Talk:Wisconsin State Legislature

Wikidata list

Wisconsin state legislative terms from 1848 through 2021 are in Wikidata. -- M2545 (talk) 18:16, 9 January 2021 (UTC)

Legislator images

@Asdasdasdff This might be a completely random question, but do you know whether images from https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/legislators/assembly and https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/legislators/senate are usable on wikipedia in some form, or if using them complies with copyright and other things? I notice that many, many, many legislators do not have images on wikipedia, and the ones that do often have low quality images of them while they are on campaigns, and some also have very old pictures (Robin Vos' wikimedia pictures are all from 2011 for example). Talthiel (talk) 02:16, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, this was something I tried doing many many years ago, but got stopped dead and was told at that time that those images didn't meet the fair use standard or whatever. I do think there's been some liberalization of the rules on that in the years since I last attempted it, but I don't really know. Is there like a copyright wikiproject that can answer this? -- Asdasdasdff (talk) 05:04, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Edits to infobox on 17 December 2024 by User:Therequiembellishere

What follows below is adapted from Talk:State legislature (United States). I am merely raising this issue on this talk page and not fixing it at this time. This article is not a priority for me. Therefore, I am not going to waste my time cleaning up User:Therequiembellishere's mistakes.

User:Therequiembellishere made a massive number of edits to state legislature infoboxes on 17 December 2024: namely, changing "president of the Senate" to "Senate president" and "speaker of the Assembly" to "Assembly speaker".

A native American English speaker actually familiar with domestic press coverage of state legislatures or who studied political science at the postsecondary level would not make such edits. (I was not a poli sci major, but because I was thinking about pursuing a legal career at the time, I did take introductory courses in political science and political philosophy with a lecturer who earned his doctorate in political science from Stanford University.) It is true that "Assembly speaker" is becoming a bit more common (though still rather informal), but Senate president is definitely not in common use. Overall, the longer phrasings of both terms are still the more common usages, especially in formal written English.

Here is what I already posted to that user's talk page:

"Unfortunately, it looks like your massive number of edits on 17 December 2024 are going to require a mass revert. The fact that all those infoboxes are using (and have always used) the longer titles should have been a clue that your proposed shorter titles are not the prevailing forms in formal written English. Google Ngram Viewer shows that "president of the Senate" is more common than "Senate president" and "speaker of the Assembly" is more common than "Assembly speaker"."

I have already reverted the relevant edits to the infoboxes for the legislatures in California, Nevada, New York, and Pennsylvania. However, as a working attorney, I have better things to do with my time than fix such poorly thought-out edits. But I am raising the issue here and now so that anyone else interested in state legislatures can either manually fix those edits or take them to the administrators' noticeboard for a mass revert. --Coolcaesar (talk) 01:07, 31 March 2025 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: State and Local Politics

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 January 2026 and 15 May 2026. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Business44 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: DLewis1711.

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