Ballotpedia:WikiProject State Executive Officials
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State executive offices include offices mandated by state constitutions, both elected and appointed. The sections below highlight tips and instructions to successfully write articles about the generic offices, state-specific offices and the officeholders.
Writing guidelines
| How to write about state executives |
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| Starting an article (stub) |
| Blank Example Article |
| Infobox • Intro sentence See also section External links and references Categories • Templates |
| General offices: |
| Intro sentence • Political parties Term limits • Vacancies Feature - elected or appointed Officeholders • See also section External links and references Templates • Categories |
| State offices: |
| Infobox • Intro sentence Current officeholder • Authority Qualifications • Elections • Vacancies Duties • Divisions • Compensation Historical officeholders Contact information • See also section External links and references Templates • Categories |
| Officials: |
| Infobox • Intro sentence Biography • Political career Elections (Issue positions) Campaign contributions See also section External links and references Succession boxes Templates • Categories |
| SEO news desk |
| The project |
For information about how to write profiles about state executive incumbents, state offices or elections, click here.
For quick access, add {{SEO writing}} to your user page.
Elections
For specific details about election articles and related writing guidelines, visit Ballotpedia:WikiProject State Executive Officials/Election articles.
For election racetracking methodology, click here.
Article improvement
- 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.
- {{SEO expand}}
- {{SEO update}}
- {{seo stub}}
News
The SEO newsdesk is available here. Here is an example of an SEO news story: Two weeks to go before the Kentucky primary
Required categories for a news story:
- Category:State executive news, 2011
- Category:STATE 2011 news (e.g. Category:California 2011 news)
- Category:MONTH 2011 (e.g. Category:May 2011)
Relevant categories that may be added, include:
- Gov news: Category:Gubernatorial news, 2011
- AG news: Category:Attorney General news, 2011
- SOS news: Category:Secretary of State news, 2011
Images
- See also: Uploading and categorizing images
If you plan to upload images that relate to the State Executive Officials project...
For example, images of:
- officials
- government buildings
- maps
- graphs
- documents
... 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.
Calendars
Categories
- If you want to know what category to use on an article related to a state executive office, official, candidate, election or related subject, go to Writing:Categories (state executive officials).
- If you want to change categories, propose new ones or work out issues with categories, go to Ballotpedia:WikiProject State Executive Officials/Categories.
Templates
- {{State Official Writer}}
- {{Wikiproject state officials}} or {{wso}}
Article templates
- {{State executive officers}}
- {{Current governors}} | {{Secretaries of state}} | {{State attorneys general}} | {{State treasurers}} | {{Controllers}} | {{Auditors}} | {{Superintendents of schools}} | {{Insurance commissioners}} | {{Agricultural commissioners}} | {{Natural resource commissioners}} | {{Labor commissioners}} | {{Public services commissioners}}
- {{Seo stub}}
- {{seosubmit}}
Research links
- official websites of the officers
- Follow the Money
- Project Vote Smart
News desk
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