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I was surprised to see this merger done with little or no discussion, apparently on the sole grounds that "The memorandum to the Structural Changes Order makes it clear that the county council was not abolished, instead becoming the unitary authority council."
While it is true that for reasons of administrative efficiency the county council was not legally abolished but renamed North Yorkshire Council, the reorganisation was presented by both central government and the old council as the formation of a new council which replaced both the county council and the 6 district councils - see here and here. The new council, as a unitary authority, has very significantly different functions from the old council, is differently organised and has a different number of councillors representing different electoral divisions. This is surely a case where substance should prevail over legal form.
In any case the merge has not been completely done. For example, the effects on the category structures have not been carried through.
There is a similar issue in Somerset Council. In that case there was a brief discussion. A user objected to the merger and reversed here, the editor who had been reversed then added a merge tag here. There was then a discussion here. There were no objections in 2 days, and the merger was submitted as a Technical Request here 2 days, and carried out by a non-admin editor here. It did not appear to meet the criteria for a TR, and 2 days is completely inadequate to alert interested editors, let alone generate proper discussion.
I propose that this merger should be reversed and we should have an adequate discussion about the proposal. Mhockey ( talk) 20:21, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
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The contents of the North Yorkshire council page were merged into North Yorkshire Council. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected page, please see its history; for the discussion at that location, see its talk page. |
I was surprised to see this merger done with little or no discussion, apparently on the sole grounds that "The memorandum to the Structural Changes Order makes it clear that the county council was not abolished, instead becoming the unitary authority council."
While it is true that for reasons of administrative efficiency the county council was not legally abolished but renamed North Yorkshire Council, the reorganisation was presented by both central government and the old council as the formation of a new council which replaced both the county council and the 6 district councils - see here and here. The new council, as a unitary authority, has very significantly different functions from the old council, is differently organised and has a different number of councillors representing different electoral divisions. This is surely a case where substance should prevail over legal form.
In any case the merge has not been completely done. For example, the effects on the category structures have not been carried through.
There is a similar issue in Somerset Council. In that case there was a brief discussion. A user objected to the merger and reversed here, the editor who had been reversed then added a merge tag here. There was then a discussion here. There were no objections in 2 days, and the merger was submitted as a Technical Request here 2 days, and carried out by a non-admin editor here. It did not appear to meet the criteria for a TR, and 2 days is completely inadequate to alert interested editors, let alone generate proper discussion.
I propose that this merger should be reversed and we should have an adequate discussion about the proposal. Mhockey ( talk) 20:21, 22 July 2023 (UTC)