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I think it'd be good to modify the table showing the results of the House Election to include the number of seats and percentage controlled by each party before the election. I'd try to do this myself, but I'm not too good at editing tables. This is the table I'm referring to, which just shows net change (not what it changed from):
Party | Total Seats (change) | Seat percentage | |
---|---|---|---|
Democratic Party | 204 | -8 | 47.0% |
Independent | 1 | -1 | 0.2% |
Republican Party | 229 | +8 | 52.7% |
Totals | 4351 | +0 | 100.0% |
Political Lefty 22:12, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Party | Seats | Seat percentage | Popular Vote | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2000 | Elected1 | Net Change | ||||
Democratic Party | 212 | 204 | -7 | 47.0% | 45.0% | |
Independent | 2 | 1 | -1 | 0.2% | 0.5% | |
Republican Party | 221 | 229 | +8 | 52.7% | 49.6% | |
Totals | 435 | 435 | +0 | 100.0% | 100.0% |
I went ahead and made all of the pages for the eight Congressional districts in Louisiana. I actually made a page for the eighth, and in general I think we should make pages for obsolete districts, since the Congressional succession box refers to them, and there's no need to have a broken link.
I based most of it on what had been done for the Nebraska pages. Is there a policy on what the pages should have, at the end? It seems to me that in addition to a description of the district itself, we should also have a list of the holders of the seat since its inception, and maybe the returns for the last few elections.
Also, there is no Senator succession box, is there? --Deville 21:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Please see my new discussion on renaming the district articles here: Talk:List of United States Congressional districts#Better Rename A District. —GoldRingChip 01:41, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi there:
GoldRingChip put up merge notices on List of United States Senators from New York and U.S. Congressional Delegations from New York, intending to merge the former into the latter. I posted a message on his talk page, and he recommended that I post a message here to get some discussion going. If this is not the correct place for this discussion, please let me know what the correct location for it is.
Anyway, for each state, there are two articles, named "List of United States Senators from state" and "U.S. Congressional Delegations from state". The "U.S. Congressional Delegations…" article currently includes a table listing the Senators, although it is not identical to the tables in the "List…" article. Some options we could take with respect to these articles are:
One point in favor of options 2a and 2b is that the "United States Senator from state" link in succession tables doesn't have to point to a section of an article but to an article in its own right. (The same point applies to "United States Representative from the nth District of state".)
So:
— DLJessup (talk) 02:57, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
After I wrote my above posting, I realized that I had left off GoldRingChip's response to my proposal of what became options 2a and 2b above:
Please look at his talk page to be sure that I didn't take the above excerpt out of context. I'm also writing him a message asking him to write here on that talk page as I write this. (And I just had a collision with Bkonrad while writing this as well….) — DLJessup (talk) 03:15, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
*No. I once thought yes. But now I think that there are some good reasons to have as many as three pages:
- U.S. Congressional Delegations from Foo
- List of United States Senators from Foo, and
- List of United States Representatives from Foo.
—User_talk:GoldRingChip 22:15, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Why not make the the names is these great boxes alphabetical rather than chronological? That way the navigation wouldn't take so long. stilltim 20:53, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Just wanted to throw an idea out there to see what people though. I made up an article for the United States Capitol Complex to kind of put together all the random articles for buildings we have. I've also been working on finishing/starting articles of congressional buildings/facilities and was trying to think about how to put them all together in a catchy way. I made up a template for Capitol Complex facilities but wasn't sure if it was appropriate or needed. Tell me what you think...if its pointless we wont use it:
--ScottyBoy900Q∞ 07:28, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
I am noticing that succession boxes seem to be applied inconsistently for Congressional members. For example, compare Henry Clay with Robert G. Simmons or with no succession box at all, say Bob Livingston. I'm sure it is possible that it just has not been done yet. Nebraska seems to be one of the best, as it has pages for each district. Should one consider that a standard? I could start on other states if people agree and make them look more like Nebraska. --Deville 02:17, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Major inconsistency noted which is frustrating me. Some Reps have ((USRepSuccessionBox)), which then links to "Member of the U.S. House of Representatives for State's xth district"; while others have a generic ((succession box)), which links to "U.S. Congressional Delegations from State".
