Talk:Common year starting on Monday

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This is the discussion/talk page for: Common year starting on Monday.

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[edit] Color of Sunday dates

Um, isn't highlighting Sunday like that cultural POV? 24.18.215.132 22:28, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

  • yes, and it makes it look like the articles havent been created yet. im changing it. 132.181.7.1 04:23, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I agree. I'm going through the templates now and removing the red sundaysRavensfan5252 00:15, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comment on these pages

I wasn't really sure where to broach this subject, but I thought here would be as good as anywhere, although it concerns all of the following as well:
Common year starting on Tuesday
Common year starting on Wednesday
Common year starting on Thursday
Common year starting on Friday
Common year starting on Saturday
Common year starting on Sunday
Leap year starting on Monday
Leap year starting on Tuesday
Leap year starting on Wednesday
Leap year starting on Thursday
Leap year starting on Friday
Leap year starting on Saturday
Leap year starting on Sunday
Bearing in mind that Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, should these articles really exist? I don't think it's encyclopaedic, and if people really did want to know about it would wikipedia really be the place they'd look? Perhaps there is scope to merge one of them into another article (perhaps Gregorian calendar?) as an example, but I'm not convinced that all fourteen of them are really necessary as seperate articles. Any thoughts? --John24601 16:30, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

I think it's useful. But it's sort of like a phonebook too. I'm inclined to keep it as is though. --HappyCamper 19:53, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
The purpose of all these pages is to provide a calendar for a particular type of year. See pages that link to these. Karl 10:07, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
I concur, these are very useful articles. I'd also suggest supplementing them with common holidays highlighted. Flibirigit 19:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
I actually just found this incredibly helpful in a conversation about years and how they are laid out according to calender format. I am all for keeping this. Nicholas SL Smithchatter 00:56, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beginning on a Monday

Why do these begin on a Monday? Is this really the standard in English-speaking cultures? -Branddobbe 07:24, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

I'd like to know that as well. It's very confusing. It's like having a clock with 1 at the top. Donnie Love (talk) 2007 12 14 07 34 (UTC)

Clarification: the above question means set up with Monday as the first day of the week. Georgia guy (talk) 21:50, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm here looking for an answer to that myself. Someone should take the time to correct this. –Sarregouset (Talk) 12:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New unusual format overruns small screens

07-Jan-2008: I had thought the various year-starting calendars were stable, since the concept has been around hundreds of years. Of course, I forgot "form over substance" would likely re-write the calendars into another format. Now, I notice that the new format is totally incompatible with 800x600 resolution screens, scrolling beyond the right margin for the display of something as trivial as a full-year calendar. Wikipedia continues to be plagued with garbled, weird display pages: as soon as an article gets carefully typeset for a wide range of user screens (and various browsers), the page is replaced. Now these overwide full-calendar pages have highly spastic "week numbers" appended to each week in a very queer and wiki-peculiar innovation. No original research: do not display a calendar in bizarre "new research" format. Stick to calendars that look normal, as I think they did last year. The concept "NO ORIGINAL RESEARCH" means no displaying of "standard" Gregorian Calendars with queerly spastic, peculiar week-number displays. I think these calendars need to be reverted, per WP:NOR. -Wikid77 (talk) 00:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)