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::I notified, shortened myself after waiting a bit, --] (]) 07:36, 8 November 2013 (UTC) ::I notified, shortened myself after waiting a bit, --] (]) 07:36, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
:::Blurb looks good, Gerda. My second daughter was born this week, so I've been off-wiki all week. Thanks for thinking of my work (again!) ] <sup><span class="plainlinks">(] '''·''' ])</span></sup> 21:03, 8 November 2013 (UTC) :::Blurb looks good, Gerda. My second daughter was born this week, so I've been off-wiki all week. Thanks for thinking of my work (again!) ] <sup><span class="plainlinks">(] '''·''' ])</span></sup> 21:03, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
::::Happy days: ] ''(pictured)''! All the best for the family! --] (]) 21:30, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
*'''Support''', high quality article, certainly educational, good historical value. Impressive five (5) independent levels of types of peer review for quality improvement, promoted to FA September 2012. Cheers, &mdash; ''']''' (]) 05:05, 6 November 2013 (UTC) *'''Support''', high quality article, certainly educational, good historical value. Impressive five (5) independent levels of types of peer review for quality improvement, promoted to FA September 2012. Cheers, &mdash; ''']''' (]) 05:05, 6 November 2013 (UTC)

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Here the community can nominate articles to be selected as "Today's featured article" (TFA) on the main page. The TFA section aims to highlight the range of articles that have "featured article" status, from Art and architecture through to Warfare, and wherever possible it tries to avoid similar topics appearing too close together without good reason. Requests are not the only factor in scheduling the TFA (see Choosing Today's Featured Article); the final decision rests with the TFA coordinators: Wehwalt, Dank, Gog the Mild and SchroCat, who also select TFAs for dates where no suggestions are put forward. Please confine requests to this page, and remember that community endorsement on this page does not necessarily mean the article will appear on the requested date.

  • The article must be a featured article. Editors who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article before nominating it for TFAR.
  • The article must not have appeared as TFA before (see the list of possibilities here), except that:
    • The TFA coordinators may choose to fill up to two slots each week with FAs that have previously been on the main page, so long as the prior appearance was at least five years ago. The coordinators will invite discussion on general selection criteria for re-runnable TFAs, and aim to make individual selections within those criteria.
    • The request must be either for a specific date within the next 30 days that has not yet been scheduled, or a non-specific date. The template {{@TFA}} can be used in a message to "ping" the coordinators through the notification system.

If you have an exceptional request that deviates from these instructions (for example, an article making a second appearance as TFA, or a "double-header"), please discuss the matter with the TFA coordinators beforehand.

It can be helpful to add the article to the pending requests template, if the desired date for the article is beyond the 30-day period. This does not guarantee selection, but does help others see what nominations may be forthcoming. Requesters should still nominate the article here during the 30-day time-frame.

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How to post a new nomination:

I. Create the nomination subpage.

In the box below, enter the full name of the article you are nominating (without using any brackets around the article's name) and click the button to create your nomination page.


II. Write the nomination.

On that nomination page, fill out as many of the relevant parts of the pre-loaded {{TFAR nom}} template as you can, then save the page.

Your nomination should mention:

  • when the last similar article was, since this helps towards diversity on the main page (browsing Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/recent TFAs will help you find out);
  • when the article was promoted to FA status (since older articles may need extra checks);
  • and (for date-specific nominations) the article's relevance for the requested date.
III. Write the blurb. Some Featured Articles promoted between 2016 and 2020 have pre-prepared blurbs, found on the talk page of the FAC nomination (that's the page linked from "it has been identified" at the top of the article's talk page). If there is one, copy and paste that to the nomination, save it, and then edit as needed. For other FAs, you're welcome to create your own TFA text as a summary of the lead section, or you can ask for assistance at WT:TFAR. We use one paragraph only, with no reference tags or alternative names; the only thing bolded is the first link to the article title. The length when previewed is between 925 and 1025 characters including spaces, " (Full article...)" and the featured topic link if applicable. More characters may be used when no free-use image can be found. Fair use images are not allowed.
IV. Post at TFAR.

After you have created the nomination page, add it here under a level-3 heading for the preferred date (or under a free non-specific date header). To do this, add (replacing "ARTICLE TITLE" with the name of your nominated article):
===February 29===
{{Misplaced Pages:Today's featured article/requests/ARTICLE TITLE}}

Nominations are ordered by requested date below the summary chart. More than one article can be nominated for the same date.

It would also then be helpful to add the nomination to the summary chart, following the examples there. Please include the name of the article that you are nominating in your edit summary.

If you are not one of the article's primary editors, please then notify the primary editors of the TFA nomination; if primary editors are no longer active, please add a message to the article talk page.

