Tags like christmas, halloween, easter, thanksgiving or valentine's_day, why are they in the copyright type?

Shouldn't they be with mother's_day, new_year and holidays in the general type?

I would think so.

I think its a matter of how much of an impact the holiday has. You go all out with decorations for Christmas and Halloween, but you really don't do much but get a card/present for mother's day. I'm probably wrong though.

I thought it was so that they wouldn't get lost in with the general tags. Just like invalid_tag isn't really an artist and invalid_color isn't really a character. But it's useful to make that one exception because it's a little bit more important than just another general tag and would get lost otherwise.

Holidays as copyright tags is a little bit on the odd side. Practically speaking, they're almost more like themes and that doesn't completely fit anywhere. But it is handy to have them prominently up and separate from the general tags. I really think they'd be tagged a lot less often if they were just general tags, so I'm not too keen on making them a general tag. I don't know what the ideal solution is.

I'd be fine with making all of them into copyright tags. God knows there's plenty of commercialism of holidays that it more than halfway makes sense. Whatever we decide though, I think all the holiday tags should be the same designation (copyright or general) no longer mixed like it is now.

Wait mother's day and father's day aren't just created holidays from the Hallmark Corporation?

Also, Thanksgiving was only made a national holiday in 1941.

There is only one post with the father's_day tag. But is also the general type.

Kämpfer said:
Mother's Day actually has a long history. Father's Day, however, was pretty much invented by Hallmark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day#Founding_.28US.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_Day#History

So, actually, not really. The same event inspired the two days, though celebrations of motherhood and mothers on various other days (or floating holidays appropriate to the person or persons involved) did exist prior, both mother's and father's day as celebrated by the US were originally non-commercialized but were quickly monetized by Hallmark and other such companies.

Personally I feelt that, with how corporatized holidays are in general, and how iconic they are, they should all be copyright tags. ;P

123easy said:
Personally I feelt that, with how corporatized holidays are in general, and how iconic they are, they should all be copyright tags. ;P

Yeah, down with the system!
*Cuts himself on all that edginess.*