If we prefer the former, then a lot of converting needs to be going on, and it needs to be added to the to-do lists. Further, adding an article for each congressional district should also be added to the to-do list. (BTW, if we do prefer the former, I have one other comment/suggestion: do we really need "district" and "district_ord"? Can some logic be inserted that converts a number to its ordinal? (I'm not good enough on templates to know the answer to that).
As for having a page on each congressional district, is there a template (in the non-wiki sense of the word for it)? If not there should be. And, at the least, we can create them all now with at least the following: "See also [["U.S. Congressional Delegations from ''State''"]]
Comments on any of this anyone?? -- Sholom 13:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
This is to note I spent time yesterday revising the language on the John Lewis page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(politician) a record of which is on the Talk page for that article. The edits, I believe, improved the language and chronology turning what was difficult for the reader to understand to something easier to read. I also posted a note asking for clarification about a factual error on the Talk page of a user who had introduced the error. I included an Edit Summary and a discussion of my changes to the article Talk page. Today, I find my edits have been reversed and the clumsy difficult to read language re-introduced. The editor who reverted my edits did not include an Edit Summary, or address my comments on the article Talk page or on his own Talk page. This is discouraging. Unless one has the time and energy to engage in an editing war, the effort is akin to pushing a rock up hill. I can not engage in an editing war. Despite my interest, what has happened convinces me not to spend any more time with this congressional project. skywriter 18:46, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Please take the following poll [1] in the Template:Current U.S. Senators page. We are trying to resolve which version of the template is more user friendly. Thanks --DuKot 07:35, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi.
We've had a complaint about some over-enthusiastic unsourced claims that were in the Pat Roberts article. Could someone familiar with the usual style of US Senator articles have a skim over it and see what it ought to look like? Thanks. Shimgray | talk | 23:23, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
I've copied the page for the 2004 House elections and am in the process of trying to modify it for 2006 to get a jump on things before November. United States House election, 2006 complete list is the new page, and I'm in need of all the help I can get. Chadlupkes 15:03, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, I saw this on the Special:Wantedpages page and added a list of all the reps from each state for the 109th Congress only. Didn't realize the project was looking for a comprehensive list of reps to each Congress. Dunno whether to leave it alone or to add == 109th Congress == at the top of each page. Tomcool 03:33, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
I'm volunteering for completing the lists of former House members and Senators. I've filled in a good deal of material already today, and I think this project suits me just fine. Valadius 01:34, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Here's an update on the status of the two lists:
Valadius 00:15, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Another update:
Valadius 02:35, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Yet another update:
Valadius 04:11, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
I question the use of the word "officers" that this group (which, in a month or two, when I have more time, I will hopefully join) has been using. The Senate defines officers to be the Secretary of the Senate, the Sergeant at Arms, and the Chaplain. The House defines officers to be the Clerk of the House, the Chief Administrative Officer, the Chaplin, and the Sergeant at arms (http://rules.house.gov/ruleprec/RII.htm) . Might it be appropriate for us to use the same definitions? eric 00:35, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I have just looked at one of these lists and it is divided into "Class 1" and "Class 2". As a non-American I don't have a clue what that means. This sort of terminology really needs to be explained or linked to an explanation in another article. Please consider adding this feature. Thank you. 62.31.55.223 00:52, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I started an article a while ago concerning the incumbency advantage of the current US Congress. It's located at Congressional stagnation in the United States and I was wondering if it might merit inclusion into the list of splendid articles you've created. It's currently listed as a Good Article. Thanks. Thethinredline 11:56, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
I have submitted Tom DeLay for peer review. I look forward to your comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/Tom DeLay/archive1. Thanks, NatusRoma | Talk 02:51, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Just to let you know, there are now under a hundred missing senators left on the Missing senators list. Also on another topic, I was wondering whether having a sussescion box *and* a template that had the names of every person that had held that posistion was redundant. What do you think?--Rayc 22:24, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
These three people are currently on the lists of U.S. senators, but appear no where in Bioguide or political graveyard. That doesn't mean they don't exist, but probably aren't normally listed. Either that, or a hoax. Help clearing up this mystery would be appricieated:
--Rayc 16:03, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Ovalle is either a hoax or doesn't count, as North Dakota became a state in 1889. Valadius 05:21, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
