Talk:Guy Fawkes Night/Archive 5
![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | ← | Archive 3 | Archive 4 | Archive 5 | Archive 6 | Archive 7 | → | Archive 9 |
Bonfire night is not just an historical event
Last night this section was archived by the archiving bot. But as the discussion is not ended I am linking to it. As in my opinion the issue has not been adequately addressed. -- PBS (talk) 10:04, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
From the history of the article:
- 20:06, 7 May 2011 Malleus Fatuorum (Undid revision 427965597 by Philip Baird Shearer (talk))
MF why did you revert my edit? -- PBS (talk) 06:54, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
- FWIW, I think the proper place for this discussion is at Talk:Bonfire Night#Edit on 25 March 2011. --Trevj (talk) 08:25, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Standard appendix
- See Talk:Guy Fawkes Night/Archive 4#Bonfire night is not just an historical event (which discusses this point in detail).
The Appendix sections were changed from one close to the standard format as used in several guidelines to a non-standard format. For the reasons I have already given I think this article shoudl be modified to use the standard format for the appendix sections.
From the history of the article:
- 18:05, 2 May 2011 Nikkimaria (make layout consistent with other articles in the topic)
Are you suggesting that we should alter the other articles in the area to match the changes I am proposing? Why do the other articles have to have an effect on this one? -- PBS (talk) 10:04, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
- Nope. I am suggesting, however, that since consensus seems to be against you you should drop the stick and walk away. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:35, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
- WP:FNNR. Now will you please just go away and do something useful, instead of boring everyone to tears? Parrot of Doom 19:57, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
- Consensus has not changed, you are in the minority.--J3Mrs (talk) 20:19, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
- I suppose PBS is indeed in the minority on this page, but that does not mean he is wrong. The comment above by Parrot of Doom, "please just go away and do something useful, instead of boring everyone to tears" does not add anything useful to the discussion, and it also fails to assume good faith. Such personal comments are best avoided. Moonraker2 (talk) 07:03, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
- Consensus has not changed, you are in the minority.--J3Mrs (talk) 20:19, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
PoD you mention WP:FNNR part are you indicating justifies the current layout? -- PBS (talk) 07:41, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
- I am not PoD, but I'd have to say that "The most frequent choice is "References"; other articles use "Notes", "Footnotes", or "Works cited" (in diminishing order of popularity). The title "References" may be inappropriate if the section contains both explanatory notes and citations. Several alternate titles ("Sources", "Citations", "Bibliography") may also be used, although each is problematic: "Sources" may be confused with source code in computer related articles; "Citations" may be confused with official awards or a summons to court; "Bibliography" may be confused with a list of printed works by the subject of a biography." doesn't mandate any selection. Rather it mentions possibilities, and points out places where there might be issues - but none of those possible issues is a problem on this article. The current article uses headings that are all perfectly allowable. Ealdgyth - Talk 15:20, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
"explosives not limited to gunpowder"
Last night this section was archived by the archiving bot. But as the discussion is not ended I am linking to it. -- PBS (talk) 10:04, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
PoD how is "explosives" more accurate than "barrels of gunpowder"? -- PBS (talk) 22:01, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
PoD you seem to have reverted the to your preferred version of the text without any explanation on the talk page. -- PBS (talk) 10:04, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
Archive problem
Since when did the links in the archive box point to the Gunpowder Plot archives? I could swear that earlier today, I was able to click through to the Guy Fawkes Night archive. Parrot of Doom 15:01, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
- Cluebot is archiving here but it's not going here. The target archives need to be fixed I think. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 15:14, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
- The archiving code is: {{User:ClueBot III/ArchiveThis |archiveprefix=Talk:Gunpowder Plot/Archive |format=%%i |age=240 |index=yes |maxarchsize=20000 |numberstart=1 |archivebox=yes |box-advert=yes }}
- I'm guessing |archiveprefix= should be Guy Fawkes Night/Archive, but I tried that out in preview mode and it didn't change the link. Also, I'm not sure how ClueBot is still getting things right if the code is wrong. Nev1 (talk) 15:18, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Archiving was wrong
Checking Special:WhatLinksHere, I found 3 correctly named archive pages for this talk page: Talk:Guy Fawkes Night/Archive 1 (up through last October), Talk:Guy Fawkes Night/Archive 3 (November to March) and Talk:Guy Fawkes Night/Archive 4 (since March). Cluebot's [[1]] link on this talk page seems to be unaware of these pages. Cluebot was still set up to archive to archive pages of Talk:Gunpowder Plot; I've just changed it (I think) to archive to pages in the "Talk:Guy Fawkes Night/Archives/x" format, where x is a number, per Sandy's request. - Dank (push to talk) 02:22, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
- Nice one, and the box seems to work now. --Trevj (talk) 05:12, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
- For me it still points to Gunpowder Plot. Parrot of Doom 07:09, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
- Hmmm... For me, typing "england" into the Archives search box gives this page for 'prefix:Talk:Guy Fawkes Night/'. --Trevj (talk) 07:19, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
- Yes but the box links to Gunpowder Plot. Parrot of Doom 07:27, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
- I don't know a great deal about archiving but think it would be completely reasonable to replace the entire discussions at Talk:Guy Fawkes Night/Archive 4 back here. --Trevj (talk) 07:35, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
- There seems to me a fundamental malfunction by ClueBot III. It is indexing User:ClueBot III/Master Detailed Indices/Talk:Guy Fawkes Night with the headers from Talk:Gunpowder Plot. Moonraker2 (talk) 08:45, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
- I don't know a great deal about archiving but think it would be completely reasonable to replace the entire discussions at Talk:Guy Fawkes Night/Archive 4 back here. --Trevj (talk) 07:35, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
- Yes but the box links to Gunpowder Plot. Parrot of Doom 07:27, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
- Hmmm... For me, typing "england" into the Archives search box gives this page for 'prefix:Talk:Guy Fawkes Night/'. --Trevj (talk) 07:19, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
- For me it still points to Gunpowder Plot. Parrot of Doom 07:09, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
Sources relating to Guy Fawkes Night in Australia
As I said at the FAC discussion, I'm depositing here the sources I found relating to Guy Fawkes Night in Australia.
