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Added table with current house representatives

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Added TableDreammaker182 (talk) 07:30, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 3 January 2020

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. There is consensus to not move just this one article by itself. No prejudice against anyone proposing a multi-move request at any time. Station1 (talk) 09:30, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]



Alabama's congressional districtsCongressional districts of Alabama – There is an apostrophe in the title. I'm not sure if it's proper to have it in the title. If this request passes, I would like similar articles such as California's congressional districts to be moved to Congressional districts of California as well. Interstellarity (talk) 00:50, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Weakly oppose. There is nothing wrong in having an apostrophe in the title. Per WP:NCCS, we should "do what English does", and the possessive case is common enough in English.
But my opposition s based mostly on ease of search. If the state name is moved to the end of the title, effectively as a disambiguator, then we have 50 or more titles all starting "Congressional districts of", which is hard on people using incremental search: are they not more likely to type "Alabama congress"...?
That being said, we have a pattern with e.g.United States congressional delegations from Alabama so there may be a precedent there that we should follow. 94.21.10.204 (talk) 05:18, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose as proposed since from the random states I've checked at Category:United States congressional districts by state use that style. This should be proposed as a group change so not to create inconsistencies. I will say that the category Category:Congressional districts of Alabama and the article don't match for the complete set, which is not good. --Gonnym (talk) 11:17, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose as proposed per Gonnym. I did the same check (while Gonnym was writing that!) and found also that all of these congressional district and related articles are using "State's whatever" article title format. It's an informal-looking and questionably encyclopedic style. I would support a mass-RM that moved all of them at once, but we can't (per WP:CONSISTENT) just move this one. That same policy is, however, a reason to move them en masse, because this small tree of "State's whatever" articles is at odds with a much larger set of trees of "Whatever of/from/in State" articles (like the aforementioned United States congressional delegations from Alabama), in turn consistent with innumerable "Whatever of/from/in/at Jurisdiction/Place/Entity" articles more generally. The possessive form is an aberration, and usually only appears on WP in titles of works and other proper names. Also, 94.21.10.204 is mis-citing WP:NCCS: it says nothing about apostrophes/possessives at all, meanwhile "X of Y" is also "what English does". More the to point, it's what formal English does, and we have a long history of moving articles away from possessive constructions. I also don't buy the anon's incremental-search argument; since a redirect will exist from the possessive title, there will be no negative effect at all on incremental searches.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  11:57, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You're right about the redirects of course. Personally I think the "X of Y" format is too formal, but anyway we could just use the noun as modifier and write "Georgia congressional districts" perfectly grammatically. It's "New York City Subway", not "Subway of the City of New York", for example.
You're also right that WP:AT is entirely silent on the subject of apostrophes in titles, beyond WP:TSC), but "we've a long history of doing it that way" means no more or less than being WP:CONSISTENT. 94.21.10.204 (talk) 12:28, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 13 January 2020

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved to the proposed titles at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 18:28, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]


– Please see above request. The same rationale applies to this request as well just more states to apply consistency. Interstellarity (talk) 18:06, 13 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]


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Update the 2020 section.

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I’m not really familiar with editing on Wikipedia but earlier today the Supreme Court upheld Alabama’s controversial 2021 map. 2601:940:C001:CA90:5DE5:6848:C44F:7CEC (talk) 04:22, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]