Talk:Holidays of Japan

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[edit] Current Japan-related collaboration

This article is the first Current Japan-related collaboration. I propose that we improve this article to featured-status quality in about 30 days.

The article has these parts:

Introductory (lead-in) paragraph
Table of Japanese holidays
Other holiday dates
Recent changes
Planned changes
See also
External links

We can change the organization any way we like. I propose to replace the present Table of Japanese holidays with text. The text will come in two sections: one for legal holidays, one for other holidays. A merged list below the text will have the holidays in chronological order, if we feel that is important.

I believe the current Table of Japanese holidays is thus acceptable, and that replacing it with text would be of no particular benefit. However, the background colour of rows could be changed depending on the nature of the holidays. Grumpy Troll ^Talk 13:07, 20 November 2005 (UTC).

Actually, I like the table too. My question is this: will the article reach featured status if its main content is in a table? I'm not sure of the answer. And if the answer is "no," then my next question is whether featured status is worth sacrificing the table for. Again, I'm not sure how I'd answer. (My goal, again, is "featured-status quality" rather than featured status itself, and I definitely believe we can attain that quality with the table intact.) So at least unless Peer Review or Featured Article Candidacy indicates strong objection to the table, I'm very happy to work within it. And, thanks for signing on! Fg2 07:17, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

However, the table makes it difficult to insert images. Please see below. Fg2 07:36, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

I should think that the article will reach featured status if the table hosts the content better than several paragraphs, which I believe is the case; I agree that unless opinion unfavourable to the table is expressed until Peer Review or Featured Article Candidacy, we should work with it. Thank you for welcoming me heartily, it is my pleasure to work on this article. Grumpy Troll ^Talk 18:24, 21 November 2005 (UTC).

I think the table is fine, but at the moment, it is unclear which holidays are national holidays (public holidays). I came here looking for this answer and now I'll have to troll elsewhere. Stephen.frede 02:32, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Apologies! I intended to include that information with every holiday. If you can tell me which holidays don't have this information, I'll be happy to add it! Thanks Fg2 07:03, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

It appears that most entries indicate whether they are national holidays or not, but perhaps this distinction could be made immediately evident through a binary color-code system. The cells containing National Holidays could be one color and Traditional, but unofficial holidays could remain clear. Kirkpatrick 13:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Other holiday dates: this is not dates, so we should change the title. Maybe merge with Recent changes and Planned changes to make one substantial section.

References: We'll likely need references to get this article featured. They can be books, periodicals, reference works etc.

Timeline:

November 20–30	Organize, edit, add references
December 1	Submit to WP:PR for peer review
December 1–9	Continue editing especially to incorporate peer review comments
December 10	Submit to WP:FAC
December 10–24	Edit to address comments that reviewers give

[edit] Images

We can illustrate this page with images of anything related to the holidays. Please add to this list of ideas:

New year's greeting card, osechi ryori, kadomatsu, kagami mochi
Adults wearing kimono on coming of age day
Beans being thrown, or another event such as goma kuyo, on setsubun
Dolls for hinamatsuri
Chocolate gifts for white day
Tanabata decorations
Daimonji-yaki for obon
Kids in kimono for shichi-go-san
Well-wishers at the Imperial Palace for the Emperor's birthday

[edit] Volunteers

Please add your name to the list to indicate your interest in improving this article. If you have a specific task you want to carry out, please list it, and feel free to do it!

Fg2
Grumpy Troll ^Talk

[edit] Comments

Please feel free to use this discussion page as usual to discuss the contents of the article, the direction I've proposed, etc.

[edit] Sample entry

Here's what I envision as a sample entry for the text to replace the table:

January 1 stands at the beginning of Japan's most important holiday season. Japanese call this season shōgatsu or o-shōgatsu. The term may refer to January 1–3, 1–7, or 1–20. Historically, shogatsu was a name for January. January 1 is a national holiday.

We can continue by briefly describing what people do, incorporating material from Japanese New Year, the Japanese Wikipedia, references etc.