Template:Did you know nominations/Squid King
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The result was: promoted by Launchballer talk 01:40, 6 April 2025 (UTC)
Squid King
- ... that a Japanese town used ¥25,000,000 in COVID-19 relief funds to build a statue of a giant pink squid?
- Source:
"Noto, located in Ishikawa prefecture on the Japan Sea coast, spent ¥25m (£164,000) on the 13-metre-long marine creature[...]The pink-and-white creature"
McCurry, Justin (2021-05-05). "Japanese town spends Covid-19 funds on huge squid statue". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-03-21."A giant squid statue here funded by a central government subsidy to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer being derided as a colossal waste of taxpayers' money by all."
Kojima, Hiroyuki (June 6, 2021). "Squid statue paid for with COVID-19 funds inks following in Noto". The Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 2025-03-21.
- ALT1: ... that a Japanese town used its COVID-19 relief funds to build a statue of a squid?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Caccothryptus
- Comment: Don't need to link COVID-19 in Japan, do I? Also, I can source a USD[1] or GBP[2] conversion for the cost, if that would help make the yen amount more universally understood. It's $230,000 or £164,000, for the curious.
Created by GreenLipstickLesbian (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 8 past nominations.
GreenLipstickLesbian💌🦋 04:33, 22 March 2025 (UTC).
- Will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:00, 22 March 2025 (UTC)
| 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: 
That's hilarious. Article looks good. Nice work. Either hook works, though maybe the alt might be better given that not everyone would know how much money 25m in Japan is. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:56, 23 March 2025 (UTC)
- Proposing another variation of ALT1 for possible April Fool's set consideration:
- ALT1a: ... that a Japanese town used its COVID-19 relief funds to build a giant pink squid?
Cielquiparle (talk) 12:05, 30 March 2025 (UTC)
- Proposing a new hook based on discussion at WT:DYK:
- ALT2: ... a giant pink squid did not return to the sea?
- ALT2a: ... the giant pink Squid King did not return to the sea?
I don't love it but it is discussed in the article and maybe it works in context with the oddly terse set of April Fool's Day hooks this year. Cielquiparle (talk) 12:12, 30 March 2025 (UTC)