Talk:Voluntary assisted dying in Western Australia

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Did you know... that Western Australia was the second Australian state to legalise voluntary assisted dying?

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by The C of E (talk) 15:11, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Western Australia was the second Australian state to legalise voluntary assisted dying? Source: [1] "Western Australia has legalised voluntary assisted dying, becoming the second state in the country to do so."

Comment: This is my third DYK nomination, so QPQ is not needed.

Created by Steelkamp (talk). Self-nominated at 06:45, 25 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing: - Great work mostly, but no source for the bill being introduced on 7 August 2019.
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Looks pretty good to me - most everything's cited, article is new enough, hook is interesting. Just one issue to fix and it should be good to go. LivelyRatification (talk) 07:38, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a source for the bill being introduced. Steelkamp (talk) 08:53, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to me! Great work. LivelyRatification (talk) 09:30, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This page should be renamed Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019

This page is functionally a page about the specific law: Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019.

The other pages in this area which are about specific laws, they are named after the specific law

Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 - there is no Voluntary assisted dying in the Northern Territory
Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 - there is no Voluntary assisted dying in Victoria

For the purposes of uniformity, this page should be renamed Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019 DotCoder (talk) 00:58, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree. The article is about voluntary assisted dying in Western Australia in general. The background section does not relate to the specific law. If a new voluntary assisted dying act is passed in the future, it would be included here. Not to mention that the current title is better for recognisability and naturalness, which are part of the article title criteria. If you want to move the article, I suggest making a requested move, and we can have a more formal discussion with more people there. Steelkamp (talk) 02:59, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I have created a formal move request, and I have explained why I think you're wrong. DotCoder (talk) 23:30, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 13 July 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 07:55, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Voluntary assisted dying in Western Australia → ? – This page is functionally a page about the specific law: Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019. The other pages in this area which are about specific laws, they are named after the specific law:

Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995 - there is no Voluntary assisted dying in the Northern Territory
Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 - there is no Voluntary assisted dying in Victoria

For the purposes of uniformity, this page should be renamed Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019

A history/background section is perfectly reasonable to have in a page about a specific law - that is the case for Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006, Aliens Deportation Act 1948, Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021. DotCoder (talk) 19:47, 13 July 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 05:14, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Back to front - agree with Steelkamp - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Deciding_on_an_article_title - in the case of the names of the acts, the consistency issue is more likely for the other articles named, to change to incorporate states names. JarrahTree 02:07, 15 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.