I've no probs with including all ballot access candidates, in the infoboxes. We can always delete those who finish with less then 5% of the vote after the results are known :) GoodDay (talk) 16:35, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

French National Assembly

Hi,

Have you a neutral diagram of the French National Assembly please ? I find the 2002 repartition of political groups and I want to make the diagramm.

Thanks, Brice-Royal (talk) 15:30, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

@Brice-Royal: try using this tool. Let me know if you need any help. Mélencron (talk) 15:34, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

By election in la Reunion

Hi Could you create an article? --Panam2014 (talk) 19:35, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

I'm busy but aware of it – might create it retroactively a few weeks from now (after the result), ping me about it then to remind me. Mélencron (talk) 19:42, 16 September 2018 (UTC)

@Panam2014: what I mean to say is, my focus is on the U.S. until November. After then, I intend to pivot back to France in view of the European elections, and you can expect I will return to regular editing in that area then. Right now I'm just busy in my own life which is preventing me from spending sustained time writing/editing, however. Mélencron (talk) 23:36, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Hi. Could you create it? --Panam2014 (talk) 19:48, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

Okay, I'll try to do Essonne before next Sunday and the other one after that. Mélencron (talk) 21:12, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Polls

Care to explain why rounding is "the standard?" It misrepresents the margin of difference. The difference between Stitt and Edmondson is about 2%, but rounding (which I honestly don't see any good reason in doing) makes it look like he leads by 3%. The same issue pops up with the older polls, too. Master of Time (talk) 20:48, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

@Master of Time:: it's how all polls are being presented on U.S. election articles, so I follow that de facto consensus as do the other editors who are focused on U.S. election polling. Mélencron (talk) 20:49, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Marcia Squier US Senate Michigan

Green nominee Marcia Squier has recieved 5% in polling from Mlive and Free Press Detroit. She is also planned to be included in a televised debate with James and Stabenow in Lansing. This warrants her spot in the Infobox, so please stop undoing users' edits. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kraanky (talk • contribs) 01:32, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

The copy of the poll in the article literally does not say this. Mélencron (talk) 03:10, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

As you seemed to have undone my edit because Marcia is not polling at 5%, I would like you to please direct me to the guidelines in which candidates are allowed to be included into the U.S election infobox. If there is no specified guideline and it is just by consensus I believe Michigan Citizens, and others who have stated they want her listed should have her listed. I would also be willing to add all ballot nominees if that will suffice for you.Duijinn 21:54, 5 October 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dillan.neelis (talk • contribs)

South Dakota Governor Poll

Just curious. What's "FTE"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=861655004

—208.53.224.217 (talk) 02:10, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

FiveThirtyEight. Mélencron (talk) 02:40, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Ah, thanks. If you don't like this edit, feel free to modify or undo it. I won't protest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?&diff=861668687

—208.53.224.217 (talk) 03:38, 29 September 2018 (UTC)

Vandalism revert on Griffith, Indiana

Seldom do we have the privilege of serving both the vandal and the encyclopedia by reverting vandalism. Hope you got it before his (wide) fiancee saw it. Ha! John from Idegon (talk) 05:03, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Your edit to Alaska gubernatorial election, 2018

In response to your edit summary of "Wha?" on Alaska gubernatorial election, 2018: Michael D. Corey is a Superior Court judge who is facing a retention eletion. He is also facing organized opposition to his retention due to an unpopular end result stemming from one of his cases. It's all over the news if you care, so I needn't divulge any details here and violate the fragile sensibilities of those who scream "BLP violation" at every possible opportunity. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 01:40, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Pretty sure it was just a copy/paste error – Matthew Corey's the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Connecticut. Mélencron (talk) 02:35, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Michigan gubernatorial election, 2018

The linked citation states the following: In the contest to replace Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, Democratic candidate Gretchen Whitmer is ahead of Republican Bill Schuette (52% to 47% among decided voters). So you edit is incorrect. Steelbeard1 (talk) 14:18, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

@Steelbeard1: Please look closer. The linked citation contains this file, which is where the number of third-party and undecided voters is provided and which is used in the list. The "decided voters" numbers merely strip out undecideds from these totals. Mélencron (talk) 14:21, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Then I will correct the citation. (talk) 14:28, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

