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Note that the page names should be chosen for clarity and should as much as possible be consistent among pages representing a series or other collection of documents of a particular type. The page name need not be (and typically will not be) identical to the top line of the title page of the original document. For example, if in creating reports of conventions the secretary for one year put "1992 Convention Report" at the top and the secretary for the next year put "Report of the 1993 Convention" at the top, the corresponding Document pages should still be named in a uniform way: "Document:Convention Report 1992", "Document:Convention Report 1993", and so on. The original title and any other identifying text that appeared at the beginning of the original document should be preserved as part of the page content. | Note that the page names should be chosen for clarity and should as much as possible be consistent among pages representing a series or other collection of documents of a particular type. The page name need not be (and typically will not be) identical to the top line of the title page of the original document. For example, if in creating reports of conventions the secretary for one year put "1992 Convention Report" at the top and the secretary for the next year put "Report of the 1993 Convention" at the top, the corresponding Document pages should still be named in a uniform way: "Document:Convention Report 1992", "Document:Convention Report 1993", and so on. The original title and any other identifying text that appeared at the beginning of the original document should be preserved as part of the page content. | ||
Since many different Libertarian Party organizations may have documents of the same type (e.g., bylaws), consideration should be given to this in choosing names for document pages. In general, if there is any reason to believe that the same terminology for a type of document is in use both by the national LP and by state affiliates, this distinction should be included in the associated page names. Pages for national documents should include the word "National" (e.g., "Document:National Bylaws 2012") unless there is already something in the name that clearly implies national (e.g., "Document:LNC Minutes 1 September 1991"). | If there is a series of documents regularly produced by a particular committee or other body, the name or an abbreviation of the name of that body should be included as part of the document type along with the general type. For example "State Convention Report" rather than just "Report", "LNC Minutes" rather than just "Minutes". The particular instances of such documents can then be distinguished by the year/date which follows. If a document relates to a one-time event or ad hoc committee, then a name starting with just "Report" or "Minutes" may be appropriate (but the name of the event/meeting should still be includes somewhere, as should the date since another event with a similar name may happen in the future). | ||
Since many different Libertarian Party organizations may have documents of the same type (e.g., bylaws), consideration should be given to this in choosing names for document pages. In general, if there is any reason to believe that the same terminology for a type of document is in use both by the national LP and by state affiliates, this distinction should be included in the associated page names. Pages for national documents should include the word "National" (e.g., "Document:National Bylaws 2012") unless there is already something in the name that clearly implies national (e.g., "Document:LNC Minutes 1 September 1991"). Minutes of state executive committees should have names that include both the state and the name of the committee (e.g., "California Executive Committee Minutes 10 February 2018"). | |||
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