User talk:ZH8000

Hello, ZH8000! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

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Thank you very much for editing the Switzerland article! Small point, but please do not change British spellings (centre, honoured, neighbours) to American ones, unless you have a good reason for doing so. As a European country, doesn't Switzerland usually and officially use British spellings? If not, please mention this at Talk:Switzerland, but common practice on this site has been to use British spellings for articles about European destinations.

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:16, 13 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I did not change anything British into US-american, please check! And I prefer British English, indeed! -- ZH8000 (talk) 18:35, 13 February 2015 (UTC)


 * My mistake; I now see who did.


 * All the best,


 * Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:49, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Switzerland's regions
Grüezi!

Wikivoyage's region division of Switzerland is being discussed right now. I thought you as a local might be interested. ϒpsilon (talk) 18:56, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

Public holidays in Switzerland
Hi there,

I saw that you edited the public holidays in Switzerland, the edit got reverted by another user for technical reasons. However, before you add any of that information back on, please consider reading the recent discussion on this: Talk:Switzerland. I pinged you when the discussion started, but you haven't commented on it yet, so I assume you haven't seen it. Notably please consider the following:


 * You added information on which of the days are observed by SBB and Postbus. That is indeed very important for the traveler, but all this information is already mentioned in a short paragraph at the end of the section.
 * You added Saint Berchthold's day (2 January) to the list. I removed this, as this is only a public holiday in 14 cantons, and in the above-mentioned discussion, the consensus was to only show holidays which are observed in the majority of the cantons.
 * You mentioned that Easter Monday and With Monday are observed everywhere. They are not a public holiday in Valais and Ticino however (for a source for this, see the document I added below from the canton of valais administration). That they are still partially observed by most shops etc. is information which in my opinion belongs in the region article (See for instance Valais).

If you disagree with any of this, please reopen the discussion on Talk:Switzerland before you make these changes again. I just redid this section a couple days ago according to the results of that discussion, but I'm happy to make modifications if there's a consensus to do so.

I saw you also added the date indication for Good Friday and Easter Monday, thanks for that, it is indeed clearer like that.

My sources for this article were the Wikipedia article: Public_holidays_in_Switzerland as well as cantonal websites in cases this wasn't clear, such as Valais.

Drat70 (talk) 01:13, 16 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I am confused about your last reversion of my edit. Here is the official website of the state of Valais with the public holidays: https://www.vs.ch/fr/web/spt/jours-feries As this is the official website of the state, I think this has more weight than the document you are referring too, which is probably this one: https://www.bj.admin.ch/dam/data/bj/publiservice/service/zivilprozessrecht/kant-feiertage.pdf . That is a website of the federal government, however all holidays except national holidays are regulated on a cantonal level and thus this is only a secondary source. Furthermore it indicates 'treated like a public holiday', which is not the same. As I already indicated previously, those details are mentioned in the region article (Valais), in order not to clutter up the Switzerland article, as per consensus on the Talk:Switzerland page.
 * For an example why this matters, look at this website of a shopping centre in Sion: https://metropolecentre.ch/ . If you scroll all the way down, you see which public holidays it is closed, and from the 4 'treated like a public holiday' days in the admin.ch document, it is only closed on one day. I remains open on 2 January, Easter Monday and St. Stephen's Day.
 * As I already mentioned in the last entry on your talk page, please discuss changes to the public holidays section before making any changes (Talk:Switzerland). The public holidays sections on the Switzerland articles as well as on all the region articles has just been redone according to the discussion. If you have suggestions for things being changed, please suggest it there first, if there's consensus I'll be happy to change it/have it changed.
 * Drat70 (talk) 04:28, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Links to Wikipedia
Hi, ZH8000, and thanks for contributing so much valuable content to this site! One relatively small thing that's good to know about is Wikivoyage's guidelines on linking to Wikipedia: Please have a look at Links to Wikipedia. Inline links aren't used. Therefore, one you added to the Driving in Switzerland article would seem to have to be deleted, and I have done so.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

All the best,

Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:48, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Cuckoo clocks and Switzerland
Would you care to weigh in on the cuckoo clock discussion over at Talk:Switzerland? Hobbitschuster (talk) 16:27, 15 December 2018 (UTC)