Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests

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 Wikipedia: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=== {{Wikipedia: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.

The TFAR requests page is currently accepting nominations from March 1 to March 31. Articles for dates beyond then can be listed here, but please note that doing so does not count as a nomination and does not guarantee selection. Before listing here, please check for dead links using checklinks or otherwise, and make sure all statements have good references. This is particularly important for older FAs and reruns. view • • history • watch
Date	Article	Reason	Primary author(s)	Added by (if different)
2025:
March 1	Meurig ab Arthfael	Why	Dudley Miles	Sheila1988
March 18	Edward the Martyr	Why	Amitchell125	Sheila1988
April 1	Bart Simpson (rerun, first TFA was April 19, 2015)	Why	750h+	Xeroctic
April 12	Dolly de Leon	Why	Pseud 14
April 15	Lady Blue (TV series)	Why	Aoba47	Harizotoh9
April 18	Battle of Poison Spring	Why	HF
April 24	"I'm God"	Why	Skyshifter
April 25	1925 FA Cup final	Why	Kosack	Dank
May	21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (re-run, first TFA was May 14, 2015)	Why	Peacemaker67
May 6	Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories	Why		Harizotoh9
May 10	Ben&Ben	Why	Pseud 14
May 11	Valley Parade	Why		Harizotoh9
May 11	Mother (Meghan Trainor song)	Why	MaranoFan
May 17	Bad Blood (Taylor Swift song)	Why	Ippantekina	Jlwoodwa
June	The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished	Why	iridescent	Harizotoh9
June 1	Namco	Why		Harizotoh9
June 3	David Evans (RAAF officer)	Why		Harizotoh9
June 5	Jaws (film)	Why		750h+
June 6	American logistics in the Northern France campaign	Why	Hawkeye7	Sheila1988
June 8	Barbara Bush	Why		Harizotoh9
June 23	Battle of Groix	Why	Jackyd101	Jlwoodwa
June 26	Donkey Kong Land	Why	TheJoebro64	Jlwoodwa
July 1	Maple syrup	Why	Nikkimaria	Dank
July 7	Gustav Mahler	Why	Brianboulton	Dank
July 14	William Hanna	Why	Rlevse	Dank
July 26	Liz Truss	Why	Tim O'Doherty	Tim O'Doherty and Dank
July 29	Tiger	Why	LittleJerry
July 31	Battle of Warsaw (1705)	Why	Imonoz	Harizotoh9
August 4	Death of Ms Dhu	Why	Freikorp	AirshipJungleman29
August 23	Yugoslav torpedo boat T3	Why	Peacemaker67
August 25	Born to Run	Why	Zmbro	Jlwoodwa
August 30	Late Registration	Why		Harizotoh9
September 2	1905–06 New Brompton F.C. season	Why		Harizotoh9
September 6	Hurricane Ophelia (2005)	Why		Harizotoh9
September 20	Myst V: End of Ages	Why		Harizotoh9
September 30 or October 1	Hoover Dam	Why	NortyNort, Wehwalt	Dank
October 1	Yugoslav torpedo boat T4	Why	Peacemaker67
October 3	Spaghetti House siege	Why	SchroCat	Dank
October 10	Tragic Kingdom	Why	EA Swyer	Harizotoh9
October 16	Angela Lansbury	Why	Midnightblueowl	MisawaSakura
October 18	Royal Artillery Memorial	Why	HJ Mitchell	Ham II
October 29	John Bullock Clark	Why	HF
November 1	Matanikau Offensive	Why		Harizotoh9
November 19	Water Under the Bridge	Why	MaranoFan
November 20	Nuremberg trials	Why	buidhe	harizotoh9
November 21	Canoe River train crash	Why	Wehwalt
December 25	Marcus Trescothick	Why		Harizotoh9
December 30	William Anderson (RAAF officer)	Why	Ian Rose	Jlwoodwa
2026:
January 27	History of the Jews in Dęblin and Irena during World War II	Why		Harizotoh9
February 27	Raichu	Why	Kung Fu Man
March 13	Swift Justice	Why		Harizotoh9
May 5	Me Too (Meghan Trainor song)	Why	MaranoFan
June 1	Rhine campaign of 1796	Why		harizotoh9
June 8	Types Riot	Why	Z1720
July 1	Mount Edziza	Why	User:Volcanoguy	Sheila1988
July 23	Veronica Clare	Why		Harizotoh9
September 6	Assassination of William McKinley	Why	Wehwalt	czar
September 20	Persona (series)	Why		Harizotoh9
November	The Story of Miss Moppet	Why		Harizotoh9
November 11	U.S. Route 101	Why	SounderBruce
October 15	Easy on Me	Why	MaranoFan
November 20	Tôn Thất Đính	Why		Harizotoh9
December 21	Fredonian Rebellion	Why		Harizotoh9
December 22	Title (song)	Why	MaranoFan
2027:
June	1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?)	Why
August 25	Genghis Khan	Why	AirshipJungleman29
October 15	The Motherland Calls	Why	Joeyquism

