Talk:Christmas

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An event in this article is a December 25 selected anniversary and a January 7 selected anniversary

To-do list for Christmas: edit · history · watch · refresh


Here are some tasks you can do:

    (Items suggested by peer reviewers)

    • Edit to avoid words/phrases that indicate time periods relative to the current day Done, but could probably use review. Doc Tropics 17:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Years with full dates should be linked Done, but could probably use review. Doc Tropics 17:20, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Edit to eliminate redundancies that make the article too wordy
    • Edit to reduce vague terms of size - “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “several”, “a few”, “many”, “any”, and “all”
    • Thorough copyediting
    • Rephrase opening sentence
    • Ensure footnotes come after punctuation
    • Eliminate duplicate wikilinks Done, but could probably use review. Doc Tropics 18:28, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Eliminate unnecessary wikilinks (e.g. "birth", "volunteer", etc.) - mostly done, definitely should be double checked though
    • Edit links that begin with "Christmas" to the latter word, disambiguated to the Christmas variety
    • Revise Etymology section
    • Check for and cut back on one-sentence paragraphs
    • Revise Origin of the Christian holiday section re March 25 and Jesus' death
    • Edit for consistency in the use of AD
    • Eliminate vague "Modern times"
    • Incorporate a "Controversy" section with a "Main article:" link.

    (Other items)

    • Add references to Arts and media section
    • Add references to Regional customs and celebration section

    [edit] Archived discussions

    [edit] Angels We Have Heard On High

    Is it a live recording? The clarinet sounds live (and good btw) but i think the rest if not all is the Kontakt Player that comes w/ Sibelius 4. If you feel this is pointless and want to delet it, go ahead, i was just wondering. 75.82.85.120 01:11, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Lengthy "History" section

    This section has many subsections, and I think it may need to be either shortened or divided for better clarity. Perhaps for the pre-Christian sections and "Origin of Christian festival" section we could rename this umbrella section as "Origins", while the remainder could be "History"? I'm just shouting out suggestions but I think it may be a bit too long and uninteruppted as is current. Any comments would be appreciated, thanks. — `CRAZY`(lN)`SANE` (my Xmas) 19:50, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

    I think that's a good idea. - Eron Talk 00:15, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
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