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*'''3 points''': underrepresented topic (Food & Drink), and no similar article within the past six months.--] (]) 04:22, 31 December 2012 (UTC)


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''']''' (born 1942) is a British ], ], and author. His significant scientific works have been a collaboration with ] on ] in the framework of ], and the theoretical prediction that ]s emit radiation, often called ]. He was the ] at the University of Cambridge between 1979 and 2009. Subsequently, he became research director at the university's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology. He is an ] of the ], a lifetime member of the ], and a recipient of the ], the highest civilian award in the United States. Hawking has achieved success with works of ] in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; his '']'' stayed on the British '']'' best-sellers list for a record-breaking 237&nbsp;weeks. Hawking has a ] related to ], a condition that has progressed over the years. He is almost entirely paralysed and communicates through a ]. {{TFAFULL|Stephen Hawking}}</div></div>


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{{A note}} Whichever delegate is scheduling for January 8 should check ] for the latest state of play about discussions concerning article content/quality. ]] 19:03, 18 December 2012 (UTC)


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==Specific date nominations==
* Widely covered physicist on his 70th birthday, 6 points or more --] (]) 10:10, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
**71st birthday, not 70th (1); vital article (4); no scientists in 6 months (2); total '''<s>7 points</s>''' '''''8 points''' (see below)''.]] 10:26, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
:::Thank you for the corrections, I should stay away from math ;) --] (]) 11:34, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' Looks good! A quick skim of the article shows no major changes since the version featured back in September. ] (]) 11:00, 7 December 2012 (UTC)


===February 2===
*'''Oppose''' The article has ''citation needed'' tags, has information in the introduction not mentioned below, and could use some copyediting. ] (]) 13:14, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
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===February 3===
*'''Support''': The cn tags are all in one sentence, placed on separate clauses by a user with a contribs history that shows an obvious POV to push- an put there only a week after the article was promoted; apparently the lead editors haven't gone back and cleaned them up. This is an extremely minor nitpick. The TFA is appropriate, and any minor copyediting can and undoubtably will be completed prior to the main page appearance ]<sup>]</sup> 21:03, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
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::Good faith should indicate that an established user, who says that an assertion is not in the cited source, is familiar with that source. Good faith should also make us reluctant to accuse established users of pushing a POV. Articles appearing on the main page should be free of such concerns. Has anyone active on the article, or this nomination, contacted the user who added the tags? ] (]) 21:22, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
*Hi everybody, I was the editor who took the article though GA and it's various FA stages (which I couldn't have done without the help and support of a large number of other editors) - and it is really extremely gratifying to find out that it is being considered for front-page status. Thank you so much for the nomination. For some general information, the editor who added the citation tags is an admin, and so it should probably be taken seriously. I'd really appriate it if a senior editor would have a go at straightening those sections out. I can certainly put some time into any other concerns raised - Kablammo - can you give me some examples of sections were copyediting would be particularly useful? SandyGeorgia has raised some issues on the talk page and I'm going to potter down and respond to them now. :) ] (]) 21:58, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
::I would be happy to, Fayedizard. I cannot today, but will post them to article talk page, or (if you wish) copyedit myself. Nudge me if you don't hear from me soon. Regards, ] (]) 22:05, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
:::That's great - looking forward to working with you. By the way - I'm( I believe) the significant contributor to the article, and I've never had a front-page before - does that mean we get another point? (I'll be honest, I'm a bit out of my deapth with the process...) ] (]) 22:40, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
:::: Normally, the easy answer would be yes, but there was just a change to the instructions about the nominator point that is still Greek To Me, so I asked for clarification on talk. With 7 points, you won't likely need any more :) ] (]) 22:42, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
::::: The easy answer is still yes. You can claim the point, but no-one can claim it on your behalf - that's not changed. '''8 points'''. ]] 13:05, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''': Saw Hawking at the Paralympic Games in London. Wonderful idea to put him on the front page. Well done Fayedizard and everyone who brought the article to this point. ] (]) 03:50, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''', high quality article, educational and encyclopedic. Also, SCIENCE! &mdash; ''']''' (]) 18:01, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''', definitely. And we really haven't had any scientists for six months? Make that definitely, times two. ]&nbsp;<sup>(]&#124;])</sup> 05:33, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support'''. I participated in the GA and FA efforts so I know the quality of the writing. Recent activity at the article is moving to clean up some niggling worries about the speech synthesizer. I am fully confident the article will be in masterful condition very shortly, in time for TFA. ] (]) 05:54, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' I believe I can without exaggeration say that the whole of ] are very pleased with this nomination and congratulate ] for the excellent leadership in getting the article to this point. (So this is the first scientist in six months, but when last was someone with a disability featured?) ] (]) 07:59, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support'''. - Per "notes". ] <sup>(]|])</sup> 08:03, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
*Note - article is currently tagged with {{tl|Cleanup-list}}). ]] 18:52, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
*:'''Comment''' Tag added today over something far more minor than the overkill of a tag. Seems like making a mountain out of a molehill if any passing disgruntled editor can derail a TFA nom with something like this. ]<sup>]</sup> 22:01, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
::*Please see article talk page: ]'s and ]'s comment on the same matter. Plus SandyGeorgia has listed other problems. and concluded "If the substantive issues here aren't addressed within a few months, this article is on my FAR list." ] (]) 23:02, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
::::And yet it is indeed a Featured Article, and will be for the period including TFA, even if Sandy or someone else takes it to FAR. I, for one, do not think the article is so poorly written that it should be stripped of its FA status. Nonetheless, I appreciate the views of those who think it needs a total rewrite, and I commend any such critics who step up to the task. There is no rule that says an FA must remain unchanged. ] (]) 00:23, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
::::Um, the banner is (I think) relating to a conversation on the talk about (I think) moving some of the lists. The list structure as it is now is the one that it passed FA with. I'm honestly completely confused and would appreciate some more eyes on the matter. :s ] (]) 00:43, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
:::::'''Comment''': I think that some of the parties involved there are creating unneeded drama, and that should have some bearing on this matter; that's all I have to say. Still support TFA, and the list thing probably just needs one list moved down with the others. ]<sup>]</sup> 20:53, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
::::::: On the drama; hear, hear! Best way to avoid that is to comment on content, not editors. ] (]) 20:16, 27 December 2012 (UTC)


