Talk:List of Statutes of New Zealand (1800-1980)

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[edit] Breaking links

A lot of these were inadvertantly linking to overseas acts with the same name. I have 'broken' the se by changing their names to Name of Act New Zealand. --Helenalex 06:46, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I would think a better naming convention is Name of Act Year, as that is how the legislation is normally refered to. If you must still disambiguate then use (New Zealand) as a disambiguator. The problems with the names on this list arrise because the original author used lots of google links under the year. I would also order the list alphabetically, though ordering by year is valuable for historical purposes, because it shows how old the legislation is. -- Cameron Dewe 04:21, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why two pages?

Why does this page only go up to 1980? Surely it would make more sense to have all NZ statutes on one page. --Helenalex 06:46, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

  • I split them because the combined page was number one on Special:Longpages. It turned out that the reason that the page was so long was because it was riddled with totally unnecessary google search links, and though these have been removed from one of the split-out pages, it is still a work in progress (to be completed when I have time). But yes, you are right, at some point the pages should be recombined, and its my bad that they were split in the first place. Jdcooper 03:35, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
Perhaps it is time for a merger. The clean-up that has been done probably makes the clean-up tag redundant now. Should the clean-up tag be replaced with a merger tag? -- Cameron Dewe 04:21, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Useless list page?

Currently the page is quite useless, it does not include any information about what years (and which) Acts were created and/or revised. The years of most recent Act revision is even missing. Is there a better way of including Act status info? I am happy to put the revision year information back in. NevilleDNZ 05:10, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

If the page is useless, how can it be made useful? Or should it be deleted? To me, to make the page useful it should:
  • ONLY list the principal or consolidated Act for each piece of legislation.
  • If an ammendment is listed then it should be notable.
    • e.g. because of major law reform.
  • Include the date in the Act's title.
    • e.g. Crimes Act 1961
  • Be in alphabetical order.
    • Ordering by date or year is only useful if the Act or Bill number is used. such as:
      • 1961 No 43 Crimes Act 1961
  • Be a full list, not time limited.
Feedback? -- Cameron Dewe 14:21, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
This page is a bit of a mess, especially since most of the acts don't actually have pages. I'd be inclined to scrap the whole thing and just create a 'NZ legislation' or 'Statutes of NZ' category, but if you want to reorganise it, it sounds like you'd do a decent job. One thing to bear in mind is that this list is far from complete - it should either be a list of every statute passed in NZ, which would be very long, or only the ones which actually have pages, in which case a category would make more sense. --Helenalex 20:41, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
There already is a Category:New Zealand law. While I think categories are a good idea for related articles, once they are written, a list like this one is better when articles have not been written. The list gives starting links for articles that should be written. If a complete list of New Zealand Statutes is to be created, then while the page could list all statutes, only the principal acts that are in force should have article links on the page, without having an article. Amending and repealed legislation should not have a link, unless that legislation already has its own article. -- Cameron Dewe 09:12, 18 June 2007 (UTC)