Talk:National Paper Airplane Day

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First off, I do like that Wikipedia tries to document even obscure things like these holidays. Right now though this article sites a forum article claiming June 21 as National Paper Airplane Day, but immediately sites a Facebook page claiming May 26 as National Paper Airplane Day.

Though I haven't found any evidence of a real government proclamation for either day, I do seem to find more evidence supporting the May 26 date: http://ayearofholidays.wordpress.com/tag/national-paper-airplane-day/, http://www.nationalpaperairplaneday.org/, http://origami.about.com/od/Origami-Airplanes/a/Cool-Paper-Airplane-Trivia.htm, http://blog.oregonlive.com/edge/2011/05/thursdays_edge_national_paper.html

There is also some corroboration for the June 21 date: http://www.dvice.com/archives/2011/05/image-of-the-da-202.php

Any thoughts on whether it would be better to discuss both dates, or to change to what seems to be the more prevalent one?

John (talk) 14:15, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a typical hallmark holiday, with many conflicting dates, no official founder, no first celebration, and probably (haven't researched this) not acclaimed by the National Congress or the States. This article needs a powerful reference from the government which claims the day as "National", otherwise the article should be removed, or people will start referencing Wikipedia for the hallmark-ish "paper airplane day".

PS > current reference doesn't mention anything about the holiday, just regular paper airplane records.--Rochelimit (talk) 19:00, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]