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United States congressional delegations from Indiana

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I've listed this article for peer review because… This list is not big on prose, and you can't source everything on it, but I believe that with some work I can bring this to FL status. All fifty states have a list like this one, but this is the first anyone's taken notice of (that I know). So far I've expanded the lead with more facts and a couple refs and I added some external links, but I'd like to know what else I should reference and add more prose to to possibly make this a featued list.

Thanks, Reywas92Talk 03:13, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ruhrfisch comments: Looks pretty good, here are some suggestions for improvement.

  • Avoid words like current, currently, or now, for example in the map caption Current Indiana Delegation to the United States House of Representatives I think this would be better as 2008 Indiana Delegation ... or perhaps Indiana Delegation in the 111th Congress ...
  • I would add footnotes on Senators and Representatives whose terms ended earlier than expected - for example Robert Hanna or James Whitcomb in the Senate.
  • Could you add some photos of some of the more prominent congressmen and women - Lugar and Hamilton for example? There is room beside the Senator table for this.
  • I would try to make some of the things in the table clearer - for example, the varying number of representatives based on the census distribution of Representatives is something many readers might not understand or even know about.
  • Not sure if it would make sense to add more details on some of the senators and representatives who went on to other things (President? Supreme Court?)

Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:25, 8 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments! I will work on them as soon as I can. I can do points 1, 3, and 4 easily, but 2 and 5 are much more complicated. For them, Senators' other offices and ending reasons are listed at List of United States Senators from Indiana, though there isn't an article for the House (there's about 300 of them). Reywas92Talk 03:03, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think it would be interesting to find out how many senators and congressmen were appointed to serve partial terms.
    • Well, the Senators are are on List of United States Senators from Indiana, and congressmen aren't appointed, though that is good info. I just need to figure out what should go on this large list and what goes on the subarticle, especially if there isn't one for the House yet.
  • Adding a section describing the growth of populations and the censuses that led to increases in representation and decreases as well as what is projected for the next census.
    • I'm not sure what exactly you mean; a population table? And the projection is that we'll stay the same.
  • Indiana had the fifth or fourth largest delegation for a number of years, that would be worth including.
  • A comparison to where the state ranks in the size of its delegation compared to other states.
    • Can do. I'll look at the numbers.
  • Making up a table to count delegates from different parties might also be useful.
    • Like what was on the governors list that Golbez didn't like? Though there's a lot more of these.
  • A history section could also be added to explain changes in power, like the breakup of the Whig party, the rise of the republicans. Various other changes. That would be a lot of work though.
    • Since this is just a list of delegations rather than a political history I don't think that's relevant, but surely a paragraph could be added on that.

Just some thoughts. I would like to work on the article some myself if I get some time. Charles Edward (Talk) 00:16, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do. Thanks for the comments. Reywas92Talk 03:19, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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