Talk:Festival of Lights

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Contents 1 VFD Results 2 Massive Rewrite 3 Redirects 4 Order of Events 5 Celebration of Light 6 Disambig and Order

[edit] VFD Results

This article was nominated for deletion on 12 December, 2005. The result of the discussion was create disambigation page.

Johnleemk | Talk 17:01, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Massive Rewrite

If one looks at the VFD for this article one sees that the main argument was that the one festival it talked about was not noteworthy enough for it's own entry, but that there were many other festivals all over the world called 'A/The Festival of Light(s)'. Every other one mule town in America has a 'Festival of Lights' during Christmas, none of which deserves a Wikipedia entry, but which might deserve at least an entry here along with one or two sentences.

Light displays are (one) of my interests and I hope to fill this disambig page with the better (bigger) ones out there along with internal/external links.

Tiki God 06:51, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirects

There are a number of similar titles that possibly should link here. Since this is a disambiguation page it would be nice if the following titles redirect to this page, unless they are very big, well known events or groups that merit getting rights to such a title all to themselves. I'm going to merge/redirect Festival of Light here right now, and look into Celebration of Light when I get the chance.

• Festival of Light
• Festival of light
• Festival of Lights
• Festival of lights

• A Festival of Light
• A Festival of light
• A festival of light
• A festival of Light
• A Festival of Lights
• A Festival of lights
• A festival of lights
• A festival of Lights

• The Festival of Light
• The Festival of light
• The festival of light
• The festival of Light
• The Festival of Lights
• The Festival of lights
• The festival of lights
• The festival of Lights

• Celebration of Light Maybe not this one if there are no others on the internet (i doubt it).
• Celebration of light ditto
• Celebration of Lights
• Celebration of lights

• A Celebration of Light
• A Celebration of light
• A celebration of light
• A celebration of Light
• A Celebration of Lights
• A Celebration of lights
• A celebration of lights
• A celebration of Lights

• The Celebration of Light
• The Celebration of light
• The celebration of light
• The celebration of Light
• The Celebration of Lights
• The Celebration of lights
• The celebration of lights
• The celebration of Lights

Tiki God 09:36, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Order of Events

I'm trying to keep the order of events based on size (attendance), but this is difficult for the small winter events. I'm fairly sure there are more Indians than Persians, more Persians than Jews, and more Jews than residents of Lyon France, but for the others it's rather vague. My goal is to keep the tiny local celebrations at the bottom of each section.

Tiki God 06:46, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Celebration of Light

The HSBC Celebration of Light took up the first three pages of a google search so I guess it deserves it's own entry. Don't redirect it here.

Tiki God 06:46, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambig and Order

This is getting a little big (and detailed) for a 'normal' disambiguation page, but it's still better than having a stub for each of these small events, and is keeping with the results of the VFD discussion held before. A lot of places listed here do have wikipedia entries which are linked, even if the event in question is not part of that place's article. If there is something different than a disambiguation tag for a page like this please speak up. Perhaps a list?, Like 'List of A/The/- Festival/Celebration of Light/Lights'?

Except for the first religious and cultural events, it's getting kind of hard to judge the 'size' (attendance) of these small events. I'm thinking of reordering this section into alphabetical order. The only problem is that several of the events have changed name over time, and some events have ambiguous titles like Celebration of Light which can be 'The Celebration of Light', 'The Benson & Hedges Symphony of Fire', and 'The HSBC Celebration of Light'.

Tiki God 08:02, 4 March 2007 (UTC)