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*”’Oppose”’ while the shopping Black Friday is the most common page people are viewing, [[WP:Primarytopic]] calls for it to be “highly likely—much more likely than any other single topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term.” At least according to the page posted by 1isall, the shopping Black Friday is (just) below 50% compared to the combination of all other topics. And that is during the peak search time for Black Friday (shopping). For most of the year, the movie and the shopping day are pretty on par for views/searches. [[User:TwoNineNineOne|TwoNineNineOne]] ([[User talk:TwoNineNineOne|talk]]) 12:39, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

*”’Oppose”’ while the shopping Black Friday is the most common page people are viewing, [[WP:Primarytopic]] calls for it to be “highly likely—much more likely than any other single topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term.” At least according to the page posted by 1isall, the shopping Black Friday is (just) below 50% compared to the combination of all other topics. And that is during the peak search time for Black Friday (shopping). For most of the year, the movie and the shopping day are pretty on par for views/searches. [[User:TwoNineNineOne|TwoNineNineOne]] ([[User talk:TwoNineNineOne|talk]]) 12:39, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

*”’Oppose”’. Too many meanings for this one to be primary, popular as it may be at the moment. — [[User:Necrothesp|Necrothesp]] ([[User talk:Necrothesp|talk]]) 12:10, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

If you multiply the number of shoppers by the average spent, the product is much higher than the numbers in the total spent column for the years before 2017 (2005-2014).

Are the numbers copied directly from the NRF data? Where can the data for these years be found? The surveys are also preliminary, i.e. they are asking people if they plan to shop on Black Friday, and how much they are planning to spend. Are some numbers from the survey and some from actual retail results? Sardtok (talk) 09:59, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This page appears to be experiencing a high amount of vandalism. NesserWiki (talk) 09:55, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 6 September 2023 and 14 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kiki6789 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Kiki6789 (talk) 21:44, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The New York Times just did an article on this and it apparently claims that the origin of the term was by police in Philadelphia but that it was about the Army/Navy game played on Saturday after Thanksgiving. This does not seem logical, since Saturday traffic wouldn’t affect Friday.

< https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/business/black-friday-shopping-cyber-monday.html#:~:text=Black%20Friday%20got%20its%20start,on%20the%20Saturday%20after%20Thanksgiving. >

Also there’s a missing opening quotation mark in the following sentence:

In response to incidents at branches of Tesco, Greater Manchester Police’s deputy chief constable Ian Hopkins said shoppers had behaved in an “appalling” fashion, and criticized shops for not making adequate security arrangements to ensure the safety of customers.”

I was going to the source to see about correcting it but it requires registration. Maybe someone else would be willing to do it.

And can somebody change Auto Archiver so that it goes longer than 90 days? That doesn’t make sense. 2600:1700:4E10:C690:8C0F:644F:DEB6:E652 (talk) 00:54, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This section contained a lot of unsourced material. I removed the ones that simply said “Black Friday was first observed in <country> in 2014” and added {{Citation needed}} to others, but I personally don’t like the section at all as of now. The selection of countries was and is still pretty random. Listing the countries by their continent doesn’t make sense; the list should really only contain the countries on which Black Friday has really had a notable impact, or maybe just the continents generally (which would make most sense for Europe). Or maybe we should delete the section altogether and incorporate the info into other sections? NaThanD 312 (talk) 22:27, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

– Per WP:PTOPIC, Black Friday almost always refers to the Friday after Thanksgiving day. It’s even celebrated worldwide, not just in the US. —Prothe1st (leave me a message)– 22:44, 18 November 2025 (UTC) — Relisting. Jeffrey34555 (talk) 00:23, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom, 1isall and others. Thanks, Glasspalace (talk | contribs) 09:51, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose while the shopping Black Friday is the most common page people are viewing, WP:Primarytopic calls for it to be “highly likely—much more likely than any other single topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term.” At least according to the page posted by 1isall, the shopping Black Friday is (just) below 50% compared to the combination of all other topics. And that is during the peak search time for Black Friday (shopping). For most of the year, the movie and the shopping day are pretty on par for views/searches. TwoNineNineOne (talk) 12:39, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Too many meanings for this one to be primary, popular as it may be at the moment. — Necrothesp (talk) 12:10, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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