curprev16:5416:54, 3 June 2024 AnandaBlisstalkcontribs 118,541 bytes+3 Undid revision 1226285420byIndyguy (talk) Only partially reverting because I believe the new source is far superior. This article seems to look at countries as a whole, not every sub-jurisdiction. The sentence seems to think Easter would be a holiday, save for being on a Sunday, which is a strange assumption point for a secular country.
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curprev17:4617:46, 29 May 2024 Indyguytalkcontribs 118,538 bytes−41 Undid revision 1226282866byAnandaBliss (talk) Good Friday is a state holiday in some states, so this blanket statement is incorrect. Also, Christmas is a federal and state holiday, so the fact that the US is secular doesn't seem to prevent holidays with religious context from being observedTag: Undo
curprev05:5905:59, 10 May 2024 Ashmedai 119talkcontribs 118,575 bytes+92 →First Council of Nicaea (325 AD): +wikilink, correcting claim, per Mosshammer, op.cit., p. 65 ("Dionysius was neither alone nor without precedent in claiming Nicene authority for the 19-year cycle. As Max Lejbowicz (2006: 50–60) has shown, the attribution of a 19-year cycle to the Council of Nicaea was well established by the end of the fourth century."), editing sentence to preclude misunderstanding
curprev10:2710:27, 8 May 2024 Ashmedai 119talkcontribs 118,446 bytes−163 changing sequence, the existence of controversies ont he day of Paschal observance precede the First Council of Nicaea, editing text per source cited and the text in the subsection on the Council
curprev10:2210:22, 8 May 2024 Ashmedai 119talkcontribs 118,638 bytes−886 →Date: deleting unsourced text about the decisions of the Council of Nicaea, which is covered in a specific subsection -- the reference is to a primary source (the link is dead, seems to have linked to this webpage: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf202.ii.viii.xxiii.html )
curprev09:0209:02, 8 May 2024 Ashmedai 119talkcontribs 119,523 bytes+299 →First Council of Nicaea (325 AD): correcting source misrepresentation (p.52:"This denial to Nicaea of any Paschal rule may have gone too far. [...] It is therefore fair to say that the Council ‘apparently’ or ‘implicitly’ endorsed the rule of the equinox, even if it published no rule as such") -- cf. the book's BMCR review: https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009.05.57/ ("Mosshammer convincingly argues that the attendees of Nicaea [etc])
curprev17:1617:16, 5 April 2024 Hazhktalkcontribs 119,654 bytes+129 →Non-observing Christian groups: Rewording. Note:The Guardian article can be used to cite theories about Pagan origins of Easter (including debunked theories re Ishtar), but what it doesn't state is that **some Christian groups choose not to commemorate the holiday for this reason**. Tagged.
curprev13:5613:56, 1 April 2024 BDDtalkcontribs 119,550 bytes−409 →Date: OR and just wrong—the dates can be the same in some years. Source cited was about the early Roman calendar and said nothing about EasterTags: Mobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit