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The TFAR requests page is currently accepting nominations from November 2 to December 2. 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.
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Date | Article | Reason | Primary author(s) | Added by (if different) |
November 3 | 1964 Illinois House of Representatives election | Why | Elli | |
November 6 | Russian battleship Poltava (1894) | Why | harizotoh9 | |
November 8 | Mario Party DS | Why | The Green Star Collector | |
November 11 | Mells War Memorial | Why | HJ Mitchell | Ham II |
November 17 | SMS Friedrich Carl | Why | Parsecboy | Peacemaker67 |
November 18 | Donkey Kong Country | Why | TheJoebro64, Jaguar | TheJoebro64 |
November 19 | My Little Love | Why | MaranoFan | |
November 21 | MLS Cup 1999 | Why | SounderBruce | |
November 22 | Donkey Kong 64 | Why | czar | |
November 27 | Interstate 182 | Why | SounderBruce | |
November 28 | Battle of Cane Hill | Why | Hog Farm | |
December 2 | Windswept Adan | Why | Joeyquism | |
December 3 | PlayStation (console) | Why | Jaguar | Dank |
December 8 | You Belong with Me | Why | Ippantekina | Sheila1988 |
December 10 | Shovel Knight Showdown | Why | The Night Watch | Gerda Arendt |
December 13 | Taylor Swift | Why (rerun, first TFA was August 23, 2019) | Ronherry | FrB.TG, Ticklekeys, SNUGGUMS |
December 19 | SMS Niobe | Why | Peacemaker67 | |
December 20 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Why | TheJoebro64 | Sheila1988 |
2025: | ||||
January 1 | York Park | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
January 4 | Liza Soberano | Why | Pseud 14 | |
January 6 | Maria Trubnikova | Why | Ganesha811 | Dank |
January 8 | Elvis Presley | Why | PL290, DocKino, Rikstar | Dank |
January 9 | Title (album) | Why | MaranoFan | |
January 22 | Caitlin Clark | Why | Sportzeditz | Dank |
January 27 | The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
January 28 | Lewis W. Green | Why | PCN02WPS | |
January 29 | Dominik Hašek | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
March 10 | Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number | Why | NegativeMP1 | |
March 12 | 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season | Why | SounderBruce | |
March 18 | Edward the Martyr | Why | Amitchell125 | Sheila1988 |
March 26 | Pierre Boulez | Why | Dmass | Sheila1988 |
April 1 | Pig-faced women | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
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 (1st Albanian) (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 | Mother (Meghan Trainor song) | Why | MaranoFan | |
June | The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished | Why | iridescent | Harizotoh9 |
June 3 | David Evans (RAAF officer) | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
June 8 | Barbara Bush | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
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 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 |
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 22 or 25 | A Very Trainor Christmas | Why | MaranoFan | MaranoFan |
December 25 | Marcus Trescothick | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
2026: | ||||
January 27 | History of the Jews in Dęblin and Irena during World War II | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
January 28 | Lewis W. Green | Why | PCN02WPS | Harizotoh9 |
May 5 | Me Too (Meghan Trainor song) | Why | MaranoFan | |
June 8 | Types Riot | Why | Z1720 | |
July 23 | Veronica Clare | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
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 | |
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 |
September nominations please
[edit]I'd appreciate it if those who haven't yet made article nominations to run in September, and are planning to do so, could do so as quickly as possible, as I'd like to finalize the list and begin scheduling next week. If the article is still pending promotion to FA, just let me know the situation on my talk. Of course, if a late nomination is made, we'll likely be able to squeeze it in, as we almost always do. I may be busy IRL part of next month and I'd like to finish scheduling the first week in August. Wehwalt (talk) 22:07, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- The tentative schedule is available here.--Wehwalt (talk) 22:09, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
Alexander McQueen
