Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Pomona College
Pomona College
[edit]- This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.
The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 7, 2022 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:09, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It was established in 1887 by a group of Congregationalists who wanted to recreate a "college of the New England type" in Southern California, and in 1925 it became the founding member of the Claremont Colleges consortium of adjacent, affiliated institutions. A four-year undergraduate college, it enrolls 1690 students and offers 48 majors in liberal arts disciplines. Pomona's student body is noted for its racial, geographic, and socioeconomic diversity. Among the college's traditions is a reverence for the number 47. Its athletics teams, the Sagehens, compete jointly with Pitzer College in the SCIAC, a Division III conference. Pomona has the lowest acceptance rate of any U.S. liberal arts college, and is considered the most prestigious liberal arts college in the American West and one of the most prestigious in the country. It is a top producer of fellowship recipients and has prominent alumni in various fields. (Full article...)
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- Main editors: Sdkb
- Promoted: 20 December 2021
- Reasons for nomination: Level-5 vital article of a type that has not appeared on the Main Page in more than a decade, and will be my first non–April Fools TFA.The date relevance comes from the 47 tradition mentioned in the blurb: because April 7 is abbreviated 4/7 in the U.S., the college holds an annual celebration on this date.
- Support as nominator. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 22:27, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
- Support Good to see a university article on the main page, after all the delistings suffered in the area. Hog Farm Talk 21:47, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support nice article. AryKun (talk) 06:23, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support Aoba47 (talk) 02:38, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
- Support — Nice work on this important article! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 15:11, 7 February 2022 (UTC)