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The pages for each Congress should mention promimently when the Congress sat. I would suggest at the top of the page. Rmhermen 22:52 May 12, 2003 (UTC)
Not sure if anyone is still watching this project or not. I'd like to start making articles about Michigan's congressional districts, describing some history and listing representatives from the districts. If possible, I'd like to get maps showing the area represented after each redistricting (although that would require some digging). I'm just wondering if anyone has already tried anything similar and I'm also looking for naming suggestions. I was thinking of First Congressional District of Michigan, but I see there are some other variations under Category:U.S. Congressional districts. Such as North Carolina congressional districts (only lists current districts), United States House of Representatives, Texas District 1, 1st Congressional District of Kansas and First Congressional District of Hawaii. Personally, I think the last naming form is clearest, but curious if anyone else has thoughts about this. older≠wiser 19:49, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
The articles that exist are formatted:
For example, If there is only one district, then District (({number))} changes to At Large. For example, See List of United States Congressional districts for a complete list of all current and obsolete districts. |
I just reorganized North Carolina Congressional Districts, using a gallery for the maps of the districts and using gallery captions to replace the auto-generated TOC. I also put icons representing the party of each district's officeholder. I think the result improves upon its predecessor in a couple of ways and hope you take it into account for any style guidelines you follow.
BTW, I would have expected the article's title to be North Carolina congressional districts, which would better follow Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Lowercase second and subsequent words. 66.167.252.174 22:25, 20 November 2005 (UTC).
Is this article correct? Seventy-first United States Congress? It doesn't look right. Can someone working on this project please fix it? thanks :) Kingturtle 07:17, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
i saw the congress pages on the most linked to and nonexistant wikipages list, so i added to the 91st United States Congress and created the 90th United States Congress. all i planned on doing (for now) was copying, pasting, and wiki'ng info from house.gov. then i saw that there was a project for these pages. with "your" OK, i will continue to do so for the remaining missing congress pages, and formatting to any style that you planned on using.
- Somedude 01:41, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)
I think you should have every page link to the Thomas Project ([1]) where possible. This is a service of Congress has lists of all Bills passed by each Congress since the 93rd (e.g. [2] etc).Chris Martin 16:46, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I SPENT HOURS ON THOSE SENATE LISTS AND I HAVE IT MESSED UP! I HAVE SAID TIME AND TIME AGAIN THAT IF YOU MESS WITH THOSE LISTS IT LOOKS LIKE CRAP! AND IT DOES LOOK LIKE CRAP, It does not look neat! --Jack Cox 21:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
The use of the 'catch all' category Members of the U.S. House of Representatives for individual members is just not workable. There is some work that is breaking former members out by state. And there are two forms in use: U.S. Representatives from Missouri and Members of the U.S. House from Maryland. We ought to strive for some consistency. So, just edit the proposal, and add any comments after it. Thanks, Lou I 12:30, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
Category:Members of the U.S. House of Representatives is cleared out of individual reps. They are all now in their respecitve state-specific categories. For some reason, only last names starting with M and S where there. Fplay 01:56, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
The use of a blank in the parent category entry will force all 'subcategories' to the first page of the now massive Members. Once we get the list down to a workable size (none), we cabn reinsert the state names to get headings/toc entries. Lou I 12:30, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
We could continue a single category for the members of the U.S. Senate. The list is not so large as to make this unworkable, but I prefer the Category:U.S. Senators from Foo by state. Lou I 12:30, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
People will want to view these things several ways: members of either body by party (especially after the 25th Congress or so), members by State (= state delegations). Is there an option for some sort of database from which the information can be pulled? If so, then the "XXth Congress" page could have links for "House membership by state" (with parties indicated), "House membership by party" (with state indicated). It seems counterproductive to clutter up the "Congress page" with a huge list of names when the accomplishments (or failures) of the Congress are more pertinent, as long as there's an easy way to find out who the participants/culprits were. The 108th Congress has four lines for legislation out of info that 'print preview' says would chew up 28 pages. Isn't this what hyperlinks are all about? Or am I misundestanding something? OtherDave 22:55, September 8, 2005 (UTC)
Current use of categories for individual members:
Thanks for your consideration, and intersperse comments above, or use my talk page Lou I 17:18, 16 October 2005 (UTC) talk