[edit]I get the feeling that we're running too many articles about Alexander McQueen collections so closely[a] together (see September 18 The Girl Who Lived in the Tree, which has just been scheduled.) It's concerning to me. It's a lot like how we keep running Adele or Meghan Trainor articles too close to each other. I think maybe we should stop those for a while or at least spread them out further. Great Mercian (talk) 13:51, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Coordinators did discuss that recently. There's a tension between rewarding work by giving it a day in the sun and the issue you mention. We're also constrained by what the community chooses to write about. We did resolve to spread things out a bit in certain cases. These things come and go. There were article subjects we once had a bunch of but now we'd have to run them as a rerun. Wehwalt (talk) 14:03, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I'm just concerned because over the past 12 months I've been seeing a lot about McQueen in TFA and if not there then in the Did You Know section. I don't know if that's just me personally noticing his name a lot more but it is really concerning. Am I saying concerning too much? Great Mercian (talk) 14:08, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I got your point on TFA, beyond that, I don't know because I don't follow DYK and other main page areas that closely. People write on what they care to, and in 17 years of involvement in TFA, I've repeatedly seen feast become famine once the subject matter or interest is exhausted. Wehwalt (talk) 14:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- We have run SZA articles from the same album within three months (November 2023, February 2024), whereas the Adele appearances have mostly been spaced out by a year. Their mention seems odd and Great Mercian's personal problem. Reminds me of their poor arguments to stop her first TFA appearance even though no Adele article had appeared earlier. On the issue of McQueen, main page appearances are commensurate to the volume of FAs promoted so nothing "concering" there either. Maybe spend the time doing content work instead so topics you like can appear on the main page.--NØ 16:59, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- @MaranoFan: Sorry for taking so long to reply I've been busy and I've only really been able to make small edits here and there. Firstly it's most likely that as both [whatever you call them] used different pictures that I didn't initially notice them, whereas the Adele and Meghan Trainor articles used the same exact picture that is was almost insulting to the intelligence of not only editors but also the average reader, people aren't stupid, they're going to notice these similarities much quicker than you think they will. Secondly that "weak argument" that you so rudely define it as was a legitimate concern, and wouldn't you know it was an Adele article that used the same image of her smiling. I am concerned about the rapid influx of McQueen articles into the FA section, hysterical maybe but it's still concerning. A dog bite is still a bite even if it's bark is defeaning, and I'd rather avoid the hookworms in a dog's saliva than just ignore it. And as a final note to people like @SchroCat: and @Sawyer777: who say I should somehow just write featured articles: I don't possess the skills to do so. The best I've done is Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (12 November 2022 – 7 June 2023), and even then that was just transferring text from another article. I am just too busy to write such articles like that. Anyway I'm gonna stop there because you're legitimately making me mad. Next time don't just dismiss my thoughts so rudely. Sorry if this was disorganised, that's what typing on a phone does. Great Mercian (talk) 23:39, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Alexander McQueen FAs are analogous to a hookworms from a dog bite? what? ... sawyer * he/they * talk 23:47, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- also, ok, i wasn't gonna add more to this but i still had this tab open and re-read everything. there is not a "rapid influx" of McQueen articles at TFA; PMC has been writing these for awhile now and they are excellent pieces of writing. your contempt for hers and others' work is frankly ridiculous and incredibly insulting to the amount of time and effort that goes into an FA - something you admit you "don't possess the skills to do". this is not constructive. ... sawyer * he/they * talk 08:26, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Mercian, you can describe my work – anyone's work – as an infectious disease when you can do better, which by your own admission you can't. You're right - your concern is hysterical, and it's laughable for you to complain that someone else is dismissing your thoughts when you're dismissing other peoples' work and the intelligence of our readers. With all due respect, fuck right off. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:54, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- I can only repeat that TFA schedulers can only put up what is available from a very small pot. There are no other fashion FAs being posted, and if we decide to only post one article per topic a year then we'll run out of anything to post in a couple of months. Just to flag up for you, Great Mercian, I'm currently scheduling for October, and I've got The Birds (Alexander McQueen collection) pencilled in to run. I do so both because of the limited pot, but also because it isn't a hookworm or whatever hyperbole you want to call it: it's a quality article that represents some of the best work Wikipedia has produced recently. I'm sorry if that somehow upsets you, but it's just not possible to please everyone all the time, and I'd rather post quality work that shows the variety over the course of a month than have some odd ban on showing fashion articles only once a year. - SchroCat (talk) 06:46, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Alexander