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Election results

Please stop reverting without proper explanation. How are the results that you removed and I restored wrong? They aren't. Display name 99 (talk) 17:03, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

:{{ping|Display_name_99}} In those states voters didn't vote for a candidate for president, they voted for presidential electors individually, so not all presidential electors got the same amount of votes. Nixon and McGovern weren't candidates, the presidential electors were. Yilku1 (talk) 17:55, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
::The intent of the people voting for the electors was to vote for certain candidates for president. From your version, it is almost impossible to tell how much success a presidential candidate had a given contest, and that is what readers will most want to see. If you want to add information about the success of electors, go ahead. I'd have no issue with you adding an extra table. But don't override the information already there. Display name 99 (talk) 18:21, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Display_name_99}} There is the infobox already showing the most voted presidential elector results. Yilku1 (talk) 18:37, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
::::It fails to give a complete tally. If I want to see the percentage of votes that a third party candidate won, I cannot see it from the infobox. Display name 99 (talk) 19:35, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
:::::{{ping|Display_name_99}} You can add the percentages in the tables then, dont' delete everything. Yilku1 (talk) 20:12, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

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Heads up re your changes to US presidential election articles

I noticed that you recently added an "Electoral College selection" to a number of US presidential election articles. The information in the added section isn't sourced, and I couldn't find any evidence for it. If you can't add a citation I'm going to revert these. Regards, Dan Bloch (talk) 23:02, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

:{{ping|Danbloch}} The source is in the election article for the presidential election in Georgia. Yilku1 (talk) 23:06, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
::You're misreading the sources. The electors are described as at large or representing individual districts, but the voting for each of them is statewide. Note how the number of votes for all the Democratic electors is about 455,000 and for all the Republican electors is about 273,000. Dan Bloch (talk) 23:34, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
:::That's from 1960 United States presidential election in Georgia ↗. I'm not sure what article you had in mind. Dan Bloch (talk) 23:37, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Danbloch}} It's hard to tell because there is literally no info about individual elector votes on the internet. The only place where they are shown is if the state Official Register is digitalized. Yilku1 (talk) 23:52, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
:::::If you look at https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=0neujn0mIq0C&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179#v=onepage&q&f=false ↗, one of the sources from 1960 United States presidential election in Georgia ↗, you can see that the votes for individual representatives range from 24,000 to 80,000, while the combined number of votes in each of the races for electors is about 728,000. This is pretty clear evidence that the elector votes are statewide.
:::::But even if that weren't the case, inferring that the state is using the congressional district method from vote totals would be WP:OR ↗. Dan Bloch (talk) 00:14, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
::::::{{ping|Danbloch}} I hadn't noticed that. The only way to be sure is to read the election law from that time, a thing that is almost impossible. Yilku1 (talk) 00:46, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
:::::::But that takes us back to where we started. Without a reliable source, Wikipedia shouldn't say that Georgia elections used the congressional district method. Dan Bloch (talk) 01:24, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

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Hi. I am just wondering why you changed the units in the table. Was there a problem with the previous format? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:45, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

:{{ping|MSGJ}} Yes. It didn't have metric units. Yilku1 (talk) 13:49, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
::Okay, fair enough, I understand — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:40, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

By-election maps

Hi, I notice you're removing a lot of maps from by-elections. This got challenged at 2019_Brecon_and_Radnorshire_by-election ↗ but you simply reverted the challenge without talking about it. Once you've been bold, and been reverted, it's time to discuss before reverting-the-reversion (that's the start of an edit war). Since opinions clearly differ on this, and a lot of by-election articles do contain maps, may I suggest seeking discussion somewhere appropriate, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject_Politics_of_the_United_Kingdom ↗, before unilaterally deleting any further maps? Elemimele (talk) 16:07, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

:{{ping|Elemimele}} The discussion here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums#Non-map images in infobox's map section ↗. Yilku1 (talk) 17:27, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
::Okay, thanks! That's fair enough, I apologise for reverting you at Brecon and Radnorshire. I was ambivalent about the maps; in the cases I checked, hovering on the name of the region brought up the same map anyway. It's helpful for readers to be able to find a map ''somewhere'', but I agree it doesn't have to be in the info-box. Many best wishes! Elemimele (talk) 20:19, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

