Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Congress is a WikiProject intended primarily to produce articles and a consistent format for articles relating to the United States Congress, including:
- former and current members, leaders, and employees of both houses,
- sessions of the Congress, listing the major political events of that time, as well as all the members of that congress,
- election cycles,
- congressional districts,
- procedures, customs, histories and buildings, and
- all other articles relating to the United States Congress;
as well as templates and categories.
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Creating
Standardizing
- Assign subjects for {{Project Congress}} usage: such as {{Project Congress|subject=person}}, …subject=place}}, or …subject=thing}}.
- Participate in the Project Congress WikiList Workgroup to set the agenda for the future organization of Project Congress List Articles (i.e. congressional delegations and lists of senators and representatives).
- Add succession boxes to representative ( {{USRSB}} ) and senator ( {{U.S. Senator box}} ) articles.
- Add Officeholder infoboxes to representative and senator articles.
- Add {{CongLinks}} template when apparopriate.
Expanding
- Expand stub-class articles to eliminate backlog:
Improving
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[edit] Subpages
All subpages
- /Assessment: Assessment for Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide
- /Bioguide: Discussion of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- /Congressional districts: A boilerplate template for the congressional district articles
- /COTW: Collaboration of the {Week/Fortnight/Month/etc.} -- our sincere attempt to collaborate on improving Project Congress articles
- /Ordinal congresses: A boilerplate template for the ordinal congress articles (1st through 113th Congress)
- /Members: A style guide to congressional member articles
- /WikiList Workgroup: A workgroup to establish organization and presentation of various project List articles (i.e. congressional delegatons and lists of senators and representatives)
[edit] Wikipedia guides
[edit] Project Congress specific guides
[edit] General
[edit] Ordinal congresses
[edit] Congressional districts
[edit] Congressional delegations
- No style guide has yet been devised.
[edit] Members
[edit] Leaders
- No style guide has yet been devised.
[edit] Committees and Caucuses
- No style guide has yet been devised.
[edit] Employees
- No style guide has yet been devised.
[edit] Facilities and Agencies
- No style guide has yet been devised.
[edit] History
- No style guide has yet been devised.
[edit] Elections
[edit] Articles
As of 23:51, 16 June 2007 (UTC) there are >4200 articles incorporated into Cat:WikiProject U.S. Congress articles. You can help to incorporate more articles by placing {{Project Congress}} on the talk page of congress-related articles.
[edit] Special articles
[edit] Current and former featured articles
- 109th United States Congress, promoted to "Featured List" 2007-10-09
- Abraham Lincoln, appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on May 5, 2004 (currently defeatured)
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (currently defeatured)
- Barack Obama, appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on August 18, 2004
- Bob McEwen, appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on June 4, 2006
- Daniel Webster, appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on April 8, 2007
- Gerald Ford, appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on May 6, 2006
- James K. Polk, appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on June 13, 2005
- Jean Schmidt, appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on September 6, 2005
- John W. Johnston
- List of United States House committees (currently defeatured)
- List of United States Senate committees
- Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
- United States Congress (currently defeatured), appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on August 22, 2005
- United States House of Representatives (currently defeatured), appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on September 5, 2006
- 1880 Republican National Convention, appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on November 4, 2007
- Thomas C. Hindman, has yet to appear on Wikipedia's Main Page
[edit] Current featured article candidates and featured article review candidates
- Register your support or opposition
[edit] Current and former good articles
[edit] Did you knows (DYKs)
[edit] Ordinal congresses
[edit] Congressional districts
[edit] Congressional delegations
- Each state has three articles on congressional delegation information:
- organized by congressional term are listed here: Cat:United States congressional delegations by state
- alphabetical list of representatives entitled: List of United States Representatives from STATE
- alphabetical list of senators entitled: List of United States Senators from STATE
[edit] Members
[edit] Leaders
[edit] Committees and Caucuses
[edit] Sources
- The Political Graveyard has short information on over 138,000 Politicians, Judges, and Diplomats. It is a good supplement to the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress as it contains information on other offices the subject may have held, as well as noting other political relatives. That website says: "Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2005 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License."
