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Did you know nomination
- 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: rejected by 97198 (talk) 10:38, 7 July 2022 (UTC)
- ... that fans of the Philadelphia Eagles threw snowballs at Santa Claus? Source: https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/12/penn-football-franklin-field-eagles-santa
- ALT1: ... that during the Philadelphia Eagles Santa Claus incident, Eagles fans booed Santa Claus? Source: https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/12/penn-football-franklin-field-eagles-santa
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Created by Sportsfangnome (talk). Self-nominated at 13:03, 6 July 2022 (UTC).
Sorry, Sportsfangnome, but just as in your last nomination, none of the articles is eligible because none of them has been recently created or expanded 5x or promoted to Good Article. Please, please, please read WP:DYK, especially the section on eligibility criteria, before submitting any more nominations. MANdARAX XAЯAbИAM 14:11, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
"Santaism" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect Santaism has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 October 18 § Santaism until a consensus is reached. Thepharoah17 (talk) 00:32, 18 October 2025 (UTC)
Citation required
This tradition was confirmed in two important scientific investigations of the relics in Bari and Venice, which revealed that the relics in the two Italian cities belong to the same skeleton. ~2025-32316-49 (talk) 12:45, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
Bias needs to get fixed
There seems to be a non neutral tone in the representation to children part, that needs to get fixed Yesterdaylemonade (talk) 06:02, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
- What changes do you suggest should be made? MichaelMaggs (talk) 07:55, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
- Santa Claus#Representation to children talks about parents lying to their children. I imagine that's both accurate and upsetting to parents who had never thought of their actions in that way before.
- The internet tells me that a parent wrote this:
- "Me before kids: I'll never lie to my kids."
- "Me after kids: I just got off the phone with Gabby from Gabby's Dollhouse and Marshall from Paw Patrol and they both said if you don't get you shoes on and coat on then they'll tell Santa not to stop by."
- Maybe "lying" isn't an unreasonable description for that particular interaction. What do you think? WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:40, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
- @MichaelMaggs More quotes could be used rather than paraphrasing. Yesterdaylemonade (talk) 14:40, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
- Sometimes quotations are phrased in a more biased way. Also, if there are a lot of experts who say something, it's not necessarily good to quote just one of them, because that can make it seem like they're the only person in the world who holds that view. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:59, 24 December 2025 (UTC)