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WA Resolution - RW Violation ? - Month Names Illegal?

Postby Tzorsland » Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:34 pm

There has been some debate in my thread about "Novel Writers Appreciation Month." Unibot is insisting that any reference to a month name is a real world violation. Linus and the X is insisting that it is probably legal. The question is whether the reference to "November" in the below resolution is "legal."


The World Assembly;

RECOGNIZING the importance of stories that “are not necessarily true” as a medium to express even greater truths, especially in the literary art form known as the novel;

APPRECIATING the efforts of such writers whose novels create whole “virtual worlds” that can be extended to other arts and entertainment media that spans nations themselves;

UNDERSTANDING that the art of novel writing is not something confined to the elite or to the highly educated, but is within the reach of every person;

The World Assembly therefore;

ESTABLISHES the month of November as Novel Writer’s Appreciation Month;

CREATES the Novel Writer’s Appreciation Month Committee (NWAMC) for the promotion and encouragement of novel writers and novel writing;

EMPOWERS the NWAMC to promote in all member states the appreciation of their nation’s novel writers and to encourage those writers to teach others about the profession of novel writing through various venues;

ENCOURAGES everyone to write novels in honor of Novel Writer’s Appreciation Month;


It's hard to explain why this resolution revolves around a month name, but it sort of does. If the use of "November" is always illegal than I'll just drop the process now. Otherwise I will continue to work in the forum to get this to be a good resolution.
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Postby Linux and the X » Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:36 pm

Just to clarify, the reason I believe it to be legal is because of Ardchoille's statement that
As Krioval said, it's reasonable to assume that ambassadors present their proposals in their own language/terminology, and that this is then translated into the appropriate language/terminology for each nation.

So "August 5" can easily enough be translated into "Stardate (whenever)", and somewhere in the bowels of the building the gnomes have a copy that expresses it in the chronology that the GA uses for administrative purposes.
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Postby NERVUN » Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:14 pm

Ok, we see it and we'll get back to you on the legality just as soon as the WA Lawyers stop laughing so hard at the question.
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Postby Mousebumples » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:44 pm

If you don't mind my throwing another (similar) question into the ring ...

Is referring to periods of time (i.e. "Quarterly" or "Monthly" or "Biannually" etc.) illegal since differing nations have different years / measurements of time? I can see both sides, and I can see how it may tie into the "Month Names" legality issue. It's something that's come up in my IDEA GA thread, so I thought I would ask for a ruling, if you would be so kind.

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Postby Dread Lady Nathicana » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:11 pm

I realize I may not be a regular to the WA. However, I'd like to point out a very simple point:

WHAT you call/title/designate as any given month does not matter, so long as all nations understand how their own calendar relates to it. No matter where you go, there you are, folks. Surely the concept isn't that difficult to grasp without arguing everything ad infinitum to the point of requiring a definition of what 'is' is just to make it all acceptable.

Call it November. Call it Blotmath. Call it Garbledygork, who cares. So long as you know how that time period relates to your own nation, it shouldn't matter.

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Postby The Most Glorious Hack » Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:54 am

:palm:

Month names are not RW violations. Neither are days of the week. Nor is the word "peanut".
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Postby Linux and the X » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:16 am

Thank you for injecting some common sense into the WA. Are you doing so in modly voice?
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Postby Dread Lady Nathicana » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:30 am

I think you can safely assume 'yes'. On everything but the peanut. Maybe. >_>

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Postby Ardchoille » Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:41 pm

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