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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, Gog the Mild and SchroCat, 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 January 1 to January 31.

Date Article Notes Supports† Opposes†
Nonspecific 1 The Coral Island 1 2
Nonspecific 2 A Crow Looked at Me 4 0
Nonspecific 3 Ted Kaczynski 4 0
Nonspecific 4 Final Fantasy IX 2 0
Nonspecific 5
Nonspecific 6
1 May Yugoslav destroyer Beograd Anniversary of her sinking/scuttling in 1945 1 0
3 May 2020 World Snooker Championship 2 0
4 May William Feiner 2 0
5 May The Heart of Thomas 3 0
9 May Mother's Day (Rugrats) Mother's Day 2021 3 0
20 May Battle of Rethymno 80th anniversary of the invasion of Crete 1 0
25 May Operation Rösselsprung (1944) Anniversary of the attempt to kill or capture Josip Broz Tito in 1944 1 0

† Tally may not be up to date. The nominator is included in the number of supporters.

Nonspecific date nominations

Nonspecific date 1

The Coral Island

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 Gog the Mild (talk) 12:26, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cover of the first print
Cover of the first print

The Coral Island (1858) is a novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. One of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes, the story relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck. A typical Robinsonade – a genre inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe – and one of the most popular of its type, the book first went on sale in late 1857 and has never been out of print. Among the novel's major themes are the civilising effect of Christianity, 19th-century British imperialism in the South Pacific, and the importance of hierarchy and leadership. It was the inspiration for William Golding's dystopian novel Lord of the Flies (1954), which inverted the morality of The Coral Island. The novel was considered a classic for primary school children of the early 20th century in Britain, and in the United States it was a staple of suggested reading lists for high-school students. Modern critics consider The Coral Island to feature a dated imperialist view of the world, but it was adapted into a four-part children's television drama broadcast by ITV in 2000. (Full article...)

  • @Gerda Arendt: I do not think that is a strong enough reason to run this article on the main page for a second time, especially when there are literature articles that have not been featured on the main page even once. I understand the importance of topic balance, especially since a majority of the work coming from recent FACs are from specific areas/topics like military history, but I oppose this one for the reasons I have provided above. I very well could be in the minority on this, but this is just my opinion. Aoba47 (talk) 01:37, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, see TFAR instructions: “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.” We have plenty of articles that have never run TFA; re-running one that ran only six years ago is not optimal, especially when it is an older FA that hasn’t yet been vetted at WP:FAR or WP:URFA/2020. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 07:24, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nonspecific date 2

A Crow Looked at Me

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 10, 2021 by Gog the Mild (talk) 12:54, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Elverum and Castrée performing in 2006
Elverum and Castrée performing in 2006

A Crow Looked at Me is the eighth studio album by Mount Eerie, a solo project of the American musician Phil Elverum. Released in 2017, it was composed in the aftermath of the diagnosis of his 35-year-old wife, Geneviève Castrée, with pancreatic cancer in 2015 and her death in July 2016. Elverum wrote and recorded the songs over a six-week period in the room where she died, mostly using instruments she left behind. The lyrics are presented in a diary-like form and sung in a raw, intimate style. They bluntly detail Castrée's illness and death, Elverum's grief, and his relationship with their infant child. It is soundtracked by sparse folk instrumentation. It was widely praised for its emotional potency. The album went on to be one of the most acclaimed albums of 2017 and of Elverum's career. His following albums, Now Only (2018) and Lost Wisdom pt. 2 (2019), further detail and examine Castrée's illness and early death. (Full article...)

@Aoba47: Fixed. DMT biscuit (talk) 10:57, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I support this for the main page. Aoba47 (talk) 16:00, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nonspecific date 3

Ted Kaczynski

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 11, 2021 by Gog the Mild (talk) 12:00, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Kaczynski in 1996 after his arrest
Kaczynski in 1996 after his arrest

Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is an American domestic terrorist, primitivist and former mathematics professor. He was accepted to Harvard College at the age of 16 and after graduating and earning his PhD, he taught at UC Berkeley for three years. He then moved to a small cabin in Montana to pursue a simple life. While in Montana, Kaczynski began sending mail bombs to people associated with universities, airlines, and the advancement of modern technology. He mailed a total of 16 bombs, killing three people and injuring 23 others. Kaczynski's bombing campaign came under investigation by the FBI, who employed over 150 people in the most expensive FBI investigation ever conducted at the time. Kaczynski's manifesto, an anarcho-primitivist essay, was published in The Washington Post on the condition that he would desist from terrorism. He was eventually arrested in 1996 and later imprisoned at ADX Florence in Colorado. (Full article...)

