Category talk:Legislators by term

Rationales for and against categories by term

See precedents at CFD:

• For keeping British, Irish and other European categories by term: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 March 29#Parliamentarians by term
• Against keeping Canadian categories by term: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 February 18#Category:Members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan by term
• Against keeping Alaskan category by term: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 March 12#Category:Members of the 32nd Alaska State Legislature

– Fayenatic London 12:41, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

• At Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 July 19#Members of the Australian House of Representatives by term, Place Clichy summarised these precedents as kept for countries, deleted for provinces/states. – Fayenatic London 11:04, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Nevertheless there is a full-developed hierarchy at Category:State legislators of Indian States by term. – Fayenatic London 22:34, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Naming format for current term

In category series that use date ranges (e.g. "Fooian senators 2014–2019" as opposed to e.g. "Members of the 12th Fooian Senate"), the category for the current term should either be terminated with the expected end date "Fooian senators 2014–2019", or with "–present" e.g. "Fooian senators 2019–2024". (N.B. UK MPs.)

The format with a hanging dash "Fooian senators 2019–", formerly used in some cases, is not compliant with MOS:TOPRESENT. – Fayenatic London 09:07, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

There was no consensus to use "present" rather than a future year at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_May_28#Categories_for_presently_serving_Indian_state_legislators. – Fayenatic London 07:46, 14 June 2023 (UTC)