===February 4===
*'''Comment''' earlier in the week I rang Hawking's press officer to a) let the team there know this was happening, b) give the team time check that there were no objections to the frontpaging from any of the family c) given them time to look over the article for any inaccuracies and omissions. I rang back today and was (slightly shortly) told there were no problems from their end. I don't think this should necessarily be taken as a ringing testimonial - "no problems" could be anywhere from 'I've taken a quick look and we don't see anything obviously libelous' to 'we've had one of Hawking's colleges check the science', via 'we simple don't care about what you guys on wikipedia do'. I'm noting it here because I was a little nervous of for throwing BLPs at the front page without notifying them first, I'm interested to know if this is standard practice. ] (]) 14:53, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
'''Strong oppose''' The article as it stands does not represent our best work. See the detailed discussion on the talk page about several fairly serious problems with the article. --] (]) 19:23, 19 December 2012 (UTC)


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'''Oppose''' per John. ] (]) 19:37, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Oppose''' I agree with many of the concerns brought up at the talk page. In addition to (relatively minor) prose and MoS issues, I think the coverage is too thin and the article does not meet FA criteria 1b ("comprehensive"). ] (]) 19:58, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' - Absolutely. Totally deserves to be on the main page ] (]) 19:35, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
**Why?--] (]) 09:45, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support'''. FAC inflationists have been complaining that the article isn't comprehensive enough, but I would contend that most of our featured bios these days are much too long and tedious. 50K used to be considered quite lengthy. Ah the good old days! ] (]) 00:16, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
**Would it be long and tedious to explain why this famous scientist is famous? At the moment the article doesn't really do that. --] (]) 09:45, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
** People familiar with FAC don't tend to measure quality or comprehensiveness in terms of KB, but FWIW, the article passed FAC with a mere 2,700 words of prose (shocking for a bio of a person of this caliber); it is now at 3,400 words, which by ]. The article does not yet address why this man is so famous, and we don't measure comprehensiveness of an article based on OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. By the way, who are these "FAC inflationists"? I've always complained about articles that are too long, which is pretty much anything above 7,000 words; is Kaldari opposing those on this page? ] (]) 20:15, 27 December 2012 (UTC)


===February 5===
* '''Update''', the article is slowly being written using the numerous biographies available, with significant inaccuracies, prose infelicities, lack of comprehensiveness, misrepresentation of sources, and a BLP vio found so far. the talk page lists many issues that remain to be addressed, and the article does not yet meet FA standards for prose, comprehensiveness, or survey of high quality sources. are rewriting (I've pretty much done only MOS cleanup and prose redundancy reduction); Brianboulton offered to copyedit later, but text is still being corrected and added. The citation needed tags (still being addressed) had been in place since September, and the original editor has been mostly absent since the article was promoted. An article about a popular figure like Hawking really should be watched. Because the article is now being written, it will eventually need a ] to make sure standards are met. ] (]) 20:09, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Regretful oppose''' for now. Although we really need to get science articles on the main page rather than the pop culture that's been appearing there lately, this article is not good enough to be featured. The article gives way too much weight to his early life and personal life, and does not go into nearly enough detail on his scientific accomplishments, which is arguably the most important section. This is not to mention the incredibly ugly "in popular culture" section, which, frankly, does not deserve its own section. Simply, the necessary content on his discoveries is not here, and the article gives undue weight to minor curiosities, such as the Thorne-Hawking bet. However, I am almost inclined to support this due to the fact that it is a science article, and we need ''many'' more of those on the main page, rather than this popculture-cruft, and that the FA standards are often impossible for technical science articles to meet. ] (] • ]) 00:38, 28 December 2012 (UTC)