I linked to main page because it contained the dates, but in hindsight that makes more sense as it seems to be causing confusion. Mélencron (talk) 14:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

So it is very VERY important to make the edits SUPPORT THE LINKED CITATIONS. Steelbeard1 (talk) 14:34, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Florida & Georgia gubernatorial races

Howdy. I think were' going to need 'semi-protection' at the articles Florida gubernatorial election, 2018 & Georgia gubernatorial election, 2018, as partisan IPs keep trying to insert their preferred winner. GoodDay (talk) 16:02, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2020

It looks like one of your edits dropped this Rasmussen Reports poll. Was that intentional or not? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:34, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

See the talk page – the question wording asked about what candidate Dems thought had the best chance against Trump in 2020, not about who they supported. (Specifically, "Which Democrat has the best chance of defeating Trump in 2020 - Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Terry McAuliffe, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren or someone else?") Mélencron (talk) 13:25, 13 November 2018 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:00, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

About 'Capitalization of "congressional district"'

Alone, 'congressional district' is a regular noun and is not capitalized. However, something like "8th Congressional District" refers to a specific thing which means its a proper noun and is supposed to be capitalized. — Preceding unsigned comment added by GavinTheViking (talk • contribs) 03:17, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Again - a specific congressional district counts as a place name and a political unit, which are both listed in link you provided as when one should capitalize. GavinTheViking (talk) 06:22, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

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WP:NC-GAL#Elections and referendums

Hi Mélencron. Don't know if you saw at WP:E&R, but the naming guideline has been changed to put the year at the start. I've renamed the by-election article you just started, but just wanted to say not to move any of the others as a bot run should be moving any article created before mid-September. Cheers, Number 57 20:47, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Yep, I saw the RfC closure, thanks for the heads-up. Mélencron (talk) 21:19, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Incorrect Classification of ‘’Potential’’ candidates for office

Hi! On November 30th, 2018, Democrat Mike Espy filled to run for the United States Senate in Mississippi, and is no longer a ‘’potential candidate,’’ but rather ‘’Declared.’’ MS Republican (talk) 06:51, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

Filing with the FEC alone does not mean a candidate has declared a run: often, it's only prepatory paperwork should they decide to run (see: Matt Rahn in CA-50, Mimi Walters in CA-45, Fred Upton in MI-06, etc.), and further confirmation from the candidate is required. Mélencron (talk) 13:13, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

He filed his statement of candidacy though. He will be running in 2020, and is a Declared candidate. MS Republican (talk) 14:08, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

You didn't read what I said, did you? Mélencron (talk) 14:26, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

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2017 French presidential election pop-up pic of Dupont-Aignan

Hi M. Cron,

I just added a blue link on the Yellow vests movement entry you created which links to 2017 French presidential election. The mouseover pop-up of the latter, I'm sure you'll notice, features Nicolas Dupont-Aignan and resolves to commons. Is that normal? — 🍣 SashiRolls ^{t · c} 21:00, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

My mouseover shows Macron, not NDA... not sure why that'd be the case on your end. Mélencron (talk) 21:31, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

Maybe my "skin" takes the first picture in the entry and yours takes the infobox picture. Odd. When I figured out why, it made me smile because apparently the Conseil Constitutionnel set the order even into the wiki-table. ^^ — 🍣 SashiRolls ^{t · c} 21:52, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

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Notice

Dear Mélencron,

please before you revert any of my edit in the future with the improper texting like "last good revision", check twice since you obviously ignore any proper investigation. "László Simicska" is a non-existent fictious person that I corrected to Lajos Simicska, an openly and widely known person, as per the sources, because the one who originally added the text made a terrible mistake. Shortly after your totally unneded revert, the user corrected it the same way by it's own. Moreover, what is the "last good revision" is not depending on your decision, I am afraid such status not necessarily exist in Wikipedia (though I noticed you also reverted a vandalism that I missed to revert unfortunately, but you should have reverted only that). Thank You.(KIENGIR (talk) 22:57, 3 January 2019 (UTC))

An invitation to discussion

I kindly invite you to the discussion on Template talk:Infobox election#The Bolding issue to decide whether to bold the winner in the election infobox. Lmmnhn (talk) 19:20, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Bernie Sanders Campaign

