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, Gog the Mild and Z1720 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 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. Many featured articles deteriorate over time unless maintained by interested authors. By making a nomination, especially of an older FA, you state that you have looked over the article and believe it meets current standards for featured articles, and undertake to address concerns that might arise. If you have an exceptional request that deviates from these instructions (for example, an article making a second appearance as TFA before the five-year period has expired, 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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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 is between 925 and 1025 characters including spaces, " (Full article...)" and the featured topic link if applicable. If no image is used, the character length limits are between 1000 and 1100. 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 December 1 to December 31.

Date	Article	Notes	Supports†	Opposes†
Nonspecific 1	Crocodylia	TFA re-run	2
Nonspecific 2	Russian battleship Slava		1
Nonspecific 3
Nonspecific 4
Nonspecific 5
Nonspecific 6
Nonspecific 7
December 1	Archie MacLaren	Birthday	1
December 5	Sachertorte	Sachertorte Day	3
December 6	Ico	25th anniversary of release	1
December 8	Hilda Dajč	85th anniversary of her voluntary entry into the Sajmište concentration camp	2
December 15	Brian Eaton	Birthday	1
December 22	Title (song)	Trainor's 33rd birthday	4
December 25	Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110	Christmas music	1

^† Tally may not be up to date. The nominator is included in the number of supporters.

Nonspecific date nominations

Nonspecific date 1

Crocodylia

American alligator

Crocodylia is an order of large, predatory, semi-aquatic reptiles. They appeared in the Late Cretaceous, and include true crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gharials. Extant crocodilians have flat heads with long snouts and tails that are compressed on the sides, with their eyes, ears, and nostrils at the top of the head. Their skin is thick and covered in scales and they have conical teeth and a powerful bite. They swim well and can move quite rapidly on land. They are found mainly in lowlands in the tropics, but alligators are also found in the United States and China. They are largely carnivorous and some specialise on fish while others have generalised diets. They are typically solitary and territorial. Some species of crocodilians, particularly the Nile crocodile, are known to have attacked humans. Crocodilian populations are threatened by habitat destruction and being hunted by humans, but farming the reptiles has reduced the unlawful trade in wild skins. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s):
• Main editors: Cwmhiraeth
• Promoted: 2014, TFA January 27, 2014
• Reasons for nomination: TFA re-run. I feel a few biology articles should be re-run to let the category recharge with new FAs. 12 years is a pretty long gap. Level 4 Vital article. Harizotoh9 (talk) 13:16, 5 September 2026 (UTC)
• Support as nominator. Harizotoh9 (talk) 13:16, 5 September 2026 (UTC)
• Support per nom. QuicoleJR (talk|edits) 02:39, 10 September 2026 (UTC)
• Coordinator note: I didn't schedule this for November because Europejara (another reptile) was scheduled. I'm going to keep this at TFAR to be considered for future months. Z1720 (talk) 16:51, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Nonspecific date 2

Russian battleship Slava

Slava was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships. Built at the Baltic Shipyard in Saint Petersburg, it was completed too late to participate in the Battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War. She survived while all of her sister ships were either sunk or surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Navy during the battle. Serving in the Baltic Sea during World War I, Slava was the largest ship of the Russian Gulf of Riga Squadron that fought the German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. She repeatedly bombarded German positions and troops for the rest of 1915 and during 1916. During the Battle of Moon Sound in 1917, Slava was badly damaged by the German dreadnought SMS König, significantly increasing her draft. The shallow channel made it impossible to escape and she was scuttled in the Moon Sound Strait between the island of Muhu and the mainland. The Estonians scrapped her during the 1930s. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): Once a month military ship articles.
• Main editors: Sturmvogel 66
• Promoted: 2010
• Reasons for nomination: Ancient, forgotten article. Should run the oldest military ships since no one else is nominating them.
• Support as nominator. Harizotoh9 (talk) 01:21, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Specific date nominations

December 1

Archie MacLaren

Archie MacLaren (1 December 1871 – 17 November 1944) was an English cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played 35 Test matches for England, as captain in 22 of those games, and led the team to defeat in four Ashes series against Australia. An amateur, MacLaren played first-class cricket for Lancashire, captaining that county for most of his career. As a batsman, MacLaren was one of the leading cricketers of his time and had a reputation as a fast-scoring stylist. In 1895, he scored 424 runs in an innings against Somerset which was the highest individual score in first-class cricket until 1923 and remained a record in English cricket until 1994. He first captained England in 1898 where England lost to Australia in three consecutive series in 1899, 1901–02 and 1902. MacLaren was replaced as captain in 1905 but was invited to lead England once more in 1909. His final appearance was during the 1922–23 Marylebone Cricket Club tour of New Zealand. MacLaren died in 1944, aged 72. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s):
• Main editors: Sarastro1
• Promoted: 2013
• Reasons for nomination: Birthday, old article from 2013 that seems forgotten about.
• Support as nominator. Harizotoh9 (talk) 00:02, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

