Wikipedia talk:WikiProject US State Legislatures

Requested move at Talk:List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 1st Congress by seniority#Requested move 4 September 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 1st Congress by seniority#Requested move 4 September 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 15:10, 16 September 2025 (UTC)

Requested move at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 January 14#Category:Members of the Alabama House of Representatives

There is a requested move discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 January 14#Category:Members of the Alabama House of Representatives that may be of interest to this WikiProject. You are invited to weigh in on moving Category:Members of the Alabama House of Representatives to Category:Alabama state representatives so that it's consistent with Category:Alabama state senators. Woko Sapien (talk) 16:59, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Vote Counts for 2024 Elections missing

Hi,

I've been going through the most recent state house elections and noticed that for: Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico and New York the state-wide vote totals are missing. I suspect someone has some code to summarize that information form the district level? Would be awesome to see this added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Kansas_House_of_Representatives_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Maine_House_of_Representatives_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Massachusetts_House_of_Representatives_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_New_Mexico_House_of_Representatives_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_New_York_State_Assembly_election

~2026-81329-9 (talk) 17:28, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Ohio Senate membership, 125th General Assembly

This article has been unsourced since its creation in 2004. If someone can add some references I would appreciate it. Thanks.4meter4 (talk) 18:41, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas

Project members are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to $2680 in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:13, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Lists of past terms/sessions

List of U.S. state legislatures#Lists of past terms/sessions notes that we have a list article for every state's past legislative sessions, except Connecticut. These articles are generally limited to one or two lead sentences reciting the state and legislature's name, followed by a table listing session number, start date, end date, and wikilinking to the associated election article, if any. Besides these articles' poor sourcing quality, they seem to generally violate WP:NOTDATABASE in how little they contextualize this data. Our articles on each state's legislature already cover any history on how the length of their sessions varied over time, so I struggle to imagine an alternative to deletion, but I am seeking thoughts here before making a 52-state/territory multi-AfD nomination. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 08:55, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

@Jengod, Edwardlalone, Oa01, Merovingian, M2545, and RayneVanDunem: Pinging as the relevant article creators. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 09:02, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Perhaps the section could be moved to its own stand-alone list. Here are a few other examples of lists of past legislatures:

• List of National People's Congress terms, China
• List of parliaments of Great Britain
• List of United States Congresses

-- M2545 (talk) 13:29, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

I didn't even know I was an article creator! I guess I created Mississippi Territory General Assembly and we have sessions in there. I personally think having information is more important than having a policy or a rule but whatever.

I do like them because they collect the names of politicians in an organized fashion! like we have lists of Mississippi state senators and I think what is supposed to be all Georgia state legislators and they are loooooooong and unwieldily in the first case and pathetically incomplete in the second case.

I guess this is organization by time period rather than by geography? Do we still keep like "list of representatives from district 13" articles but kill "list of members of the first Idaho general assembly"?

My one-term state legislator boys that were up to no good elsewhere that I write about have a built-in Redlink and I get to see who all their little buddies were and the ebb and flow of the population and the generations aging and being replaced. I mean I dig that.

I have been trying to categorize more US history articles, for instance legislation or Native American treaties, with like 33rd Congress bc I think we otherwise end up with this like imperial presidency problem duplicated on Wiki.

another time it helped me was when I was tracking this one dude through congresses bc he kept coming and going I discovered the reason he was called John Rhea of Tennessee in articles is bc there was a John Rea of Pennsylvania

I dunno I kind of like a surfeit of democracy and a foundation for discovery but whatever. I have no idea what is best. Good luck! jengod (talk) 14:35, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Mistaken ping! List of New Mexico state legislatures is currently a redirect to New Mexico Legislature#History, which you created. There is an open split proposal from Aug 2024 to have the table in that section be split to list of New Mexico state legislatures and thus match the other 48 states, but unless that is implemented, New Mexico would not fall into my concern here. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 18:44, 30 April 2026 (UTC)