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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
Dec 8 John Lennon 4 30th anniversary of assassination, widely covered 7 4
Dec 21 Charles Eaton (RAAF officer) 1 Birthdate 1 0
Dec 22 SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand 1 First TFA, User:White Shadows 4 0
Jan 2 Bob Marshall (wilderness activist) 4 110th anniversary of birth, FA for longer than two years 1 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.

Nonspecific date (1 only)

Ross Perot presidential campaign, 1992

Perot campaign logo

The Ross Perot presidential campaign of 1992 was an effort spawned by grassroots supporters to elect Texas industrialist Ross Perot as President of the United States as an independent candidate. Perot focused the campaign on the federal budget, economic nationalism, an escalation of the war on drugs and implementation of "electronic town halls". He largely financed his own campaign and relied on marketing and widespread grassroots support to spread his message. In certain polls, Perot led the three-way race with Republican nominee George H. W. Bush, the incumbent President, and Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas, the Democratic nominee. He dropped out in July 1992 amid controversy, but reentered in October, and surpassed the 15% polling threshold to reach his goal of participating in all three presidential debates. Despite an aggressive use of campaign infomercials on prime time network television, his polling numbers never fully recovered from his initial exit. On Election Day, Perot appeared on every state ballot. He won several counties and finished in third place, receiving close to 19 percent of the popular vote; the most won by a third-party presidential candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.(more...)

Three points are claimed for this article: 1 because it is the first featured article of the nominator; 2 because a similar article has not been featured on the main page. --William S. Saturn (talk) 00:58, 4 December 2010 (UTC)


Someone must sign the nomination or it is not valid.--Wehwalt (talk) 00:42, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

Date requests (5 max)

December 8

Lennon rehearsing in 1969.

John Lennon (1940–1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. Born and raised in Liverpool, Lennon's first band, The Quarrymen, evolved into The Beatles in 1960. As the group began to undergo the disintegration that led to their break-up at the end of that decade, Lennon launched a solo career that would span the next, punctuated by critically acclaimed albums, including John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and iconic songs such as "Give Peace a Chance" and "Imagine". Lennon revealed a rebellious nature and acerbic wit, and he became controversial through his work as a peace activist. He moved to New York City in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam War resulted in a lengthy attempt by Richard Nixon's administration to deport him. His songs were adapted as anthems by the anti-war movement. He took a sabbatical from the music business in 1975 to devote time to his family but reemerged in 1980 with a comeback album, Double Fantasy, but was murdered three weeks after its release. (more...)

4 points. 2 since it's the 30th anniversary of his death. And another 2 for wide coverage. DC T•C 18:22, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

I pinged PL290-- there is still time to work on it (he hasn't been in there for almost a month). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:06, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Wow--looking at Sandy's diff, I really don't see the point of a lot of the tinkering that's gone on. At a quick glance, many of the changes don't seem like improvements, and some have brought grammatical errors or simply loss of engaging prose. I haven't been able to monitor recently as I'm a bit busy in real life, and so unfortunately I can't spend time on the article myself right now. (In any case it's a lone battle and fear I will get accused of edit-warring, ownerhip and so forth if I do too much!) I know this is the encyclopedia that "anyone can edit", but it really is a shame we have no way of elevating FAs to some kind of higher place where they're more protected/monitored to preserve them from more and more pointless tweaking that fritters away the quality like this. We can always use the talk page if potential significant improvements are identified, but otherwise, why go on and on changing something that's received so much attention to every tiny detail? What was it Casliber said about making sandcastles while the tide comes in? This article was promoted less than six months ago. I suppose one option would be to revert it to my last edit; I did manage to keep a fairly close eye on it up until that point. If others feel that's appropriate and wish to take that action, please do so, but it will need a few to keep an eye on it to prevent it from deteriorating again by TFA day. PL290 (talk) 11:25, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
See WP:OWN#Featured articles. And fix it :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:14, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Yes. Someone should improve this article so that it is worthy of Mr. Lennon (and I was not a fan of the Beatles or him personally, but I respect them and him) when it runs main page.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:22, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Being timid as I am, I reverted to Oct 17 PL290 last edit; it's up to others from there, but we have time. It will also need many eyes on 8 Dec. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 13:36, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
And, the edit warring has begun. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:48, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
3RR warning left for one editor. Bencherlite 16:01, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
It takes 13 minutes to file a 3RR report, for the record. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:51, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Support the choice. Be good to try and review material in meantime. I think this will get big big pagehits. Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:48, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Support I feel the whole "it's not up to FA quality anymore" is a matter for the FAR page. BUC (talk) 12:12, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Support - Quality can be addressed by December 8 - reverting is ok if that's what it takes, but you might inform some of the contributors to the article what you're doing and why. It will certainly get a huge number of page-hits, so this needs to be done very carefully. Page-hits, btw, in my opinion are not what TFA is all about, and should not affect our decision on this one way or the other. Smallbones (talk) 15:11, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Neutral The article lacks quality, and looks like stretched and unattractive. Anyways, as there are many dedicated editors attached to the article, the quality issues can be addressed before December, I believe. So, neutral for the time being. Cheers, -- Rajith Mohan 05:11, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Oppose For now, at least. It's far from FA quality: long, verbose, and lacking objectivity — Wrapped in Grey (talk) 06:46, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Also, I think the suitability of being TFA on the day he was murdered (as opposed to on his birthday for example) should be carefully considered. — Wrapped in Grey (talk) 12:57, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Oppose - the article is overly stuffed with facts and lacks readability. If quality is improved, I would support putting it on the main page, but that should happen before listing here. Jonathunder (talk) 23:34, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
If the article is that awful, how did it pass the nomination on 18 May 2010? --Lecen (talk) 23:48, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

