User talk:Brythones

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Yours sincerely, JuTa 19:25, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

A Scottish barnstar

		The Scottish Barnstar of National Merit
		You deserve this for taking the time to upload better maps of all the Scottish counties. Thanks! Zacwill16 (talk) 20:11, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

An unfree Flickr license was found on File:Gaiety Theatre Ayr.jpg

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Ww2censor (talk) 13:42, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Scottish Election 2016 Map

Hello!

Thank you for the blank map for the Scottish Election 2016 you based on my previous election maps! It is a good placeholder design.

I actually had a blank map saved as an .ai file on my computer so when I checked the page I thought "The heck? Did I upload it?".

When the election comes, as I have the .ai file on standby for my computer I could do the honours or filling out the constituencies and the Alt.Vote members with their respective colours when the time comes.

If you are looking to create something for the page on the election you could possibly do the parliament layout chart based on party allocation.

Thank you!

- Dr. Random Factor, Ph.D

File:Welsh Assembly election 2011 map.svg

Hi,

Please do not upload radically different images over existing files like you did with the Welsh Assembly map. See Commons:Overwriting existing files for more info. You are free to upload the second map to a different location.

Be aware of attribution requirements as well - the final map is your own work, but is clearly derived from the original (by myself) and attribution to the author of the original is important.--Nilfanion (talk) 17:21, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Brexit map suggestion

Hey Brythones, thank you for your work with the brexit map! I would like to suggest to revert the color scale from yellow-blue to green-red as you had it some versions before. It makes more sense and is more readable. As it is now, the two poles of the scale are almost not distinguishable from each other. Cheers --176.92.200.215 23:17, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

File:United Kingdom EU referendum 2016 area results.svg

Thank you for creating and updating that map as results came in! -- pne (talk) 07:53, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

EU referendum maps for regions

Note that I've reverted all of these uploads. Per COM:OVERWRITE a substantially different file should be uploaded to a different location - a radical change to the colours is substantial.

I'd point out the colours are unacceptable without more substantial tweaks - both the leave and remain colours clash with colours used elsewhere on the map, but on basis of previous discussion you are likely to ignore me. However, if you change the maps on the result page to the versions uploaded last night I will revert that - as those files are unacceptable as-is.--Nilfanion (talk) 08:41, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

The files are not stale - they are in use on multiple projects.

As for their limitations: Look at your London map as a thumbnail. You can't tell where the (weak remain of) outer London stops and the surrounding districts begin. That's a major problem as you can't actually see London! That's in contrast to the two-colour maps, which are both perfectly legible and totally acceptable (which is why the BBC use it). The fact a more graduated map can show more (and I agree it certainly does that, and is more valuable as a result) doesn't make the more basic map unacceptable. The very fact that a graduated map shows a different thing is why the basic results map shouldn't be overwritten

As a side comment, they should correctly attribute the authors (see the national map for a correct approach).--Nilfanion (talk) 21:29, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

New results map with both local and regional maps on same image!!

Why can't we produce a map which is similar to the above shown with the local authority area results on the left and the regional results on the right from the EU referendum so we have a image with both maps. It would work brilliantly the Map above which is from 2016 Welsh assembly election is a great demonstration of how to bring both maps together. (2A02:C7F:5621:2A00:C56B:D432:32B:E87A 17:20, 17 November 2016 (UTC))

NI maps

Hi Brythones. Just wanted to try and persuade you to keep my new constituency maps ;)

The main point is that the old maps are out of date, e.g. Foyle constituency was about halved in size in 2010.

On colour, I figured tan and green would be less garish than reds, and more inline with most maps on Wikipedia. I appreciate it's inconsistent, but there are no pages where the maps are shown alongside those of GB constituencies and in any case I figured I might start a trend...

Nonetheless, as you own this as much as I do, I'll offer to make new versions with the old colours if you let me keep the correct boundaries.

