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This paragraph has conflicting dates first mentioning 1938 then WWI: 'National Doughnut Day started on June 7, 1938 when a young military doctor by the name of Morgan Pett was sent to a military base....This fund raiser was later joined with the Salvation Army. Soon after the US entrance into World War I in 1917, The Salvation Army sent a fact-finding mission to France. '— Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.222.69.134 ( talk) 04:01, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Not only are the dates conflicting, but the two persons mentioned, and the story itself has no sources. I can find no mention of either men, nor this story, that does not come from this page itself. The edits in question were added here - https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=National_Doughnut_Day&oldid=571846411
I have added the citation needed flag, but I wonder if we should revert the section entirely. Thoughts? Jjd13 ( talk) 07:17, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
== This page should be semi-protected in advance of the media holiday due increased "media attention" as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SILVERLOCK#Semi-protection.
I've just deleted much of this article as it was either unsubstantiated by the source provided or completely irrelevant to National Donut Day, which just seems to have sprung up out of nowhere. I checked the source and it contained no mention of a National Donut or Doughnut Day. To clarify, the earliest known reference I found to any National Doughnut Day was this very article. DeuceBigalowMD ( talk) 18:12, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Yes, there are lots of references. Why don't you look for some and stop removing the citations added by others. It's been included in Chase's calendar of events going back to at least 1985. I don't know why you keep distorting this article and removing extensive content, but it's highly disruptive. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 18:44, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Is this a free image we could use http://blogs.suntimes.com/shinyobjects/assets_c/2009/06/DoughnutGirl-8459.html? ChildofMidnight ( talk) 17:57, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
According to my research, Donut Day has existed since the 1930's and was a Salvation Army event aimed at remembering women from WWI who made donuts for the soldiers on the front line.
National Donut Day did not seem to exist prior to 2008, aside from one or two references on obscure websites and blogs.
These are two distinct events. The Salvation Army Donut Day never claimed to be anything more than a locally held fund-raising event for the Salvation Army. To distinguish between the two, I have created an article for Donut Day which describes its link to the Salvation Army and explains how long its been in existence. DeuceBigalowMD ( talk) 17:15, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
All the "claims" I've made about the history of Donut Day and the Salvation Army are sourced. Your assertion that National DOnut Day started in 2009 is completely unsourced OR. There's not even a hint anywhere in anything that this is the case. I've wasted enough time on this. It's obvious that you don't understand verifiability or the basis of citations to reliable sources that this encyclopedia is supposed to be based on. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 17:38, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
There seems to be this June "National Donut Day" along with a November 5th "National Doughnut Day", both being distinct holidays, although the November event seems less celebrated [1] [2] [3]. And the only reference I could find for the history behind a November doughnut day indicates it was invented by a US prisoner of war during the Vietnam War to get his captors to feed them doughnuts. [4]. I feel the article should be updated to reflect these two holidays. 50.172.160.172 ( talk) 22:17, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
References
In the paragraph added by @ Claverhouse: that states that 756 doughnuts are eaten each year by each American, I believe a bad source of data was used. I don't believe every American eats 2 doughnuts every day, even on average. Huffington post reports that 10 billion doughnuts are made each year, and there are 326 million Americans, which would compute to 30 doughnuts per year for each American. That is a believable number. I believe the paragraph should be stricken and the reference removed, or rewritten with a more reliable data reference. -- Pjameswiki ( talk) 03:43, 26 May 2018 (UTC) Update - I believe I found the original source that was used by the Huffington Post author: http://www.rawfoodexplained.com/junk-foods/breaking-the-junk-food-addiction.html. Although it only says 1 dozen per week, so maybe it was lowered since the Huffington Post author used it, or maybe it was exaggerated. I don't see a source for that number, but the same page mentions the 1982 price for such items, so it is extremely out of date information and should be used in an 'importance to the economy' section. I'd stick to the more believable 10 billion doughnuts made each year.-- Pjameswiki ( talk) 04:05, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:National Donut Day/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
I believe this article to be notable - it should definitely NOT be deleted. I was looking for information on Doughnut Day and Wikipedia, as usual, did not disappoint. Plath81 ( talk) 15:07, 2 June 2009 (UTC) |
Last edited at 15:08, 2 June 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 00:54, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
I would like to know about the national donut day from Dunkin’ Donuts . 173.76.103.3 ( talk) 22:41, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved ( closed by non-admin page mover) -- Vaulter 18:27, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
National Doughnut Day →
National Donut Day – This appears to be the most common way of spelling the holiday by orders of magnitude:
"national donut day"returns 13,500,000 results on Google;
"national doughnut day"returns 256,000 results on Google.