December 21

Charles "Moth" Eaton

Charles "Moth" Eaton OBE, AFC (1895–1979) was a senior officer and aviator in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), who later served as a diplomat. Born in London, he joined the British Army at the outbreak of World War I and saw action on the Western Front before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917. Posted as a bomber pilot to No. 206 Squadron, he was twice captured by German forces, and twice escaped. Eaton left the military in 1920 and worked in India until moving to Australia in 1923. Two years later he joined the RAAF, serving initially as an instructor at No. 1 Flying Training School. Between 1929 and 1931, he was chosen to lead three expeditions to search for lost aircraft in Central Australia, gaining national attention and earning the Air Force Cross for his "zeal and devotion to duty". In 1939, on the eve of World War II, Eaton became the inaugural commander of No. 12 Squadron at the newly established RAAF Station Darwin in Northern Australia. Promoted Group Captain the following year, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1942. He took command of No. 79 Wing at Batchelor, Northern Territory in 1943, and was Mentioned in Despatches during operations in the South West Pacific. Retiring from the RAAF in December 1945, Eaton took up diplomatic posts in the Dutch East Indies, heading a United Nations commission as Consul-General during the Indonesian National Revolution. He returned to Australia in 1950, and served in Canberra for a further two years. A farmer in later life, he died in 1979 at the age of 83. more...

Okay, per brief discussion on the talk page, I'm nominating this. I think it only qualifies for 1 point, namely 115th anniversary of the guy's birth. However I think by any standard it's an interesting read and if we're unsure about having two MilHist articles on successive days (though one's an aviator and one's a ship, quite a difference!) then Buggie has indicated a willingness to push Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand back a bit if necessary... Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 02:57, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

P.S. FWIW, I just happen to be doing up a quick article to eliminate the one red link in the Eaton article, No. 72 Wing RAAF. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 03:01, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

December 22

SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand ("His Majesty's ship Archduke Franz Ferdinand") was an Austro-Hungarian Radetzky class pre-dreadnought battleship commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Navy on 5 June 1910. Although SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand was laid down and commissioned after the launching of the HMS Dreadnought in 1906, her design was begun before and had the characteristics of a Pre-Dreadnought battleship rather than later Post-Dreadnought battleships. She was named after Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The first ship of her class to be built, she preceded Radetzky by more than six months. Her armament included four 30.5 cm (12 in) guns in two twin turrets, and eight 24 cm (9.4 in) guns in four twin turrets. She participated in an international naval protest of the Balkan Wars in 1913, during which she helped enforce a blockade of Montenegro. She also was one of the first ships to deploy seaplanes for military use. During World War I, she saw limited service in the 2nd Division of the 1st Battle Squadron, including mobilization to assist the escape of the German ships SMS Goeben and SMS Breslau and the bombardment of Ancona in 1915. more...