McQueen FAs are analogous to a hookworms from a dog bite? what? ... sawyer * he/they * talk 23:47, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- @MaranoFan: Sorry for taking so long to reply I've been busy and I've only really been able to make small edits here and there. Firstly it's most likely that as both [whatever you call them] used different pictures that I didn't initially notice them, whereas the Adele and Meghan Trainor articles used the same exact picture that is was almost insulting to the intelligence of not only editors but also the average reader, people aren't stupid, they're going to notice these similarities much quicker than you think they will. Secondly that "weak argument" that you so rudely define it as was a legitimate concern, and wouldn't you know it was an Adele article that used the same image of her smiling. I am concerned about the rapid influx of McQueen articles into the FA section, hysterical maybe but it's still concerning. A dog bite is still a bite even if it's bark is defeaning, and I'd rather avoid the hookworms in a dog's saliva than just ignore it. And as a final note to people like @SchroCat: and @Sawyer777: who say I should somehow just write featured articles: I don't possess the skills to do so. The best I've done is Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (12 November 2022 – 7 June 2023), and even then that was just transferring text from another article. I am just too busy to write such articles like that. Anyway I'm gonna stop there because you're legitimately making me mad. Next time don't just dismiss my thoughts so rudely. Sorry if this was disorganised, that's what typing on a phone does. Great Mercian (talk) 23:39, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- We have run SZA articles from the same album within three months (November 2023, February 2024), whereas the Adele appearances have mostly been spaced out by a year. Their mention seems odd and Great Mercian's personal problem. Reminds me of their poor arguments to stop her first TFA appearance even though no Adele article had appeared earlier. On the issue of McQueen, main page appearances are commensurate to the volume of FAs promoted so nothing "concering" there either. Maybe spend the time doing content work instead so topics you like can appear on the main page.--NØ 16:59, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I got your point on TFA, beyond that, I don't know because I don't follow DYK and other main page areas that closely. People write on what they care to, and in 17 years of involvement in TFA, I've repeatedly seen feast become famine once the subject matter or interest is exhausted. Wehwalt (talk) 14:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I'm just concerned because over the past 12 months I've been seeing a lot about McQueen in TFA and if not there then in the Did You Know section. I don't know if that's just me personally noticing his name a lot more but it is really concerning. Am I saying concerning too much? Great Mercian (talk) 14:08, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- ^ closely defined as less than a year of each other.
Great Mercian (talk) 13:51, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
I pay so little attention to fashion that I didn't even notice they were all from the same fashion designer. Yeah, these should be treated like albums or songs from a particular musician - do one per year at most to balance them out to their overall historical importance. Harizotoh9 (talk) 06:16, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- One a year seems a bit absurd for any topic. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:44, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- This seems very odd indeed. There are multiple music-related articles at FAC at any one time and multiple music FAs appearing at TFA every month. There is only one editor putting fashion articles through FAC. One fashion article per month is entirely acceptable, and considerably less than several other topics that appear. We have an insufficient number of new FAs to select from for TFA, which includes an ever diminishing pot of FAs that have never been on the main page. If you don't like the frequency of certain types of articles appearing at TFA, please - seriously please - write FAs on different topics that can be selected. We can always fill the gaps with MilHist articles, which is the most active project at creating FAs, but that leads to multiple complaints. With very limited alternatives, please feel free to write different FAs to be selected from. Until then, the selection can only be from the pot that's available. - SchroCat (talk) 06:53, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- 100% agree. start writing FAs if you want to change the composition of TFA. ... sawyer * he/they * talk 22:05, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- I second this as well. Once a year might be a decent proposal if there were a wide variety of topics to choose from, or if fashion/music topics made up less than 1/365 of all eligible TFAs. Sadly, there aren't a lot of TFA topics to choose from, and some topics are grossly underrepresented on the FA lists.