Seeing as there is a clear and dominant WP:COMMONNAME, and the proposed name meets all of the WP:CRITERIA, this page should be moved to the common name. — Ⓜ️hawk10 ( talk) 17:48, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
[3] [4] Sheehanpg93 ( talk) 18:59, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
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This paragraph has conflicting dates first mentioning 1938 then WWI: 'National Doughnut Day started on June 7, 1938 when a young military doctor by the name of Morgan Pett was sent to a military base....This fund raiser was later joined with the Salvation Army. Soon after the US entrance into World War I in 1917, The Salvation Army sent a fact-finding mission to France. '— Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.222.69.134 ( talk) 04:01, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
Not only are the dates conflicting, but the two persons mentioned, and the story itself has no sources. I can find no mention of either men, nor this story, that does not come from this page itself. The edits in question were added here - https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=National_Doughnut_Day&oldid=571846411
I have added the citation needed flag, but I wonder if we should revert the section entirely. Thoughts? Jjd13 ( talk) 07:17, 27 May 2015 (UTC)
== This page should be semi-protected in advance of the media holiday due increased "media attention" as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SILVERLOCK#Semi-protection.
I've just deleted much of this article as it was either unsubstantiated by the source provided or completely irrelevant to National Donut Day, which just seems to have sprung up out of nowhere. I checked the source and it contained no mention of a National Donut or Doughnut Day. To clarify, the earliest known reference I found to any National Doughnut Day was this very article. DeuceBigalowMD ( talk) 18:12, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Yes, there are lots of references. Why don't you look for some and stop removing the citations added by others. It's been included in Chase's calendar of events going back to at least 1985. I don't know why you keep distorting this article and removing extensive content, but it's highly disruptive. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 18:44, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Is this a free image we could use http://blogs.suntimes.com/shinyobjects/assets_c/2009/06/DoughnutGirl-8459.html? ChildofMidnight ( talk) 17:57, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
According to my research, Donut Day has existed since the 1930's and was a Salvation Army event aimed at remembering women from WWI who made donuts for the soldiers on the front line.
National Donut Day did not seem to exist prior to 2008, aside from one or two references on obscure websites and blogs.
These are two distinct events. The Salvation Army Donut Day never claimed to be anything more than a locally held fund-raising event for the Salvation Army. To distinguish between the two, I have created an article for Donut Day which describes its link to the Salvation Army and explains how long its been in existence. DeuceBigalowMD ( talk) 17:15, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
All the "claims" I've made about the history of Donut Day and the Salvation Army are sourced. Your assertion that National DOnut Day started in 2009 is completely unsourced OR. There's not even a hint anywhere in anything that this is the case. I've wasted enough time on this. It's obvious that you don't understand verifiability or the basis of citations to reliable sources that this encyclopedia is supposed to be based on. ChildofMidnight ( talk) 17:38, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
There seems to be this June "National Donut Day" along with a November 5th "National Doughnut Day", both being distinct holidays, although the November event seems less celebrated [1] [2] [3]. And the only reference I could find for the history behind a November doughnut day indicates it was invented by a US prisoner of war during the Vietnam War to get his captors to feed them doughnuts. [4]. I feel the article should be updated to reflect these two holidays. 50.172.160.172 ( talk) 22:17, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
References
In the paragraph added by @ Claverhouse: that states that 756 doughnuts are eaten each year by each American, I believe a bad source of data was used. I don't believe every American eats 2 doughnuts every day, even on average. Huffington post reports that 10 billion doughnuts are made each year, and there are 326 million Americans, which would compute to 30 doughnuts per year for each American. That is a believable number. I believe the paragraph should be stricken and the reference removed, or rewritten with a more reliable data reference. -- Pjameswiki ( talk) 03:43, 26 May 2018 (UTC) Update - I believe I found the original source that was used by the Huffington Post author: http://www.rawfoodexplained.com/junk-foods/breaking-the-junk-food-addiction.html. Although it only says 1 dozen per week, so maybe it was lowered since the Huffington Post author used it, or maybe it was exaggerated. I don't see a source for that number, but the same page mentions the 1982 price for such items, so it is extremely out of date information and should be used in an 'importance to the economy' section. I'd stick to the more believable 10 billion doughnuts made each year.-- Pjameswiki ( talk) 04:05, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:National Donut Day/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.
I believe this article to be notable - it should definitely NOT be deleted. I was looking for information on Doughnut Day and Wikipedia, as usual, did not disappoint. Plath81 ( talk) 15:07, 2 June 2009 (UTC) |
Last edited at 15:08, 2 June 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 00:54, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
I would like to know about the national donut day from Dunkin’ Donuts . 173.76.103.3 ( talk) 22:41, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved ( closed by non-admin page mover) -- Vaulter 18:27, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
National Doughnut Day →
National Donut Day – This appears to be the most common way of spelling the holiday by orders of magnitude:
"national donut day"returns 13,500,000 results on Google;
"national doughnut day"returns 256,000 results on Google.
Seeing as there is a clear and dominant WP:COMMONNAME, and the proposed name meets all of the WP:CRITERIA, this page should be moved to the common name. — Ⓜ️hawk10 ( talk) 17:48, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
[3] [4] Sheehanpg93 ( talk) 18:59, 3 June 2022 (UTC)