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Grammar mistakes?

@Trulyy: How was I making a grammar mistake in reverting your edit? Even the article on Federal holidays in the United States uses a lowercase ‘h’ in its title. –Gluonz^{talk contribs} 16:27, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Associated Press Stylebook has this entry for federal:

Use a capital letter for the architectural style and for corporate or governmental bodies or procedures that use the word as part of their formal names: Federal Express, Federal Holiday, the Federal Trade Commission. Trulyy (talk) 19:30, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you think the title “Federal Holidays in the United States” would be more correct, I would suggest you start a move request at Talk:Federal holidays in the United States. However, unless that article gets moved, I would suggest maintaining consistency with its title across other articles. –Gluonz^{talk contribs} 14:30, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gluonz We should be consistent within this article as well. Seananony (talk) 16:19, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against American July 4th

Should there be a section over arguments against the holiday’s celebration in america? It does celebrate the beginning of bloody imperialism and genocide to say the absolute least, after all 2603:6011:2800:5BB:9156:FA3A:1CF9:D187 (talk) 08:27, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]