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 Jimfbleak and Wehwalt, 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.
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Currently accepting requests from September 1 to October 1.
Date | Article | Notes | Supports† | Opposes† |
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Nonspecific 1 | Cedar Hill Yard | 4 | ||
Nonspecific 2 | Sawmill Fire (2017) | 3 | ||
Nonspecific 3 | Tessa Sanderson | 1 | ||
Nonspecific 4 | Caroline Island | TFA rerun | 1 | |
Nonspecific 5 | Rotavirus | TFA rerun | 1 | |
Nonspecific 6 | Benedict Joseph Fenwick | 1 | ||
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September | Magnavox Odyssey | 50th anniversary of release | 1 | |
September 3 | Corry Tendeloo | 125th birthday | 4 | |
September 4 | Tropical Storm Carrie (1972) | 50th anniversary | 2 | |
September 9 | William the Conqueror | 935th deathdate, TFA rerun | 4 | |
September 14 | Macintosh Classic | 30th anniversary of discontinuation, TFA rerun | 1 | |
September 19 | Battle of Poitiers | 666th anniversary | 2 | |
September 22 | A and B Loop | 10th anniversary | 2 |
† Tally may not be up to date. The nominator is included in the number of supporters.
Nonspecific date nominations
Nonspecific date 1
Cedar Hill Yard
Cedar Hill Yard is a railroad classification yard in New Haven, North Haven, and Hamden, Connecticut, in the United States. It was built by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad in the early 1890s in and around New Haven's Cedar Hill neighborhood, which gave the yard its name. Following a substantial expansion launched in 1917, and further improvements in the 1920s, Cedar Hill Yard became one of the largest rail yards in the United States, routinely handling over 4,000 railroad cars each day on 880 acres (360 ha) of land. Following the rise of trucks and highways, and rerouting of rail traffic to newly built Selkirk Yard in New York State, Cedar Hill Yard significantly declined in importance and much of it was abandoned, as ownership was transferred to Penn Central in 1969, and subsequently Conrail in 1976. Since 1999, the yard has been owned and operated by CSX Transportation, and also hosts operations by Amtrak, the Connecticut Southern Railroad, and the Providence and Worcester Railroad. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): There are no other FAs (or even GAs, now that this article is an FA) on rail yards on Wikipedia, this is the first one to ever reach FA to my knowledge. Midland Railway War Memorial which is up today is somewhat related to trains, but I don't think it's anywhere near similar enough to preclude running this article.
- Main editors: User:Trainsandotherthings This article was almost entirely written by me.
- Promoted: June 22, 2022
- Reasons for nomination: This is my first FA and would therefore be my first article to appear on TFA. It was promoted last month.
- Support as nominator. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 02:09, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
- I don't know what a "classification yard" is without clicking. Could that be defined in the blurb? {{u|Sdkb}} talk 01:04, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
- @Sdkb: I've appended the word "railroad" before classification yard to give the reader some idea of what a classification yard means. I don't think giving a full definition makes sense, as that would take up a signification portion of the allotted characters for the blurb. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 01:20, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:03, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support. Edwininlondon (talk) 06:30, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 04:12, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support truflip99 (talk) 17:57, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Nonspecific date 2
Sawmill Fire (2017)
The Sawmill Fire was a wildfire that burned almost 47,000 acres (19,000 ha) of the U.S. State of Arizona from April 23, 2017, to April 30, 2017. It began at a gender reveal party held in the Coronado National Forest with the detonation by gunshot of a target packed with blue powder and tannerite. Because of hot and arid conditions in the area, the fire spread rapidly and forced the closure of Arizona State Route 89 and Interstate 10 and the evacuation of 100 people. By April 30, the fire was fully contained and evacuation orders were lifted. No injuries or fatalities resulted from the fire, which cost $8,200,000 and required the deployment of over 800 first responders to contain and suppress. No buildings were destroyed by the fire, though the historic Empire Ranch was as little as 50 feet (15 m) from the flames at times. When the source of the fire became public knowledge, it resulted in widespread ridicule of gender reveal parties in concept and practice. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): The last time a wildfire was on the front page as our daily Featured was Blackwater Fire of 1937, in 2013.
- Main editors: Just me, Vami_IV (talk · contribs).
- Promoted: June 27, 2022
- Reasons for nomination: Been a while. Here is a rarity at TFA: wildfires. Wildfires resulting from ridiculous circumstances, even. This was promoted to FA earlier this year, but it only just now occurred to me to nominate it for TFA.
- Support as nominator. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 04:51, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support. Quite the outrageous tale, which would be more than a welcome sight for the main page. Great work on the article. Though uh you may wanna add the wikilink for the bolded article name Your Power 🐍 💬 "What did I tell you?"
