Talk:Whip (politics)

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Why does Lord-in-Waiting redirect here? If someone like Peregrine Cust, for example, was a whip, why is that not mentioned? No mention of Lord-in-Waiting besides the redirect itself. Awful. Trst (talk) 08:55, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps somebody else could add some information about the other sense of "whip". Whipping already exists as a disambiguation page, but there are several inward links to whip that refer to the non-political sense of the word. --rbrwr

Should, perhaps, this page be moved to whip (politics) and whip (implement) be moved here? I would imagine that "whip (implement)" is a more common use of the word than the meaning given on this page. Just a thought. -- Vardion 02:20, 15 May 2004 (UTC)

Alternatively, perhaps most of this should be moved to whip (politics) and whip should become a whip disambiguation page, linked to whip (implement), whip (politics) and the others? -- ALoan 10:08, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
Sounds reasonable to me. -- Vardion 06:11, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

If you're going to talk about details like who is currently in office, then I'd want to see dates. If you're going to talk about who may run in the future, I'd want to see sources. Hmoulding 21:22, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] US Whips

The U.S. Senate has whips too. Someone please add that in. --Jiang 02:56, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC)

This page says that Nancy Pelosi is likely to become the House Majority Leader, but most of the current speculation is that she will become the Speaker of the House. The two roles are separate, so unless there is a protocol I'm unaware of, shouldn't this be changed?

Looks like that's been removed... but other possibly obsolete name references are still there Hmoulding 21:29, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

As far as I know the Whip in the US system is not part of the line of succession for the president. Someone who actually knows this stuff might add the correct information, complete with a reference to the constitutional amendment that sets the line of succession. Hmoulding 21:29, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

And while we're at it, do all or most US state legislatures have whips? Is that something that should be mentioned here, as well? Hmoulding 21:31, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

I don't want to make changes since I'm not a member, but the listing of the whips in the US section seems to mix tenses ungrammatically-- "whip A is so-and-so, who reported to such-and-such" 68.239.20.77 00:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Whips

Both the Australian Federal and State Parliaments also have whips. Commking 1 May 2005

[edit] Irish Whips

What is the date the Irish Parliamentary Party added in the whips? 20 November 2005

[edit] Canadian Whips

The disambiguation page lists the whip as something in Canadian or British politics but this page lists nothing about how Canadian whips work. 198.162.96.13 02:08, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Two-line whips?

The article says (for British politics): "underlined one or three times". Is a two-line whip not also possible? --David Edgar 11:38, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

I believe it is. Ben Finn 11:46, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Links to other wikis

I don't know which bot is responsible for the links to other wikis : they lead on straight in some cases to the whip as in SM, and not to the political institution. I will remove the wrong references I am able to check, but I advise other contributors to check the remaining ones for disambiguation. --Anne97432 07:48, 26 October 2006 (UTC)