Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Government

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This is the government section for WikiProject Iowa. It's scope includes those articles which are part of WikiProject Iowa and which are related to government (e.g. Iowa General Assembly, Steve Warnstadt, Code of Iowa, United States Congressional Delegations from Iowa) If you tag an article as part of this section please add them to one or more of the tables in the "Assessment" section below.

Shortcuts: WP:WPIA/G WP:IOWA/G

Contents 1 Tagging articles 1.1 WikiProject Iowa Banner 1.2 WikiProject Biography Banner 2 Templates 2.1 Infoboxes 2.2 Other Templates 2.3 Clean up 3 Categories 4 Useful sources 5 Assessment 6 Federal legislature 6.1 Offices, districts, and miscellaneous 6.1.1 How to help 6.2 House of Representatives 6.2.1 How you can help 6.3 United States Senate 6.3.1 How you can help 7 State Government 7.1 General articles 7.2 Governor 7.3 Secretary of State 7.4 Lieutenant Governor 7.5 Attorney General 7.6 Supreme Court 7.7 Speakers of the House 7.8 Auditors of State 7.9 Treasurers of State 7.10 Iowa Senate 7.11 Iowa House of Representatives 7.12 Misc. Offices

[edit] Tagging articles

[edit] WikiProject Iowa Banner

Obviously any article on an Iowa Politician will fall under WikiProject Iowa.
Use the following in the template:
{{Project Iowa|class= |importance= |government=yes}}

[edit] WikiProject Biography Banner

This banner is also important, as every article on an Iowa Politician will also fall within WikiProject Biography's politician work group.
Use the following in the template:
{{WPBiography
|living=
|class=
|collaboration-candidate=
|past-collaboration=
|peer-review=
|old-peer-review=
|needs-infobox=
|activepol=
|politician-work-group=yes
}}

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{Infobox Officeholder}}

[edit] Other Templates

• {{future election}}
• {{Current U.S. Senators}}
• {{IA-FedRep}}
• {{Current Iowa Representatives}}
• {{Current Iowa Senators}}
• {{Iowa-politician-stub}}
• {{start box}}
  {{S-par|us-ia-hs}} If in the Iowa House of Representatives
  {{S-par|us-ia-sen}} If in the Iowa Senate
  {{succession box| title=Nth District |before= | years= |after= }}
  {{end box}}

Example:

Iowa House of Representatives
Preceded by Patrick Gill	2nd District 1994 – 2002	Succeeded by Roger Wendt
Iowa Senate
Preceded by Steven Hansen	1st District 2002 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent

[edit] Clean up

• {{Cleanup Congress Bio}}

[edit] Categories

• Category:United States Senators from Iowa
• Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa
• Category:Members of the Iowa House of Representatives
• Category:Iowa State Senators
• Category:Iowa government navigational boxes

[edit] Useful sources

• Information about every federal and state level politician can be found at Project Vote Smart
• A biography of every U.S. Senator and Representative can be found at this public domain source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
• Information about every U.S. federal judge can be found at this public domain source: http://air.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/Judges!OpenFrameSet
• Information about Iowa State Senators and Representatives can be found at the Iowa General Assembly website
• Information about members, and other information about the Iowa General Assembly from 1981-2002 can be found here, in a supplement to The Iowa General Assembly: Our Legislative Heritage 1846-1980, complied by Francis (Frank) J. Stork and Cynthia A. Clingan and published in 1979).
• The bi-annually published "redbook" is also a good source of information on members of the Iowa General Assembly - most issues from 1860-2000 can be found here.
• Information about money in U.S. federal elections can be found at Open Secrets, and money in state politics can be found at Follow the Money.

[edit] Assessment

Iowa (government) articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	GA			1			1
	B		2				2
	Start	1	4	2	5	12	24
	Stub		1	5	2	56	64
	List			1		2	3
	Assessed	1	7	9	7	70	94
	Unassessed		1	1		3	5
	Total	1	8	10	7	73	99

Assessed articles are put in sub-categories of Category:Iowa (government) articles by quality and Category:Iowa (government) articles by importance. A log of all the articles, with their quality and importance ratings and comments can be found at: Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Iowa_(government)_articles_by_quality. Articles should also be manually entered in the tables below. To include their comments use the code: {{Article name/Comments}}. It is important that articles be entered in the tables below, it helps editors find articles they're interested in and helps us see better what needs help.

[edit] Federal legislature

[edit] Offices, districts, and miscellaneous

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments
Iowa caucus	High	B
United States Congressional Delegations from Iowa	High	B
List of United States Senators from Iowa	Mid	Start
United States presidential election, 2004, in Iowa	Mid	Start
2008 Iowa Democratic caucuses	Mid	Stub
2008 Iowa Republican caucuses	Mid	Stub
List of United States Representatives from Iowa	Mid	Stub
Iowa's 1st congressional district	Low	Start
Iowa's 2nd congressional district	Low	Start
Iowa's 3rd congressional district	Low	Start
Iowa's 4th congressional district	Low	Start
Iowa's 5th congressional district	Low	Start
Iowa Democratic Party	Low	Stub
Iowa's 6th congressional district	Low	Stub
Republican Party of Iowa	Low	Stub

[edit] How to help

Create articles for the Iowa's 7th–11th congressional districts.

[edit] House of Representatives

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments
Serranus Clinton Hastings	Mid	B

[edit] How you can help

This table needs to be complete, all Iowa representatives should be tagged with our template, assessed and added to this table. Many representative articles were created by a bot so they will be low quality... Our first priority should be improving the articles for the most notable representatives, then working on getting all the articles to at least Start class, optimistically B class. We also need infoboxes for each district. Psychless will be creating one for the first district soon to use as a model template.

[edit] United States Senate

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments

[edit] How you can help

Follow the same general directions that were given for the House of Representatives section. The infobox for this section is {{USSenIA}}. This is what it looks like:

v • d • e United States Senators from Iowa Class 2: Jones • Grimes • Howell • Wright • Kirkwood • McDill • J. Wilson • Gear • Dolliver • Young • Kenyon • Rawson • Brookhart • Steck • Dickinson • Herring • G. Wilson • Gillette • Martin • Miller • Clark • Jepsen • Harkin Class 3: Dodge • Harlan • Kirkwood • Harlan • Allison • Cummins • Stewart • Brookhart • Murphy • Gillette • Hickenlooper • Hughes • Culver • Grassley

[edit] State Government

[edit] General articles

[edit] Governor

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments
List of Governors of Iowa	B	Mid

[edit] Secretary of State

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments

[edit] Lieutenant Governor

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments

[edit] Attorney General

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments

[edit] Supreme Court

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments

[edit] Speakers of the House

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments

[edit] Auditors of State

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments

[edit] Treasurers of State

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments

[edit] Iowa Senate

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments

[edit] Iowa House of Representatives

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments

[edit] Misc. Offices

Article	Importance	Quality	Comments