All the best

Samillar94 (talk) 01:28, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

Scottish Council election maps

I have reverted your changes to the Dundee election maps, I do not feel the shading for the largest party for the entire ward is appropriate, the stripes give a more actuate reflection of the results and is used in the corresponding English local election maps where the are multi-candidate wards. I do plan on updating all the articles when I have the appropriate free time. --Barryob (talk) 08:38, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

@Brythones: & @Barryob: , do not switch files between the two styles. Both versions of File:Dundee City Council election, 2007.svg and File:City of Edinburgh Council election 2017.svg are acceptable, in both cases the original style should be at that location (so stripes for Dundee and boxes for Edinburgh). The other version should be placed at a different file location. The choice of boxes or stripes is an editorial decision, which needs a consensus on Wikipedia - which you won't get by edit-warring on Commons.--Nilfanion (talk) 09:33, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

I did not mean to edit war, I was just updating the image to the file name that was used for all previous elections, I will upload future ones to new file names, there has been a consensus for years tho however on the shading of multi member wardsBarryob (talk) 16:04, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi, looking at your map for the Argyll & Bute 2017 election, it appears you've given Helensburgh Central 2 Conservative councillors instead of 2 Lib Dems:

Argyll and Bute Council election 2017.svg — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.32.116.24 (talk) 21:10, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

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Nilfanion (talk) 09:57, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

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File:Emma Pengelly signing the Roll of Members.jpg

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Correction request in File:The British Empire.png

Hello.

Great Britain and Northern Ireland are not mere British territories, like a British Overseas Territory or Crown Dependency, they constitute the United Kingdom of Great Britain as a whole.

In File:The British Empire.png, the United Kingdom has been forgotten alltogether, and it appears as just "Great Britain" and Northern Ireland is shown like a separate unit (like a British Overseas Territory or Crown Dependency). Both Great Britain (which is a geographical designation for the island of Britain nowadays, except in some international sporting events) and Northern Ireland need to be fused under the title of United Kingdom and shown as part of one country, because the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is one country under inernational law. Can you rectify this please?

Thank you.

Maphobbyist (talk) 01:14, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Hello.

Would you express your opinions and recommendations about the two versions of File:The_British_Empire.png, because this has become a dispute with User:Wiki-Ed who is disputing the broad definition with you and with me, and has put it in Commons:Administrators' noticeboard/Blocks and protections#Full protection for File:The British Empire.png under the section "Full protection for File:The British Empire.png"

Thank you.

Maphobbyist (talk) 00:21, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello.

I have uploaded a new map with a firmly established title and summary, and is backed up by links, so that it cannot be narrowed down like File:The British Empire.png on which it is based. The new File:The British Empire (including Crown Dependencies, Crown Colonies-Overseas Territories, Protectorates, Military Administrations).png is based on the broad definition of the "British Empire" and includes Crown Dependencies, Crown Colonies, British Protectorates, British Mandates and British Military Administrations. I hope this user does not contest this map. Please feel free to edit, if there are missing areas and corrections need to be made, with verifiable sources and links, so it is not contested and narrowed down.

I also put this in the Administrators' noticeboard page.

Kindest regards, Maphobbyist (talk) 21:07, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for my English. If you like to change drastically the File:Commonwealth realms map.svg, please change the legends in every language in every edition of Wikipedia: I noticed this image because, reading it:Reame del Commonwealth (I'm Italian), I noticed the description of the the red-brown areas removed from the map. --Skyfall (talk) 08:40, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

File:Ayr constituency declaration 2016.png

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B dash (talk) 03:03, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

General election electoral boundaries.

I'm aware of your great skill in creating election maps with the constituencies inside of them coloured in with the party colours. I was keen to know what software you use and how specifically you create the maps with high resolution and detail. If you use InkScape, what version and do you draw the boundaries with Bezier lines or freehand? If you know of any tutorials that go through this I'd very much appreciate it. Cheers! — Preceding unsigned comment added by MarioBayo (talk • contribs) 20:47, 7 March 2021 (UTC)