Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spring Holiday (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. Few reliable sources discussing this term: most of the article was unsourced original research. Only three live sources currently in the article, of which only two actually use the term - and these are merely examples of use, not a discussion of the term itself. The first source provided as an example of use is hardly notable; a newsletter from the Village of Cottage Grove, Wisconsin (population 4,059). The second source provided as an example of use isn't clearly an example of its use as a distinct term. An additional source mentioned on the AfD as once being in the article, but no longer there, is http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49406, which also doesn't use the term "Spring Holiday". Jayjg (talk) 04:57, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Spring Holiday
AfDs for this article: 
 * – ( View AfD View log  •  )

Non-notable topic. No relevant google hits for "spring holiday" or easter controversy." EeepEeep (talk) 00:06, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks to me like the article was created just to stir up the (otherwise nonexistent) controversy it claims to describe. How could Christians be opposed to something they've never heard of? --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 00:35, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete I know that schools now give "winter vacation" and "spring break" when they used to give Christmas and Easter vacations. However I have never heard of "Spring Holiday", besides which Easter is on a Sunday so no holiday needs to be given. Northwestgnome (talk) 01:06, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, . I created this article, and I support its deletion. It seems that although it may have been notable at the time I created it (in 2006), it appears to no longer be relevant or notable. &mdash; CIS (talk | stalk) 02:16, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - I've never heard of an "Easter vacation," it's always been spring break. And never "Spring Holiday." I tried to fix the article, but I couldn't find any sources to corroborate what it was trying to say. EeepEeep (talk) 04:15, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * My memory goes back to the 1960s. :-) Northwestgnome (talk) 14:41, 21 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Merge to Easter. The previous AfD (in which I !voted "reluctant keep") was unanimous that the article should remain.  The sources addressing the controversy, that existed and prompted the keeping of the article in 2006, have not magically disappeared.  Notability is not temporary.  That said, a couple of lines in Easter about the euphemistic use of the phrase "Spring Holiday" and notable objections thereto would be entirely appropriate, along with a redirect from this title to the appropriate section.  Powers T 13:45, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - Actually, the sources have disappeared. Most of the refs and links in the article were dead links.  For the most part they were examples of usage, not references describing the alleged controversy, making the article original research.  I agree notability is not temporary; in this case the topic was never notable. EeepEeep (talk) 21:46, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * We still have [ http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49406 ] which was removed from the article for some reason, and which is still referenced.  Powers T 14:30, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Christianity-related deletion discussions.  --  Beloved  Freak  16:43, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge or just redirect to Easter. This seems to be one of those politically correct secularisms, as bad as "winterval" for Christmas and other festivals near the winter solstice.  If you said "Spring holiday" to me as an Englishman, I would probably have thought you meant "spring bank holiday" (which comes at the end of May) and replaced the variably-dated Whitsun bank holiday.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:34, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep as disambiguation page. It may have a number of meanings. -- Pink Bull  04:43, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge or redirect to Spring break. For all it's worth, if someone said "Spring Holiday" to me, I would probably think they meant "spring break" or "spring vacation".—Sandahl (♀) 22:10, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete This is not and never was a notable controversy. It was invented to support a particular POV.Elielilamasabachthani (talk) 15:48, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.