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Latest comment: 3 years ago by King of Hearts in topic Parliaments and legislative buildings
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Parliaments and legislative buildings
Proposed by ArionEstar
"legislative" means also regional chambers in many countries. That is good, even better considering almost all the national parliaments have been described, although I am sorry for Russian and French people, I don't think their countries have a strong legislative autonomy at the moment. Let's be sure to include ancient Parliaments in the gallery. With ancient and regional parliaments, it is probably better.--Alexmar983 (talk) 09:21, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
Comment How small of a unit of government will be ok for this challenge? Will this include town councils? There is another proposal for "Town halls (city halls)". The two topics would overlap. If this topic is limited to only national governments and the unit below the national government (eg. state, province, territory), it may be difficult for some to participate because of the long distance needed to travel. For example, for me it would be a four-hour drive (275mi/450km) each way to travel from Central Florida (a region home to about 5 million people) to the state capitol in Tallahassee; from the state's most populous region around Miami, it would be a seven hour drive each way (480mi/775km)! There is a similarly large distance from southern California (Los Angeles & San Diego) to that state's capitol in Sacramento. For that reason, I think that the two topics should be merged into one—"Legislative buildings"—that includes national (eg. parliaments), regional, and municipal (eg. town halls) legislative buildings. AHeneen (talk) 00:13, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
- Town halls are not "legislative buildings" in many areas . It is a subtle definition, in some countries only the central state has a legislative power, local unities can make decrees or local ordinances. For example in Italy Tuscany has a legislative assembly, in France Corse does not. We have to find some fitting definition. In any case, i feel that a merge could also work, we can't just ask people to know which building is of a local executive or a local legislative or a low-level local administrative branch... any ideas?--Alexmar983 (talk) 08:41, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
Support --Jarekt (talk) 02:17, 17 August 2017 (UTC)- Support --Trougnouf (talk) 19:18, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
Question This is only the buildings of national parliaments, or even buildings of local institutions (for example: buildings where there are governments offices of a city, of a province or a region of a state)? --Nicholas Gemini (talk) 09:50, 3 June 2018 (UTC)
Oppose Apart from being thousands of miles (kms) away from some of us, parliaments and legislative buildings tend to be architecturally significant and in populous places, so there's already heaps of photos of them. Town halls was a good and interesting theme; I think we should pass on this one. Shillings1005 (talk) 10:12, 2 July 2019 (UTC)- Support --Marc-Lautenbacher (talk) 22:52, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
- Support - Albarubescens 19:35, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
- Support - Only if including council chambers as well. That would be a useful challenge as, with Western Australia as an example, there is a need to get mor photos of those. Calistemon (talk) 07:37, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
- Support — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tbiw (talk • contribs) 20:40, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
- Comment I would broaden the subject into " Buildings in witch the legislative or executive power is exercised at the international, national or regional level." -Céléda (talk) 08:33, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
- Comment Would be a good option to save for September 2021 (or whenever a majority of countries hold their WLM), as a lot of legislative buildings are considered historic and this will allow submitters to double-dip. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 09:31, 26 November 2020 (UTC)
