Over the past few months, several Wikipedians have begun creating subcategories for local (i.e. city or county level) politicians by state. In the process of adding them to Category:Local political office-holders in the United States yesterday, however, I noticed that while the vast majority of them have been created in the format "(State) local politicians", the category for Maryland was named Category:Local officeholders in Maryland instead. Consequently, I'd like to suggest that a naming convention should be discussed for these so that they're consistent from one state to another: should they be named in the format "(State) local politicians", "Local officeholders in (State)", or something else altogether? For clarity's sake, I created a number of the categories in the format "(State) local politicians", but I used it only because several categories had already been created in that naming format by other users before I started — and though it's obviously not my decision to make unilaterally, I personally somewhat prefer "Local officeholders in (State)". Bearcat (talk) 15:44, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