📝 "Don't get complacent..." 09:58, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
Nonspecific date 3
Tessa Sanderson
Theresa Ione "Tessa" Sanderson CBE (born 14 March 1956) is a British former javelin thrower. She appeared in every Summer Olympics from 1976 to 1996, winning the gold medal in the javelin at the 1984 Olympics, and becoming the second track and field athlete to compete at six Olympics. She was the first Black British woman to win an Olympic gold medal. Sanderson won gold medals in the javelin throw at three Commonwealth Games and at the 1992 IAAF World Cup. She set five Commonwealth records and ten British national records in the javelin, as well as records at junior and masters levels. During her career, Sanderson had a rivalry with fellow Briton Fatima Whitbread, who took the bronze in the 1984 Olympics. Sanderson was a sports reporter for Sky News when it began broadcasting in 1989. She was Vice-chair of Sport England from 1999 to 2005, and later established the Tessa Sanderson Foundation and Academy, which aims to encourage young people and people with disabilities to take up sport. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): I couldn't see any other article about a sportswoman this year, but apologies if I've missed any. (Note - there are some CC videos of Sanderson on YouTube - someone might be able to capture a better image than the current one.)
- Main editors: BennyOnTheLoose (and reviewers)
- Promoted: 21 May 2022
- Reasons for nomination: I think the article will be of interest to readers, given that the subject appeared in six Olympics and won a gold medal at one of them. Very happy for any help with the blurb, and apologies if there are any issues with the nomination.
- Support as nominator. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 15:29, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Nonspecific date 4
Caroline Island
Caroline Island is the easternmost of the uninhabited coral atolls which comprise the southern Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. First sighted by Europeans in 1606, claimed by United Kingdom in 1868, and part of the Republic of Kiribati since the island nation's independence in 1979, Caroline Island has remained relatively untouched and is considered one of the world's most pristine tropical islands, despite guano mining, copra harvesting, and human habitation in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is home to one of the world's largest populations of the coconut crab and is an important breeding site for seabirds, most notably the sooty tern. The atoll is best known for its role in celebrations surrounding the arrival of the year 2000 – a 1995 realignment of the International Date Line made Caroline Island the easternmost land west of the Date Line and therefore one of the first points of land on earth to see sunrise in the year 2000. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Mount Melbourne on July 12 is another natural geographical location
- Main editors: Sethant nominated for FAC, Amitchell125 received a WP:FASA.
- Promoted: July 30, 2006, FAR "Kept" on March 21, 2021
- Reasons for nomination: Polynesia is an underrepresented topic at TFA. This would be a TFA re-run. Blurb is from the previous run.
- Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 20:09, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
Nonspecific date 5
Rotavirus
Rotavirus is a genus of double-stranded RNA virus and the leading cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children. There are seven species of the virus; Rotavirus A, the most common, causes more than 90% of human infections. Rotavirus is transmitted by the faecal–oral route. It infects cells that line the small intestine and produces an enterotoxin, which induces gastroenteritis, leading to severe diarrhoea and sometimes death through dehydration. Campaigns to combat rotavirus focus on oral rehydration therapy for infected children and vaccination. Vaccines introduced in the 2000s have reduced the severity of infected children and lowered hospitalisation rates. Rotavirus also infects animals and is a pathogen of livestock. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Chagas disease, March 28, 2022
- Main editors: Graham Beards
- Promoted: March 15, 2008, "Satisfactory" at URFA/2020 on Feb 15, 2022
- Reasons for nomination: WP:MEDICINE and WP:VIRUS are underrepresented at TFA. This would be a TFA rerun. The blurb is from its previous run, reduced to under 1025 characters. I checked the blurb (particularly the stats) but would appreciate another check by someone more knowledgeable in this subject area.
- Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 21:09, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support: I am normally not a huge fan of re-running a TFA, but I do agree with the above rationale. It would be nice to get more topics in this field on the main page and I could see this being beneficial to readers. I cannot comment on the blurb as I am not knowledgeable in this subject area so apologies for that. Aoba47 (talk) 23:18, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
- Comment The blurb needs updating. Several vaccines have been introduced since this blurb was written. I have kept the article up to date in this regard and others. Graham Beards (talk) 15:38, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Graham Beards: I tried adding in info about vaccines introduced in the 2000s, but this has caused the blurb to be over the 1035 limit. Can you check to see if it is accurate, and maybe find places to reduce the blurb? Thanks. Z1720 (talk) 15:56, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
- I have deleted a couple of sentences. I think most healthcare providers are aware of the importance of rotavirus now. And although most children still have rotavirus infections, many are now asymtpomatic, again because of the near universal adoption of vaccines. Graham Beards (talk) 16:05, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Nonspecific date 6
Benedict Joseph Fenwick
Benedict Joseph Fenwick (1782–1846) was an American Catholic bishop and educator who was the Bishop of Boston from 1825 to 1846. Born in Maryland, he entered the Society of Jesus and began his ministry in the Diocese of New York, where he eventually became the vicar general and administrator. In 1817, he became the president of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., before soon being sent to South Carolina by Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal of Baltimore to resolve a longstanding schism at St. Mary's Church in Charleston. In 1825, Fenwick became the Bishop of Boston, during a period of both rapid growth of the city's Catholic population due to Irish immigration and intense nativism and anti-Catholicism, culminating with the burning of the Ursuline Convent in 1834, threats against Fenwick's life, and the formation of the Montgomery Guards. He established numerous churches; charitable institutions; newspapers, including The Pilot; and schools, including the College of the Holy Cross in 1843. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s):
- Main editors: Ergo Sum
- Promoted: December 22, 2021
- Reasons for nomination: I would nominate for September 3, as that would be his 240th birthday, but there is already a nomination for that date. Thus, I nominate it for a floating date.
- Support as nominator. Ergo Sum 00:25, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Specific date nominations
September
The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console. It consists of a white, black, and brown box that connects to a television set, and two controllers attached by wires. It can display three square dots and one line on the screen in monochrome black and white; players place plastic overlays on the screen to display additional visual elements. Ralph H. Baer conceived the console in August 1966 and his team at Sanders Associates developed it. Magnavox agreed to produce it in January 1971 and released it in September 1972, selling 69,000 units in its first calendar year and 350,000 by its discontinuation in 1975. Patents by Baer and the other developers for the system and the games formed the basis of a series of lawsuits spanning 20 years, earning Magnavox and other developers over US$100 million. The release of the Odyssey marked the beginning of the first generation of video game consoles and spawned the Odyssey series of dedicated consoles, as well as the 1978 Magnavox Odyssey 2. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Wipeout 2048, a video game, is scheduled for Aug. 12. The last computer/gaming hardware featured was Power Mac G4 Cube on January 9.
- Main editors: PresN
- Promoted: 18 October 2020
- Reasons for nomination: September is the 50th anniversary of its release, although an exact date is not given in the article. A blurb was not written on the talk page, so I wrote one using the lede.
- Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 16:44, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
September 3
Corry Tendeloo
Corry Tendeloo (3 September 1897 – 18 October 1956) was a Dutch lawyer, feminist and politician, who sat in the House of Representatives for the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) from 1945 until 1946, and then for the Labour Party (PvdA) until her death in 1956. Born in the Dutch East Indies, Tendeloo studied law at Utrecht University, during which time she made contact with people within the women's rights movement. In 1945, Tendeloo was appointed a member of the House of Representatives for the VDB in the national emergency parliament, formed to rebuild the country after World War II and organise elections. In 1955, she put forward a motion to abolish the ban on state employment for married women. The next year she was instrumental in introducing legislation that would start to end couverture. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Not sure. Can't see any women's rights bios in the 2022 list
- Main editors: Edwininlondon
- Promoted: 18 May 2022
- Reasons for nomination: 125th birthday
- Support as nominator. Edwininlondon (talk) 07:58, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:17, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support truflip99 (talk) 18:03, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 14:49, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
September 4
Tropical Storm Carrie (1972)
Tropical Storm Carrie was a tropical storm that affected the East Coast of the United States in early September 1972. The third tropical cyclone of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, it formed on August 29 from a complex sequence of meteorological events starting with the emergence of a tropical wave into the Atlantic in the middle of August. Tracking generally northward, Carrie reached an initial peak intensity as a moderate tropical storm before nearly weakening back into tropical depression status. The storm began to reintensify in a baroclinic environment after turning toward the northwest; its winds of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) as it was transitioning into an extratropical system eclipsed the cyclone's previous maximum strength. The extratropical remnants of Carrie skirted eastern New England before making landfall in Maine on September 4 and dissipating over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence over the next two days. Overall damage was light, with total losses valued at $1,780,000, and four deaths. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Hurricane Leslie (2018) (11 June 2022)
- Main editors: Storm05
- Promoted: August 23, 2011.
- Reasons for nomination: 50th anniversary of landfall.
- Support as nominator.Sheila1988 (talk) 09:17, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support truflip99 (talk) 18:43, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
September 9
William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror (c. 1028 – 9 September 1087) was the first Norman King of England. He was Duke of Normandy since 1035, although his illegitimate status and youth caused him difficulties until he secured the duchy at about 1060. In the 1050s and early 1060s, William was a contender for the English throne, then held by Edward the Confessor. Another claimant was Harold Godwinson, whom Edward named as the next king on his deathbed in January 1066. William invaded England in September 1066, defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings, and was crowned on Christmas Day 1066. Unsuccessful rebellions followed, but by 1075 William's hold on England was mostly secure. William's final years contained difficulties in his continental domains, troubles with his eldest son, and threatened invasions of England by the Danes. In 1086 he ordered the compilation of the Domesday Book, listing all landholders in England and their holdings. He died in September 1087 on a campaign in northern France. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Herman the Archdeacon, scheduled for August 5, is another bio of a person who lived in England in the 1000s.
