Talk:Labor Day

Latest comment: 7 months ago by 193.157.170.245 in topic Labor Day or Labour Day ?


Requested move 23 July 2020

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: no consensus. Daniel Case (talk) 05:58, 11 August 2020 (UTC)Reply



Labor DayLabor 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)Reply

What other countries have a holiday that is spelled "Labor Day"? Rreagan007 (talk) 17:38, 24 July 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Rreagan007: The Philippines. —hueman1 (talk contributions) 14:30, 25 July 2020 (UTC)Reply
Well if we ever have an article on the Philippine holiday we can add a link to that in the hatnote of this article. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:11, 25 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

"Unofficial end of summer" section

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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)Reply

Labor Day or Labour Day ?

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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)Reply