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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
September 12 Battle of Edson's Ridge 3 Date on which battle commenced 5 0
September 15 Quark 4 Birthday of discoverer 4 0
September 18 Samuel Johnson's early life 4 300th birth anniversary 7 2
September 23 Joseph W. Tkach 3 14th anniversary of death, next to be replaced 4 0
October 4 Murray Chotiner 4 100th anniversary of birth 6 0

Tally may not accurately reflect discussion.

Requests

September 12

A United States Marine stands near some of the fighting positions on Hill 123 on "Edson's" Ridge after the battle.
A United States Marine stands near some of the fighting positions on Hill 123 on "Edson's" Ridge after the battle.

The Battle of Edson's Ridge was a land battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Imperial Japanese Army and Allied (mainly United States Marine Corps) ground forces. The battle took place September 12–14, 1942 on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, and was the second of three separate major Japanese ground offensives during the Guadalcanal campaign. In the battle, U.S. Marines, under the overall command of U.S. Major General Alexander Vandegrift, repulsed an attack by the Japanese 35th Infantry Brigade, under the command of Japanese Major General Kiyotake Kawaguchi. The Marines were defending the Lunga perimeter that guarded Henderson Field on Guadalcanal, which was captured from the Japanese by the Allies in landings on Guadalcanal on August 7, 1942. Kawaguchi's unit was sent to Guadalcanal in response to the Allied landings with the mission of recapturing the airfield and driving the Allied forces from the island. The main Japanese assault occurred around Lunga ridge south of Henderson Field that was manned by troops from several U.S. Marine Corps units, primarily troops from the 1st Raider and 1st Parachute Battalions under U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Merritt A. Edson. Although the Marine defenses were almost overrun, Kawaguchi's attack was ultimately defeated with heavy losses for the Japanese attackers. (more...)

Comment points look good unless we get another battle in here in the intervening time. Happens.--Wehwalt (talk) 04:15, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

September 15

A proton, composed of two up quarks and one down quark

The quark is an elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter. Quarks combine to form composite particles called hadrons, the best-known of which are protons (pictured) and neutrons, the components of atomic nuclei. Due to a phenomenon known as color confinement, quarks are never found in isolation; they can only be found within hadrons. For this reason, much of what is known about quarks has been drawn from observations of the hadrons themselves. There are six different types of quarks, known as flavors: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Up and down quarks are generally stable and the most common in the universe, whereas charm, strange, top, and bottom quarks can only be produced in high energy collisions (such as those involving cosmic rays and in particle accelerators). Quarks are the only elementary particles in the Standard Model of particle physics to experience all four fundamental interactions (electromagnetism, gravitation, strong interaction, and weak interaction). For every quark flavor there is a corresponding type of antiparticle, known as antiquark, that differs from the quark only in that some of its properties have equal magnitude but opposite sign. The quark model was independently proposed by physicists Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig in 1964. When quarks were introduced, there was little evidence for their physical existence. Today, all six flavors of quark have since been observed in accelerator experiments; the top quark, first observed at Fermilab in 1995, was the last to be discovered. (more...)

7 Points:

  • 1 : Date, Murray Gell-Mann's 80th birthday
  • 2 : Vital article. It is not listed amongst them however, but quarks are at the very least as important as neutrinos, which are listed, and probably much more so since neutrinos have pretty much no effect in everyday life while quarks are the building blocks of atoms. The vital article list should probably be updated accordingly, but I don't know the procedure.
  • 1: I never had a TFA and I'm a major contributor
  • 1: Subject is severely under-represented in FA, nearly all of the Phys & Astro are astronomy-related.
  • 2: Nothing in particle physics has ever been a TFA (well there was Atom back in July 2008, but saying this is particle physics is a strech)

Headbomb {κοντριβς – WP Physics} 17:57, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

