@Asdasdasdff should Rep. Ortiz-Velez be split off from the rest of the caucus on this page, since she has since left the Assembly Democratic Caucus, or should she still be kept as part of it on this page? Talthiel (talk) 13:52, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[]

I'm on the fence. Because she still insists that she will remain a Democrat (not an independent), and she's actually endorsing within the Democratic gubernatorial primary. So if we change it at all, I'd say "Independent Democrat", but I'm not sure if a change is appropriate here since there's been no actual party change. We didn't change anything when Janel Brandtjen was expelled from the GOP Assembly caucus in 2022 or whenever that was. -- Asdasdasdff (talk) 14:11, 2 November 2025 (UTC)[]

@Malvoliox: Hey, wanted to start a discussion on this edit. I guess I don't feel strongly about the government shutdowns, though those do tend to have significant national affects. For presidential inaugurations though, those are kind of significant for setting the timing of events happening in the U.S., and we've included every earlier presidential inauguration in all the earlier Wisconsin legislatures. -- Asdasdasdff (talk) 20:17, 10 April 2026 (UTC)[]

I'm coming here without history on the Wisconsin pages, but I've been around other state legislative pages covered under WP:USSL (and listed at List of U.S. state legislatures). It's just a little unclear to me how other events not directly about the legislature are within the scope of the article about a legislative session. If there are clear legislative responses to specific events, that fits better. I'm honestly unsure how other Wisconsin events (e.g. judicial elections, extreme weather) fit on this page without a clear link to action by the state legislature to address them, not to mention the other national events still present. I just initially removed the items that don't currently mention Wisconsin as they are the most obvious.

Basically, having a significant national impact-or even a significance in Wisconsin- doesn't mean it's within the scope of the page about this legislative session in Wisconsin. There are pages like 2025 in the United States for readers who need to know what happened with national significance, or 2025 in Wisconsin for Wisconsin events that aren't particular to the legislature. I feel that in the case it becomes a major legislative priority, a national event can be discussed in context of its legislative role.

Not many of the pages on state legislatures contain more than a list of members, but when they do have a discussion of events (e.g. California's, Arkansas's, or Colorado's current session), those events are events within and centering the state's legislature. Inclusion is typically things like actual session dates, special elections to the legislature, & controversy over dates for legislative elections. In 94th Minnesota Legislature, we've done a lot more text-based expansion, but then it's about the events within the legislature and directly concerning legislators. There isn't an established style guide or anything. but it's kind of how the scope of pages generally works within this general field--a page called "nth x legislature" is there for when people need info about that legislature. Even 119th United States Congress lists events via their relationship to the legislature: Trump's inauguration is listed with the note that 'Republicans gain a trifecta,' showing a direct tie to the operations of Congress. ~Malvoliox (talk | contribs) 20:59, 10 April 2026 (UTC)[]

Yeah, that is a good point. I made most of the Wisconsin Legislature pages, and mostly just tried to mimic the content from the pages for historical congressional terms. Congressional term pages do often contain significant world historical events in their "major events" even when they aren't directly related to congressional actions, but there is potentially a different standard for national vs sub-national legislature I suppose. -- Asdasdasdff (talk) 21:54, 10 April 2026 (UTC)[]