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 and Gog the Mild, 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 November 2 to December 2.

Date	Article	Points	Notes	Supports†	Opposes†
Nonspecific 1
Nonspecific 2	Dresden Triptych			1	1
Nonspecific 3
Nonspecific 4
August 28	Omayra Sánchez	3?	calc below	3	0
August 31	Everything Tastes Better with Bacon	4	date relevance, International Bacon Day	3	0
September 8	Istanbul	7	date relevance, vital article, etc.	2	0
September 11	Harry McNish	3	birthday, 2 years FA	2	0
September 14	The Hunger Games	4	fifth anniversary of publication, widely covered	2	0
September 17	Elizabeth Canning	3	day of birth, 2010 FA	1	0
September 24	Isabeau of Bavaria	3?	see below	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. The nominator is included in the number of supporters.

Nonspecific date nominations

Nonspecific date 2

Dresden Triptych

The Dresden Triptych (or Virgin and Child with St. Michael and St. Catherine and a Donor) is a very small hinged-triptych altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. It is signed and dated 1437, and in the permanent collection of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. The only extant triptych attributed to van Eyck, and the only non-portrait signed with his personal motto, the triptych can be placed at the midpoint of his known works. Elisabeth Dhanens describes it as "the most charming, delicate and appealing work by Jan van Eyck that has survived". The paintings on the two outer wings become visible when the triptych is closed. They show the Virgin Mary and Archangel Gabriel in an Annunciation scene painted in grisaille, which because of their near-monochrome colouring give the impression that the figures are sculpted. The three inner panels are set in an ecclesiastical interior. In the central inner panel Mary is seated and holds the Christ Child on her lap. On the left hand wing Archangel Michael presents a kneeling donor, while on the right St. Catherine of Alexandria stands reading a prayer book. The work may have been intended for private devotion, perhaps as a portable altarpiece for a migrant cleric. That the frames are so richly decorated with Latin inscriptions indicates that the donor, whose identity is lost, was highly educated and cultured. (Full article...)

A beauty with meaning, - probably better to show only part of the image, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:26, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:22, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support: The article passed FA, seems no real reason to oppose TFA. Someone saying they have some sort of vague "issue" with something seems rather bizarre. It's a lovely article. Montanabw^(talk) 17:30, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose as co-author for the following reasons: 1., the main image still needs to be sorted out so that when the article is show-cased on the front page the high res Google art project image can be used; b., we have few art articles, fewer still about van Eyck and that well is about to run dry, and one was already featured as TFA in March so best to save this; c., I believe that there might be a request for an art article currently at FAC to run in September, which would put too many from a category that's unrepresented too close together; c., with the colors and the themes suggest to run during the Christmas holidays; d., there's another nomination below, Isabeau of Bavaria, that I wrote too, putting two noms for articles written by the same author in a very close time period. None of these are vague, and would like to see points calculated here. What is vague, however, and not something to be calculated is my request to respect that I've been ill and not put a notification on my page asking to rework a blurb, [1]. Thanks. Victoria (talk) 18:48, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Specific date nominations

August 28

Omayra Sánchez

Omayra Sánchez Garzón (1972–85) was a 13-year-old Colombian girl killed in Armero, Colombia, by the 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz. Volcanic debris mixed with ice to form massive lahars (volcanically induced mudslides, landslides, and debris flows) that rushed into the river valleys below the mountain, killing nearly 25,000 people and destroying Armero and 13 other villages. After a lahar demolished her home, Omayra became pinned beneath the debris of her house; she remained trapped in water for three days. Her plight was documented as she descended from calmness into agony. Her courage and dignity touched journalists and relief workers, who put great efforts into comforting her. After 60 hours of struggling, she died, likely due to exposure. Her death highlighted the failure of officials to respond promptly to the threat of the volcano and the efforts of volunteer rescue workers to reach and treat trapped victims despite a dearth of supplies and equipment. Omayra became internationally famous through a photograph of her taken shortly before her death by the photojournalist Frank Fournier, which when published worldwide spawned considerable controversy; it was later designated the World Press Photo of the Year for 1985. She has remained a lasting figure in popular culture, remembered through music, literature, and commemorative articles. (Full article...)

