Talk:Voting
From Rofflehaus
[edit] Organizing civic stuff
We should probably do some stuff on voting, which means adding some content on particular elections (like the one coming up), which means adding some content on the government bodies we're voting on. Here is how I suggest we organize our efforts:
- Voting -- first, there's the how-to article talking about how to vote in general (registering, finding your polling place, how to vote early). After that, there's
- Election (or Category:Elections)-- an article on upcoming elections in Ames and surrounding cities. Rather than have a separate page for each election (November 2005 election, September 2005 election (Nevada)) and that sort of thing, we just keep the current election on the election page, and archive old elections to sub-articles (like Election/September 2005 general election or something). This page would contain a list of links of candidates by office and district, external links to polling places and internal links to the seats up for election, which would be held under...
- Government -- information on city government and how it is set up, which links to other articles like...
- ...for particular positions or legislative bodies that hold several seats. These lower pages would be about the office and not the person--contact information, responsibilities, meeting times, and what have you. These pages would not contain information about elections for that seat nor lengthy information about the people holding the office. This way, instead of having to apply updates to four or five pages every time someone resigns from office or drops out of an election, we can limit changes to two pages--a name change on this person's smallest government unit/particular election, and an information change on his/her personal page.
Two final notes: first, as per that style note on Ames naming conventions, only Ames/Story County government would go under government; if there's interest in elections in other places, that would go under its own page (i.e. Nevada government, or Huxley City Council). And second, I dunno if this conversation "should" be someplace else so please move it if I'm in the wrong place. But please comment, even if it is just a simple "sounds good" or "chunderhead!". Thanks. --Fred 01:35, 19 Sep 2005 (CDT)
I guess I don't see the problem in making each election have it's own page. Subpages aren't magical or anything (they're still an independent article).... Cburnett 09:23, 23 Sep 2005 (CDT)
- Hey, yeah? I was just worried about cluttering the big index with pages that are, essentially, dead. You're probably right, though--seems like Wikipedia doesn't mind either. --Fred 02:09, 27 Sep 2005 (CDT)
