Globins

November 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to List of election bellwether counties in the United States, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Please also note that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate list of counties and the last time they were right/wrong in an election. The only counties that should be on that list are those counties which reliable sources identify as important significant bellwethers. Not ones you yourself have found based on your own research. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 09:13, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

@Berchanhimez: I was kind of going off of the page for Bellwether#United States, which seems to have been written in a similar way. Most of the info in the United States section isn't directly stated in the sources it cites. Globins (talk) 09:22, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Globins, while I understand why you would think that's appropriate, the fact that other pages are not in compliance with the rules does not mean that it is okay to make more pages that violate the rules. I'll go through and add some cleanup tags to that article because I'm not sure what should stay or go or what. Unless reliable sources are discussing the "bellwetherness" of the counties/areas/states/provinces, Wikipedia does not publish it. Wikipedia does not allow people to do their "own research" by figuring out on their own the voting records of counties. -bɜ:ʳkənhɪmez (User/say hi!) 09:25, 8 November 2020 (UTC)