Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian politics/Parliaments

Proposal to re-organise categories relating to Australian Parliaments
In December 2005 there was a brief discussion at WP:AWNB regarding sorting out categories relating to the various Parliaments in Australia. (See Australian Wikipedians' notice board/Archive 15). 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
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
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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