Talk:List of holidays by country

message: ummmm i was just wondering if anyone knows if thrr is any other holidays in france if so please post
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The U.S. holidays are pretty messed up.  The other page Holidays in the U.S. is much better.  For example, election day is not a holiday for federal employees and Columbus Day usually follows the Monday Holiday Act, which is described much better in the other page.  I deleted the election day stuff, but needs more work by someone surer of the topic than I.  Also, I'm not sure what makes Loyalty Day an official holiday if it is no longer celebrated.   Scarykitty 06:44, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Initial post

message: Easter Sunday, is, er, a Sunday, so surely should not be included in a list of public holidays?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.137.5.129 (talk) 09:59, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK Holidays 

message: What the heck is Fishy Bill Day?!  I spent 10 years in Virginia schools (second through twelfth), and I have never heard of a Fishy Bill Day, much less ever celebrate or otherwise observe it.  My child is attending a Virginia Public School, and he has never mentioned a Fishy Bill, nor any of his teachers.  Unless someone can provide some sort of proof to such, this is a hoax.
Along the same lines, "Say 'Hi' to Joe Day"?  Give me a break.
I have turned on several of my foreign students to Wikipedia to help them do research on things in America that they might seem strange or different.  Wikipedia can be and is an important resource.  I wished people wouldn't muck it up.  --Asacan 17:17, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  US Holidays 

message: Not sure the exact date, but it should probably be on the list.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.115.86.67 (talk) 16:47, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mardi Gras 

message: There is a problem with holiday lists: every country has a public holiday list but few have national or religious or such; and 'holidays in...' redirects to 'public holidays in' page. I'd suggest removing all 'public' words from the titles and categories, to give the articles a wider scope.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  15:56, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I support the removal of the word 'public' from the title of pages about "Holidays in Country X". Not every holiday is a public holiday.  "Public holidays in Country X" can be a subcategory with the main category "Holidays in Country X". --PFHLai 18:23, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, exactly.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  04:43, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Support, with case by case tact this seems to be of worthy effect to the category names too (propose deletion of "Category:Public holidays" and renaming of "categories:Public holidays in Country X" and "categories:Public holidays by country"). i am a little concerned that an act like despecifying from "public" may open the flood gates to all holidays possibly observed in each country, making the established or "legal holidays" seem less significant in comparison. thus some care need be taken within each of the articles to differentiate. USA has already done this and is in need of the titular change.Some thing 17:11, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

text: also propose that this thread be moved to the Wikiproject:Holiday discussion page.Some thing 17:29, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A mess 

message: Someone needs to change all the "For more information, see Public holidays in country_name" statements at the top of each section to ". —Psychonaut 18:41, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup: use &#x7b;{main}} templates 

message: Religious holidays which may be celebrated by some residents in a country, but not by all, should not be included in "holidays by country". Possibly sections by religion of "holidays which are celebrated by <members of religion> living in most countries" could be added. For example, Hannukah and Eid are not holidays in the United States, Christmas is not a holiday in many countries, and so on. This article would then help to answer the practical problem "is <date> a working day in this country?". The addition of a religious holidays section would help as some organisations and people will not be working on those days even if not a national holiday. Pol098 (talk) 16:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious holidays 

message: The list of PRC public holidays is outdated. They changed the holidays act a year ago.—Gniw (Wing) (talk) 15:00, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated list for People's Republic of China 

message: Since the country list looks like it's sorted by country name, how comes that Spain FOLLOWS Sri-Lanka (and not vice-versa)???  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.221.69.213 (talk) 13:32, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  SPAIN! 

message: Lots of Christmas stuff. Little of others.Civic Cat (talk) 01:12, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: we need a list of songs about holidays

message: Are all those holidays actually "celebrated" as a holiday? Summer Solstice etc. ?
At that rate we will end up with hundreds for each country... Chaosdruid (talk) 09:46, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  US holidays 

message: I just deleted some of the lists which duplicate the links to Public holidays in X (country). It seems to me that the list should either have all countries' full lists or none. None seems to have been the consensus earlier. If there's a consensus (or no objection) to continue the pattern of no lists, only links I'll delete the other lists. Thank you, SchreiberBike talk 20:47, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I had hoped to see the comparison between countries, but I was disappointed. This article contains mostly links, doesn't make any sense. If you only want to list the links, it shouldn't be an "article" but a "category".--2.246.0.51 (talk) 21:00, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  I object. This is largely a "for this country, go here" thing. This creates a situation where one is wading through what appears to be a block of incomplete countries, except for like the last one (Gibraltar). It's very sloppy-looking. 69.161.99.11 (talk) 16:53, 14 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists or links 

message: It'll be interesting to know how many holidays there are per country. –HTD 11:28, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of holidays