Talk:Corporate law/Archives/2014
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Requested move
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The result of the move request was: no consensus. Jenks24 (talk) 11:43, 2 August 2014 (UTC)
Corporate law → Business corporation – This page is not about corporate law, it is about corporations (in the US sense of the term). It is about commercial enterprises. The content naturally refers to law but the topic is corporations. In the same way, article's on Contract and Tort are about those topics and not Contract law and Tort law which if they existed as article would be forks and in fact are redirects.
As it happens the article corporation covers a much wider sense of corporation which includes state and non-governmental organisations with legal personality. This article is about for-profit, business corporations so I renamed it "Business corporation". This was the stable version for the last ten months If anyone thinks they have a better title I'd be glad to consider it. Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 13:54, 25 July 2014 (UTC) — Blue-Haired Lawyer t 11:27, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose, change split of content instead. Corporate law needs a lead article, and until 9 months ago this page had been stable at that name, since 2007 when it was moved from the UK-centric name Company law. For-profit/commercial corporations do not need a separate page about the law that governs them, as most company law (in the UK at any rate) applies equally to non-profit limited companies. The rather small and inadequate page Companies law should be merged into Corporate law and Commercial law; see also Types of business entity. There is no need for a page about "business corporation", which would duplicate the proper content of "corporation"; renaming and repurposing this page with that name would make a bad situation worse as a WP:Content fork from that topic. Blue-Haired Lawyer acted because he identified a problem with the content not matching the name,[1] but if any content in this article does not belong under the topic of corporate law, a better course of action will be to move that content to other pages, or remove any that is just duplication. – Fayenatic London 18:19, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose per Fayenatic. Instead split into corporate law and incorporated company -- 65.94.171.126 (talk) 05:14, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
- I think you'll probably find that the law governing Vodafone plc is quite different from that governing Westminster City Council, although both are obviously corporations. While this article's current lead sound quite good, the content of the article has little to do with the study of "how shareholders, directors, employees, creditors, and other stakeholders such as consumers, the community and the environment interact with one another", rather it is about the forms of registered companies. — Blue-Haired Lawyer t 16:52, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
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