Talk:1969 Northern Ireland riots

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 16:01, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: It would read better if there was a summary of previous riots going back into the 1800s. Otherwise it comes across that 1969 was the "start". If there is another article on previous riots it should be linked.86.44.152.36 (talk) 22:03, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Disagree, Specific article, specific subject. You want the History of Belfast article. Jdorney (talk) 01:08, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Riots before 1969

message: Since I first wrote the page new material has been published on the riots - particluarly the IRA's role in it. 'The Lost Revolution' by Scott Millar and Brian Hanley has extensive new info on this. Also I'm going to ref up earlier facts and figures which I didn't do at the time. Jdorney (talk) 12:18, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Refs and edting 

message: I downgraded this article from the B rating Asarlai gave it to a C rating for the following reasons:
# A major contribuator to the article rated it which means the chance of lack of objectivity to the criteria.
# Article has clear NPOV problems, which means it doesn't merit a B rating.
Due to the fact the article does have a lot of good sourced information, it still merits a C rating as oppossed to the start class rating. Mabuska (talk) 00:17, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Rating

message: Bernadette Devlin needs to be brought into the picture as she played a prominent role in the Battle of Bogside.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 14:47, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The Battle of the Bogside has its own article though. If there's to be an expansion of the account of her role, it should be there. Jdorney (talk) 16:08, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bernadette Devlin

message: In this article it states that there were 8 deaths during the riots, this is inaccurate, as the article itself states that 7 died in belfast, this leaves another to have died elsewhere, which i presume is reffering to the death of anopther man in armagh who was shot dead by the B Specials, giving a total of 8. However there is no mention of the 3 men shot dead by the B specials in Dungannon on the 13th of August as clearly stated on the B special page of Wikipedia. This brings the total to 11, so therefore i am changing the total number of deaths to 11. --PALESTINE1234 (talk) 14:55, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Ther ar no references on this article or on the Ulster Special Constabulary article to support that claim. If three people had been killd it would most definitly be on the Sutton Index of Deaths or the CAIN chronology. Please don't add it back unless you can back it up with a reliable source. ~Asarlaí 16:53, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The reference used for that quote is the Scarman Report. I'v read the Scarman Report and it says that people wer shot and wounded in Dungannon. It doesn't say that anyone was killd in Dungannon. ~Asarlaí 16:32, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Deaths in Dungannon

message: A quote by Jack Lynch in the article refers to the "Stormont Government", the definition of which may not be immediately obvious to readers. I have wikilinked it to Executive Committee of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland; please amend that if it is not correct. Regards, Orange Suede Sofa (talk) 19:11, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Stormont Government" 

message: The veracity of this claim is highly contested, and in fact doesn't seem to represent historical fact.
According to this paper:
‘I.R.A. – Irish Ran Away’ was painted by British soldiers on walls in Kenmare, County Kerry during 1920 – perhaps where a variant of it may have originatedThe origin of 'I ran away' began with Fr Gillespie's testimony, which he gave 8 months after the riots, in 1970. A few other papers picked it up. A year later, in 1971, Time magazine made reference to it. From there it was repeatedly published and spread, and by 1990s it had become cemented into popular imagination and retroactively accepted as fact.
I recommend moving it to a new section. I suggest 'popular myths.' Realizar (talk) 18:50, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "IRA = I Ran Away"