Legal Guide

How to Create/Edit Laws

with guidance on all the forms in the law page

1. For editing, use: Edit with form
   
   
   (To start a new page go Form:Law)
2. Enter a short title, if known
3. Do an internet search to find the OFFICIAL text of the law. Enter a link to that official text in the “Official Text” link. The first search result might not be the official text. This must be a government website. If you can’t find it, please leave it blank.
4. Enter the country (United States)
5. Enter the state
6. Enter regulatory body, if known
7. Enter date enacted, if known
8. Enter scope of law, if obvious, from the law
   1. Health <- this would be the one for the law cited above
   2. Education
   3. Financial Industry
   4. General Business
   5. Criminal
   6. Government
9. Personal information, please use this format without blanks: { { SectionPersonalInformation | Section = a very specific section 1 | Personal = Personal1, Personal2, Personal3 } }
10. Strategies and tactics, please use this format without blanks: { { SectionStrategies | Section = a very specific section 1| Strategies = Strategy1, Strategy2, Strategy3 } }
11. Leave links to court cases fields blank
12. Summary, please summarize what the law is about.
13. Cut and paste the text of the law from the existing page (use the edit feature to get the raw text)
14. Format the text of the law
    1. Start off with the laws section or code number (§ 24175)
    2. First paragraphs should be indented with :
    3. Sub paragraphs should be indented with ::
    4. Sub-sub-paragraphs should be indented with :::
    5. Etc.
    6. Example
    7. Tag relevant paragraphs with taxonomy of privacy terms
       1. The format is like this { { SectionHarm|Section =here is where the text of the law would be found.| Harms= Decisional Interference} }
       2. You can use commas to add additional harms, such as | Harms= Harm1, Harm2 } }"

1. Use “edit” to remove extraneous sections leftover from the previous page

= = Court cases or regulatory rulings = =

= = News reports = =

= = Notes = =

< references / >

1. It may take a few edits to get the formatting right, especially if the text of the law is long

1. Use other formatting as necessary within the text https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext#Text_formatting

To change the name of an article

1. Identify a page for a law (such as https://privacy.wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act_of_(2018) ) that isn’t in the proper format
2. Copy the name of the law (such as California Consumer Privacy Act of (2018))
3. Go to Form:Law
   
4. Enter the name in the form (California Consumer Privacy Act of (2018))

Example

• https://privacy.wiki/TestLaw may be useful how laws should look like.

Note

• Combine all the signs that have been stated in the above.

Discussion

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Contact

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