Talk:Friendship Day

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This has way too many outgoing links. I would prune the list, in keeping with WP:LINK. Which links are more important here? Shabda 08:48, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How many people outside America have even heard of this?

The "international" part of this article seems a bit dubious, could someone provide proof that this is even widely known about let alone celebrated? I'm in Europe and have never heard of this festival, neither has anyone I've asked. Unless there's proof to the contrary, surely we should assume this is a US-only thing? --88.112.159.22 (talk) 19:28, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. It seems very Indian this festival to me. Even the site http://www.friendshipday.org/ is published by "Society for the confluence of festivals in India". It all does seem like some kind of marketing ploy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.222.64.211 (talk) 20:39, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks & you're right. Yes as verified with my Indian colleagues here in SG, most of people from Indian Subcontinent should be aware of this festival especially the students in colleges. Back to the whole Asia / EA / SEA, it is really not so popular in local life as I experienced, while that really depend on countries you stay as I believe. --Gzyeah (talk) 03:14, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,I think this article and the one here >>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Día_del_Amigo must be joined together.IU know nothing about a Friendship day in other parts of the world,but we Argentinian people do celebrate it on the 20th of July.And the story behind it is as told in the Dia del Amigo article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.189.80.171 (talk) 04:33, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This year, the united nation declared July 30th as the official international day of Friendship. The reference to the resolution is now in the article. I think that solves the question about the validity of the article. User:cdparra —Preceding undated comment added 19:46, 1 August 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Actually, it seems that there are a few different "Friendship Days" in different countries, celebrated on different days, which are covered by this article. The UN "International Friendship Day" only forms part of this article. I suggest that the article be moved (back) to Friendship Day so that it can more accurately capture the different variants. —sroc (talk) 08:06, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agree... I just received a message about wishes of friendship-day sent by random user from Libya on "WeChat" IM few minutes ago... which is my first time to heard about this festival... probably it is still not very well known yet in world today... and since the name settled by UN is more particular for the day on 30th July, rather than "every first Sunday of August" which is applied by most of countries on the globe, it should be right to move back this page to "Friendship Day" with origin of its development, while creating another paragraph to talk about decision of UN for "International Friendship Day" separately as the best way to do. --Gzyeah (talk) 17:30, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It is a very popular celebration in Argentina. I grew up there. Dario (talk) 02:10, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I thought the Disney Corporation promoted August 1 as "Friendship Day" as a tie-in to their Winnie the Pooh franchise.Inkan1969 (talk) 01:16, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hoax?

I was born in and have lived in the United States for 22 years and have never heard of this holiday. I've tried verifying the claim that this holiday was created by a declaration of the US Congress in 1935 to no avail. I can't find the exact date of this declaration, the name of the bill, or the declaration itself. The only cited "source" for this holiday is a non-historic article trying to sell products by brand name and doesn't appear to be reliable (I'm about to remove it).

The origins of this holiday appear to be a hoax and this article should either be updated to reflect that or deleted unless someone can actually find a real source. It seems that this holiday is somehow related to Bangladesh or India based upon what I'm seeing; I saw a reference to the former on Facebook, the latter via a Web search and this page, as well as references to Hinduism via Web search.

Patrick Garies (talk) 04:36, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Same here, and I'm more than twice that age. However, it does seem to be catching on in South Asian social networking sites, and I have been told through SMS as well. I was told by an informant in India that its origins were western. So it may be that it's a South Asian holiday in origin, but that it's believed to have these American origins referred to in the article. I'm going to try to address the article to be a little more accurate, based on what we know so far. Bruxism (talk) 08:39, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There is an International Friendship Day started in the Republic of Paraguay after the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia (I believe it is celebrated on the 30th of July). There is also the "Dia del Amigo" and the "Dia do Amigo" celebrated in many South American countries including Brazil. I'm just not sure what day they are celebrated. The "Dia Internacional de la Amistad" in Paraguay is one of their most important holidays; in fact many Paraguayans have trouble believing that it is not celebrated elsewhere. People go to lunch with colleagues, buy their friends small gifts and call or text everyone in their circle. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.209.23.60 (talk) 18:43, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dia del Amigo in Argentina is July 20th and is a widely celebrated day. The date was chosen by Enrique Ernesto Febbraro, a dentist, inspired by the landing of Apollo XI on the Moon on 7/20/69, which he viewed as an event where all people around the world where, as one, watching such an amazing event. An interview posted on youtube here> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcxF3z7zNrM 74.67.161.19 (talk) 02:56, 23 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Friendship Day is one of the most popular event after New Year which is celebrated all over the world... but not as important as national festivals — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.206.56.129 (talk) 10:05, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 13 October 2014

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The result of the move request was: move the page, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 03:14, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

International Friendship Day → Friendship Day – The most popular general term used by major countries individually in the world, similar to normal Children's Day comparing with International Children's Day of Women's International Democratic Federation. --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 03:13, 21 October 2014 (UTC) Gzyeah (talk) 14:17, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Strong support its not only about international friendships and so the proposed title is more accurate as well as having wider use. Gregkaye ✍♪ 06:56, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Facebook's friendship day

On Feb 2, 2017, Facebook (and Facebook users) celebrated "friends day"... [1] --Fjmustak (talk) 22:09, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Short Description

Why is the short description in Spanish? I saw that on my phone when I looked it up. LPS and MLP Fan (LittlestPetShop) (MyLittlePony) 18:47, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]