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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 coordinators will invite discussion on general selection criteria for re-runnable TFAs, and aim to make individual selections within those criteria.
    • 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.

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).

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Currently accepting requests from October 1 to October 31.

Date Article Notes Supports† Opposes†
Nonspecific 1 Kaiser-class battleship 1
Nonspecific 2 Eyebrow Talk 1
Nonspecific 3 Thuggee 1
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October 1 Independence Day (Nigeria) 66th anniversary of independence 4
October 21 Hongwu Emperor 698th birthday 1
October 27 1986 New York Mets season 40th anniversary 1
October 28 Second Battle of Newtonia 162nd anniversary 1

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

Nonspecific date nominations

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Kaiser-class battleship

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SMS Kaiser
SMS Kaiser

The Kaiser class was a German ship class that were built in Germany prior to World War I and served in the Kaiserliche Marine. They were the third class of German dreadnoughts, and the first to feature turbine engines and superfiring turrets. The five ships were Kaiser, Friedrich der Grosse, Kaiserin, Prinzregent Luitpold, and König Albert. All five ships saw action in the North Sea during war; they served together as VI Division of III Battle Squadron. Four were present during the Battle of Jutland. The ships also took part in Operation Albion in the Baltic Sea; during the operation they were reorganized as IV Battle Squadron, under the command of Vice Admiral Wilhelm Souchon. At the end of the war, all five ships were interned at the British naval base in Scapa Flow. On 21 June 1919, they were scuttled to prevent their seizure by the Royal Navy. The ships were subsequently raised and broken up for scrap between 1929 and 1937. (Full article...)

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Eyebrow Talk

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Cover of the first issue, 1914
Cover of the first issue, 1914

Eyebrow Talk was a Chinese monthly literary magazine published in 18 issues from 1914 to 1916. Among the first Chinese literary magazines marketed towards women, and the first to be edited mainly by women, it was founded by Gao Jianhua and Xu Xiaotian, her husband and cousin. The magazine often ran romance stories aimed at women, but contained sexually explicit depictions of women in its advertising, covers, and pictures, some sourced from European erotic postcards. Unlike its contemporaries, Eyebrow Talk's romances often centered on the desires of their female protagonists, frequently including love triangles between the protagonists and multiple men. Its libertine content ran afoul with a government advisory committee, who unanimously voted to ban it in 1916, making it the first Chinese magazine to be banned under obscenity charges. Its association with lowbrow "Mandarin Duck and Butterfly" fiction prevented scholarly research for much of the 20th century. (Full article...)

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Thuggee

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Depiction of Thugs about to strangle a traveller, c. 1837
Depiction of Thugs about to strangle a traveller, c. 1837

Thuggee was a phenomenon of highway robbery in the Indian subcontinent that saw gangs of Thugs murder and rob travellers, often by strangling. During the British colonial era, thuggee came to be represented and popularised as a secret pan-Indian fraternity of ritual stranglers with ancient origins, motivated by fanaticism and bloodlust. In the 1830s, colonial administrator William Henry Sleeman led a policing campaign against thuggee, supported by legal developments that facilitated convictions. The success of the 1839 novel Confessions of a Thug inspired a number of depictions in literature and film, among them Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). Historians have since revised the 19th-century portrayal, generally viewing the Thugs as more or less ordinary criminals, or thuggee as a type of banditry. There is a general consensus among contemporary historians against the colonial-era representation. (Full article...)

  • Support The contentious nature of Thuggee, fraught with the popular notion of a nation-wide cult of Kali, is still rampant today. This would be a great move towards demystifying the false notions in support of the truth of the matter. Amir Ghandi (talk) 21:03, 6 August 2026 (UTC)reply

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Specific date nominations

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October 1

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Independence Day (Nigeria)

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Independence Day is an annual public holiday in Nigeria observed on 1 October to commemorate the country's independence from the United Kingdom in which the formal transfer of sovereignty that took place in Lagos at midnight on 1 October 1960, when the Union Jack was lowered and replaced with Nigeria's green–white–green flag. Princess Alexandra of Kent, representing Elizabeth II, presented the constitutional instruments of independence, and the new federal government formally assumed authority. Since then, Independence Day has been a key date in Nigeria's civic calendar. The President delivers a national broadcast, state governments organise parades and cultural programmes. The anniversary has occasionally been marked by national incidents, such as the suspension of festivities following the 1992 Nigerian Air Force C-130 crash and the October 2010 Abuja bombings. The holiday is legally recognised under the Public Holidays Act 1979, which designates 1 October as Nigeria's national day. (Full article...)

