Template:Did you know nominations/Crabs for Christmas
- 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 SL93 talk 21:31, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
Crabs for Christmas
- ... that "Crabs for Christmas", a song about a man asking Santa Claus for crab as a Christmas gift, became a Maryland holiday tradition?
- Source: Worthington, Aliza (December 12, 2023). "The enduring Baltimore charm of David DeBoy's 'Crabs for Christmas,' more than 40 years after initial release". Baltimore Fishbowl. Retrieved December 25, 2024.
- ALT1: ... that a radio station refused to air "Crabs for Christmas" due to its use of the Baltimore accent? Source: DeNike, Lisa (December 14, 1981). "His Christmas record won't make him crabby". The Evening Sun. p. B7. Retrieved December 25, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ALT2: ... that the writer of "Crabs for Christmas" joked that it contributed to Baltimore's population decline? Source: "Our very own Bawlmer, hon, has been immortalized on CD". The Baltimore Sun. November 25, 2001. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mahra Al Maktoum
Created by Queen of Hearts (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 15 past nominations.
charlotte 👸🎄 06:12, 26 December 2024 (UTC).
- Hi. Made a copyedit here before my review; feel free to revert some of the changes if you don't agree with them
| General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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| Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems |
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| Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation |
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| QPQ: Done. |
Overall: 
AGF on all the offline sources. Baltimore Sun review has no citation though so you would want to fix that. ALT2 is interesting, but a bit misleading -- it does not convey the jocular nature of the writer's comments. The rest are also fine, although I recommend rewriting them as well to bring out more of their hookiness. Elias 🦗🐜 [Chat, they chattin', they chat] 07:22, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- @PSA: thank you for the copyedits. I'm unsure what you mean by the review being unsourced; the quotation is in the cited source ("His Christmas record won't make him crabby"), although it is a stretch to call it positive, so I removed that from the lead. I've replaced "said" with "joked" in ALT2 and would welcome any copyedit on the hooks. charlotte 👸🎄 04:17, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- Hm, first off my bad for the "unsourced" comment. Second, my issue with ALT0 right now is that it is a bit too wordy. Perhaps you can trim the hook so that it just focuses on "a song about crabs as a Christmas gift". That's all I have for now Elias 🦗🐜 [Chat, they chattin', they chat] 05:53, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- All the hooks are good. Nom, if you really prefer one of the others to appear, feel free to swap it out; it won't need further review. But for me,
passing ALT2, because of the attention grabbing contradiction of something as small and innocuous as a song supposedly causing something as geopolitically impactful as population decline.The article was nom'd the day after it's Christmas birth. And lo! it's obvs long enough, neutral and well-sourced. The hook is cited in the article (fn 9) and well within length at only 101 chars. There are no close paraphrasing issues (the scary-looking 44% is actually titles and quotes throwing up the usual false positives). Hook is dead good (see my socio-political waffle, above). QPQ done. Let's give the Main Page crabs. Serial (speculates here) 19:41, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
