Talk:Luminaria

message: This is a good short article.  It can be expanded, IMHO, with more Free pictures.  The Albuquerque Old Town gazebo and plaza are always encircled with luminarias, and many local businesses put the artificial variety on the roof along the edge.
There are varying local vocal traditions.  My father always says faralitos are the little bags with candles, and luminaria describes a sort of open-sided brazier in which a wood fire is kept burning, despite luminaria being used for both.
Some people say the luminarias guide the spirit of the Christ child; others say they guide the shepherds to the Christ child, and others say they guide the wise men.
The previous two paragraphs are "original research" in that I've personally heard others say these things, but haven't doen enough actual research to verify it. --BlueNight (talk) 07:29, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice article so far 

message: The addition of the naming controversy section, well-researched, is a major step forward. It preserved the fact that there's a dispute about the name, kept the same source that was already there about the matter, presented the debate in a neutral manner instead of browbeating readers with a personal opinion, also added more sources, while even removing blatant original research, such as assertions that one side of the debate are engaging in logical fallacies.  So that's  to retain this version. I'm not seeing any rationale at all for Puro Spana revert back to the questionable version.  Perhaps he can offer one?  The edit summary "the fact is a luminaria is not a farolito. this version has a source citing this FACT. no sources proving otherwise have been provided" consists of an assertion of personal belief, a claim that a source was in his version but not Camerafiend's (which isn't true - Camerafiend used the same source, among others), and an assertion that no one has  the opposite case, but it isn't Wikipedia's job to "prove" anything only to accurately reflect, in a balanced manner, what reliable sources say.  Ergo, I have undone Puro Spana's revert.  NB: I happen to be from New Mexico, and happen to have lived in places where both terms are used, and really WP:DGAF what term people use, and have no stake in the debate, only in having an verifiable, neutral article and less strife.  Puro, I believe that the Camerafiend text makes it perfectly plain that some people strongly feel that one name is correct and not the other.  That's what we need to convey, not that Wikipedia itself has an opinion on the matter, and that's what you've been putting into the lead. — SMcCandlish    Talk⇒〈°⌊°〉 Contribs. 03:32, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks SMcCandlish for your eloquent defense of my edit; I was going to make a similar argument here but you beat me to it. I also agree that an RfC isn't a bad idea, it would be nice to have some kind of consensus (hopefully) to point to in the future. I personally have no preference regarding the article title and will be content with whatever the community decides. Camerafiend (talk) 04:30, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

text: I undid the revert.  Puro Spana, you need to stop editwarring about this.  See WP:RFC for instructions on how start one.  I for one would probably support moving the articles around to less culturally debatable names. But pushing a angry point of view in this article in the interim is not going to help your cause. — SMcCandlish    Talk⇒〈°⌊°〉 Contribs. 05:50, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming controversy section 

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