Talk:Public holidays in Chile

Chile Holidays

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Leon Hu 12/7/04

Sept.18th is not Independence Day in Chile ?

User:200.42.177.195 left the following message on Talk:Independence Day:

You made a BIG mistake about Chile. Chile's independence is on february 12, 1814(although we don't celebrate it due to particular reasons with O'higgins, so we celebrate our first "junta" day (september 18, 1810)). Too bad that this was featured on the home page of wikipedia...

I wonder if National Day would be more appropriate vocabulary on this list of holidays in Chile. -- PFHLai 13:51, 18 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sex and Pornography Day on January 18

Is this real ? --64.229.207.142 21:11, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Of course no. Whats happens with the people?!? --Lady Kya (talk) 13:46, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CieloEstrellado: your version of this article has several mistakes that you insist on writing in.

CieloEstrellado, as I've told you several times, please stop writing in wrong data in this article.

Your most notorious mistakes are:

1) You keep stating that May 1 is a holiday since 2003 (On January 16, 2003, May 1 is established as a holiday in the Labor Code.), not even erasing the preexisting information (On 1931-04-30, President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo promulgated the "Decree Enforceable as Law" ("Decreto con Fuerza de Ley") 130, marking May 1 (May Day) as holiday.).

2) You keep stating that censuses are holidays since 1970 (On December 10, 1970 Law 17,374 established as holiday the day when the official census is held.), which isn't true: 1970 census WASN'T a holiday; censuses in 1982 and 1992 were holidays due to ad-hoc laws (18,116 and 19,116); law 19,790 (published in february 1992) modified law 17,374 to mark any further censuses as holidays (1992's was the first one due to this law). I cleared up that confusion in a revision, CITING sources, but you erased the entire paragraph.

3) You state that law 18,700 establishes holidays for elections (On May 6, 1988, Law 18,700 established that days coinciding with elections and plebiscites are to be legal holidays.), but this isn't the whole story: presidential (not parliamentary) elections have been holidays since the early XX century. Again, you erased the entire paragraph.

4) You keep erasing the link to the main "Días Feriados en Chile" source, but -oddly- not to a secondary link within the same source.

It would seem that each time you edit this page, you simply paste in a copy of your previous version of the contents, without bothering to read the new revision's differences. IMHO, that's not the proper way to edit wikipedia content.

I wrote this a few days ago in your talk page, but you don't even acknowledge it, so now I'm forced to call your attention in the article's discussion page.

Perhaps you don't want to believe me, and that's fine... but DO believe the sources I extracted the information from. Every piece of data I've written in this article can be traced back to the scanned copies of the Diario Oficial, available at http://www.diariooficial.cl/ .

So, please take the time to actually read the article as it stands now, admit that you've made some mistakes and stop replacing correct information with wrong data.

Mfarah (talk) 15:02, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm requesting page protection.

You keep reverting the properly cited, properly sourced, information that I wrote in. Considering your behaviour in the Honduras articles, it seems you simply can not discuss or edit content following the Wikipedia guidelines. Enough is enough: I'm requesting a page protection to end this edit war.

190.196.70.195 (talk) 14:12, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

OOPS: logged out without realizing it. Anyway, that comment's mine. Mfarah (talk) 14:13, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

POV statement

The phrase:

In the past it was a religious holiday (Feast of the Circumcision of Christ), but its original meaning has been lost.

is not backed by an authoritative source, but by a self-published source added by the author himself. It is also not neutral. I recommend that it be deleted if not properly sourced according to WP:V and WP:RS. ☆ CieloEstrellado 19:27, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Use of http://www.farah.cl/Feriados/ as source

User:mfarah has used its own personal self-published site http://www.farah.cl/Feriados/ as a source for this article. The user has admitted the site is his at the article's talk page in the Spanish-language Wikipedia.

I removed the source because it seemingly violates WP:SPS, WP:ELNO #11 and possibly also WP:ELNO #4. It may be permissible under WP:ELMAYBE #4, but this needs to be assessed by a third-party, normally a Wikipedia administrator.

I recommend User:mfarah against reinstating the link until the situation has been evaluated externally. ☆ CieloEstrellado 19:48, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]