Talk:List of winter festivals

Orthococks Christmas is not January 6th

Orthococks Christmas is not January 6th. In Russia they celebrate Christmas on January 7th but that is only because December 25th in the Julian Calendar, the calendar the Russians and some other Orthodox use for religious purposes, falls on January 7th. But Orthodox Christmas is the 25th of December on both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. If you use the Julian calendar however Christmas will fall on the 7th of January on the Gregorian calendar as I already said. The Orthocox Church does not have a seperate Christmas from the 25th of December.did you know christmas is the day Jesus was born and died

POV

Apart from the spelling mistake in the title, I think this is a hopelessly POV page. -- Tarquin 15:28, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I think this page might be better served by being called, for example, "Festivals that occur near the Winter Solstice" or something of the sort. Christmas itself would then be included. - Montréalais 17:55, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

So I moved it. Montréalais

What's it for? Some of those Christian holidays (circumcision) are not "winter festivals" per se, though they occur during the winter. Evertype 13:54, 2004 Dec 24 (UTC)

For a user's POV in the POV discussion, I landed to this page after scouring the English wikipedia for "I have a colleague who follows religion X in (non-western) country Y, please give me an idea of whether there is something appropriate I can wish them (including if they even have 'holidays' at this time of year)". This service is not provided by Christmas worldwide as it describes how big an event the thing called Christmas is in a given country for a subset of them. Christmas and holiday season barely gets out of North America in its analysis (but links to this page in "see also", at least), and Christmas controversy discusses the history of gripes only, with a big box on the bottom on how Christmas specifically is celebrated. I found this article to be incomplete but still partially useful for my purpose, and compared to the others I dug through it seems the most appropriate location for the information as well. Sini Ruohomaa (talk) 11:42, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Yule is not a celtic festival?

It's not a Celtic word, anyway. It's Germanic. Evertype 13:53, 2004 Dec 24 (UTC)

Non-Winter Non-Festival Holidays?

So why are All Saints Day (December 1) and St. Nicholas' Day (December 6) listed here when they are only nominally holidays, rather than celebrated with festivals, and they occur in the Fall? Winter starts on or about December 21 each year. You might as well list Saint Swithin's Day (July 15). 71.254.253.7 (talk) 00:53, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Winter-Een-Mas

Does anyone actually celebrate this? If not, I suggest a "fictional" catagory, to which I can add Hogswatchnight 8-). Daibhid C 18:48, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

We could add the Pastafarian 'Holiday' here as well, if need be. -EarthRise33 (talk) 13:43, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Did it. -EarthRise33 (talk) 04:58, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Beaglemas

On 27 December 1831 Charles Darwin set forth in the HMS Beagle. This was an "On this day" article for 2006-12-27. I mentioned to a friend that it was yet another Winter festival... Googling does yield a few instances of Beaglemas greetings. Enough to list it here as a secular holiday? :-) -- Evertype·✆ 13:35, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Protection

Mh.. I protected the page beacuse it was ongoing vandalism. I semiprotected first but the anonymous kpet vandalizing... sorry if this was wrong... but as you can see from the history the vandalism was going on even with the semi-protection --Legion fi 08:54, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I've succesfuly restored the article and moved it to semi-protect... hope the vandal is gone. --Legion fi 08:58, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

fucking lame

Possible inclusions

Shouldn't Kwanzaa be included? Luis Dantas (talk) 16:26, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Weird wording found

• "Yuletide", in the Secular category, talks about two names but supplies only one. Luis Dantas (talk) 16:26, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Halloween a winter festival?

From what I understand Halloween is a fall festival, not a winter festival. So what is it doing on this list? Can anybody clarify it's purpose for being here? Nomardll769 (talk) 00:37, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Chalica

Chalica is listed under fictional holidays. It may be a newly created holiday but it is NOT fictional. It was created by real people in the real world, and is celebrated by real people in the real world. I'd move it myself, but I'm not sure where it should go. PLEASE fix this! musicalmeg20 (talk) 05:59, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Groundhog Day

Groundhog day is assuredly a winter festival. It seems to be a modern evolution from Candlemas day. See the movie, it is great. I will add it later when I have a bit more time. --Marcwiki9 (talk) 22:51, 23 December 2010 (UTC)

Christmas

Hmm..I would include Christmas as a secular holiday as well (unless the intent of the article is to have mutually exclusive celebrations, which also doesn't seem right). Many secular or non-religious people celebrate Christmas in a secular way (Christmas tree, Christmas lights, presents, mythology of Santa etc).Buzzbo (talk) 03:34, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm not on any team watching this page, but you have a very good point that may be simple enough to address. What if under the Christian category, it can say "(celebrated as the birth of Jesus)" after "Christmas", and under the Secular category, it can say "(celebrated as a winter holiday)" or something to that effect after. Just a thought. musicalmeg20 (talk) 07:26, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Hallowe'en not secular?

It is clearly stated on the Halloween page that Hallowe'en originates from all hallows ever which is the night before All Saints Day, which should thus make it religious holiday rather than secular. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.98.145.5 (talk) 06:35, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

Secular label causes confusion

As just mentioned, Halloween, Christmas, and Thanksgiving could be argued as being secular or not. Under the thanksgiving page, no where is the word secular even mentioned. It's silly to have a secular label, because every holiday can be celebrated in a secular way. I would suggest removing the secular label and defining a more precise labeling system. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.82.8.0 (talk) 18:49, 21 December 2011 (UTC)