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Greetings! I have recently relisted a requested move discussion at Talk:Raul Ruiz#Requested move, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thanks, Tyrol5 [Talk] 04:19, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
A number of congressional district Cook Partisan Voting Index values have been changed by 2001:558:6020:197:2174:1EFD:C6EE:4AF4 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log). Some seem more correct than others. Is there a new release of the CPVI? I undid a few and asked the user a question about them. S/he did not reply and stopped editing. Should these be fixed, undone, or what? If you want my attention, please leave a TB on my talk page. Thanks Jim1138 (talk) 09:22, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Tom Harkin's announced his retirement from the Senate, so if a few people could add that article to their watchlists, it'd be good. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 17:33, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
I'm posting this here in hopes this project has enough members to keep a long-term eye on Davy Crockett. I'm not sure at this point it would qualify for semi-protection, but I sure wish it did. I've recently done a number of edits on the article, and it could stand to be improved even more. But what struck me about the article is how much total junk was in the article, sitting there for years unchallenged, a large chunk of which has been dropped in years ago by an IP editor. The article has been in bad shape for a long time. Some of it has appeared to me to be deliberate hanky-panky. And some of it looks to be good faith edits by persons with limited knowledge of the subject matter. The legend aside, this man was a United States Congressman. It needs watchful eyes to make sure it doesn't disintegrate again. And in an ideal world, such a public figure would merit some dignity in a Wikipedia article. I think it might take some re-working to raise it up to the level of FA or GA, but I'm always hopeful. — Maile (talk) 16:18, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
I believe the article nuclear option requires some attention, throughout but particularly the opening paragraphs. It would be great if somebody knowledgeable could have a look at recent changes to the lede (defining the term nuclear option) as well as the discussion at Talk:Nuclear option#Changes in Precedent vs. Changes to the Senate Rules. Thanks! Mathew5000 (talk) 20:55, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Members of this WikiProject may be interested in Talk:Nuclear option#rfc_4D21E4C. Any comments are of course welcome. Mathew5000 (talk) 22:17, 14 February 2013 (UTC)
I'm puzzled by the assertion in California's 1st congressional district that the district was created in 1865, given that California achieved statehood in 1849. Were there no congressional districts for 16 years? What about Cornelius Cole, whose bio says he represented the district from March 4, 1863 to March 4, 1865? Does anyone have a reliable source for these dates? —Stepheng3 (talk) 19:35, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
Back in 2008, an editor decided that thousands of articles about populated places (of all sizes) in California should each have a Politics section indicating the congressional district and the current representative's name and political party. Said editor added this information and then went inactive in October of that same year. The information has been getting updated (or not) in a haphazard manner ever since.
A couple weeks ago I came up with an idea to make it easier to keep this information up-to-date. I created a ((Representative)) template where information about U.S. representative (and state legislators) could be stored centrally, so that when a district's representation changes, one edit will update every instance where the template is transcluded. Since then, another editor and I have added template invocations to about 600 articles, and so far it is working well.
Being unsure whether this issue was unique to California, I designed the template so it might easily be extended to other states or even other countries. Ultimately, it might interface with WikiData. If there's interest, I could help adapt it to meet the needs of this WikiProject with respect to other states' delegations. —Stepheng3 (talk) 20:56, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi, we're here with folks from the Cato Institute Wikipedia:Meetup/DC/Legislative Data Workshop. Cato is working on a non-partisan, free, open-source, public-domain platform to add content about legislation to Wikipedia articles, using xml data about congressional bills. We're taking notes at the event on this [1]. Is there interest about exploring this further with them? Farmbrough's revenge⇔ †@1₭ 16:16, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
As the project is developing, we've set up a provisional WikiProject at Wikipedia:WikiProject United States Federal Government Legislative Data (WP:LEGDATA), and would love to get input from any editors interested in the project. Please join us there, and we can help you find a task if you'd like to help! WWB (talk) 18:16, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
Ignoring the other issues in Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012, is it appropriate for an editor to create an article with nothing more than a summary of the provisions of a law? Personally, I feel that Wikipedia isn't serving its function as an encyclopedia in this case and readers would be better off getting that information from another source if that's all we are going to provide. Ryan Vesey 20:50, 29 March 2013 (UTC)
See also: Talk:112th United States Congress § Mid-term beginning dates, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress/Archives/2010 § Installed |
Rule: Members who are elected in special elections start their terms on the day of the special election if they are qualified and if the seat is already vacant. Otherwise, their terms begin the day they become qualified and/or the day the seat becomes vacant.
There are different rules for the House and Senate, the latter being more complicated. The rules about terms are the same as rules about salaries. To see this, one can read "The Term of a Senator—When does it begin and end?" and look at the service dates used for senators and representatives at the respective chambers' webpages.
