Talk:Kupala Night

message: I would say that the neopagan description applies.  This holiday is still enthusiastically celebrated, by people who are not at all pagans.  —Michael Z. 2006-01-10 09:42 Z
I would say that the word "Ivan" in the name of this event is absolutelly unnecessary. This is Slavic/Baltic holiday, where the name "Ivan" is not used except Russia. So the English name of the article should be "Kupala's Day" instead of "Ivan Kupala's day"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.113.204 (talk) 03:12, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Neopagan

message: I updated the the article to improve the language. Again.
Refrain from using American teenage language.
For example, do not write
The ritual was so popular that ....
Rather, write
Due to the popularity of the ritual, ...
Try your best not to transliterate Russian phrases into English directly. However, if you cannot do so, you should not hesitate to place more facts on this article. I will check once a while to normalize the language. My apologies if my actions at improving the language might leave out some essential info. Just put them back in the style of language with which you are most comfortable. On the other hand, I hope you guys will not use hyperbole  like
Sometimes, it is EVEN spelled as Ivanna. It was SO popular.
Use the word "occasionally" in place of the more colloquial "sometimes".
Hence Jewish Anderstein (talk) 05:19, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mind your language construction 

message: I've mixed the calendars. I was mislead by the begin and end. On our secular modern calendar it's on 6th/7th of July. Is that correct? If true, that's how the intro should start..., because it's used by everyone. Someone shouldn't have to dig by reading about Gregorian and Julian calendars to understand why June 24 isn't the same June 24. ऋतम् (talk) 18:56, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You’re right, it is confusing for anyone not already familiar with the Orthodox Church calendar. I’ll fix it. Also the date stuff in the sidekick, which is actually really wrong at the moment.--Geke (talk) 20:26, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Tks, it's a lot better now. ऋतम् (talk) 19:17, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Mixing up of calendars

message: Kupala Night was originally pagan holiday which was celebrated upon shortest night of the year (Everyone can check when is summer solstice, even on Wikipedia).
Change from julian to gregorian calendar in Eastern Slavic countries caused following, that some Slavic countries still celebrate Kupala on the shortest night of the year: 21 June (Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia), and those countries that made recalculation according to new (julian) calendar celebrates Kupala on 6th of July (Belarus, Russia and Ukraine).
According with the above, please take into consideration all of Slavic countries.
Change of date between Western Slavic and Eastern Slavic countries finds the same analogy as in celebrations of christian Christmas Eve, where those that use gregorian calendar celebrate it on 25th of December (December 25: Western Christianity and part of the Eastern churches) and those who use julian calendar (Orthodox christians, Eastern Slavic countries) celebrate it on 7th of January (January 7 [O.S. December 25]: Most Oriental Orthodox and part of the Eastern Orthodox churches).
Such analogy should be clear enough for all to see.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Reguly (talk • contribs) 16:43, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarifiaction of date. 

message: Why are names in non-Latin languages transliterated first with the Cyrillic names given as a tooltip? Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? Summer talk 20:00, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names section