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Goal: Complete pages for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of State for each state in the union. This means a generic page for the position, such as Illinois Governor, and for the current office holder, like Pat Quinn. This project is completed!
Current to-do list
1. Create pages for all 50 states (see below for contents).
2. Add any missing pages to the HNT for the state.
3. Add links to newly created pages in any old related pages.
Future
4. Add photo of the officeholder and links to predecessor, successor
5. Add content exclusive to Ballotpedia to articles.
Style notes
- The primary page should be at "NAMEOFSTATE Governor", not "Governor of NAMEOFSTATE". Create a redirect page at the latter. If a page already exists with the latter, copy the page to the current nomenclature and add a redirect.
- Titles of the offices should be capitalized in the title of the pages.
- In the articles, unless you're talking about a specific person (e.g. Lieutenant Governor Joe the Plumber), the title of the office should be lowercase (e.g. lieutenant governor)
- Unless you have several sections other than the ones listed below, add NOTOC (with __ on both sides) to your page to remove the table of contents. It's not necessary if the primary sections aren't important content.
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Our main sources of information for these positions will be the official websites of the officers, Project Vote Smart, Wikipedia, Follow the Money and other resources you locate. When Wikipedia or other resources have improper capitalization or information gaps in information, make sure to correct.
Things to include
- {{Stategov}} template
- Current officeholder
- Contact information
- See also (links to other BP pages, especially those for the officeholder)
- External links (Follow the Money, Project Vote Smart)
- References
- The template for the position. Select one of the following:
{{Current governors}}
{{Current lieutenant governors}}
{{State attorneys general}}
{{Current secretaries of state}}
- Add to these categories: STATE, POSITION, State government articles. For example:
[[Category:Illinois]] [[Category:Governor]] [[Category:State government articles]]
- The WikiProject template to the discussion page
{{WikiProject state officials}}
Officials
Let's get to work! Mark through the pages that you finish so we'll know when it's done.
- List of Governors
- List of Lieutenant Governors
- List of Secretaries of State
- List of Attorneys General of the American States
- List of State Treasurers
Project templates
- {{Wikiproject state officials}} | {{Current governors}} | {{Current lieutenant governors}} | {{Current secretaries of state}} | {{State attorneys general}}
- {{Participant, State officials project}} | {{wso}}