- Martis, Kenneth C., The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress, 1789-1989. Macmillan Publishing, 1989 ISBN 0-02-920170-5.
[edit] Templates
[edit] People in general
- {{WPBiography}} use modifiers where appropriate: | living=yes | activepol=yes | politician-work-group=yes
[edit] U.S. Senate
[edit] U.S. House of Representatives
[edit] Navigation boxes
[edit] Delegations
- Current Congress: {{CurrentCongDeleg}}, which uses [[Template:{{{StateSymbol}}}-FedRep]], makes:
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[edit] Positions
- For Presidents of the Senate, use the Vice President template, {{USVicePresidents}}, which makes:
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United States Congress
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House: Speaker ( list), Party leaders, Party whips, Dem. caucus, Rep. conference, Dean | Senate: President pro tempore ( list), Party leaders, Assistant party leaders, Dem. Caucus ( Chair, Secretary, Policy comm. chair), Rep. Conference ( Chair, Vice-Chair, Policy comm. chair), Dean |
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Agencies,
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Architect of the Capitol, Capitol Guide Service ( board), Capitol Police ( board), Chiefs of Staff, GAO, Government Printing Office, Law Revision Counsel, Librarian of Congress, Poet laureate | House: Chaplain, Chief Administrative Officer, Clerk, Doorkeeper, Emergency Planning, Preparedness, and Operations, Historian, Page ( board), Parliamentarian, Postmaster, Reading clerk, Recording Studio, Sergeant at Arms | Senate: Chaplain, Curator, Historian, Librarian, Page, Parliamentarian, Secretary, Sergeant at Arms
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Politics &
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Act of Congress ( list), Caucuses, Committees, Hearings, Joint session, Oversight, Party divisions, Rider | House: Committees, History, Procedures | Senate: Committees, Filibuster, History, Jefferson's Manual, Traditions, VPs' tie-breaking votes
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Botanic Garden, Capitol, Capitol Complex, Office buildings (House: Cannon, Ford, Longworth, O'Neill, Rayburn, Senate: Dirksen, Hart, Russell)
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[edit] Categories
This WikiProject: Category:WikiProject U.S. Congress
Legislative branch / Congress, in general: Category:Legislative branch of the United States government, Category:United States Congresses, Category:Agencies of the United States Congress, Category:Congressional district maps of the 109th Congress, Category:United States congressional districts, Category:Committees of the United States Congress
People in Congress: Category:Lists of current office-holders, Category:African Americans in the United States Congress, Category:Leaders of the United States Congress, Category:Employees of the United States Congress
Senate: Category:United States Senate, Category:United States Senators
House of Representatives: Category:Members of the United States Congress, Category:United States House of Representatives, Category:United States House of Representatives elections, Category:Speakers of the United States House of Representatives
Stubs: Category:United States government stubs, Category:Election stubs, Category:American politician stubs, Category:Articles needing improvement from bioguide, Category:United States Congress stubs
[edit] Image gallery
For more, See Category:Images of the United States Congress
The NEW SVG Seal of Congress
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House Financial Services Committee
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State of the Union address
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[edit] Progress
Lists are based on http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
[edit] Previous Congresses
Verified means that all names link to the correct person or at least a stub, without redirects or disambiguation. Remember this can change as articles or stubs are edited.
[edit] Current Congress
[edit] Future Congresses
[edit] See also
Related articles which may also warrant the attention of Project participants/enthusiasts:
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[edit] Participants
- Users can join the organization by adding
{{User uscongress project}} to their user page, and then also adding themselves to the bottom of the list, below:
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- JeLuF
- Meelar
- Golbez
- k4_pacific
- markles: Joined August 30, 2005. Working on 107th & latest Congresses, gathering other pages & templates into the Project. Also hoping to recuit new participants... "Join us!"
- Jack: Joined September 4, 2005. Working on past Senates.
