Talk:California's 1st senatorial district

Requested move 17 January 2024

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover)  ❯❯❯  Raydann  (Talk)   15:22, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

– Per WP:CONCISE and WP:LOWERCASE, similar to California's 1st congressional district. This still satisfies 's point regarding the state constitution's naming convention (Article IV, Section 6). Basically, my outlook is that either (A) Foo's nth State Senate district or (B) Foo's nth senatorial distrct is fine, but (C) Foo's nth State Senatorial district is cumbersome and wordy.
 * California's 1st State Senatorial district → California's 1st senatorial district
 * California's 2nd State Senatorial district → California's 2nd senatorial district
 * California's 3rd State Senatorial district → California's 3rd senatorial district
 * California's 4th State Senatorial district → California's 4th senatorial district
 * California's 5th State Senatorial district → California's 5th senatorial district
 * California's 6th State Senatorial district → California's 6th senatorial district
 * California's 7th State Senatorial district → California's 7th senatorial district
 * California's 8th State Senatorial district → California's 8th senatorial district
 * California's 9th State Senatorial district → California's 9th senatorial district
 * California's 10th State Senatorial district → California's 10th senatorial district
 * California's 11th State Senatorial district → California's 11th senatorial district
 * California's 12th State Senatorial district → California's 12th senatorial district
 * California's 13th State Senatorial district → California's 13th senatorial district
 * California's 14th State Senatorial district → California's 14th senatorial district
 * California's 15th State Senatorial district → California's 15th senatorial district
 * California's 16th State Senatorial district → California's 16th senatorial district
 * California's 17th State Senatorial district → California's 17th senatorial district
 * California's 18th State Senatorial district → California's 18th senatorial district
 * California's 19th State Senatorial district → California's 19th senatorial district
 * California's 20th State Senatorial district → California's 20th senatorial district
 * California's 21st State Senatorial district → California's 21st senatorial district
 * California's 22nd State Senatorial district → California's 22nd senatorial district
 * California's 23rd State Senatorial district → California's 23rd senatorial district
 * California's 24th State Senatorial district → California's 24th senatorial district
 * California's 25th State Senatorial district → California's 25th senatorial district
 * California's 26th State Senatorial district → California's 26th senatorial district
 * California's 27th State Senatorial district → California's 27th senatorial district
 * California's 28th State Senatorial district → California's 28th senatorial district
 * California's 29th State Senatorial district → California's 29th senatorial district
 * California's 30th State Senatorial district → California's 30th senatorial district
 * California's 31st State Senatorial district → California's 31st senatorial district
 * California's 32nd State Senatorial district → California's 32nd senatorial district
 * California's 33rd State Senatorial district → California's 33rd senatorial district
 * California's 34th State Senatorial district → California's 34th senatorial district
 * California's 35th State Senatorial district → California's 35th senatorial district
 * California's 36th State Senatorial district → California's 36th senatorial district
 * California's 37th State Senatorial district → California's 37th senatorial district
 * California's 38th State Senatorial district → California's 38th senatorial district
 * California's 39th State Senatorial district → California's 39th senatorial district
 * California's 40th State Senatorial district → California's 40th senatorial district

By that logic, I don't think there's any need to change the Assembly district pages (e.g. California's 1st State Assembly district) since those contain the unmodified phrase "State Assembly" in them. Woko Sapien (talk) 22:10, 17 January 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. – robertsky (talk) 00:13, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Note that this change would make California Senate districts identical to how Ohio Senate districts are formatted. --Woko Sapien (talk) 19:25, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: WikiProject Elections and Referendums has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:53, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: WikiProject California has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:53, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: WikiProject United States has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 22:53, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support – both the more concise wording and the lowercasing make sense. State Senatorial is not a proper name, and is by far more lowercase in sources.  Dicklyon (talk) 22:55, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Support - on the presumption that this will be done for all the states' senatorial districts. GoodDay (talk) 18:58, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * This search doesn't find any similar pattern for other states. This one shows Ohio done as proposed here.  Texas and Pennsylvania have a different pattern.  Not sure about other states.  Trying to do them all the same would be a much bigger deal than what this proposal is currently about.  And state governments are not all alike in the US, so some may not even have a Senate (e.g. Nebraska Legislature), or districts (I don't know). Dicklyon (talk) 22:45, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Would prefer "California's Nth State Senate district". Not sure how I feel about this move. Elli (talk &#124; contribs) 00:10, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * That's actually how they were originally formatted. They were changed last year to be closer to the state constitution's wording (as seen here). Woko Sapien (talk) 19:22, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Doesn't that seem like an article about the district of California's Nth State Senate? The capitalization gives the impression of a proper name with an incorrect boundary. Moreover, "State Senate" isn't a proper name (and neither is "California's Nth State Senate"). I oppose that alt rename suggestion. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 21:17, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * No? Also, "State Senate" is part of a proper noun ("California State Senate") and that's the context in which it's being referenced. Elli (talk &#124; contribs) 21:24, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per nom and DL. Concise and when modified, we should lc. Cinderella157 (talk) 13:01, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose in this form, per WP:CONSISTENT. It is worthwhile to examine how this is treated in other states and be consistent with the majority of them, then move the rest to comply. I took a quick jaunt through Category:State legislative districts of the United States, and the dominant form is "State's Nth Senate district", and this does seem the ideal form to me for precision moderated by concision, as well as avoiding an unnecessary conversion of a noun to an adjective form. Well, ideal : I'm not sure why these have a possessive in them, when "California Nth Senate district" would work fine, and would be more consistent with the article naming of state government bodies across the board (e.g., we don't have an article on "Texas's Court of Appeals", "New Hampshire's Department of Agriculture", "Mississippi's State Senate", etc., etc.; that format is pretty much unheard of, so its use in this case is weird and undesirable). I think it would be more productive to make a list of these and mass-RM the lot of them to have a single format, then do the same with the other house and get as close to consistent as possible with them (but in blocks; different states use different terms including Assembly, House of Delegates, House of Representatives, and probably a few others).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  03:59, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I would support a more consistent approach to naming. Cinderella157 (talk) 10:20, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * My guess is the possessive format is a carryover from the congressional district format that's used on Wikipedia. Woko Sapien (talk) 19:20, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * "State's Nth senate district"? Senate is not a proper name, and neither is "State's Nth Senate". —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 21:25, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Alt rename per Elli 's suggestion (t &#183; c)  buidhe  05:45, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Support original proposal per nom. And change other states in a similar fashion. Descriptive titles work best here, as there's no evidence of a consistent proper naming for this in sources. &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 11:22, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Support original proposal per Amakuru. —В²C ☎ 18:28, 9 February 2024 (UTC)