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Historical inaccuracies

This article does not give a good description of the historical development of the General Assembly from 1777 to present. Some references have bad links so the information cannot all be verified. Content should distinguish between the present and previous versions of the assembly. For instance, when they started meeting, they met in the Spring and then changed to the Fall because it conflicted to planting times. Then, they changed it to the Winter. When they started out, they elected the governor, his council and other governors office officials. I will add some more verifiable references, so this article can be expanded and corrected.

User:G._Moore talk 03:35, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Potential sources

Senate rules committee almost never meets yet chairman can control workflow? Bonner, Lynn (December 6, 2016). "NC Sen. Bill Rabon appointed Rules Committee chairman". The News & Observer. Retrieved November 19, 2023.

-Indy beetle (talk) 21:48, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Current Inaccuracy

the article states that both chambers have a veto-proof majority, this is not true anymore as of the 2024 election. 71/120 is not 60% it is 59%. the house is not veto-proof anymore. 72/120 is 3/5ths majority. 2600:1700:B00:8610:F0B4:8A1D:49A5:5DEF (talk) 17:45, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edits to infobox on 17 December 2024 by User:Therequiembellishere

What follows below is adapted from Talk:State legislature (United States). I am merely raising this issue on this talk page and not fixing it at this time. This article is not a priority for me. Therefore, I am not going to waste my time cleaning up User:Therequiembellishere's mistakes.

User:Therequiembellishere made a massive number of edits to state legislature infoboxes on 17 December 2024: namely, changing "president of the Senate" to "Senate president" and "speaker of the Assembly" to "Assembly speaker".

A native American English speaker actually familiar with domestic press coverage of state legislatures or who studied political science at the postsecondary level would not make such edits. (I was not a poli sci major, but because I was thinking about pursuing a legal career at the time, I did take introductory courses in political science and political philosophy with a lecturer who earned his doctorate in political science from Stanford University.) It is true that "Assembly speaker" is becoming a bit more common (though still rather informal), but Senate president is definitely not in common use. Overall, the longer phrasings of both terms are still the more common usages, especially in formal written English.

Here is what I already posted to that user's talk page:

"Unfortunately, it looks like your massive number of edits on 17 December 2024 are going to require a mass revert. The fact that all those infoboxes are using (and have always used) the longer titles should have been a clue that your proposed shorter titles are not the prevailing forms in formal written English. Google Ngram Viewer shows that "president of the Senate" is more common than "Senate president" and "speaker of the Assembly" is more common than "Assembly speaker"."

I have already reverted the relevant edits to the infoboxes for the legislatures in California, Nevada, New York, and Pennsylvania. However, as a working attorney, I have better things to do with my time than fix such poorly thought-out edits. But I am raising the issue here and now so that anyone else interested in state legislatures can either manually fix those edits or take them to the administrators' noticeboard for a mass revert. --Coolcaesar (talk) 01:07, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]