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United States Senate graphic edit
The graphic by the qualifications section doesn't make any sense to me. Each state only gets two senators, so why does Kansas have five somethings in the image? Even if some of it were referencing the house, Kansas would have six and Florida would have way more than it does on the graphic. I don't want to delete someone's hard work for no reason, but a clarification in the caption of the photo as to what the numbers represent would be helpful. Catboy69 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 18:19, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
- I figured it out. It's saying that Kansas has a Class 2 Senator and a Class 3 Senator (the class indicating when their terms begin and end), and both are Republicans (hence colored red). WHPratt (talk) 16:06, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
- The graphic would be improved if each state were depicted with three blocks rather than two, representing the three electoral classes. Each state would then show one empty, just-an-outline block, indicating the cycle with no Senate election there. E.g., every state should have a permanent configuration of [1] [2] [ ] or [1] [ ] [3] or [ ] [2] [3] with colors appropriate for the current configuration. WHPratt (talk) 15:58, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
- I figured it out. It's saying that Kansas has a Class 2 Senator and a Class 3 Senator (the class indicating when their terms begin and end), and both are Republicans (hence colored red). WHPratt (talk) 16:06, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
Voting Record edit
I think there should be a new page displaying the voting record of each present senator and past senators, with each bill they voted on, explained in a way that is easily understandable BigUnit69 (talk) 15:48, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
Semi-protected edit request on 29 December 2023 edit
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DELETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE:
Also, people living in the District of Columbia and in U.S. territories are represented in the Senate by non-voting delegates.[80][81]
The above sentence is factually incorrect. Any Congressional representation of the District of Columbia and U.S. territories only exists in the U.S. House; there is no territorial or DC representation in the Senate (and not all territories are even represented by "delegates" in the House, i.e. Puerto Rico). TheGlowingEmber (talk) 09:15, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Mattdaviesfsic (talk) 12:30, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
- I made the correction: please let me know if you find any other issues, @TheGlowingEmber Superb Owl (talk) 23:27, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
Clarifications of what constitutes a Citation. edit
I requested citations for an article that contained not several or many citations, but not a SINGLE Citation. It did contain LINKS, which linked to definitions, other Wikipedia articles but not what one would consider "reference" material such as a link to a newspaper, encyclopedia, etc. I was told by a, very regular contributor to Wikipedia, editor of Wikipedic entries, all around bane to sophomoric Wikipedia contributors that the article was fine and didn't require anything more than this type of citation: two chambers rather than this type of citation: chamber being the lower house https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_house#cite_note-1 So, links to other Wikipedia articles and definitions are acceptable citations? Or not? Thank you... 2600:1700:8A90:ECF0:916F:20EC:FBF:8C (talk) 14:48, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- It sounds like you are asking about something occurring on a different article's page. Discussions about what is appropriate should be left on the talk page of the relevant article. If it cannot be resolved there, you should post at the relevant noticeboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Noticeboards#Content_dispute_resolution meamemg (talk) 20:10, 16 April 2024 (UTC)