Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests

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The TFAR requests page is currently accepting nominations from June 1 to July 1. 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)
June 16	Whisky Galore! (1949 film)	Why	SchroCat	Dank
June 20	Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō	Why	Sturmvogel_66	Peacemaker67
June 28	Well he would, wouldn't he?	Why	voorts & Tim O'Doherty
early July	Alpine ibex	Why	LittleJerry	Dank
July 1	Flag of Canada	Why	Gary	Dank
July 2	Maple syrup	Why	Nikkimaria	Dank
July 4	Statue of Liberty	Why	Wehwalt	Dank and Wehwalt
July 18	John Glenn	Why	Hawkeye7, Kees08	Dank
July 19	John D. Whitney	Why	Ergo Sum
July 21	Ernest Hemingway	Why	Victoriaearle	Dank
July 25	Phoolan Devi	Why	Mujinga
July 29	SMS Bodrog	Why	Peacemaker67
August 11	Yugoslav torpedo boat T2	Why	Peacemaker67
August 19	Battle of Winwick	Why	Gog the Mild
August 26	Hundred Years' War, 1345–1347	Why	Gog the Mild
August 31	George Town, Penang	Why	HundenvonPenang	Sheila1988
September	Avenue Range Station massacre	Why (rerun, first TFA was September 3, 2018)	Peacemaker67
September 6	Liz Truss	Why	Tim O'Doherty	Sheila1988 ... but see below, July 26, 2025
September 21	Artur Phleps	Why (rerun, first TFA was November 29, 2013)	Peacemaker67
October 1	The Founding Ceremony of the Nation	Why	Wehwalt
October 4	Olmec colossal heads	Why	Simon Burchell	Dank
October 11	Funerary art	Why	Johnbod	Dank
October 14	Brandenburg-class battleship	Why	Parsecboy	Parsecboy and Dank
October 15	Battle of Glasgow, Missouri	Why	HF
October 19	"Bad Romance"	Why	FrB.TG
October 21	Takin' It Back	Why	MaranoFan
October 22	The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes	Why	Your Power, ZooBlazer
October 25	Fusō-class battleship	Why	Sturmvogel_66 and Dank	Peacemaker67
October 29	Cucurbita	Why	Sminthopsis84 and Chiswick Chap	Dank
October 31	The Smashing Pumpkins	Why	WesleyDodds	Dank
November	Yugoslav destroyer Ljubljana	Why	Peacemaker67
November 3	1964 Illinois House of Representatives election	Why	Elli
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 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 3	PlayStation (console)	Why	Jaguar	Dank
December 13	Taylor Swift	Why (rerun, first TFA was August 23, 2019)	Ronherry	FrB.TG, Ticklekeys, SNUGGUMS
December 20	Sonic the Hedgehog 2	Why	TheJoebro64	Sheila1988
December 25	A Very Trainor Christmas	Why	MaranoFan	Sheila1988
2025:
January 8	Elvis Presley	Why	PL290, DocKino, Rikstar	Dank
January 9	Title (album)	Why	MaranoFan
January 22	Caitlin Clark	Why	Sportzeditz	Dank
March 18	Edward the Martyr	Why	Amitchell125	Sheila1988
March 26	Pierre Boulez	Why	Dmass	Sheila1988
April 12	Dolly de Leon	Why	Pseud 14
April 25	1925 FA Cup Final	Why	Kosack	Dank
May 5	Me Too (Meghan Trainor song)	Why	MaranoFan
June 1	Total Recall (1990 film)	Why		Harizotoh9
June 1	Namco	Why		Harizotoh9
June 8	Barbara Bush	Why		Harizotoh9
June 26	Donkey Kong Land	Why		Harizotoh9
June 29	Hundred Years' War, 1345–1347	Why		Harizotoh9
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
August 23	Yugoslav torpedo boat T3	Why	Peacemaker67
August 30	Late Registration	Why		Harizotoh9
August 31	Japanese battleship Yamato	Why		Harizotoh9
September 5	Peter Sellers	Why		Harizotoh9
September 30 or October 1	Hoover Dam	Why	NortyNort, Wehwalt	Dank
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 20	Nuremberg trials	Why	buidhe	harizotoh9
December 13	Taylor Swift	Why (rerun, first TFA was August 23, 2019)	Ronherry	FrB.TG, Ticklekeys, SNUGGUMS
December 25	Ho Ho Ho (album)	Why		harizotoh9

March 2024

A tentative schedule for March 2024 may be found here. Wehwalt (talk) 03:11, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

I have started a discussion at Talk:Main Page about one of the articles I propose to run in March, here.--Wehwalt (talk) 03:24, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Nicoll Highway collapse for 20 April 2024

Nicoll Highway collapse

The relocated station and realigned tunnels

The Nicoll Highway collapse occurred in Singapore on 20 April 2004 when a Mass Rapid Transit tunnel construction site caved in, crumpling the Nicoll Highway near the Merdeka Bridge. Four workers were killed and three were injured, delaying the construction of the Circle Line (CCL). The collapse was caused by a poorly designed strut-waler support system, a lack of monitoring and proper management of data caused by human error, and organisational failures of the construction contractors and the Land Transport Authority. Following the incident, the collapsed site was refilled, and Nicoll Highway was reinstated and reopened to traffic on 4 December 2004. The authorities revised their construction safety measures so they were above industry standards. The CCL tunnels were realigned, with Nicoll Highway station rebuilt to the south of the original site underneath Republic Avenue. The station and tunnels opened on 17 April 2010, three years later than planned. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s):
• Main editors: ZKang123
• Promoted: 26 March 2024
• Reasons for nomination: 20th anniversary of the incident
• Support as nominator. ZKang123 (talk) 01:07, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

