Category talk:Christmas Update

standardize special updates
For halloween, the category was Category:Halloween 2005. Right now for Xmas, we have Category:Christmas Update. I don't care which one, but we should pick one format and rename the other for consistency. -PanSola 23:17, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Agreed, but we need to agree on the standard quick, because we have multiple ones happening. I con't like mine. But I am not sure why we'd call the first "Halloween 2005" and the other "Wintersday 2005." In the first we used the real world name and in the second we used the in-game name. We need to fix that quick. --Karlos 23:21, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Then I vote realworld everything. It's not like the seasons tributed to Grenth and Dwayna are at the beginning and end of a Tyrian year anyways.  So Category:Christmas 2005 -PanSola 23:37, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, there wasn't an in game name for the Halloween event. I might suggest "Holidays 2005."  --Fyren 23:42, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I vote "New Years 2006" and then "Christmas 2005." --Karlos 23:48, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I think Wintersday 2005 should be used as it's more accurate. Mainly because it's used in game and naming it Christmas 2005 or new years 2005 won't really be correct. Since this update effects both holidays. Holidays 2005 is a good idea but may confuse some people with NPCs and such. So it's probably best to keep them seperate.--The King Tarosian 23:54, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I originally wanted to avoid alienating the Jewish population before proposing "Christmas Update", but if you look at the update for what it is, all the real world references are with respect to Christmas. While "Wintersday" is an in-game name, it doesn't fit in the Mouvelian Calendar at all (unless the ordering the seasons is revised).  This is my reasoning for supporting Christmas 2005.  If you guys think New Year is also referenced heavily (which I don't think so), then my second choise would be Wintersday 2005 to cover both the christmas and the new year. -PanSola 00:02, 27 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Ahem, why would Jews be offended if the game update is called the "Christmas Update?" I am a Muslim, and I don't celebrate Christmas other than to take the day off :). Still, I see the game update as bringing the classical Western man's version of Christmas into Guild Wars. Whether I like it or not, that is what the update does. We have Christians in Egypt and they sure as heck don't make candy canes or gingerbread or wear silly red hats. I would think they have the most right to be offended at this westernization and commercialization of Christmas. The update, to me, is a Guild Wars adaptation of an American Christmas. can't really put any spin on that.
 * Now I did make an entry for "Wintersday" to correlate the two. but I think the name used by 99.9% of the players out there is "Christmas items" and "Christmas update." New Year's is my preference because that SEEMS to be what wintersday is, and if the update stays past January 1st, then it would encompass New Years celebration. But in all truth, the giant Christmas trees, red hat on the Lion in Lion's Arch, candy canes.. It's all pretty obvious. --Karlos 00:13, 27 December 2005 (UTC)


 * I think Wintersday 2005 should be used as it's more accurate. Mainly because it's used in game and naming it Christmas 2005 or new years 2005 won't really be correct. Since this update effects both holidays. Holidays 2005 is a good idea but may confuse some people with NPCs and such. So it's probably best to keep them seperate.--The King Tarosian 23:54, 26 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, most of the update is by all means Christmas and even spoofs a lot of the christmas movies (A Christmas Story). I don't think New Years is referenced heavily but this update will remain in effect until new years day. Arenanet has merged both holidays into one update and I think we should try to stay as consistant with that as possible.--The King Tarosian 00:18, 27 December 2005 (UTC)