Talk:Motion (democracy)

Difference between Resolution and Motion

Can someone help clarify what the difference is between a Resolution and a Motion? Zebov ^{(talk|contribs)} 05:41, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

I believe that our article on resolution (law) has the information you are looking for. Warofdreams talk 01:29, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Dismbiguator

I find the name of this article somewhat disconcerting. It is perfectly possible for non-democratic bodies to use parliamentary procedure; it is arguable that the British Parliament was an oligarchy when its forms developed. Wouldn't Motion (parliamentary) be better? Septentrionalis PMAnderson 20:07, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

There may well be a better title, but motion (parliamentary) is not good, because they are extensively used in unions, debating societies and other non-parliamentary bodies. Warofdreams talk 06:18, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

"Democracy"

I think that the inclusion of "democracy" in the title is potentially problematic, because many legislative bodies and organizations use parliamentary procedure, but the organization is not "democratic." Consider, for instance, the National People's Congress or the boards of "board-only" nonprofit organizations, which are self-appointed rather than being elected by the organization's members. They make and pass motions, but they are not a democracy. Obuibo Mbstpo (talk) 17:20, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Indeed, and the article cited below suggests this one is wholly redundant. Random noter (talk) 02:16, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Propose to move this to Motion (parliamentary)

The contents of this article primarily contains material from Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, a major parliamentary authority in the United States and Canada. The concept of a motion is integral to parliamentary procedure and there is a need of an article that concentrates on the parliamentary procedure aspects of motion. If there is not a consensus to move this article to parliamentary procedure then I suggest that another article be created under motion (parliamentary procedure) and leave this article to concentrate on the democratic and other aspects of motion as necessary. When moved to motion (parliamentary procedure) either in toto or in part, it can be expanded there to include the parliamentary specifics of motion that concern legislative and non-legislative deliberative assemblies world-wide. Parlirules 00:58, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

I basically already did that (the second of your two options) about a month ago. The resulting article is Motion (parliamentary procedure). I explained here (it is one of the talk page sections that you recently archived) why I did it that way (as a "clone" rather than a move) and it seemed to be basically accepted at the time. The "Roberts" navbox as well as most of the articles on motion classes and individual motions now point to Motion (parliamentary procedure), not Motion (democracy). There are still some that point to the latter, I believe I changed one just yesterday. So I think we should just continue to develop, improve, rewrite (or whatever) the Motion (parliamentary procedure) article as "our" basic article on motions. Neutron (talk) 02:33, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Very good. I must have jumped there from one of the old Motion (democracy) links. I'll check if there are any of these links left. However, we should remove some of the RONR and parliamentary specifics on that page -- and replace it with more generic parliamentary text along with a link to Motion (parliamentary). As it stands now, it will be confusing as we further add to Motion (parliamentary) and the two different articles may start to conflict. Let's also take off the WikiProject Parliamentary message box, if the Parliamentary Procedure box is not going to keep this associated with their project. Parlirules 04:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Parlirules (talk • contribs)