Date	Article	Points	Notes	Supports†	Opposes†
Nonspecific 1	Galápagos tortoise	1		1	2
Nonspecific 2	Halo (Beyoncé Knowles song)
Feb 23	W. E. B. Du Bois	4	Date relevance (birthday), nom's first TFA, widely covered	6	0
Feb 24	Malmö FF	4		5	0
Mar 2	Murder of Julia Martha Thomas	3		1	0
Mar 8	Martha Layne Collins	1	Date relevance; International Women's Day	1	0
Mar 9	"Mothers of the Disappeared"	2	Quinvigintennial anniversary of release	0	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 1

The Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) is the largest living species of tortoise and 10th-heaviest living reptile. With life spans in the wild of over 100 years, it is one of the longest-lived vertebrates. The tortoise is native to seven of the Galápagos Islands, a volcanic archipelago about 1,000 km (620 mi) west of the Ecuadorian mainland. Shell size and shape vary between populations; these differences helped Charles Darwin to develop his theory of evolution. Tortoise numbers declined from over 250,000 in the 16th century to a low of around 3,000 in the 1970s. The decline was caused by hunting for tortoise meat and oil, habitat clearance for agriculture, and introduction of non-native animals such as rats, goats, and pigs. Ten subspecies of the original fifteen survive in the wild. An eleventh subspecies (C. n. abingdoni) has only a single known living individual, in captivity, nicknamed Lonesome George. Conservation efforts beginning in the 20th century have resulted in thousands of captive-bred juveniles being released onto their home islands, and it is estimated that numbers exceeded 19,000 at the start of the 21st century. Despite this rebound, the species as a whole is classified as "Vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). (more...)

4 points – 1-2 years since promotino to FA, pages in 30 other languages, first mainpage nomination from contributor. Minglex (talk) 01:14, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

• Only 1 point-- we just had a turtle (Jan 4). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 02:57, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

• Comment - way to long, need to shrink the body of the nomination, to roughly 1200 characters or fewer.
    – HonorTheKing (talk) 19:00, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
  • Blurb shortened to conform with instructions. We just had a turtle on January 4, so - 3 points = 1 point. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:02, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

• Oppose, sorry, too soon considering we already ran a turtle this month-- I suggest trying in March. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:03, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose, per Sandy. Will gladly support in a couple of months. —Cliftonian (talk) 03:13, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
• Comment – Perhaps September 15th would be a good date? The Beagle reached the islands on that date and Darwin soon observed two of the turtles. Regards, RJH (talk) 18:52, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

• According to my copy of Darwin's Voyage, he saw his "two large tortoises, each of which must have weighed at least two hundred pounds" on Chatham Island some time between 17-23 September 1835 - unfortunately he didn't specify the exact date. However, any of those dates should be good for the article. Perhaps the blurb could be modified to note the chronological connection with Darwin? – viz. "Shell size and shape vary between populations; these differences helped Charles Darwin, who first saw the tortoises around 17 September 1835, to develop his theory of evolution." How does that sound? Prioryman (talk) 22:23, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Nonspecific date 2

"Halo" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Beyoncé Knowles for her album, I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008). Columbia Records released the song to mainstream radio in 2009. Inspired by Ray LaMontagne's 2004 song "Shelter", "Halo" was composed by Ryan Tedder, Evan Bogart and Knowles. "Halo" is an R&B and pop power ballad, the lyrics of which describe a sublime love. It features drum, piano, keyboard, string, synthesizer, and percussion instrumentation. Kelly Clarkson claimed that Tedder reused the musical arrangement in her 2009 song "Already Gone". "Halo" was nominated for Record of the Year and won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 52nd Grammy Awards. It won Best Song at the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards. "Halo" was high on the singles charts in many countries. It was certified triple-platinum in Australia, and double-platinum in Spain and the US. The song has been covered by many artists, including Florence and the Machine and Westlife. (more...)

2 points for widely covered. (International release Feb 20, 2009) --Ettrig (talk) 20:34, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

• Why a photo of Ryan Tedder rather than Beyonce? I'm certain 99.9% of our readers won't recognize him, and I guarantee that if one of these is on the main page it will get more clicks than some chubby guy in a badly fitting hat. 78.146.193.88 (talk) 22:14, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Date requests (5 max)

February 23

W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) was an American civil rights activist, author, and editor. After graduating from Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology, and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois, one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. Racism was the main target of Du Bois's polemics, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment. He was a proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize efforts to free African colonies from European powers. Du Bois wrote several seminal essays and treatises, and published many influential pieces in his role as editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis. He was an ardent peace activist and advocated for nuclear disarmament. The United States' Civil Rights Act, embodying many of the reforms for which Du Bois had campaigned his entire life, was enacted one year after his death. (more…)

• Date relevant to article topic: Du Bois's birthday is February 23rd.
• The requestor is a significant contributor to the article, and has not previously had an article appear as Today's featured article:

Submitted by --Noleander (talk) 04:14, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

• I make this 4 points – 1 for nom's first TFA, 1 for date relevance and 2 for being widely covered (apart from English, covered in 26 languages). —Cliftonian (talk) 13:56, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

• Support – really excellent article, very well-written and well-referenced. Also timely as the date of his birth. Note that I have trimmed the blurb down a little as it was a bit long. —Cliftonian (talk) 04:37, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for trimming it ... my character counter was broken :-) --Noleander (talk) 04:45, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

No problem. —Cliftonian (talk) 05:04, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

• Support as doubly relevant since February is Black History Month in the U.S. Daniel Case (talk) 05:17, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
• Support. It is quite relevant in February, as per the comment above, and would be a quite an interesting topic that could draw in readers. DCItalk 03:14, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
• Support. Good suggestion, and obviously relevant. Prioryman (talk) 22:24, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
• Support either on February 23 (Du Bois' birthday) or February 12 (in which February 12, 1909 was the founding of the NAACP). I would have most certainly supported this at FAC (which I unfortunately missed that opportunity). Du Bois is one of the most important figures in African American history. --MuZemike 02:58, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

February 24

Malmö FF are a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö. The club play their home matches at Swedbank Stadion. Formed on 24 February 1910, the club have won sixteen national championship titles and fourteen national cup titles, making them the most successful club in Sweden in terms of total trophies won. Malmö FF have also won the top tier league, Allsvenskan, on three occasions when the title of Swedish champions was not decided by the outcome of that league. They were the runners-up in the 1978–79 European Cup final, which they lost 1–0 to English club Nottingham Forest. This feat makes them the only Scandinavian club to have made it to the final of the most prestigious club competition in European football, presently named the UEFA Champions League. The club are currently playing in Allsvenskan, where the season lasts from April to October in contrast to a majority of other European national football leagues where the season lasts from August to May the following year. The club first won Allsvenskan in 1944 and most recently for the club's centennial anniversary in 2010. Malmö FF were most successful during the 1970s, when they won five Swedish championships and four Svenska Cupen titles. (more...)

4 points – Date of the club's founding, first TFA nomination from main contributor and a widely covered topic. Note that I have used British style grammar to stay consistent to the grammar style used in the article. --Reckless182 (talk) 00:28, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

• Support - thumbs up for countering systemic bias :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:00, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
• Support – countering systemic bias and a good read to boot. —Cliftonian (talk) 00:23, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
• Support... good to have a Swedish club instead of another Premiership side (although it wouldn't be the first; we had IFK Göteborg over six years ago). Daniel Case (talk) 05:16, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
• Jag stöder (support). Nice to have some European football teams on TFA for a change; the list of football FAs is awfully UK-centric, perhaps inevitably. Maybe we could look at running FC Barcelona on November 29th to tie in with the anniversary of that club's establishment? Prioryman (talk) 22:35, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

March 2

Kate Webster, the killer of Julia Martha Thomas

The murder of Julia Martha Thomas was one of the most notorious crimes in Britain in the late 19th century. Thomas, a widow who lived in Richmond in west London, was killed on 2 March 1879 by Kate Webster, her Irish maid (pictured left). Webster dismembered the body, boiled the flesh off the bones, and threw most of it into the River Thames, allegedly offering the fat to neighbours as dripping and lard. Part of Thomas's remains were subsequently recovered but her severed head was only found in October 2010 during building works being carried out for the naturalist Sir David Attenborough. After the murder, Webster posed as Thomas for two weeks but was exposed and fled to her family home at Killanne, Ireland. She was arrested on 29 March and stood trial in London at the Old Bailey in July 1879, where she was convicted and sentenced to death. She confessed to the murder the night before she was hanged on 29 July at Wandsworth Prison. The case attracted huge interest from the public and press in Great Britain and Ireland. (more...)

3 points - date relevance and no similar articles (i.e. crime articles) featured in the six months prior to March 2. Blurb length is 1,203 characters including markup. Prioryman (talk) 13:43, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

March 8

Martha Layne Collins (née Hall; b. 1936) is a businesswoman and politician from Kentucky who served as the state's 56th governor from 1983 to 1987. Prior to her election as governor, she was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, serving under John Y. Brown, Jr. She is the only woman to have served as governor of Kentucky, and her election made her the highest-ranking Democratic woman in the U.S. at the time. She was considered as a possible running mate for Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election, but Mondale chose Geraldine Ferraro instead. Her administration had two primary focuses: education and economic development. She secured an increase in education funding during a special legislative session in 1985 and successfully used economic incentives to bring a Toyota manufacturing plant to Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1986. After her term as governor, she served as president of Saint Catharine College near Springfield, Kentucky. Her husband's conviction on charges of influence-peddling in 1993 damaged her hopes for a return to political life. She currently serves as an executive scholar in residence at Georgetown College. (more...)

1 point. I realize she isn't exactly Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but I still think this deserves a date relevance point for International Women's Day on March 8. Failing that, I'd still like to see it run some day in March, which is Women's History Month in the U.S. Acdixon ^{(talk · contribs)} 17:32, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

March 9

"Mothers of the Disappeared" is a song by rock band U2. It is the eleventh and final track on their 1987 album The Joshua Tree. The song was inspired by lead singer Bono's experiences in Nicaragua and El Salvador in July 1986, following U2's involvement on Amnesty International's A Conspiracy of Hope tour. He learned of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, a group of women whose children had been "disappeared" by the Argentinean and Chilean dictatorships. The song was written on a Spanish guitar, and the melody lifted from a piece Bono composed in Ethiopia in 1985 to help teach children basic forms of hygiene. The lyrics contain an implicit criticism of the Reagan Administration, which backed two South American regimes that seized power during coup d'états and which provided financial support for the military regime in El Salvador. Thematically it has been interpreted as an examination of failures and contradictions in US foreign policy. "Mothers of the Disappeared" was played seven times on the 1987 Joshua Tree Tour, and some recordings were considered for the ending sequence of the 1988 film Rattle and Hum. It was revived for four concerts on the 1998 PopMart Tour in South America, and the Madres joined the band onstage for the performance on two of those occasions, one of which was broadcast on television in Chile. (more...)

2 points, both of them for the quinvigintennial anniversary of the song's release on The Joshua Tree. The last music article to be TFA (as of the posting of this request) was Californication on 11 December 2011, so no points are gained or lost there. Hopefully the proposed blurb isn't too long. If it is, please let me know and I shall trim it. Melicans (talk, contributions) 05:02, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Halo was just added above, so points may be reduced for this depending on when/if that runs. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:28, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Comment The FA for November 19 was U2's Achtung Baby. Has it been long enough for another U2 related FA? --Harizotoh9 (talk) 21:57, 31 January 2012 (UTC)