At 01:34 PM 9/28/02 -0600, Jim wrote:
Looking at the historical anniversary pages for days I
think it would be
more logical to order them like this:
Day of the year
Holidays
Events
Births
Deaths
With holidays moved up to the second item from the last. The reason is
that the holiday is celebrated every year, so it makes more sense to have
it nearer the top so it is easier to find. You could argue that everyone
knows December 25th is Christmas, but to those who celebrate Christmas,
that is the most significant thing about that, and you would be surprised
how many people don't know that it is Christmas.
I am more then willing to start making the changes, but I would like some
comments on this first so I don't start a format war.
I posted this to
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Historical_anniversaries/Example as
well and welcome comments there.
I disagree. The holidays aren't all fixed (there are entries about
Christian movable
feasts on some days, for example), and I think more people go to such pages for
"what happened today" than for "is it a holiday". Newspaper lists of
this
sort don't
usually bother with holidays at all.
Also, yes the holiday is celebrated every year, but it's also the
anniversary of
Isaac Newton's birth every year.
I posted an expanded version of this on the Wiki page in question.
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Vicki Rosenzweig
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