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1912 Monegasque general election ↗ moved to draftspace

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:{{ping|Significa liberdade}} Do people here even read the articles before saying there are no sources? What is that in the bottom that says "Source: Journal de Monaco". Yilku1 (talk) 13:10, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
::Hi, Yilku1! In the previous message, you'll see that I indicated the articled "needs ''more'' sources", not that it doesn't have any sources. This particular article is reliant on a single source. Per the general notability guidelines ↗, articles should be include more than one reliable, secondary source. If you believe the article is ready for the main space, you can submit it through Articles for Creation to have someone else review it. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 15:37, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

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:{{ping|TimothyBlue}} is this bot? the article LITERALLY has a source, what are you talking about? Yilku1 (talk) 15:52, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

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:Thank you! --Yilku1 (talk) 13:35, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
::By the way, I think there is a transposition error in the Chamber results on 2009 Argentine legislative election ↗. I was converting them to {{tl|Election results}} and noticed the total number of votes for parties is 990 higher than the stated total valid votes. If you can find it, I will add the converted table. Cheers, Number 57 ↗ 01:57, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
:::{{ping|Number 57}} the total number of votes for parties is 19,616,701 the same as valid votes. Yilku1 (talk) 02:33, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
::::Ah, I've no idea how it happened, but I had the Broad Front listed twice with 5,900 votes instead of once with 5,900 and once with 4,910. Should those two rows be combined though? Number 57 ↗ 10:52, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
:::::{{ping|Number 57}} It is because there are 2 parties that have the same translation. One is the party Frente Grande and the other was Frente Amplio, the name used by the Front for Victory in La Pampa. Yilku1 (talk) 15:02, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

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Hello – I wasn't sure why you were removing this from articles where the invalid votes and/or registered voters figures were missing, but just an FYI as to why I am undoing the removals. Cheers, Number 57 ↗ 02:02, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

:{{ping|Number 57}} I didn't think of registered voters. Yilku1 (talk) 04:54, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

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Village Green by The Kinks is absolutely a Baroque Pop song and sources confirm this. The guy who keeps reversing your edits did the same thing to me and treats that article like it's his personal property.

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Edit on Mireille Laufilitoga ↗

Hi! Wanted to check in about a recent edit ↗ you made on Mireille Laufilitoga ↗. Appreciate your cleanup of the infobox there! But the source previously cited ↗ there indicates she was reelected in 2022, which you changed. I know it would be preferable to have a secondary source, but this is difficult with the limited media environment on Wallis and Futuna. Do you have a different source to confirm she was not in fact reelected? Thanks! Bookworm-ce (talk) 14:25, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

:{{ping|Bookworm-ce}} Candidate list for the 2022 elections ↗ and the 2022 election results ↗. Mireille Laufilitoga was the first candidate of "Ta'ofi kite lelei fakatahi" in Mua and finished 5th place. Yilku1 (talk) 16:12, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

::Gotcha, thank you for catching! I'll update the lead section to be past tense in that case. Bookworm-ce (talk) 14:08, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

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:The caste again protecting their own, thanks for reaffirming what I said. Yilku1 (talk) 01:41, 11 August 2024 (UTC)

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{{unblock reviewed|decline=Stuff like "Wikipedia admins are all the same, all white wealthy sub-urban Americans that hate Israel and anything right of Marx" is a bigoted utterance; that you think it isn't is your problem, not ours. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 17:06, 11 August 2024 (UTC)|1=So now you can't criticise admins, can you tell me which rule is that? Criticising admins is not a personal attack, is not based on race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religious or political beliefs, disability, ethnicity, or nationality. Answering a comment about admins and adding my comment back because other user removed it ↗ is not disruptive editing. Yilku1 (talk) 16:17, 11 August 2024 (UTC)}}

{{unblock reviewed |1="that you think it isn't is your problem, not ours" That is why I removed it and posted it again without it. Just like recommened: WP:REMOVEUNCIVIL ↗. But I wasn't benned because that comment. They banned be because I posted my comment criticing admins. Again, what rule says you can't criticise them? Yilku1 (talk) 19:36, 11 August 2024 (UTC) |decline = You are blocked as an arbitration enforcement action. You don't address that in your unblock request. Yamla (talk) 22:00, 11 August 2024 (UTC)}}

{{unblock reviewed|decline=I am beginning to think the block is too short. A personal attack does not have to fall into the categories you mention. You seem to think your conduct is fine. I would suggest a different approach for your next unblock request. PhilKnight (talk) 09:57, 12 August 2024 (UTC)|reason="You don't address that in your unblock request". It says I am blocked "for disruptive editing and personal attacks". Did you even read my first appeal?

