Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Holidays/Christmas task force

Initial setup
At the moment, the task force is working through the steps at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Coordinators. -- Suntag  ☼  17:36, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Are we going to have a particular article to work on? The category is so large, I have difficulty choosing... – How do you turn this on (talk) 18:15, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm working on putting together a list that I'll post to WikiProject Holidays/Christmas task force/DYK Christmas 2008. -- Suntag  ☼  15:14, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Christianity coordinators elections
Any parties interested in being one of the coordinators of WikiProject Christianity and its various related projects is encouraged to list themselves as a candidate at WikiProject Christianity/Coordinators/Election 2. It would be particularly beneficial if we had individuals from as broad a range of areas of the project as possible, to help ensure that we have people knowledgable about the widest range of content possible. John Carter (talk) 20:48, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Portal Peer Review
Comments/suggestions would be appreciated at Portal peer review/Christmas/archive1! – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 14:45, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

Books
Anyone interested in helping put together a wikipedia book relating to Christmas? The sooner we can get one together, the more attention I think it is likely ro receive. John Carter (talk) 16:49, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

revisiting priority scale on two articles
Any chance Zwarte Piet and Krampus could be bumped up from low to mid? The one is a controversial character, and the other seems to be reacquiring some more notability; some of the info also deserves more attention. Шизомби (talk) 05:35, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Problems with NORAD Tracks Santa article
I would like to draw the Christmas Task Force's attention to the multiple issues that the NORAD Tracks Santa article has. The two major editors have been informed about them and have chosen to split the article into seven small articles, each of the six new articles having multiple issues themselves. I would particularly like to draw your attention to those editors repeatedly going against Wikipedia's standards on writing about fiction, as detailed in Manual of Style (writing about fiction) and in the essay SANTA by insisting on writing articles that say that Santa Claus exists.Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 11:36, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

The problems are largely solved now and the article is unlikely to become such a mess ever again.Simon Peter Hughes (talk) 06:52, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Gremlins
Does anyone have an idea why Gremlins is listed as part of this project? The film takes place during the Christmas season, but that is not even secondary to the plot of the actual movie. The movie itself is not what most would consider "related to Christmas" based on the other articles listed in. Same argument goes for WikiProject Christianity / Christmas. If you have any info/explanation please share. Thanks. Sottolacqua (talk) 21:13, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I had the same question about Eight Crazy Nights, which is clearly a Hanukkah film. Even if you want to argue that it takes place around the same time as Christmas, it's not about Christmas - just the opposite, in fact.(98.218.126.134 (talk) 23:34, 22 December 2011 (UTC))

Christianity portals
I am currently trying to get together some lists of articles relevant to each Christianity-related portal which could be used, at least potentially, to help bring all the extant portals up to Featured Portal status. The current, admittedly incomplete, list of articles, images, etc., relevant to each portal can be found at User:John Carter/Christianity portals. I also think that, at least in theory, we would probably best use a single article only in a single portal, and that we probably have enough articles to do that, although there might be a few exceptions. I would welcome input from anyone on the associated talk page regarding which articles and other materials they would like to see associated with which portal(s), any suggestions for additional portals or changes to existing portals, etc. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 15:36, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Christmas as perceived by other religions
I found: WhisperToMe (talk) 19:37, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Marrapodi, Eric. "'What's Christmas without chopsticks?' How other faiths celebrate December 25th." CNN. December 24, 2011.

GAR
Christmas tree cultivation, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article.--FutureTrillionaire (talk) 20:16, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Sisters at Heart
I have initiated a featured article candidacy for "Sisters at Heart", an article about a Christmas episode of the television series Bewitched. Any constructive comments you would be willing to provide at the discussion would be greatly appreciated. Neelix (talk) 20:40, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Pantomime
Anyone interested in Pantomime may wish to comment on the open threads at the Talk page. -- Ssilvers (talk) 07:44, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject banner
Is there a way to make Template:WikiProject Christmas redirect so that the article is associated with this task force (i.e., " )? --- Another Believer  ( Talk ) 00:32, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Removed project banner from 2016 Berlin attack
I removed the banner from the talk page of that article as I believe it to be out of scope. Samsara 04:27, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Santa hats
Is this Task Force really serious about placing Santa hats on people in photographs of people in Wikipedia? They will only need to be removed once Christmas is over. Vorbee (talk) 16:50, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Ichthus May 2018 is available

 * Project News: An admin is admonished
 * Achievements: Ralph Abernathy promoted
 * Featured article: Missionaries in the rainforest
 * Did You Know: Ioan C. Filitti sentenced to death
 * * Read this Ichthus in full * Get Ichthus delivered to your Talkpage * – Lionel(talk) 11:57, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

Ichthus June 2018 is out now!

 * Project News: Is Genesis History? See the RFC.
 * Did You Know: Phineas Hodson’s wife dies
 * Featured article: Jewish boy causes fall of Roman Catholic Papal States?
 * * Read this Ichthus in full * Get Ichthus delivered to your Talkpage * – Lionel(talk) 04:04, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Ichthus July 2018 is out now!

 * The Top 7 Report: The big news was the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
 * Did You Know: Sun of Unclouded Righteousness
 * Our newest Featured list: List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events
 * * Read this Ichthus in full * Get Ichthus delivered to your Talkpage * – Lionel(talk) 08:05, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Peer review/Home Alone/archive2
Members of this project might be interested in leaving comments on the page linked above. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 21:31, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

"Redirect" hatnote
I added a "redirect" hatnote to make it easier for people who are looking for The Night Before Wikimas, which may appear in the WP:Signpost next week. It's also making the rounds elsewhere on Wikipedia.

I would ask that the redirect be left up at least through the Christmas season. If you do remove it, please follow WP:BRD and discuss.

My personal preference is that it be permanent, but I recognize that might be controversial, so feel free to start discussing that immediately if you like. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs) 🎄  02:17, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Assistance on List of Christmas carols article
Hello, I am about writing the List of Christmas Carols article which requires immediate attention. The article has since gone into disrepair and I and others have been trying to bring it back to the status others had achieved, however, there is one particular editor who has continually reverted any edits made and who is currently serving out a block due to this type of behaviour on another article and who insists popular Christmas songs such as The Christmas Song, Silver Bells and others are Christmas Carols (A better understanding will be got by observing the talk page in recent years), which contradicts the consensus many editors reached some years ago on the defining of which type of songs would be present on the list. I would be grateful if all could collaborate and return the article to its pristine state that others had achieved in the past. Also, I would be grateful if everyone could give the articles Christmas carol and Carol a look over too. I would like to see the articles achieve Featured articles status in advance of the holiday. Thank you 37.18.134.184 (talk) 16:34, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

What Constitutes a Christmas carol discussion
There is currently a discussion on List of Christmas Carols on what constitutes as a Christmas carol. To participate [|click here]37.18.134.184 (talk) 12:05, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

"Christmas parade car crash" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Christmas parade car crash. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 November 23 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. 65.92.246.43 (talk) 22:27, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Santa Claus parade
The name of is under discussion, see talk:Santa Claus parade -- 65.92.246.43 (talk) 05:13, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

"Christmas parade" listed at Redirects for discussion
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Christmas parade. The discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 9 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. 65.92.246.43 (talk) 03:38, 9 December 2021 (UTC)