Talk:Golden jubilee

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I removed the following section from the article as it did not seem appropriate in my opinion. If you really feel it should be there put it back I will not argue. But you might want to put a rational here for the next editor who sees it. Jeepday 03:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

very good
you did a very good job explaning things. i am using this page for a biography. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.144.144.136 (talk) 23:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC).

Wrong Info (Chinese Section)
In the Han Dynasty, all of the royal family's last name were liu. Please correct. --Fuzzyhair2 (talk) 17:45, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Of other monarchs of Great Britain
If these four monarchs did not celebrate a "Golden Jubilee", then they do not belong in the article, per Relevance of content. I propose to remove the section. Scolaire (talk) 14:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

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Moved without opposition. bd2412 T 04:37, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Golden Jubilee → Golden jubilee – According to dictionaries. iyouwetheyhesheit (talk) 15:12, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Support per rationale at Talk:Diamond Jubilee.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  13:07, 13 December 2014 (UTC)


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Etymology and/or History Section?
Should there be an etymology and/or history section for this article? At present, this article seems more like a list of various jubilees and has only the bare bones of background information included. Maybe there should be a general article on golden jubilees (or jubilees in general? a disambig page?) under this name and the lists of jubilees by country can be moved to a separate page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Miscellaneous Machinery (talk • contribs) 02:28, 25 March 2019 (UTC)

Oops, forgot to sign. My point still stands: I'd be happy to do it but I'm not quite sure what's needed to be done here. Miscellaneous Machinery (talk) 02:40, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, there should be a much better treatment on the origin of the idea. Currently, the only thing Wikipedia has is an offhand mention on "Anniversary" that Emily Post had a rump list of materials in her Etiquette. Surely she was merely reporting on the usual conventions in upper class society at the time, though, and there should be something from before that on where this specific connection between gold and 50 came from. Wiktionary entries and OED cites seem to suggest that the original English usage was jubilee for 50 years; that the Germans started having family celebrations at 25 and 50 years distinguished as the silver and gold jubilees, feasts, or "weddings" (one German word for "wedding" being inclusive of anniversary celebrations); that these were known to the English but uncommon except as descriptions of German habits until the 1850s or so, presumably becoming more common through the German connections of the monarchy; and developed into something of a hierarchy by the end of Victoria's reign (her 50th year as queen was the Royal Jubilee but the 60th was the Diamond Jubilee) and by 1922 Emily Post had a full list in Etiquette for 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 50, 75. (Ignoring that Vicky's diamond was the 60th anniversary, she marked the 75th as diamond.)


 * No, we shouldn't needlessly fork the discussion to separate national pages although some particular royal jubilees may deserve their own pages which this can link to. What should happen, though, is a move to Golden Anniversary with sections on "Golden Weddings"/"Golden Wedding Anniversaries" and "Golden Jubilees" as subsections. Jubilee is almost exclusively used for coronation anniversaries and not at all for wedding celebrations or 50th anniversaries more generally. — Llywelyn II   03:38, 30 March 2022 (UTC)