::::::I tried to help write Global Warming, so yes I've read them all. The Global Warming scientists that control the articles pretty much shut anything out and drive any editors away. But that's a different topic. We have completely different views on Columbus Day and what it means. Slavery and atrocities may have a good reason for being in the Christopher Columbus article, not a celebration on the western discovery of the new world. At least not in the lead. I don't have guilt about about my roots nor do I judge the 1400s by 2014 standards. We've had presidents who have had slaves killed, but those were different times. I look at western culture being brought to the America's as a great thing... I wouldn't be here without it. Bad things happened for sure, but the holiday isn't going around and celebrating the death of Indians. I don't see parades with people walking with sticks, with hands and feet and heads attached. They are celebrating the western discovery of a New World that led to the United States of America. Shall we also add all the atrocities American Indians did to each other and settlers in our Indigenous Peoples Day article and Native American Day articles? I wouldn't. It's 2014, and over 500 years have passed. So Columbus Day or Discovery Day is a time to celebrate and the article is about those celebrations and parades. Sure we mention that there are groups opposed to the Federal Holiday... there are groups opposed to Halloween too. And we mention that Columbus was not a nice guy, even in Genoa and Spain, but that is really for the Christopher Columbus article not the holiday. We can link to that article if need be. But to heap 500 years of atrocities on one holiday is ridiculous.