Wikipedia talk:Days of the year

Please see an open RfC on DOY article lead lengths here: Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates § RfC on the leads of DOY articles and their FL eligibility voorts (talk/contributions) 23:25, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

To some leaders of a certain ilk, anniversaries have a talismanic nature. Just stating facts for the record. Bearian (talk) 06:53, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

I'm seeing a proliferation of events being added to DOY articles such as World Heart Day that have been established by random groups around the world to promote their cause by declaring a named day. I'm thinking we should probably exclude these self-promoted days of declaration/promotion. Thoughts? Toddst1 (talk) 14:08, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

I think our existing guidance is sufficient to filter out the most problematic cases. If the event doesn't have a standalone article, we wouldn't include it in a DOY article. If it has a standalone article, it presumably has some secondary coverage and mainstream acceptance, otherwise it should probably be merged or deleted. I worry that changing the criteria as proposed would exclude too many notable holidays, many of which were initially established by random groups trying to promote a cause. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 14:47, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

@Firefangledfeathers: It doesn't seem like you have contributed much if at all to Wikipedia:WikiProject Days of the year. Am I missing something? Toddst1 (talk) 21:10, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Much, no. At all, yes! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 21:50, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

I've not got a massive preference either way but I'm leaning towards keeping them as long as they've got articles like our current guidance states although maybe sourcing should be a bit stricter. We could perhaps restrict them to name days which have had significant events related to them rather than just having passing mentions which prove they exist. On the other hand, there are holidays sections in some of our pages which are very small and include very little other than a list of Christian saints, including name days could make the pages a little less biased. Suonii180 (talk) 10:11, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Silly question, but I really don't know what "days of the year articles" are. Articles like January 1 through December 31? Or 1900, 2025, etc.? Or something else? I think this should be explained in the first one or two sentences of the article. Thanks! — Chrisahn (talk) 21:16, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

• @Chrisahn: This WikiProject only covers 1 January-31 December while year articles are covered by Wikipedia:WikiProject Years. Suonii180 (talk) 14:10, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

  Thanks, but that doesn't solve the problem. The problem is that the first sentence of this page currently says "the days of the year articles should include ...", but the reader isn't told which articles are meant by that term. I guess that's OK if this page is only meant to be read by people who already know the term, e.g. members of the project. But if you want this page to be read and understood by other editors as well, you should explain what you mean by the term. At least with a few words in the first sentence(s), or by adding "i.e. the articles January 1 through December 31". That's why I started this section. — Chrisahn (talk) 14:31, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

  I went ahead and copied the definition by example from the project page. I hope that's ok. — Chrisahn (talk) 14:35, 1 February 2026 (UTC)