I have been working on Portals for a while, and have put together a proposed new portal to cover U.S. Government topics. The proposal is at Wikipedia:Portal/Proposals#United_States_Government, with a mock-up of the portal at User:Kmf164/United States Government. For a better idea of how portals work, check out Wikipedia:Featured portals. My thoughts were to use part of the portal to highlight featured articles and pictures. Another part of it could highlight current events (news stories, as well as things like current/pending legislation, nominations, Supreme Court cases/decisions, etc.). The third part could be some topic directory. The last section could highlight WikiProjects and things to do. I'd like to know if has suggestions on improving the draft. Also, would anyone here be interested in helping to maintain it, should it be approved. Maintanance would most importantly involve keeping the current events updated, but also choosing articles and pictures to feature, maintaining the list of articles/categories, etc. I think the best place to provide input is at User_talk:Kmf164/United_States_Government. Thanks. -Aude (talk | contribs) 18:23, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
With the creation of the article on Alfred Iverson, Sr., Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/American politicians/Senators is now complete. This is due to the hard work of many; credit is due to Rayc and others for their efforts. Paul 04:22, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Earlier, folks mentioned splitting these into the existing Senate and Representative pages to avoid duplication. (option 2a). More recently, a couple of folks thought it was better to maintain 3 pages per state.
What's the current sentiment? I'd like to split, finding all references is hard and maintaining duplicate information is annoying. Now that things are shaping up, it seems a good time to do some well-considered re-organization based on experience.
Hi there:
Just a question about the scope of this project. Is this project limited to the United States Congress under the Constitution, or does it extend to the Continental and Confederation Congresses? If the latter, does it also extend to the Stamp Act Congress?
If you would like my advice—I am not a member of this project—I would suggest starting a separate Wikipedia:WikiProject Continental Congress and limit your scope to the Constitutional Congress; the Continental Congresses and the Constitutional Congress are very different bodies.
— DLJessup (talk) 17:19, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
One. Do we need ((USCongressTerms)) AND ((USCongresses))? They seems to be about analogs, however one contains links to other lists, but is arrainged in vertical rows, which is ALOT harder to read (IMAO).
Second, Image:Us senate seal.png is (In the image gallery), listed as the Seal of the Senate... so what's Image:Senate cap.PNG? Thanx 68.39.174.238 17:49, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
I've worked for the past month to update Portal:United States and keep it better maintained. Though, I think the portal would be even better with broader participation. One way to do that is instead of choosing the "selected article" myself each week, if others would nominate articles and help make decisions. (same goes for pictures, though these are stocked up through July 29) Articles about U.S. Congress and politics are more than welcome on the portal, as it's intended to cover all topics relating to the United States. If you would like to nominate or weigh in on what should be featured, please visit the portal. Thanks. -Aude (talk contribs) 21:35, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
There is a rather serious problem with some of the articles on former members of Congress. Many of them are known by several different names. Various pages which mention congressmen link to different names. For example, there is a person's first, middle and last name, e.g. James Christopher Healey, a person's first and last name with middle initial, e.g. James C. Healey and a person's first and last anme only, e.g. James Healey. It is vital that when you create an article on someone you check their other possible names to see if anything links there. There are possibly hundreds of pages which need to be redirected to articles, because people may find them and think there is no article on that person when there actually is, under a different name. I have been working on this for a week or so, but I would appreciate any help and suggestions on how to make this go faster. I have been going through the categories of members of the House and Senate from random states. I hope I am making this clear. Should ther be a note about this on the project page? Please respond. Thanks. Academic Challenger 07:31, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Would there be any use for a style guide for articles on members of Congress? If so then I would be interested in putting one together...there seem to be many issues specific to these articles, for example incorporating Bioguide info. Getting a list of accepted conventions together might be a good start - I'd appreciate feedback. Thanks, Paul 05:17, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I wrote a draft manual; take a look and let me know what you think - User:PaulHanson/Style guide Paul 18:10, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
There's lots missing from the manual. Add it and provide a summary of your changes. We'll have an official guide in no time. Paul 23:09, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
I've been looking into building maps for House election results: both mapping the absolute seat balances by state and the net changes in party seats by state. While the ideal would be to map district by district, I don't know if/where maps of pre-modern districts are freely available in electronic format and the work of building the district boundaries by hand for every few years seems daunting. So I was thinking of just doing the proportions by state.
