Talk:List of Governors of Wisconsin

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[edit] Work to be done

Here is a list of things that I think still need to be done:

  • Complete the table of "other high offices held"
  • Check to make sure that all references are correct, and add more references where needed (especially opening paragraph of "List of governors" section)
  • Work on the intro more, rewriting where necessary
  • Add pictures down the side of the table (see, for example List of Governors of Kentucky)
  • Perhaps, since this is primarily a list of the governors of Wisconsin, the lieutenant govenrnor list could be cleaned up a bit: specifically, a vacant entry would only be included if the office were vacant for an entire term. This could be noted in a footnote to the column, which would direct readers to the List of Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin
    • Obviously, this would entail expanding the List of Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin to include all partial vacancies.
  • It seems desirable to me to find a way to specify in the table how many terms each governor served. We can't assume that readers can easily figure it out from the dates because some governors have died, resigned, &c., and, also, the length of the governor's term has not always been the same. How could this be done?
    • A new column, headed Terms could be added to the table. This is not entirely optimal, since then the format of this list (hopefully eventually a Featured List) would have a format differant than other Featured Lists about similar topics, ie, List of Governors of Kentucky, Arkansas, &c.
    • It could be added to an already-existing column. But which one?
    • Any other possibilities?
    • I may try the method used on the List of Presidents of the United States [this comment added later —Salmar (talk) 03:51, 8 December 2007 (UTC)]
      • This was my favorite possibility. Unfortunatly, if the method used on the Presidents list is copied, the table refuses to show the continuity between La Follette's last and Davidson's first properly. I don't know why, but it does not work in either HTML or wiki-syntax. [this comment added later —Salmar (talk) 01:45, 9 December 2007 (UTC)]

If anyone is watching this article and has any ideas for this list, or information to be added to the article, suggest it here, or add it in! My goal is to get this up to Featured List status, so your help would me much appreciated! —Salmar (talk) 17:43, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I am going to strike out those which have been completed. —Salmar (talk) 20:06, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Everything's crossed off! I think this is ready, or nearly ready to be nominated at WP:FLC! —Salmar (talk) 03:29, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

As the dean of featured governor lists (a title I just bestowed upon myself, I am also now wearing a crown), good job, I shall steal some of these ideas for the others. :) Please check my comments on the FLC nom. --Golbez (talk) 21:39, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] John Catlin

I started an article about John Catlin who was acting governor of the Wisconsin Territory from June 1848 until March 1849. We now have articles of Wisconsin's governors- state and territorial. The John Catlin article needs an information box and a photo. The Wisconsin Historical Society has a photo of John Catlin which is one of the citations of the article. Thank you-RFD (talk) 19:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)