Talk:Śmigus-dyngus

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Did you know... that Polish girls (pictured) are getting wet and spanked today, but will have their revenge tomorrow?

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Protection

Who the hell had the bright idea to link this to the main page without at least semi-protecting it? Are you all daft? --72.177.182.222 (talk) 03:52, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the front page got vandalized. Are the mods making a stupid joke for April Fools day? Because its not a good one for an educational website. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 04:37, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pages are not protected pre-emptively. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 04:30, 1 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you believe it is a stupid joke, you can wait until next year and oppose every single April Fools' Day joke Wikipedia'll post. These articles and their blurbs were in the queue for months, too late to complain about it. Tbhotch.^™ Grammatically incorrect? Correct it! See terms and conditions. 04:56, 1 April 2013 (UTC).[reply]

I came here from the reddit frontpage and found a vandalized page. I reverted it. Please protect it now. 92.59.126.57 (talk) 01:24, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Dziady

With regard to the image of the "Dziady śmigustne" I'm not 100% sure whether these are costumes or constructions (put on a cart and pulled around). From little snippets on google books it looks like in some places the latter is true, while in others people do (or did, most of these traditions have died out) make costumes out of straw and walk around asking for food etc., which is some kind of an allusion to refugees from a Tatar raid.Volunteer Marek 19:42, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

B-class

Reviewed and passed for WPPOLAND. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:15, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Globalise

Based on Easter customs article, Wet Monday is known also in other teritories with Hungarian-speaking community, for example Transylvania, Vojvodina. There is also link for Watering Monday. However in this article is very fewly informations without Polish/Polish-American activities. Dawid2009 (talk) 20:57, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's 2023, 7 years after this initial "Globalise" comment.

Why is Wet Monday redirected to Śmigus-dyngus and not the other way around? This holiday is Oblyvanyi Ponedilok – ‘pour-over Monday’ in Ukraine, "locsolkodás" in Hungary, and is also widely celebrated in Slovakia (Veľká noc) &c. The Polish diaspora community has a prominent role in maintaining the traditional festival activities in the United States, but it seems like the article would be better framed around the shared elements that are common to the broader region before discussing local ethnic customs. Additionally, the Roman Catholic vs. Orthodox elements are not clearly separated (or acknowledged)--possibly a hangover from the Poland-orientation of the piece?

For now, I added the Ukrainian and Slokavian sections, and I'm leaving as is, but this piece needs serious consideration for recategorization.

Sicklemoon (talk) 12:53, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism

Macedon, VA
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Dyngus Day in Macedon is celebrated with a town festival and folk dressed along Appian Way. Local celebrations are often held as well as festivals where local residents wear bright, green colors.^[1]

This appears to be Vandalism, but I don't know how to find or revert to the original text. The citation link is dead, but there appears to be an identical article here that talks about Dyngus Day in South Bend, IN. Macedon, VA is nonexistent, and the Appian Way doesn't pass through Macedonia or Virginia.

References

^ Colwell, Jack (12 April 2009). "The Dyngus Day Tradition Continues" (fee required). South Bend Tribune. Retrieved 2011-04-26.

Wilamowice / Wymysoü / Wilmesau

But, concerning the second picture: W. is in Upper Silesia and the culture and the traditions there are very specific: partly Silesian, partly German, partly Polish, above all: Wymysorys/Vilamovian (of Duch, Frisian and so on origin). The choise isn´t very good because W. stands (like an "island") for a very different situation - it´s a "mosaic", an a little bit "exotic" ethnographical case, a combination of traditions.

And generally: Upper Silesia lays (partly) in today`s Poland but the local population and the (rich and colourful) history of the Silesian region are in many aspects not the same ones, in some points even quite/very opposite. Sorry for my - I know - not perfect English (yet), best regards.

Śmingus Dyngus

Why are you changing the name of this tradition in Poland? It’s been always called Śmingus Dyngus, not śmigus. Our grandparents, our parents and us call it Śmingus Dyngus. 49.190.240.166 (talk) 06:24, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[sbt-1] Colwell, Jack (12 April 2009). "The Dyngus Day Tradition Continues" (fee required). South Bend Tribune. Retrieved 2011-04-26.

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