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Microsoft Bing featured this article by redacting it down to: "Sarah Hale is considered the “Mother of Thanksgiving” - "Although Thanksgiving has historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well.[citation needed]"
This is highly spurious seeing as Sarah Hale was religious and referred to Almighty God. In addition, the claim of it being a secular holiday is just thrown on the page as a blanket statement without any citation. This bold claim should be removed or properly cited. HumbleJoe5 (talk) 12:22, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The article suggests Friendsgiving started in the 2010's.
I am closely associated with a group of friends that started celebrating Thanksgiving together on the Sunday and then Saturday after the holiday. We have celebrated together since 1985. In 1992 to differentiate our celebrations I made up the portmanteau Friendsgiving and we have called it that since. We started with eight couples or so, now with children and grandchildren, friends have come and gone we generally number in the thirties. Overtime at least sixty have attended and I understand the second generation have their own Friendsgivings. Kenwilliams0603 (talk) 18:38, 22 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Agreeing with this article being mostly nonsense[edit]
Why does this article even exist? There is an article about "Harvest festival" under which most of the here mentioned observances would fit much better.
What makes the Chinese harvest festival only a harvest festival, but not a "thanksgiving" while the German one is supposedly a "thanksgiving" albeit not very well known in the country at all? The entire "Similarly named holidays" section has no business being there at all and should only be mentioned in the Harvest festival article. Not to mention that the entire section about Germany does not have a single source to back it up. Not only is the festival not popular at all, but the Oktoberfest is randomly mentioned as if there was a connection between these two even though the origins of the Oktoberfest are secular in its entirety. Seca112 (talk) 01:34, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I agree, it's a pointless article. The problem seems to be that Thanksgiving is a major event in US culture, and American editors are constantly trying to globalise it by drawing parallels with completely unrelated harvest festivals in other countries. The article is much better than it used to be now that the US and Canadian stuff has been split off, but it no longer really has a reason to exist. --Ef80 (talk) 19:26, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
For the majority of people who don't live in the USA, it would be nice to get a feeling for what it mainly means. But the title photo shows a table with only 3 chairs and no space for people to put their plates. Can somebody come up with something better? Groogle (talk) 01:36, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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