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The result of the move request was: no consensus. Daniel Case ( talk) 05:58, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
Labor Day →
Labor Day (United States) – The article at
Labor Day describes the U.S. holiday; the article at
Labour Day describes the holiday in general. Since "Labor Day" and "Labour Day" are interchangable expressions internationally, I suggest to resolve any ambiguity we move the article about the U.S. holiday to a disambiguated title. The other article, and
Labor Day (disambiguation) stay where they are, and
Labor Day would redirect to the article about the U.S. holiday.
Shhhnotsoloud (
talk) 17:06, 23 July 2020 (UTC)—Relisting.
©
Tbhotch
™ (
en-3). 04:59, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
This whole section seems questionable, but in particular it references a "two-week vacation" as if that's common (it isn't in the US) and cites what is little more than an op-ed piece in the Washington Post (but labels it as Travelocity) as justification for it being the "end of summer." Wfdexter ( talk) 15:19, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Looking at the daily pageviews for this article it is self-evident that last year on May 1st a lot of people (87K) were misguided into the US Labor Day page, possibly from google searches (as in my case today). For native English speakers from the United States, the distinction between "Labor Day" and "Labour Day" might be enough to disambiguate which public holiday one is accurately referring. Yet, Wikipedia is a Cosmopolitan project, not a US centric one (even if sometimes it appears so). There are 1.453 billion English speakers, there are 245.5 million US native English speakers. Thus, it is in the interest of the vast majority of English speakers around the globe that when one searches either "Labor Day" or "Labour Day" the first hit is the international Wikipedia page (unless you are geographically located in the US). This problem will only be exacerbated as more people continue to learn English as a second language.
Additionally, the current disambiguation strategy (aka "Labour" and "Labor"), does not meet the accessibility criteria for visually impaired users (or those using text-to-speech) since the pronunciation of labor and labour is exactly the same, and is defined by the reading voice you selected.
My suggestion is to add an adjective to this page as: "American Labor Day", "US Labor Day", or something akin. And the international page should be linked to both "Labor Day" and "Labour Day".
[Pageviews graph] (
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193.157.170.245 (
talk) 12:17, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
This is the
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Labor Day article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
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Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
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This article is written in American English, which has its own spelling conventions (color, defense, traveled) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus. |
A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the
On this day section on 19 dates. show
September 6, 2004,
September 5, 2005,
September 4, 2006,
September 3, 2007,
September 1, 2008,
September 7, 2009,
September 6, 2010,
September 5, 2011,
September 3, 2012,
September 2, 2013,
September 1, 2014,
September 7, 2015,
September 5, 2016,
September 4, 2017,
September 3, 2018,
September 2, 2019,
September 7, 2020,
September 6, 2021, and
September 5, 2022 |
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content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report 6 times. The weeks in which this happened: |
On 3 September 2018, Labor Day was linked from Google, a high-traffic website. ( Traffic) All prior and subsequent edits to the article are noted in its revision history. |
Daily pageviews of this article
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The result of the move request was: no consensus. Daniel Case ( talk) 05:58, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
Labor Day →
Labor Day (United States) – The article at
Labor Day describes the U.S. holiday; the article at
Labour Day describes the holiday in general. Since "Labor Day" and "Labour Day" are interchangable expressions internationally, I suggest to resolve any ambiguity we move the article about the U.S. holiday to a disambiguated title. The other article, and
Labor Day (disambiguation) stay where they are, and
Labor Day would redirect to the article about the U.S. holiday.
Shhhnotsoloud (
talk) 17:06, 23 July 2020 (UTC)—Relisting.
©
Tbhotch
™ (
en-3). 04:59, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
This whole section seems questionable, but in particular it references a "two-week vacation" as if that's common (it isn't in the US) and cites what is little more than an op-ed piece in the Washington Post (but labels it as Travelocity) as justification for it being the "end of summer." Wfdexter ( talk) 15:19, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
Looking at the daily pageviews for this article it is self-evident that last year on May 1st a lot of people (87K) were misguided into the US Labor Day page, possibly from google searches (as in my case today). For native English speakers from the United States, the distinction between "Labor Day" and "Labour Day" might be enough to disambiguate which public holiday one is accurately referring. Yet, Wikipedia is a Cosmopolitan project, not a US centric one (even if sometimes it appears so). There are 1.453 billion English speakers, there are 245.5 million US native English speakers. Thus, it is in the interest of the vast majority of English speakers around the globe that when one searches either "Labor Day" or "Labour Day" the first hit is the international Wikipedia page (unless you are geographically located in the US). This problem will only be exacerbated as more people continue to learn English as a second language.
Additionally, the current disambiguation strategy (aka "Labour" and "Labor"), does not meet the accessibility criteria for visually impaired users (or those using text-to-speech) since the pronunciation of labor and labour is exactly the same, and is defined by the reading voice you selected.
My suggestion is to add an adjective to this page as: "American Labor Day", "US Labor Day", or something akin. And the international page should be linked to both "Labor Day" and "Labour Day".
[Pageviews graph] (
https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest-365&pages=Labor_Day)
193.157.170.245 (
talk) 12:17, 1 May 2024 (UTC)