Standardize US market holidays' days of mourning entries

[arkid15r]

Based on #2201 we need to come up with a standardized naming for this type of cases.

It looks like they have to start with "National Day of Mourning" and include a custom text to add more context.
I also think it should include "former President" part.

And we need to decide on the name format (yeah, naming is hard):

• Jimmy Carter
• Jimmy E. Carter
• James Earl Carter, Jr

[PPsyrius]

IMO relying on presidential library official naming which is itself managed by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) might be for the best here.

Interestingly, the Jimmy Carter ones went with his nickname instead of his actual first name.

[arkid15r]

IMO relying on presidential library official naming which is itself managed by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) might be for the best here.

Interestingly, the Jimmy Carter ones went with his nickname instead of his actual first name.

I found this one -- https://guides.loc.gov/presidents-portraits/chronological

@PPsyrius could you add some more URLs?

[PPsyrius]

@arkid15r I'm going by the Presidents who appear in this holiday list first:

• George Washington - he's simply listed as Washington in Centennial of Washington Inauguration celebrations at the moment when the actual decree uses his full name.
• WIlliam McKinley - we refer to him as McKinley at the moment.
• Warren G. Harding
• John F. Kennedy
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Harry S. Truman
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Richard Nixon - we refer to him as Richard M. Nixon at the moment.
• Ronald Reagan - we refer to him as Ronald W. Reagan at the moment.
• Gerald R. Ford
• George H. W. Bush
• Jimmy Carter

[arkid15r]

I see, I thought there was a single source of truth for those names.

Richard M. Nixon is the only discrepancy I found for this list vs the link a posted above.

What do you guys think of using Library of Congress source for standardizing this?

[PPsyrius]

@arkid15r Fine by me, although I'm somewhat surprised NARA and LoC haven't agreed to standardize Nixon's name references lol

Anyway, it seems that both the White House and USN websites use Richard M. Nixon (as used by LoC) rather than Richard Nixon (as used by NARA) - so citing LoC might be the better option here.