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The purpose of this project page is to work out issues with categories or propose new categories. Once there is an agreed-upon category structure, that should be documented at Writing: Categories (state executive officials).
Governors and Lt. Governors
This is the proposed category structure to use when writing and organizing articles that relate to governors, lt. governors, gubernatorial candidates, lt. gubernatorial candidates, gubernatorial elections, and so on.
Overview of types of articles
All articles related to governors, lieutenant governors, their elections, and their offices are addressed under this category structure.
However, no page should be directly placed in the parent category, Category:Governor, as this is to serve as an umbrella category for the structure laid out below.
There are eight broad categories of pages included in Ballotpedia's project on governors and lieutenant governors.
1. Articles giving background information on America's governors, specifically the articles Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and Ballotpedia's portal page, Portal: Governors and Lieutenant Governors
2. Articles describing the actual Constitutional and statutory offices, such as Governor of North Dakota and Lieutenant Governor of Utah.
3. Articles discussing current and former governors and lieutenant governors, such as Donald Carcieri and Jim Cawley.
4. Articles discussing elections, including overview articles such as Gubernatorial elections, 2011, and state specific articles such as West Virginia special gubernatorial election, 2011 and Montana gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2012.
5. Articles discussing candidates in elections, including current candidates, such as John D. Perdue and Mike Harmon, and former candidates, such as Leslie Petersen and Dale Ogden.
6. Article discussing details and summaries of elections, such as 2011 gubernatorial race trackers and 2010 lieutenant gubernatorial electoral results.
7. Article discussing features of the American governorships, such as How gubernatorial vacancies are filled and Comparison of lieutenant gubernatorial salaries.
8. Images relating to gubernatorial articles, including photos of office holders, crests associated with governors, images of governors' mansions, etc.
Categorization structure
Here is how Ballotpedia categorizes these articles within the parent category:
Articles on the offices
- An article describing the actual office of a governor belongs in:
- Category:Governor
- Category:Offices of the American Governors
- Category:State Executive Offices
- Category:Constitutionally mandated state executive offices
- Category:Governor
- Within that last category, it will be in Category:Constituionally mandated state executive offices, elected
For governors, this structure is adequate, as all 50 governorships are both Constitutional positions and elected offices.
- An article describing the actual office of a lieutenant governor will be more complex to categorize, as the office is Constitutional in most states but statutory in some states. Such an article will be categorized in one of the following:
- Category:Constitutionally mandated state executive offices
- Category:Statuatorily mandated state executive offices
- Within whichever of those two is appropriate, it will be sub-categorized to indicate whether it is an elected or an appointed office. This means there are four options, only one of which can apply to a single office:
- Category:Constitutionally mandated state executive offices, elected
- Category:Constitutionally mandated state executive offices, appointed
- Category:Statutorily mandated state executive offices, elected
- Category:Statutorily mandated state executive offices, appointed
- Yet further sub-categories may be called for under one of two circumstances. If the office is statutory, it needs a category to indicate whether the law creating the office originated in the legislature or through a citizen initiative. For this, Ballotpedia uses:
- Category:Statutorily mandated state executive offices, legislativally originated
- Category:Statutorily mandated state executive offices, citizen originated
- The other instance in which a further sub-category should be added to an article on the office of a lieutenant governor is when that office is Constitutional but was not part of the state's original Constitution. In that cases, the article also takes the category:
- Category:Constitutionally mandated state executive offices, Constitutional Amendment
Articles on the current officers
At any given time, there will be 50 current governors and 43 current lieutenant governors. This is the structure for categorizing those articles.
- First, each of these articles will have one of the following:
- Category:Current Governor
- Category:Current Lieutenant Governor
- Each article is also categorized by the incumbent's party:
- Category:Current Democratic Governor
- Category:Current Republican Governor
- Category:Current Independent Governor
- Category:Current Democratic Lieutenant Governor
- Category:Current Republican Lieutenant Governor
- Category:Current Independent Lieutenant Governor
- Next, each article will have a singular category connected to the state. Examples of these categories are:
- Category:Current Minnesota Governor
- Category:Current Minnesota Lieutenant Governor
For example, Mark Dayton will have these three categories:
- Category:Current Governor
- Category:Current Democratic Governor
- Category:Current Minnesota Governor
Kay Ivey will have these three categories:
- Category:Current Lieutenant Governor
- Category:Current Republican Lieutenant Governor
- Category:Current Lieutenant Governor of Alabama
Lastly, anyone who has served as a governor or a lieutenant governor will always be one of the categories:
- Category:STATE Governors
- Category:STATE Lieutenant Governors
Articles on former officers
The structure for former officeholders is essentially the same as that for categorizing current officeholders.
