Talk:Sample legal documents

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Freezing legal documents

Craigragland: It seems to me that these may be the first articles that we want to freeze (or rather, limit edit privileges to admins). It is potentially harmful to the source communities if others were to make changes to these documents which really were "frozen in their time."

Look and see the explanatory header I put on the Songaia bylaws. Ideally, someone from each community that these came from would review, add some similar type of contextual note, and then the document would be frozen. It would really piss me off if somebody was to make a substantive change to those, albeit dated, bylaws that lurked undetected for months/years, just because we weren't vigilant about monitoring all changes.

Tony 11:45, June 16, 2007 (CDT) - I have considered the same thing and at first was very into locking pages. But then I realized that people can always view the history to see how the page was changed.

I wonder about the value of people being able to comment on a given page, in some ways like you have for SOngaia. Like If I was a lawyer and went in and added some text saying "This is a risky way to do X because Y might happen." that is potentially useful to our readers. I guess that could go on the talk page but people rarely look at that. Someone could create a page "Songaia_bylaws_comments" and then ask an admin to provide a link?

I'm not sure how to allow commentary and analysis without allowing vandalism. My hope is that vandalism will be rare -- my hope for this was raised when I looked at Wikipedia and notices that if I wanted I could change the text of the Declaration of Independence but no-one seems to think that is worth doing so it stays intact.