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Hello. Thanks for all the maps. Are you able to remove the whitespace at the top of this map though? It looks a bit odd in the infobox. Cheers, Number 5 7 11:56, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Should be fixed now, thanks for the heads up. 15:42, 19 August 2023 (UTC) Incognito melon (talk) 15:42, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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	Thank you for adding such a large amount and wide variety of election maps to Wikipedia! PrusBis6187 (talk) 23:41, 29 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Zimbabwean election maps

Hello - not sure if you noticed, but there is a separate maps section in the infoboxes in the 2008, 2013, 2018 and 2023 election articles – can you put your new maps in that section instead? Cheers, Number 5 7 09:10, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think you might have misunderstood. The infobox in these articles is split into three sections with headers - one for the presidential election, one for the parliamentary election and one for maps. Your recent edits have moved one of the maps out of the maps section. Could you put them back. Cheers. Number 5 7 22:43, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

On wikiboxes for other countries it is standard to seperate presidential and parliamentary maps & to put them under the respective infoboxes. Having a 3rd section solely for maps is more confusing and makes visualling races more difficult. In terms of UI I think it is best to leave them seperate. Best regards, Incognito melon (talk) 23:25, 18 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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1898 French legislative election

While I believe you made your edit in good faith, I reverted your recent edit at 1898 French legislative election. I reviewed the (online) sources provided in the article and they did not provide verification for the version you reinstated, specifically in the vote counts and party names. Also, please note that Number 57's last edit to this page was back in April of last year. In this case, I believe you are the one introducing large changes to the page and that that needs to be discussed at the talk page. Further discussion can be held at Talk:1898 French legislative election, where I see you've already chimed in Happy New Year, and thanks for your contributions. Wracking ^talk! 05:31, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My apologies, I did not notice the date there. The intention of that edit was more to prompt discussion on what the actual results are, which it has done. Given that, reverting to the previous edit is a sound choice and I won't make any further edits in that regard. In the future I will be more cognizant of those types of edits. Thanks for letting me know and happy new year to you as well! Best regards, Incognito melon (talk) 05:35, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Congressional district maps

How do you make your congressional district maps? How do you convert the shp file to an svg? JosephBobilly (talk) 01:17, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I use QGIS to make my congressional district maps, all you need for those is a shapefile for a states counties and congressional districts(if you haven't used QGIS before it's super simple and there are dozens of tutorials online - although all you need to know for this is how to clip features). For converting shapefiles to SVGs you can use QGIS, although it does have some bugs, or use mapshaper.org. Incognito melon (talk) 01:52, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How do you change the map projection to albers usa? JosephBobilly (talk) 02:51, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a CRS button on the bottom right of the QGIS interface, use that to change it Incognito melon (talk) 02:53, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Also how do you make a congressional district shp file line up with the states countyies? I'm using this https://github.com/JeffreyBLewis/congressional-district-boundaries/blob/master/Mississippi_73_to_82.geojson for the congressional districts. I want it to line up with this https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mississippi_Presidential_Election_Results_1948.svg JosephBobilly (talk) 22:11, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If they're the same state they should automatically line up in QGIS, otherwise the coordinates for one of your files is off. I don't use that source for congressional districts, so I don't know how to fix any issues with those. Incognito melon (talk) 01:22, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I figured it out thanks for the help. JosephBobilly (talk) 14:06, 20 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, this might be an odd request but do you know any particularly thorough or good tutorials on making QGIS based maps? I have tried to follow a few and I keep failing to get the shown results, so I don't know if it's the process I'm using or the tutorials themselves. Apologies for the odd request and apologies if such a request is not desired. Talthiel (talk) 22:02, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No issue! I can't find the original tutorial I used unfortuantely (I thought Umichvoter on twitter had posted one in like 2021 but couldn't find it) but Orcalord on here has a tutorial that you can find on their youtube. They've made a ton of maps so I'd trust them. Hope this helps!Incognito melon (talk) 00:18, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a ton! Talthiel (talk) 01:12, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

US Presidential county maps

Would you care if I added a color key to your nationwide county maps for presidential elections like I did with the 1800 county map and the electoral district one?

Also, why did you cover the Louisiana counties in the 1828 map when there's returns for those counties?

Wowzers122 (talk) 21:19, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That is a-okay with me. I did not intend to cover those counties up, it was an error with my data source and I did not know the actual counties were underneath. I will update that map at my earliest convience. Incognito melon (talk) 01:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

2012 Slovenian presidential election

Good work on creating the maps for this election. One small request - could they be resized so they are all exactly the same size? While the ones representing the same boundaries are the same size, the two sets are not exactly aligned, which means when you scroll through them using the switching tool, the maps change size as you go through. Cheers, Number 5 7 13:13, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]