Talk:Philippine Organic Act (1902)

Elections held

When were elections held under this act? This article talks of the prerequisites for elections but not when they were met or the result of the elections. Unfortunately, I am not in a position to reliably supply such information. --Bruce Hall (talk) 14:32, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Without checking details, I don't think elections were held under this act. See the lead section of the Taft Commission article for some info. More info is available elsewhere (e.g., History of the Philippines (1898–1946) and articles/sources linked from there). Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 01:32, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

The first elections were held in 1907 after which the Philippine Assembly was set up. "The much awaited first national election for the Philippine Assembly was realized on July 30 1907, the candidates were all clamoring for a total of 80 seats, as set by the Philippine Commission." at [1] --Bruce Hall (talk) 05:48, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

÷==Rename to "Philippine Organic Act" dropping the (1902)== As far as I can tell, there has been only one "Philippine Organic Act" and so the "(1902)" modifier is unnecessary. I propose moving the article to "Philippine Organic Act" and redirecting "Philippine Organic Act (1902)". Any comments?--Bruce Hall (talk) 05:48, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

See Jones Law (Philippines). Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:07, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

One of the titles of the Jones Act is "the Philippine Autonomy Act". Is there any other bill that is called "the Philippines Organic Act"? I cannot find one and given that think that we should drop (1902) as unnecessary. --Bruce Hall (talk) 23:11, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Re whether or not Jones Law is an organic act, I went by info in the Jones Law (Philippines) article ("The Jones Law ..., was an organic act ..."), at [2] ("The Philippine Organic Law (Act of Congress of August 29, 1916), commonly known as the 'Jones Law' or Philippine Autonomy Act of 1916 ...") and elsewhere. The text of the act [3] doesn't contain the word "organic", but see e.g., [4]. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 01:13, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

I don't see a need to keep the (1902) modifier and would be happy to see article moved to simply "Philippine Organic Act". --Iloilo Wanderer (talk) 01:21, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

This is not an objection to the move, but I've just remembered that the reason the "(1902)" was included in the article name in the first place was that this act is (has been? probably still is.) commonly known in the Philippines as "The Philippine Bill of 1902". see [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12], etc. Also see the google results at Google "Philippine bill of 1902" (~60,500 hits), Google "Philippine Organic Act" (~30,500 hits), along with WP:COMMONNAME ("Wikipedia prefers the name that is most commonly used (as determined by its prevalence in reliable English-language sources)") and the article move consensus discussion rationales at Talk:Mutya ng Pilipinas#Requested move (Result: don't move) and Talk:Heroes' Cemetery#rename (rename from Libingan ng mga Bayani to Cemetery of the Heroes) (Result: name it Libingan ng mga Bayani, but the article was later renamed to its current name of Heroes' Cemetery). Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:07, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Organic act 1902

American English 2404:3C00:484F:E00:65B8:B0DB:E5BC:F64A (talk) 12:07, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

See Wikipedia talk:Tambayan Philippines § Philippine English. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 01:44, 15 November 2022 (UTC)