Talk:FOIA

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[edit] Regional Centricism

I am going to redirect the link to the specific FOIA that I am aware of. If someone out there disagrees with me on the basis that there are more than one FOIA, please note the following:

1) Is the act actually the letters F-O-I-A? If not, please allow the link to stay as a very specific reference that is actually used and appropriate.

2) If you have specific knowledge that there are more than one FOIA, i.e., in countries other than the United States, please create a disambiguation page for FOIA, as that is what is needed to clear up the ambiguity. I don't see the need to keep changing the redirect.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.53.228.8 (talk)

Well the correct redirect gives some examples of other acts. For example:

On top of which there are the following regional acts for Australia:

  • Australian Capital Territory, the Freedom of Information Act 1989
  • New South Wales, the Freedom of Information Act 1989
  • Northern Territory, the Information Act 2003[4]
  • Queensland, the Freedom of Information Act 1992
  • South Australia, the Freedom of Information Act 1991
  • Tasmania, the Freedom of Information Act 1991
  • Victoria, the Freedom of Information Act 1982[5]
  • Western Australia, the Freedom of Information Act 1992[6]

Wikipedia policy species that the article represents a global perspective, see WP:NPOV and WP:CSB. Therefore I shall correct the redirect. --BMT 20:03, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

In response to point 2, Freedom of information legislation does represent a disambiguation page and complies with Wikpedia policy. --BMT 20:07, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Freedom of information legislation is not a disambiguation page as it doesn't connect every item to an article. Disambiguation pages should be a set a of links to similar sounding but different pages. Anynobody 01:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

This is what disambiguation pages are for, when one term could mean several articles. For example, Thunderbirds. Anynobody 01:48, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Jolly good, all I would say is that Freedom of Information legislation kind of served that purpose already. --BMT 07:28, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

I totally understand your logic, and I've made similar mistakes thinking the more info the better. Then I ran into a situation where someone else had done the same type of thing and found it incredibly inconvenient since I was looking for something specific. However my annoyance quickly turned to shock as I realized there could be readers feeling the exact same way because of my actions. Anynobody 23:48, 13 September 2007 (UTC)