Talk:Surfing Santas

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Did you know... that the Florida beach festival Surfing Santas, held regularly on Christmas Eve, was inspired by a Honda commercial?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 01:45, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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A surfing Santa in 2012

... that the Florida beach festival Surfing Santas, which attracts around 10,000 festive surfers every Christmas Eve, was inspired by a Honda commercial?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hellmut Stern
- Comment: should be good for a Christmas or Christmas Eve set; image included in case we do decide to run multiples

Created by Kingsif (talk). Self-nominated at 01:02, 22 December 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The image might be better if the water around the surfer was cropped (and thus the surfer was bigger) but I'm not bothered by this. Z1720 (talk) 01:28, 22 December 2021 (UTC) To T:DYK/P4 without image[reply]