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.  – Check TFAR nominations for dead links  – Alt text

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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 July 1 to July 31.

Date	Article	Points	Notes	Supports†	Opposes†
Nonspecific	Masako Katsura	3	New contributor, nothing similar six months.	4	0
Jan 25	Devil May Cry 2	3	Promoted over a year ago, anniversary of release	1	3
Jan 30	Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)	2	Promoted over a year ago, anniversary of grand opening.	2	1
Feb 9	Black Friday (1945)	-1	Anniversary	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.

Nonspecific date (1 only)

Masako Katsura (1913–1995) was a carom billiards player most active in the 1950s who trailblazed a path for women in the sport by competing and placing among the best in the male-dominated world of professional billiards. First learning the game from her brother-in-law and then under the tutelage of Japanese champion Kinrey Matsuyama, Katsura finished second in Japan's national three-cushion billiards championship three times. In exhibition she was noted for running 10,000 points at the game of straight rail. After marrying a U.S. army officer in 1950, Katsura emigrated with him to the United States in 1951, where she was invited to play in the 1952 U.S.-sponsored World Three-Cushion Championship, ultimately taking seventh place at that competition. Katsura was the first woman ever to be included in any world billiards tournament. Her fame cemented, Katsura went on an exhibition tour of the United States with 8-time world champion Welker Cochran, and later with 51-time world champion, Willie Hoppe. In 1953 and 1954 she again competed for the world three-cushion crown, taking fifth and fourth places respectively. (more….)

•  4  3 points. I am the main contributor and have never had an article at TFA (1 pt); Subject underrepresented (this is the only billiard-related FA) (1 pt) and by the same token; a similar article has not been featured on the main page ever much less within 6 months (2 pts). Regarding the image (the only free one useful for the blurb) can the size be bumped up? I kept it at 100 px as that seems to be the standard but I don't think it works well at that size.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 16:09, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

• Support - need more billiards on mainpage definitely. Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:08, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Three points Underrepresented is determining by taking the number of articles in its category at WP:FA and seeing whether it is more or less than fifty.--Wehwalt (talk) 00:32, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Aha. I see now--that information is in the footnote to the instruction.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk)

• Support - good to see a female biography from an unusual field as well. Bob talk 14:01, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Anything photo published in Japan in 1956 or earlier is in the public domain, and any photo taken in Japan in 1946 or earlier is in the public domain. (see Template:PD-Japan-oldphoto). For these reasons, it shouldn't be that hard to find a PD photograph of her. Can someone please look into this? Raul654 (talk) 18:49, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

You are all most welcome to try, with my blessings. I spent many, many hours on this and other issues (I must have spent 20 hours on finding her date of death, and was only able to confirm the year after great effort [though I actually know the exact date from a relative, but it's not verifiable]). The problem is that she left Japan and did not return for 39 years and there are very few accessible Japanese sources on her. Note that I enlisted the aid of Wikiproject Japan in all manner of help and translation and some very kind users there tried and were not able to find much. A nice image is here: http://park.geocities.jp/matukinrei/fhoto/km.JPG (the reason I have nowikied the url is, bizarrely, it is a dead link if you click on it but works fine if you copy and paste it into your address bar). This image was formerly in the article. I had uploaded it to the Commons but the problem was that though I had very strong inductive proof of its date, have no idea who took it, or when it was first published (the caption translation is no help), so there was no truly verifiable way to evidence it was PD. See among other places here and its deletion at Commons:Deletion requests/File:Katsura, Matsuyama and Greenleaf.Jpg.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:26, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

• Support—Yep, agree with previous comments. Interesting perspective on a sports/game topic and the page appears to be in good shape.—RJH (talk) 00:39, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Date requests (5 max)

January 25

Devil May Cry 2 is an action computer game developed and published by Capcom in 2003 exclusively for the PlayStation 2. The game serves as a sequel to Devil May Cry and is, chronologically the fourth game in the Devil May Cry series. Set in modern times, in the fictional city of Vie de Marli, the story centers on protagonists Dante and Lucia in their fight to stop a businessman named Arius from raising the demon Argosax and achieving supreme power. The story is told primarily through a mixture of cutscenes using the game's engine with several pre-rendered full motion videos. Despite the success of the previous title in the series, the sequel was not created with the involvement of series creator Hideki Kamiya. Devil May Cry 2 received mostly mixed reviews and has been criticized for a variety of development decisions, which made the game considerably different from its predecessor; chief among these decisions was the lowered difficulty and less refined combat. Nevertheless, the game was a commercial success, ultimately selling over 1.4 million copies worldwide. (more…)

