Talk:Administrative Professionals Day/Archive 1

Archive 1

The article assumes the reader is American

There is no reference made to which country this holiday applies to.

In particular, the same day exists outside of USA and has a different day. For example, it is in France it is April 14th in 2009. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.234.184.23 (talk) 09:44, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

And it's not called Administrative Professionals' Day everywhere, either. I'm not sure what it's called here in the UK, since it's much less observed here, but I've certainly seen "Professional Secretaries' Day" (so spelt) in one or two places. If this article is supposed to deal only with the US day, then okay, but it then needs to specify the United States very early on in the lead. Loganberry (Talk) 01:07, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree. I've added "in the United States" to the lead as a stop-gap measure. -Phoenixrod (talk) 06:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Article Title

The title of the article should probably be "Administrative Professionals Day" and not "Administrative Professionals' Day". Remove the " ' ". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.223.59.3 (talk) 14:29, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

I came to the talk page to raise this same issue: the article's title includes the apostrophe, but the body of the text mostly leaves it off. What's "correct"—that is, how is it actually used, if there's some sort of official name? -Phoenixrod (talk) 06:33, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the above comments. In the USA on business calendars I've seen in present and past, there is no apostrophe, rather it appears as "Administrative Professionals Day". Furthermore, not to many years ago, at least in my state, when it was known as "Secretaries Day", again it carried no apostrophe. So, I will be bold enough to attempt to correct the article title by removing the confusing, and broadly unsupported possessive form of the word. This would seem to be in accordance with the general consensus on this discussion. Well that edit didn't take effect, and the title remains unchanged. Can anyone explain why that is? KnowBuddy (talk) 16:22, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

OTD

Because this article has orange-level maintenance tags on it, it will not be eligible to appear on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries (and by extension the Main Page) on April 27, 2011. There are almost four weeks to go before then, so please work to clear these up. Thank you. howcheng {chat} 17:44, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

The following sentence should probably be reworked

"His goal was to encourage more women to become administrative assistants (called secretaries at the time). " It would be more natural to state what they were called at the time in the main body in the sentence and have todays title in the ()s. Also somewhere in the article there should probably list the job titles covered. Joncnunn 14:42, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

First paragraph

Removed the last sentence due to redundancy.

First paragraph

The article states that Secretarys' Day is observed "on the Wednesday of the last full week of April (i.e. April 9, 2006; April 10, 2007; April 23, 2008)". Something is clearly wrong since April 9 (2006) and April 10 (2007) are not in the last full week of April. Which is correct -- the first full week or the last full week? Last full week is correct. I changed the 2006 and 2007 dates to the actual dates from the previous two years.