1 point-Birthday
2 points(?)-I am unsure as to what might be considered a similar article.
3 points(?)-Total QatarStarsLeague (talk) 16:34, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

• Support Perhaps one point for diversity can be added, too.--Dwaipayan (talk) 18:01, 25 July 2013 (UTC)
• Support. Educational and encyclopedic. — Cirt (talk) 16:12, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support. A harrowing and tragic story. I'd be intrigued to see how this goes in pageviews. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:52, 10 August 2013 (UTC)

August 31

Everything Tastes Better with Bacon

Everything Tastes Better with Bacon: 70 Fabulous Recipes for Every Meal of the Day is a book about cooking with bacon written by Sara Perry. She is an author, food commentator and columnist for The Oregonian. The book was published in the United States on May 1, 2002, by Chronicle Books, and in a French language edition in 2004 by Les Editions de l'Homme in Montreal. In it, Perry describes her original concept of recipes combining sugar and bacon. Her book includes recipes for bacon-flavored dishes and desserts. The book received positive reviews and its recipes were selected for inclusion in The Best American Recipes 2003–2004. The St. Petersburg Times classed it as among one of the "most interesting and unique cookbooks" published, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette highlighted it in the article "Favorite Cookbooks for 2002" and The Denver Post included it in a list of best cookbooks of 2002. Recipes from the work have been featured in related cookbooks. (This article is part of a featured topic: Everything Tastes Better with Bacon.)

1 point = International Bacon Day this year is 31 August.
1 point = subject underrepresented at WP:FA, topic = bacon.
2 points = a similar article has not been featured on the main page, neither books about bacon nor cookbooks.
4 points = Total. — Cirt (talk) 16:10, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

• Support, as nom. — Cirt (talk) 16:10, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
• Positive ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:44, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

• Points look good, although the underrepresentation point is for "Food and drink" not for bacon specifically. Bencherlite^Talk 13:20, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support, food underrepresented. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:11, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

September 8

Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey and the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With a population of 13.9 million, the city is among the largest cities in the world by population within city limits. Its commercial and historical center lies in Europe, while a third of its population lives across the Bosphorus in Asia. Founded around 660 BC as Byzantium, it served as the capital of four empires for nearly sixteen centuries following its reestablishment as Constantinople in 330 AD. It was instrumental in the advancement of Christianity during Roman and Byzantine times, before the Ottomans conquered the city in 1453 and transformed it into an Islamic stronghold (Sultan Ahmed Mosque pictured) and the seat of the last caliphate. Istanbul's strategic position along the historic Silk Road, rail networks to Europe and the Middle East, and the only sea route between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean have helped foster an eclectic populace. The city's biggest draw remains its historic center, partially listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but its cultural and entertainment hub can be found across the city's natural harbor, the Golden Horn. (Full article...)

• Timing: 1 point (Date relevant to topic, with selection of Olympic host city; see below)
• Importance: 4 points (Vital article)
• Main Page representation: 2 points (No city article within six months)
• Total: 7 points

This is a bit of an unorthodox request here. Istanbul is among the three candidates for host city of the 2020 Summer Olympics, which will be selected on September 7. If Istanbul is chosen to host the event, I feel having Istanbul as TFA the day after would be particularly appropriate. (And if it isn't selected, its choice as TFA would be a bit odd.) Therefore, I'd like to propose this for TFA on September 8, conditional on Istanbul being selected as host city. We should know the host city by 5:30pm, Buenos Aires time (20:30 UTC), on September 7. If it's not selected for the Olympics, I'd then suggest we swap it out with another article, perhaps one of the "emergency" articles. Thoughts? -- tariqabjotu 16:48, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

• Support TBrandley (T • C • B) 17:40, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
• I wonder whether it would be better for the editors of the other article to do this the other way round - have a non-date-specific article (X) selected to run on 8th September, with the proviso that if Istanbul is chosen as host city then X will be bumped. Otherwise, the principal editors of X will only get a few hours' notice that X is to run, which might not be fair on them... Bencherlite^Talk 17:46, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

  Yes, that makes sense, especially since there's a decent chance Istanbul won't be selected as host city and this won't run that day. I feel like that's something in your control though: you can provisionally select a non-date-specific article for September 8, and notify the editors of that article of this arrangement so they won't be surprised if their article is bumped. -- tariqabjotu 17:51, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose Parts of article do not comply with WP:NPOV. See: Talk:Istanbul#Toponymy_and_Lead. Cavann (talk) 16:15, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

September 11

Harry McNish

Harry McNish (1874–1930) was the carpenter on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 to 1917. He was responsible for much of the work that ensured the crew's survival after their ship, the Endurance, was destroyed when it became trapped in pack ice in the Weddell Sea. He modified the small boat, James Caird, that allowed Shackleton and five men (including McNish) to make a voyage of hundreds of miles to fetch help for the rest of the crew. He briefly refused to follow orders on the crew's long trek pulling the boats across the pack ice, and, despite his efforts during the journey, was one of only four of the crew not to receive the Polar Medal. After the expedition he returned to work in the Merchant Navy and eventually emigrated to New Zealand, where he worked on the docks in Wellington until ill-health forced his retirement. He died destitute in the Ohiro Benevolent Home in Wellington. (Full article...)

