Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress/Archives/2023

Term start

This may be a moot point by the time anyone sees this, but SO MANY editors, both registered and non, are changing incumbency dates for elected Congressional officials BEFORE their term starts. Now granted, January 3rd, today, they'd assume office, but it doesn't officially happen until noon, upon swearing in. (See: Liz Cheney, Joe Sempolinski, Van Taylor, etc.) WP:CRYSTAL would apply if it's changed before noon, correct? Snickers2686 (talk) 16:29, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

I believe the consensus will be that January 3, 2023 is when their terms began, oath or no oath. It would look rather odd (for example) having a 3 or 4 'out of office' day gap, in the re-elected House members bios. GoodDay (talk) 06:04, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

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Sherman Minton Featured article review

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Requested move at Talk:Tom Rice#Requested move 20 August 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Tom Rice#Requested move 20 August 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —Usernamekiran_(AWB) (talk) 21:21, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

Committees in infoboxes

Has removing committee assignments from infoboxes ever been considered? They seem to make them so cluttered and overly long while not really being all that necessary; any good article (John McCain for example) already has a "Committee assignments" section and they have a presence at the bottom of the page in the form of succession boxes. Joe Biden's page kind of fixes this by putting all the committees in a small section at the end, but why not just put it in the article body at that point? Krisgabwoosh (talk) 21:31, 6 April 2023 (UTC)

@Krisgabwoosh: Started a deep discussion on the topic here. Feel free to weigh in. SuperWIKI (talk) 04:18, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Seeking feedback re: endorsement guideline

This comment serves as notice of a discussion that editors of this page may be interested in: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums#Interpretation of endorsement guideline re: EMILY's List/Laphonza Butler? 67.170.42.135 (talk) 01:18, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Opinions requested on a relevant template

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Featured Article Save Award for Jefferson Davis

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