Bernie Sanders has directly stated on his facebook page that 1 million people signed up to be volunteers on the campaign. Please look at someone's sources before you undo their edits in the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Darkninja505 (talk • contribs) 21:44, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

Gov Ned Lamont

Please stop removing the official portrait of Ned Lamont from his Wikipedia page. His offical photo needs to go there Zzannoni1956 (talk) 03:38, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

There's no evidence that it's a freely-licensed image (there's an existing deletion request for the PNG versions in favor of the JPG, but the latter is associated with a deletion request for licensing reasons). Mélencron (talk) 03:49, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Yes there is evidence. It’s an offical governmental portrait therefore it’s public domain as with any other US Governmental Offical Zzannoni1956 (talk) 03:50, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

While it's true that works of the U.S. federal government are in the public domain, this concerns the Connecticut state government. Mélencron (talk) 03:51, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

https://portal.ct.gov/Office-of-the-Governor/About/Official-Portraits It’s a public domain image provided by state government. Just as with any other governor. There’s no evidence that campaign photo is a public domain photo as it was taken by a private campaign and not the government Zzannoni1956 (talk) 03:51, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

And as with all other Gubernatorial photos it is public domain. Hence why every other state governor has their offical portrait as their Wikipedia photo. Wether it be Chris Sununu , Charlie Baker, Andrew Cuomo , Gavin Newsom or so forth Zzannoni1956 (talk) 03:54, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Zzannoni1956, the bottom of the page clearly says "© 2019 CT.GOV " – Muboshgu (talk) 03:55, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

California, Florida, and Massachusetts state government works are in the public domain. The photo of Andrew Cuomo was included in a Flickr album listed under a CC license by the MTA (as are all MTA photos and videos). I'm not sure what the story behind Sununu's photo is, however, though it appears that it might have been uploaded by someone close to Sununu or Sununu himself. Mélencron (talk) 03:57, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

So are you going to take down all the other Gubernatorial photos as they are property of the índividual state government ? If so you have Around 42 photos to change Zzannoni1956 (talk) 03:58, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

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Restauration of MDC and PRG in France

Hi We should update the articles about MDC and PRG. --Panam2014 (talk) 18:51, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

I'll look into it later, probably by Tuesday. Mélencron (talk) 04:59, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Issue on the House 2020 page

Hey there,

It dosen't show Nebraska 2nd district on the list of competitive races... Could you fix that? Thanks!

Best Regards,

Dbwarrak (talk) 19:47, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Well spotted – added. Mélencron (talk) 20:30, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Issue on 2018 House page

On the list of retiring incumbents, it dosen't mention Tim Walz, Rick Nolan, or the fact that Conor Lamb moved from the 14th to the 17th. Dbwarrak (talk) 00:18, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

There might be a reason for PA-14/17 not being mentioned, but for the others I'm not sure (Walz was running for governor, but I'm pretty sure the page lists DeSantis/Blackburn/etc. as retiring), and you can probably go ahead and add them yourself without issue. Mélencron (talk) 00:50, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Whoops, it was actually in another section. My bad, sorry about that! Dbwarrak (talk) 01:17, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

No problem. Don't feel like you have to ask for permission to make any edits if you do spot any mistakes, though – it's a collaborative project and if there's something that seems wrong, the best thing you can do is to fix it, since who knows how long it'll be before someone else notices and can fix it! Mélencron (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

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Regarding the House map on the page

Hey - I don't know who does the map that shows the running and retiring candidates, but Walter Jones's seat should likely be removed since it'll be filled before 2020, and Bradley Byrne should be added as a retiree. Thanks!

Dbwarrak (talk) 03:03, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

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Kirsten Gillibrand 2020 presidential campaign

Alright, lets deal with the Donald Trump Jr tweet point by "Request for Comment". Tony85poon (talk) 04:02, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

If you think that's going to end up in your favor, then go ahead and do it. Mélencron (talk) 04:03, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

By the way, I want to add some more campaign locations (places that Gillibrand has visited). And the "Political positions" too. So before you consider reverting, just keep in mind that I am not touching the "Personal" section coz I understand that one is in dispute indeed. Tony85poon (talk)

Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign

At least let me fix those 2 acceptable citations (I fixed 4 in total. 2 are old ones, 2 are new ones). Tony85poon (talk) 05:38, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/693824163/trump-supporter-violently-shoves-bbc-cameraman-at-el-paso-rally

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/02/politics/fact-checking-cpac/index.html

2020 presidential election Democratic primary

Thank you so much for correcting my mistake and I have now added it to the talk page.

