Talk:Whitsun

message: hvitasunnu-dagr, hwittesun-day, "white-sun-day" = i.e. "beginning of the Summer half-year". All of the mixing of christian come-latelies and their attempts to co-opt and confuse the day with their 'pentecost' celebration should be kept distinct for the sake of historical accuracy.--Wittsun (talk) 13:05, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusing Etymology

message: im sure whitsun is 6 sundays after easter, not 7? 5
:so much for certainty. Look on a calendar. Whitsun = pentecost = Greek 50 (sc. days after Easter Sunday). 7 weeks x 7 days a week = 49 days.Jagdfeld (talk) 13:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of weeks after Easter

message: * I agree that the article must be merged with Pentecost. Nikosgreencookie (talk) 16:35, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the merge tag as the merge was incorrectly proposed in the first place (see my comment above), it's been open for four months and there is clearly no consensus for merge. Richerman (talk) 00:01, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

text: I agree about the lead sentence so I've changed it a little. However, I don't see any reason to merge this article with Pentecost as there is more to Whitsun than just that. Richerman (talk) 13:08, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge article?

message: Until just now, the lead paragraph of this article claimed that the UK spring bank holiday was Whit Monday until 1967, that being the year in which it officialy became the Spring Bank Holiday and fixed as the last Monday in May.  This contradicted the body of the article, which claims that the switch took place in 1971.
I don't know exactly when the switch took place (it was after all over 40 years ago), but I started secondary school in 1967, and that was thus a landmark year for me; if the switch had occurred then, I'm sure I would have remembered this due to that Bank Holiday being the very last one before I started secondary school.  Hence although I'm not 100% certain it was 1971, I am 100% certain that it wasn't 1967.  I've changed the date to 1971 on the grounds that this is far more likely to be the correct date. — 188.28.238.171 (talk) 00:10, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it is 1978. — | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 13:37, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting dates 

message: There is a discussion at Talk:Whitsunday#Requested move 23 May 2015 about moving that disambugation page to Whitsunday (disambiguation) and redirecting Whitsunday to this page.  Add comments there. --Iloilo Wanderer (talk) 04:04, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion about about redirecting Whitsunday 

message: There are two articles -- Whitsun and Pentacost -- and four names -- Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whitsunday, Pentacost. Let's keep the two articles but tweak the names to reflect better what the articles are discussing.
I propose that this article focus on the British and Anglican traditions around Whitsuntide (including links to Embertides and Scottish Quarter Days) and be renamed Whitsuntide.  Then have Whitsunday (and maybe Whitsun) point towards Pentacost, with a section in the latter Pentacost article on British tradition with a { { main article } } tag to create a branch off of Pentacost.
Regardless of the roots of any particularly tradition, Whitsuntide survived as a British cultural tradition around Pentacost.  (Remember "Whitsunday" is an Old English term for "White Sunday" or Pentacost, and "Whitsun" is a late 13c shortening of "Whitsunday", according to Etymoline .)  Without Pentacost would any of cultural practices survived?  We cannot know. All we know is that these celebrations whatever their roots became part of Christian Britain's celebration of Pentacost/Whitsunday/Whitsun. Renaming this Whitsuntide would help delineate these British and Anglican traditions from the broader Christian holy day celebrated around the world.  Renaming would help differentiate the Sunday, the important Christian holy day, from the British cultural traditions.
In the long run, I can see a Pentacost/Whitsunday/Whitsun article as a feeder article into numerous branch articles that discuss a particular country's or culture's Pentacost/Whitsunday/Whitsun tradition, such as the holidays in Germany and France, with titles like "Pentacost in Germany", "Pentacost in the Philipines", and "Pentacost in the Coptic Church".--Iloilo Wanderer (talk) 04:44, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rationalizing the two articles with four names:  Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whitsunday, Pentacost.  

message: Why does the link "spring bank holiday" take you to "May Day"?  May Day is at the start of May, spring bh at the end.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:93EE:C800:A962:ABB7:9AAE:ACC9 (talk) 09:32, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I've fixed it. Richerman   (talk) 14:45, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spring Bank Holiday