Talk:Petition

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"Non-governmental organization such as Amnesty International often use petitions in an attempt to exert moral authority in support of various causes."

Is there a reason this was removed? It is a somewhat biased comment, but removing it would also be somewhat biased...? I will replace if nobody objects to it within 24 hours. --StonedChipmunk 00:52, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Replaced. Also testing new signature (but still, I replaced the comment). --_{The preceding signed comment was added by StonedChipmunk and you can contact them here.} 18:54, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Also re-added link to petitionspot.com as it's not advertising (it's under the category Petition Sites, you moron). --_{The preceding signed comment was added by StonedChipmunk and you can contact them here.} 19:00, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Petitions.pm.gov.uk

Petitions.pm.gov.uk requires an email address in order to sign - why can't we vote in private?! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 147.188.192.41 (talk) 09:45, 26 February 2007 (UTC).

Historically, petitions have always required people to identify themselves on signature. I'm one of the guys behind the Petitions site on Number 10's website. We require email addresses to protect from abuse — so that people can only sign a petition once, for example. It's not a perfect measure, but it's part of the trade-off we made. There's more information on the FAQs:

I'm afraid that there is a trade-off to be made between allowing anyone to sign the petitions regardless of having an email address, and protecting the petitions from too much abuse. We have come down on the side of using one email address per person to act as an anti-abuse mechanism because it is now possible for anyone to get an email address for free in a few moments. On the converse, if we let people use one address to sign multiple times we will likely see considerable fake signatures almost straight away.

If you wanna discuss the policy further, there is a contact email address for the team on the FAQs page.

where would I go to file a petition

I am writing a thesis on politics and government, I am trying to find out how and where to file a petition to run for President of the United States. If you can help me please send answers to jacquesr2@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.30.133.50 (talk) 23:55, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

What is an International petition?

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And should Wikipedia have an article about it? I recently heard about international petitions, and I could only find petitions to sign, but no other information. Wikipedia have several articles that mention it, and at least I could learn in Arndt Pekurinen that they were already used in 1930. Seems like they have an interesting history, and some of them seems notable. What do you say? Kind regards, Dodoïste (talk) 14:02, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Surely this is just a petition which people in multiple countries are encouraged to sign? If you've found some interesting material on the origins or growth of this practice, I think this would fit well into the petition article. Warofdreams talk 16:15, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

Try here: International petition?--Canoe1967 (talk) 11:48, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Stealing PERSONAL

Gopetition went as oldest museum of fun with many names just by ukranian | russian | germans, by the AT&T no: 1 Liberal business doer of the USA? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.65.96.127 (talk) 14:30, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

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Merge with Right to petition

The articles Petition and Right to petition look like dealing very related topic. --109.53.210.122 (talk) 12:21, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

• Disagree with merge proposal, because the right to petition article includes extensive history of controversial moves relating to it, and such thorough detail is not of interest to people who would like to know information about petition. Gryllida (talk) 11:57, 21 March 2015 (UTC)

• I also disagree with the merge proposal. The right to petition is distinct from the act of petitioning and has a very rich history behind it that might not be of interest to others. If one searches up right to petition, one is typically looking for discussion of the legal aspects. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.158.45.201 (talk • contribs • WHOIS) 16:02, July 28, 2015 (UTC)

• I disagree with the merge proposal because the right to petition, like others have said, is different from the act of petitioning. Also, right to petition is a legal and often government-related action, while petitioning is too general. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.212.4.102 (talk • contribs • WHOIS) 01:03, October 16, 2015 (UTC)

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