That's two points for the birthday, since it's a decennial anniversary. --   A. di M. 21:01, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
I think that's stretching it since it's not the x10th anniversary of quarks as a concept, but rather one of their inventor's. I'd perhaps tone it down to a 0.5 since the connection is not direct. Headbomb {κοντριβς – WP Physics} 22:34, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
Ah, I didn't know there were different deadlines for different points. That's weird. What should I do? Withdraw and repost in 7 days?Headbomb {κοντριβς – WP Physics} 23:38, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
I think that would be the best course of action. This would allow others to submit nominations, too. Dabomb87 (talk) 01:27, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
I don't get how this prevents anyone from submitting anything. It's not like space is limited. But I'll removed it for now. Headbomb {κοντριβς – WP Physics} 02:52, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

(unindent) Restoring nomination as it was on August 16. Headbomb {κοντριβς – WP Physics} 05:45, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Four points It may be qualified to be a vital article. It is not a vital article, though, and that's how we determine it. Additionally, there are more than fifty articles in its category at WP:FA. Suggest you apply for it to become a vital article, if you want more points.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:10, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

The WP:FA page mysteriously lumps astronomy and physics. A more accurate indicator is that WP:physics has a total of 37 FA's for 14,000+ articles, putting it at about 1 in 500 which is twice as much as the WP overall average. Based on that you can't really say it is underrepresented. (TimothyRias (talk) 10:34, 25 August 2009 (UTC))
Yes, because we tag some meteorology and some astronomy articles. Keep those out and you dwindle to roughly 10. Atom, Atomic line filter, Equipartition theorem, General relativity, Introduction to general relativity, George Koval, Photon, Quark, Louis Slotin, and Edward Teller, although you could add Big Bang, Gamma-ray burst and Redshift for a total of 13. Headbomb {κοντριβς – WP Physics} 14:59, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I'm only seeing three points here; can someone please review and explain? I see two on anniversary, and one on nominator. The other arguments are invalid if I'm reading them correctly. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:39, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I get four. One date connection (we determined that you can only get multiple points on that if it is the anniversary of the subject of the article), one no prior TFA Headbomb, two nothing similar six months.--Wehwalt (talk) 22:42, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks ! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:01, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

September 18

Samuel Johnson's early life was marked by great intelligence and an eagerness for learning. Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, on 18 September 1709, the sickly infant who grew up to become "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history", soon began to exhibit the tics that would colour how others viewed him in his later years. His early life was dominated by his family's financial strain and his abortive efforts to establish himself as a school teacher. Johnson spent a year studying at Pembroke College, Oxford, but was unable to continue his education there because of his lack of financial support. He tried to find employment as a teacher, but found it impossible to secure a long-term position. In 1735 he married Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, a widow 20 years his senior. The responsibilities of marriage made Johnson determined to succeed as an educator, and encouraged him to establish his own school. The venture was unsuccessful however, and so he decided to leave his wife behind in Lichfield and move to London, where he spent the rest of his life, and where his literary career began. Working initially as a minor Grub Street hack writer, he started to write essays for The Gentleman's Magazine, and authored the Life of Mr Richard Savage—his first successful literary biography—the powerful poem London, an 18th-century version of Juvenal's Third Satire, and the unsuccessful tragic drama Irene, not produced until 1749.(more….)

300th anniversary of birth, 6 points according to someone four points. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 04:11, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Four points It was me who said that, and I said subject to Raul's scheduling. It loses two to Natalie Clifford Barney, August 26. An author is an author, me fears. I'll try to write up a blurb for this later.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:16, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

