At 04:05 AM 12/8/03 -0700, Fred wrote:
From: Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 23:59:31 -0800 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Request for Arbitration
A [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:
Wik keeps removing "Halloween" from [[October 2003]]; in my part of the world, Halloween was front page news for a week -- there was a great deal of discussion about the decline of Halloween in Europe. Please arbitrate this issue.
Isn't this just a little too trivial to call for arbitration?
Ec
Halloween is a major holiday, celebration, or whatever in the US, not quite as big as Christmas. It is an established fact, not subject to serious dispute. Removal of any known, well-established fact from an article where it clearly belongs is a serious matter. Hiding behind a claim of triviality is not a defense. It is like someone who shortchanges you a nickel every time you deal with them.
"Halloween" belongs on the list of holidays on the [[October 31]] page, as Christmas does on [[December 25]] and Bastille Day on [[July 14]]. That doesn't make it a specific [[October 2003]] event; certainly newspaper articles on the lack of interest in it this year don't strike me as making it an October 2003 event.