- Territory marked self-government with new cracker night, Mark Schliebs, The Australian, 3 January 2011
- Cracker Night was once the biggest night of Brisbane's year, Neil Wiseman, The Sunday Mail (Qld), 24 October 2010
- Crackers were some bang-up fun, Brendan O'Malley, The Courier-Mail, 2 September 2009
- Halloween: from pagan ritual to party night, Nicholas Rogers, Oxford University Press, 2002 (see page 37)
- A guide to Australian folklore, Gwenda Davey and Graham Seal, Kangaroo Press, 2003 (see page 78)
- The Greenwood encyclopedia of world folklore and folklife, William M. Clements, Greenwood Press, 2006
- On page 290 is the following: "Another sign of cultural modification is the transmutation of the religious-political commemoration of Guy Fawkes Night in early November into 'Cracker Night', a festival of some temporal mobility, of ambiguous significance, and with different dates in various parts of the continent."
- And as before, the pdf with pointers about Empire Day and Cracker Night (tangentially related, but definitely related if you read the above sources as well): Empire day to Cracker Night revels, Ian Warden, National Library of Australia News, May 2008
Hopefully those will be of some use, either here or at Bonfire Night. Carcharoth (talk) 01:36, 27 May 2011 (UTC)
- Since there was no response here, I've copied the above to Talk:Bonfire Night for consideration there. Carcharoth (talk) 21:36, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Moving text from this article to Bonfire Night
I notice that Nikkimaria has now begun to move text from this article to Bonfire Night, which until recently was a disambiguation page. It still has that character and is not a page specific to the 5 November event. I do not know whether her motivation is to take another step towards turning this article into the History of Guy Fawkes Night, she may wish to comment, but I disagree with any further attempt to limit the article's scope, especially while it is in the FA assessment process. Parrot of Doom has said elsewhere that he supports including material here on the contemporary event, subject to its being reliably sourced, so it would be helpful to have his views. What are the views of others on this migration of text to the non-specific (or disambiguation) page? Moonraker2 (talk) 08:42, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
- Bonfire night seems like the best place for most of it.--J3Mrs (talk) 09:55, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
- (As an aside, Moonraker, if in future you have concerns about my actions you're welcome to raise them with me first). "Begun" is not the correct term: I moved two sentences from the end of the article, and at this point that's all I intend to move. This was in reaction to a comment at the FAC review, which suggested that those two sentences would be better suited to Bonfire Night. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:20, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
- I did not take this up on Nikkimaria's talk page because in my view it is not a private matter between the two of us but needs to be discussed openly here.
- Please see Talk:Bonfire Night. The Bonfire Night page is plainly not specific to the English or British tradition of commemorating the Gunpowder Treason, and indeed it still carries out the functions of a disambiguation page, which is exactly what it was until Nikkimaria recently converted it into a strangely mixed-up short article. It is not at all clear to me what J3Mrs means by "it" in "Bonfire night seems like the best place for most of it". If "it" means the contemporary event, then that is a fundamental issue. If those now proposing this GFN article as a FA wish to rid it of the contemporary event and turn it into a history page, then that is not what is being said by Parrot of Doom in the FA review, but it is in line with a suggestion I made here some time ago, that two separate articles would resolve many problems. However, I suggest we discuss the matter again, as Bonfire Night plainly doesn't work as the "home" of the Guy Fawkes Night material in (say) the 21st century. Moonraker2 (talk) 18:27, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
Queries
- "On several occasions during the 19th century The Times reported that the tradition was in decline, being "of late years almost forgotten", but in the opinion of historian David Cressy, such reports reflected "other Victorian trends" and not general observance of the Fifth." is rather cryptic. Either it was being observed or not, one would think.
