Wikidata:WikiProject US senate

Purpose

Simplify implementing and maintaining a consistent structure for items related to the US senate, notably, US senators.

This is a project is related to WikiProject Parliaments.

Basic structure

This page is a work in progress, not an article or policy, and may be incomplete and/or unreliable.
Please offer suggestions on the talk page.

This aims to described the stucture used on Wikidata items as it grew over the years (2013-2018).

Senators

instance of (P31) = human (Q5)
position held (P39) United States senator (Q13217683)
- Qualified with start time (P580) date the senator first took office, e.g. 3 January 1987
- Qualified with end time (P582) date the senator left office, e.g. 25 August 2018

Make a new statement, if the senator was later elected to another, non-consecutive term.

candidacy in election (P3602) add statement for each election the person was a candidate.
US Congress Bio ID (P1157)
US Federal Election Commission ID (P1839) contemporary senators will have one

Legislative terms

instance of (P31) = legislative term (Q15238777)
start time (P580) = start time, e.g. January 3, 1991
end time (P582) = end time, e.g. January 3, 1993

To do

Add senate committee memberships

Sample queries

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