December 5

Sachertorte

Sachertorte

Sachertorte is a sponge cake that combines chocolate sponge, apricot jam, and a chocolate glaze. It was invented by the Austrian confectioner Franz Sacher in the mid-19th century. The ingredients include butter, chocolate, eggs, flour, and sugar. In Vienna, the Hotel Sacher and Demel pastry shop dominate the market for Sachertorte. In the 20th century, they fought over its ownership, trademark, and how many layers of sponge the original contained, with Hotel Sacher favouring two and Demel one. The cakes had the same basic ingredients, but the exact recipes were kept secret. The reputation of Sachertorte varies by geography. It is common in Austria and other German-speaking countries and typically regarded positively, with its elements seen as well balanced. In other areas, it has a different reputation: it is often regarded in France as being too sweet and lacking in chocolate flavour, while many people in the US consider it dry and not sweet enough. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): Nothing recent found
• Main editors: @Vacant0:; courtesy notice to @Gerda Arendt:
• Promoted: June 29, 2026
• Reasons for nomination: Sachertorte Day
• Support as nominator. CueBallWhisperer (talk) 16:44, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Support as the editor who brought this article to FA status. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 19:10, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Support as we don't get many food based FAs on the front page. RandomEditsForWhenIRemember (talk) 20:58, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

December 6

Ico

Producer Kenji Kaido and director Fumito Ueda

Ico is a 2001 action-adventure video game by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It was directed by Fumito Ueda, who wanted to create a minimalist game based on a "boy meets girl" concept and took four years to develop. The player controls Ico, a boy born with horns, who is locked in an abandoned castle where he frees a young woman. Ico must work with her to escape the castle while protecting her from enemies, assisting her across obstacles, and solving puzzles. Ico introduced several design and technical elements that have influenced subsequent games, including a story told with minimal dialogue, bloom lighting, and key frame animation. It received several awards, including "Game of the Year" nominations and three Game Developers Choice Awards. In 2006, it was re-released in Europe alongside Shadow of the Colossus, the spiritual successor to Ico. A high-definition remaster of the game was included in The Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection for the PlayStation 3. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): Monthly video game article
• Main editors: MASEM
• Promoted: 2008
• Reasons for nomination: 25th anniversary of JP release.
• Support as nominator. Harizotoh9 (talk) 02:59, 1 October 2026 (UTC)
• Support Solid anniversary, overall good choice for the monthly gaming article. QuicoleJR (talk|edits) 12:20, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

December 8

Hilda Dajč

Memorial plaque marking the former residence of Hilda Dajč: "Here lived Hilda Dajč, born 1922. She volunteered to help at the Jewish Hospital. Staro Sajmište, 1941. Murdered 1942."

Hilda Dajč (1922 – 1942) was a Yugoslav Jewish student and Holocaust victim. Her letters from the Sajmište concentration camp are effectively the only surviving documents written by Jewish prisoners held there, and represent one of the few surviving first-person accounts from German-occupied Serbia during the Holocaust. Born in Vienna and raised in Belgrade, Dajč studied architecture at the University of Belgrade. Following Nazi Germany's invasion of Yugoslavia and occupation of Serbia in 1941, she volunteered as a nurse at the Jewish Hospital in Belgrade and, in December 1941, chose to enter the Sajmište concentration camp to provide medical assistance to the prisoners. Between December 1941 and February 1942, Dajč wrote and smuggled four letters to schoolmates outside the camp, describing the hunger, overcrowding, and disease endured by the prisoners. In Spring 1942 she was murdered in a gas van, when German authorities exterminated the camp's remaining Jewish prisoners.(Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): Nothing recent found
• Main editors: @Aeengath:;
• Promoted: June 29, 2026
• Reasons for nomination: 85th anniversary of her voluntary entry into the Sajmište concentration camp
• Support as nominator. CueBallWhisperer (talk) 20:03, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

