Talk:Spiders Georg

A fact from Spiders Georg appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that "'average person eats 3 spiders a year' factoid actualy just statistical error"?

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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 10:51, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that "'average person eats 3 spiders a year' factoid actualy just statistical error"? This might make a good quirky hook.^(?) Source: Baker-Whitelaw 2013, citing Mikelson 2001
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Alignment Problem
- Comment: Okay, I know we usually frown upon regurgitating meme references as DYK hooks, but in this case, the hook is actually 1. verifiably true and 2. pertinent to the story as a fact. So, if some leniency could be applied to put this in the quirky slot, I'd be grateful :)

Created by Theleekycauldron (talk). Self-nominated at 23:40, 19 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Spiders Georg; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

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: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

@Theleekycauldron: Good article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 14:44, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Antitypos

Given that Tiidenberg et al. (or, more likely, their copy editor) unmangled the deliberate errors in the "We Georg" quote - "the average person spends 0 hours per month. We Georg, who live in caves & spend over 23 hours on Tumblr each day, are outliers and should not have been counted" - is it worth having the original as well (or instead) ? DS (talk) 03:06, 1 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.tumblr.com/facts-i-just-made-up/115105258743/acutelesbian-according-to-usa-today-the-average DS (talk) 03:07, 1 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Spiders Georg Spiders/Second

Spiders Georg eats over 41k spiders a second, according to what Quixotic_Delights commented. SirPineapl (talk) 11:49, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]