Category:Congresspedia pages with an incomplete or blank "politician" template

These Congresspedia profiles of members of Congress need to have their "politician" templates filled-in. The pages must be filled-in before they can be imported into OpenCongress.org. Doing so will bring a raft of new functionality to the articles.

How-to fill in the politician templates
The basic idea here is that there is a big "politician" template at the bottom of every member of Congress page that needs to be filled in with the information from the current Congresspedia article, the Cause Caller profile and the Wikipedia profile. It takes a few minutes to do the first one, but they all follow the same pattern and go quickly after that.

Step-by-step instructions


 * 1) Make sure you're logged-in so you can edit. (register here if you haven't already. All that's needed is a working email address.)
 * 2) Select a member of Congress profile from the list below on this page.
 * 3) Scroll all the way to the bottom of the article. It will generally look something like this: [[Image:Rendered blank politician template.png|thumb|700px|left]]
 * 4) Open in new windows the links for the corresponding Wikipedia and Cause Caller pages - you'll need these later.
 * 5) Click on the last "[edit]" you see on the right-hand side (generally next to "local blogs and discussion sites"). You should see something like this, with four labeled sections that correspond with the different sources to grab the info from: Wikipedia, Cause Caller, "NEW" information and Congresspedia: [[Image:Wikitext blank politician template.png|thumb|700px|left]]
 * 6) Wikipedia and Cause Caller: There are  Start with Wikipedia and Cause Caller: click on the "view source" tab on the top of the pages you opened up there earlier (or, if that is not available, click the tab labeled "edit this page" or "edit") to see the raw data. Then copy the information over to the matching blank field in Congresspedia (only two don't match exactly: Cause Caller's "Committee Membership" matches to the "110th Committee Membership" field and Cause Caller's "Leadership" corresponds with the "110th Leadership" field). Note that not all fields will be present or filled-in: not every member has an "other party" (like in New York) or has 10 district offices.  For example, here's the entry for Sen. Richard Shelby in Wikipedia and Cause Caller: [[Image:Cause Caller politician template.png|thumb|700px|left]] [[Image:Wikipedia officeholder template.png|thumb|700px|left]] And here's how our page looks with the fields filled-in: [[Image:Congresspedia Wikipedia and Cause Caller Wikitext Shelby.png|thumb|700px|left]] Go ahead and save your work with the "save page" button.
 * 7) The "NEW" section: There is only ONE field you need to fill in here: the "Current Office" should be filled-in with either "U.S. Senate" or "U.S. House of Representatives". Here's an example of a filled-in senator: [[Image:Congresspedia New Section Wiki Text Shelby.png|left|700px|thumb]]. Save your work!
 * 8) The "Congresspedia" section: There are basically two types of information: caucuses and contact info for the district and campaign offices.  You probably want to open up a new window with the existing Congresspedia article to get this info. The caucus information is generally under "coalitions and caucuses" in the "Committees and affiliations" section near the bottom. Note: A lot of senators don't have caucus information (if so, just leave it blank). When you copy this information over, you need to convert it from a bulleted list to a comma-separated list. For example, turn this: [[Image:Congresspedia existing caucuses.png|700px|left|thumb]] which looks like this underneath: [[Image:CP Wikitext Caucuses (Shelby).png|700px|thumb|left]] into this: [[Image:New Caucus Wikitext (Shelby).png|left|thumb|700px]] Now, for the contact information, look to the "Contact" section on the existing Congresspedia page, which looks like this: [[Image:Existing Contact Rendered (Shelby).png|left|thumb|700px]] Ignore the "DC Office" or "Main Office" (we get that info from elsewhere). Just fill in the district offices and any campaign contact information if they have that. There will be some "   " that need to be taken out. Here's how it should look in the new format: [[Image:CP Wikitext New Contact (Shelby).png|left|thumb|700px]]

That's it! Depending on what info you could put in, once you're done your page should have a chart like this at the bottom:

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