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The TFAR requests page is currently accepting nominations from October 1 to October 31. Articles for dates beyond then can be listed here, but please note that doing so does not count as a nomination and does not guarantee selection.
Before listing here, please check for dead links using checklinks or otherwise, and make sure all statements have good references. This is particularly important for older FAs and reruns.
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| Date | Article | Reason | Primary author(s) | Added by (if different) |
| October | Dobroslav Jevđević | Why (re-run, first TFA was March 9, 2013) | Peacemaker67 | |
| October 4 | Olmec colossal heads | Why | Simon Burchell | Dank |
| October 11 | Funerary art | Why | Johnbod | Dank |
| October 12 | Brighton hotel bombing | Why | SchroCat | |
| October 14 | Brandenburg-class battleship | Why | Parsecboy | Parsecboy and Dank |
| October 15 | Battle of Glasgow, Missouri | Why | HF | |
| October 17 | 23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama (2nd Croatian) (re-run, first TFA was June 19, 2014) | Why | Peacemaker67 | |
| October 19 | "Bad Romance" | Why | FrB.TG | |
| October 21 | Takin' It Back | Why | MaranoFan | |
| October 22 | The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes | Why | Your Power, ZooBlazer | |
| October 25 | Fusō-class battleship | Why | Sturmvogel_66 and Dank | Peacemaker67 |
| October 25 | Katy Perry | Why | SNUGGUMS | 750h+ |
| October 29 | 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game | Why | PCN02WPS | |
| October 30 | Cucurbita | Why | Sminthopsis84 and Chiswick Chap | Dank |
| October 31 | The Smashing Pumpkins | Why | WesleyDodds | Dank |
| November | Yugoslav destroyer Ljubljana | Why | Peacemaker67 | |
| November 3 | 1964 Illinois House of Representatives election | Why | Elli | |
| November 6 | Russian battleship Poltava (1894) | Why | harizotoh9 | |
| November 11 | Mells War Memorial | Why | HJ Mitchell | Ham II |
| November 17 | SMS Friedrich Carl | Why | Parsecboy | Peacemaker67 |
| November 18 | Donkey Kong Country | Why | TheJoebro64, Jaguar | TheJoebro64 |
| November 21 | MLS Cup 1999 | Why | SounderBruce | |
| November 22 | Donkey Kong 64 | Why | czar | |
| November 27 | Interstate 182 | Why | SounderBruce | |
| November 28 | Battle of Cane Hill | Why | Hog Farm | |
| December 2 | Windswept Adan | Why | Joeyquism | |
| December 3 | PlayStation (console) | Why | Jaguar | Dank |
| December 8 | You Belong with Me | Why | Ippantekina | Sheila1988 |
| December 10 | Shovel Knight Showdown | Why | The Night Watch | Gerda Arendt |
| December 13 | Taylor Swift | Why (rerun, first TFA was August 23, 2019) | Ronherry | FrB.TG, Ticklekeys, SNUGGUMS |
| December 19 | SMS Niobe | Why | Peacemaker67 | |
| December 20 | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 | Why | TheJoebro64 | Sheila1988 |
| December 25 | A Very Trainor Christmas | Why | MaranoFan | Sheila1988 |
| 2025: | ||||
| January 1 | York Park | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| January 4 | Liza Soberano | Why | Pseud 14 | |
| January 6 | Maria Trubnikova | Why | Ganesha811 | Dank |
| January 8 | Elvis Presley | Why | PL290, DocKino, Rikstar | Dank |
| January 9 | Title (album) | Why | MaranoFan | |
| January 22 | Caitlin Clark | Why | Sportzeditz | Dank |
| January 27 | The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| January 28 | Lewis W. Green | Why | PCN02WPS | |
| January 29 | Dominik Hašek | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| March 18 | Edward the Martyr | Why | Amitchell125 | Sheila1988 |
| March 26 | Pierre Boulez | Why | Dmass | Sheila1988 |
| April 1 | Pig-faced women | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| April 12 | Dolly de Leon | Why | Pseud 14 | |
| April 15 | Lady Blue (TV series) | Why | Aoba47 | Harizotoh9 |
| April 18 | Battle of Poison Spring | Why | HF | |
| April 25 | 1925 FA Cup Final | Why | Kosack | Dank |
| May | 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) (re-run, first TFA was May 14, 2015) | Why | Peacemaker67 | |
| May 5 | Me Too (Meghan Trainor song) | Why | MaranoFan | |
| May 6 | Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| May 10 | Ben&Ben | Why | Pseud 14 | |
| June | The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished | Why | iridescent | Harizotoh9 |
| June 3 | David Evans (RAAF officer) | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| June 8 | Barbara Bush | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| July 1 | Maple syrup | Why | Nikkimaria | Dank |
| July 7 | Gustav Mahler | Why | Brianboulton | Dank |
| July 14 | William Hanna | Why | Rlevse | Dank |
