Template talk:USCongDistState

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USCongDistState is part of WikiProject U.S. Congress, an attempt to build a comprehensive guide to the United States Congress.
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[edit] TfD debate

This template survived a debate at TfD. The discussion can be found here. -Splashtalk 01:06, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-templates

Don't use templates within other templates. You'll need to find another method. -- Netoholic @ 03:36, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

  • If you don't like how these templates used meta-templates, then come up with a better solution instead of just nuking them. —Mark Adler (markles) 04:34, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Link to govtrack map broken for some states

The link to the govtrack.us congressional district maps are broken for states with spaces in the names. For instance, for New Jersey, the link winds up only having "state=New", which the govtrack site is unable to process.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.250.37.29 (talk • contribs) 22:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC-5)

I added an overriding optional arg to the tpl named "abbrev" in which the state postal abbreviation can be given. Providing this in the templates for states with spaces in their names fixes this problem (govtrack prefers postal abbreviations). See for example the fixed {{USCongDistStateSD}}. - Keith D. Tyler (AMA) 21:38, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ragarding s's for states ending with letter s

Discussion of this issue is taking place at Template talk:USCongDistStateIL (there are also some related comments at Template talk:USCongDistStateList). MisfitToys 19:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Seems to me the answer is here.

[edit] Senators

Should the list of senators from each state go under "See also"? I think so. Any objections? --zenohockey 00:01, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

  • Go ahead.—Markles 12:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Done. My edit also made the elements that aren't state-specific (United States congressional districts - Congressional apportionment - Redistricting - Gerrymandering), plus the GovTrack.us map link, smaller. It should fit nicely on all sizes of screens. --zenohockey 06:12, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category application

A category should not be assigned automatically by this template. Therefore all of the automatic categories must be replaced first by manual categories ([[Category:Congressional districts of Foo]]) and then the category code taken out of this template. That's a lot of work (approx. 600 articles, but it can be done slowly.—Markles 18:56, 10 January 2008 (UTC)