3 points - it was promoted more than two years ago and January 25th is the 8th anniversary of its release. The last video game article to appear on the frontpage was on The Simpsons Game on December 17. -93.97.122.93 (talk) 12:49, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Points look good.--Wehwalt (talk) 14:23, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

• Oppose – I'd normally be more than happy to support a video game article on the main page, but, after doing a quick look-over and read of the article, I have doubts that this is FA-quality anymore. With barely 11KB of prose, WP:NFCC problems, verifiability gaps, and a lack of comprehensiveness, I'm afraid this is not something Wikipedia should be showing off on the main page. –MuZemike 18:37, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose - agreed with MuZemike. Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 23:15, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose - inclined to agree. 2007 was quite a while ago, and it's not really the best video game article out there. Bob talk 13:52, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

January 30

Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago. The building, named after real estate developer Donald Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 92-story structure, which reached a height of 1,389 feet (423 m) including its spire, its roof topping out at 1,170 feet (360 m). The building received publicity when the winner of the first season of The Apprentice television show, Bill Rancic, chose to manage the tower's construction. It is the tenth-tallest building in the world and second-tallest building in the United States after Chicago's Willis Tower. Trump Tower surpassed Chicago's John Hancock Center as the building with the world's highest residence above ground-level and held this title until the completion of the Burj Khalifa. The building includes, from the ground up, retail space, a parking garage, a hotel, and condominiums. The 339-room hotel opened for business with limited accommodations and services on January 30, 2008. April 28, 2009 was the full accommodation and service grand opening. A restaurant on the 16th floor, named Sixteen, opened in early 2008 to favorable reviews. The building topped out in late 2008 and construction was completed in 2009. (more…)

2 points - it was promoted more than a year ago and January 30th is the 3rd anniversary of its release.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 16:53, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

I need further advice on similarity points. The Exelon Pavilions structures (December 10), the Clemuel Ricketts Mansion house (December 1), the Harris Theater (Chicago, Illinois) (November 8) and Acra (fortress) (November 1) are all recent.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 17:03, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, I'd agree with you. All of them are outside 30 days and there's no question of neglect of architecture at TFA, so it doesn't affect the points.--Wehwalt (talk) 17:05, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

• Support Beautiful building, nice article.--NortyNort (Holla) 11:09, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose not excited about putting the name of such an annoyingly egocentric person on the front page. Nergaal (talk) 07:30, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

  I suspect many of the people Wikipedia has named on the main page were annoyingly egocentric. Jonathunder (talk) 02:55, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

  Unfortunately there is no point deduction for annoying egocentricity.—RJH (talk) 20:08, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

9 February

In the "Black Friday" air attack of World War II a force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffered heavy casualties during an unsuccessful attack on German destroyer Z33 and her escorting vessels on 9 February 1945. The German ships were sheltering in a strong defensive position in Førde Fjord, Norway, forcing the Allied aircraft to attack through heavy anti-aircraft fire. The Beaufighters and their escort of North American P-51 Mustang fighters were also surprised by twelve German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighters. In the resulting attack the Allies damaged at least two of the German ships for the loss of seven Beaufighters shot down by flak guns. Another two Beaufighters and one Mustang were destroyed by the Fw 190s. Either four or five German fighters were shot down by the Allied aircraft, including one flown by an ace. Due to the losses suffered in this raid the Allied anti-shipping force adopted new tactics which placed a lower priority on attacking warships. (more…)

2 points - the article was promoted on 15 December 2010 and this will be the anniversary of the battle. I'm not sure when the last article on a World War II battle was the TFA, but I think that this is one of very few concerning aerial battles, which may also be worth another one or two points. Nick-D (talk) 06:57, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

• Minus one point. I would say that this is similar to John Lerew, TFA very recently, as being about WWII aviation. So one point date connection (65th anniversary, 1 pt), minus two.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:23, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
• I'm inclined to say let it run anyway, regardless of negative points. The two recent WWII TFAs were on a battle between the US and Japan in New Guinea, and a biography of an Australian pilot; while this is "similar" in the strict sense, it's different enough to avoid the "Wikipedia is obsessed with XXX this week!" issue, and has a clear date significance. Support. – iridescent 17:38, 23 January 2011 (UTC)