I know this is another late request, but is it possible to put this article up for 20 April? It's just newly promoted (today) and I hope for it to be featured on the main page on its 20th anniversary.--ZKang123 (talk) 01:15, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Dank is the scheduling coordinator for April.--Wehwalt (talk) 01:21, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

User:Dying, no rush, but I'd like your impression of the blurb and article when you get a chance. - Dank (push to talk) 01:39, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

possible crop of previous infobox image

Dank, i unfortunately don't have the time to look into this in depth right now, but the nomination looks fine at a cursory glance. i am slightly worried about the image, as it is difficult to glean much information from the thumbnail alone, though the original image is actually really informative. admittedly, i can't seem to find a much better alternative image anyway.

i do remember the article using a different infobox image before, which is not as relevant as the current infobox image, but could be useful here since it is free. i don't know, however, whether the previous infobox image features the site of the accident, or just another location where construction was taking place. (also, i did find one paper, released under cc by 4.0, that may have useful images, but i can't tell whether the authors of the paper were also the holders of the copyrights of the relevant images.) of course, if there is a preference for the infographic over a photograph, then feel free to ignore me. in any case, i can take a closer look at the blurb once it is scheduled.

by the way, there is a minor error in the map: i believe "Tracks enters ... enters" should be "Tracks enter ... enter". dying (talk) 21:59, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll put off the choice of an image. - Dank (push to talk) 22:06, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

The cropped image was taken in 2007, which was after the incident has occurred. Also the images from that paper seems to be taken from other media... I don't mind if no images are being used for the main article if none could be found.--ZKang123 (talk) 02:24, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Map of the Circle Line crossing the Kallang Basin, with the originally planned route in grey

oh, sorry, i should have been more clear, but i think having an infographic is better than having no image at all. i was just trying to think of a better alternative. we have run blurbs before with maps that are difficult to understand from the thumbnail alone, but i think this is generally done when there aren't really any better alternatives.

what if, instead, the infographic was cropped to show only the most pertinent elements (as seen in one possible crop at right), and edited to use a font size large enough that the text would be readable from the thumbnail? admittedly, a lot of the detail would be omitted, such as how the original plan was to use a stacked configuration for the station. i think it would be useful to have text labels such as "Nicoll Highway MRT station" and "Original station". the "Area of collapse" label currently in the infographic might also be useful. all the other text, though, could be dropped.

also, if the text were to be added directly to an image 19600 pixels large, i think that would make the text more easy to read, as i believe {{main page image/TFA}} would then have no need to resize the image. (the given example is 19600 pixels large.)

courtesy pinging Seloloving, who created the infographic. dying (talk) 22:59, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Sorry, just saw this.

I'm currently talking with Selo off-wiki (I know him personally), who is very busy at the moment but also trying to understand the requirements. I guess in short you want another map that just depicts the collapse site itself? I think that can be done, probably with added road details as well. But Selo would need some time to make the crop version as he prepares for exams. I suppose it can be done anytime before 20 April?--ZKang123 (talk) 00:39, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Hi, appreciate the pinging. Is it okay for me to handle this on 11/12 April? As Zkang123 mentioned, I kinda have five exams in the next two weeks and am extremely exhausted. Does the frontpage image need to have the same infographic as the article's? Is there a existing infographic I can reference to get a proper perspective of the font size ? In addition, thanks for helping Zkang123 with all this. Seloloving (talk) 12:09, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Seloloving, ZKang123, Dying, my fault, I should have been clear ... we don't usually take late requests at Today's Featured Article, so I should have said "let me ask some basic questions and see if there are difficulties ... if there are, then let's put this off to another month". It's starting to sound like there are difficulties ... is that right, or is there a quick fix? - Dank (push to talk) 14:00, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

If that's the case, I will just simplify the diagram now. I understand ZKang123 wants to aim for the 20 April date specifically as it's the anniversary of the collapse, and he has worked very hard on the article. I don't think a delay will be necessary. Seloloving (talk) 14:13, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Okay, don't spend much time on this please, an infographic isn't required. - Dank (push to talk) 14:15, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Would this be better? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NCH_collapse_map_simplified.png Seloloving (talk) 15:25, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

That's great, thanks much. - Dank (push to talk) 15:44, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

oh, wow, that turned out even better than i had envisioned. many thanks, Seloloving! admittedly, i had pinged you because i had assumed that making such an image would not be too difficult if you still had the files used to create the original map. i feel terrible because i didn't know that you were studying for exams at this time. apologies for taking time away from your studies! dying (talk) 23:59, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

6 September at TFARP

I'm not sure how/where to object to a pending request, but I've just clocked that the Liz Truss article has been pencilled in for 6 September this year: wouldn't it make more sense to have it on her 50th birthday, 26 July 2025? Seems like a bigger landmark to me than the second anniversary of the beginning of her prime ministership. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 21:15, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

September, I can't say. July 2025 is currently completely empty, so yes, I'd be happy to run it then. - Dank (push to talk) 22:44, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Cheers. Tim O'Doherty (talk) 23:16, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Don't thank me yet, I don't know what's going to happen in September. For one thing, that's Wehwalt's month. - Dank (push to talk) 00:54, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

It would help if someone reminded me of this in July, before I schedule. Wehwalt (talk) 01:16, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

I would also be reluctant to schedule it if the British general election hasn't already been scheduled to occur before that date.--Wehwalt (talk) 14:35, 1 April 2024 (UTC)