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List of members in the 110th United States Congress
Self Nom- Complete list of all Senators and Representatives in the 110th United States Congress along with party affiliations, years of birth, years of first election, colleges, prior jobs, and districts, along with some maps and seat charts. The Senate also has classes by color code. The only thing left is the delegate list, which will probably take 3 or 4 edits this weekend. Just H 04:48, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I see overlapping tables right at the beginning: Minority leadership overlaps the Senate members table. Rmhermen 05:18, 2 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Oppose There is a lot of good information here, however:
 * For a list this size the lead should be expanded slightly.
 * I think a brief description (2 or 3 sentences) at the beginning of the Senate and House of Representatives sections would help.
 * The column headings are not consistant in both tables (e.g. Image / Picture, Prior Background / Former experience) and it's unclear why one table has a religion column and not the other.
 * I can find no references.

- CheekyMonkey 13:31, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: I've added the senate religions from the now merged List of current members of the 110th United States Congress by religion article. Just H 17:54, 3 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Oppose - you should nominate only the finished "product." No references. Short lead. Large article size already (143kb - and my computer almost got stuck loading it). Tables are all over the place and sometimes overlap. What is "Partisan mix of the House by state" table doing there? Why some universities are linked and some are not? I believe information for both Senate and House should be identical (so if one has a graph showing percentage of GOP, the other should have it too; if one has leadership section, the other should too, etc.) Renata 02:58, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Renata, you only counted 144KB wiki edit text. The actual rendered article, including photos, is 1.85MB! Far too big. Either the photos should go, or the list needs to be chopped up (or both). Colin°Talk 19:18, 4 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Oppose:
 * Complete lack of references - who the members are, their birthdate, when they started, education and members' religion all need references (though I must say I don't quite see the point in showing religions).
 * Small lead mentioned above.
 * Does not meet "well constructed" criterium (1f), as the list is not easy to navigate. The "Class" and "Party" columns need to be labelled as such as such. The cells in these columns should contain text (for eaxmple, 1/2/3 or R/D/I) in order to allow screen-readers and the colour-blind to make sense of it, and also to allow sorting by class or party. It also needs a key for the Party colunm - not all readers would know Red=Republican and Blue=Democrat.
 * Comment:Maybe the religion thing is useful considering the first Muslim and Buddhist members were elected.A mcmurray 08:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC)


 * The length is an issue... I think it would be better to split the lists into Senate and House details. Finally, surely the name should be "List of members of the 110th United States Congress"? Tom pw (talk) 15:54, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Just going through the Senate list I found numerous errors. Hillary Clinton was listed as Jewish (probably vandalism, I fixed it), Ron Wyden and Gordon Smith's religions (Jewish and Mormon, not the reverse) are switched, Lieberman is color-coded as a Democrat, etc. I can't be sure that any of the information is correct after finding some many errors in a very quick overview. —Cuiviénen 17:57, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Numerous problems.


 * Number one for me is messiness. As has been mentioned before, some of the tables overlap. And the Majority and Minority leadership tables have to be next to each other or all in one table. Having them in 2 tables on 2 lines with the second table overlapping the main table is just...messy. And does it really need 5 separate tables before you get to the list of members? The list of members needs to be the focus of the article. A reader should not have to go through text and 5 tables to get the information they need.
 * And yes, the pictures are a great idea but unless they can be made smaller, the pictures make the article way way too large. I have a T1 connection at work and yet it took several seconds to load the page. I can just imagine how it is on a dialup connection. There has to be a way to reduce the quality of the images so that they are still viewable but they don't take that much space. And since the images are on the separate article pages, I'm not sure that they need to be here anyway.
 * And yes, you need references.
 * On the positive side, though, it is a lot of good information. It just needs to be organized better. --WoohookittyWoohoo! 13:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)