Wikipedia:WikiProject Parliamentary Procedure

WikiProject Parliamentary Procedure is devoted to improving the quality and comprehensiveness of articles on topics related to parliamentary procedure. Since dozens of articles will be needed to cover all the different motions and probably dozens more to cover all the parliamentary terms, it will probably be useful to coordinate our work.

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Participants

• Obuibo Mbstpo (talk) 04:00, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
• Abd (talk) 16:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

To do

• Complete articles on all the different motions and the classifications thereof.
• Complete articles on all the different parliamentary terms (e.g. mass meeting).

Some issues

• There is an AFD in progress at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Objection to the consideration of a question.
• So far, the infoboxes have been using RONR, but perhaps other parliamentary authorities have different rules. How shall we handle this?

Motions

• Main motion
• Subsidiary motions
  • Postpone indefinitely
  • Amend (motion)
  • Commit (motion)
  • Postpone to a certain time
  • Limit or extend limits of debate
  • Previous question
  • Lay on the table
• Privileged motions
  • Call for the orders of the day
  • Raise a question of privilege
  • Recess (motion)
  • Adjourn (motion)
  • Fix the time to which to adjourn
• Incidental motions
  • Point of order
  • Appeal (motion)
  • Suspend the rules
  • Objection to the consideration of a question
  • Division of a question
  • Consideration by paragraph of seriatim
  • Division of the assembly
  • Motions relating to methods of voting and the polls
  • Motions relating to nominations
  • Request to be excused from a duty
  • Requests and inquiries
    • Parliamentary inquiry
    • Point of information
    • Request for permission to withdraw or modify a motion
    • Request to read papers
    • Request for any other privilege
• Motions that bring a question again before the assembly
  • Take from the table
  • Rescind or amend something previously adopted
  • Discharge a committee
  • Reconsider

Terms

• Committee of the whole
• Proviso
• Second (parliamentary)
• Session (parliamentary procedure) (same thing as Parliamentary session?)