Scheduling:

In the absence of exceptional circumstances, TFAs are scheduled in date order, not according to how long nominations have been open or how many supportive comments they have. So, for example, January 31 will not be scheduled until January 30 has been scheduled (by TFAR nomination or otherwise).


Summary chart

Currently accepting requests from March 1 to March 31.

Date Article Points Notes Supports Opposes
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Nonspecific 2
Nonspecific 3
Nonspecific 4
December 7 Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi 2 Pearl Harbor participant, widely covered, 1yr FA, but recent warship 2 0
December 9 Joseph Desha 2 Birthdate, 1yr FA 2 0

Tally may not be up to date; please do not use these tallies for removing a nomination according to criteria 1 or 3 above unless you have verified the numbers. The nominator is included in the number of supporters.

Nonspecific date nominations

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Specific date nominations

December 7

Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi

Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi Akagi was the second aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) to enter service, and the first large or "fleet" carrier. She was converted to an aircraft carrier while still under construction to comply with the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, and figured prominently in the development of the IJN's revolutionary doctrine that grouped carriers together, concentrating their air power. The ship and her aircraft first saw combat during the Second Sino-Japanese War in the late 1930s. During the Pacific War, she took part in the Attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 and the invasion of Rabaul in the Southwest Pacific in January 1942 as flagship of the First Air Fleet. Over the next several months her aircraft bombed Darwin, Australia, assisted in the conquest of the Dutch East Indies, and helped sink a British heavy cruiser and an Australian destroyer in the Indian Ocean Raid. After bombarding American forces on Midway Atoll during the Battle of Midway in June, Akagi and the other carriers were attacked by aircraft from Midway and three American carriers. Akagi was severely damaged, and she was scuttled by Japanese destroyers to prevent her from falling into enemy hands. (Full article...)

4 points for widely covered, anniversary and one-year-old FA. Last warship TFA was Lexington on 3 October so no points there. I've cut about about as much as I can out of this blurb, but it may still need tweaking, so feel free.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:20, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Actually, Japanese battleship Haruna is TFA for November 14, as a "free pick" rather than a TFAR nomination (as I thought it was about time we had another warship) so 2 points. If people prefer, I could swap Haruna for a warship from another country to avoid two Japanese ships in succession. Trimmed to 1,999 characters.Bencherlite 09:38, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
Your changes to the blurb look fine. I don't really care about two Japanese ships in moderately close succession, but others might. I just like having non-Anglophone ships on TFA.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:45, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Comment: When someone makes needless personal comments, it suggests he or she can't make comments about the ideas. I don't understand why the nominator is complaining on my Talk page (or what he's complaining about) or undoing my edits to the article. Beyondallmeaning (talk) 05:44, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

  • He was complaining because you changed <refname=I8/> to <refname="I8"/>, for example, which is a completely unnecessary edit. Such edits don't change anything for the reader, and don't improve the functioning of the references for editors, so why make them? Sturmvogel's point was that, if you wanted to make minor edits to articles, you would be better off making edits somewhere that actually improved things for readers/editors. I agree with him, for what it's worth. Bencherlite 10:14, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

December 9

Joseph Desha

Joseph Desha Joseph Desha (1768–1842) was a U.S. Representative and the ninth Governor of Kentucky. After serving in the Northwest Indian War, he moved to Mason County, Kentucky and parlayed his military record into several terms in the state legislature. In 1807, he was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the first of six consecutive terms in the U.S. House. He was a War Hawk, supporting the War of 1812, and commanded a division at the Battle of the Thames. Leaving the House in 1818, he lost to John Adair in the 1820 gubernatorial election. In 1824, he made a second campaign for governor based on promises of relief for the state's debtor class. He was elected by a large majority, and debt relief partisans captured both houses of the General Assembly. When the Kentucky Court of Appeals struck down debt relief legislation he favored, he lobbied the legislature to replace it with a new court. His reputation was damaged when he issued a pardon for his son, who was accused of murder. He also hastened the resignation of Transylvania University president Horace Holley, whom he considered too liberal. Desha retired from public life in 1828. (Full article...)

255th anniversary of birth, 1 year FA, was suggested like this last year for the same day, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:43, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

2 points (date and age; last similar article was John W. Johnston on 12th October, so no bonuses/penalties). Have you notified the principal author(s)? The blurb is too long, again (1,288 characters, max is 1,200). Bencherlite 00:52, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
I notified, shortened myself after waiting a bit, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:36, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Blurb looks good, Gerda. My second daughter was born this week, so I've been off-wiki all week. Thanks for thinking of my work (again!) Acdixon 21:03, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
Happy days: new life (pictured)! All the best for the family! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:30, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
  • Support, high quality article, certainly educational, good historical value. Impressive five (5) independent levels of types of peer review for quality improvement, promoted to FA September 2012. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 05:05, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
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