Talk:List of governors of Wisconsin

Work to be done
Here is a list of things that I think still need to be done:


 * Complete the table of "other high offices held"
 * Check to make sure that all references are correct, and add more references where needed (especially opening paragraph of "List of governors" section)
 * Work on the intro more, rewriting where necessary
 * Add pictures down the side of the table (see, for example List of Governors of Kentucky)
 * Perhaps, since this is primarily a list of the governors of Wisconsin, the lieutenant govenrnor list could be cleaned up a bit: specifically, a vacant entry would only be included if the office were vacant for an entire term. This could be noted in a footnote to the column, which would direct readers to the List of Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin
 * Obviously, this would entail expanding the List of Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin to include all partial vacancies.
 * It seems desirable to me to find a way to specify in the table how many terms each governor served. We can't assume that readers can easily figure it out from the dates because some governors have died, resigned, &c., and, also, the length of the governor's term has not always been the same.  How could this be done?
 * A new column, headed Terms could be added to the table. This is not entirely optimal, since then the format of this list (hopefully eventually a Featured List) would have a format differant than other Featured Lists about similar topics, ie, List of Governors of Kentucky, Arkansas, &c.
 * It could be added to an already-existing column. But which one?
 * Any other possibilities?
 * I may try the method used on the List of Presidents of the United States [this comment added later &mdash;Salmar (talk) 03:51, 8 December 2007 (UTC)]
 * This was my favorite possibility. Unfortunatly, if the method used on the Presidents list is copied, the table refuses to show the continuity between La Follette's last and Davidson's first properly.  I don't know why, but it does not work  in either HTML or wiki-syntax. [this comment added later &mdash;Salmar (talk) 01:45, 9 December 2007 (UTC)]

If anyone is watching this article and has any ideas for this list, or information to be added to the article, suggest it here, or add it in! My goal is to get this up to Featured List status, so your help would me much appreciated! &mdash;Salmar (talk) 17:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I am going to strike out those which have been completed. &mdash;Salmar (talk) 20:06, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Everything's crossed off! I think this is ready, or nearly ready to be nominated at WP:FLC! &mdash;Salmar (talk) 03:29, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

As the dean of featured governor lists (a title I just bestowed upon myself, I am also now wearing a crown), good job, I shall steal some of these ideas for the others. :) Please check my comments on the FLC nom. --Golbez (talk) 21:39, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

John Catlin
I started an article about John Catlin who was acting governor of the Wisconsin Territory from June 1848 until March 1849. We now have articles of Wisconsin's governors- state and territorial. The John Catlin article needs an information box and a photo. The Wisconsin Historical Society has a photo of John Catlin which is one of the citations of the article. Thank you-RFD (talk) 19:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Midnight
I agree, the only time I ever saw a government take over at midnight was with New York, but all of the news sources are specifying that the new governor took office at 12:01am. (Though, that would still mean the previous governor was governor for one minute inside the new day...) It'd be nice to find a law citation for this. But, again, based on the press coverage, he didn't become governor at midnight, he became governor at 12:01, meaning a one-minute crossover into today. --Golbez (talk) 21:41, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * At least it's clearer then the situation in California. GoodDay (talk) 02:38, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

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Note need fixing
The note covering succession to the governorship, need rewording. The lieutenant governor succeeds to the governorship & serves out the remainder of a gubernatorial term, if the previous governor dies, resigns or is removed from office. The current note, suggest the person remains lieutenant governor & merely performs the duties as acting governor for the rest of the gubernatorial term. GoodDay (talk) 18:00, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

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Include dead governors-elect?
In my understanding, this has only happened two or three times in the U.S., where a governor-elect died before taking office. And I think we should include it, for many reasons: These are my reasons for keeping it. I invite @Uinko to respond. --Golbez (talk) 18:35, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Continuity of table: If the dead governor-elect was of a different party than the person who succeeded him, then the party elected by the people would not be mentioned in the table. And this is indeed the scenario in this article.
 * The election of the dead governor-elect will be missing - the reader should not expect that a gap in a list of elections that can be varying lenghts apart should suddenly have one removed entirely to a footnote.
 * The lieutenant governor of the dead governor-elect will be missing, which is important because those go with the elections to show how everyone entered office. This is doubly important (but not the scenario here) if the lieutenant governor-elect were not the incumbent.
 * We aren't talking about including someone who didn't qualify for the list. They did in every way, except passing away in a very narrow window of time. Before the election were certified, he would have been a footnote at best; after he took office, he would have obviously been included.