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WikiProject Holidays/Christmas task force

Shortcut	WP:XMAS
Category	Christmas
Portals	Holidays
Parent project(s)	Holidays
Project banner template	{{ WikiProject Holidays}}
Helps organise child projects?	No
Has goals?	Yes

Welcome to the Christmas task force of WikiProjects Holidays and Christianity! This task force was active from 2008-2011. And is currently inactive, however, everyone is welcome to join and make it active again!

This task force includes articles listed in Category:Christmas and its subpages. A full list of these categories can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Christmas task force/Categories.

• Eerie Holiday ( talk · contribs)
• How do you turn this on ( talk · contribs)
• Kieran207 ( talk · contribs)
• John Carter ( talk · contribs)
• MattJasonBrown ( talk · contribs)
• Mr. Guye ( talk · contribs) I'm already a member of one of this taskforce's parents ( WP:X). Just trying to keep it alive.  —  Mr. Guye ( talk) ( contribs)  03:29, 3 December 2017 (UTC) reply
• Onewhohascomebefore ( talk · contribs)
• Presidentman ( talk · contribs)
• Suntag ( talk · contribs)
• Path slopu ( talk · contribs)
• Robertus Pius ( talk · contribs)

Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Christmas=yes to the {{ WikiProject Holidays}} or {{ WikiProject Christianity}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions on either template for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Christmas task force articles.

• Userbox: Blackwatch21/christmas
• Userbox: Intelligent9876522/christmas tree fibreoptic
• Userbox: Marky-Son/Christmas
• Userbox: Mr Kringle/Christmas
• Userbox: Patricknoddy/Userboxes/User favorite holiday Christmas
• Userbox: UBX/christmas tree:fake
• Userbox: UBX/christmas tree:real
• Userbox: UBX/christmas tree
• Userbox: X-Flare-x/Userboxes/User Christmas Bells
• Userbox: User:Nived 90/userboxes/Christmas
• Userbox: Christmas 1
• Userbox: Christmas 2
• Userpage: Zephyris/Templates/christmastoday
• Userbox: User:Kieran207/Userboxes/Merry Christmas
• Well wishing: {{ template:Xmas2}}
• Well wishing: {{ template:Xmas3}}
• Well wishing: {{ template:Xmas4}}
• Well wishing: {{ subst: User:Flaminglawyer/MerryChristmas!}}
• Well wishing: {{ User:Dylan620/Christmas}}
• Well wishing: {{ User:Hetar/Christmas}}
• Well wishing: {{ User:Joshbr/MerryChristmas}}
• Well wishing: {{ User:Lovelaughterlife/Specialevents/Christmas}}
• Well wishing: {{ User:PhilipBembridge/Sandbox/Gift/Styles/Christmas}}
• Well wishing: {{ User:Scapler/Christmas secular template}}
• Well wishing: {{ User:Scapler/Christmas template}}
• Well wishing: {{ User:Springeragh/Christmas}}
• Well wishing: {{ User:The Obento Musubi/Christmas}}
• Well wishing: {{ User:Tohru Honda13/Christmas Greeting}}
• Well wishing: {{ User:Yummifruitbat/Christmas}}

• List of all subpages of this page

• Place Santa hats on people in photographs on Wikipedia.
• Tag articles.
• Recruit interested editors.
• Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
• Expand the open task listing above.
• Work on Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Christmas task force/DYK Christmas 2008
• Help develop missing articles relating to this topic - a list of possibilities can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Christmas task force/Reference sources articles list
• Add things here!

Christmas articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	1	4		1	7
FL			1	2			3
FM					7		7
GA		4	5	41		8	58
B	5	12	6	20		12	55
C	8	14	39	73		40	174
Start	4	20	44	372	1	256	697
Stub			12	183		438	633
List	1	2	7	12		17	39
Category					357		357
Disambig				1	3		4
File					41		41
Portal					1		1
Project					6		6
Redirect			4	15	22		41
Template					17		17
NA		1		11	44		56
Assessed	18	54	119	734	499	772	2,196
Unassessed						1	1
Total	18	54	119	734	499	773	2,197
WikiWork factors ( ?)		ω = 8,277			Ω = 5.09

Featured articles

• Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo

Featured lists

Good articles

• Baby Jesus theft
• Bethlehem
• Nativity scene
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Star of Bethlehem

DYK (Did You Know)s

• 2008 Christmas massacres (Congo) - 12 January 2009.
• Berner Haselnusslebkuchen - 25 December 2008.
• Berner Honiglebkuchen - 19 December 2008.
• Caganer - 20 December 2004.
• Candy Cane Lane, Duboistown - 26 December 2008.
• Christmas on the River - 24 December 2008.
• Christmas Price Index - 25 December 2007.
• Christmas tree production - 13 September 2007.
• Companions of Saint Nicholas - 10 April 2004.
• Grand Illumination - 28 November 2005.
• A House to Let - 20 December 2006.
• Nativity of Jesus in art - 16 December 2007.
• Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address - 6 August 2009.
• Santa Claus: A Morality - 20 August 2008.
• Santa Claus, Arizona - 25 December 2008.
• William Blake's illustrations of On the Morning of Christ's Nativity - 26 December 2008.

Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries selections

• Annunciation - March 25, 31.
• Boxing Day - December 26.
• Christmas - December 25; January 7
• A Christmas Carol - December 17, 19.
• Church of the Nativity - April 2.
• Saint Nicholas - December 5.
• Siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem - April 2.
• A Visit from St. Nicholas - December 23.

Former featured articles

• Christmas
• Gremlins

Former good articles

• Biblical Magi
• Santa Claus

• Gremlins
• Star of Bethlehem

• Christmas
• Christmas 1994 nor'easter
• Do They Know It's Christmas?
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• List of Christmas number one singles (UK)
• Image:Christmas beetle jan 2007.jpg

Articles to be split

• 11 Feb 2023 – Carols by Candlelight ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for splitting by Adpete ( t ·  c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 13 Feb 2024 – Draft:Travel Tuesday ( talk ·   ·  hist) submitted for AfC by Flux55 ( t ·  c) was accepted to Travel Tuesday ( talk ·   ·  hist) by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 27 Apr 2024

• Wikipedia:Announcements/French Christmas logo
• Wikipedia:Christmas 2004
• Wikipedia:Song/The Twelve Days of Christmas

Annotated bibliography

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** Content:
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** Reviews: 
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