Talk:Martin Luther King Jr. Day/Archive 1

message: Additionally most schools and places of higher education are closed for classes
really? the (private) college I went to never closed for this day, nor did the ones (public or private) I remember my friends attending. I haven't been in college for a couple years, but I certainly don't get it off of work either. Yeah, I know, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data", but I always thought this was mainly a gov't and public high/elementary school day off... above Columbus Day in importance (as measured in the units of "number of people getting school/work off" :) ), a little bit below President's Day (which I never got off in college either), and way below the other federal holidays.
Acheron 15:32, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I feel the same way. I'm going to go ahead adn change it to read "some" schools. We can add back in a stronger statement if evidence can be found—there are probably statistics on this somewhere. (Perhaps "most public schools" would be more accurate. My college was private and we didn't cancel classes for anything.) Aranel ("Sarah") 15:37, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've found lots of public school websites that announce that they are closed for MLK Day, but sometimes they will also state that they will have classes on that day if they need to make up days (from snow days, I suppose): . Aranel ("Sarah")
Acheron, I've always been comparing holidays as to "number of people off" and I think you are spot on!  However, I'm noticing that MLK Day and President's Day are switching in this sense (we were closed today and not for MLK, but a lot of our clients did the reverse for the first time this year), so I noted that.
hairymon 23:59, 20 Feb 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most schools? 

message: I have always heard it called Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  After all, it isn't named after his father. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 141.157.77.156 (talk • contribs) 04:32, 20 October 2005.
:This doesn't ring true to me; is there any confirmation? --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 23:27, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've heard it called both. --FuriousFreddy 00:08, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Day name

message: Is the new paragraph about Jesse Helms' opposition POV?  Nick 20:29, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV? 

message: I added the change, and I accidentally put the word "honest" instead of "honor" which I guess could be interpreted as POV.  I changed the wording.
* Is it NPOV to say that Helms accused MLKjr of being a Communist Sympathiser?  Didn't Helms say that about everyone he disliked? Nick 07:55, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: if a national leader makes a claim such as this, it is noteworthy. Kingturtle 21:23, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  My mistake 

message: didn't arizona refuse at one time to honor this holiday? and so the NFL threatened not to play a superbowl there? Kingturtle 07:41, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Evan Mecham. --Darksasami 04:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  arizona? 

message: Martin Luther King, Jr. says 1993, but here it says 1999. So, anybody know which is correct? 24.17.48.241 06:15, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 'All 50 states' date?

message: Michael Jackson, or as this article spells his name, Micheal, Did not release "Happy Birthday". The ENTIRE thing was done by Stevie Wonder. Even the link to the song says so.
--208.247.50.2 15:19, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michael Jackson? 

message: and one of only three to commemorate an individual person
Aren't there four holidays commemorating individuals?
1) Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
2) Washington's Birthday
3) Columbus Day
4) Christmas Day
Is Washington's birthday excluded due to the fact that other presidents are sometimes included in the observance?
:Yes, there are four.  Two for U.S. Citizens (Washington and King) and two for non-Citizens (Columbus and Jesus Christ).  I have made the change to the article with an appropriate reference to the United States Code. — Eoghanacht talk 19:27, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be a great trivia question btw; I'll bet few would think of Christmas Day. --ScottAlanHill 22:04, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of "individual person" Federal holidays