Johnbod (talk) 16:57, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
- Cressy was talking about the changes apparent in GFN as it moved from being a chance to engage in anti-Popery, to being a communal family celebration or simply a bit of fun. I'd hoped that this was made apparent by the rest of the paragraph the above quote appears in. Parrot of Doom 18:09, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
- Not adequately imo. Bringing in "other Victorian trends" doesn't help. Better spell it out. Johnbod (talk) 19:27, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
- Ok let me have a think about how to do that. It shouldn't take long, I'm just a bit disorganised right now. Parrot of Doom 20:01, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
- Better? Parrot of Doom 16:37, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- I still have a bit of a problem. If there was a "decline", it is hard to see how "general observance" was not what declined. Johnbod (talk) 18:04, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- The Times was not reporting that the day was in decline, it was reporting that the anti-Catholic rhetoric was in decline. People still came out and chucked fireworks around, burnt bonfires, and went to church. They just weren't burning popes stuffed with cats any more. Parrot of Doom 18:23, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- Well that is not at all clear, & goes oddly with "of late years almost forgotten". You start a paragraph in a section called "Guy Fawkes Night" talking about "the tradition" but apparently mean something else. Johnbod (talk) 18:53, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- If you have a suggestion then please offer it. I can't do everything myself, although sometimes it feels as though I'm expected to. Parrot of Doom 19:34, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- May I make a suggestion? How about "On several occasions during the 19th century The Times reported that the anti-Catholic overtones of the tradition were in decline ...". Malleus Fatuorum 21:14, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- That isn't strictly true. It's Cressy's assertion that The Times was reporting on that; the newspaper wasn't actually saying in print "nobody is burning popes filled with cats any more". Parrot of Doom 22:07, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- How about attributing it directly to Cressy? According to Cressy, "blah blah blah....." Would that work? Truthkeeper88 (talk) 22:18, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- That isn't strictly true. It's Cressy's assertion that The Times was reporting on that; the newspaper wasn't actually saying in print "nobody is burning popes filled with cats any more". Parrot of Doom 22:07, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- May I make a suggestion? How about "On several occasions during the 19th century The Times reported that the anti-Catholic overtones of the tradition were in decline ...". Malleus Fatuorum 21:14, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- If you have a suggestion then please offer it. I can't do everything myself, although sometimes it feels as though I'm expected to. Parrot of Doom 19:34, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- Well that is not at all clear, & goes oddly with "of late years almost forgotten". You start a paragraph in a section called "Guy Fawkes Night" talking about "the tradition" but apparently mean something else. Johnbod (talk) 18:53, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- The Times was not reporting that the day was in decline, it was reporting that the anti-Catholic rhetoric was in decline. People still came out and chucked fireworks around, burnt bonfires, and went to church. They just weren't burning popes stuffed with cats any more. Parrot of Doom 18:23, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- I still have a bit of a problem. If there was a "decline", it is hard to see how "general observance" was not what declined. Johnbod (talk) 18:04, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- Without access to either The Times archive or Cressy I can't really say how to sort it, though if the Times reported at several points that something was in decline, one is inclined to believe it. This maybe adds some info, but not on this point. Johnbod (talk) 00:57, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
- Better? Parrot of Doom 16:37, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
- Ok let me have a think about how to do that. It shouldn't take long, I'm just a bit disorganised right now. Parrot of Doom 20:01, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
- Not adequately imo. Bringing in "other Victorian trends" doesn't help. Better spell it out. Johnbod (talk) 19:27, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
Sentence in the Lead
Claims that Guy Fawkes Night was a Protestant replacement for older customs like Samhain are disputed, although another old celebration, Halloween, has lately increased in popularity, and according to some writers, may threaten the continued observance of 5 November.
