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A fact from SpongeBob SquarePants Theme appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 April 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the theme song to SpongeBob SquarePants was written by Stephen Hillenburg with the idea "to try to make the most annoying song you can"?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 23:30, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that when writing the theme song to SpongeBob SquarePants, Stephen Hillenburg's "idea was to try to make the most annoying song you can"?

Source: [1]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Norwich Historic District

Moved to mainspace by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 35 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 23:39, 24 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Everything looks good. The article is more than long and well-sourced enough. The hook is cited and certainly interesting. Earwig raised some plagiarism possibilities, but I looked at all of them, and they're either names or quotations; ergo, no copyvio issues at all. It should be good to go! Phibeatrice (talk) 02:43, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Might I propose ALT0a: "... that when writing the theme song to SpongeBob SquarePants, creator Stephen Hillenburg tried to make "most annoying song" he could?" ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 02:47, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]