| July 26 | Liz Truss | Why | Tim O'Doherty | Tim O'Doherty and Dank |
| July 29 | Tiger | Why | LittleJerry | |
| July 31 | Battle of Warsaw (1705) | Why | Imonoz | Harizotoh9 |
| August 4 | Death of Ms Dhu | Why | Freikorp | AirshipJungleman29 |
| August 23 | Yugoslav torpedo boat T3 | Why | Peacemaker67 | |
| August 30 | Late Registration | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| September 2 | 1905–06 New Brompton F.C. season | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| September 6 | Hurricane Ophelia (2005) | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| September 9 | Animaniacs | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| September 20 | Myst V: End of Ages | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| September 30 or October 1 | Hoover Dam | Why | NortyNort, Wehwalt | Dank |
| October 1 | Yugoslav torpedo boat T4 | Why | Peacemaker67 | |
| October 3 | Spaghetti House siege | Why | SchroCat | Dank |
| October 10 | Tragic Kingdom | Why | EA Swyer | Harizotoh9 |
| October 16 | Angela Lansbury | Why | Midnightblueowl | MisawaSakura |
| October 18 | Royal Artillery Memorial | Why | HJ Mitchell | Ham II |
| October 27 | Half-Life 2: Lost Coast | Why | ||
| November 1 | Matanikau Offensive | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| November 20 | Nuremberg trials | Why | buidhe | harizotoh9 |
| November 21 | Canoe River train crash | Why | Wehwalt | |
| December 25 | Marcus Trescothick | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| 2026: | ||||
| September 25 | Ico | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
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| August 25 | Genghis Khan | Why | AirshipJungleman29 | |
September nominations please
[edit]I'd appreciate it if those who haven't yet made article nominations to run in September, and are planning to do so, could do so as quickly as possible, as I'd like to finalize the list and begin scheduling next week. If the article is still pending promotion to FA, just let me know the situation on my talk. Of course, if a late nomination is made, we'll likely be able to squeeze it in, as we almost always do. I may be busy IRL part of next month and I'd like to finish scheduling the first week in August. Wehwalt (talk) 22:07, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- The tentative schedule is available here.--Wehwalt (talk) 22:09, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
Alexander McQueen
[edit]I get the feeling that we're running too many articles about Alexander McQueen collections so closely[a] together (see September 18 The Girl Who Lived in the Tree, which has just been scheduled.) It's concerning to me. It's a lot like how we keep running Adele or Meghan Trainor articles too close to each other. I think maybe we should stop those for a while or at least spread them out further. Great Mercian (talk) 13:51, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- Coordinators did discuss that recently. There's a tension between rewarding work by giving it a day in the sun and the issue you mention. We're also constrained by what the community chooses to write about. We did resolve to spread things out a bit in certain cases. These things come and go. There were article subjects we once had a bunch of but now we'd have to run them as a rerun. Wehwalt (talk) 14:03, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I'm just concerned because over the past 12 months I've been seeing a lot about McQueen in TFA and if not there then in the Did You Know section. I don't know if that's just me personally noticing his name a lot more but it is really concerning. Am I saying concerning too much? Great Mercian (talk) 14:08, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I got your point on TFA, beyond that, I don't know because I don't follow DYK and other main page areas that closely. People write on what they care to, and in 17 years of involvement in TFA, I've repeatedly seen feast become famine once the subject matter or interest is exhausted. Wehwalt (talk) 14:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- We have run SZA articles from the same album within three months (November 2023, February 2024), whereas the Adele appearances have mostly been spaced out by a year. Their mention seems odd and Great Mercian's personal problem. Reminds me of their poor arguments to stop her first TFA appearance even though no Adele article had appeared earlier. On the issue of McQueen, main page appearances are commensurate to the volume of FAs promoted so nothing "concering" there either. Maybe spend the time doing content work instead so topics you like can appear on the main page.