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The article says: "the assassination of President Kennedy a few weeks previously". Surely this should be "days", not "weeks"? Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, which is less than a week before Thanksgiving Day.
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Aren't Christmas Pageants the things in churches with people acting as Mary and Joseph and so forth? As in this?IMFromKathlene 05:09, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
But look here, here, here, and on Wikipedia Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo (South Park episode) and A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas. All are showing use of "Christmas Pageant" as a play about the nativity with large casts and churches. It seems every Children's book about Christmas used that term as well, at least they did when I was growing up. People looking for a Christmas Pageant and the description of what that is are going to come to this page and be kind of confused and/or alienated. I can't find anything on Wikipedia describing the kind of play I am thinking of and it seems widespread enough to deserve its own entry. It may be the area I live in (New Mexico, USA) but the common use I'm familiar with is that of the nativity play at churches and schools and the like-- Jesus instead of Santa. IMFromKathlene 21:34, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It seems there are in fact two uses of the word. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever convinced me. I'm not sure if it is a language difference (between British/Commonwealth/Australian and American English) or whether one of the uses is a corruption/derivation of the original. I know that the meaning you describe is what I would usually call a nativity play. I'm not sure how to proceed, but one possible option is to turn Christmas pageant into disamiguation page directing readers to both here and the as yet uncreated article nativity play. A note could also be placed at the beginning of this article to inform users of the alternate usage. Thoughts?--cj | talk 18:02, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
As a minimum we need a note. It's not just a Commonwealth vs. American English question either; in Canada, a Christmas pageant is a form of Nativity play. What this page describes is called a Santa Claus parade. - EronTalk 03:57, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I turned it into a disambig page, but it's the first time I've made one so I'm not sure if it's totally correct. Feel free to edit it. IMFromKathlene 00:24, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Where is it called a Santa Claus Parade? I've never heard that term. I've always heard Christmas Parade. Is this political correctness? CsikosLo (talk) 15:47, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Not moved. Sceptre (talk) 09:04, 8 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Santa Claus parade → Christmas parade – such parades do not need, and do not always have a Santa. Santa may also not be called Santa either (ie. Father Winter, Father Christmas, etc). Or Black Peter without Santa, a parade with Elves or Mrs. Claus without Santa, etc. -- 65.92.246.43 (talk) 22:04, 23 November 2021 (UTC) — Relisting.Extraordinary Writ (talk) 04:17, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The first sentence of the article is in direct contradiction to the nom: the parades "celebrate the official opening of the Christmas season with the arrival of Santa Claus who always appears in the last float." Station1 (talk) 05:36, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Christmas parade redirects here. Then, "Christmas parade" should not redirect here, and should be deleted, since "Santa Claus parade" certainly doesn't cover all of them. Or we could just modify the intro section. Santa is certainly not on the last float in all Santa parades, either, just many of them, so that statement is inaccurate. Sometimes he's even on one of the first floats. -- 65.92.246.43 (talk) 00:45, 3 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I believe that a Santa Claus parade is a subset of a Christmas parade — specifically, one in which there is someone dressed as Santa Claus. I think the article should be moved to Christmas parade, and the article's text should be updated accordingly, so that it still mentions Santa Claus parades. Tol (talk | contribs) @
Oppose This article really isn't even about general Christmas parades. It's about parades celebrating the arrival of Santa as described in the first sentence. This article should maybe be changed to be about general Christmas parades though, or Christmas parade should be it's own separate article. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 06:19, 3 December 2021 (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.
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Christmas parade. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 9#Christmas parade until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. 65.92.246.43 (talk) 03:38, 9 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
