You wrote about (elsewhere) about your dream of creating election pages after the election You're anticipating part of my proposed wikiproject (House - 2008).  I'm was thinking that the parts would be something like this:

0 - Create a draft of the project; recruit some editors to do phase 1.

1 - Move REALLY FAST to create campaign articles (template/shell/skeleton/whatever) for all competitive races where an incumbent won or there was an open race.  Copy the info from articles on challengers into the campaign articles.  Then slap redirects on the articles on challengers (if of questionable notability) so that there is no need for AfDs for these.  (Such AfDs are bad precedent, in general a waste of time regardless of outcome, and successful AfDs could kill off source info.)

2A - Refine the phases of the project and what needs to be done - for example, what a really good campaign article might contain (polls, snapshots of campaign funding at various points, results, newspaper endorsements, a good selection of links to local newspaper stories, etc.)

2B - Create campaign articles for all competitive races where a challenger defeated the incumbent. 

2C - Finish the 50-100 campaign articles for 2006 House races.  That might include a rating/evaluation of the quality of each article.

2D - (Optional) - do the same for the 30+ Senate races. (I just looked at the Florida Senate campaign article the other day - except for the polling info, it's devoid of any significant content except primary results.)

3 - Improve the quality of wikipedia bio articles for incumbents in competitive races (defeated or not), winning challengers, and notable but not-winning challengers: good citations, good copyediting, etc., as baseline for 2008.

4A - (Starting mid-2007?) Build a 2008 comprehensive master page, and set up campaign articles for every race expected to be competitive/notable (that is, every race listed on the master page).  Evaluate feasibility of doing transclusions from individual campaign articles rather than updating the master page directly.  (There are both human and technical issues here, I believe).

4B - Recruit editors to take responsibility for maintaining each (individual) campaign article.  Ideally we can find 3 or 4 editors who are (a) local and (b) can work together well, for each campaign (race) expected to be notable in 2008.

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