Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics/Parliaments

Proposal to re-organise categories relating to Australian Parliaments

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In December 2005 there was a brief discussion at WP:AWNB regarding sorting out categories relating to the various Parliaments in Australia. (See Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 15#MHR Category). It was agreed that these categories are currently messy and need to be sorted out.

Since then Ambi, Snottygobble and Adz have discussed the problem at length and formulated a proposal to overhaul and clean up the current categories.

Objectives and changes

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The proposed new structure (see below) would a) provide greater clarity to the meanings of the categories and the articles they contain and b) allow the categories and sub categories to fit into the category structure for international legislative categories of Category:Legislatures Category:National legislatures and Category:Legislatures of subnational entities.

Under the proposal:

  • articles containing historical lists of Members of the Federal Parliament would be moved from Category:Australian parliaments to Category:Members of the Parliament of Australia by term
  • articles containing historical lists of Members of State Parliaments would move from [[:Category:(State) parliaments]] to [[:Category:Members of the Parliament of (State) by term]]
  • sub categories will be created for the federal Parliament and the State and territory Parliaments (with subcategory for each State and Territory) to a) enable these to be slotted into the overarching international categories and b) provide categories for articles dealing with aspects of these Parliaments. Articles relating to the Parliament of a state do not currently sit in the category relating to that State Parliament (e.g. Category:Victorian parliaments or Category:New South Wales parliaments).

Propoesed new structure

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Category:Australian parliaments

Category:Parliament of Australia
article Parliament of Australia
article Australian House of Representatives
article Australian Senate
article Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
etc
Category:Members of Australian Parliaments by term
article Members of the Australian House of Representatives
article Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1901-1903
etc
article Members of the Australian Senate (may need to be split later)
etc
Category:Parliaments of the Australian states and territories
article Governors of the Australian states
article Parliaments of the Australian states and territories
etc
Category:Parliament of Western Australia
article Parliament of Western Australia
article Governor of Western Australia
article Western Australian Legislative Assembly
article Western Australian Legislative Council
Category:Members of Western Australian Parliaments by term
Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, 2005-2009
etc
Category:Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (containing biographical articles)
etc
Category:Parliament of Queensland
article Parliament of Queensland
article Queensland Legislative Assembly
article Governor of Queensland
article Parliament House, Brisbane
Category:Members of Queensland Parliaments by term
artcle Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly, 2001-2004
etc
etc
etc

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