Talk:Festival of the Dead

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 26 August 2020 and 18 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Nava0914.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 21:21, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Other uses

Festival of the Dead also refers to a music event in Sydney, Australia. I am not sure it has sufficient notability for an article that would survive WP:AFD. If another editor feels they can write a good article on it, I would suggest calling the article Festival of the Dead (Sydney). Jeepday (talk) 13:44, 17 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The history of the Festival of the dead

“Elements of the customs connected with Halloween can be traced to a Druid [ancient Celtic priesthood] ceremony in pre-Christian times. The Celts had festivals for two major gods—a sun god and a god of the dead . . . , whose festival was held on November 1, the beginning of the Celtic New Year. The festival of the dead was gradually incorporated into Christian ritual.”

The 17th day Heshvan (Bul) which is the second the month of ancient Jewish secular year. Genesis 7:11 - The demons dematerialized when the Flood came. Genesis 6:1-4; for Jude 6. - The Nephilim hybrid the offspring of the demons drowned. Genesis 6:4. This corresponds to the October-November period. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.57.60.200 (talk) 09:34, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In addition at Babel (Babylon, Iraq) a quick human world migration began preserving customs at Babel (Babylon, Iraq) as the Festival of the dead. - Genesis 11:5-9.

Copy Vio

Much of what was on this page was stolen from my site at http://www.festivalofthedead.com/historyofthefestival.html and I have removed it. Please see that it stays removed or I will be filing a DMCA 1998 compliant letter. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Christianday (talk • contribs) 08:33, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have also gone back into the history of this article. According to entry: ( 23:11, 29 October 2008 71.48.142.133 ), on October 29, 2008, all of the content from my site was taken and put on this Wikipedia entry, and it was subsequently edited by various authors here. Still, the bulk of this is my writing and ideas and it must not be used. I have shuttered several hundred websites over the years using the good ol' DMCA and I'm quite sure Wikipedia takes this sort of thing seriously and will back me up on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Christianday (talk • contribs)

Already taken care of. Next time just let people know on the community portal or admin noticeboard. Or you could've sent emails to Jimmy Wales or another member of Wikipedia or Wikimedia. - M0rphzone (talk) 01:50, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm creating some content for this page, as one source from 1867 really isn't enough. I have not gone anywhere near this chap's website, although I suspect a fair bit of the information will end up being the same, it being nothing but names and dates. 109.157.250.9 (talk) 18:39, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Updates

Hello everybody I am planning on making some changes to this wikipedia page over the next couple of weeks. My first course of action will involve a restructuring of the article, by creating different categories. I plan on organizing the page by adding a lead paragraph and organizing each holiday and festival by geographical location. I will also be rewording parts of the article where the language is odd and hard to understand. I will also add a couple of pictures to the articles, and I will add a section that compares the different holidays to one another, so as to highlight the similar aspects of different holidays from across the globe.Nava0914 (talk) 05:16, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It sounds like you have a good plan, this article has grown a lot since I wrote the stub 12 years ago. Jeepday (talk) 17:43, 7 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I'm thinking this is going to work as a template so people have a way of structuring their thoughts before adding to the page. This doc is free to edit by me, I'm hoping someone can keep adding to it and building or repairing whatever needs to be done!Nava0914 (talk) 01:49, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nava0914, I removed some of the edits that you made. Some of the additions were unsourced or not supported by the source you cited. One used a reference that fails to identify the source in any way: <ref>{{Cite web|title=Single Signon - Georgetown University - Error|url=https://shibb-idp.georgetown.edu/idp/profile/SAML2/POST/SSO?execution=e1s2|access-date=2020-12-16|website=shibb-idp.georgetown.edu}}</ref>; one included proquest information but I can't find the document in a proquest search (http://proxy.library.georgetown.edu/login?qurl=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/so-their-remains-may-rest-cherokee-death-rituals/docview/305141229/se-2?accountid=11091); one included proquest information but is just an anonymous article in the Malay Mail. Catholicstraightanswers.com is a poor source. I left a few other refs that could really be improved. For a topic like this, academic sources are preferable. (I came to this article because I saw someone making fun of "The people of Whales would place marked stones into large bonfires" on Twitter. Please double-check your spelling and grammar.) Schazjmd (talk) 01:00, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]