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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.

The current Congressional Collaborations of the Week are:
Person ‹The template USCongressCOTWPerson article is being considered for deletion.› Beryl Anthony, Jr. Seal of Congress
Place ‹The template USCongressCOTWPlace article is being considered for deletion.› Alabama's 8th congressional district
Thing ‹The template USCongressCOTWThing article is being considered for deletion.› List of United States Representatives from California

Every week three U.S. Congress-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold!
This COTW is organized by WikiProject U.S. Congress. (Nominate future collaborations or see past collaborations.)

Contents

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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 appropriate.

Expanding

Improving

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)

Style

Wikipedia guides

Project Congress specific guides

General

Ordinal congresses

Congressional districts

Congressional delegations

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

Members

Leaders

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

Committees and Caucuses

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

Employees

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

Facilities and Agencies

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

History

  • No style guide has yet been devised.

Elections

The term of office is two years

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.

Special articles

Current and former featured articles

Current featured article candidates and featured article review candidates

Register your support or opposition

Current and former good articles

Did you knows (DYKs)

Ordinal congresses

Congressional districts

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

Members

Leaders

Committees and Caucuses

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."

Templates

Stubs

People in general

  • {{WPBiography}} use modifiers where appropriate: | living=yes | activepol=yes | politician-work-group=yes

U.S. Senate

U.S. House of Representatives

Navigation boxes

Delegations

  • Current Congress: {{CurrentCongDeleg}}, which uses [[Template:{{{StateSymbol}}}-FedRep]], makes:

Positions

  • For Presidents of the Senate, use the Vice President template, {{USVicePresidents}}, which makes: