Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hasba bill

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The result of the debate was Keep (no consensus). --Ryan Delaney talk 05:33, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Hasba bill
A "proposed bill" that has been rejected by the courts and never became law. The article consists of the verbatim text of the bill.


 * Delete: Wikipedia is not a repository/archive of things that could have, but never did happen. --Ragib 05:33, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Ragib, plus this is POV and maybe copyvio (is all that text in the public domain?) Tonywalton 12:47, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment how about transwiking to Wikisource? Unlike the Wikipedia Wikisource is a repository for all kinds of texts, and some people might find proposed laws interesting even if they where not implemented. As for the copyright status, I'm just guessing, but surely law texts and other public documents are public domain. --Sherool 16:05, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Clean Up: Wikipedia is not a repository of things that didn't happen, but important proposed laws should be fair game. A policy that excludes this could also be used to exclude the ERA article as well. The article is bad, and needs a lot of work, but it should be kept, perhaps without the full text. --Arvis21 17:27, August 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment This Hisbah issue is not over. The provincial government is re-introducing it with amendments and also introducing it in other assemblies. This bill is an important example of what political Islamists want to do and will be a good reference for the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.153.243.130 (talk • contribs)
 * Weak keep iff it can be re-written as an ensyclopedic article (maybe with a brief abstract/summary). The raw law text can either be moved to Wikisource, or linked to externaly depending on it's copyright status. --Sherool 19:22, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, but not the full text of the bill.. if that belongs anywhere, it's Wikisource. --Mysidia (talk) 16:13, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Bill text copied to Wikisource:Transwiki:Hasba_bill --Mysidia (talk) 16:58, 14 August 2005 (UTC)


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