Older URLs for current members about congress-legislators

[konklone]

Yeah - my preference is for url to be a top-level field, not per-term, for this reason. Same for phone - any field where old information would actually be wrong or misleading.

[JoshData]

Why delete data that isn't causing any problems? It could have historical value. Like, if you want to search the Internet Archive later on.

[dwillis]

I can see the use for that, but I wonder if the attribute should have the same name as the "active" url, since it sort of implies that the user can expect a working site.

[JoshData]

It's the same name because when someone gets a new term we just append new info, and the previous record remains valid...

[konklone]

Yeah, there's no great answer here - Josh's point is fair, but changing how we store url for older terms adds complexity to maintaining the data. I guess I'd lean on the side of keeping the status quo, with maybe a tweak to the docs to emphasize that old URLs could be wrong.

[dwillis]

Ok, sounds like a plan.