User talk:OrcaLord

July 2020

Hello. Your recent edit to Abbeville, Alabama appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person, organization or product added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. The non-notable addition has been removed. Either write the article first or provide reliable sources for verifiability per WP:SOURCELIST and to demonstrate that the person meets the inclusion requirements per WP:LISTPEOPLE. A person is typically included in a list of people only if all the following requirements are met: (1) The person meets the Wikipedia notability requirement; and (2) The person's membership in the list's group is established by reliable sources. Scottyoak2 (talk) 03:51, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

Direct, reliable sources needed for Days of the Year pages

You're probably not aware of this change, but Days of the Year pages now require direct reliable sources for additions. For details see the content guideline, the WikiProject Days of the Year style guide or the edit notice on any DOY page. Almost all new additions without references are now being reverted on-sight.

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Thank you. Toddst1 (talk) 21:07, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Jimmy Rane (October 9)

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Spicy (talk) 18:37, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

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January 2021

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be reverted.

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Concern regarding Draft:Jimmy Rane

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 19:03, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Jimmy Rane

Hello, Lordpaulorca. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Jimmy Rane".

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

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:40, 9 April 2021 (UTC)

Maps for Delaware

@OrcaLord Thanks always for your map contributions, could you do Delaware maps next? It would be really great to see more detailed results for a much smaller state. Do you have any data to make for those maps and a base map to work from? Putitonamap98 (talk) 18:08, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

I will do Delaware in the future. OrcaLord (talk) 18:31, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

okay but do you have a svg precinct map for delaware and the data? i can make the maps in inkscape Putitonamap98 (talk) 23:21, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

I do not use inkscape to make the maps and I make the svg files with QGIS. Using inkscape would be extremely inefficient. Data for basically all of my maps that I post are from the voting and election science team at the harvard dataverse: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/electionscience OrcaLord (talk) 03:39, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

I added some Delaware maps that you might want to know about:

OrcaLord (talk) 21:38, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Hey sorry, but what application do you use to see the precinct results? Putitonamap98 (talk) 17:51, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

What do you mean? You go on the wikipedia page and click the image. OrcaLord (talk) 19:06, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

I am trying to make a map for the 2016 elections in Delaware Putitonamap98 (talk) 20:35, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

I use QGIS. Here is a tutorial I made on how to map them out for Wikipedia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqDG68ffWtM&t

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpaBa-WHfXg OrcaLord (talk) 20:52, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Graphic Designer's Barnstar
	Thank you for your work in making high quality, public domain maps for elections! You are a hero to Wikipedia. ^^ ~ Mycranthebigman of Alaska ^_^ 18:17, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Tennessee 2022 gubernatorial

Thank you so much for doing the 2018 TN Precinct map! If you want to, could you make a better version of the 2022 gubernatorial map? WikiFazBear1984 (talk) 21:38, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

I'm looking into it. I need to find a matching shapefile for 2022. Once I do I will make a precinct map for Wikipedia. OrcaLord (talk) 23:39, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Yay! You do a lot of great work, thank you for making maps! WikiFazBear1984 (talk) 00:36, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

No problem. OrcaLord (talk) 00:47, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Where are your sources for the precinct maps?

i need them ASAP. WeaponizingArchitecture | scream at me 01:26, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Most of them are from the Voting and Election Science Team at the Harvard Dataverse. Occasionally I get results from state board of elections websites or county clerks, (for example, the 2023 Green Bay mayoral election results were from the Outagamie County Clerk) Redistricting Data Hub, (where I get most house results from) or other places. OrcaLord (talk) 01:31, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Aight, got it. Thanks! WeaponizingArchitecture | scream at me 14:44, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Precinct Map Ideas

Hello, OrcaLord.
I've noticed that you've made a lot of precinct maps for various elections both statewide and for specific congressional districts. If it's not too much trouble, could you try making a precinct map for the State Auditor's race in Missouri in 2018? If you could do that, it would be much appreciated.
Alongside this, here are some elections from 2012 that might be interesting to try mapping by precinct:
Missouri US Senate
Minnesota's 6th congressional district (Michele Bachmann)
Washington US Senate (I've been wanting to know how Cantwell won Yakima County)
Thank you,
PrusBis6187 (talk) 16:43, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

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July 2023

Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, as you did at Elissa Slotkin, you may be blocked from editing. Don't assemble various sources to make a novel point. WP:SECONDARY sources are required to describe a politician's position, not voting records. And if you add a secondary source that does not name the politician, you are violating WP:SYNTH. Binksternet (talk) 16:39, 31 July 2023 (UTC)