Talk:Kansas Legislature

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There is something that I do not understand about this page. The first paragraph is about the Kansas legislature. The eighth paragraph is about the Kansas Legislature. Paragraphs two through seven are about the history of the state. Isn't the page title "Kansas Legislature"? The page certainly says very little about the supposed subject of the page. Any reason not to move that other info to, for example, the page on Kansas history?

RayKiddy (talk) 06:36, 28 June 2011 (UTC) The composition of the Senate and House are reversed Pauljeffersonks (talk) 21:13, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Changed the State House election to 2020 date

I changed the election date Kansas House of Representativesto its 2020 date instead of the 2018 date. I had to check a website because I was not sure of the date, so you if you want a look than here it is! https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_United_States_Representatives_from_Kansas Bubba2018 (talk) 20:29, 1 December 2018 (UTC)Bubba2018

Error in the State Senate infobox

The Kansas State Senate has 40 members, but the infobox annotates there being 42. One of those is an independent who briefly left the party but now rejoined. The other appears to be a vacancy created when a Republican left office irregularly, but it appears that vacancy has since been filled, as the legislature's website puts down info for 40 state senators. It appears as if the infobox never subtracted those totals from the Republican party, but that's fine now because they're Republicans again. I do not know how to edit the graphic accompanying the infobox, and it looks as if their was no reporting on those two seats actually turning Republican again, so... welp. I doubt anybody is gonna look at it between now and the new legislature, but if they do, it'll be ever so slightly wrong. 1brianm7 (talk) 05:06, 27 September 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)