Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Holidays

I have nominated "Category:Articles with Infobox holidays" for deletion. Comment there if you are interested. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:13, 30 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Dear fellow contributors, I am requesting a reassessment of the article Transfer of merit, which also deals with holidays. Thanks.--Farang Rak Tham (talk) 21:55, 5 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Michael Bednarek: and others--

Here Bednarek argues that Christmas that is both a Category:Summer holidays and Category:Winter holidays -- and thus adds it to both-- because December is Summer in the Southern Hemisphere.

While this is sound logic-- and could be done with any international holiday of this sort-- and would make the Category much less useful (and the two nearly the same).

I propose we rename them Category:December to February holidays and Category:June to August holidays. tahc ^chat 20:04, 10 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

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The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

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At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

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Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:41, 30 May 2018 (UTC)Reply