Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics/Archive 20

Judiciary, judical system or ?
Expert opinion would be useful at Talk:Judiciary; the discussed standardization of naming concerns 100+ articles and categories ("Judiciary of Foo" vs "Judical system of Foo" vs few other possible options). Please comment there if possible so that the discussion can be centralized. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 06:18, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

Request for comment: Order of the list of candidates in the infobox
What should the order of the list of candidates in the infobox be? See Talk:United_States_presidential_election,_2016  Sparkie82 ( t • c )  11:40, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

There's currently a discussion about whether transgender and non-binary people should have their former names included in the lead section of an article. Effectively the discussion is whether anyone with a changed name as well as transgender and non-binary people be treated the same, or differently in lead sections of biography articles. See the WP:BIRTHNAME for the MOS guideline.

For the discussion please see here. - Nott Nott &#124;talk 10:33, 2 June 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
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Merger discussion for Group of Seven (G7)
An article that you have been involved in editing&mdash;Group of Seven (G7) &mdash;has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 07:09, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Democratic Party (United States) presumptive nominee
Anyone out there know why Hillary's name doesn't show up as the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party page? Text looks good....Pvmoutside (talk) 14:48, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Discussion of interest
There is a discussion at Talk:Foreign relations of the United States which concerns your project. –Compassionate727 (T·C) 23:49, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

Updated draft article for Mark McKinnon
I am seeking help to implement an expanded Wikipedia article about Mark McKinnon, an American political advisor. As mentioned on the article's talk page, I have spent the last couple months working with Mark McKinnon and H+K Strategies to ensure the article's accuracy, and was paid to complete this project as part of my work at Beutler Ink. Is there someone who is willing to respond to my edit request and review my draft article to replace the existing version? I am trying not to edit the article directly, given my conflict of interest. Thanks for your consideration. Inkian Jason (talk) 20:25, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
 * This request has been answered. -Inkian Jason (talk) 16:26, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

UK EU Referendum
There is a discussion at Talk:United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 regarding the lead which has not had much attention given the article is getting tens of thousands of views in the run up to the referendum Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 07:32, 17 June 2016 (UTC)

Of interest
Project members may find the following discussion to be of interest: Articles for deletion/Mary Lincoln Beckwith. Montanabw (talk) 23:25, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

Help with an article?
Can anyone help edit the article for Free Our Delegates? I'm not entirely familiar with politics and not at all familiar with this group. I get the impression that some of this might be slightly wrong, but I'm going with what was already in the article. It had been tagged as promotional and I cleaned it up since it looked like it could be notable.

Anyone want to take a whack at it? The group's name seems to change a little depending on who is talking about it (no name, "the" and "our" are swapped out, etc), but the one constant seems to be that this is Lonegan's baby. Offhand I'm thinking that this could probably be a subsection in his article, since I'm not sure if this is independently notable. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:33, 26 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Might be suitable for a merge into the other "Anyone but Trump" articles.  Montanabw (talk)  20:51, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

The list of sources indicates that this movement is brand new and reports on it are part of a current news cycle. It might end up having no lasting notability. Dimadick (talk) 13:16, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

U.S. Representatives term
Re: our earlier discussion, correspondence with the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives, History@mail.house.gov, confirms that a section of Jefferson's Manual explains the terms of service for House Members prior to the 20th amendment. Members’ terms of service began on March 4 and ended on March 3. Hinds’ Precedents lists the precedent cases that established the rule. Electronic copies of the House Precedents are found here: About precedents of the U.S. House of Representatives. It seems to me that any other answer is WP:OR original research. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 15:27, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

Looking for feedback on a tool on Visual Editor to add open license text from other sources
Hi all

I'm designing a tool for Visual Editor to make it easy for people to add open license text from other sources, there are a huge number of open license sources compatible with Wikipedia including around 9000 journals. I can see a very large opportunity to easily create a high volume of good quality articles quickly. I have done a small project with open license text from UNESCO as a proof of concept, any thoughts, feedback or endorsements (on the Meta page) would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

--John Cummings (talk) 14:51, 28 June 2016 (UTC)

Nigel Farage's speech in EU parliament
Is Nigel Farage's "You all laughed" speech in the EU parliament notable enough to sustain an article? IMvHO, it was up there with any of Churchill's, although others may disagree. Mjroots (talk) 15:48, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Notice to participants at this page about adminship
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Request for Comment at McCarthyism
Discussion commenced there. Figureofnine (talk • contribs) 19:39, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

Requested move proposal, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Please comment on a requested move to change numerous article titles which contain Dr. King's name. Randy Kryn 11:33, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

State leaders
I have been working on and off on the list of state leaders by year articles. The one I have worked on the most is probably List of state leaders in 1759. However even it is no where near complete. I begin to do this in 2010 and thought that the lists were moving away from being so Euro-centric. However I seem to be about the only person who has made any actual expansion of the lists in those six years. List of state leaders in 1723 lacks a listing of even the Mughal Emperor, but lists 137 sub-units of the Holy Roman Empire. List of state leaders in 1734 only lists China, Japan, Korea, the Ryukyu Kingdom and Hyderabad State for Asia, and I only added Hyderabad State today. I can't make these lists good on my own, I need help in building them, so can people please help building them. Even in the 19th-century, not only are Asia, Africa and Oceania often severly incomplete lists. Some years there are indepdent countries in Latin America that are missing from the lists.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:01, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Help with lists of state leaders by year
I have been working on and off on the list of state leaders by year articles. The one I have worked on the most is probably List of state leaders in 1759. However even it is no where near complete. I begin to do this in 2010 and thought that the lists were moving away from being so Euro-centric. However I seem to be about the only person who has made any actual expansion of the lists in those six years. List of state leaders in 1723 lacks a listing of even the Mughal Emperor, but lists 137 sub-units of the Holy Roman Empire. List of state leaders in 1734 only lists China, Japan, Korea, the Ryukyu Kingdom and Hyderabad State for Asia, and I only added Hyderabad State today. I can't make these lists good on my own, I need help in building them, so can people please help building them. Even into the 19th-century there are not only major gaps in the coverage of Asia, Africa and Oceania, but also several Latin American countries missing for some of the years.John Pack Lambert (talk) 05:03, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

Proposing updates for Hilary Rosen
Hello! I'm looking for editors who might be interested to review some proposed updates for the article of former RIAA head Hilary Rosen. Recently, I've begun preparing a new suggested draft to address issues in the current article and expand on information about her life and career. Though Ms. Rosen is not a politician, some WikiProject Politics participants may be familiar with her work as a political consultant and commentator. I've also reached out at WikiProject Biography, but would appreciate editors from this wikiproject taking a look too, due to participants' familiarity with similarly articles. As a disclosure: I am working on behalf of Ms. Rosen through her firm SKDKnickerbocker as part of my work at Beutler Ink. Given my COI, I will not edit this article directly and am seeking others' assistance in reviewing my draft and making the suggested changes if they are reasonable. Please see my request here for more information, or to help. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 12:45, 11 July 2016 (UTC)


 * This is ✅ WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 12:53, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Please See - Submissions
https://wikiconference.org/wiki/Submissions --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 00:59, 6 August 2016 (UTC)