Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Congress

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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. Template:TOCleft Template:USCongressCOTW

1 Parentage and Similar Projects
2 Subpages
3 Participants
4 Style
5 Articles
6 Sources
- 6.1 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- 6.2 Other useful resources
7 Templates
- 7.1 U.S. Senate
- 7.2 Navigation boxes
8 Shortcut
9 To Do
10 Wikiportal
11 Categories
12 Image gallery
13 WikiProject U.S. Congress notice
14 Progress
15 See Also
16 External Sources and Resources for this Project

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Parentage and Similar Projects

Parent of this WikiProject:

WikiProject History

Similar projects:

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Subpages

All subpages

/Bioguide: Discussion of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
/COTW: Proposing a regular Collaboration Of The Week
- The COTW has begun!

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Participants

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 (UTC) 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 Fixed redlinks in Second United States Congress, created a couple things, etc.
jcbarr joined 2006 Jan 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.
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.

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Style

In most cases, article names should not abbreviate "United States". Ergo: "Historian of the United States House of Representatives" is right; "Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives" is wrong. It's not so much "right" and "wrong" actually, it's just a matter of consistency. See Manual of Style#National varieties of English. If you find "… U.S. …", try to Merge and Redirect it to the corresponding "… United States …" article.

For articles where titles should be "StateName United States Senate election, 2006" rather than "StateName U.S. Senate election, 2006", 25 of the 34 articles have been moved, and redirects from old names set up. Eight of the articles have NOT been moved: Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. (Indiana is a very special case; I'm working on that.) [See - United States Senate elections, 2006 ] John Broughton 22:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Evidently for elections to the lower house, the prepositional phrase "of Representatives" may be missed off, leaving United States House elections, 2006.

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Articles

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Ordinal congresses

For each election period, a article called xxx United States Congress is created, where xxx is the written out ordinal number, e.g. First United States Congress. For a complete list, see list of United States Congresses.

Each of these articles should have the same format. Use 109th United States Congress generally as a guide.

Section headings should be arranged thusly:

Introductory paragraph

== Dates of sessions ==

== Major events ==

== Legislation ==

=== Major legislation passed ===

=== Other legislation ===

== Party summary ==

=== Senate ===