Talk:Lieutenant Governor of Alaska

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Only 14 LtGs as of December 2018
This list needs to be split into two parts. For those who were only 'secretary of state' & for those who were lieutenant governor. The split would be on August 25, 1970. GoodDay (talk) 12:49, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Otherwise, we simply remove the numbering entirely (see New York's ltgs), including from the infoboxes from the bios. GoodDay (talk) 12:53, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The office changed names. That's it. It's still the same office. I don't see that sufficient as requiring a second list, at all. What matters is how does the state number them. --Golbez (talk) 14:46, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I accept removing the numberings here & at the bios. GoodDay (talk) 14:48, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I think it's extreme. The first secretary of state can also be considered the first lieutenant governor. (But, the fourth lieutenant governor cannot be considered the fourth secretary of state) A pure name change does not change the position. But, I think this can all wait until we see what the state says about the incoming Lt Gov. --Golbez (talk) 15:17, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I changed the notes, so that it mentions the establishment of the title Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. GoodDay (talk) 21:51, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

As seen on page 4, three academic books were published on the constitution between 1975 and 1997. Per WP:INDEPENDENT, that subset of sources should be what you consult first, not a primary source as Golbez appears to imply (and Harrison is online courtesy of the Legislature). I'm sure at least one of them contained some commentary to the effect that this amendment renamed a job title and nothing else. As I'm at a library right now, I'll try to find the time to dig those up and look them over. As an aside, a recent posting from a blog I follow claimed 17 lite guvs, which would have included Joe Schmidt. That's a tricky one, since both Schmidt and Val Davidson were quite possibly only acting lite guvs for a brief period. It appears that we really can't count on corporate media these days to perform any fact checking. When Sarah Palin invited the media to her home for that press conference where she announced her impending resignation, she stated that Craig Campbell would be replacing Sean Parnell as lite guv. The media chose to take her at her word and run with it, ignoring any hint of the fact that she chose Schmidt as the replacement several months prior and the legislature confirmed that choice in accordance with state statute. Their dereliction of duty WRT fact checking is the reason why it has been difficult to straighten that bit out. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 22:56, 4 December 2018 (UTC)


 * While I agree that independent sources are generally what we want, an entity is allowed to define itself, and if the state says there have been [x] lieutenant governors, and can show their work, then we should go with that. Just like how Alabama officially doesn't number repeat governors, but the United States does number repeat presidents, and Connecticut starts its numbering with the colonial charter. (The 'showing work' is important. Georgia says there have been 82 governors, and I've found no way to get to that number, so we don't use it. Haven't gotten around to emailing the state.) And I wasn't indicating that we take the state's word for it over all other sources, I was saying we should see if they have any statement at all - this isn't exactly a mission critical article that requires up-to-the-minute accuracy. But, from what I can tell, they have not made an official statement. (And in retrospect, as we see with Iowa, it's typically more than a single statement we need)
 * As for Schmidt, according to he "resigned from the second-in-line position on July 6, 2009". This document is from the Palin government, but it jives with other statements to the committee . So we'd need some strong countersourcing to include Schmidt. --Golbez (talk) 23:26, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Until this is resolved. I've removed the numberings from this article & on the corresponding bio articles' infoboxes, I've hidden them. GoodDay (talk) 01:50, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

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Campbell's party
Since I've largely finished my governor work, I'm tidying up some Lt Gov articles. I've meticulously sourced all governor's parties to numerous sources based on what they ran as in the election, and who nominated them. But Craig Campbell is unusual. He never ran for, or won, a partisan office before being named lieutenant governor. Usually, when a Lt. Gov succeeds a Gov, they were elected through a party, so it's easy to say they are still this party. But Campbell never went through that.

I know he personally identifies as a Republican, and ran for the nomination in 2010. But for his partial term, he was as close to "non-partisan" as I can think for a partisan office. And while he ran and held elected office before, it appears to have always been a non-partisan office.

I'm stuck at how, if at all, to handle this. Thoughts? --Golbez (talk) 19:54, 5 December 2023 (UTC)