Talk:Christmas music

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Popular songs

Not sure these two have become all that popular:

• 1961: "Seven Shades of Snow" by June Christy on This Time of Year
• 1961: "Blue Holiday" by The Shirelles--Artaxerxes (talk) 05:43, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Not sure this is any sort of definitive recording:

• 1964: "Deck The Hall" recorded by Jo Stafford on the album The Joyful Season.--Artaxerxes (talk) 20:46, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Removed for not being considered "in any way popular":Artaxerxes (talk) 17:27, 2 January 2020 (UTC)

• 1994: "Merry Christmas from the Family", written by Robert Earl Keen; released on his Gringo Honeymoon.
• 1994: "There's a New Kid in Town", written by Don Cook, Curly Putman, and Keith Whitley; released by Trisha Yearwood on ''The Sweetest Gift''.

Maybe not big enough for article:--Artaxerxes (talk) 16:12, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

• 1951: "Some Children See Him" written by Alfred Burt.

References

Adopted music

Removed from article (Christmas Eve close enough):--Artaxerxes (talk) 19:16, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

• Borrowing from the title of the Robert Burns standard "Auld Lang Syne," Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" (1980) tells a Christmas Eve story.

Capitalisation of "internet"

A small issue, but hey, let's discuss. An IP editor has changed "internet" to "Internet" with the (factually wrong) edit summary "always capitalized". I undid that, relying on MOS:CAPS, to which the response was a re-revert, now referring to usage in the Internet article and Talk:Internet#Capitalisation which says nothing. This is evidently a somewhat contentious issue, with the November 2020 RFC being closed as no consensus. The IP editor has not followed WP:BRD, but I don't agree with changing the long-term usage on this page absent consensus to do so, and am bringing it here for wider discussion. MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:22, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

Historically there's been no consensus for capitalizing either way, so I would revert per WP:STATUSQUO; the change isn't required. (psst: capitalizing "internet" is dumb anyway.) Popcornfud (talk) 14:06, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

References gone wild

"Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1 at line 1392: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)." What? Artaxerxes (talk) 13:00, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Looks OK now. Probably a central script got messed up momentarily. Cnbrb (talk) 14:39, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Phillipines

To this point the article has highlighted notable anglophone countries. Do the Phillipines fit here? Artaxerxes (talk) 17:05, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Provided adequate sourcing and due weight, yes. (I was wondering who keeps adding Filipino-related content to a lot of these articles!) Obviously the UK/US (and to an extent Canadian and Australian) sourcing is more widely accessible given this IS the English Wikipedia but as long as the content follows standard guidelines, I'd say Wikipedia actively encourages its addition. J. Myrle Fuller (talk) 22:21, 28 February 2024 (UTC)