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 December 16 to January 15.

Date	Article	Notes	Supports†	Opposes†
Nonspecific 1	Noisy miner		1	0
Nonspecific 2
Nonspecific 3
Nonspecific 4
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)

Nonspecific date 4

Morotai Mutiny

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 unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add {{collapse top|Previous nomination}} to the top of the discussion and {{collapse bottom}} at the bottom, then complete a new nomination underneath. To do this, see the instructions at {{TFAR nom/doc}}.

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...)

• Most recent similar article(s):
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• Promoted:
• 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)

Oppose as ineligible. Glowadz, welcome to TFAR. Please note that this article has already been on the main page, back in 2010. The rules to read at the top of the page before adding a nomination are short, and include the rule "The article must not have appeared as TFA before". TFAR very, very rarely repeats itself, and is most unlikely to do so simply for a 66th anniversary. Please don't continue to nominate articles that have already been on the main page (as you have already done with Webley Revolver). You will be better off looking at WP:FANMP if you really want to nominate articles that other people have written. Bencherlite^Talk 18:27, 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)

Previous nomination

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. 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 unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add {{collapse top|Previous nomination}} to the top of the discussion and {{collapse bottom}} at the bottom, then complete a new nomination underneath, starting with {{TFAR nom|article=NAME OF ARTICLE}}. 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...) 1 points = Promoted over a year ago 2 points = Date relevance 3 points = Total 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) Support Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:12, 24 August 2013 (UTC) 2 point as there's a two-point penalty for being within a month of another US—Japan WW2 battle, Battle of the Eastern Solomons (24th August). This is also very, very similar to the nomination for 5th September, Landing at Nadzab - we can't mark every battle's 70th anniversary. BencherliteTalk 07:08, 24 August 2013 (UTC) I'd suggest featuring the Nadzab article over this one as Nadzab was a larger and more significant operation, so the anniversary is more important. Nick-D (talk) 08:15, 24 August 2013 (UTC) Not scheduled as it would have been the third TFA about a Japanese—American battle during World War Two within a month.

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. Bencherlite^Talk 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

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 unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add {{collapse top|Previous nomination}} to the top of the discussion and {{collapse bottom}} at the bottom, then complete a new nomination underneath. To do this, see the instructions at {{TFAR nom/doc}}.

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...)

• Most recent similar article(s):
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• Reasons for nomination:
• 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)