User talk:DrRandomFactor

Legislatures
Hi there. Welcome to wikipedia. It's great that you are showing interest in the articles on legislatures. It's actually a lot of work and it's commendable to be bold and add diagrams. However, Canadian legislatures (as with the UK, Australia, NZ etc) are Westminster legislatures as opposed to continental style (most of Continental Europe, the US and most non-commonwealth countries). They are fundamentally different systems in many ways and are traditionally diagrammed differently as well.

If you are keen on creating legislative diagrams I would highly recommend helping add them to the parliament articles of countries around the world that haven't been updated or maintained. I did a quick look at this list and just in the Bs alone these countries don't have diagrams:


 * Senate_(Belize)
 * National_Assembly_(Benin)
 * House_of_Representatives_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina
 * National_Assembly_of_Burkina_Faso
 * National_Assembly_(Burundi)
 * Senate_(Burundi)

If you feel like adding diagrams for these countries, check the last update to see how up to date the party info is. You might want to research it yourself and check the article in the language of the country to see if their data is different or if the website of the legislature has the info (use google translate if you don't know the language) has the up to date stats. That way you can update the standings and add the diagram. I've done it for a dozen countries and I also updated the diagram on the article in the language version of that country (so for Malta I also updated the version in Maltese).

There are also the city councils for the major US cities (New York, Chicago, L.A.). I've been thinking of doing them but I end up giving my limited time to other things. That's also an idea.

Of course you don't have to do any of this but if you are keen on doing continental legislature diagrams...there certainly is a need for someone to do the updating!

Cheers Shabidoo | Talk 00:26, 20 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Hey. Thanks for the quick reply. You can reply on my talk page or reply here and there is a feature that notifies the other user that you have replied (though I don't use it myself). User:Slashme designed a parliament too as well (I don't know if you are familiar with it). It is here. After the midterm election there were about 70 state houses and senates to update and using this tool I could just run them all off one after another because for the majority of them they are all red and blue and I just chanced the figures and clicked generate and you can make a lot on just one page. If you like you can help me update them next year when again there will be a LOT of them coming in.
 * There are lots of other pages to edit on the wikipedia as well. What are you interested in?
 * Don't forget to sign your posts on talk pages with four of these in a row ~ or clicking on the sign button. CHEERS Shabidoo | Talk 14:51, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hello again!

I am more than happy to help you update the lists for the 2016 elections next year, they will be interesting to see to say the least...

As for anything else I am just going through lists right now and seeing which legislatures I can make the layout charts for. Some are a pain to make since some countries have coalition parties and some countries have about 20 parties in their legislatures. Even worse when they don't even provide you with a party colour (although I understand many of these countries are third world nations)

Pretty much, when you asked what else i am interested in, anything really. Anything you need me to help you out with just let me know on here and I will be more than happy to oblige!

DrRandomFactor (talk) 16:21, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Hey there! I'm glad you find my seating layout generator useful, and I'm keen to add a Westminster-style layout, as soon as I'm confident that there is consensus about exactly how it should look. You can see some recent discussion about the topic at User_talk:Slashme/Archive_6. If you would like to report bugs or request features, the best place to do that is on github, but if you want to get my attention quickly, my Wikipedia talk page is probably faster, or for urgent stuff, the "email this user" link that you can find in the left-hand menu when you're at my talk page. --Slashme (talk) 11:53, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

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Changing the diagrams
Hey Dr. Thanks for changing the diagrams like that. They look good. Keep in mind though, that before you make a notable change over multiple articles...that it's always a good idea to change just one of them and then see how user's react before changing them all. In the past I've put a lot of work into making a change across multiple articles only for them to all be reverted afterwards and end up with the grief that comes with it.

The new diagrams look nice. Could you please flip the. The government side is always on the bottom (even if in the actual house they sit on the North side). The true rendering is placed in the body of the article often with the names of the members of parliament.