Rather reluctantly, persuaded by White Shadows, I'm gonna submit SMS Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand to TFA. If my calculations are correct, this gets me 3 points, two for being in "wide coverage" (unless that means written in twenty or more different languages), and 1 point for being my first TFA, along with White Shadows'. The date is purposfully one day after one month after SS Dakotan was featured, in order to insure no points are lost. If that isn't counted as similar, I'll move it forword a bit. Buggie111 (talk) 21:17, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm not going to rule as to points, as I've worked closely with WS in his time on the wiki, and will take pride in seeing his work on the main page, I hope. Can someone else evaluate?--Wehwalt (talk) 02:30, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
It is in the column on the left on the article page, the list of other-language articles. If there are 20, you get two points. If there are less, you don't.--Wehwalt (talk) 18:02, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Support As I am recused, nothing stops me from supporting, yay! Well worth having on the main page. And just in time for Kwanzaa!--Wehwalt (talk) 18:03, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

As if that has anything to do with it... Buggie111 (talk) 18:06, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Mildly tongue in cheek comment about some of the votes we get around here.--Wehwalt (talk) 18:11, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Buggie, be very thankful if you're not familiar what happened someone nominated an article "because it was appropriate for a holiday", which Wehwalt is referring to. As with sausages, cheese and Twinkies, there are some things where everyone is much happier not knowing exactly what went into it. – iridescent 18:17, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Twinkies (gulp) ... I don't feel so good.--Wehwalt (talk) 18:25, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
Sorry Wehwalt. I don't know the ways of TFA/R. My reply was also intended with a different tone than the one that you interpereted. Buggie111 (talk) 21:32, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
We are very laid back here.--Wehwalt (talk) 09:31, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
<awkward silence> Ed  06:19, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
Support myself (just kidding) Are there any issues with the info proposed by Buggie? What, if any photo will be used?--White Shadows 11:49, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
As you have not proposed an image, either Raul will grab one from the article or none will be used. My guess is, none.--Wehwalt (talk) 12:07, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
I'd concur with 'none'. The image in the article is of a different ship of similar design (I presume there's no public-domain photo of this particular ship available). In the article one can explain "this doesn't actually illustrate the subject but here's why we used it", but that's not possible on the main page; I'd be very surprised if Raul put a photo on the main page that didn't illustrate the article subject. – iridescent 12:37, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
Someone has found an image on the talkpage, so that could be a possibility. Does this conflict with the aviator? Buggie111 (talk) 19:18, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
  • Support for December 22 or after. Personally I don't see why a battleship shouldn't follow an aviator, they certainly seem different enough to me even if they're both connected to the military. BTW, I'm not one of MilHist's "battleship guys" (my loss I'm sure)...! Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 22:43, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

January 2

Bob Marshall

Robert "Bob" Marshall (1901–1939) was an American forester, writer and wilderness activist. The son of wealthy constitutional lawyer and conservationist Louis Marshall, Bob Marshall was first exposed to nature as a young child. He quickly developed a love for the outdoors, visiting the Adirondack Mountains numerous times to hike and climb, becoming one of the first Adirondack Forty-Sixers. He also traveled to the Alaskan wilderness and authored numerous articles and publications, including the 1933 bestselling book Arctic Village. A scientist with a Doctor of Philosophy in plant physiology, Marshall became independently wealthy after the death of his father. He held two significant public posts during his life: chief of forestry in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, from 1933 to 1937, and head of recreation management in the Forest Service, from 1937 to 1939. Defining wilderness as a social as well as an environmental ideal, Marshall was the first to suggest a formal, national organization dedicated to the preservation of primeval land. In 1935 he became one of the principal founders of The Wilderness Society. Marshall died of heart failure at the age of 38, but 25 years later, partly as a result of his efforts, The Wilderness Society became responsible for passing the Wilderness Act, which legally defined the wilderness of the United States and protected some nine million acres (36,000 km²) of federal land. Today, Marshall is considered largely responsible for the wilderness preservation movement. Several landmarks and areas, including The Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana and Mount Marshall in the Adirondacks, were named in his honor. (more...)

I realize this is a month away, but seeing as how this page is being rather under-utilized at the moment, I thought I might as well give it a go. I count four points, both for date-connection (110th anniversary of Marshall's birth, 2 points) and the fact that it was promoted more than two years ago (two points). María (habla conmigo) 15:31, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

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