"'''Criticising admins is not a personal attack, is not based on race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religious or political beliefs, disability, ethnicity, or nationality. Answering a comment about admins and adding my comment back because other user removed it ↗ is not disruptive editing'''."

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{{unblock reviewed|reason="A personal attack does not have to fall into the categories you mention." Then link the rule that does fall in it.

4 admins and still none showed me what rule says you can't criticise admins. Do we have some Lèse-majesté ↗ in the site? Yilku1 (talk) 13:15, 12 August 2024 (UTC)|decline=I'm happy to receive criticism, but not racist attacks nor attacks purely based on your assumptions/speculations/stereotypes about the social status of other users. Good block- and you will quickly lose access to this page should you persist. 331dot (talk) 18:08, 13 August 2024 (UTC) }}
{{unblock reviewed |1=Do you even read what I posted before declining? What is racist or about social status of other users about this? <blockquote class="templatequote " >"All decisions are taken by the same small caste of users everytime, if you try to do something different they will all come help eachother and shut down any opposing views and there is nothing you can't do. They literally did it to my previous comment. It's a big club and you ain't in it."</blockquote> Again. I ask someone to just '''LINK THE RULES THAT THIS BREAKS'''. And before someone comes again WITHOUT READING. The racist quote I posted is not why I was banned. They benned me '''AFTER''' I removed the racist quote ↗. Yilku1 (talk) 18:54, 13 August 2024 (UTC) |decline = This is not a WP:GAB ↗-compliant appeal, it's a misuse of the appeal template to continue a conversation. '''Ponyo'''''bons mots'' 19:14, 13 August 2024 (UTC)}}

{{tlx|unblock|reason=How is not compliant? I am just asking for someone to link the rule that banned me. I continue a conversation because this is the only page I can edit, it looks like I am talking to a wall and nobody answers me what rule I broke.

6 admins and still none had said what rules does this breaks to get me banned: <blockquote class="templatequote " >All decisions are taken by the same small caste of users everytime, if you try to do something different they will all come help eachother and shut down any opposing views and there is nothing you can't do. They literally did it to my previous comment. It's a big club and you ain't in it. ↗</blockquote> Yilku1 (talk) 19:37, 13 August 2024 (UTC)}}

:: I have voided your unblock request, because your block is over. PhilKnight (talk) 15:02, 14 August 2024 (UTC)

{{ping|Isabelle_Belato}} {{ping|Jpgordon}} {{ping|Yamla}} {{ping|PhilKnight}} {{ping|331dot}} {{ping|Ponyo}} I'm again asking for some of you to please tell me what rule does this ↗ breaks to get banned for 3 days. --Yilku1 (talk) 00:33, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

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I was about to start a discussion at WT:AT to ask whether consensus has changed re: the spelling of people's names (which is certainly possible, I honestly don't know what consensus is about this right now), and as I was composing my question, I found myself wanting to understand your take on this better. How do you decide which non-commonname spellings to use: is it on the basis of the person's native language? is it limited to accents or would you also move Novak Djokovic ↗ to Novak Đoković ↗ (currently a redirect)? would you also move articles for people where the native spelling uses a different script (e.g., Arabic, Chinese)?

Also, a question I just posted at the Deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García ↗ talk: do you know whether the correct spelling for the first of his last names is Ábrego vs. Abrego? I'm asking because some Spanish language reporting uses the former and some uses the latter (they all consistently use García).

