Talk:Adjudication

Adjudicator is just the same thing but with the suffix changed. I don't see why it needs to be its own separate article. It is in line with the exact same topic, with the only difference being the fact that it refers to the "subject" instead of the concept of adjudication. Senomo Drines (talk) 20:40, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

I am writing to oppose the proposed merge of this article with Adjudicator. I recently realized that American administrative law has an obscure but significant distinction between ALJs and "non-ALJ adjudicators". Much of the material in administrative law judge ought to be transferred to the Adjudicator article because "administrative law judge" is a term of art under the Administrative Procedure Act. I have also proposed that transfer on the talk page for the administrative law judge article. --Coolcaesar (talk) 07:29, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Support merge; the pages heavily overlap and any distinctions between topics can be discussed on one page. I don't think that decisions at this international level should be drive by esoteric American legal nuance. These can be discussed with a new 'United States' section on the joint page, just as we do for the 'United Kingdom'. Klbrain (talk) 09:20, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

I strongly disagree. If and when I get around to my next trip to an academic library to finish researching the issue I raised at Talk:Administrative law judge, the result is going to be a discussion in the Adjudicator article at least six paragraphs long about what is a non-ALJ adjudicator in American administrative law. The result would dominate any consolidated article on Adjudication and would have to be forked back out into a separate Adjudicator article anyway. --Coolcaesar (talk) 04:41, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Update: I finally got around to starting the discussion of non-ALJ adjudicators in the adjudicator article. I plan to expand it further throughout this year. I also added relevant material to the articles on administrative law judge and United States administrative law.

Again, I reiterate that the merge proposal is grossly inappropriate. It is comparable to and as ludicrous as merging Judge into Lawsuit. The official who presides over an adjudicative process and the process itself are two separate things. --Coolcaesar (talk) 18:45, 19 July 2025 (UTC)

Oppose: there are enough differences between the tasks and concept of adjudication and the roles which are called "adjudicator" to justify keeping the articles separate from each other. BobKilcoyne (talk)