User talk:Raellerby

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Image is still too big for non free - text is not a criteria for non-free image - as policy states - An original, high resolution image (that can be reasonably scaled down to maintain overall artistic and critical details) may lose some text detail. In such cases, that text should be duplicated on the image description page. Care should be given to the recreation of copyrighted text: while it is appropriate for credits from a movie poster as factual data, such duplication would not be appropriate for an original poem embedded within an image. It's sometimes better to use a block quote on the article. A one megapixel image is very large for non-free and would have to have a very good reason and community support to stay.

Hey, you did a great job developing the tables for various Canadian elections. I have begun a similar project on Wikidata with the long term goal of updating and making available the results of various elections and terms of MP/MLAs through both Wikidata and Wikipedia pages, including creating Wikidata pages for candidates not notable for an individual Wikipedia page (e.g., that appear one or more times in provincial and federal elections) (see Every Politician Canada Project; Federal Elections until 2019 Query). I have completed the House of Commons and Nova Scotia on Wikidata based off their respective public datasets with a significant amount of refining. I am now going through Ontario. Elections Ontario's data page is riddled with errors (wrong electoral district for candidates, wrong number of votes). These errors are not reflected in your edits (I noticed several errors in Elections Ontario's data are fixed, for example 1919 Northumberland East where Elections Ontario put the wrong vote totals for the UFA and Conservative candidates (Elections Ontario Correct total ). Did you do a significant amount of clean-up on that database, or did Elections Ontario mess up the data since you completed your work? Thanks - Caddyshack01 (talk) 19:46, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

@Caddyshack01 - I did a significant cleanup in the 1919 Ontario results, because Elections Ontario skipped a string of constituencies around the Toronto area and shuffled many candidate listings into others. Fortunately the original election returns, together with the Canadian Annual Review for that year, are available in archive.org to be able to rectify those errors. I found the original returns coincided with the results tabulated in the Review.

There is some data that cannot be found: turnout data is blank in eight ridings in the original election returns. I guess the returning officers did not think it important to report on that. There was also an affiliation error in Wellington South that I was able to correct using a report from a local newspaper I knew about in the area. Compiling these tables proved to be a significant challenge.Raellerby (talk) 01:00, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

This makes sense. I noticed that the data from the 1940s and 1950s does not align with the MPP records for individuals elected in the various electoral districts. I used the 1919 data as an example because the discrepancy was easier (and shorter) to explain. I had hoped that Elections Ontario's database issue might have resulted from a recent update that could simply be reverted, rather than underlying data errors. I ran into similar issues with Nova Scotia and the Library of Parliament, and I emailed them about the errors providing my sources. - Caddyshack01 (talk) 02:18, 25 February 2026 (UTC)