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Revision as of 17:22, 4 April 2016
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.
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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Currently accepting requests from December 16 to January 15.
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April 25 | Battle of Kaiapit | Anzac Day | 4 | |
April 26 | Webley Revolver | 1 | 1 |
† Tally may not be up to date. The nominator is included in the number of supporters.
Nonspecific date nominations
Nonspecific date 1
Noisy miner
- 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/May 2, 2016 by Brianboulton (talk) 22:44, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala) is a bird in the honeyeater family and native to eastern and south-eastern Australia. A grey bird, it has a black head, orange-yellow beak and feet, a distinctive yellow patch behind the eye and white tips on the tail feathers. It is a vocal species with a large range of calls, scoldings and alarms, and almost constant vocalizations particularly from young birds. The noisy miner primarily inhabits dry, open eucalypt forests that lack understory shrubs. The density of noisy miner populations has significantly increased in many locations across its range, particularly human-dominated habitats. Noisy miners are gregarious and territorial; they forage, bathe, roost, breed and defend territory communally, forming colonies that can contain several hundred birds. Temporary flocks called 'coalitions' are formed for specific activities such as mobbing a predator. The noisy miner is an aggressive bird, and chasing, pecking, fighting, scolding, and mobbing occur throughout the day, targeted at both intruders and colony members. The noisy miner's population increase has been correlated with the reduction of avian diversity in human-affected landscapes. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Masked shrike, 10 April 2016
- Main editors: Casliber, Mdk572
- Promoted: March 15, 2012
- Reasons for nomination: widespread and aggressive species in Oz - worth educating folks about. Also just ploughing through bird articles :)
- Support as nominator. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:48, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
- Blurb needs some trimming (400+ characters) — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:00, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
- trimmed Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:51, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
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Morotai Mutiny
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The result was: not scheduled by Brianboulton (talk) 19:19, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
The "Morotai Mutiny" was an incident in April 1945 involving members of the Australian First Tactical Air Force based on the island of Morotai, in the Dutch East Indies. Eight senior pilots, including Australia's leading flying ace, Group Captain Clive Caldwell, tendered their resignations to protest what they perceived as the relegation of Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fighter squadrons to strategically unimportant ground attack missions. A government investigation vindicated the "mutineers", and three high-ranking officers at First Tactical Air Force Headquarters including the commander, Air Commodore Harry Cobby, were relieved of their posts. George Odgers summed up the cause of the incident in the official history of the RAAF in World War II as "the conviction of a group of young leaders that they were engaging in operations that were not militarily justifiable—a conviction widely shared also by many Australian soldiers and political leaders." Odgers concluded that the ensuing inquiry "made it clear that almost everyone concerned acted from the highest motives, and was convinced that, in the crisis, he acted wisely". (Full article...)
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- Reasons for nomination: Morotai Mutiny incident was happened in April 1945 before 66 years in the same month
- Support as nominator. Glowadz (talk) 17:12, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
Specific date nominations
April 25
Battle of Kaiapit
- 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 25, 2016 by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 08:57, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
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This nomination predates the introduction in April 2014 of article-specific subpages for nominations and has been created from the edit history of Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests.
The result was: not scheduled by BencherliteTalk 22:42, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
The Battle of Kaiapit was an action fought in 1943 between Australian and Japanese forces in New Guinea during the Finisterre Range campaign of World War II. Following the landings at Nadzab and at Lae, the Allies attempted to exploit their success with an advance into the upper Markham Valley, starting with Kaiapit (pictured). The Japanese intended to use Kaiapit to threaten the Allied position at Nadzab, and to create a diversion to allow the Japanese garrison at Lae time to escape. The Australian 2/6th Independent Company flew in to the Markham Valley from Port Moresby in 13 USAAF C-47 Dakotas, making a difficult landing on a rough airstrip. Unaware that a much larger Japanese force was also headed for Kaiapit, the company attacked the village on 19 September to secure the area so that it could be developed into an airfield. The company then held it against a strong counterattack. During two days of fighting the Australians defeated a larger Japanese force while suffering relatively few losses. The Australian victory at Kaiapit enabled the Australian 7th Division to be flown in to the upper Markham Valley. It accomplished the 7th Division's primary mission, for the Japanese could no longer threaten Lae or Nadzab, where a major airbase was being developed. The victory also led to the capture of the entire Ramu Valley, which provided new forward fighter airstrips for the air war against the Japanese. (Full article...)
