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Contents 1 Vectorization 2 Business Trust 3 Template name 4 Making a "company types" section

[edit] Vectorization

I noticed that there was a new SVG version of the Scales of Justice on the Wikimedia Commons, so I replaced the older PNG with it.
Tyler 15:33, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Business Trust

Business Trust is currently linking to "Massachusetts Business Trust"... Seems to me that there should be some more general business trust article to link to.

[edit] Template name

I've changed the name to Companies law from business law because business law sometimes has a few meanings. In this case, the link led to "commercial law" which is about commercial/business transactions generally; this template is about business forms specifically, and I think it'll cause less confusion renaming it "companies". Wikidea 10:25, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Making a "company types" section

"Company types" in the U.S. includes corporations, partnerships, sole proprietorships etc. But in UK law it's the other way round - a company is a type of corporation, and partnerships are not companies. So if we need a heading for the top section of the template, it shouldn't be "company types" but "business types" or something like that - although that might lead to disputes about whether all companies are businesses (some are e.g. charities), so probably best not to bother with a heading at all.--Kotniski (talk) 15:55, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Business associations perhaps? Then again, companies is just easier and shorter. I'm sure nobody's really bothered about partnerships being listed under companies, because everyone knows that they're similar (esp since we have LLPs in the UK now). Wikidea 18:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, but this template is about law, so better keep it as free from inaccuracies as is practical. I don't mind having links to partnerships etc. appearing in this navbox titled "companies law", but I can't agree with using "Types of companies" as a title of a list of entities which are generally not companies, when we can and do manage equally well without any title there at all.--Kotniski (talk) 19:02, 19 May 2008 (UTC)