Thanks, FactOrOpinion (talk) 13:49, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

:{{ping|FactOrOpinion}} Just in Spanish, there is no reason to not use the correct spelling just because English news don't have a keyboard with accents, also all names from people in Spanish-speaking countries in Wikipedia have accents. English and Spanish use the same alphabet, not the same with transliterating Arabic or Chinese.
:"Ábrego vs. Abrego"
:Mmm I don't know. Yilku1 (talk) 19:49, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
::Thanks for explaining your view. I'll think a bit more about what I want to ask at WT:AT.
::English news sources do use diacritics for some Spanish names (e.g., Gabriel García Márquez, example ↗) and for some people's names with other countries of origin (here's a Turkish example ↗), but it's quite inconsistent, and I think more likely if the person is well-known (a writer, actor, politician, ...). I agree that it doesn't make sense for transliterations, but there are many languages besides Spanish that have alphabets that are similar to English but use diacritics, and I don't think it makes any sense to say "always use accents for Spanish but not French or Turkish." FactOrOpinion (talk) 22:55, 8 April 2025 (UTC)
::I did start a discussion ↗ at WT:AT if you'd like to join in with your perspective. FactOrOpinion (talk) 12:46, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

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Presidential elections

Prior to the direct election era, when the electoral colleges were elected (e.g. in 1922 Argentine general election ↗), were the candidates' names actually on the ballot? I was wondering whether the electoral college table should include the candidates or not (should the results sections instead look like 1931 Finnish presidential election ↗)? Cheers, Number 57 ↗ 18:56, 6 July 2025 (UTC)

:{{ping|Number 57}} I think they were on the ballot. Yilku1 (talk) 23:10, 6 July 2025 (UTC)

Dutch elections

Hello - I noticed you updated a lot of Dutch election articles a few months ago to use Kiesraad as a source. Unfortunately I don't believe it is a reliable source as it seems to be riddled with errors for historic elections; the party totals and valid votes should be the same for every elections since the move to PR in 1918. I found a better official source for the 1933 results (CBS), which adds up to the same valid votes figure given by Kiesraad and the number given in Nohlen & Stöver. The Kiesraad figures for invalid and electorate also look wrong wrong – this source ↗ (the previous one) has the same invalid and electorate figures as Nohlen & Stöver. I've also updated the 1937 article but I think any article sourced to Kiesraad where the valid and party totals don't match need sorting out. Cheers, Number 57 ↗ 22:59, 23 July 2025 (UTC)
:I've done all the inter-war ones and up to 1959, but I think 1963, 1967 and 1971 will need sorting. Thereafter Kiesraad matches other sources. Number 57 ↗ 23:43, 23 July 2025 (UTC)
::Hi @Number 57, thanks. You're right that there are problems with the overall statistics of Kiesraad (there are less valid votes in 1925 than total votes for all parties). I don't understand why the Kiesraad isn't fixing these issues. I do want to highlight that CBS isn't perfect either (see the comment at the top of Kiesraad 1937 ↗).
::And there is another ''problem'', neither of these figures are the official outcome. Both CBS and Kiesraad (which mainly used CBS numbers) collected the outcomes per municipalities and combined them for statistical purposes. But these numbers are different from the official outcome, which is used on List of candidates in the 1925 Dutch general election ↗. In the case of Union of Actualists ↗, the official outcome should be 2144. And that outcome has been used to calculate the number of seats (although I don't expect the difference to be sufficiently big to lead to another outcome). I do understand why we continue to use the Nohlen & Stöver numbers, because these numbers have gained some notability in secundary sources. Dajasj (talk) 06:31, 24 July 2025 (UTC)
::{{Ping|Number_57}} What do you do when 2 official sources have different results? 😑 Yilku1 (talk) 20:57, 24 July 2025 (UTC)
:::Try and work out which one is right by comparing with third party sources? I think in this case it was fairly straightforward as the Kiesraad numbers didn't add up (I'm guessing they have a database issue). Number 57 ↗ 21:02, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

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# {{DCWC participant/2025|Spookyaki}} – 256 points, mostly from a handful of GAs about women's history in Latin America as well as the 1991 Haitian coup d'état ↗.
# {{DCWC participant/2025|Vigilantcosmicpenguin}} – 229 points, back with a number of articles on abortion in various African countries.
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Sticky headers