I placed a cite request on this, and the parts I bolded i marked as weasle words. This was reverted per WP: LEAD. however no specific reasoning for that revert is given and in that policy, more specifically in the sub section of that policy WP:LEADCITE it clearly says "there is not, however, an exception to citation requirements specific to leads.". I see that there is a citation later in the article which supports some of this, specifically this part " David Underdown, writing in his 1987 work Revel, Riot, and Rebellion, viewed Gunpowder Treason Day as a replacement for Hallowe'en: "just as the early church had taken over many of the pagan feasts, so did Protestants acquire their own rituals, adapting older forms or providing substitutes for them". which is cited by Underdown 1987, p. 70. but this doesnt say Samhain, it says halloween. the part I'm disputing about samhain is mentioned in the body of the article and it is not cited down there either. specifically this sentence Historians have often suggested that Guy Fawkes Day served as a Protestant replacement for the ancient Celtic and Nordic festivals of Samhain, pagan events that the church absorbed and transformed into All Hallow's Eve and All Souls' Day. In The Golden Bough, the Scottish anthropologist James George Frazer suggested that Guy Fawkes Day exemplifies "the recrudescence of old customs in modern shapes". this is not cited. the only cited part is underdown and thats about halloween not samhain. Smitty1337 (talk) 05:53, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- I agree with Smitty1337 and support the reinstatement of his cite and weasel words tags. Moonraker (talk) 06:19, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- There is nothing in this article which isn't cited. There may be some quotes that don't carry cites but that's because the citation that covers them comes almost immediately afterwards, and my preference is not to have a string of 3-4 identical citations in close proximity. The quote from The Golden Bough is covered by Cressy's citation. Parrot of Doom 07:14, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- WP:Page numbers coupled the opening line of WP: Ref would require you to post the citation to the quote "the recrudescence of old customs in modern shapes" however that wasnt my complaint. My complain is basically that there are a bunch of weasle words used in the lead without citations, and an assertion is made about Samhain which has no citation until much later in the article (if at all). If this assertion is indeed covered by Cressy, and by that I mean the book explicitly uses the word "Samhain" rather then "Old custums" as is the quote, then It needs a page number and book so I can verify this. I'm not asserting that anything is untrue but the citation should be placed on where the statement is first asserted (i.e. the lead) and it should specify the page. As it stands now i dont know where inside Cressy's book to find that quote, so i cant confirm if it uses the word Samhain. And the nearest citation for that is Cressy 69-71 where it would seem the quote disputing it arises saying that 5 Nov being anything but a celebration about James I is "speculative nonsense". Smitty1337 (talk) 09:51, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- There are many sources suggesting a link between Samhain and Guy Fawkes Night - for example, here. I think the question is whether they are "reliable" in the sense required for this article. Refs are not needed in the lead, as per WP: LEAD and PoD's comments. Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:14, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- WP:Page numbers coupled the opening line of WP: Ref would require you to post the citation to the quote "the recrudescence of old customs in modern shapes" however that wasnt my complaint. My complain is basically that there are a bunch of weasle words used in the lead without citations, and an assertion is made about Samhain which has no citation until much later in the article (if at all). If this assertion is indeed covered by Cressy, and by that I mean the book explicitly uses the word "Samhain" rather then "Old custums" as is the quote, then It needs a page number and book so I can verify this. I'm not asserting that anything is untrue but the citation should be placed on where the statement is first asserted (i.e. the lead) and it should specify the page. As it stands now i dont know where inside Cressy's book to find that quote, so i cant confirm if it uses the word Samhain. And the nearest citation for that is Cressy 69-71 where it would seem the quote disputing it arises saying that 5 Nov being anything but a celebration about James I is "speculative nonsense". Smitty1337 (talk) 09:51, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- You're wrong on just about every count Smitty, very impressive. The Samhain link is cited in the Similarities with other customs section to Underdown (1987) p. 70. Malleus Fatuorum 14:14, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- Smitty perhaps you didn't notice but Cressy's work isn't a book, it's a chapter in a book. Trust me, everything in this article that needs citing, is cited. I should know. Parrot of Doom 16:08, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
RFC:Ambiguous birth date for William?
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Result: An explanatory footnote should be added.
The discussion was evenly split in terms of numbers, with three editors supporting the addition of a footnote and three indicating opposition. One oppose was on the grounds that "It's commonplace for historians to align dates with the modern calendar without comment." I don't believe this is correct. In any case, it appears to misunderstand the situation, which doesn't involve aligning a date with the modern calendar, but instead leaving it in the Old Style (a point which was made to the editor). Another user objected that, since the article doesn't mention anything about William being involved in religious disputes, the existence of the religious disputes was not a reason for a footnote. This only addresses part of the support argument. The third oppose was on the opposite basis to the first - that Julian dates are not normally converted, and so no clarification is needed. However, this is clearly not true in the case of William, because his dob is commonly given in sources as 14 November. So, each of the reasons for opposing has a flaw.
On the other hand, there are two support votes with which I am unable to find fault, plus one "per suchabody" vote.
It seems fairly obvious that stating William's birth date as 4 November, a date which is different from the date contained in many sources, has potential for causing confusion and misunderstanding. So some clarification would be a good idea. The only opinion in the RfC as to the form that should take was in favour of a footnote.
The article gives the birth date of William III of England thus: "William's birthday fell on 4 November..." Considering that William was born in the Netherlands where the Gregorian calendar was in force, but later became King of England (among other places), where the Julian calendar was in force, is it ambiguous to state the birthdate without providing an explanatory note about which calendar the date is stated in? Jc3s5h (talk) 18:59, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
Survey
Support info in footnote: WP:JG says Dates of events in countries using the Gregorian calendar at that time are given in the Gregorian calendar. This includes some of the Continent of Europe from 1582, the British Empire from 14 September 1752, and Russia from 14 February 1918 (see Gregorian calendar)
.
