A fact from The Sporting Spirit appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 January 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Overall: All matches on Earwig are direct quotes from the essay. Prefer the original hook to the alt but both are good. —🎄☃️❄️ Season's greetings from AFreshStart (talk) ❄️☃️🎄 09:20, 23 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Promoter's comment: quite the interesting combination of nominators... theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 21:58, 28 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]