I've modified the List of United States Senators from Texas as an example of the format I'd like to follow. The toughest part of this activity is the footnotes. My next target is Pennsylvania since it covers all Congresses. If anyone has comments let me know. I've also compiled a color and link schema from several of these articles, described below. Comments are welcome, but if you get them in early I can incorporate any improvements in this pass. Lou I 21:45, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Several lists of senators, delegations, and other politicians use color coding to show political parties. This table shows the most widely used colors, but they're not universal. (See the Texas Senator list linked above for an example.) After a pause for comments, I'll put this or a list improved by comments on the project page. Also, any suggestions on a color code for anti-federalist? Lou I 22:13, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
How about a Lilac or Light Cyan for the anti-federalists? Lilac seems to be the best contrast to the others, while a light Cyan retains a consistancy with the democratic-republican party that would follow it. I think the Light Cyan works best for that reason. --Barberio 15:19, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
color | party | party link code |
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CCCCCC | Heading | |
DDEEFF | democrat (D) | [[Democratic Party (United States)|(D)]] |
FFE8E8 | republican (R) | [[Republican Party (United States)|(R)]] |
CCFFCC | democratic-republican (D-R) | [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|(D-R)]] |
AAFFAA | national-republican (N-R) | [[National-Republican Party (United States)|(N-R)]] |
FFFFCC | whig (Whig) | [[Whig Party (United States)|(Whig)]] |
E6E6AA | federalist (F) | [[Federalist Party (United States)|(F)]] |
E8FFE8 | anti-federalist (A-F) | [[Anti-Federalism|(A-F)]] |
Political Party | Hex Code |
---|---|
Federalist | bgcolor=#E6E6AA |
Democratic-Republican | bgcolor=#CCFFCC |
National Republican | bgcolor=#FFF8DC |
Democratic | bgcolor=#DDEEFF |
Know-Nothing | bgcolor=#CCFFFF |
Whig | bgcolor=#FFFFCC |
Republican | bgcolor=#FFE8E8 |
Misc.* | bgcolor=#FFFFFF |
Territorial | bgcolor=#ffdead |
* Misc. = No party, indepedent, military, provisional, minor third party
Here's the table I've been referring to. Note the descrepancy under National Republican. jengod 19:37, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
Hiya, I need opinions on how I've been doing on expanding the Seventy-third United States Congress. Still some technically tweaking needed, but I think it's about as complete as it will be. I feel the need to create a template with all the Congresses listed on it (since it's hard to navigate between them as it is right now). I'd be willing to make such a template, if it's a good idea? Also, I am expanding the [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from <state>]] pages that have gaps before the 73rd Congress. I've already done so for U.S. Congressional Delegations from New Hampshire, U.S. Congressional Delegations from Mississippi, U.S. Congressional Delegations from Iowa, and U.S. Congressional Delegations from Rhode Island. Finally, I would like an opinion on United States House of Representatives, New Mexico District 1. There wasn't a clear example on those Congressional District pages (since there were so few of those pages) so I thought what I did (which was slightly based on Kansas') was presentable. But I would like a second opinion! YourNickname 22:43, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
There are a lot of Presidential Trivia Lists, are there any Congressional trivia lists?
I am about to create a list of Congressional delegations ranked by partisan composition, which will be similar to the chart I created here.
Surely there are other trivia lists that I have overlooked. Articles about women members, African American members, and Asian members etc. could be included in a new Congressional Lists template. Anyone have some good suggestions on how to proceed? NoSeptember 23:05, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
I created the new article Partisan mix of congressional delegations. NoSeptember 14:49, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
I created Template:Congresslists, I welcome improvements (I'm sure I have not found all the articles that should be included). NoSeptember 13:20, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
Please take a look at Peter G. Gerry. This was on the requested articles list, it had 20 something links but no article. I had troubles with the infobox and need to add in preceeded by and succeeded by. But, it is coming along, and help is welcome. I also started a topic for his wife and added it to DYK. Joaquin Murietta 01:05, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Peer review has been requested for the Joseph McCarthy article. Please make all peer review comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Joseph McCarthy/archive1. TomerTALK 20:29, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
Would this be the place to discuss USA PATRIOT Act? I'm trying to get it up to scratch - it's a slow process. - Ta bu shi da yu 16:46, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Is there any interest in regularly having a U.S. Congress Collaboration of the week?
Don't discuss it here on [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress]]. I've created a subpage for discussion and (if merited) creation: Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Congress/COTW. --GoldRingChip 16:55, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
NOTE: I've been adding templating to former Senate pro tems, just so you all know. Staxringold 01:08, 22 October 2005 (UTC)