Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monopoly of Initiative


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The result was   delete and redirect to European Commission. (The "delete" is due to copyright issues.) King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:59, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Monopoly of Initiative

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original research Wuhwuzdat (talk) 15:58, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article as stands is not great, but a cursory look through Google, Google Books and Google Scholar show the term is widely used, at least in reference to the EU. Needs to be improved more than it needs to be deleted. Hairhorn (talk) 17:05, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
 * See here. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 05:26, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep, as per above. Needs a clean up but has potential. Delete In light of the copyright issue- Binary TSO ???
 * Redirect to European Commission, and fast. Article has multiple issues as follows:
 * 1) Copyright violation
 * The article is a cut-and-paste from a specific copyrighted page: the page is here and the copyright assertion is here.
 * The text on that page reads as follows:
 * In the EU, the EU Commission has the sole and exclusive right to bring forward proposals for EU laws. This makes the EU Commission a legislative machine for the continual production of EU laws. Except for these non-elected commissioners, no person on earth has the exclusive right to propose European laws.
 * The Council and the EU Parliament can encourage the EU Commission to propose introducing a new law, but the EU Commission decides on its own whether to follow the advice.
 * The EU Commission also decides the legal basis for its proposal and thus decides whether an area is to be regulated by binding laws or voluntary coordination.
 * The EU Commission's choice concerning a law’s legal basis and its legislative proposals can only be changed by a unanimous decision of the Council.


 * The text on the Wikipage reads as follows:
 * In the European Union, the EU Commission has the sole and exclusive right to bring forward proposals for EU laws. This makes the EU Commission a legislative machine for the continual production of EU laws. Except for these non-elected commissioners, no person on earth has the exclusive right to propose European laws.
 * The Council and the EU Parliament can encourage the EU Commission to propose introducing a new law, but the EU Commission decides on its own whether to follow the advice.
 * The EU Commission also decides the legal basis for its proposal and thus decides whether an area is to be regulated by binding laws or voluntary coordination.
 * The EU Commission's choice concerning a law’s legal basis and its legislative proposals can only be changed by a unanimous decision of the Council.


 * 2) WP:COATRACK violation.
 * 3) WP:POVFORK violation.
 * "Monopoly of Initiative" is a piece of Eurojargon that occurs when only the European Commission can initiate Eurolegislation (if you really want more details, please ask, but then I'll have to use words like "pillar" and "competence" and life's too short). This subject is already dealt with in the European Commission article under the "legislative initiative" section.
 * 4) Unarticleable. The article is only ever going to be "The European Commission is the only entity capable of initiating European legislation in certain circumstances (insert ref) and these people say that that's really bad (insert more refs)".


 * So the article is a copyright violation, a WP:COATRACK violation, a WP:POVFORK violation, and belongs in the European Commission article anyway. Redirect to European Commission ASAP. Regards, Anameofmyveryown (talk) 16:31, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.