In this case there are two countries involved:
- The country in which he was born (the Netherlands)
- The country in which the birthday celebrations described by the article took place (England etc)
So IMO an explanatory footnote would not be out of place. I would not support an in-text explanation, because in my view it would break up the flow of the article.
WP:JG also says If there is a need to mention Old or New Style dates in an article (as in the Glorious Revolution), a footnote should be provided on the first usage, stating whether the New Style refers to a start of year adjustment or to the Gregorian calendar (it can mean either)
and the footnote to Glorious Revolution says In this article "New Style" means the start of year is adjusted to 1 January. Events on the European mainland are usually given using the Gregorian calendar, while events in Great Britain and Ireland are usually given using the Julian calendar with the year adjusted to 1 January. Dates with no explicit Julian or Gregorian postscript will be using the same calendar as the last date with an explicit postscript.
so in my view that supports the use of a similar footnote here.
HTH.
Balaenoptera musculus (talk) 12:18, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Ambiguous birth date for William?: discussion
I consider it ambiguous to fail to state which calendar a person's birthdate is given in, when the person was born in a jurisdiction that observed one calendar but was most famous for his activities in a different jurisdiction. This is particularly troublesome when the person was involved in a religious dispute, where the persons on one side of the dispute observed a different calendar than the persons on the other side of the dispute. Jc3s5h (talk) 19:04, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
- Would you like to see the date given in the Islamic calendar as well? It's commonplace for historians to align dates with the modern calendar without comment. Eric Corbett 19:14, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
- In this case, the editors did not align William's birth date with the modern calendar, they gave it in the Julian calendar. The comment about the Islamic calendar is irrelevant because William was not born in an Islamic country. Jc3s5h (talk) 19:26, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
- Ambiguous - As per User:Jc3s5h's comment. --JustBerry (talk) 03:16, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
- But the article might well be read in an Islamic country. Eric Corbett 19:28, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
- Your argument would hold water if the article actually mentioned anything about the religious disputes you suggest William was involved in. It doesn't, and the calendar is therefore irrelevant. Parrot of Doom 19:16, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
- From the article: "Guy Fawkes Night originates from the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a failed conspiracy by a group of provincial English Catholics to assassinate the Protestant King James I of England and replace him with a Catholic head of state." And later "In the 1690s [William] re-established Protestant rule in Ireland, and the Fifth, occasionally marked by the ringing of church bells and civic dinners, was consequently eclipsed by his birthday commemorations." Jc3s5h (talk) 19:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
- Nothing in that quote contradicts what I've written. Parrot of Doom 21:01, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
- The calendar in use should be ignored unless there are either: 1. dates for simultaneous or overlapping events using conflicting calendars that therefore require clarification or 2. astrological or astronomical events where the calendar used changes the observation; neither are the case here, The birth date remains the date observed using the calendar in use at that time and place and was not adjusted by the introduction of the Gregorian calendar. There is no need to define the calendar used. Ex nihil (talk) 10:44, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- WP:JG states "Dates of events in countries using the Gregorian calendar at that time are given in the Gregorian calendar. This includes some of the Continent of Europe from 1582, the British Empire from 14 September 1752, and Russia from 14 February 1918 (see Gregorian calendar)." A person familiar with Wikipedia guidelines will interpret that to mean that since the event in question is William's birth, and the calendar in use at the time and place of William's birth was the Gregorian calendar, his birthdate is stated in the Gregorian calendar. But it is not; it violates WP:JG by being stated in the Julian calendar. Jc3s5h (talk) 13:40, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- Why do you think it is stated in the Julian, I am probably being thick here but I don't see the problem, or I don't see the reference. Ex nihil (talk) 17:37, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- I think the date is in Julian because I read footnote 1 in William III of England. Jc3s5h (talk) 17:48, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- OK, happy I was not quite so thick, that was a little obscure. in which case the date given is correct. The date is the date in that place at that time using the calendar in effect. Julian dates are not retrospectively converted in Wiki or anywhere else. Let it stand as it is. I suspect the calendar issue is a red herring. Ex nihil (talk) 09:41, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
- That's wrong. William was born in the Netherlands. In the calendar in effect at the time and place of his birth, the Gregorian calendar, he was born on 14 November 1650, not 4 November 1650 as falsely stated in the article. Jc3s5h (talk) 12:19, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
- OK, happy I was not quite so thick, that was a little obscure. in which case the date given is correct. The date is the date in that place at that time using the calendar in effect. Julian dates are not retrospectively converted in Wiki or anywhere else. Let it stand as it is. I suspect the calendar issue is a red herring. Ex nihil (talk) 09:41, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
