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August 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter



 * August 2019&mdash;Issue 005


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Your help please
when you create new stubs about biota in Australia, in Australia is particularly problematic in relation to the size of the continent. It would be really appreciated if you could make the effort to identify where in Australia. Some geckos, lizards and other slithering things simply do not have the metabolisms to populate the continent, let alone even move much out of fairly limited range habitats. It helps the taggers who have to follow you who wonder where exactly in oz, the delightful little creatures actually inhabit. Thanks. JarrahTree 09:13, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

September 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter



 * September 2019&mdash;Issue 006


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List of birds of Europe
Hi pvmoutside. I see you've removed Hume's whitehroat and Desert whitethroat form the List of birds of Europe page. Hume's whitehroat is accepted on the Dutch list (see https://www.dutchavifauna.nl/species/humes_braamsluiper). OK if I add that one again?Calonectris (talk) 13:18, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * .My bad.....I see the European list references the IOC as its source which includes the Humes and Desert Whitethroat (the Clements list does not)…..go ahead and add them....Pvmoutside (talk) 16:50, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * .Thanks for the reply. I'll make the adjstments. Not entirely sure on the status of desert Whitethroat. I couldn't easily find an accepted record the last time I checked, but that's also because of the poor understanding of that species complex.

It was my understanding that all bird lists on WP use IOC as their standard. Is this not correct? Calonectris (talk) 16:02, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
 * good you are adjusting... No, the bird lists predominately use Clements as the standard.  Some lists use the IOC, others use country or regional organizations....all species taxonomy pages and English names for species pages are standardized on the IOC.  Europe can use the IOC if you wish since it already states that.....I don't think there ever has been a discussion on standardization for bird lists at the wikiproject...There has been one for taxonomy and English names for the species pages.....Pvmoutside (talk) 16:16, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Diaptomididae


Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a notice to inform you that a tag has been placed on Diaptomididae requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, images, a rephrasing of the title, a question that should have been asked at the help or reference desks, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. Jalen Folf  (talk)  02:23, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
 * the page was clearly a mistaken copy of Template:Taxonomy/Diaptomididae – the content is not an infobox but a taxonomy template. I've quickly created a stub for the family itself. It may be a misspelling of "Diaptomidae", in which case both the article and the taxonomy template need to be redirected. However, there are scientific articles with this spelling. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:27, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It sure looks like a spelling error that originated on Wikipedia. All the taxonbar databases at Leptodiaptomus ashlandi put it in family Diaptomidae, as do the other language Wikipedias. Diaptomididae has been in en.wiki articles on Leptodiaptomus species since June 2014, and the only scientific article with that spelling was published in 2017. Plantdrew (talk) 21:31, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm OK with Diaptomididae speedy deletes. I assumed the family to be correct when I when I copy and pasted yesterday......Pvmoutside (talk) 00:50, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Ok, I agree it's a misspelling. For now, I redirected Diaptomididae and put Template:Taxonomy/Diaptomididae in Category:Unnecessary taxonomy templates (which could usefully be taken to WP:Tfd). Peter coxhead (talk) 08:44, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Also, there is a Category:Taxa named by Ernesto Marcus which should be deleted as it is empty....Pvmoutside (talk) 02:29, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Nacamier Nunoi
(copying MelanieN) In two days, 10/29 & today, this new editor made 109 primary sourced additions of American Conservative Union voting scores to the ledes of recent and incumbent Republican congresspersons. I've reverted 70 and will continue until they're all rolled back but you had made the last edit to a number of those articles before "Nunoi" vandalized them. That's the only thing this editor has done under that USER name. Other editors have probably done rolled back more than a dozen more. Any suggestions on how to deal with it as he or she will probably continue to vandalize articles? Activist (talk) 20:40, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * user:goldringchip may have some ideas. It does look like a few editors are keeping up with nacamier nunoi deleting the edits.....thanks for letting me know....Pvmoutside (talk) 01:19, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

October 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter



 * October 2019&mdash;Issue 007


 * Tree of Life


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{| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; background:#b6ecd0;" By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured:
 * Alphabet Soup: Explaining DYK, GA, FA, and More

Did You Know (DYK)
What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article

How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines: The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page)
 * To be eligible, article is either new (newly created or moved to mainspace), a 5x expansion, or passed a GA review. Its creation, expansion, or promotion to GA must have been in the past 7 days.
 * Article must be long enough, with more than 1,500 characters of prose (this doesn't include embedded lists)
 * I find Shubinator's DYKcheck script useful in determining whether an article is eligible for nomination.

Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK.

Good Article (GA)
What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets a set of criteria. This adds a symbol to the top of the article. About 1 in 200 articles on Wikipedia is a GA.

How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article&mdash;you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article!

Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you.

Featured Article (FA)
What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the criteria. This adds a to the top of the article. About 1 in 1,000 articles on Wikipedia is a FA.

How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted.

Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC.

Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)
What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA.

How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT.

Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life (5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA.
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Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years. —GoldRingChip 17:06, 5 November 2019 (UTC)

Shortwing pictures
Hello! Someone wrote in to OTRS to point out that we have the same picture on Himalayan shortwing and on White-browed shortwing. I wouldn't know a robin from a sparrow, but I figure you might be able to sort it out.

P.S. Go Minutemen! or something. —Emufarmers(T/C) 04:09, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

List of birds of Jinja
I have PRODed this page; thought you'd like to know as you've edited it. ShreiberBike also knows. Craigthebirder (talk) 01:59, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

Page move request 3
Hi Pvmoutside, as a result of the page move discussion held on the project talk page here, could you move Southern crested toad to its scientific binomial (Peltophryne guentheri)? The binomial is currently a redirect with minimal page history. Following the move, I will then merge the content of Eastern crested toad into that page as well. Thanks, Loopy30 (talk) 12:07, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
 * all set...Pvmoutside (talk) 12:17, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Round robin moves and redirect templates
Might be you're already aware of this--your talkpage is a bit too long for me to go read through everything to check--but if doing round-robin moves of taxa, any chance that, when updating the redirect targets, you could also double-check if the redirect templates on the redirect(s) still make sense after the move? I've found a number of moves you made where you had left redirect templates such as "R from monotypic taxon" and "R to scientific name" on redirects that were, post-move, to a monotypic taxon or from a scientific name instead. AddWitty NameHere  23:48, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

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Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress
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"Cochranella" ramirezi
Hi Pvmoutside, on 30 Oct, I moved the page name for Cochranella ramirezi to a title with quotes around the genus name, including a reason provided in the edit summary that it is presently incertae sedis. Today you have reversed this move, but without any edit summary explaining why. As the original page move (and others like it) was done to bring the naming of frog species in line with ASW 6.0 (ref), could you either provide a reason for your change or return it back to the previous state? Loopy30 (talk) 22:43, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
 * done...sorry, it looked weird...…Pvmoutside (talk) 01:56, 17 December 2019 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Ptychozoon


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Red-backed flameback and Crimson-backed flameback
I'm fine if you want the names to remain as above. But you removed Dinopium benghalense psarodes from the description with the edit summary "Clean up". Was that intentional? Reh man  16:37, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * yes, we follow the IOC with all taxonomic and English name conventions. The IOC lists  Dinopium psarodes as a species...Pvmoutside (talk) 17:26, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
 * With regards to the latter, yes they may list as such, but Dinopium benghalense psarodes is a synonym. Reh  man  02:10, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I added the synonym to the appropriate place....thanks....Pvmoutside (talk) 18:50, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

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Disambiguation pages
Hello, Pvmoutside. When you moved Whimbrel to a new title and then changed the old title into a disambiguation page, you may not have been aware of WP:FIXDABLINKS, which says:
 * When creating disambiguation pages, fix all resulting mis-directed links.
 * Before moving an article to a qualified name (in order to create a disambiguation page at the base name, to move an existing disambiguation page to that name, or to redirect that name to a disambiguation page), click on What links here to find all of the incoming links. Repair all of those incoming links to use the new article name.