I mean I guess? But you have to dive pretty deep into the article to understand the specific significance of the date. Why not her birthday on March 22nd? That is only a few months away. Harizotoh9 (talk) 02:35, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

I just went with what was on the potential TFA page. Why not the date she VOLUNTEERED to go into a concentration camp? I've never heard of that before. So to me it's way more significant than her death date.CueBallWhisperer (talk) 02:49, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

• Support per nom. QuicoleJR (talk|edits) 12:24, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

December 15

Brian Eaton

Brian Eaton (15 December 1916 – 17 October 1992) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). During World War II, he was posted to No. 3 Squadron at the beginning of 1943, flying fighter-bombers in North Africa and later command of No. 239 Wing RAF in Italy. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, Distinguished Service Order, Bar, and Silver Star. In the decade following World War II, Eaton led No. 81 Wing in Japan, and No. 78 Wing in Malta. He commanded RAAF Base Williamtown, and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He was later promoted to air vice-marshal, and became Deputy Chief of the Air Staff. Posted to Singapore as Air Officer Commanding (AOC) No. 224 Group RAF in 1967, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath for his work as chief of staff at Headquarters RAF Far East Air Force in 1969. He then served as Air Member for Personnel, before being selected as AOC Operational Command in 1973. Eaton died in 1992 at the age of 75. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): Monthly mil-hist bio
• Main editors: Ian Rose
• Promoted: 2010
• Reasons for nomination: Anniversary of birth, ancient article that seems ignored.
• Support as nominator. Harizotoh9 (talk) 03:05, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

December 22

Title (song)

Meghan Trainor

"Title" is a song by American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor from her 2014 debut extended play of the same name. Kevin Kadish produced the track and wrote it with Trainor. The song is in a doo-wop style with Caribbean influences. Lyrically, Trainor demands that her partner define their relationship more clearly and call her his girlfriend. "Title" received mixed reviews from music critics for its production and rap verse, but some were positive about the lyrics. The song became a trend on the video-sharing service TikTok in 2021. Anthony Phan directed the music video for "Title", which depicts Trainor performing at a Mr. America-style beauty pageant. Trainor performed the song at the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Festival and in sessions for MTV and the National Post, and included it on the set lists of her 2015 concert tours That Bass Tour and MTrain Tour. (This article is part of the featured topics: Meghan Trainor's Billboard Hot 100 entries and Title (album).) (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): Talking to Yourself on November 21
• Main editors: MaranoFan
• Promoted: July 27, 2023
• Reasons for nomination: Trainor's 33rd birthday and 5th anniversary of the music video's release month
• Support as nominator. NØ 04:56, 1 October 2026 (UTC)
• Support. The amount of featured articles we have on Meghan Trainor continues to amaze me... NRP (talk) 01:11, 2 October 2026 (UTC)
• Support. The more featured Trainor articles, the merrier. RedShellMomentum 20:11, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Haven't there been enough Trainor articles featured in the last few years? Surely there are other female pop stars to showcase. ~2026-52575-18 (talk) 07:11, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

This is a year-and-a-half spaced out from the last Trainor one, actually. I am one of the people who contribute articles about other female pop stars too and this date is not clashing with any occasions related to them.--NØ 08:29, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

• Support her birthday is a fitting time for this to be TFA. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 01:54, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

December 25

Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110

Page 5 of the cantata

"Unser Mund sei voll Lachens, BWV 110" ('May our mouth be full of laughter'), BWV 110, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed the Christmas cantata in Leipzig for Christmas Day and first performed it on 25 December 1725. When Bach wrote the music, he was in his third year as Thomaskantor, the church music director of Leipzig. After months with only a few cantata compositions, he embarked on a set of five cantatas for Christmas occasions. In four of these, he used earlier texts published in 1711 by Georg Christian Lehms. The text for this cantata has no pairs of recitative and arias as is common in Baroque opera and contemporary Bach cantatas. Using an older style, it instead features three biblical quotations – verses from Psalm 126, a verse from the Book of Jeremiah about God's greatness, and the angels' song from the Nativity according to the Gospel of Luke – alternating with arias. The closing chorale is from Kaspar Füger's hymn "Wir Christenleut". (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): Ich geh und suche mit Verlangen, BWV 49 on Nov 3, 2026
• Main editors: @Gerda Arendt:
• Promoted: December 30, 2025
• Reasons for nomination: Christmas music
• Support as nominator. CueBallWhisperer (talk) 17:03, 3 October 2026 (UTC)