Talk:January/Archive 1

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January source
I think there is some useful info to be gained from here: http://57.1911encyclopedia.org/J/JA/JANUARY.htm. I have heard several stories about whether it is in the public domain, though. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.53.240.203 (talk) 23:07, 17 June 2002 (UTC)

Monthlong Events?
Aren't there any other mothlong events for January other than 'soup month'? I think I've heard of more before. -- Raimu — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.203.32.62 (talk) 14:18, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

January 1st as beginning of year
"Although March was originally the first month in the old Roman Calendar, January assumed that position beginning in 153 BC when the two consuls, for whom the years were named, began to be chosen on January 1. The reason for this shift of the new year into the dead of winter was to allow the new consuls to complete the elections and ceremonies upon becoming consuls, and still reach their respective consular armies by the start of the campaigning season."

May we have some materials to back up these points please. Imboot 09:21, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

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—Yamara ✉  17:07, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Old expression "January/May romance" (or similar)?
Isn't there an old expression, signifying that one partner in a romantic relationship is much older than the other? (Also there's "winter-spring relationship", isn't there? And if so, would it be worth mentioning under a subsection headed something like "Sayings related to January" as a cultural/historical thingie? Just a thought.--Tyranny Sue (talk) 05:28, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Changing the month template
Discussion needs to take place to determine if the calendar template on this page needs to be changed. While it would be helpful to change the template to a self-updating one, there seems to be dispute as to whether the calendar should be yearless. I believe that the current format is good and if we are going to have a calendar-looking thing, it should be a valid calendar and might as well be for the current year. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 20:59, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The current calendar is not according to international standards (ISO 8601), where week starts on monday, not sundays. It may be possible to use this calendar template (it has week numbers (in accordance with ISO week date) Nsaa (talk) 09:13, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

January this year

February this year

November this year

See and. The first one gives Nsaa (talk) 09:17, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Soon the first one will give the current month no more. It's to be deleted. The second defaults to the current month now. J IM ptalk·cont 04:22, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Other names
I just wonder wether i should enter arabic names for each names or not Eblis 18:01, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * I think that might be a good idea. However, there are two traditions of naming the mouths of the Gregorian calendar in Arabic: the Egyptian and Maghrebi names are just versions of the Latin names, whereas the eastern names are based on the Syro-Babylonian tradition. Turkish month names are a mixture of both of these and some Trukish traditional names. It might be good to have a January in other languages section. However, a good few of these will just be different renditions of the Latin names. Gareth Hughes 18:46, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Also, I seriously question whether Charlemagne came up with 'Wintarmanoth' since that is an English name and Charlemagne was certainly not English. Can we get a source on that one? 99.42.142.248 (talk) 20:49, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

List of coincidental dates
Most month articles, including this one, feature a long and exhausting lede paragraph about how the month's days of the week compare to other months ("January in common years immediately before other common years begins on the same day of the week as April and July of the following year...") which read as if someone has just stared at their calendar and written down some prosaic coincidences. An IP recently moved the September content out of the lede for being "long and not really important". Is it perhaps better to just cut it across all month articles? --McGeddon (talk) 16:16, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

I made the move (just looked at September), as the paragraph looked disproportionately long and only of minor importance, compared to the rest of information. Personally, I think it would be reasonable to further trim this down (at least I do not know in which context particularly this is important). Overall the article for September still looks very messy (i.e. illustrations follow an extremely long bullet list; US observances go before anything else; etc), and some restructuring/tidying up is needed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.56.151.70 (talk) 16:41, 30 September 2015 (UTC)


 * With no objections, nor reaction to me cutting the paragraph from January a few weeks ago, I'll go ahead and remove this from the month articles that still have it. --McGeddon (talk) 10:49, 18 November 2015 (UTC)