It would be a great help if you would check the other Wikipedia articles that contain links to "Whimbrel" and fix them to take readers to the correct article. Thanks. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 00:08, 27 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Whimbrel has 270 incoming links (eight times more than any other disambiguation page on Wikipedia) and the gnomes are finding it hard to fix them because the birds are so similar. Any help would still be appreciated. Certes (talk) 19:49, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm working on it.....I've done all the bird lists except North and South America, I've told the person who takes care of those pages, and he should be back in a week or so.....I still have other disambig pages for the Eurasian whimbrel I am still working on and should be done with them in a few days.....Pvmoutside (talk) 19:53, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Taxa named by Jean-Théodore Cocteau


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List_of_birds_of_Switzerland
Thanks for identifying the source of the material in your edit.

This type of edit does get picked up by Copy Patrol and a good edit summary helps to make sure we don't accidentally revert it. However, for future use, would you note the best practices wording as outlined at Copying_within_Wikipedia? In particular, adding the phrase "see that page's history for attribution" helps ensure that proper attribution is preserved. S Philbrick (Talk)  12:46, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

thanks for going to the trouble (sigh)
Glen Storr was an important person in his field in western australia, butler less so JarrahTree 15:13, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

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Wyoming State Auditor
Since you created this article, I'm giving you a heads up. Based on this I altered the list of Auditors. As the source I mention is a Wyoming government website, I feel it is a WP:RS and justifies the changes I made....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 12:51, 19 April 2020 (UTC)

Thomasia
I believe your change of genus from Haramiya to Thomasia is incorrect. You have stated the change was on the basis of your discovery of an older name found in GBIS, however Thomasia was already being used as a plant genus, and still is, so Thomasia cannot as a mammal genus cannot be valid. Further, I do not believe there to be any uses of the genus name in any recent literature, so even if you were correct it is a change that cannot be made in Wikipedia as this would be personal research. Could you please undo the changes that you have made Jameel the Saluki (talk) 05:38, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I believe the Thomasia change is correct because it is the only one I see as referenced. The previous genus was not and shows inactive at many taxonomic sites.  There are a couple of occasions where plant and animal genera use the same taxa name.....Pvmoutside (talk) 13:04, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Megazostrodontidae
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April 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
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Please explain your reverts that link to a dab page
Such as this (or, of course, self-revert your edits). DexDor(talk) 16:41, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * So the species has been split by the IOC, but not Clements, which the lists follow. Both occur in those areas.....Pvmoutside (talk) 16:50, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * That would explain a change to the text (e.g. from "RA, DE" to "RA, DS and DE"). It doesn't explain the change you made (linking to dab instead of article). DexDor(talk) 17:46, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Since taxonomy follows the IOC and the lists follow clements, Clements still has it listed as one species, but the tax link gives it to the two...…Pvmoutside (talk) 19:12, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

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May 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
Enwebb (talk) 19:40, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Something about Gallirallus
See IOC version 10.2 (draft), Gallirallus was found to be paraphyletic (many species moved to Hypotaenidia (with Nesoclopeus sunk into Hypotaenidia), with the Chatham rail moved to Cabalus, and also the Slaty-Breasted Rail moved to Lewinia), and so it also seems that we have to update the taxonomy of prehistoric species… — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.237.203.92 (talk) 08:12, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I usually wait until the drafts become official.....Pvmoutside (talk) 12:50, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

congrats on clearing 187k
small problem we dont have fauna as a sub project in the oz project - it defaults to biota anyways - it is appreciated when you go to the trouble of locating states on the lead/sole sentence of the stubs... JarrahTree 15:24, 6 June 2020 (UTC)


 * it probably means absolutely nothing to you but I knew some of the describers of the skinks - its good to see they have species named after them... JarrahTree 15:29, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * very cool!....Pvmoutside (talk) 15:52, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

Category:Brownbuls has been nominated for merging
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Category:Cuniculus has been nominated for renaming
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Category:Glyphis has been nominated for renaming
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Lerista alia
Hi, could you explain me how you can have accessed the Reptile Database on 22 March 2015 to find information on Lerista alia, a species that was described only in 2019? More in general, it baffles me why you insist using some archaic access date when creating new stubs. I imagine this is some copy-paste thing that would take few seconds to fix. Cheers, Micromesistius (talk) 08:51, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Category:Rissa has been nominated for renaming
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Evan Quah categories
Hi, I've proposed your two categories Category:Taxa named by Evan S. H. Quah and Category:Taxa named by Evan Quah Seng Huat for merger since they're about the same person. Please comment at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 July 22 if you have any opinion about what the category should be called. Cheers, 59.149.124.29 (talk) 06:05, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

