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Did you know nomination

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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 Theleekycauldron (talk05:27, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Created by Tcr25 (talk). Self-nominated at 18:15, 19 September 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Thank you, SL93. Yeah, I would have preferred a different source, but, applying WP:USINGSPS, I believe Legendary Surfers passes the acceptability test. Gault-Williams is an established writer for surfing magazines and has co-authored a RS-published biography of early surfer Tom Blake, written a documentary on surf photographer Doc Ball, and has been cited in academic literature. The point the citation is being used for is actually in a quote from a long out-of-print book that I can't locate to confirm the details, but spotchecking other citations in the book indicate that it's faithful to the original sources. Three options:
  • Drop the sentence.
  • Bypass Legendary Surfers and cite the original book quoted (Blake, Tom (1983) [1935]. Hawaiian Surfriders, 1935. Redondo Beach, California: Mountain & Sea Publishing. p. 69.)
  • Accept the self-published source as from an expert in the field
Fourth option, which I just implemented on the page, leave the self-published source, but note that it's quoting the RS-published source and include that in the reference, too.
What do you think? —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 12:49, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I can approve that. The promoter can choose the hook. SL93 (talk) 21:44, 28 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1 to T:DYK/P1