  • Comment The blurb needs some more work. I changed some of the text to reflect the article more. Including reference to the MK Ultra experiment is a bit odd, since it doesn't seem too related to anything. Harizotoh9 (talk) 21:58, 12 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Including reference to the MK Ultra experiment is a bit odd, since it doesn't seem too related to anything -- au contraire, it's plenty related. There's pretty extensive speculation about the connection between Kaczynski's MK Ultra experiences and the later murders. Vaticidalprophet 02:56, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, though honestly I preferred the non-mugshot image. Per WP:MUG, I'd really rather we not put mugshots of living people on the front page of one of the biggest websites when there are other acceptable options. Vaticidalprophet 02:56, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • I can definitely see where you're coming from as far as image concerns (in both the literal and metaphorical use of the word "image"!), but I don't think WP:MUG really applies here. I don't think the mugshot displays Kaczynski out of context, though it is disparaging. Definitely interested to hear what other editors have to say here - unfortunately it doesn't look like commons:Category:Ted Kaczynski has any other options unless we want to use a (likely grainy and difficult-to-identify) crop of File:Tk arrest.jpg. AviationFreak💬 03:02, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    It's a recognizable and contextual image, but mugshots are inherently disparaging enough that I really pause at putting them on the front page. (Doing bad things doesn't strip us of our need to be respectful and neutral towards our article subjects, y'know?) The original Harvard image was fine, and still a recognizable depiction of him -- I've seen it attached to him plenty. I also think your original justification of 'not repeating the lead image' is a pretty good one regardless of what the lead image is. Vaticidalprophet 03:08, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. I understand the above concern about the mugshot, but I disagree that the original image would be as recognizable as the mugshot. I actually showed the original image to my brother and he was surprised as he was not used to seeing older images of Kaczynski, and I think it would be better to go with the more recognizable image. Again, I completely understand the WP:MUG concern, but I do not think the other image is as instantly recognizable to a larger audience as the mugshot. Aoba47 (talk) 20:39, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Aoba47: Is recognizability the main characteristic we're looking for in an image? This is my first time at TFAR, but I would expect the main quality folks here look for in an image to be proper representation of the subject. I definitely agree that the mugshot is far more engrained in the public psyche as "the image" of Kaczynski (besides the famous police sketch), but I don't see how that makes it an inherently better image to use. We regularly (perhaps even more often than not) run blurbs on relatively obscure topics that the average reader probably has never heard of before reading the TFA blurb/image. I don't have any definite preference one way or the other on the image, but I do think it's important to get this agreed upon. As we've seen recently, TFA images can be quite contentious. AviationFreak💬 04:03, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • @AviationFreak: Thank you for the message. I am not the best person to answer that question. While I have worked somewhat in the TFA space, that question would be better suited for more experienced editors. My comment was in response to the above discussion that the original image would still be recognizable and I just do not think that is true. I believe even a lot of people familiar with this person would not immediately recognize him in the original image. I do not have an issue going back to the original image, but the mugshot is clearly and without any doubt the most recognizable to a large audience. I agree that it is best to handle these things prior to a main page run. I do not see the connection with obscure TFAs at all. This is a very well-known topic so the conversation around images and recognizability will be very different than for a TFA on an obscure topic. Also, just to repeat my above point, I can completely understand the WP:MUG concerns and I would support it with either picture (as people who may not recognize the original image could still read the blurb and understand who the article is about). With all of that being said, prior to this conversation, I knew absolutely nothing about this guy other than the Unambomber name. Aoba47 (talk) 18:44, 14 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Nonspecific date 4

    Final Fantasy IX

    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 24, 2021 by Gog the Mild (talk) 12:12, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Final Fantasy IX is a 2000 role-playing video game developed and published by Squaresoft for the PlayStation video game console. It is the ninth game in the main Final Fantasy series. Players follow bandit Zidane Tribal, who kidnaps Alexandrian Princess Garnet Til Alexandros XVII as part of a gambit by the neighboring nation of Lindblum. The game developed alongside Final Fantasy VIII. Envisioned by developers as a retrospective for the series, it departed from the futuristic settings of Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, and Final Fantasy VIII by returning to the medieval style of the earlier installments. Final Fantasy IX was released to critical acclaim and is often considered one of the greatest video games of all time. Final Fantasy IX was commercially successful, selling more than 5.5 million copies on PlayStation by March 2016. Ports featuring minor gameplay and graphical enhancements released for various other platforms in the late 2010s. (Full article...)

