Talk:Riot Act

Idiomatic

I don't know how many acts of parliament there are in the UK, a few thousand I'd say, do we want this one? If it's idiomatic yes, or is it only as part of read someone the riot act that it's idiomatic? Mglovesfun (talk) 09:55, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

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Riot Act

Proper noun, an English law. There have been a lot of English/British acts of parliament, I see no reason to include this. Note I'm not disputing read someone the riot act or even a possible common noun riot act which we don't have, but the etymology can link to the Wikipedia article w:Riot Act which is the proper place with Acts of Parliament. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:41, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Delete. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 16:04, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Delete per Nom.--Dmol (talk) 20:39, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Hmm, but we include Obamacare. What's the difference? - -sche (discuss) 01:17, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

What's the similarity? Mglovesfun (talk) 21:14, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Why have the name of one law but not the name of another? - -sche (discuss) 23:29, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

If the entry is to be trusted, Obamacare is not one law, and it’s not the actual name of any. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 23:32, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

What Ungoliant said really, ObamaCare isn't the name of a law but a slang word (single word) for any of several bits of legislations. If there were any English/British Acts that had a single word name, we might have to keep them, but since all of them contain the word 'Act' as far as I know, there are none. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:38, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Delete per nom. DCDuring TALK 23:47, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

deleted -- Liliana • 22:44, 26 July 2013 (UTC)