Talk:Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922

message: I haven't been able to find any reference to any Special Powers Act 1971. Does this page refer to the Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act passed by Stormont in 1922? It is reproduced here: . This is the only NI Special Powers Act I've found proper reference to, and unless there is some other one, this page is wildly inaccurate. --Helenalex (talk) 07:32, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you are right. Aatomic1 (talk) 08:07, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll give others a few days to respond and if no one has any objections I will do a massive rewrite. --Helenalex (talk) 10:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article doesn't appear to explain the repeal/replacement of the Act. Mooretwin (talk) 18:43, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Repeal/replacement

message: As I recall, did the French government not pass a Special Powers Act during the Algerian War? I think we might need to create an article for that one, and others if they exist, and disambiguate this page. --Grahamdubya (talk) 21:38, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Other SP Acts

message: Someone made the move, by cut-and-paste, and I had to histmerge it. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:45, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Special Powers Act → Civil Authorities (Special Powers) Act (Northern Ireland) 1922 — Apart from the disambiguation issue, it is standard for Acts to be under their full names. Admittedly most people do link straight to 'Special Powers Act', but then most people seem to think the Act dates from the 1970s. --Helenalex (talk) 11:42, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: Or we could discuss it now, Snowded. Gob Lofa (talk) 07:42, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Please stop edit-warring Gob Lofa. Northern Ireland is de facto a province of the United Kingdom, hence its common description of "the Province". Only the ignorant to the situation would confuse it with the defunct provinces of Ireland which are an entirely different thing altogether. The province of Northern Ireland has nothing to do with the province of Ulster. Mabuska (talk) 10:42, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: To provide some sources from a wider-spectrum: "that made up the province of Northern Ireland, "James Craig (later Lord Craigavon) begins a 19-year term as prime minister of the new province of Northern Ireland", "thus creating the province of Northern Ireland", "Ireland, to the west, consists of the UK’s province of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.", "The Ulster Chess Union is responsible for organising, administering and developing chess in the Province of Northern Ireland.", This Ulster nationalist page is full of references to NI as a province. None of these seem to worry about confusing NI with Ulster. In fact trawl through this search string yourself. Mabuska (talk) 10:51, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You're using a strange definition of edit-warring, Mabuska; this is a discussion page. The provinces of Ireland are still in use; as you know, using 'province' to describe NI carries connotations of British/unionist bias, as say 'occupied six counties' carries connotations of Irish nationalist bias. The neutral and precise term I've suggested avoids this problem. Gob Lofa (talk) 11:12, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: , , ,  - four times from 30th July to the 6th August, so despite being reverted by three different editors, you don't classify that as edit-warring? Hope that excuse holds up in the forthcoming AN/I. Your edit has been reverted by three different editors, two of which (me and Snowded) come from totally different political viewpoints/standings. You provide no sources, and even if you manage to find one, you'd be pushing a unbalanced viewpoint on it. Mabuska (talk) 11:22, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: All were defying BRD (and Snowded remains defiant); you ought to know better by now. Gob Lofa (talk) 11:50, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, all your edits did defy WP:BRD. I'm glad your finally starting to admit some of the many issues with your disruptive editing. Mabuska (talk) 15:03, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  NI description