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Request for comment at Talk:2021 United States Capitol attack

A request for comment that may interest members of this project is occurring at Talk:2021 United States Capitol attack § RfC: Should the following categories be kept?

The question being posed is: should the article stay in the following categories? Category:Terrorist incidents in the United States in 2021, Category:Rebellions in the United States, Category:Coups d'état and coup attempts in the United States. ––FormalDude ^talk 03:45, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Congressional slaveholder mini-project

I'll likely propose a project for a project on Congressional slaveholders as something to do for Black History Month based on data recently released by The Washington Post. My early draft of the proposal is at The Signpost newsroom, Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Next issue/Black History Month

I'm also working on the format of a possible list article User:Smallbones/List of U.S. congressional slaveholders

If anybody wants to help or comment please contact me on my talk page or via email. Smallbones_(smalltalk) 17:04, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Geoff Young in Kentucky congressional race

Geoff Young is running in Kentucky's Congressional 6th district race. You are experienced in articles on Kentucky, Can I get some help on this article?

Any suggestions that you have about the article? I want to make it notable. Year2040 (talk) 15:02, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

2022 Elections Task Force

Hi all,

I'm thinking about starting a task force with around 8-10 other editors to work on the Wikipedia pages of candidates up for election in 2022. Many congressional member pages have very few votes or political positions (for example, compare Michelle Steel and Steve Chabot against Nicole Malliotakis), and so I think it would be a great resource for us to flesh out a lot of these pages ahead of the election to better support people who come to Wikipedia for information before they vote. If anyone is interested in joining this project, please add a message below or message me on my talk page. Once I have a couple of interested editors I will work on building a task force page so we can coordinate our work. Thanks!

Wildfire35 (talk) 22:24, 4 April 2022 (UTC) I will gladly help you out. Just leave a message on my talk page. I've seen articles on older U.S. House and Senate elections clearly have a lack of work, and so I'd love to help someone out in improving a much-neglected space on Wikipedia ;).

John W. Johnston Featured article review

I have nominated John W. Johnston for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:26, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

U.N. Charter ratification

Ratification of the U.N. charter in 1945 is not listed in the Treaties Ratified section of this page:

https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Talk:79th_United_States_Congress — Preceding unsigned comment added by MartinLBuchanan (talk • contribs) 15:32, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} and {{doi}}.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Drafts for senate candidates

I'm working on drafts for Draft:Will Boyd and Draft:Katrina Christiansen. They appear to have enough references to pass WP:NBASIC, but I could use some help researching them and fleshing out the draft articles. Andrevan@ 00:19, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

Featured Article Review: Andrew Jackson

I have nominated Andrew Jackson for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. FinnV3 (talk) 21:01, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 117th Congress by seniority

It's very tough if not impossible to cut and paste to add to the above article. Can anyone fix?....Pvmoutside (talk) 13:43, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

FAR for Hillary Clinton

User:Buidhe has nominated Hillary Clinton for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:53, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

GEOFF YOUNG

 Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Geoff_Young  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:1FA0:487F:60E2:0:59:4D56:8001 (talk) 14:06, 27 August 2022 (UTC) 

Reverting edit young is a 2022 democratic contender for 6th district. Revert did not following canvassing rules — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.59.168.167 (talk) 09:22, 28 August 2022 (UTC)

Several hundred section titles need to change

Please see Talk:117th_United_States_Congress#Titles need to be changed across several articles, as many articles use identical section titles repeatedly. :/ ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 10:35, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Jefferson Davis FAR

I have nominated Jefferson Davis for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Guerillero ^{Parlez Moi} 13:17, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

A duty to inform constituents - NY 3rd District

Following the 2020 census New York State experienced a protracted and deeply partisan legal battle over redistricting to the point that officials had to push back the state primaries.

According to the state Board of Elections, "Following the completion of the 2020 census, New York State has redrawn legislative districts for State Assembly, State Senate, and Congressional offices. New lines will take effect in January 2023. New York State voters will elect representatives for these new districts during the 2022 general election." (New York State Board of Elections, October 22, 2022).

Wikipedia's legitimacy as a source may exceed that of political or governmental entities. This is why I believe that a note should be made to the main heading. A well informed constituency ensures a healthy democracy, therefore, Wikipedia needs to provide accurate and up to date information as it will affect the 3rd districts constituents for the next 2-5 years.

References

New York State Board of Elections. (2022). Elected Officials & District Map | New York State Board of Elections. www.elections.ny.gov. https://www.elections.ny.gov/district-map.html Bike86 (talk) 21:16, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:John M. McHugh#Requested move 19 November 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:John M. McHugh#Requested move 19 November 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 12:50, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Please have a look at the request for comment on the contents of lists of officeholders. I hope to discuss whether list articles should contain separate tables pointing out various distinctions (still alive, oldest ever, shortest term, highest number of votes, etc). Surtsicna (talk) 20:01, 4 December 2022 (UTC)