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Surely this article, which is predominantly about a particular court case, should be turned into one just about that court case, and the residue merged into (and redirect to) Civil partnership? This article does after all start off by saying there is no such thing as same-sex marriage in the UK, which suggests to me there should not be an article on the subject (separate from Civil partnership). Ben Finn 22:15, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
- I think that a lengthy discussion of a very important court case could belong on the main page. I am for a merge with Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom. Bamkin 19:55, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
- Against Merge. Merging will simply confuse the Civil Partnership article. You may consider adding some of it to the Civil Partnership Act page (a different article altogether) but I see no problem with this page as is. NB The merge suggestion was mooted six months ago - such old suggestions, if they garner no support in that time, are usually assumed to be unwanted. 86.153.93.200 07:01, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
- Don't merge. No logical basis to do so. The subject here is hypothetical - the CPA article ought not to be watered down. Leave as is. Vacant Stare 10:43, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
- The merge suggestion has not even been tagged properly! Pffff! 86.153.93.200 12:29, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed. Please see Wikipedia:Merge for the proper procedure. Currently this discussion is invalid as there is no notification on either article to advise editors that the discussion is in progress. Road Wizard 01:45, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
- Merging is probably a bad idea because it would destroy the effect of {{Europe in Topic|Same-sex marriage}} template. Better to keep the articles split for consistency with the articles on other countries. --Legis (talk - contribs) 14:51, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pre-70s Legality
- This article states that there were some legal lesbian marriages prior to the Nullity of Marriage Act, though no citation is given. Does anyone have any more detail about them? My understanding was that the common-law definition of marriage has always been opposite-sex, and so even if not explicitly prohibited in legislation before the 70s, same-sex marriages have always been illegal -- any that did occur would only have been because no one 'noticed' both parties were women, and thus of dubious legality.K.d.stauffer (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 22:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