2 points for 2007 FA, one for "birthday" --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:54, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

I think the photo is rather blurred. Perhaps this one might be better? Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 21:24, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

I'd rather go with no photo than either of them... Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 18:57, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

I know that the photo is blurred but even without reading it provides a bit of history, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:37, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

• Support. Historical and educational. — Cirt (talk) 16:13, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support. fascinating story - I prefer the blurred photo of the man - better than the grave and better than none. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:10, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

September 14

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a 2008 science fiction novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death. In writing the novel, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weeklys "Best Books of the Year" in 2008. Since its release, The Hunger Games has been translated into 26 languages, and publishing rights have been sold in 38 territories. The novel is the first in The Hunger Games trilogy, followed by Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). A film adaptation, directed by Gary Ross and co-written and co-produced by Collins herself, was released in 2012. ('Full article...)

4 points - 1 for date (fifth anniversary of publication), 2 for widely covered, 1 for no similar article within 3 months, unless Franz Kafka counts. I don't get a point for it being my birthday, do I? :) Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 16:03, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

• As an image, File:Suzanne Collins David Shankbone 2010.jpg could work, if we need one. Evanh2008 ^{(talk|contribs)} 16:11, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

• Support - This is one of my favorite books, and having it as the TFA on the fifth anniversary of its publication would be an ideal choice. There is no reason this should not be on the Main Page. Hurricane Andrew (444) 02:03, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
• Support: I haven't read it but the movie was enjoyable. The article looks to be in good shape. Praemonitus (talk) 03:25, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

• Support - suitable in all respects. The release date for the second film is November 22, so if September doesn't work, maybe November would. But I'm fine with September and the anniversary date. Montanabw^(talk) 17:33, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

September 17

Elizabeth Canning

Elizabeth Canning (1734–1773) was an English maidservant who claimed to have been kidnapped and held against her will for almost a month. She disappeared on 1 January 1753, returning 28 days later, emaciated and in a "deplorable condition", to her mother's home in the City of London. Consequently, two women, Susannah Wells and Mary Squires, were identified as her supposed captors and arrested. Local magistrate Henry Fielding, intrigued by the case, investigated Canning's story. He interviewed several witnesses, and following further arrests, Wells and Squires were tried and found guilty. However, the trial judge, Crisp Gascoyne, was unhappy with the verdict and began his own investigation. Upon being questioned, some witnesses recanted their earlier testimony. Gascoyne had Canning arrested, and at her trial in 1754 she was found guilty of perjury, for which she was imprisoned for a month and transported for seven years. She died in British America in 1773, but the mystery surrounding her disappearance remains unsolved, and her case remains one of the most notorious in 18th-century English law. (Full article...)

A woman and a mystery, birthday, 2010 FA, 3 points, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:28, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

• Support:TFA of an article about a woman, also a legal case. Good variety. Montanabw^(talk) 17:49, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

September 24

Isabeau of Bavaria

Isabeau of Bavaria (c.1370–1435) was Queen of France as the wife of King Charles VI, whom she married in 1385. She was born into the old and prestigious House of Wittelsbach, the eldest daughter of Duke Stephen III of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Taddea Visconti of Milan. Isabeau was sent to France when she was around 15 or 16, on approval to the young French king who liked her enough to marry her three days after meeting her. Charles suffered the first attack of his lifelong progressive mental illness in 1392, and was forced to temporarily withdraw from government. These episodes occurred with increasing frequency thereafter, leaving a court divided by political factions and steeped in social extravagances. Although the King demanded Isabeau's removal from his presence during his attacks of illness, he consistently allowed her the authority to act on his behalf and granted her role of regent to the Dauphin of France (heir apparent), giving her a seat on the regency council, far more power than was usual for a medieval queen. Charles' illness created a power vacuum that eventually led to the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War between the supporters of Charles' brother, Louis of Orléans, and the royal dukes of Burgundy. Isabeau shifted allegiances between the factions, choosing courses she believed most favorable for the heir to the throne. When she chose to follow the Armagnacs, the Burgundians accused her of adultery with Louis of Orléans; when she sided with the Burgundians, the Armagnacs removed her from Paris and had her imprisoned. Isabeau was present at the signing of the Treaty of Troyes in 1421, at which France ceded control to the English. Isabeau lived in English-occupied Paris until her death in 1435. (Full article...)

First of all, this blurb needs to be shortened; I will leave this onerous task to someone else. The points are allocated below:
1 point-date relevancy
2 points-Widely covered
1 point?-Last European royalty/nobility related article was featured either July 27 or May 20, depending on definition
3-4 points?-Total QatarStarsLeague (talk) 12:36, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

• Comments: I copied it to the summary chart, please, nominator do it yourself next round. Did you inform the author that you nominated? The picture is good for nothing here, looks abstract in small size. Is there another? Crop one? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:37, 19 August 2013 (UTC)