- SC makes a good point—if you want something else to be TFA, you should go ahead and improve that topic to FA quality. Right now, it seems like people are "punching down" on the idea of fashion TFAs or music TFAs. If we restricted certain topics to once a year, we wouldn't have that many eligible TFAs for the other 364 days of the year. Epicgenius (talk) 03:10, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- 100% agree. start writing FAs if you want to change the composition of TFA. ... sawyer * he/they * talk 22:05, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Categories
[edit]Literally every month without fail, at some point during the month a run of Special:WantedCategories suddenly throws up a redlinked category of the "Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations from [Current Month and Year]" variety (e.g. Category:Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations from July 2024) which I end up having to create on your behalf, even though I'm not normally involved in this project, because of the rule around not leaving stuff in redlinked categories. So if such categories are routinely expected to exist, then would it be possible for this project to take steps to ensure that they get created either by a project member as soon as they're needed, or automatically by a bot at the beginning of the month, before they turn into work for other projects to clean up? Bearcat (talk) 20:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I have no idea. I've been a coordinator for seven years and I have no idea what this is. At a guess, I'd say it's something produced by the template when TFA/R nominations are created. Wehwalt (talk) 21:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Two nominations for the same day
[edit]Is it possible to put more than one nomination for the same say and let editors decide which one, if either, should be chosen? Or is it just whoever puts a nomination for a date first? I just ask because I added an article to the potential noms table for October 22 a few months ago (I know that doesn't guarantee the date). There haven't been any video game TFAs lately, so I figured that would be good. For now I just placed my nom in a non specific date. -- ZooBlazer 18:10, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- You can add another nomination for October 22. The decision is up to the coordinators (or, more practically, whoever is scheduling October, which is not me), though community input is a big part of that decision. But part of the decision is what else is getting scheduled, and whether we can accommodate both articles by running one a day before or after. That sort of thing. We try to keep everyone happy if we can manage it. Wehwalt (talk) 18:14, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Announcement
[edit]With Dank out for October, the coordinators have asked SchroCat to fill in. It's our intent, if all goes well, to ask the community for confirmation of him as a coordinator at some point after that. Wehwalt (talk) 14:13, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- I've got a medical procedure in October that will suck up some time. I'll be back for November blurbs. Welcome, SchroCat! - Dank (push to talk) 14:28, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Cheers Dan, Wehwalt. - SchroCat (talk) 18:02, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Great choice, thanks SchroCat! Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:58, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
- Good scheduling for October, SchroCat, thank you! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:43, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
- Cheers Dan, Wehwalt. - SchroCat (talk) 18:02, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
Link for "Check TFAR nominations for dead links" leads somewhere else?
[edit]The link for "Check TFAR nominations for dead links" in the project description points to a 404 page on an Indonesian blog for... beverage dispensers. At least that's what pops up for me. joeyquism (talk) 06:55, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Potential double header for 6 April next year
[edit]G'day TFA coords. This year you ran Hrabri-class submarine on 5 April, the anniversary of their arrival in Yugoslavia in 1928. There was talk of trying to run the class article and the two sub articles (Yugoslav submarine Hrabri and Yugoslav submarine Nebojša) together then, but I understand it was too difficult. Would it be technically feasible to run the two sub articles together in one blurb on 5 April next year? If not, I might look at running them on different dates for different reasons. Thanks, Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:58, 10 August 2024 (UTC)