I thought my initial change of saying they have reached the polling qualifications was enough but thank you for correcting me

Keep up the good work and thanks you for editing this page. I hope you have a nice day and the fantastic editing continues — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fwilliams345 (talk • contribs) 15:18, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Christian Democratic Party

Please familiarize yourself with the facts about the CDU, before you undo anyone's edits. Your actions are indicative of ignorance rather than understanding. Holy Sepple (talk)

Your additions are unsourced, thus we remove them. The CDU article is generally a good article, adding unsourced information taints it! Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 23:15, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

DYK for 2019 North Carolina's 9th congressional district special election

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Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Democratic primaries map

Good work on the map. Can you change the colour for New York? Sources indicate it's unlikely New York will hold their primary in February, it's just scheduled that way by default. Thanks. Onetwothreeip (talk) 03:19, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

@Onetwothreeip: yes, I'm aware of that – I worked on the timeline section in the original article. The prose notes attached to both lists explicitly note that these are only the currently scheduled dates and may be subject to change; legally, New York remains scheduled for February and lawmakers traditionally move it in June. However, one elections commissioner in the state seems to indicate that the primary may actually be moved earlier in the 2020 cycle than April, and instead to "like February or March of next year". I can add a further clarification to this point to the statewide polling article as well, but as of now, it's scheduled for February, and the map reflects the current state of legislation in each state, and doesn't speculate on where states will ultimately end up. Mélencron (talk) 03:52, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

That's fine, we should definitely say somewhere that it is scheduled for February, but since our sources say it most likely won't be we shouldn't be reporting that it will be, especially not in the map. Best to keep it grey for now before we get confirmation. Onetwothreeip (talk) 04:55, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Marianne Williamson 2020 presidential campaign

On 10 April 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Marianne Williamson 2020 presidential campaign, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Marianne Williamson, a candidate in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, has called for $100 billion in reparations for slavery? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Marianne Williamson 2020 presidential campaign. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Marianne Williamson 2020 presidential campaign), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

Bold for presidential campaigns

Hello. You recently removed the bold lettering from Julian Castro 2020 presidential campaign, citing MOS:BOLDTITLE as justification. However, numerous other articles on major presidential campaigns, such as Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign, Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign, and Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign do have part of the first sentence in bold. Is there some sort of consensus on this? I don't think "(election year) presidential campaign of (candidate)" goes against Wiki policy on bolding, as it more or less just states the title, just slightly rephrased. Silver181 (talk) 00:00, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Sock

Thanks for pointing that out. I did think their account looked a little suspicious when they started on the Israeli election. I'll keep an eye out for them in future. Cheers, Number 57 20:35, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

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EP election in France

Hi! Just a short question as I am following the EP election articles here: is this the final list of Génération.s? At PS-PP just the first six are ordered or did I miss something? Thanks in advance, Cassandro (talk) 06:07, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

@Cassandro: yes, that's the correct list – I also don't know anything more about the PS-PP-ND list than you do; all I was aware of is the first five, but we should know the complete list by Monday. Mélencron (talk) 11:52, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

@Cassandro: Another few names from 6th through 10th place are mentioned here. Mélencron (talk) 12:28, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

DLF

Hi We should change the color to blue, because it is a far right party and his color is blue. --Panam2014 (talk) 19:07, 6 May 2019 (UTC)

Edit

How would my addition to this article be considered vandalism? I supplied a source to support the claim. Cityman0311 (talk) 15:18, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

It's not, and I self-reverted the warning, but it's evidently POV pushing which isn't directly substantiated by the source. Mélencron (talk) 15:52, 10 May 2019 (UTC)

Polling Graphs

Really liking your graphs on the 2022 election polls page. Just a suggestion, perhaps it is worth doing them for the leadership approval polling data? Or Welsh/Scottish Parliament. Up to you. Otherwise, its a really positive improvement to the page! TP69 (talk) 10:57, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

A question

Hi! I have a question, how did you make this chart? I typically use excel but that only allows for .png files, not .svg. Cheers. Impru20^talk 14:39, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

