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Reviving the GA review from four years ago
On the review page for this article in 2014 you stated: "I'm sorry to have to close this GA but with no response from nom (and no editing for a while) there seems no hope of getting this done, and the normal time-out period has now elapsed. If anyone (including the original nominator) would like to resume this review to take the article through to GA, then please relist it under GAN and ping me." I believe I have now addressed all or almost all of the criticisms you mentioned on the review page and I have re-nominated this article for GA. I was wondering if your promise was still good? If so, would you mind starting a new review for it? I saw this article and thought it would be an excellent and easy article to bring up to GA and I am willing to put in some work to do so. --Katolophyromai (talk) 01:01, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Greenery?
In various places (Including the online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica, managed by its own editors), it is suggested that the decoration of houses of greenery was a common practice of the Roman pagans either in relation to Saturnalia, or in relation to the kalends of January. I would ask if anyone is aware of a single source which describes such a practice in relation to either. Zusty001 (talk) 19:48, 26 December 2022 (UTC)

Saturnalia
Can I subjugate this word into an adverb, such as saturnalia? Jashenk7088 (talk) 02:36, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

Dates
Date was recently expanded to include December 25th, with the edit change claiming this "Fixed a typo where people changed a date to lie to us"

However, the source, specifically Macrobius: Saturnalia, says:

''I think that we have now given abundant proof that the festival of the Saturnalia used to be celebrated on only one day, the fourteenth before the Kalends of January, but that it was afterward prolonged to last three days: first, in consequence of the days which Caesar added to the month of December, and then in pursuance of an edict of Augustus which prescribed a series of three rest days for the Saturnalia. The festival therefore begins on the sixteenth day before the Kalends of January and ends on the fourteenth, which used to be the only day of its celebration.’ However, the addition of the feast of the Sigillaria has extended the time of general excitement and religious rejoicing to seven days.''

Assuming the accepted start date of 17 December, the maximum duration would have been 17-23 December (inclusive).

All the other sources I could find said the same, so I'm wondering why it was changed and what source exists to support the change. 173.24.67.226 (talk) 15:49, 25 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I also couldn't find anything supporting the 25th of December. The person who changed it probably confused it with Sol Invictus which was moved to the 25th of December by Emperor Aurelian. Aleksandras Salenga (talk) 23:26, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
 * You just said you “assume” if you did your research instead of looking in the internet but actually look in books you’ll find it 2603:6080:4E04:FD72:6DAF:136F:68C2:37BC (talk) 02:16, 27 December 2023 (UTC)


 * I think we need a secondary source here. While does say that the Saturnalia plus the Sigillaria make for seven days of celebration, it is not clear to me that Macrobius is saying that the Saturnalia was ever considered to include the Sigillaria. Paul August &#9742; 16:29, 27 December 2023 (UTC)