Template:Did you know nominations/Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus
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The result was: by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:35, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
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Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus
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that Santa Claus being shot is "hilarious"? - ALT1 ... that the idea of Santa Claus being shot can be "hilarious"?
- Comment: One for April Fools please, so review ASAP
Improved to Good Article status by Gabriel Yuji (talk). Nominated by Matty.007 (talk) at 11:42, 23 March 2014 (UTC).
Article was passed as GA on 22 March and is long enough, it is well cited (apart from the plot section, by a custom I am unhappy about that has no citations at all, but there is a tradition here of allowing the work to cite its own plot) and it shows no sign of copyvio. The hook is certainly eye-catching, but it bends the rule about citing an established fact, presenting an opinion as a fact, and it is also inaccurate, as what the source says is that "the idea of Monk shooting Santa Claus... can be hilarious". To my way of thinking we could overlook the first fault for an April Fool's Day DYK, especially as "hilarious" is in quotation marks, but I should prefer to see an Alt on the lines of "that the idea of Santa Claus being shot can be "hilarious"?" Moonraker (talk) 13:51, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
