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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Help on Tom Graves?
Hello, I'm looking for help with some updates to the Rep. Tom Graves article and I wonder if anyone active on this project might be willing to help. At present, some of the article sections are lacking in detail or WP:RS citations, or both. I also see a few areas where the wording does not conform to the cited source and / or is not encyclopedic. I'm seeking to address these issues. Worth noting, I am working as a consultant on behalf of Rep. Graves and, considering my financial COI, I won't make any direct edits to the article. What I have done instead is to propose suggested updates on the Talk page here. If anyone is able to review and make the changes as they feel are appropriate, I'd be very grateful. Cheers, WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 22:13, 12 February 2015 (UTC)


 * This is ✅. WWB Too (Talk &middot; COI) 16:11, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Bill passes House but...
There are two status changes that Template:Infobox United States federal proposed legislation doesn't seem to address. It is best explained with a real-life example.

During the the session of Congress that ended in January, the House passed the Innovation Act, an act to make changes to United States patent law, and sent it to the Senate for its consideration. The bill was under the jurisdiction of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Three steps were taken by the committee chairman: Nothing else happened during the 113th United States Congress.
 * 1) In a reverse-omnibus of sorts, he split the Innovation Act into several bills, written by different senators
 * 2) After a hearing that covered the subject matter in general, the committee chairman took changes to patent law off the Senate Judiciary Committee's agenda

Under that situation, it would seem to me that these two steps should result in changes to the content of the Infobox, but I don't see how that would be done. Am I missing something, or does the infobox need some changes? Thanks in advance 68.165.77.140 (talk) 21:13, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Naming of congressional district articles
I apologize if this is already documented somewhere and I've missed it, but I have a question about our naming conventions for congressional districts. According to the AP style guide, "congressional" is lowercase, unless it's part of a formal name. Congressional district names are formal names. But we name our articles "Idahos' 1st congressional district," rather than "Idaho's 1st Congressional District." Any idea why? Champaign Supernova (talk) 01:28, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
 * A good point. Have they always been at their current location or were they moved?  It could just be that the person who created the first few hadn't thought the capitalization out. – Philosopher Let us reason together. 23:48, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I looked at a couple of congressional district articles, and it looks like they were all created with the lower-case naming convention (so they haven't been moved). It could just be path dependence. It seems like it would be a pretty major overhaul to move all congressional district pages. Champaign Supernova (talk) 05:45, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

RfC
There is currently an RfC going on at Template talk:Infobox officeholder. Please comment. Kraxler (talk) 15:28, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * RfC was finished and closed. Kraxler (talk) 16:48, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject Hillary Rodham Clinton
Project members are welcome to join WikiProject Hillary Rodham Clinton, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia articles related to Hillary Rodham Clinton. --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 18:10, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request
Greetings! A proposal has been made at Talk:Hillary Rodham Clinton/April 2015 move request‎ to change the title of the article, Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hillary Clinton. This notification is provided because this article is listed as being of interest to this project. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:25, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

James Shields listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for James Shields to be moved to James Shields (politician, born 1810). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:44, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Standards for listing of religion for U.S. politicians, potential RfC
Please see discussion at Talk:Bernie Sanders, especially the bottom part where general standards for listing of religious identity for U.S. politicians are explored, including the common practice of 'Religion' as an infobox parameter, and the possibility of an RfC for this area. Any thoughts from WikiProject U.S. Congress members on guidelines for biographical articles within its remit would be helpful.--Pharos (talk) 14:44, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Samuel J. Randall
Just wanted to let you folks know that Samuel J. Randall is nominated for featured article. I'd be happy to receive input from anyone who is interested. Thanks! --Coemgenus (talk) 14:27, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Why are the pages on each congressional district "stub class"? Suggestion
I am updating some pages for individual districts and I noticed they are rated "stub" class. But is this appropriate? The pages are pretty long and informative. PeterLFlomPhD (talk) 00:19, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Kevin McCarthy (California politician)
Above link leads to discussion as to whether Kevin McCarthy (California politician) should become the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC at the Kevin McCarthy disambiguation page. &mdash;Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 05:27, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

US Congressional term end dates
Dear all,

there is a disagreement whether congressional terms end on the 3th or 4th of March. The discussion is at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics. Input is appreciated.

Sincerely, Taketa (talk) 07:15, 4 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Actually, the disagreement is about the date Congressional terms ended prior to the ratification of the Twentieth Amendment in 1933. Czoal (talk) 23:22, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
An article is needed on this historically significant committee. See the Senate archive on this committee. Cheers! bd2412 T 18:12, 18 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I have created Draft:Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, basically copying the material from the public domain Senate archive. bd2412  T 18:18, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Use of far right label for Freedom Caucus
Please take part in a discussion at Talk:Freedom Caucus on whether it is correct to say in Wikipedia's voice that the caucus is a far right organization. Iselilja (talk) 16:32, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Resignation from the United States Senate
I have created a new article titled Resignation from the United States Senate. Michael Hardy (talk) 04:30, 13 November 2015 (UTC)