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That page has been deleted - you need:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_day

<GrumpyOldManMode> <rant> Do people not check that their submission actually works? What testing do you people do when you deploy software? </rant> </GrumpyOldManMode>

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I re-added the redirect. Redirecting "Programmers Day" to "Programmers' Day" seems perfectly reasonable, and I'm unsure as to why it was deleted in the first place.

It seems to work now.

It is a major peeve that Wikipedia does not redirect the browser eg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmers_day to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer\s_day properly. So if you copy an URL you end up with the link that will redirect, not the "proper" page.

It works now because someone has set up the redirect.

An appropriate problem for Programmer's Day?

Not his fault, i tried to post this too a few hours ago but removed it because something seemed to be going on with the redirects, basically there are two pages, one with 's and one with s'... and at the time of my posting the links were continually swapped.

Now that's here, can some russian HNer provide additional info on this? Looks like is legit, but i doubt it is celebrated as it deserves in Russia ;).

It appears legit. Also, Russia has long tradition of professional days dating back to Soviet times. Construction Worker's Day, Teacher's Day, Paratrooper's Day, Collective Farmer's Day.. so why not? :)

Cosmonautics Day too, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmonautics_Day

It is totally legit, an official holiday in Russia since last year. However, we here have such days for a lot of different professions, so of course none of them are days off work, just days of vanity and recognition :)

This is a recent update. When I posted the link, there was no such info that the page has been redirected.

Really?

    > This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log
    > for the page are provided below for reference.
    >
    >   * 02:31, 21 September 2006 Kylu (talk | contribs)
    >     deleted "Programmers Day" ‎ (content was
    >     : '{{db-r1}}#REDIRECT: Programmer's day')

Looks like it was deleted in 2006. If not, my bad and my apologies.

But let me ask - you cut and pasted the link - did you check it worked by clicking on it from your submission? The reason I ask is because most people don't know that HN strips the apostrophes from links. If the page you saw on WikiPedia had the apostrophe, and you cut-n-pasted it, it won't have worked, but you will have thought it did.

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