Why is it that you do not question the sources for the following paragraph? This would sidestep the problem of eliminating an already popular holiday while Christianizing the population." Widely held? Says who? ANy sources on this? "e Romans also practiced many traditions similar to Christmas specifically the "Christmas tree"," Once again? Source? "The medieval celebration of the Feast of Fools was another continuation of Saturnalia into the Christian era." Really? It is plausible, but where's the proof? What are these assumptions/theories based on? "t is a widely-held theory that Christians in the fourth century assigned December 25th (the Winter Solstice on the Julian calendar) as Christ's birthday (and thus Christmas) because pagans already observed this day as a holiday. Why is 90% of the article and the whole of this discussion are centered around Christmas? Could we just drop the whole christmas thing (maybe a small mention that people do care and debate about these things) and write the article about saturnalia? Maybe move all this stuff to a seperate page called 'christmas and saturnalia'? Novium 23:12, 22 March 2007 (UTC) Reply No this shouldn't be only about the Roman festival Hope this helped, and good luck! :) -Ebyabe 23:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)" It's an important enough subject to be GA, imho. In fact, I'd say it wouldn't require too much more brushing up to try for GA. There's all that pretty blue, so the bits of red really stand out.
Might want to consider creating at least a stub for Saturnalicius princeps. Don't think the dates need to be wikilinked in the "Notes" section, but not sure. Didn't get carried away with the wikilinking, which is good. Overall length and content appears good, I wouldn't think it needs expanding much more. Or just use stuff from those external links sources and cite in the article. If any of the stuff in the "External links" section was used in the article, cite it in the article itself. The pictures might be hard to find that meet Wikipedia policy, I know, but if there's some classical paintings, or representations on pottery, or some sort of depictions of the festivities, it'd help lots. I'd suggest some more inline references and pictures. Source is dubious.įrom my talk page: "Actually pretty good overall. 29 "particularly the practice of gift giving, which was suppressed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages".28 Dubious material in the last section.26 The Roman and Greek Pantheons are Distinct.25 Jupiter is Zeus, not the father of Zeus.23 Is there aconnection between Saturnalia and Carnival, Lent, Mardi Gras?.17 The Link Between Saturnalia and Christmas Is Important.14 Jesus was born on September 29 of the year 7 B.C.12 Decorated Holiday Evergreen Predates Christmas Tree.4 Shouldn't this be about the roman festival?.3 No this shouldn't be only about the Roman festival.