What program did you use to make the diagrams? Shabidoo | Talk 12:48, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Canada
Hi Randomfactor. Someone has replaced the Canadian westminster diagrams with the crossbench one. This doesn't make sense because no parliament in Canada has a crossbench or uses the term nor are diagrams ever rendered so in Canada. I've made some diagrams for the parliament and the senate. Let me know what you think about the diagrams? Would you mind rendering these two drigrams I've loaded on my google drive in the same way you've made the provincial diagrams? I'd really appreciate it. Shabidoo | Talk 17:15, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Perfect Alberta diagram by the way! Shabidoo | Talk 08:22, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

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Australian House of Representatives
Please don't change the seat layout map configuration, we've got the current configuration used in all the australian parliament articles. As usual, something that has a long-standing consensus should go to talk before it gets tossed out the window. Thanks. Timeshift (talk) 06:56, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

House and Senate diagrams
Hi there, thanks for creating new diagrams for the senate and house articles. I have reverted them because as says above, there's a consistent design style used for all parliament articles in Australia. Also, I noticed that your Senate diagram has the wrong number of independents (5 rather than 3, or 4 with Xenophon). Cheers! – Hshook (talk) 05:09, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes, a) please stick to the existing design, i've removed your diagrams, particularly the SA diagrams as b) the lower house independents should be in the middle (and most certainly not with the opposition) and c) the upper house crossbenchers should not be on either site but in the middle, and d) even more importantly, the President (upper house speaker) is a Labor MLC, not an independent MLC. Timeshift (talk) 20:25, 31 December 2015 (UTC)

On your diagrams of the Irish parliament
Hi there, I just thought I'd explain the decision to revert your changes.

As the purpose of the diagram is to show the proportion of seats per party the previous version is better and clearer to see at a glance as a visual representation.

While your version does indicate the physical shape of the chamber, it's worth noting that MPs don't actually sit that way. Fine Gael and Labour MPs(ie. the current governing coalition) often intermingle amongst each other, also the independents and minor parties(AAA, PBP, SocDems, Renua) often sit in different places in different sessions too.

(Perhaps in countries with electoral systems that often produce a single party majority your version could be better, as there would not be many parties to display)

Edit: Also the current version by consensus is used on a lot of other pages. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ranníocóir (talk • contribs)

Scottish Parliament
Hey. I reverted your change to Scottish Parliament, as I believe that a change in the arch diagram would warrant a discussion on the talk page first. Thank you. · &#124; (talk - contributions) 18:01, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Copyright violation
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2003 Ontario election maps
Hello, loving your maps! Just a correction: On the Ontario 2003 map you have an inset labelled "Hamilton / Oakville", however it just shows Hamilton and Burlington, as you put Oakville in with the GTA inset. For the other maps, you've put Oakville, Burlington and Hamilton together in the same inset (which I guess is fine to label it as Hamilton/Oakville, but Burlington is nearly the same population as Oakville so is kind of left out. -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:18, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2018
Hi there! I noticed you were the author of the vector map for the British Columbia general election, 2017. Were you able/interested in creating a similar map for the upcoming British Columbia electoral reform referendum? I would try editing your existing map but I doubt I would do much other than break things :P. Thanks for your work on producing great maps! Regards, Jon Kolbert (talk) 16:31, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi, you make great vector maps. I'm happy to finally see one for the 2018 BC electoral reform referendum. I couldn't help but notice that Colwood and Parksville were spelt wrong. Just wondering if it could be revised? Thanks, and keep up the great map edits. Popcorn9 (talk) 22:03, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

2018 PC election map
Hi there again, I've come bearing pedantry again. The 'Ajax-Pickering' inset on the map should read 'Ajax/Whitby/Oshawa' or something. It does not contain Pickering at all! -- Earl Andrew - talk 01:15, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

2019 Australian federal election
I have removed the images you placed on 2019 Australian federal election, not because I had a problem with them, but because they were not fitting within the page format & I could not figure out what you were trying to achieve. Find bruce (talk) 21:39, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Is this edit what you were trying to achieve on Results of the 2019 Australian federal election (House of Representatives) ? If so I am fine with that layout. In case I wasn't clear before, I actually quite like your maps & appreciate the work that went in to them, my issue was merely about page formatting. Cheers Find bruce (talk) 02:05, 24 May 2019 (UTC)

File:United_Kingdom_General_Election_2017_Results_Map_(Yorkshire_and_the_Humber).svg
Hey, you have the numbers the wrong way around on this one. Cheers. Onetwothreeip (talk) 00:12, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

BC map
Hello, it looks like you got the wrong results in Surrey South and Surrey-Panorama. Surrey South went Liberal and the latter went NDP. Cheers. -- Earl Andrew - talk 12:12, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

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