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editI have removed a "see also" link to axial tilt and supplanted it with one to the more comprehensive article on seasons. -Smack 19:05, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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editwado kai karate do
Apparently the Met Office was asked by another government department for an official definition of winter, expecting actual dates.
The answer "Winter begins when all the leaves have fallen off the trees and ends when the bulbs start growing again.
- Transfer to Wikijokes if desired.
Mythological explanations changes
editThe paragraph that details a "Zion myth" is of dubious quality. "Zion" here refers to the Zion Natural History Organization, which has allowed, as is obvious from the link provided, for a myth to be copied from "Why the North Star Stands Still and other Stories" by William R. Palmer. I wished to remove the misleading paragraph entirely, which did not seem to fit in the article very well. However, this was reverted by Banana04131. As I am willing to compromise, and think edit wars are ridiculous, I have only changed the short paragraph by clarifying the initial words, as well as the link provided at the bottom of the article. "Zion myth" makes it sound like "Zion" is a religion or something equally substantial, which it apparently is not. (Zionism is something completely different, and about the Zion tribe, you do not seem sure either, Banana.) To state that the paragraph is from an uncertain Native American tribe seems to me to be the least confusing way to cite the myth, and its unencyclopedic reference... Eduardo_Cuellar
P.S. Stating "Native American myth" is not racist... It is as accurate as you can be when you DO NOT KNOW what tribe it came from! To have been racist would have been to be derogatory, by writing something like "According to some Indians...", etc. I myself am part Native American, so I hope you understand, Banana.
How was the four seasons named ?
editDoes anyone know how the four seasons were named ? -- Wintersweet98
expanding etymology section via German entry
editThe German Wikipedia entry has a rather expansive and well cited(as far I can tell) section on the origin of the word winter, as opposed to our stub of a section, particularly interesting is the topic of seasons and how only Summer and Winter were recognized, with Spring, then Autumn, coming later. Akaibu (talk) 19:28, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, Akaibu. Since this is an article about the phenomenon of winter, not about the word, I would support a limited expansion of the Etymology section, limited to word origin, and not too much on cognates in other Germanic languages. Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 01:35, 8 August 2024 (UTC)