- Main editors: Ealdgyth, Agricolae
- Promoted: July 6, 2012. Declared "Satisfactory" at URFA/2020 on May 4, 2022
- Reasons for nomination: TFA re-run. Requested for his 935 death date anniversary. Listed as a Level 4 vital article. Blurb is a trimmed version of the 2012 TFA blurb (because it was too long).
- Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 00:19, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support, although ideally the blurb has 9 September somewhere, to show its timeliness. Edwininlondon (talk) 06:37, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:18, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support truflip99 (talk) 18:04, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
September 14
Macintosh Classic
The Macintosh Classic is a personal computer manufactured by Apple Computer from October 15, 1990 to September 14, 1992. The Classic was similar to its predecessors: due to limited technological advances, it used the same 9-inch (23 cm) monochrome CRT display, 512×342 pixel resolution, and its performance was hampered by the same 4 megabyte (MB) memory limit of older Macintosh computers. Nevertheless, the Classic featured several improvements over the Macintosh Plus, which it replaced as Apple's low-end Mac computer. It was up to 25 percent faster than the Plus and included an Apple SuperDrive 3.5" floppy disk drive as standard. Apple released two versions that ranged in price from US$1,000 to $1,500. Reviewers' reactions were mixed; most focused on the slow processor performance and lack of expansion slots. The consensus was that the Classic was only useful for word processing, spreadsheets, and databases. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): I nominated Magnavox Odyssey for September, but that's gaming hardware while the Classic wasn't really used for gaming. Power Mac G4 Cube was featured Jan. 9, 2022.
- Main editors: JoshuacUK FAC'ed it, David Fuchs responded to concerns in the FAR.
- Promoted: May 30, 2008. "Kept" at FAR on August 1, 2020.
- Reasons for nomination: Sept. 14 is the 30th anniversary of its discontinuation. TFA re-run, the blurb is an edited version of its 2008 run.
- Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 15:18, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
September 19
Battle of Poitiers
The Battle of Poitiers was fought on 19 September 1356 between a French army commanded by King John II and an Anglo-Gascon force under Edward, the Black Prince, during the Hundred Years' War. The Anglo-Gascons had set out on a major campaign while John gathered a large and unusually mobile army and pursued. The 6,000 Anglo-Gascons stood on the defensive and were attacked by 14,000 to 16,000 Frenchmen. An ibitial assault was driven back after hard fighting. A second under John's son and heir followed and was also repulsed. At this point many Frenchmen left the field. Those remaining gathered round the King and launched another attack, while signalling that no prisoners were to be taken. The French got the better of this fight until a small Anglo-Gascon force appeared behind them. The French panicked and their force collapsed; John and his youngest son were taken prisoner. Negotiations to end the war and ransom John resulted in the 1360 Treaty of Brétigny, which temporarily ended the war with an English victory. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Siege of Calais (1346–1347) on 3 July.
- Main editors: Gog the Mild
- Promoted: 13 April 2022
- Reasons for nomination: 666th anniversary.
- Support as nominator. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:47, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support truflip99 (talk) 18:02, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
September 22
A and B Loop
The A and B Loop is a streetcar circle route of the Portland Streetcar system in Portland, Oregon, United States. Operated by Portland Streetcar, Inc. and TriMet, it consists of two services within the Central City that travel a loop between the east and west sides of the Willamette River by crossing the Broadway Bridge in the north and Tilikum Crossing in the south. The services connect Portland's downtown, Pearl District, Lloyd District, Central Eastside, and South Waterfront. Portland city officials considered an eastside streetcar extension upon authorizing the Central City Streetcar project in 1997. After several years of planning, the Portland Streetcar Loop Project was approved and held its groundbreaking in 2009. It opened between the Broadway Bridge and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry on September 22, 2012. The opening of Tilikum Crossing in 2015 further extended its tracks from the museum to the South Waterfront and completed the loop. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): MAX Orange Line
- Main editors: Truflip99
- Promoted: March 17, 2022
- Reasons for nomination: 10th anniversary of opening. Relatively underrepresented topic (WP:TRAM) in TFA.
- Support as nominator. truflip99 (talk) 17:54, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- Support. Just would like to see OMSI defined in the blurb. Or maybe just say "the museum"? Edwininlondon (talk) 17:02, 30 July 2022 (UTC)