Talk:Day of Silence

message: I don't understand how the word "oppression" is being used in the section heading "Opposition/oppression." I don't think the section deals with anyone being oppressed. Can you clarify? BarkingDoc 15:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't get it either, it sounds kind of mean. Homestarmy 15:13, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Oppression?

message: There was a tag at Alliance Defense Fund suggesting the "Day Of Truth" be merged there, so I went ahead and did it. I think that information makes a lot more sense in the context of the ADF's other activities, and I don't see any noteworthy reason for it to be here, at least not in any detail. The Day of Truth also has its own article. BarkingDoc 18:09, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merged Opposition to ADF 

message: From the article:
:"There have been several instances in which participants of the Day of Silence faced disciplinary action for the disturbance of regular day-to-day school operations."
I actually believe this is true, and I think we can leave it in for now, but can the contributor or someone find a source which would support it? There might be something on the Day Of Silence website.
I did have to remove the new "opposition" section-- I understand the intent, but anything like that really needs to have sources. This isn't the place for debate. BarkingDoc 21:11, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Find a source? 

message: I think the source listed for how many people participated, along with the estimation should be removed. It provides no references to how the estimation is made. The validity of the claim is highly suspect based on the sites agenda. --FreeThoughts (talk) 09:05, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of people participating 

message: The article IMO leaves it to the readers judgment if this day is a "LGTB-Action Only" or if it is meant to support anybody who is recipient/victim of bullying and harassment, regardless of whatever group/class/peer they belong to. The Goal would certainly have to be to end ALL bullying, or am I wrong? Are some people being left behind?
-80.135.159.224 (talk) 13:51, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think most people observing the Day of Silence would agree that all bullying is wrong, but this event is specifically a protest of the way that GLBT teens have to be silent about themselves or risk harassment, and the way schools often choose to be silent about the existence of GLBT teens. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 16:31, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification please? 

message: I think I'm going to be adding a few sentences about Lawrence King under the history section. He's the middle schooler from Oxnard that was shot by another kid during class because of his sexuality. This year's Day Of Silence is going to be held in memory of him.
Also, I'm correcting the date. For some reason someone said the DOS is always on a Friday, this year it's actually a Tuesday and, I believe, last year was a Wednesday.
Teh darkcloud (talk) 02:09, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lawrence King

message: There's absolutely no information in this article as to how (or even whether) the Day of Silence takes place outside the US. If it is mostly/entirely an American thing, then this should be mentioned in the lead. If it's more international, then some non-US examples should be given. 86.132.137.5 (talk) 04:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added "in the United States" to the intro, since it does indeed seem to be strictly an American event. --Delirium (talk) 07:35, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

text: it has been done in canada as well, so maybe in north america 199.185.84.194 (talk) 16:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outside the US? 

message: I've removed material that seemed to be more about explaining what's bad about being gay than explaining what the Day of Silence is, or even explaining who opposes it and why.  More neutral and sourced information about the counter-protests would be useful, especially the observation of Day of Truth which some groups sponser. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 16:29, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: My recent edits

message: I'm wondering whether this article is as objective as it should be. While I am certainly not against the rights of LGBT people and believe that their voices should be heard just as loudly as straight people, the article neglects to mention some of the downsides to a day of silence. When I was in high school, the day of silence seemed impractical, since students are not allowed to verbally express their opinions and purposes. Also, a school-wide observance of this event often disrupts actual teaching and learning at schools by removing many students from the schools and prohibiting protesters from engaging in school activities. Also, "conservatives" are not the only opponents to this event, so I don't think that the last section should be titled "conservative criticism." There should definitely be a section that outlines these criticisms, which can are commonly found in media coverage of the day of silence events at public schools. See this Seattle Times article on a  recent day of silence event to start with.     http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004373481_websilence25e.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.91.148.170 (talk) 22:14, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I pretty much agree with what you've said, and I do beleive that the "Opposition" section should be more inclusive of other views. I've started by removing "Conservative" from the section heading. —Mears man (talk) 02:54, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And I added material as well.  The way it was written it looked like the efforts to get kids to skip school was all talk and no action.  I have added an example of actual action, and coincidentally it is similar to the one above. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling (talk) 03:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Objectivity? 

message: The page says:
:thumb|right|400px|The Day of Silence logo that can be seen on their website.
This is incorrect.  This is not the logo.  That is just a graphic on the page, like the "Remember Lawrence King" graphic.  The logo is "Day of Silence" in red and grey letters with striped red underlining and the r in a circle registration mark ®.  I was going to remove the graphic but that might have been too drastic, so I'm bringing it to people's attention here.  And that caption is poorly worded anyway. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling (talk) 05:02, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello, we meet again...  I think it's both.  The red and black mouth logo is called brand.jpg on their site.  Since they explicitly offer banners for placement on web sites; this undated combined one would probably be best to replace the current one in the article.  —EqualRights (talk) 13:44, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's better.  That mouth brand is totally unrecognizable.  At least combined with the words it's much better.  A brand is designed to be recognizable.  That benefits both the brand's owner and the consumer.  The mouth by itself doesn't benefit anyone, in my opinion. Actually, it looks like it's talking or screaming, not being silent.  Further, the words are stylized as if they were intended to be or be by themselves a logo --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling (talk) 14:38, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I'll take care of it —EqualRights (talk) 22:18, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks lovely! Thanks. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling (talk) 03:45, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And new placement is better. —EqualRights (talk) 14:00, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lego my logo 

message: Some reactions in the discussion here and from the Christian Rights treat the day as if it was about silencing the opposition. But the day is clearly about being silent in protest. No section of the article should pretend otherwise (like the quasi-critcism section "Opposition" does). --84.153.102.77 (talk) 19:14, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-sequitur reaction 

message: On 11:47, 9 March 2011 66.235.228.29 posted in the article:
when is 2011's Day of silence ?
According to http://dayofsilence.org/ it will be on April 15, 2011. -- Limulus (talk) 18:31, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  April 15, 2011 

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thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:Day of Silence]] 

message: I clicked on the Wikipedia link to find out what the Day of Silence is, and I feel like the article didn't answer my question at all. It's an "annual day of action", but what action? What do you actually DO on the Day of Silence? Not talk at all? Just not talk outside of class? Or is the name a metaphor and silence is actually not involved? (And what's the background behind deciding that silence, metaphorical or otherwise, is a good way to deal with LGBT bullying issues? I just feel like I'm missing something here.)
If someone who knows the answers to these questions could add them to the article, I think that would be a big improvement.
2602:306:3280:5870:E01A:ED13:A7D2:2713 (talk) 18:53, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The introduction did contain an explanation, then the article was vandalised changing the explanation to something offensive, then the new offensive explanation was removed but nobody thought to restore the original explanation. Anyway I restored the original explanation, but it could still be improved. Walkerjames213423143242 (talk) 10:32, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What IS the Day of Silence? 

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message: Because the date started out being the 2nd Friday of April but the last 4 out of 5 times the org that decides the date has instead simply picked a day, we now have more exceptions than dates that fit the rule even if you go back 7 years total (inclusive). I just updated to add this year (yet another date that doesn't fit the 2nd Friday rule) and it took me a bit to understand the formatting and how to add the new date and it all felt really awkward (whether you are reading or editing). Perhaps something like this would work better: "Up until 2019 the date was primarily held on the 2nd Friday of April (expect 2019 when... blah), however since 2020 the day has simply been designated year by year. Below are the dates for the Day of Silence since 2020:"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmckey (talk • contribs) 13:48, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date paragraph for Day of Silence is getting confusing