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Also, to expand on this point, Wikipedia policy is that we don't disambiguate in article titles where there is no confusion.
Support as per Interstellarity and In ictu oculi (i.e. let Labor Day redirect to Labour Day). I was surprised to read this page and conclude that it was for the US holiday; we should aim for "the principle of least astonishment". --PerLundberg (talk) 18:26, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Your notion of "least astonishment" has no basis in current Wikipedia article titles guidelines or policies. There is no point to add additional length to the article title when the spelling itself is sufficient to disambiguate, per User:Rreagan007 and User:Yaksar. The title proposed by User:Shhhnotsoloud is awkward, ungainly, and lengthy. As a programmer, you should know better. (I'm specifically thinking of Hungarian notation and how the current consensus is towards keeping unnecessary information out of method names.) Please engage in the normal good faith process of seeking changes to the current consensus (i.e., initiate an RfC on the relevant policies or guidelines) rather than supporting irregular and unnecessarily long article titles. --Coolcaesar (talk) 19:19, 28 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. In general I am skeptical of WP:SMALLDETAILS but this is a rare case where it makes sense: the only relevant disambig targets would be "Labor Day" in countries that spell it that way, which is no other English-langauge speaking countries. So someone spelling it without the "u" almost assuredly means the US version. The only possible confusing would be the film & the novel spelled "Labor", but those meanings are clearly dwarfed by the holiday. SnowFire (talk) 23:52, 30 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
This whole section seems questionable, but in particular it references a "two-week vacation" as if that's common (it isn't in the US) and cites what is little more than an op-ed piece in the Washington Post (but labels it as Travelocity) as justification for it being the "end of summer." Wfdexter (talk) 15:19, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at the daily pageviews for this article it is self-evident that last year on May 1st a lot of people (87K) were misguided into the US Labor Day page, possibly from google searches (as in my case today). For native English speakers from the United States, the distinction between "Labor Day" and "Labour Day" might be enough to disambiguate which public holiday one is accurately referring. Yet, Wikipedia is a Cosmopolitan project, not a US centric one (even if sometimes it appears so). There are 1.453 billion English speakers, there are 245.5 million US native English speakers. Thus, it is in the interest of the vast majority of English speakers around the globe that when one searches either "Labor Day" or "Labour Day" the first hit is the international Wikipedia page (unless you are geographically located in the US). This problem will only be exacerbated as more people continue to learn English as a second language.
Additionally, the current disambiguation strategy (aka "Labour" and "Labor"), does not meet the accessibility criteria for visually impaired users (or those using text-to-speech) since the pronunciation of labor and labour is exactly the same, and is defined by the reading voice you selected.
My suggestion is to add an adjective to this page as: "American Labor Day", "US Labor Day", or something akin. And the international page should be linked to both "Labor Day" and "Labour Day".
