# Talk:Marian Days

Great photo Souphanousinphone. I've always meant to take a photo of the communion line, with that long line of light-up sticks, but never got around to it. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 07:10, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

What is the literal meaning of "Đại Hội Thánh Mẫu"? Does "Mẫu" mean "Mary"? Badagnani (talk) 05:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Literally, thánh mẫu means "holy example". In Vietnamese Catholicism, the title refers to the Blessed Virgin Mary. But it's also used in various other Vietnamese faiths to refer to important female deities. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 01:02, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Marian Days's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "R&E Valente":
From Our Lady of Fátima: "Vietnamese Catholics in the US". Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. WNET. 21 September 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
From Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer: "Vietnamese Catholics in the US". Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. WNET. September 21, 2012. Retrieved August 7, 2017.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 20:30, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

I know I cut a lot of content - but a lot of it was WP:PRIMARY and I'm hoping to get this article to a point that it can be nominated to be a Good Article. Gonna have to find a bit more sources to make it work, though. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 01:56, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

... that each year, around 100,000 Vietnamese Catholics attend Marian Days at Our Lady of the Ozarks College in Carthage, Missouri?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/St. Francis Seminary (Ohio), Template:Did you know nominations/Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton
Notes: Marian days is a new GA, Our Lady of the Ozarks College is a brand new article.

~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 12:06, 16 October 2025 (UTC).

 Both articles are long enough and pass GA standards as indicated in the nom (Marina Days was promoted on 16 Oct and Our Lady of the Ozarks College moved on the same day. Two QPQs done, per requirements when this was nominated. Both are generally in good shape and presentable for the main page. No evidence of copyvio or other issues, having run Earwig on both, and all images are appropriately licensed.
The hook is cited but I can't access the first link: could you provide the supporting text? I'm not sure the second quite has enough to support this as an annual figure (rather than the expectation for 2025), and it doesn't specify the location or that they're all Vietnamese Catholics. I think it just about passes the bar for WP:DYKINT, but you may wish to come up with some ALTs -- readers without a clear expectation of how many Vietnamese Catholics they would find in Missouri may not be particularly shocked. We could also do with explicitly saying that the Marian Days take place at Our Lady of the Ozarks College -- this isn't directly said in either article.
Note a of Our Lady of the Ozarks College needs a citation. UndercoverClassicist T·C 17:43, 22 October 2025 (UTC)
I've tweaked some of the wording in the articles. How about:
ALT1 ... that each year, tens of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics travel to Carthage, Missouri, to attend Marian Days at Our Lady of the Ozarks College? ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 04:40, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
Hook looks good: still need a citation on that footnote. UndercoverClassicist T·C 13:18, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
The footnote is more of an editorial explanation than an encyclopedic fact repeating a secondary source. If having the citation is important, then the footnote can just be deleted; I'm not sure if there exists a source that explains the situation resulting in said editorial decision. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 14:46, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
It contains an encyclopaedic fact: The congregation does not have a formal name for the entire campus, other than the simple "Congregation of the Mother of the Redeemer", and the title of "Immaculate Heart of Mary" only refers to one shrine chapel.. Whether that's an essential fact to include, I leave to you, but if we're going to include it, we must cite it. UndercoverClassicist T·C 15:10, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
@UndercoverClassicist: I've removed the note. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 02:27, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
Looking up, I see we never sorted the citation query. Could you provide the text from the first link that supports the hook, and (if needed after that) a quote from a second source that supports the idea that thousands attend every year? More subjective, but we're now in the odd situation where Our Lady of the Ozarks College explicitly says that Marian Days happen there, but Marian Days doesn't. UndercoverClassicist T·C 07:32, 21 November 2025 (UTC)