- LouI - talk
- Barberio: Rules and procedure of Congress (Dual Office holding, joint session, et al...)
- Tfine80
- Staxringold Fixing templating on former Senate pro tems, and adding the list-template to them all. Also touched up Sec's of Labor, Commerce, and Labor and Commerce.
- YourNickname: joined November 2, 2005. Working on 73rd Congress and corresponding Congresses in the 1930s, and expanding all the incompleted Congressional Delegations by state lists.
- Joaquin Murietta 06:10, 11 November 2005 individual bios, today -- Peter G. Gerry
- tomf688{talk} 03:44, 23 November 2005 (UTC) - Always editing articles regarding Maryland Senators and Congressmen.
- User:Academic Challenger joined December 5, 2005, but has been creating and editing articles about current and former members of Congress since October 2003. Will continue this work, now focusing on articles about former senators.
- Stilltim: working on Delaware U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and their lists.
- ScottyBoy900Q∞ 01:48, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
- Paul 4 January 2006 Congressmen give us wars, taxes, and crushing bureaucracy; the least we can give them is a Wikipedia article, right?
- jcbarr joined 2006 January 10. No reason we should have red links for previous Congressmen in WP, right?
- Quadell, working mostly on historic Senators and Reps from Bioguide. – Quadell (talk) (bounties) 23:52, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
- Mathwizard1232, working on adding a stub for every former U.S. Senator without a page. Hope to be finished by the end of a few months at most.--Mathwizard1232 01:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
- Orchid Righteous - Expanding on Representatives as many of them are stubs, starting with the 109th.
- Grandmasterka - I created a project proposal for United States Congressional Districts, without knowing that this already existed. The congressional district articles are sorely in need of attention and I will make that my focus. I'm surprised at how few have articles.
- ElCharismo - Joined February 27, 2006 after discussion with and at the behest of markles. I've been intrigued by the lack of uniformity amongst analogous articles, particularly between States, and after spending a significant amount of time editing in this genre already, I'm happy to be recruited into the project. I look forward to cooperating with everyone to pimp out & polish up this corner of Wikipedia! Non nobis solum! --Ross
- G1076 19:41, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Valadius - Filling in and completing the tables of former Representatives and Senators. Also I've largely completed the work on Dean of the United States Senate.
- Sholom - inserting succession boxes from time to time where none exist, adding occassional stubs for former Reps, expanding stubs, etc. -- Sholom 13:05, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
- WikiPrez - Helping out whenever I can, usually with ongoing projects of interest or COTW.
- MBob - adding a key for political parties to pages which have member from those parties but are not specifically stated
- American Patriot 1776 Been doing this a while, just kept forgetting to join!
- User:Dcb1995 I have been working on writing bio sketches for the holders of Ohio's third congressional district - a few had been done for those who later went on to higher office plus recent delegations, but I filled in the blanks. I am now proceeding to Ohio's 6th district early sessions and then Ohio's 4th district sessions of the years of constant redistricting (1878-1892). My initial focus is to create sketches for anyone who represented Montgomery County (OH). I am also working on the redistricting history of the 20th century in Ohio, having recently completed the 19th. I want to do district maps for each of the 19th century OH CDs too.
- Bjoel5785 Joined May 22, 2006. I have been working on Congressional Delegation and Congressional District pages and will continue to do so.
- LarryQ Joined May 30, 2006. I have been working on adding articles for missing Representatives.
- Chadlupkes. I've been working on the 2006 elections, trying to connect pages from various states by creating navigation boxes and helping others with research.
- TonyJoe
- Studerby Focusing on the Texas Representatives, mostly
- Meamemg Focusing mostly on articles about positions on processes
- Npeters22 Focusing mostly on the Pennsylvania Politicians
- Chuchunezumi 11:22, 19 July 2006 (UTC) I am primarily interested in the South Carolina legislative delegation.