- I think the date is in Julian because I read footnote 1 in William III of England. Jc3s5h (talk) 17:48, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- Why do you think it is stated in the Julian, I am probably being thick here but I don't see the problem, or I don't see the reference. Ex nihil (talk) 17:37, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- WP:JG states "Dates of events in countries using the Gregorian calendar at that time are given in the Gregorian calendar. This includes some of the Continent of Europe from 1582, the British Empire from 14 September 1752, and Russia from 14 February 1918 (see Gregorian calendar)." A person familiar with Wikipedia guidelines will interpret that to mean that since the event in question is William's birth, and the calendar in use at the time and place of William's birth was the Gregorian calendar, his birthdate is stated in the Gregorian calendar. But it is not; it violates WP:JG by being stated in the Julian calendar. Jc3s5h (talk) 13:40, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
What was the date of birth registered in the births records in his parish at the time? Past dates were never revised when the calendar was changed, they were inviolable. If his birth was recorded as 4 November in either the Gregorian or the Julian on the day, it remains the same in either even if somebody in another country simultaneously recorded his birth under a different date the 4 Nov would stand. However, the calendar in use would be of interest to anybody studying his horoscope because the stars would be in a different alignment, and the ages of everybody who lived through the calendar change was ten days short because it is calculated off the dates; this upset some people at the time who thought that they were to die on a pre-destined calendar date and they were being short-changed ten or eleven days, so by all means note which it was as a footnote. Ex nihil (talk) 14:41, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
Fixes to citation templates
My recent improvements to the citation templates in this article were reverted in this edit claiming that they were "arbitrary citation changes based on personal preference". Please allow me to explain each edit further:
- Edit #1 changed
|date=October to December 1892
to|date=October–December 1892
to remove the article from Category:CS1 errors: dates per WP:DATERANGE. - Edit #2 was to change the broken link http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vN7u-ZWC7VkC to the valid http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xakunwEACAAJ
- Edit #3 was to fix the name of the magazine. If you visit http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ukgEAAAAMBAJ you'll see it's Life magazine, not Time Magazine.
- Edit #4 was to ensure the article title is in quotation marks and that The Times is displayed with italics, per WP:QUOTEMARKS, WP:ITALICS, and Template:Citation#Periodical.
- Edit #5, Edit #6, Edit #7 and had the same rationale as Edit #4.
- Edit #8 was to display the editor's name with last name first, which appears to be the predominant format in this article.
I hope these explanations are better than what I provided in the edit summaries, and that you'll consider restoring some or all of these changes. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 03:15, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- Edit 1 enforced a date format restriction that had never been agreed to for the Citation style.
- Edit 3 messed with the volume parameter without fixing it; it should have been split into volume and issue parameters.
- Edit 4 might be an improvement. However, my experience with Infotrac suggests the link contains parameters specific to the subscriber, so is useless. So the citation is still problematic after the fix.
- Edit 6 changes Citation to cite news.
- Edit 7 changed a wrong template, cite book, to another wrong template, cite news. This article uses the Citation template.
- Edit 8 changed Citation to Cite web.
- So of eight edits, four were wrong, one failed to make an easy fix, and one failed to make a more difficult fix. Jc3s5h (talk) 03:52, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- My main objection is the changing of publisher = guardian.co.uk to work = The Guardian and similar. I don't particularly have any problem with the rest. Parrot of Doom 06:28, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- This article currently uses a mixture of citation templates. I'll be happy to change them all to {{citation}} and implement the changes above. However, if I get some partially right, it would be better if you could help fix it than revert it back to something that is wrong. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:27, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- Actually I don't think your changes are correct GoingBatty, as now the URLs such as "bbc.co.uk" are now italicised, which looks rather strange. Eric Corbett 23:52, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- That's interesting PoD. My view has always been that "guardian.co.uk", for instance, is simply a URL, and that the publisher (or work) is actually the owner of that domain name. Eric Corbett 23:35, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- I suspect there are difference between print and online versions that may introduce a distinction that, over time, may be lost. That's why I use the url rather than the publishing company. Parrot of Doom 08:48, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
- This article currently uses a mixture of citation templates. I'll be happy to change them all to {{citation}} and implement the changes above. However, if I get some partially right, it would be better if you could help fix it than revert it back to something that is wrong. Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 23:27, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
- My main objection is the changing of publisher = guardian.co.uk to work = The Guardian and similar. I don't particularly have any problem with the rest. Parrot of Doom 06:28, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
This article needs an infobox
This article is in dire need of an infobox. It goes to show that Corbett OWNS this article and that Cassianto stands by with his pitchfork when Corbett is not available. I'm surprised at an admin (Bencherlite) getting involved and going against community consensus. Millions of articles have a infobox and THAT is a consensus. 195.89.48.217 (talk) 15:11, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
- I don't own any articles, but then neither do you. Have you explained yet why you believe this article to be in "dire need" of an infobox? Eric Corbett 15:16, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
An infobox should be used to allow a casual reader to gain facts without having to read the boring text. "Your" article should have one. This needs an infobox!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.89.48.217 (talk) 15:27, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
