Template:Did you know nominations/Gasparilla Pirate Festival
- 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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 23:53, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
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Gasparilla Pirate Festival
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... that during the annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival (pictured), leading citizens of Tampa, Florida, dress up like pirates and hold a victory parade after "invading" the town in their pirate ship?Source: https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-hillsborough/gasparilla-2024-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-annual-pirate-fest- Reviewed: QPQ exempt
- Comment: This annual event takes place this coming Saturday (Jan. 27) so it would be great if this DYK item appeared on that date.
Improved to Good Article status by Zeng8r (talk). Self-nominated at 20:42, 23 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Gasparilla Pirate Festival; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
Zeng8r Recent GA (1-21-23) so the article qualifies for DYK. There are probably more hooks from sentences like this "Crowd size for the Parade of Pirates is typically about 300,000, making it one of the largest annual parades in the United States." I have trouble connecting all the events contained in ALT0. I cannot confirm that "leading citizens of Tampa, Florida dress up like pirates and hold a victory parade after invading the town in their pirate ship". So if you want that hook you will need to show me where those words appear in the article cited. The rest of the article is cited with references and it is neutral. No QPQ is required. The image is free and I do not find evidence of plagiarism in the article. I am surprised that a GA has so many citations in the lead see MOS:LEADCITE. The information is repeated in the article so I think that the lead citations are not needed. Pinging Viriditas as I came here from DYK talk at their urging. Bruxton (talk) 01:53, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- ALT1: ... that since 1904, the Gasparilla Pirate Festival (pictured) in Tampa, Florida has featured a pirate themed parade?
- ALT2: ... that the annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival (pictured) inspired the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to install a pirate ship in their stadium?
I see that this wasn't approved in time for yesterday's Gasparilla Day. Not sure why the original hook wasn't acceptable, as it's a one-sentence summary of the event that's paraphrased in pretty much every one of the 80+ article citations, but whatever. The suggested alternatives are fine and it's still Gasparilla season so it's not too late to make this a DYK item. ADDENDUM: Here's another idea: the Outbound Voyage is the culminating event of the Gasparilla Season and will take place on March 2 this year. The DYK hook could refer to that item and run on that date. Zeng8r (talk) 16:14, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
There were too many moving parts to get this to the main page in a three day window. March 2 should work. see discussion Bruxton (talk) 21:05, 28 January 2024 (UTC)- Oh, thanks, I had not seen the primary discussion on this. Zeng8r (talk) 01:07, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