- First, each of these articles will have one of the following:
- Category:Former Governor
- Category:Former Lieutenant Governor
- Each article is also categorized by the incumbent's party:
- Category:Former Democratic Governor
- Category:Former Republican Governor
- Category:Former Independent Governor
- Category:Former Democratic Lieutenant Governor
- Category:Former Republican Lieutenant Governor
- Category:Former Independent Lieutenant Governor
- Next, each article will have a singular category connected to the state. Examples of these categories are:
- Category:Former Minnesota Governor
- Category:Former Minnesota Lieutenant Governor
For example, Jodi Rell will have these three categories:
- Category:Former Governor
- Category:Former Republican Governor
- Category:Former Governor of Connecticut
Patty Judge will have these three categories:
- Category:Former Lieutenant Governor
- Category:Former Democratic Lieutenant Governor
- Category:Former Iowa Lieutenant Governor
Lastly, anyone who has served as a governor or a lieutenant governor will always be one of the categories:
- Category:STATE Governors
- Category:STATE Lieutenant Governors
Articles on candidates
Articles on active candidates should be categorized to indicate the election cycle and the state the candidate is running in, the party the candidate belongs to, and the office the candidate is seeking.
As the election season progresses, articles will also take on new subcategories to indicate how their candidacy fared.
- First, all candidates for either a gubernatorial or a lieutenant gubernatorial office belong in two categories, each of which will also have a subcategory for the year:
- Category:Gubernatorial elections
- Category:Gubernatorial elections, YEAR
- Category:Gubernatorial elections
- Category:Statewide constitutional office elections
- Category:Statewide constitutional office elections, YEAR
- Category:Statewide constitutional office elections
The first category is itself contained under the Offices of the American Governors category, while the second is under the Statewide Constitutional Offices category, meaning there is some overlap here.
- Next, each candidate's page is placed in the applicable state category, which takes the form:
- Category:STATE Gubernatorial Elections, YEAR
- Category:STATE Lieutenant Gubernatorial Elections, YEAR
- Candidates are also categorized by the party they are running with:
- Category:Gubernatorial candidate, Democratic Party, YEAR
- Category:Gubernatorial candidate, Republican Party, YEAR
- Category:Gubernatorial candidate, Third Party, YEAR
- Category:Gubernatorial candidate, Independent, YEAR
- Category:Gubernatorial candidate, write-in, YEAR
- Category:Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate, Democratic Party, YEAR
- Category:Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate, Republican Party, YEAR
- Category:Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate, Third Party, YEAR
- Category:Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate, Independent, YEAR
- Category:Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate, write-in, YEAR
Within all of these categories, there are two tiers of further sub-categorization. First, every candidate will be eventually moved into a category marking whether they won or lost their race. These take the form of:
- Category:Gubernatorial candidate, PARTY, YEAR (successful)
- Category:Gubernatorial candidate, PARTY, YEAR (unsuccessful)
- Category:Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate, PARTY, YEAR (successful)
- Category:Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate, PARTY, YEAR (unsuccessful)
Successful candidates become incumbents and take on the proper categories for the office they won. Losing candidates have a final stage of sub-categorization indicating how they lost their race. These categories take the form of:
- Category:Gubernatorial candidate, PARTY, YEAR (not on ballot)
- Category:Gubernatorial candidate, PARTY, YEAR (lost in primary)
- Category:Gubernatorial candidate, PARTY, YEAR (lost in general)
- Category:Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate, PARTY, YEAR (not on ballot)
- Category:Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate, PARTY, YEAR (lost in primary)
- Category:Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate, PARTY, YEAR (lost in general)
The (not on ballot) category refers to all candidates who failed to make it as far as the certified primary ballot. This includes candidates who withdrew, failed to submit enough valid signatures, or were unable to meet the requirements to run.
Articles on elections
Feature articles
- Category:Features of gubernatorial offices
News articles
- Category:Gubernatorial news, YEAR
Gubernatorial images
- Category:Gubernatorial images
- Category:Images of gubernatorial incumbents
- Category:Images of former governors and lieutenant governors
- Category:Images of current gubernatorial candidates
- Category:Images of unsuccessful gubernatorial candidates
- Category:Images of gubernatorial buildings
- Category:Images of gubernatorial campaign artwork
- Category:Images of gubernatorial election maps
- Category:Miscellaneous gubernatorial images
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