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It has several subprojects:
- States
- Years
- Topics
- Terms
- Articles to improve
- Templates
- Not on the ballot
- Types
- Progress chart
- 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988
There's an independent but very relevant project:
Goal
- A high-quality, very informative article for every statewide ballot measure that has ever been on a statewide ballot anywhere in the United States.
- A summary article, by year, of all statewide ballot measures on the ballot anywhere in the United States that year. Example: 2008 ballot measures.
- A summary article, by topic, of all statewide ballot measures that relate to a particular political topic. Example: Transportation initiatives.
- A summary article, by year/state, of all statewide ballot measures on the ballot in a certain year/state (such as Arizona 2006 ballot measures).
Writing guidelines
Articles
- For articles about individual ballot measures, see Writing:Articles about ballot measures.
- For ballot measure overview articles, see Writing:Ballot measure overview articles.
Research
If you're looking for a place to start researching, see:
On-wiki resources
- Official names of state legislatures
- Dates of 2013 state legislative sessions
- Laws governing ballot measures
To-do lists
Because this is overall a very big project, there are separate to-do lists based on the subproject as well as some general to-do lists which appear here.
- "Years" subproject to-do list
- "States" subproject to-do list
- "Topics" subproject to-do list
- "Terms" subproject to-do list
- General to-do list:
- Review and improve Ballotpedia:How to write articles about ballot measures.
Analysis projects
This section highlights project ideas that are still pending. In other words, these projects have been tested in one state and can be replicated in various states or they have been started and still have yet to be completed.
- Donations to 2006 ballot measure campaigns
- Ballot measures approved with an 80% vote or more
- Milestones section in "History of Initiative Referendum in California"
- Voter turnout and registration in Texas
- List of statutes referred to the Alaska ballot by the Alaska legislature
- Fiscal impact statements for California's 2012 ballot propositions
- 2010 ballot measure petition signature costs and 2011 ballot measure petition signature costs
Images
- See also: Uploading and categorizing images
If you plan to upload images that relate to the State Ballot Measures project...
For example, images of:
- campaign logos
- maps
- graphs
- documents
- ballot measure activists
... or if you need help identify appropriate categories for such images, go here for more details.
For specific guidelines on copyright or image permissions, visit the Images project page.
Articles that need updating
- See also: Articles to improve
As the project develops, some pages may be rapidly created and may need to be revisited at a later point. For more on articles that are missing components or may need improvement, click here.
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- {{sbm intro}}
- {{sbm missing}}
- {{sbm quality}}
Project templates
There are some basic templates in use in the project; these include:
- Template:User WikiProject State Ballot Measures. This is a user participation badge (see below) which any editors/contributors to this project are encouraged to place on their user page.
- {{WikiProject State Ballot Measures}} is a template that should be placed on the Help:Talk page|"talk" or "discussion" page associated with any articles in the project. That identifies the article as belonging to this project and makes it easier to organize the project. {Note that articles can belong to more than one WikiProject.) The shortcut is {{sbm}}
- Each of the four main subprojects will have their own templates; please see the sub-project pages for more detail.
User badge
If you're working in this project and you'd like to display the project's user participation badge on your user page (the badge is displayed to your right), add this code to your user page:
<table style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; width: 242px; border: #99B3FF solid 1px">
<tr><td>{{User WikiProject State Ballot Measures}}</td></tr>
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To participate: join (or just read up) at the project page. Ballotpedia's Ballot Measures project is managed by Brittany Clingen. If you have any questions or comments please e-mail brittany.clingen@ballotpedia.org. |