Just found out about this functionality - potentially useful for long results tables. I've tested it here ↗. Might try and apply it to the Election results template for long results tables. Number 57 ↗ 13:50, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
:Look like it works ↗. Number 57 ↗ 13:54, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
:I've know that, but didn't think of using it in results tables, thanks. Yilku1 (talk) 19:08, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
::Also, re Somaliland 2021, I realised those weren't the final totals, but I still couldn't see where you got the invalid vote figure from? Cheers, Number 57 ↗ 00:29, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
:::i thought the difference of total votes were invalid votes. Yilku1 (talk) 02:10, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

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1951 Argentine general election ↗

There seems to be a load of missing votes in the Chamber? The valid votes total in the fixed table was 7,205,312 but in the automatically totalled one it only comes to 7,053,225? Cheers, Number 57 ↗ 00:18, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
:Also, was the 1958 general election carried out using double simultaneous vote? It looks like parties got identical numbers of votes in the presidential and Chamber elections. Cheers, Number 57 ↗ 17:10, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
::{{ping|Number_57}} Thanks, I fixed the 1951 results. In 1958 Nohlen used the same numbers for president and deputies, I don't know why. Double simultaneous vote was never used. Before 1963 people could vote for individual candidates. Yilku1 (talk) 20:01, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
:::Ah ok – so the Chamber vote totals are nonsense? Number 57 ↗ 20:02, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
::::{{ping|Number 57}} yeah, looks like Nohlen just copied the presidential results to the deputies results. Yilku1 (talk) 20:17, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
:::::Oh dear... And (hopefully final question), did the parties listed in the presidential results table without candidates not have one, or are they unknown? Number 57 ↗ 20:36, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
::::::{{ping|Number 57}} i don't know. Yilku1 (talk) 20:52, 29 December 2025 (UTC)

Gambian elections

I saw you removed a lot of these articles from the incomplete results category. I believe they are still incomplete as invalid votes are possible but just rarely published (e.g. 41 in the 2007 Gambian parliamentary election ↗). I am not sure how, but I assume there must be some voting taking place via a different method to the balls in buckets (possibly overseas or postal votes). Number 57 ↗ 11:11, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
:Actually, this BBC video ↗ says there were two invalid votes in the 2012 parliamentary elections due to people placing marbles in the wrong place. Number 57 ↗ 11:12, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
::{{ping|Number_57}} in some elections they publish invalid votes and sometimes don't, i think it's because there aren't really any invalid votes. Yilku1 (talk) 16:45, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

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Electoral votes in Misssippi?

You added electoral votes to the results of Mississippi governor elections several years ago. Is this a thing in Mississippi? Can you explain? SecretName101 (talk) 16:08, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

:{{ping|SecretName101}} It was a thing. It is explained here ↗. Yilku1 (talk) 20:51, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Censure of Jeri over impeachment

There's no need to start an edit war over this, WP:RS ↗ has already admitted a mistake in branding it as an impeachment and clairfications are being made. The legal ramification of it has in all sources been described as a censure as it was his position as President of the Congress of Peru ↗ and not president. Impeachment requires 87 votes, removal as his title required a simple majority.
BBC ↗: "Correction 18 February: An earlier version of this article said José Jerí had been impeached as Peru's president. This was later updated to say he had been ousted by Congress to better reflect the parliamentary procedure used to remove him from office." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7gvdx457vo ↗
NBC News ↗ "This interim status was used to remove him from the presidency on Tuesday. Unlike impeachment, which requires a supermajority of 87 in the 130-member legislature, Congress voted to censure Jerí, which strips him of his title as head of Congress with a simple majority." https://www.nbcnews.com/world/south-america/peru-congress-ousts-president-china-linked-secret-meetings-rcna259489 ↗
Reuters ↗ This interim status was used to remove him from the presidency on Tuesday. Unlike impeachment, which requires a supermajority of 87 in the 130-member legislature, Congress voted to censure Jeri, which strips him of his title as head of Congress with a simple majority.https://www.reuters.com/world/china/perus-congress-begins-debating-removal-president-jeri-2026-02-17/ ↗
Wikipedia is a reflection of the actual meaning of things, in this case legal ramification, not a mistake made by foreign journalists when the articles were first published. Reliable sources per WP:RS ↗ that have updated their articles reject it as an impeachment now. BastianMAT (talk) 13:33, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

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