Talk:National day of mourning

All parts of the world ?

I don`t think that those events were marked with mourning everywhere in world i.e. why would people in non-christian country mourn about pope ? -- Xil - talk 06:10, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

That's true - I don't hear it even mentioned in the U.K. anyway. I'll change it to "Mainly Roman Catholic countries" or something. -- the GREAT Gavini 22:26, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

These are National Days, not International ones. Rauterkus (talk) 18:26, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Do you support a 2-day period of reflection and mourning to occur 1-month after the earthquake felt throughout China?

• Perhaps this can be put into a poll at Wikipedia? Rauterkus (talk) 18:57, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

List is too long

Surely every new disaster and national day of mourning called for does not have to be listed here, so that people understand the concept. Some days are celebrated annually; others only on a specified occasion. What is the point of an endless list? --Parkwells (talk) 19:16, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not made of paper. If a long list troubles some people, perhaps it could be tranferred to a new article (List of national days of mourning), but it's counterproductive to just eliminate information when space isn't a problem. 83.251.103.57 (talk) 15:27, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Is Lyndon B. Johnson missing or was he/is he not mourned? And are presidents mourned every year?

And it seems the funeral day of JFK is Nov. 25, add all dates? comp.arch (talk) 16:39, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Added. Johndavies837 (talk) 21:15, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

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This needs in-line citations.--Grahame (talk) 01:10, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Substituted at 04:45, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned references in National day of mourning

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of National day of mourning's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "guard":

• From Metrojet Flight 9268: Jessica Elgot. "Russian passenger plane crashes in Egypt's Sinai – latest". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
• From Death and state funeral of Fidel Castro: "Fidel Castro: world reacts to death of Cuban leader – live updates". The Guardian. 26 November 2016. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 08:44, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Princess Diana

I've removed Princess Diana from the list. There was no official day of mourning for her in the UK [1], or as far as I'm aware, anywhere else. Optimist on the run (talk) 19:37, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

U.S. national days of mourning

A number of U.S. tragedies such the 2017 Las Vegas shooting and the 2019 El Paso shooting are listed as national days of mourning, but this isn't supported by any of the sources. In those cases, the president signed a presidential proclamation to lower the U.S. flag, but it doesn't say anything about a "national day of mourning." When former President George H.W. Bush died, for example, the proclamation specifically called it a "National Day of Mourning throughout the United States" and it was widely reported as such. I think the U.S. tragedies citing only flag instructions should be removed. Johndavies837 (talk) 20:43, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Removed

I have removed the following days:

• Victims of Hurricane Dorian (The Bahamas)

Reason: The prime minister said a national day of mourning would be announced, but I can't find any follow-ups. It looks like it never happened.

• Victims of Hurricane Katrina (United States) 29 August 2005
• Victims of the Northern Illinois University shooting (United States, held once)
• Victims of the November 2009 Fort Hood massacre by U.S. Army Major Dr. Nidal Malik Hassan (United States)
• Victims of the January 2011 Tucson shooting (United States)
• Victims of the July 2012 Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting (United States)
• Victims of the 5 August 2012 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting (United States)
• Victims of the December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (United States)
• Victims of the December 2015 San Bernardino attack (United States)
• Victims of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting (United States, 4 days)
• Victims of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting (United States, 4 days)
• Victims of the 2019 El Paso shooting and the 2019 Dayton shooting (United States)

Reason: The president ordered flags to be flown at half staff but made no mention of a national day of mourning.

• Victims of the 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre (United States, held once)

Reason: Not a national day of mourning, only in Virginia (proclaimed by the governor)

• Victims of the Semnan–Damghan train collision (Iran, 2 days)

Reason: The day of mourning was only for East Azerbaijan Province

• Croatia and South Korea for September 11 attacks
• Victims of the Nanking Massacre (Taiwan and mainland China)
  • Woodrow Wilson (1924)
  • William McKinley (1901; assassinated)
• Victims of the 2016 Atatürk Airport attack (Northern Cyprus, 1 day)

Reason: Can't find a source

• Survivors and victims of European Settlement of the Americas are honored every year on Thanksgiving Day during the National Day of Mourning protest in Plymouth, Massachusetts. First celebrated in 1970; organized by the United American Indians of New England.
• Victims of the United States invasion of Panama (1989) are remembered in December
• Israel's Yom HaShoah in remembrance of The Holocaust
• Victims of the Armenian Genocide are remembered every year in Armenia on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on 24 April
• Victims of the 19th century Circassian Genocide are remembered in the Circassian Day of Mourning
• Victims of the Soviet deportations from Estonia (1941-1949) are remembered every year on 14 June in Estonia
• Victims of the Soviet deportations from Latvia (1941-1949) are remembered every year on 14 June in Latvia
• Victims of the Soviet deportations from Lithuania (1941-1949) are remembered every year on 14 June in Lithuania
• Victims of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941: Day of Remembrance and Mourning, held on 22 June annually in the countries of the CIS

Reason: These are annual remembrance events, not sure if they fit this article's definition, even though some of them are called a Day of Mourning. Johndavies837 (talk) 19:00, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

• Albania for September 11 attacks

Reason: Can't find reliable sources

References

2010 Israel forest fire

Despite Netanyahu saying he'd declare a national day of mourning, quoted by the Jerusalem Post as cited in the reference and also by Ynet according to Channel 12's N12 it didn't happen: אחר אסון השרפה בכרמל בדצמבר 2010 קרא נתניהו לציון יום אבל לאומי, אך הדבר לא יצא אל הפועל.. Mcljlm (talk) 14:49, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks, good find. I removed it and updated the text on 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire. Johndavies837 (talk) 15:16, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

References

Split

Much of this article is the list. I think that a main article about the topic with additional lists makes more sense, given that it is having errors due to the number of templates on it. I think splitting it into multiple lists would be ideal and I've suggested titles, but welcome better ways to split and title the lists. —Ost (talk) 02:56, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Agreed. also, it would make the page(s) much easier to navigate. --I said this! [insert witty meta-text on wikipedia signatures here] 18:46, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

• support: the current state has too many issues, split and trim as necessary. - Kevo³²⁷ (talk) 12:12, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
• Support This article is currently in the top 10 largest on the wiki. Blubabluba9990 (talk) (contribs) 15:00, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
• Support, According to Special:LongPages, the page is the third longest wikipedia article, as of 30 August 2021. Realmaxxver (talk) 18:18, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Also, i did not know this until now, and i dont know why it happens, but the references don't load near the end. I initially thought that it was because there were too many references, but i dont really know. Realmaxxver (talk) 18:26, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Go to the References section. Realmaxxver (talk) 18:34, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Oh and one more thing; the sections on National days of mourning from the 2000s onward; are the longest sections in the article by far:

damn. Realmaxxver (talk) 18:40, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

• Support but at the current rate, even 2000-present will soon become a problem. I suggest we use the following:

List of national days of mourning (before 2000)

List of national days of mourning (2000–2019)

List of national days of mourning (2020–present)

Johndavies837 (talk) 15:19, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

As this discussion started nearly 3 weeks ago and everyone is in favor of a split, I'll create the new pages. Johndavies837 (talk) 15:26, 31 August 2021 (UTC)