Template:Did you know nominations/Surfing Santas

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

Surfing Santas

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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).

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