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Agreeing with this article being mostly nonsense

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Why does this article even exist? There is an article about "Harvest festival" under which most of the here mentioned observances would fit much better. What makes the Chinese harvest festival only a harvest festival, but not a "thanksgiving" while the German one is supposedly a "thanksgiving" albeit not very well known in the country at all? The entire "Similarly named holidays" section has no business being there at all and should only be mentioned in the Harvest festival article. Not to mention that the entire section about Germany does not have a single source to back it up. Not only is the festival not popular at all, but the Oktoberfest is randomly mentioned as if there was a connection between these two even though the origins of the Oktoberfest are secular in its entirety. Seca112 (talk) 01:34, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, it's a pointless article. The problem seems to be that Thanksgiving is a major event in US culture, and American editors are constantly trying to globalise it by drawing parallels with completely unrelated harvest festivals in other countries. The article is much better than it used to be now that the US and Canadian stuff has been split off, but it no longer really has a reason to exist. --Ef80 (talk) 19:26, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Better photo?

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For the majority of people who don't live in the USA, it would be nice to get a feeling for what it mainly means. But the title photo shows a table with only 3 chairs and no space for people to put their plates. Can somebody come up with something better? Groogle (talk) 01:36, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 21 January 2024

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"Uganda" Under the Thanksgiving in Rwanda section should be corrected to "Rwanda" 72.83.0.110 (talk) 03:56, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Tollens (talk) 04:16, 21 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Why do we Cook the turkey

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Into is pretty cool 216.104.120.28 (talk) 01:37, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 25 November 2024

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In Observance > United States change "was federally formalized by an 1863 by presidential proclamation by Abraham Lincoln in 1863" to "was federally formalized through an 1863 presidential proclamation by Abraham Lincoln in 1863" Brundagejoe (talk) 15:28, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Many thanks The AP (talk) 09:45, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]