Talk:EMILYs List

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POV

POV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.58.83.44 (talk) 05:22, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Last paragraph

I'm disinclined to change elements of an article that I know nothing about, but the last paragraph of the article as written made very little sense to me. Aaron 00:26, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've talked to an EMILY's list employee and she has clealy specified that EMILY's List is a national organization. The Australian EMILY's List is a seperate organization and thus should be moved to a seperate article. I may do this if I get a chance, unless someone beats me to it. --Vince 20:01, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Temporarily removed this line "As of 2006, it was the largest political action committee in the United States (slightly edging out the National Rifle Association)." I have no problem with it, and normally would have left it alone but in my view that's an especially bold claim that has to have a citation with it before it should be posted.--GenkiDama 18:11, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

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Nationalistic

This article does not cover things from an international perspective. -- John (Daytona2 · Talk · Contribs) 08:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

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If the claims made in this Republican blog post are true this PAC does not seem to be exclusively focused on female candidates. --98.229.138.91 (talk) 17:17, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Limited to Democrats at one point?

Wasn't EMILY's List originally non-partisan, but at some point after the "Republican Revolution" of 1994, limited its support to Democrats because, as somebody in the organization put it, giving money to a Republican candidate was considered giving money to pro-life Newt Gingrich? —Preceding unsigned comment added by That Don Guy (talk • contribs) 16:13, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

I can't imagine anyone thinking EMILY's List was ever bipartisan. In fact, just doing a bit of research, it doesn't even seem they have really ever supported an independent candidate, even if they had the overall same ideals as the list's mission statement. And really, if their only intention was to support strong female progressive candidates who are pro-choice, they should support independent candidates. Good or bad, I think it is safe to say that EMILY's list is decidedly a Democrat organization.

But obviously, if you can find documentation that someone speaking FOR the organization made such a statement, it would be worth adding to the history of the group. CleverTitania (talk) 18:20, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

References in popular media

Press Secretary C. J. Cregg in The West Wing made reference to EMILY's List: "Early Money Is Like Yeast -- it raises the dough". Next time I see that episode, I'll come back here and complete the entry and citation if someone doesn't beat me to it.esrob (talk) 19:11, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

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Seeking feedback re: endorsement guideline

This comment serves as notice of a discussion that editors of this article may be interested in: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elections and Referendums#Interpretation of endorsement guideline re: EMILY's List/Laphonza Butler? 67.170.42.135 (talk) 01:16, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Time to move

Looking at archive's of their website's front page, it looks like the group ahd switched completely to the no-apostrophe version of their name by May, 2023, so it has been years now. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 14:45, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

Let's do it. Marquardtika (talk) 03:23, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

I'm going to formally propose the move, as a prior move was undone because it was not properly discussed. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 15:59, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Requested move 31 August 2025

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The result of the move request was: moved. mild consensus to follow the self identification (closed by non-admin page mover) Ivey (talk - contribs) 18:11, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

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EMILY's List → EMILYs List – Organization changed its stylization years back. Reliable sources uses both versions. Nat Gertler (talk) 15:59, 31 August 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 15:23, 7 September 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 17:10, 14 September 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. CNC (talk) 18:08, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Doing a newspapers.com search for the current year, both with an without the apostrophe appear. While in sheer count, there are more with than without, looking directly at the articles it seems that that is distorted, as some wire services use the apostrophe and thus the same story appears in a number of papers. Counting such stories only as one, apostrophe still predominates (14 to 8), but if we consider the organization itself as a reliable source of particular weight in this matter. Going by WP:NAMECHANGES, we are asked to judge between whether the name is routinely used after the name change or whether the old name continues to be used, and the answer here is both are true; the new name is not rare, the old name is still used, and I lean to breaking this tie with the self-identification. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 16:19, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

• Weak oppose per NatGertler and MOS:TM. Using an apostrophe is more natural in English. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 18:01, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
• Weak support per nom and NatGertler. I agree we should give some weight to the official name in this case. The overall number of recent sources is small (14 vs. 8 per NG). As for naturalness, I always forget that it's not simply Emily's List, which is most natural. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 23:13, 5 September 2025 (UTC)
• Comment Is the name an acronym? Otherwise WP:ALLCAPS would require it to be at Emilys List (or Emily's List). ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:58, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

  Yes, although it doesn't really make sense as an abbreviation with an 's' tacked on to the end of it. See "Early Money Is like Yeast" in the third sentence. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 14:45, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Abortion, WikiProject Organizations, and WikiProject Gender studies have been notified of this discussion. CNC (talk) 18:07, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

Relisting comment: Notifying WikiProjects for final relisting CNC (talk) 18:08, 21 September 2025 (UTC)

• Support, to my own surprise. I was going to oppose, but after looking at the article I find that EMILY is indeed an acronym, not a reference to a person named Emily. I presume the change in stylization reflects the fact that it doesn't make any sense to think of the first word in "EMILYs List" as a possessive; it makes slightly more sense to think of it as a plural.--Srleffler (talk) 05:13, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

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