Talk:State of emergency

change "active in" in examples to "declared in"

The lists of examples at the end of the article have the titles "active in <YEAR>". Shouldn't it be "declared in"? For example, isn't Ethiopia in a State of Emergency still now in 2022? -- Marshagreen — Preceding undated comment added 11:12, 28 February 2022 (UTC)

Emergency in the US federal government is not a "state"

Referring to a federal emergency as a "state of emergency" is common among those making dire claims about US policy, but seems quite scarce in legal practice. In IEEPA orders for example, the President finds that a threat exists and declares "an emergency to deal with that threat." If US legal instruments do not declare "states of emergency" then neither should the phrase be used in the US section of this article.

Specifically, any claim added to the article to the effect that "the US is in a state of emergency" based on some executive order the editor dug up should be removed ASAP. Such an edit does not prove any sudden change in how the government operates; rather, it proves the editor's naivete about how the government has operated over the course of its history. 50.185.134.48 (talk) 05:32, 9 July 2015 (UTC)

"I hereby declare a national emergency"-Trump Endercase (talk) 08:57, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

I believe the two distinct things were being confused. See Wiktionary, "state" (noun) versus "State". The article title or the condition of the US government might be a state of emergency; whereas a State might have an emergency. Welcome to the confusing English language. 74.104.188.4 (talk) 17:39, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Split article?

The Examples section is growing way too long, and US-centric. I propose a separate list article, if people want to list each individual country and state's declarations. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 12:08, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

The list now terminates at the date it was declared a state of emergency for the entire country. This is still on the long-ish side, but isn't too unreasonable. I do notice a similar issue has arisen for other countries, all the provinces of Canada are individually listed. Might be worthwhile splitting the list into a separate COVID-19 article, and include fewer dates from the COVID-19 saga. Rate me unsure, though Canada needs to be cleaned up. 74.104.188.4 (talk) 04:51, 13 May 2020 (UTC)