I would say that he is more of a biographer and literary critic than an "author" in the sense that Natalie Clifford Barney is one. Plus, she is a feminist American female while Johnson is a traditional British male from 200 years before. Also, this article is about a childhood and development than a full on biography. The emphasis on education should go to help make it different. I'm just saying. ;/ Ottava Rima (talk) 03:04, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
By the way, if I would have nominated the page would that have given it another point? :) Ottava Rima (talk) 03:09, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
My fault, I fear. The nominator didn't write a blurb so I took a shot at it, and it's my thought that the blurb should alway start with the name of the article, or at least do so following some initial words like "The". Feel free to take your own shots at it.--Wehwalt (talk) 02:06, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
And I'm sorry for dropping that ball ... I got roped into this nomination ... (and I do Support it btw, what strange opposes) ... but I'm pretty sure the blurb is too long? I agree it needs some tweaking ... I've never written blurbs before. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:10, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Good point, Ottava. Along those same lines, I hope we see Oscar Wilde as the FA of the day sometime soon, or Ralph Waldo Emerson or...(you get my drift). Cla68 (talk) 15:08, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
I personally delisted Wilde during GA sweeps. Emerson is still B-Class. I have heard of him. He is one of my five or so favorite writers.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 15:23, 27 August 2009 (UTC)


September 29

Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 was a Boeing 737-8EH SFP on a scheduled passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil to Rio de Janeiro. On September 29, 2006 it collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet over the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. All 154 passengers and crew aboard the Boeing 737 were killed as the aircraft crashed into an area of dense rainforest, while the Embraer Legacy, despite sustaining serious damage to its left wing and tail, landed safely with its seven occupants uninjured. The accident, which triggered a crisis in Brazilian civil aviation, was the deadliest in that country's aviation history at the time. It was investigated by both the Brazilian Air Force Centro de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos (CENIPA) and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). CENIPA concluded that the accident was caused by errors committed both by air traffic controllers and by the Embraer's pilots, while the NTSB determined that all pilots acted properly and were placed on a collision course by a variety of "individual and institutional" air traffic control errors. (more...)
  • Four points: 3rd anniversary, my first nom, no similar article in six months. I have commented out another entry of 3 points per my understanding of the above instructions; my apologies if I have misunderstood the procedure. As a note, to the best of my knowledge, this is the first ever featured civil aviation accident on Misplaced Pages. The 9/11 events are generally classified as "hijacking", not as "accident", e.g. see here. Crum375 (talk) 15:37, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

October 4

Murray Chotiner (1909–1974) was an American political strategist, government official, attorney, and close associate and friend of President Richard Nixon during much of the 37th President's political career. Nixon retained Chotiner as a consultant to his first congressional campaign in 1946. In an era when the perceived threat of communism was a major domestic issue, Chotiner advised the future president to link his liberal opponent, Representative Jerry Voorhis, to a political organization which was believed to be communist-dominated. Nixon was elected, and hired the attorney to run his 1950 Senate campaign against Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas. In that campaign, Chotiner used a similar strategy as in the race against Voorhis, stressing Douglas' liberal voting record (printed on pink paper to hint at communist sympathy). Congressman Nixon easily defeated Douglas, and Chotiner next managed Nixon's 1952 vice presidential campaign and counseled Nixon through allegations of antisemitism and revelations that there was a privately-run fund to pay Nixon's political expenses—revelations that the candidate decisively overcame with his televised Checkers speech.(more….)

Six points centennial, I'll be conservative and say it loses two to Norman Birkett (fellow attorney, September 6 TFA). Four points.--Wehwalt (talk) 12:05, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

I did it by photographing the printout. I don't know how to convert a .pdf into a .jpg, if anyone would like to do it and replace the large image (link in the article), please do it, then I will replace the photo in the blurb.--Wehwalt (talk) 22:26, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I took a digital copy of the screen pdf (a screenshot) and replaced your photograph of the printout. Hope you don't mind! Binksternet (talk) 19:51, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Oh, excellent, thank you, looks much better. I think you have to buy the upgraded version of Abode's software to have the capability. I've frankly been laughing about this blurb image for months, if it works right, we will have readers streaming into the article anxious to find out what Nixon and his guys were going to do to Johnny Cash!--Wehwalt (talk) 20:02, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
Well, I didn't buy anything further than a computer and an internet service. I used a clunky old graphics editor that I got free and my computer's built-in screenshot functionality. ^_^ Binksternet (talk) 20:18, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
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