- Wikibout-Cleaning up articles
- Daysleeper47
- Jelsa tris 17:08, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
- Alansohn 14:51, 16 August 2006 (UTC) - focusing on New Jersey
- -- stubblyhead | T/c 20:26, 16 August 2006 (UTC) interested in standardizing use of congressman and senator infoboxes on articles.
- PoliticalJunkie
- Newyorkbrad
- Deville
- Patricknoddy
- UstyeThe Knowlands of California
- Sprkee 20:03, 19 October 2006 (UTC) - focusing on Oregon
- Interiot, willing to help with maintenance/cleanup
- Dauster
- FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed 16:59, 12 November 2006 (UTC) Just discovered this, will help when I can
- Stealthound (talk · contribs) Already doing a lot for these articles, co-created Infobox Congressmanelect and created Infobox Senator-Elect, added footnote option on Infobox Congressman and Infobox Senator.
- RJASE1 - focusing on South Dakota
- Robert Waalk-focusing on election histories, committee asignments, and little edits and tinkers, like making sure that every page has a congressional template at the bottom, and a preced by and suceeded by template as well. Anyone who wants to join in on this project, contact me on my user page. My one concern is that our biographies need more meat, which could only be provided by people in that state. We need to write more about their races, their positions, and their lives, (early political careers, etc.)
- Carpet9 17:56, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
- Just H 05:33, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
- — DustinGC (talk | contribs) 01:27, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
- Emperor Gestahl - Editing & New Jersey
- pmeleski-spending time in New England congressional districts
- Appraiser I work on people representing Minnesota mostly--Appraiser 18:30, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
- Smee - looks like an ambitious project. Smee 14:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC).
- Wooyi - I've been adding infobox and stuff before joining this, and will continue to improve Congress-related articles. Wooyi 22:22, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
- AdamJaz - House Page Fall 2006
- 1ne I've been creating a lot of stuff related to Congress...in fact, I have a template for the majority leader of the House.
- Dcmacnut member since November 2006. Working on House and Senate committee articles, subcommittees, stubs, and overall factual and historical improvement of anything and everything related to the United States Congress.
- Flatterworld working on current Senators and Representatives Flatterworld 01:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
- dr_who1975 Been creating historic Senate senirority pages. {{USCongressSeniority}}. Also designed/nominated a Barnstar for this group. Lastly, Ive been working on some succession box stuff and trivia. I love this wikiproject.--Dr who1975 01:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
- Bernstein2291
- Howard Cleeves I'll try to help with minor cleanup, grammar, other errors.
- Farkas2029 16:35, 31 March 2007 (UTC) I'll will be working on creating new congressional biographical articles mainly from New York.
- LarryQ I have been working on adding articles for missing representatives off and on over the last year. I should have joined this project sooner. LarryQ 23:32, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- Folic Acid - Looking mainly at North Carolina politicians
- Politics rule 22:45, 10 May 2007 (UTC) Looking at Republican and maryland races!
- Nevermore27 1:21, 15 June 2007. Interested in the Democratic party, and especially midterm elections and the midwest. Currently involved in writing articles for the Senate and the House, especially congressional committees
- Doug.(talk • contribs) 20:34, 5 September 2007 (UTC). Involved with editing some of the early Congressmen, including Peleg Wadsworth.
- Minute Lake 06:53, 7 October 2007 (UTC) I am interested primarily in updating Wikipedia with information of historical Congressional figures, such as with Berkley Bedell.
- JPmaverick 12:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
- I considered myself a member of this project for a while (having contributed two featured articles under this WikiProject), but I never formally added myself to the list. Nishkid64 (talk) 03:34, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
- Socal gal at heart Working on California's House elections and collecting as much data as I can on the old historical districts and election results.
- Leobold1 (talk · contribs) Texas and other southern delegations
- FeanorStar7 (talk) 22:57, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- Grsz11 18:54, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
- Pete (talk) -- I've been working mostly on local Oregon-related political articles. I'm finding that many articles about current Senators and members of Congress, and elections, need a lot of work, and am going to try to branch out a bit.
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