    Fixed - Judgesurreal777 (talk) 23:05, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Nonspecific date 5

    Nonspecific date 6

    Specific date nominations

    1 May

    Yugoslav destroyer Beograd

    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 Gog the Mild (talk) 12:17, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Beograd on right
    Beograd on right

    Beograd was the lead ship of a class of destroyers built for the Royal Yugoslav Navy during the late 1930s. In World War II, she was damaged by a near miss during an air attack following the German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, and then captured by the Italians (pictured, on right). After refitting, she saw extensive service with the Royal Italian Navy from August 1941 to September 1943, completing over 100 convoy escort missions in the Mediterranean under the name Sebenico, mainly on routes between Italy and the Aegean or North Africa. Following the Italian armistice in September 1943, she was captured by the German Navy and redesignated TA43. After serving with the 9th Torpedo Boat Flotilla on escort and minelaying duties in the northern Adriatic, she was sunk or scuttled at Trieste on 30 April or 1 May 1945. She was raised in June 1946, probably to remove her as a navigation hazard, only to be scuttled again in either July 1946 or in 1947. (Full article...)

    3 May

    2020 World Snooker Championship

    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 3, 2021 by Gog the Mild (talk) 12:18, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Ronnie O'Sullivan (pictured in 2015) won his sixth world championship at the event.
    Ronnie O'Sullivan (pictured in 2015) won his sixth world championship at the event.

    The 2020 World Snooker Championship (also referred to as the 2020 Betfred World Snooker Championship for the purposes of sponsorship) was a professional snooker tournament that took place from 31 July to 16 August 2020 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It was the 44th consecutive year that the World Snooker Championship was held at the Crucible. The final ranking event of the 2019–20 snooker season, the tournament was originally scheduled to take place from 18 April to 4 May 2020, but both the qualifying stage and the main rounds were postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was one of the first to allow live audiences since the onset of the pandemic, but on the first day it was announced that the event would be played behind closed doors for subsequent days. Ronnie O'Sullivan won his sixth world title, defeating Kyren Wilson 18–8 in the final. (Full article...)

    4 May

    William Feiner

    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 4, 2021 by Gog the Mild (talk) 12:20, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    William Feiner
    William Feiner

    William Feiner (1792–1829) was a German Catholic priest and Jesuit who became a missionary to the United States. Born in Münster, he taught at Jesuit schools in the Russian Empire and Polish Galicia before emigrating to the United States in 1822, following the restoration of the Society of Jesus. He taught theology and engaged in pastoral work in Conewago, Pennsylvania, where there was a large German population. He then became a full-time professor of theology and German at Georgetown College, and then prefect of studies. He was also the second dedicated librarian of the college's library. In 1826, Feiner became the president of Georgetown, despite having never mastered the English language. He also ministered at Holy Trinity Church and continued to teach theology. Feiner had long suffered poor health due to tuberculosis and was forced to resign the presidency in 1829, dying later that year. (Full article...)

    5 May

    The Heart of Thomas

    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 5, 2021 by Gog the Mild (talk) 12:20, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Moto Hagio
    Moto Hagio

    The Heart of Thomas is a 1974 Japanese shōjo manga (girls' manga) series by Moto Hagio (pictured). Originally serialized in the manga magazine Shūkan Shōjo Comic, it follows the events at a German all-boys gymnasium following the suicide of student Thomas Werner. The series draws inspiration from the Bildungsroman genre, the novels of Hermann Hesse, and the 1964 film Les amitiés particulières, and is one of the earliest manga in the shōnen-ai (male-male romance) genre. The Heart of Thomas was developed and published during a period of immense upheaval for shōjo manga, characterized by the emergence of new aesthetic styles, more narratively complex stories, and a new generation of artists collectively referred to as the Year 24 Group. Initially poorly received by readers, by the end of its serialization The Heart of Thomas was among the most popular series in Shūkan Shōjo Comic. It significantly influenced shōjo as a medium, and has been adapted into a film, a stage play, and a novel. (Full article...)

    9 May

    Mother's Day (Rugrats)

    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 9, 2021 by Gog the Mild (talk) 12:23, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Kim Cattrall, who had a guest role as Chuckie's mother, Melinda Finster.
    Kim Cattrall, who had a guest role as Chuckie's mother, Melinda Finster.

    "Mother's Day" is the second episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series Rugrats, first broadcast on May 6, 1997, on Nickelodeon. In this Mother's Day special, Tommy Pickles and Phil and Lil Deville attempt to find the perfect mother for Chuckie Finster, who is being raised by his father, Chas. They discover that Chuckie's mother (voiced by Kim Cattrall, pictured) died of a terminal illness. Norton Virgien and Toni Vian directed the episode. "Mother's Day" was praised by critics for its storyline and its representation of breastfeeding, and has been the subject of several retrospective reviews for its treatment of the death of a parent. It won a CableACE Award and was nominated for the Humanitas Prize in the Children's Animation Category. Rugrats received a nomination for the 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program after Nickelodeon submitted "Mother's Day" for consideration. (Full article...)