- If you don't like reading the "boring text", perhaps a text-based encyclopedia is not for you, then. Infoboxes have their uses - I have used them on many of the articles that I have started, but not all of them - but yours is among the weakest arguments for an infobox I have seen. Quite obviously there is no "community consensus" for including infoboxes on every article, otherwise the Arbcom infoboxes case would have been decided rather differently. The last discussion relating to this article was here, by the way. Have you got any new points to add apart from a dislike of "boring text"? BencherliteTalk 16:25, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
- So here's how such an infobox might appear, using the infobox holiday template (although 5 November isn't a holiday). Basically it repeats a tiny amount of information already available in the lead. Personally I think it would look stupid, so my vote is still no. Parrot of Doom 17:39, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
Guy Fawkes Night | |
---|---|
Festivities in Windsor Castle by Paul Sandby, c. 1776 | |
Observed by | United Kingdom |
Significance | Commemoration of the failure of the Gunpowder Plot |
Celebrations | Bonfires, Fireworks |
Date | 5 November |
Next time | 5 November 2024 |
Frequency | annual |
- I have often thought about putting an infobox here- then realised it was time to rest. Do we have a Infobox for Religious Hatred, or do we have one for Famous miscarriages of Justice or just an Infobox for Hospital admittances for skin grafts? You can forget-Infobox holiday- when I have never been given a day off work? This sickly sweet Disneyfication of 300 years history is not what Wikipedia is about. Please take personal abuse to another page- for instance, you own user page.-- Clem Rutter (talk) 18:42, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
- If Groundhog Day gets an infobox, then Guy Fawkes Night is certainly deserving.Cantab12 (talk) 23:22, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
- That's no rationale for inclusion (thankfully). We have WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS to ensure slippery slopes aren't introduced. There is nothing in an IB that isn in the lead, and most of that is in the first sentence. - SchroCat (talk) 01:54, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
Anonymous' activities in relation to GFN
Nothing to see. Drmies (talk) 02:44, 2 November 2014 (UTC) |
---|
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
Forgive me as I don't understand, but why isn't the hacker group Anonymous' recent adoption of GFN, in not just the date, but some of the ideas behind the GFN as well, seen as not relevant to this article? It seems particularly topical and timely here. Is there some particular format I'm not aware of that this content should be in? Buddy23Lee (talk) 00:21, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
Alright, well clearly no one is going to explain to me why this article can't reference these citations, other than, well, it just can't. I don't have any agenda in "promoting" this or any group. I was attempting to write the content as neutral as possible and I would welcome a re-writing by any other editor. The idea of making a separate article to address this otherwise one or two lines of content seems a little strange to me. Honestly, at this point it would seem if there is any agenda, it's to keep this article as unchanging and conservative as possible, no matter the cost. I'm shocked to be confronted by what is difficult to see as anything other than the protected interests of elitist editors. I guess I'll go back to the aspects of our shared project which foster more inclusion and sensibleness. Buddy23Lee (talk) 05:20, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
I must be too stupid to use Wikipedia as well, as try as I might, I can't seen any justification for not mentioning them either. Anonymous specifically chose this day to conduct some of their activities precisely because of the supposed shared themes between their modern day "hacktivism" and the original historical activism remembered by this festival. Despite their ironic name, since the hacker group are hardly unknown, and since this connection has been commented on by the news, I see absolutely no good reason for Wikipedia to be pretending to the outside world that no such connection exists - because that's the effect of not mentioning it here. Including it in the hacker article obviously doesn't help inform anyone who didn't already know about it beforehand. The suggestion that mentioning the connection here would amount to a takeover of the article seems quite ridiculous to me. I certainly don't see how mentioning it would be completely inappropriate - that makes it sound like Buddy was proposing to add a flashing banner ad for the group. I already knew about the connection, so not mentioning it hardly inconvenienced me, but others are presumably coming here with the express intent of learning about not just the historical context, but the present day significance, of Guy Fawkes Night. Not mentioning Anonymous therefore is a glaring omission. The purpose of Wikipedia is after all to educate, right? It's a long time since I was at a school, but I doubt if kids today are being put in detention or are being told to shut up for mentioning Anonymous in lessons about Guy Fawkes Night, which no doubt features a lot in the curriculum in the coming week. Indeed, in the context of the supposed decline of Bonfire Night as a remembrance of an extreme act of non-conformist political protest (a claim which appears to be vastly overblown in the article, much like the claims that Brits no longer associate Christmas or Easter with Jesus), it seems highly remiss not to mention what is very good evidence that the link has not been forgotten or marginalised in modern day Britain at all. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Galactic envoy (talk • contribs) 18:05, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
Galactic envoy, I assumed you were drunk as your musings that BuddyLee was being "treated like a moron" and your deluded acknowledgement that you had "taken up the baton on his behalf", was that of someone who was either trolling to trigger an arguement, or a result of someone having too much of the good stuff on the run up to Bonfire night. I don't believe you are a troll (yet) so I innocently put it down to the latter. The reluctance to accept our responses here is, I feel, indicative of someone who cannot accept the consensus and is continuing, simply, because they don't like it.. Cassiantotalk 00:12, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
|
Protection?
