Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Murder of Joanna Yeates

Murder of Joanna Yeates

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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 18, 2014 by Bencherlite ^Talk 10:42, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jo Yeates (1985–2010) was a 25-year-old landscape architect from Hampshire, England, who went missing on 17 December 2010 in Bristol after an evening out with colleagues. Following a highly publicised appeal for information on her whereabouts and intensive police enquiries, her body was discovered on 25 December 2010; a post-mortem examination determined that she had been strangled. The murder inquiry was one of the largest police investigations ever undertaken in the Bristol area. The case dominated UK news coverage around Christmas. The police initially arrested Christopher Jefferies, Yeates' landlord; he was subsequently released and later obtained substantial libel damages from eight newspapers over their coverage of his arrest. Vincent Tabak, a 32-year-old Dutch engineer and neighbour of Yeates, was arrested on 20 January 2011. He was convicted at trial of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. A memorial service was held for Yeates at the parish church in the Bristol suburb where she lived; her funeral took place near the family home in Hampshire. Several memorials were planned, including one in a garden she had been designing for a new hospital in Bristol. (Full article...)

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Main editors: BabbaQ , This is Paul
Promoted: April 1, 2012
Reasons for nomination: This is my first created article that have reached FA level. I think that because Wikipedia features very few "Murder of" articles, a interesting and well-written article like this could be a good choice to actually feature at the TFA section.
Support as nominator. BabbaQ (talk) 23:55, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Trimmed the blurb to a standard length, feel free to play around with it. Bencherlite ^Talk 07:18, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support as editor who took this through FAC. I think enough time may have lapsed since these events for a TFA appearance to be ok. There's an upcoming miniseries about aspects of this case due to air shortly. Not sure of the date, but it might be good if we could coincide the two. This is Paul (talk) 12:13, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- No air-date announced, as far as I can see, and I don't want it to look as though WP is promoting or cashing-in on the programme, so I'll run it now. Bencherlite ^Talk 10:41, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]