From: Ray
Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 23:59:31 -0800
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)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.