October 13

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Beauty Revealed

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Beauty Revealed
Beauty Revealed

Beauty Revealed is an 1828 self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge. Depicting only the artist's bared breasts surrounded by white cloth, the watercolor portrait miniature is painted on a piece of ivory. Originally backed with paper, it is now in a modern frame. Aged forty when she completed the painting, Goodridge presented the breasts as youthful and individualized, employing a frontal view that showed only the area from the collarbone to just underneath the breasts. She gave the portrait to statesman Daniel Webster, who was a frequent subject and possibly a lover, following the death of his wife; she may have intended to provoke him into marrying her. Although Webster married someone else, his family held onto the portrait until the 1980s, when it was auctioned at Christie's and purchased by Gloria and Richard Manney. The painting was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006. It has been read as a work of erotica, as well as an expression of the artist's confident sexuality. (Full article...)

October 21

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Hongwu Emperor

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Half-length official portrait
Half-length official portrait

The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, reigning from 1368 to 1398. Born into a peasant family in Anhui, Zhu Yuanzhang grew up amid famine, epidemics, and unrest under the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. Orphaned at 16, he briefly lived as a novice monk before joining the Red Turban rebels in 1352. Rising rapidly, he captured Nanjing in 1356, established a regional regime, and defeated rival rebels. In 1368, he proclaimed the Ming dynasty, adopted the era name Hongwu, and expelled the Yuan from China proper. During his 30-year reign, he restored stability after decades of war, strengthened state institutions, promoted agriculture, and maintained a disciplined army while seeking to limit civilian suffering. He died in 1398 and was succeeded by his grandson, the Jianwen Emperor, who was overthrown in 1402 by Zhu Di, later known as the Yongle Emperor. (Full article...)

October 27

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1986 New York Mets season

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Mookie Wilson's two-run at-bat in the tenth inning won Game 6 of the 1986 World Series for the Mets.
Mookie Wilson's two-run at-bat in the tenth inning won Game 6 of the 1986 World Series for the Mets.

The 1986 New York Mets season began on April 8, 1986. It concluded on October 27 with a Mets victory in Game 7 of the 1986 World Series, for their second and most recent World Series title. The Mets had narrowly missed winning the NL East in 1985, but in 1986 were not seriously challenged, winning the division by 21½ games. They defeated the Houston Astros in six games in the NLCS, with the Mets erasing a three run ninth-inning deficit and winning Game 6 in sixteen innings. They played the Boston Red Sox in the World Series, and in Game 6 of that series, trailing three games to two, rallied from two runs down with two outs and none on base in the tenth inning. They won that game on an error by Bill Buckner, winning Game 7 two days later. The 1986 Mets have been described as one of the best teams in MLB history, but their failure to sustain their success has marred the team's legacy. Many team members drank heavily and the 1986 Mets became known for their lifestyle off the field. (Full article...)

I would suggest the opening sentence start with the start date then the end date. I feel the article should include the start date in the lede and in the article itself (it never actually says it). Harizotoh9 (talk) 07:54, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
That's done now.--Wehwalt (talk) 12:53, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

October 28

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Second Battle of Newtonia

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1865 drawing of Price's Raid
1865 drawing of Price's Raid

The Second Battle of Newtonia was fought on October 28, 1864, near Newtonia, Missouri, between cavalry of the Union Army and the rear guard of the Confederate Army of Missouri. In September 1864, the Confederates launched Price's Raid, an attempt to create a popular uprising against Union control of Missouri. After being forced to retreat, the Confederates halted to rest near Newtonia. On the afternoon of the 28th, Union pursuers caught up and surprised the Confederates. The main Confederate army withdrew, leaving a rear guard under Brigadier General Joseph O. Shelby. Shelby initially had a numerical advantage, and used it to outflank Blunt's shorter line. Blunt was considering a retreat shortly before sundown when reinforcements arrived in the form of Brigadier General John B. Sanborn and his brigade. Sanborn joined Blunt's line, and the Union troops counterattacked. Shelby ordered a retreat and was not pursued until October 30. Modern historians credit the Union with a victory at Newtonia. (Full article...)

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