--NØ 16:59, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I got your point on TFA, beyond that, I don't know because I don't follow DYK and other main page areas that closely. People write on what they care to, and in 17 years of involvement in TFA, I've repeatedly seen feast become famine once the subject matter or interest is exhausted. Wehwalt (talk) 14:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I'm just concerned because over the past 12 months I've been seeing a lot about McQueen in TFA and if not there then in the Did You Know section. I don't know if that's just me personally noticing his name a lot more but it is really concerning. Am I saying concerning too much? Great Mercian (talk) 14:08, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- ^ closely defined as less than a year of each other.
Great Mercian (talk) 13:51, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
I pay so little attention to fashion that I didn't even notice they were all from the same fashion designer. Yeah, these should be treated like albums or songs from a particular musician - do one per year at most to balance them out to their overall historical importance. Harizotoh9 (talk) 06:16, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- One a year seems a bit absurd for any topic. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 06:44, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- This seems very odd indeed. There are multiple music-related articles at FAC at any one time and multiple music FAs appearing at TFA every month. There is only one editor putting fashion articles through FAC. One fashion article per month is entirely acceptable, and considerably less than several other topics that appear. We have an insufficient number of new FAs to select from for TFA, which includes an ever diminishing pot of FAs that have never been on the main page. If you don't like the frequency of certain types of articles appearing at TFA, please - seriously please - write FAs on different topics that can be selected. We can always fill the gaps with MilHist articles, which is the most active project at creating FAs, but that leads to multiple complaints. With very limited alternatives, please feel free to write different FAs to be selected from. Until then, the selection can only be from the pot that's available. - SchroCat (talk) 06:53, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- 100% agree. start writing FAs if you want to change the composition of TFA. ... sawyer * he/they * talk 22:05, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
Categories
[edit]Literally every month without fail, at some point during the month a run of Special:WantedCategories suddenly throws up a redlinked category of the "Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations from [Current Month and Year]" variety (e.g. Category:Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations from July 2024) which I end up having to create on your behalf, even though I'm not normally involved in this project, because of the rule around not leaving stuff in redlinked categories. So if such categories are routinely expected to exist, then would it be possible for this project to take steps to ensure that they get created either by a project member as soon as they're needed, or automatically by a bot at the beginning of the month, before they turn into work for other projects to clean up? Bearcat (talk) 20:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I have no idea. I've been a coordinator for seven years and I have no idea what this is. At a guess, I'd say it's something produced by the template when TFA/R nominations are created. Wehwalt (talk) 21:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
Two nominations for the same day
[edit]Is it possible to put more than one nomination for the same say and let editors decide which one, if either, should be chosen? Or is it just whoever puts a nomination for a date first? I just ask because I added an article to the potential noms table for October 22 a few months ago (I know that doesn't guarantee the date). There haven't been any video game TFAs lately, so I figured that would be good. For now I just placed my nom in a non specific date. -- ZooBlazer 18:10, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
- You can add another nomination for October 22. The decision is up to the coordinators (or, more practically, whoever is scheduling October, which is not me), though community input is a big part of that decision. But part of the decision is what else is getting scheduled, and whether we can accommodate both articles by running one a day before or after. That sort of thing. We try to keep everyone happy if we can manage it. Wehwalt (talk) 18:14, 31 July 2024 (UTC)