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Merry Christmas and Happy New year

Hello! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2021 on the behalf of Christmas task force of WikiProject Holidays.

Happy holidays!

Wishing you a joyful Christmas and a happy New year. We would like to use this occasion for giving thanks for editors like you for your works on editing, maintaining and expanding this encyclopedia. May the glorious message of peace and love fill you with joy during this wonderful season.

You can do!

Improve and assess the articles listed in Category:Christmas and its subpages. (list of categories)
Feel free to add christmas=yes to the Wikiproject banners {{WikiProject Holidays}} or {{WikiProject Christianity}} in the articles related to Christmas. This will help to automatically place it into Category:Christmas task force articles.
Tag articles under the scope of our project.
Recruit interested editors to the project.
Collect categories, resource links, and templates.
Feel free to develop missing articles related to this topic - some of them can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Christmas task force/Reference sources articles list.
Bring former featured articles and good articles back to their status.
Visit Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Christmas task force/Article alerts page for recent changes on project.
Feel free to participate in the process of revival of task force.

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