Talk:State attorney general

Why Puerto Rico?

This article is purported to be about the 50 attorneys general in the 50 states. However, Puerto Rico is included both in the party breakdown and in the table. Shouldn't Puerto Rico be excluded and, if not, shouldn't the other four U.S. territories and commonwealths be added in? They all have attorneys general too... A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 20:05, 19 June 2009 (UTC) --KEEP If you look at the national AG associations they include all of the territorial AGs. I think all the territories and DC should stay.SDEditor101 (talk) 20:51, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Map seems to be wrong

On the table and on his page Alabama's Attorney General is listed as a Republican, yet the map shows Alabama as having a Democratic incumbent and is shaded blue. Mississippi's Jim Hood is a Democratic yet the state is listed as having a Republican incumbent and is shaded red. I don't know how to edit maps, but this appears to be a fairly large error and needs to be corrected.--Joseph Godwin (talk) 20:53, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

I updated words throughout, but KY turned Red today and Mississippi will in JAN. Does anyone know how to change the map?SDEditor101 (talk) 00:11, 18 December 2019 (UTC)

Pennsylvania's Attorney General Michelle Henry appears to be a Democrat, as indicated by her personal Wikipedia page. Can someone update the map or clarify, as she was a former Republican but her personal page says she doesn't want to run for re-election and will act apolitically.

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 22:32, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

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State Attorney General → State attorney general — "State attorney general" is not a proper name, so it should not be capitalized. While you do capitalize the formal name of a particular office, e.g., "Attorney General of Alabama", and the title when used before a name, such as "Attorney General Cuomo", you don't capitalize the title when used generically. For example, see User:A Stop at Willoughby's comment above at #Why Puerto Rico?. Rrius (talk) 00:17, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

The problem is that the article is about a "state Attorney General", and the "S" is capitalized simply because the first word in every Wikipedia article is capitalized. Perhaps the better choice would be to move it to "Attorney General (U.S. state)", which would make it perfectly clear. "Attorney General" singularly isn;t usually generic. The proper generic would be "attorneys general". Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:45, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Well, I'm afraid that's wrong. It would be "Attorney general (U.S. state)" because number is irrelevant to whether it is meant generically. If you are discussing the responsibilities of the Attorney General of Michigan, MOS (and most style guides) would advise lowercase in the following: "The attorney general is responsible for delivering legal opinions to other government officials." Thus, whether it is "State attorney general" or "State attorneys general", lowercase is appropriate. As for whether to choosing between them, WP:Naming conventions (plurals) states, "In general only create page titles that are in the singular, unless that term is always in a plural form in English (such as scissors) or is among the exceptions such as those listed below." This article does not fall under one of the exceptions. -Rrius (talk) 02:01, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

• Support per nominator as not a proper noun. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 14:43, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Wyoming

There is a discrepancy on the party affiliation of the Wyoming Attorney General. The in-article list lists a republican, but the map shows a democrat. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.28.30 (talk) 20:16, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Map needs updating

Alaska attorney general is a Republican now Abote2 (talk) 12:18, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Legal basis

This page ought to say in which states the office of attorney general is created by the constitution of the state, and in which states it is created by ordinary legislation. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:53, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Term Limits

I added a whole bunch of information about term limits to the end of the chart, for each state, enhancing what is already there for specific AGs, but it does not tell what the rules are for the state and the same guy is getting rid of it and making all sorts of allegations he had with someone else. I also added a clarification of the term limits in the selection section. They cannot be selected if they are term limited. I also added information about Puerto Rico's secretary of Justice and Hawaii, appointed by Governor I fixed as many were just listed as appointed.SDEditor101 (talk) 20:49, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Term limits are fair to include. The last Democratic and last Republican columns are perhaps a bit unnecessary but I think it's valid to mention the longest streaks though as normal prose above the list rather than a separate section.