    • SomeBodyAnyBody05 please understand the instructions for the process; blurbs are stored on the talk page of the FAC, and are not just the first paragraph of an article. Here is the better proposed blurb: SandyGeorgia (Talk) 07:37, 19 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      SandyGeorgia, Please pay attention to the history of the request page, you would have seen I replaced my original blurb that i used with Aoba47's suggested blurb with some minor word changes three days ago...And he thanked me for it, so your comment is redundant now. And again, Just look at some of the other requests here by other editors, they literally copy and paste the lead paragraph of the featured article. I had also managed to get a FA on the main page that was a copy and paste of the first paragraph of the article and no one gave me negative feedback for it. ₛₒₘₑBₒdyₐₙyBₒdy₀₅ (talk) 11:56, 19 March 2021 (UTC)\[reply]
      Apologies for jumping in on this conversation. As I had said in a different TFA request, blurbs should written specifically for the purpose of providing an overview or summary and only copy-and-pasting the lead's first paragraph is not a great way of doing this as you would be leaving out any of the information in the lead's other paragraphs and therefore it would not be a real overview or summary. Elements from the overall lead can definitely be copy-and-pasted, but that is not the same as using just the lead's first paragraph. This is not intended as negative feedback, and it is more so to tell you what I have seen from my personal experience with the TFA. I do not have a strong opinion on the difference between the two blurbs. I have primarily seen images used without captions, but I could see how a caption would be helpful. Aoba47 (talk) 19:10, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      SomeBodyAnyBody05, Remember to stay WP:CIVIL, but Support the new blurb. Panini🥪 19:41, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      SomeBodyAnyBody05, I have removed the duplicate. Thanks for pointing this out (it would have saved lots of editor time to have noted that here when you upated it). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 19:58, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      SomeBodyAnyBody05 did not move in the blurb from the FAC page, but I did. Aoba47 is that the right one now? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 20:15, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      Thank you for catching this! I had just assumed that the exact same blurb that I had linked above was used so I admittedly did not read it as thoroughly as I should have. Apologies for that. I much prefer this blurb. And thank you again to @Dank: who wrote it in the first place. Aoba47 (talk) 20:19, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      SandyGeorgia, The "actual' original version I proposed before I knew of the existence of a already approved blurb was the lead paragraph from the article. And the alternate version was a blurb I tweaked from the original approved blurb was pretty much the exact same blurb with a few minor word substitutions and additions with a helpful caption. Do you think that version could suffice as well? ₛₒₘₑBₒdyₐₙyBₒdy₀₅ (talk) 11:46, 22 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    25 May

    Operation Rösselsprung (1944)

    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 25, 2021 by Gog the Mild (talk) 12:24, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

    Operation Rösselsprung (1944)

    Operation Rösselsprung was a combined airborne and ground assault by the German XV Mountain Corps on the Supreme Headquarters of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II. Launched on 25 May 1944, the operation was aimed at the Partisan leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito and his headquarters. It is associated with the Seventh Enemy Offensive. The operation involved direct action via an airborne assault by the 500th SS Parachute Battalion and a planned subsequent link-up with ground forces, including Home Guard forces of the Independent State of Croatia and collaborationist Chetniks. Tito, his principal staff and Allied military personnel escaped. The operation failed due to fierce Partisan resistance, the failure of the various German intelligence agencies to share the limited intelligence available on Tito's exact location, and the lack of contingency planning by the commander of the German airborne force. (Full article...)

    • Most recent similar article(s): 21 April 2021 Battle of the Saw will be the most recent scheduled battle article, but it was in the Ancient Roman era.
    • Main editors: Peacemaker67
    • Promoted: 8 May 2020
    • Reasons for nomination: The anniversary of the parachute landing at Drvar that started the battle, intended to capture or kill the Partisan leader and later Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito. It was the only operational Waffen-SS parachute operation of WWII. Because of this attack, which was made by the Germans on this day because they believed false intelligence that it was Tito's birthday, Tito used this date as his official birthday for the rest of his life. This will be the first WWII Partisan battle to have run as TFA. There are articles on this battle in 18 languages.
    • Support as nominator. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:12, 17 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • Support per nominator. Historical significant event, and a bit different than many of the battles that run at TFA. Hog Farm Talk 03:03, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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