Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Category:Current Members of Congress

Many thanks to BD2412 for emptying the category.--Cato 09:29, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Category:Current Members of Congress
This category strikes me as the wrong direction for this project. First, it imposes the burden of keeping track of who is "current", and has no countering category for former members of Congress; second, it does not specify the U.S. Congress (so at least needs to be renamed). I propose that we have a category for members of the U.S. Senate and another for members of the U.S. House of Representatives, both timelessly without reference to current status. — BD2412 T 06:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 07:00, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete - Though I think separating the members of the US Congress by something more than their name might be in order since that's quite a large list that would be ever expanding. I'm not sure what would be better, however. -- Greyed 09:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete and replace, per BD2412's suggestion, with two other categories (U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives). We should also purge Category:Legislators of all U.S. members of Congress and place them in the new categories. Should we also, then, have categories for State Representatives and Senators (United States), as opposed to members of   Congress?  We could find their names, presumably, by looking among those listed in Category:Political leaders.  - InvisibleSun 10:45, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't go so far. What, then, about mayors, executive department heads, and so forth? I feel that U.S. Senators and Representatives are in a fairly distinct pair of categories; everyone else (in the U.S.) is just a politician. We should separate out politicians by nationality, and as Poetlister suggests below, categorize members of the national legislature of distinct types, but that is as far as I would go. BD2412 T 19:23, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete This is a bit US-centric. We have categories for politicians and Americans.  I can see that American politicians might make sense, just as we have American poets, but hesitate to go beyond that.--Yehudi 12:33, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete in the current form. While Yehudi makes a good point that we need to be careful not to get to specific, I can support the suggestions for renaming to make a category for U.S. Members of Congress (either together or separate) since I think it is reader friendly. I think that readers are more likely to want notable quotes from these people than the average American politician. FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 13:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per FloNight; I don't know what the best substitute is.--Cato 21:54, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment In Britain, we might well want to distinguish between elected members of the House of Commons and hereditary or appointed members of the House of Lords. That is presumably less important in the US, but I see the need to distinguish national and local politicians.-- Poetlister  16:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete and replace, per nom and InvisibleSun. ~ UDScott 18:44, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. While we're at it, can we delete the actual congress too? --Ubiquity
 * But seriously, I agree with Yehudi that Category:Politicians ought to be enough. --Ubiquity 05:45, 8 February 2008 (UTC)