June/July 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Taxa named by Kenneth Kermack


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Care needed
Hi Pvmoutside: Thanks for all your hard work updating genera, etc. for various birds. Please be sure to check through the taxonomy sections of the articles you're modifying though. I found an error in the Ruff (bird) article, introduced (accidentally, I know) with [this series of edits way back in 2017. The genus was changed from Philomachus to Calidris, but the verbiage that said "It was moved into its current genus by German naturalist Blasius Merrem in 1804." was not modified — and Merrem put the bird in Philomachus, not ''Calidris. I've fixed it. [[User:MeegsC|MeegsC]] (talk) 10:10, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks MeegsC for catching that...every now and then one slips by.....Pvmoutside

English varieties
Hey there Pvmoutside! We seem to be working on the same articles these days. I'm cleaning up old parameters, you're updating bulbul names. I happened to notice that you're changing the spelling of bird names from British English to American English on a number of the lists you're updating — including those of former British colonies which definitely use British spellings locally. Per the project's Manual of Style, we're really not supposed to change English varieties. Do you think you could go back and change those "grays" back to "greys"? ;) MeegsC (talk) 23:43, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * so most of the lists state in their intro they follow Clements which uses American English (i.e gray). I've been sticking to that except for places like Australia and Great Britain...  I know Craigthebirder has been doing that as well....l'm guessing it won't be an issue when everyone goes IOC but I could be wrong......Pvmoutside (talk) 23:44, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, for example, YOU added the verbiage about the nomenclature being in line with Clements on the List of birds of Madagascar page. It was aligned only with the Clements taxonomy prior to that. So I might change those back, if that's okay with you. MeegsC (talk) 17:24, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't mind at all if you wanted to change them back....Pvmoutside (talk) 17:27, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Taxa named by Abida Abdullah


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Current congress
Since you're being so diligent about updating the district lists, I suggest you update USCongressOrdinal/current to 117 and that should simplify your work. —GoldRingChip 13:06, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tip....I think I'll wait until all the races are called, or I finish all the new reps for each of the districts, whichever comes last. That way any of the existing reps won't get in the 117th if they've lost or retired.....Pvmoutside
 * Good plan. —GoldRingChip 20:39, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

"Elected United States Senator"
I think that when a member retires to run for another job, they didn't leave office because they were elected, see this link, but because they ran. Right? —GoldRingChip 14:24, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I've edited it. —GoldRingChip 14:24, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Infobox stuff
Howdy. There's a RFC occurring WP:Village Pump (proposals), concerning whether or not to show 'successors-to-be' in political bio infoboxes. I'm mentioning this because you made an erroneous edit T.J. Cox article. GoodDay (talk) 21:39, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Northern harrier
Hi Pvmoutside: Way back in 2017, you added a lot of information to the northern harrier article, including a sentence that reads "Some Native American tribes believe that seeing a hawk on your wedding day is a sign of a long, happy marriage." Do you have a reference that indicates which tribes, and that says this is true specifically about northern harriers? A reader has questioned the information and it's not sourced. MeegsC (talk) 21:21, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi MeegsC....I think that was when northern and Eurasian harrier were split, and I copied and pasted all the North American stuff to northern...Go ahead and delete it if you'd like....pvmoutside...

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Happy New Year, Pvmoutside!


Happy New Year! Pvmoutside, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

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Kelly Loeffler
Sen. Kelly Loeffler will not be leaving office on January 3, 2021. Please research the information more carefully before adding that to 117th United States Congress. Sdrqaz (talk) 21:23, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Indeed. Loeffler's serving a Senate term that doesn't expire until January 3, 2023. The special election will decide whether she or her opponent will serve out the rest of that 2017-23 term. If she loses? her tenure will end 'only' when her opponent is sworn in. GoodDay (talk) 21:40, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

Sorry...thanks for clarifying....Pvmoutside...