Terms of senators elected for a full term are governed by the 20th Amendment. The terms of such senators begin on January 3 of the new Congress, but if they do not present their credentials by then, their term seems to start later. This is true whether it is their own fault (as when Senator Rockefeller stayed on as governor of West Virginia until his term ended in January 1978) or not (as when Senator Franken was unable, by Minnesota law) to obtain a certificate of election until after an election contest ended). In both cases, the individual's term seems to have begun when they took the oath, even though the terms to which they were elected began earlier.
Terms of senators appointed or elected are governed by 2 U.S.C. § 36. The rules can seem complex, but they center around the interaction of three question: was a replacement senator appointed to the seat, was a replacement senator elected to the seat, and had the Senate adjourned sine die (i.e., did it end its session) before a relevant event. Here they are:
Representatives elected to full terms are in the same boat as senators. Terms of representatives elected to fill vacancies "commence on the date of their election and not before". -Rrius (talk) 03:00, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
There is an RfC at Talk:Barack Obama#RfC: Should "the first African American to hold the office" have a footnote in the lead?. Please comment there. Wilhelm Meis (☎ Diskuss | ✍ Beiträge) 21:47, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
I like to edit old congressmen articles and articles about congressional districts. I've noticed that depending on the article some list the pre-1920's congresses as starting on March 4th, and ending on March 3rd, while other articles state that they begin on March 4th, and end on March 4th. I've seen different district articles listing March 4th as the end date and others listing March 3rd. This also is a problem in individual infoboxes as well obviously. A problem is that the citations often conflict as well. For example, Delaware's at-large congressional district lists the end date as March 4th. But Wisconsin's 1st congressional district lists the end date as March 3rd. The individual Congress articles such as 44th United States Congress list March 4th, but relable sources such as Directory of the United States Congress list individual congressmen dates as ending on March 3rd. For example [2]
I'm hoping for a group consensus so we can fix all these articles. Thanks everyone! --Jamo58 (talk) 05:38, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
There is an article on the Senate's page about March 3 v. March 4. The conclusion is that before 1851 it was sometimes contested, but the Senate decided after some year in the 1800s the end noon on March 4. None of the other parts of the government seem to have objected, and eventually it became ingrained (these are my arguments, not the article's). So any source that claims the last day of a Congress was March 3 in, for example, the 20th century, should not be trusted. Also, CongBio can't be totally trusted on this since they sometimes list January 2 as the end of service date for post-20th Amendment reps and sens who finished out their terms. -Rrius (talk) 08:45, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
I've opened a discussion here about whether Ballotpedia should be included as an external link in U.S. Congress articles. —Designate (talk) 13:17, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm working on a WikiProject to add publicly accessible campaign finance data to the pages of US elected official. This seems like a related WikiProject, so is there any interest in pursuing the topic from this group? This data is factual and applies to members of all parties, so I think it is appropriate to include. As an example, the top 10 donors and top 10 donor industries would be included. Thoughts? Will Hopkins (talk) 01:32, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
About our data: Read the details about our data sources and methodology. Contributions data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org). Legislative data from GovTrack.us.
Sorry I'm a newbie to uploading photos and I don't really know what I'm doing. I want to add a picture for Ithamar C. Sloan I went to wikicommons and found this photo [3] It's a picture of him but it is eight pictures of him. So I took the photo and cropped it in GIMP. Now I'm not sure what to do next. Do I need to upload the cropped photo to commons as well. And if that is the case then how do show that this new photo is a cropped of the original. Basically the file history section. I'm sorry for being such a newbie with these questions but I'm really interested in helping add more pictures but wikipedia photo help is really confusing. I'd appreciate any help/advice I can get. Thanks --Jamo58 (talk) 06:38, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
A discussion is ongoing about the lead to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution article. Please help form a consensus at Talk:Second Amendment to the United States Constitution#Proposal for lead.--Mark Miller (talk) 13:03, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
I notice that the 23rd district of Texas is described as not including any "major urban" area of Texas, and being therefore rural based. The district, however, includes San Antonio, which is the second largest city in Texas, and the seventh largest in the U.S. It is indisputedly a "major urban" area, and colors the district politics enormously. El Paso is not exactly rural, either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.198.138.94 (talk) 17:13, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
There is a discussion in progress at Talk:United States Senate election in Nebraska, 2014 concerning the formatting of opinion-poll tables. The issue is whether a link to a source should be in the form of an external link, piped through the polling organization's name; or whether it should be presented as a formatted citation. The difference between the two formats can be seen in this diff
I'd suggest that formatted citations are more appropriate, per WP:ELPOINTS, which deprecates ELs in most situations, and whose short list of exceptions doesn't appear to apply here; and because ELs are subject to linkrot, and don't allow the reader to evaluate the source without actually following the link. Another editor maintains that ELs are not only permissible but desirable, as in keeping with the usual practice in articles about elections, and in view of this has reverted my addition of formatted footnotes.
Could we get some opinions from members of this WikiProject? Thanks. Ammodramus (talk) 03:32, 4 December 2013 (UTC)