@Impru20: Hey, I've started using an adapted version of another R script to generate charts now – source code for the German one can be found here and an example polls.csv file can be found here (the pollingfirm column here isn't used in this version of the script, though it's still useful for keeping track). You'll need to install R, as well as the ggplot2 and tidyverse packages, to use it – it should be straightforward to use from there (just change party names and add colors/columns as needed). I used to create my old charts in Google Sheets (which, by the way, can also handle the same Excel formulas + now be exported as SVG files), and I think Excel can actually do the same now, unless I'm mistaken (pinging Avopeas here as some of their more recent charts have been uploaded as SVGs). Mélencron (talk) 14:52, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

Reply on your Sandbox 3 debate qualification table

Sorry for posting without any advanced notice an update to your Sandbox3 debate qualification table. I have absolutely no intention to intrude or desturb you. On the contrary I highly appreciate your work made in the sandbox. For your notice, I however found out you by mistake had written this line:

• "The May Reuters national poll provides different sets of numbers; using registered Democrats only would reinforce Bullock's position (4)".

The above line and note is false. If using registered Democrates only for the national Reuters polls, then Bullock would have scored 0% in April and 1% in May. If using registered Democrats+Independents, then Bullock would have scored 1% in April and 0% in May. So in any case he would have qualified by only 1 Reuters poll. Hence there is no uncertainty for Bullock in the Reuters polls. As I explained in my linked update of your sandbox, the only remaining uncertainty related to the May Reuters poll is about the score of De Blasio. Best regards, Danish Expert (talk) 18:31, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Pedro Sanchez

Hello,

       I just saw that you reverted my edit on the Pedro Sanchez page. President of the Government is his official title. I understand that you say it is a common name, and that the role is the same. However, if one who speaks both languages wishes to translate the title of Mr. Sanchez, they would incorrectly say Primer Ministro, instead of Presidente del Gobierno. It is also a way of distinguishing that the official name is President of the Government, as opposed to other countries, where there is a literal translation to Prime Minister. Changing the title on his page is simply a way of avoiding confusion.

               Regards.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by PuxaAsturies123 (talk • contribs) 01:56, 4 June 2019 (UTC) 

Thanks for all the dedication to Wikipedia ❤️ — Preceding unsigned comment added by KingSepron (talk • contribs) 10:09, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

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Barnstar

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		Great job on the French 2019 European Election Page. Really impressive BasBr1 (talk) 05:18, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
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Statewide opinion polling for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries

Why did you request deletion of this page? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:53, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Washington (state) Democratic primaries

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Washington (state) presidential primaries

A tag has been placed on Category:Washington (state) presidential primaries requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

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Hey gangsta

UPDATE THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY POLL GRAPH IT'S GOOD BUT OUTDATED 2607:FEA8:8400:1E9D:28A3:FD0A:C482:5E33 (talk) 21:56, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Let's keep it WP:civil here :) SCC California (talk) 20:56, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Nationwide opinion polling for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries graphs

Hey Mélencron - the graphs of the nationwide opinion polling for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries are getting pretty outdated (it has been two weeks since they were last updated). This is especially troublesome on the graphical summary here. Could you please update them, or at least provide a timeframe for when you plan to do so? Best regards SCC California (talk) 20:56, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

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Andrew Yang 2020 presidential campaign

Hey there, could you please update this graph that you created for the article Andrew Yang 2020 presidential campaign? The last update was over a month ago.

Thanks in advance! —Bobbychan193 (talk) 06:27, 6 August 2019 (UTC)

About filed candidates

Hello! I'm just making sure, is a FEC filing, such as https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/H0GA09030/1320887/ sufficient reference that a member is running for reelection? Dbwarrak (talk) 14:32, 10 August 2019 (UTC)

You are missed

Although I do not know what caused you to stop editing after your constant stream of daily edits for years on end, your absence has been noticed and felt across the pages you made your mark on. Your contributions to public information on elections were incredible. If something happened to you, which I suspect that it may have with how sudden your disappearance was, rest in peace. If not, I hope that you are doing well in whatever you have moved on to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cookieo131 (talk • contribs) 04:40, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

I wholeheartedly second this comment. SCC California (talk) 05:37, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

Third. Onetwothreeip (talk) 09:49, 15 August 2019 (UTC)