Talk:Comprehensive Child Development Act

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seems like the name of this article should be changed from 'of 1972' to 'of 1971'Shuageo (talk) 01:52, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 21 September 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 21:45, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

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Comprehensive Child Development Bill → Comprehensive Child Development Act – New page title already exists as a redirect (to the current page title). Reliable refs (e.g. 1 2 3 4) almost always refer to this as the CCD "Act", not "Bill". Jaydavidmartin (talk) 01:02, 21 September 2021 (UTC)— Relisting. Havelock Jones (talk) 12:40, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:00, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

• @Jaydavidmartin and Lord Bolingbroke: queried move request Anthony Appleyard (talk) 09:02, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
• @Jaydavidmartin: Perhaps I need a civics refresher, but isn't bill the proper term in this case if it was vetoed and never became a law? – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 03:15, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
• @Lord Bolingbroke: While it is true that the term "act" generally refers to a passed bill, the names of bills are almost always "X Act" and not "X Bill". For instance, the For the People Act has not been passed, so it is a bill and not an act. But because the name of the bill is the "For the People Act" the title of the page for it is "For the People Act". Similarly, in this case the name of the bill is the "Comprehensive Child Development Act", and I assumed it was general practice to refer to bills by their names. If this is controversial, however, then perhaps there should be further discussion on it. Jaydavidmartin (talk) 03:40, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
• Support. I get seven times as many ghits for Comprehensive Child Development Act as for Comprehensive Child Development Bill and that is not even checking to see which are more recent, one would expect the ones for Act to be more recent so WP:NAMECHANGES becomes relevant. In the absence of any evidence that Bill is still more common, which seems most unlikely anyway as it has now officially been an Act ever since 1971 and was only a Bill for a short time, it seems a no-brainer to me. Andrewa (talk) 07:33, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

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