Please discuss protection policy on an administrative noticeboard. This page is for discussing improvements to the article. Johnuniq (talk) 22:40, 3 November 2014 (UTC) |
---|
The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
Can I ask why this article appears to have been preemptively protected? I was under the impression that protection is only supposed to be deployed as a response to current/persistent vandalism. It doesn't appear to have been vandalised at all for the 24 hours before it was protected, and before that it was only being vandalised by one apparently static IP. That's clearly a situation easily dealt with without resorting to protection at all, but if you really must put a barrier in the way of people trying to improve articles like this at the very time of year when they will be reading it and noticing the things about it which are deficient, then the least you could do is make the barrier to editing the same as the barrier to creating articles - namely to create an account. I find myself in the utterly perverse position today of being allowed to write an entire article based on something I read in here but which wasn't linked (the Firework Code), which I sadly can't do as an IP but I can do once forced to create an account, yet I then found I'm not even able to hyperlink to it, let alone add/change some of the information here which appears to be out of date or misleading (based on what I've found while researching the code) because of this protection. And yes, while I fully appreciate it's a trivial task to ask someone to link it using this talk page, it's not so trivial to perform the second using intermediaries. Firework bob (talk) 21:15, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
|
Hyperlink please
This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
Hyperlink Firework Code please. Firework bob (talk) 22:25, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you. A total waste of your time and mine, clearly, but thank you, nonetheless. Firework bob (talk) 22:30, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Drmies Would PC be a viable option here rather than semi? That would let editors such as bob make some efforts without impacting the site for general readership, and its easy to approve/reject the changes. Then we could move up to semi if/when the actual vandals come and play? Gaijin42 (talk) 22:35, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
- Gaijin, I am not the biggest fan of PC. I am just concerned with these few days, after which protection will expire. If another admin wants to change semi to PC, I got no quarrel with that. And I do not believe that such requests are a total waste of time, but that's just me. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 23:11, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
I don't know what PC is, but somehow I doubt it would be easy at all - it's taken over an hour just to get a hyperlink added (and I cannot believe I actually had to make it a specific request before it was done). Now apparently I have to find another noticeboard because somehow me complaining here that the preemptive protection on this article was preventing me from improving the article, is somehow not related in any way to improving this article? It would probably be quicker for me to just write an accurate and up to date Fireworks in the United Kingdom article (another article which I can't believe doesn't even exist in 2014 - although its likely content is at least duplicated in places) and just ask for another hyperlink from here. Firework bob (talk) 23:45, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
- As was explained before, this is an article with a long history of vandalism just around this date. In addition, it's a Featured Article, which means it's really good and we like to keep it that way. So I apologize for this minor inconvenience, but that's the way it is. It will take you three minutes to post a notice at WP:AN, and not much longer to get an answer. Drmies (talk) 00:37, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
- I was already drafting a complaint at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection, now filed, and it took a damn sight longer than 3 minutes. I know exactly what was explained before, I was hoping that instead of it being repeated by you, you would actually answer the points I raised about the policy. As you will see there, I've mentioned all the pertinent facts, again. But thanks for dismissing all this as a minor inconvenience. I'm so glad my time is of such little importance to you. It took me less time to research and write the whole Firework Code article than it has to deal with this, and I sense I'm not even half way through it yet. Firework bob (talk) 00:49, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
GFN in Ireland
I see someone else is trying to tell us that GFN is not celebrated in Ireland[2]. Perhaps they should see this and also the leaflet produced by the Orange Order about bonfires at [3]. Richerman (talk) 11:43, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- That's precisely why I reverted them. The text they were removing was even backed up by a reliable source. Still, they might assume that their POV overrides everything else, which of course it doesn't. Cassiantotalk 14:29, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- I was aware of that but I thought some easily found online references on this page would be something we could point to in the future when we get this problem again - which we surely will. Richerman (talk) 14:58, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- Nice idea! Cassiantotalk 15:11, 20 November 2014 (UTC)
- I was aware of that but I thought some easily found online references on this page would be something we could point to in the future when we get this problem again - which we surely will. Richerman (talk) 14:58, 20 November 2014 (UTC)