Another battle against the odds between a large Japanese force and a small group of Australians armed with nothing more than submachineguns. Hawkeye7 (talk) 01:42, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
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The Battle of Kaiapit was an action fought in 1943 between Australian and Japanese forces in New Guinea during the Finisterre Range campaign of World War II. Following the landings at Nadzab and at Lae, the Allies attempted to exploit their success with an advance into the upper Markham Valley, starting with Kaiapit (pictured). The Japanese intended to use Kaiapit to threaten the Allied position at Nadzab, and to create a diversion to allow the Japanese garrison at Lae time to escape. The Australian 2/6th Independent Company flew in to the Markham Valley from Port Moresby in 13 USAAF C-47 Dakotas, making a difficult landing on a rough airstrip. Unaware that a much larger Japanese force was also headed for Kaiapit, the company attacked the village on 19 September to secure the area so that it could be developed into an airfield. The company then held it against a strong counterattack. During two days of fighting the Australians defeated a larger Japanese force while suffering relatively few losses. The Australian victory at Kaiapit enabled the Australian 7th Division to be flown in to the upper Markham Valley. It accomplished the 7th Division's primary mission, for the Japanese could no longer threaten Lae or Nadzab, where a major airbase was being developed. The victory also led to the capture of the Ramu Valley, which provided new forward fighter airstrips for the air war against the Japanese. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Benjamin Franklin Tilley (29 March 2016)
- Main editors: Hawkeye7
- Promoted: 6 December 2011
- Reasons for nomination: Anzac Day
- Support as nominator. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:02, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
- Support — Maile (talk) 00:00, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- Support great article on a lesser-known action. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 01:08, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- Support good choice for the day. Coordinators, don't forget to change the category of unsuccessful nominations to Category:Wikipedia Today's featured article unsuccessful nominations that have subsequently appeared on the Main Page if this is selected. BencherliteTalk 11:22, 22 March 2016 (UTC)
- Support. Excellent quality improvement efforts by Hawkeye7 and good selection for the date itself. — Cirt (talk) 23:08, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
April 26
Webley Revolver
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The result was: not scheduled by Brianboulton (talk) 19:07, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
The Webley Revolver (also known as the Webley Top-Break Revolver or Webley Self-Extracting Revolver) was, in various marks, the standard issue service pistol for the armed forces of the United Kingdom, the British Empire, and the Commonwealth from 1887 until 1963.
The Webley is a top-break revolver with automatic extraction. That is, breaking the revolver open for reloading also operates the extractor. This removes the spent cartridges from the cylinder. The Webley Mk I service revolver was adopted in 1887. A later version, the Mk IV, rose to prominence during the Boer War of 1899–1902. However, the Mk VI, introduced in 1915 during the First World War, is perhaps the best-known model.Firing the large .455 Webley cartridge, Webley service revolvers are among the most powerful top-break revolvers ever produced. Although the .455 calibre Webley is no longer in military service, the .38/200 Webley Mk IV variant is still in use as a police sidearm in a number of countries.With a modified, "shaved" cylinder and the use of a half moon clip, the Webley Mk VI can fire the 45 ACP cartridge, although full-power or +P .45 ACP cartridges exceed Webley proof loads and should not be used. Many of the Webley Mk VIs were converted to fire 45 ACP ammunition after .455 Webley ammunition became increasingly difficult to find. (Full article...)
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- Support as nominator. Glowadz (talk) 13:50, 3 April 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose. Has already been TFA once, and no obvious indication given by nominator (who is clearly not "the main editor" of the article) as to what the circumstances are that would justify running the same article twice. ‑ Iridescent 15:03, 3 April 2016 (UTC)