Talk:Party designation in early United States Congresses

I had suggested nomenclature for the Democratic-Republican party on my talk page, -- based on designation from the source as simply "Republican" and my impression that self-designation at the time was "Republican". Leaving it there, and disambiguating the link was my choice. I'm not sure how to proceed if that choice is sufficiently unacceptable to motivate changing it. I'm certainly not sufficiently motivated to follow Zoe's lead and change nomenclature in other places. I think disambiguating language is not needed in the text of an article, when the context serves to do so. BobCMU76 22:43 May 12, 2003 (UTC)

Do you have some info that says that they called themselves Republicans before Democratic-Republicans? If so, then, yes this should be reverted. But AFAIK, they were Democratic-Republicans, then became Democrats. I have no problem with changing it, if you can show us that what I did was false. -- Zoe

At least http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp from the congress' website declares them as Republican, e.g. search for Year OR Congress 1. -- JeLuF 11:53 May 15, 2003 (UTC)

[Some stuff about Parties. I'm happy either way, but favor consistency.  I see Presidents listed as "Democratic-Republican" and I don't care to mess with that.  This page is written in the context of a source which calls them "Republican" and the link I cited supports that.


 * I've been looking at the web -- so many people saying so many contradictory things. I should have saved the citation, but what I'm learning is that the Republican Party in the 1830's (around the time of the Jackson/Adams split) was briefly called "Democratic-Republican" by the Jacksonian faction, before becoming simply "Democrats", and "National Republican" by the Adams faction, before becoming "Whigs".  As JeLuF's fine work getting the databases onto Wikipedia continues -- these later divisions are going to be calling for just as much attention as the early divisions. BobCMU76 14:10 May 15, 2003 (UTC)

Note For the deletion debate for this article see Talk:Party designation in early United States Congresses/delete -- Graham &#9786; | Talk 23:33, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)