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A fact from Hurricane Shark appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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I'd prefer "... that the Hurricane Shark might actually be real," because a) one of the two experts was unable to confirm that it was a shark, and b) we don't know if this is the first time it happened. DS (talk) 13:31, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@DragonflySixtyseven: I think our thinking for this hook was, if you look at how the reliable sources frame the concept of "Hurricane Shark", they look at it much more as an idea than a thing. That's why the article refers to "Hurricane Shark" as a nickname for a concept, not as a specific well-defined phenomenon, because that would exceed what the sources say. In the context of "Hurricane Shark" as idea or meme, The New York Times and BuzzFeed News both take the position that the footage from Ft. Myers makes Hurricane Shark "real", whether or not it actually was a shark, and whether or not it's the first time it's happened. (Worth noting the Goodna shark sightings predate the Hurricane Shark meme, and the only reason it wasn't SYNTH to mention them is that Craig Silverman draws the comparison in this 2011 column.) So I think it's accurate to say that "Hurricane Shark" as a concept is real now, and was not real before; but would be inaccurate to say "might actually be real", because a) that implies a sort of retroactive real-ness that is not true (the best-known Hurricane Shark image remains a hoax) and b) that contradicts what reliable sources say, which is that it is real (again, regardless of whether the fish in the video is as a matter of biological fact a shark). One alternate hook that I'd be fine with, though, is ... that "Hurricane Shark is real"? That would settle any ambiguity by relying on a direct quote from the author of an RS article on the subject. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe)15:57, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
