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.
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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Summary chart
Currently accepting requests from July 1 to July 31.
Date | Article | Points | Notes | Supports† | Opposes† |
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June 4 | California's 12th congressional district election, 1946 | 2 | 1 year FA, date of primary election | 7 | 0 |
June 14 | Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall | 4 | Date relevance, promoted a while ago, nom's 1st TFA. | 4 | 0 |
June 27 | Buildings of Jesus College, Oxford | 3 | Date relevance, promoted a while ago. | 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)
Date requests (5 max)
June 4
- Two points, one for one year FA, one for date connection (June 4 was the primary election date).--Wehwalt (talk) 20:36, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
- Support, great date connection, historical and educational. ;) -- Cirt (talk) 03:37, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
- Support Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:13, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
- Support per Cirt – Cliftonianthe orangey bit 14:13, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
- Support It's always interesting to get into the details of how a president rose to the position, especially someone like Nixon. Great read as well along with a memorable story.--NortyNort (Holla) 12:10, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
- Support -- Fascinating story. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 21:31, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
- Support Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:35, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
June 14
- Trying this again (my previous attempt for April 23 was unsuccessful as the Shakespeare article was deemed more date appropriate). Two points for being promoted more than two years ago + one point for date relevance (anniversary of recording) + one point for no previous Main Page appearance = 4 points. I will let others decide if this number should change due to Main Page representation. Thanks, reviewers, for your assistance! Note: The live concert was recorded over two nights, so this could be featured on June 15 as well. --Another Believer (Talk) 01:48, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
- Support, educational, encyclopedic, certainly notable enough. ;) -- Cirt (talk) 03:37, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
- Support Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:13, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
- Support --Sylvia Anna (talk) 21:48, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
June 27
Three points (promoted Sept 2009 (1); 440th anniversary of the college's foundation (2)). Not sure about what would count as a similar article but don't think there's anything sufficiently similar within the last month to cause a docking of points (last architecture article seems to be Chicago's Millennium Park on May 1 – not that that's all that similar, but it might be enough to stop more points being claimed). BencherliteTalk 14:04, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
- I'd say the most recent similar article would be Shimer College on May 11 as an educational facility, but even that is still outside of the point deduction boundary. Three points seems correct. Support GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 16:25, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
July 17
File:Spanish 11 interbrigada in the battle of Belchev. 1937.jpg
Spanish Civil War was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. An estimated total of 500,000 people died as a consequence of the War. The war began after a pronunciamiento by a group of conservative generals under the leadership of Emilio Mola against the elected Government of the Second Spanish Republic, at the time under the leadership of President Manuel Azaña. The rebel coup was supported by the conservative groups including the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right (Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas, or CEDA), monarchists known as Carlist groups, and the Fascist Falange (Falange Española de las JONS).
Following the only partially successful coup — barracks in important cities like Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Oviedo, Bilbao, Badajoz, and Málaga did not join in the rebellion as did Morocco, Pamplona, Burgos, Valladolid, Cádiz, Cordoba, Seville, and Jerez — Spain was left militarily and politically divided. From that moment onwards Mola's successor, General Franco, began a protracted war of attrition against the legally established government, as loyalist supporters of the centre-left Republican Government fought the rebel forces for control of the country. There were bloody purges in every piece of territory conquered from the republic in order to consolidate Franco's future regime, and purges done by the communist republicans during May 1937. (more...)Okay, I've decided to feature a very important war for July 17th's featured article for these three points:
- On July 17th, It will be the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the war.
- The article looks clean and feature-able.
- This was the bloodiest Interwar conflict. (500,000 dead)
Cowik (talk) 23:09, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
- The problem is, Cowik, this is not a featured article. It's also too early, as I explained to you on my talk, but the main problem is, it isn't a featured article. A featured article must pass through a process at WP:FAC and meet certain standards. This article hasn't done that yet. You may or may not have time, I could not say. But until it does get through that process, it cannot be nominated here.--Wehwalt (talk) 23:38, 31 May 2011 (UTC)