I have some samples:
(absolute seats – coded by percent)
Image:Us house by state 1980.PNG
Image:Us house by state 1958.PNG
(net change – coded by net seats rather than net percent, although there are arguments for going both ways)
Image:Us house by state 1958 changes.PNG
Image:Us house by state 1980 changes.PNG
Does anyone have any opinions on: the usefulness/uselessness of the idea, the format, whatever? If people don't have strongly negative opinions I would build more and start putting them into the United States House election articles and XXth Congress articles as appropriate.
Willhsmit 04:43, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
None of those links work for me, Willhsmit. I've got a map, too. Here -> [2]. I am also wondering the best place to put it. JoshNarins 02:10, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, the articles for improvement drive seems to be all but dead and I was wondering if anyone was willing in taking it up again with perhaps new rules (maybe a change in time limit and number of subjects) TonyJoe 20:45, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
For some time I have been working on revisions to the Bricker Amendment article. I finally posted it and have a PR at Wikipedia:Peer review/Bricker Amendment/archive1. I'd welcome comments. I know all those references may seem extravagant, but I'm hoping to get it as an FA and those voters want lots of footnotes. PedanticallySpeaking 16:22, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
Have there been any guidelines set for how to deal with those House seats that are "at-large"? I am working on the Pennsylvania congressional delegations, and the current method for showing these seats on the congressional delegations table is misleading, and I am at a total loss as to how to deal with these situations using the succession boxes. I did see the Page for Ohio's At-large congressional district, but this seems to be a very confusing way to deal with the situation. Perhaps that's just beacuse the situation is confusing? And the succession boxes (for Stephen M. Young for example) seem to ignore the "at-large" status all together.Npeters22 12:43, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
I've been doing a lot of work recently with current and past Congressmen and Senators by adding ((Infobox Congressman)) or ((Infobox Senator)) where missing or where ((Infobox Politician)) is used instead. I just added one to Barry Goldwater's article, and I was faced with a quandry. Goldwater's tenure in the senate had a four year gap in the mid-60s, so he had two predecessors and two successors. I put his first predecessor and second successor in the infobox, but I wonder if there's a better way to do it. Any suggestions on how all the information could be displayed without requiring meddling with the template? – stubblyhead | T/c 20:24, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Hey everyone. I've seen some of the great work you all are doing here. I was wondering if anyone wanted to help out at the Campaigns Wikia, which is all about what you're doing. Drop me a line either here or there. Thanks! Jfingers88 00:10, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
I've had a bash and I've improved the 7 Alabama Districts and the 1st Arkansas over a few weeks, and I think statistical information could be better expressed with an infobox, considering every district article is going to have a Nat Atlas picture of it as well. Im not good with the technical side - any suggestions for a standard info box for districts? Orchid Righteous 09:06, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Currently Daniel Webster is up for Featured article status and I was hoping that some people from the project would be willing to come and review it here as it hasn't gotten a single vote either way. Thanks, TonyJoe 19:42, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
What if a Congressman was also a Governor of a State? I'm thinking the governor one should take priority, since it's a state-wide race, and a congressional race is for representing just a portion of a state? Thoughts? --plange 02:58, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Abraham Lincoln is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 00:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)