Talk:List of United States congressional districts

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Contents 1 Better Rename A District 1.1 Need to be done 1.1.1 List of all state's districts 2 Renaming: Should be capitalized 3 Ariticle malfunction? 4 Infobox for Districts

[edit] Better Rename A District

The renaming discussed below was done in May 2006. This discussion is kept for archival purposes.

I think United States House of Representatives, Foo District number (example: United States House of Representatives), Iowa District 3 is inelegant and doesn't fit in with Wikipedia's rule on Naming Conventions. I think we should rename them all (sigh, yes, all): Option A1) Foo's #th congressional district (example: Iowa's 3rd congressional district). Option A2) Foo's #th Congressional district (example: Iowa's 3rd Congressional District). Option A3) Foo's numberth congressional district (example: Iowa's Third congressional district). Option A4) Foo's numberth Congressional district (example: Iowa's Third Congressional District). Let's generate some discussion. Is the current naming system OK? Is there a better way to name them, other than what I've proposed? Add your options after my Option A, above. But if nobody posts discussion, I'll just slog through and change them all starting on May 1, 2006. —Markles 01:38, 15 April 2006 (UTC) Do it! (I happen to like A2 the best, but any of these are way better than the clunky naming system in place.) Grandmasterka 06:41, 15 April 2006 (UTC) What happened to the way discussed in the uppermost item listed of merely directing all links to relevent sections of the state's articles. No one made any comment about it.-Daniel,levine 21:01, 19 April 2006 (UTC) Sadly, we can't redirect to article sections, just to articles themselves. I wish that weren't the case. —Markles 12:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC) OK. I'm going to start changing article names. I'll try to get through all of it by May 15, 2006. See also Template talk:Ushr#Better Rename A District. —Markles 13:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Need to be done

Leave the red links on this page. When auditing this page, it's easy to see if someone made an active link via a link's change from red to blue.

As of 01:40, 3 February 2007 (UTC), all of the active districts are done. Only obsolete districts remain to be created.

1. Alabama's 8th congressional district
2. Alabama's 9th congressional district
3. Alabama's 10th congressional district
4. Connecticut's 6th congressional district
5. Connecticut's 7th congressional district
6. Illinois's 20th congressional district
7. Illinois's 21st congressional district
8. Illinois's 22nd congressional district
9. Illinois's 23rd congressional district
10. Illinois's 24th congressional district
11. Illinois's 25th congressional district
12. Illinois's 26th congressional district
13. Indiana's 11th congressional district
14. Indiana's 12th congressional district
15. Indiana's 13th congressional district
16. Iowa's 6th congressional district
17. Iowa's 7th congressional district
18. Iowa's 8th congressional district
19. Iowa's 9th congressional district
20. Iowa's 10th congressional district
21. Iowa's 11th congressional district
22. Kansas's 5th congressional district
23. Kansas's 6th congressional district
24. Kentucky's 8th congressional district
25. Kentucky's 9th congressional district
26. Kentucky's 10th congressional district
27. Kentucky's 11th congressional district
28. Kentucky's 12th congressional district
29. Kentucky's 13th congressional district
30. Missouri's 10th congressional district
31. Missouri's 11th congressional district
32. Missouri's 12th congressional district
33. Missouri's 13th congressional district
34. Missouri's 14th congressional district
35. Missouri's 15th congressional district
36. Missouri's 16th congressional district
37. Montana's 2nd congressional district
38. New Hampshire's 3rd congressional district
39. New Hampshire's 4th congressional district
40. New Hampshire's 5th congressional district
41. New Hampshire's 6th congressional district
42. North Dakota's 2nd congressional district
43. North Dakota's 3rd congressional district
44. Oklahoma's 6th congressional district
45. Oklahoma's 7th congressional district
46. Oklahoma's 8th congressional district
47. Oklahoma's 9th congressional district
48. Pennsylvania's 20th congressional district
49. Pennsylvania's 21st congressional district
50. Pennsylvania's 22nd congressional district
51. Pennsylvania's 23rd congressional district
52. Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district
53. Rhode Island's 3rd congressional district
54. Tennessee's 10th congressional district
55. Tennessee's 11th congressional district
56. Tennessee's 12th congressional district
57. Tennessee's 13th congressional district
58. Vermont's 2nd congressional district
59. Vermont's 3rd congressional district
60. Vermont's 4th congressional district
61. Vermont's 5th congressional district
62. Vermont's 6th congressional district
63. Virginia's 12th congressional district
64. Virginia's 13th congressional district
65. Virginia's 14th congressional district
66. Virginia's 15th congressional district
67. Virginia's 16th congressional district
68. Virginia's 17th congressional district
69. Virginia's 18th congressional district
70. Virginia's 19th congressional district
71. Virginia's 20th congressional district
72. Virginia's 21st congressional district
73. Virginia's 22nd congressional district
74. Virginia's 23rd congressional district
75. West Virginia's 4th congressional district
76. West Virginia's 5th congressional district
77. West Virginia's 6th congressional district, currently redirected to United States Congressional Delegations from West Virginia
78. Wisconsin's 9th congressional district
79. Wisconsin's 10th congressional district
80. Wisconsin's 11th congressional district

[edit] List of all state's districts

1. Hawaii Congressional Districts
2. Illinois Congressional Districts, currently redirected to List of United States congressional districts
3. Iowa Congressional Districts
4. Louisiana Congressional Districts
5. Maryland Congressional Districts
6. Michigan Congressional Districts, currently redirected to United States Congressional Delegations from Michigan
7. Missouri Congressional Districts
8. Montana Congressional Districts
9. New Hampshire Congressional Districts
10. North Dakota Congressional Districts
11. Vermont Congressional Districts
12. Washington Congressional Districts
13. West Virginia Congressional Districts

[edit] Renaming: Should be capitalized

Option A2, above, should be preferred to A1 ("Congressional District" instead of "congressional district. And the first and only four representatives whose websites I checked concur: "Maryland's Eighth District", "GA's Fourth District", "Maryland's Fourth Congressional District", "19th Congressional District of Florida". --zenohockey 16:59, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree... I did a random sampling of the House websites, and I found Ohio's First Congressional District, Maryland's 1st Congressional District, 9th Congressional District, The Second District of Kansas, 22nd Congressional District in California, Florida's 20th Congressional District, 10th District of Virginia, 13th District of Georgia, and Nevada’s Third Congressional District. So while not universal, capitalisation is much preferred over the lower case "congressional district". Is there some sort of bot we could use to move them to their proper location? --LV ^{(Dark Mark)} 19:49, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I agree simply from my own experience. I thought 'Congress' or 'Congressional' was always capitalized. And in the letterhead from my Congresswoman, 'District' is capitalized in "3rd District, Kentucky". Stevie is the man! ^{Talk • Work} 03:44, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ariticle malfunction?

Is anyone else having this problem: The main article template references are not functioning after South Carolina's 3rd congressional district? The list of districts after SC-3 appears as {{ushr}}; very strange. --G1076 13:26, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

• No, it's a bigger problem. Wikipedia seems to be tempremental right now. Sometimes it transcludes templates, sometimes it doesn't. I thought I was the only one noticing the problem. I'd see {{USCongress}} and {{USCongresses}} instead of the transcluded template. I hope it will be fixed soon. —Markles 13:53, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox for Districts

I've had a bash and I've improved the 7 Alabama Districts and the 1st Arkansas over a few weeks, and I think statistical information could be better expressed with an infobox, considering every district article is going to have a Nat Atlas picture of it as well. Im not good with the technical side - any suggestions for a standard info box for districts? Orchid Righteous 08:55, 23 August 2006 (UTC)