BaSzRafael

August 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Leap week calendar, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. Jalen Folf (talk) 17:57, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanations and comments, I will follow them.

On the merits, the article does not contain any of the references you ask me for: there are no links pointing to where the various arguments came from. So I did the same.

As for the construction of calendars based on observations of cyclical astronomical phenomena - this is commonly known and rather indisputable knowledge. I didn't think it required citing sources.

As for the presence of strong opposition, it has been present in the past.

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEhelp/calendars.html

calendars have held a sacred status

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Calendars have provided (…) for maintaining cycles of religious

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However, its adoption in the United Kingdom and other countries was fraught with confusion, controversy, and even violence

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It also had a deeper cultural impact through the disruption of traditional festivals and calendrical practices

BaSzRafael (talk) 16:45, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Primorial sieve

A tag has been placed on Primorial sieve requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

This seems to be a promotional effort and personal essay

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Nomination of Primorial sieve for deletion

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D.Lazard (talk) 13:23, 20 June 2024 (UTC)