Talk:German Christmas traditions

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This article seems to have quite some German POV. The Christmas tree is a Germanic, not a specifically German, custom. Saint Nick isn't based on German traditions as well. The Modern American Santa derives from the Dutch Sinterklaas, though also based on the Bishop of Myra this isn't the same person/character. This article makes it seem a lot of (American/Global) christmas traditions have German origins, this isn't quite the case. I'd ask that the articles principle writer fixes this, or at least responds to this comment.Rex 21:59, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Also, this article mentions Druids as a part of Germanic mythology. Druids are a part of Celtic, not Germanic/Nordic religion. The article also uses quite a lot of unnecesary german terms; this is after all the English wikipedia. Rex 22:03, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moved back to German Christmas traditions

Two reasons the article was moved back: 1. Editor who renamed article to "Christmas customs in Germany" did not fix double redirects as per Wikipedia policy. 2. Wikipedia states that the most popular searchable terms should take precedence in naming (Wikipedia:Merging and moving pages). A Boolean search on Google for "Christmas customs in Germany" yielded only 1,190 results whereas a search for "German Christmas traditions" yielded 14,500 results. --The Argonaut 17:34, 4 December 2006 (UTC)