Talk:Santa Claus

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)

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• ... 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)

Beliefs

Haven't read everything but it seems like this article was written of the beliefs of the user who made it, or making it seem Santa Claus is 100% not real. There are lots of people that believe Santa Claus is real, including me (there also seems there are good reasons Santa is real). Also, one of Wikipedia's rules include not making articles based on your own opinion. —Tonkarooson (talk) 02:14, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Yes, Tonkarooson, there is a Santa Claus. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:46, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Nice to see another person who thinks Santa Claus is real, but the topic is talking about how the article seems to be typed out from a biased perspective. —Tonkarooson (talk) 00:26, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps we should have a section on Age appropriateness. It is age-appropriate for a three year old to believe that Santa Claus is a corporeal person with magical flying reindeer. It is age-inappropriate for a twelve year old to believe the same thing. Anyone over the age of 12 without obvious intellectual disabilities who genuinely believes that Santa flies to every house on Christmas should win a Neuropsychological assessment, with particular emphasis on the overly trusting strain of autism that can't recognize when he's being exploited or bullied by his "friends". WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:19, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

Borderline personal attack 89.67.129.74 (talk) 06:30, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

No scientific evidence to be real. Would treat this article similar to articles concerning religion.

89.67.129.74 (talk) 06:28, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

New-Amsterdam?

The article mentions that the current image of Santa Claus is based on these 19th century Dutch immigrants coming to New Amsterdam. Besides the lack of any citation, New Amsterdam became New York after the second Anglo-Dutch war, in which the Dutch traded their colony for Surinam. After that, the colony became known as New York. So, why is this mentioned? Quirinius Germanicus (talk) 20:51, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

‘The U.S. press in 1773’

Clearly this should say ‘American press’ or similar. There was no U.S. in 1773 2600:1017:B838:35E4:4C51:271C:3696:C16D (talk) 21:21, 7 September 2024 (UTC)