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* I am not in favor of the notion of running two bios back-to-back, and Nixon follows this with considerable support. Further, this article cannot be brought to anywhere close to FA standards by January 8. ] (]) 18:16, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
::Your standards are high, but we still have 10 days until then. Two, three, and even four bios in a row have been scheduled in the past, for example: in September 5-7, 14-16, in October 12-13, 23-26, in November 4-5, 11-12, in December 1-2, 13-14, 24-25


===February 6===
*'''Regretful oppose''' for now per StringTheory11. And per my comment . More time is needed to work on the article, which (despite the FAC and despite the excellent work done to bring it to the level it reached) is not yet as comprehensive or detailed as it should be. ] (]) 00:07, 2 January 2013 (UTC)


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''']''' (1913–1994) was the ], serving from 1969 to 1974. He graduated from ] in 1934 and ] in 1937, returning to California to practice law. He served in the ] during ]. Nixon was elected to the ] in ] and to the ] in ]. He served for eight years as vice president, from 1953 to 1961, and waged an unsuccessful presidential campaign in ], narrowly losing to ]. In 1968, ] for president and was ]. He initially escalated the ], but ended US involvement in 1973. Nixon's ] to the People's Republic of China in 1972 opened diplomatic relations between the two nations. Though he presided over ], he scaled back manned space exploration. He was ] in 1972 despite a series of revelations in the ], which cost Nixon much of his political support in his second term, and on August 9, 1974 he resigned as president. In retirement, Nixon's work as an ], authoring several books and undertaking many foreign trips, helped to rehabilitate his public image. {{TFAFULL|Richard Nixon}}</div></div>
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*'''11 points''' Centennial of birth (6) level 4 vital article (4) 1 year FA (1).--] (]) 07:03, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
* '''Support'''. - Obviously. ] <sup>(]|])</sup> 07:51, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
* '''Support''' 100th birthday! <span class="nowrap"><font color="purple">Canuck</font><small><sup><font color="purple">89</font> ]</small></sup> <small>08:34, December 6, 2012 (UTC)</small></span>
* '''Support'''. - Obviously. --] (]) 09:33, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
* '''Support''' important topic. --''']]]''' 09:55, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Comment''' blurb is about 1,570 characters, or 25% over the standard target length of 1,200 - Wehwalt, would you mind trimming it when you get a chance? Thanks, ]] 10:00, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
::I've cut it some.--] (]) 16:14, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
:::Now <s>1,236</s> 1,204 characters. ] (]) 19:32, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''': No question. Points probably irrelevant here, but does the 20-day rule for noms with 5+ points not apply? ] (]) 11:00, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
**Yes, but the rule is 20 ''unscheduled'' days, not 20 days. At the time of writing, the next unscheduled day is 22nd December, and the 20th unscheduled day is 11th January, so this high-scoring (record score?) nom is legit. ]] 11:07, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support'''; very much looking forward to seeing such a prominent article featured. ] (]) 11:34, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''': Centennial is a one-time opportunity not to be missed, topic timely and interesting. Plenty of time to fix any minor glitches, none of which are significant to the issue of this excellent article being TFA for the date stated. ]<sup>]</sup> 20:37, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
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Please audit the prose; a search reveals 16 instances of the word "however" in (See and for discussions of the overuse of however.) Although this issue was brought to Wehwalt's attention in ] after DCGeist copyedited an article and among other improvements, reduced the uses of "however" from 12 to 3, the overuse of "however" persists. Several of Wehwalt's recent FAs have improved on this score, but the older ones should be audited; it shouldn't require more than a few moments to review each FA. ] (]) 16:29, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
: Additionally, captions need to be audited for final punctuation throughout. The oversized images throughout will likely get objections when it runs on the mainpage (I see no reason for them to be oversized-- this isn't an article about art, for example, where there is a need to examine images closely since the article is about them). A bigger concern (back on prose) and an indication that a prose review is called for: see the image in ] and the caption: "Nixon chats with a future voter at the Washington Senators' 1969 Opening Day, with Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn (to the right of Nixon), Senators owner Bob Short and Nixon aide Jack Brennan (in uniform)." The caption misidentifies several people (and the reference to a child as a "future voter" is unnecessarily cutesy and unencyclopedic). <p> Another sample, the opening blurb: "In retirement, Nixon's work authoring several books and undertaking many foreign trips helped to rehabilitate his public image as an elder statesman." Why "many"; what does that add? Why not just "rehabilitated his image"? His image problem that needed rehab wasn't about being an "elder statesman". Also, "Although Nixon initially escalated America's involvement in the ], he subsequently ended U.S. involvement in 1973." "Subsequently" is another overused word-- the 1973 seems to cover it. ] (]) 18:49, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
::: Update, one ] (]) 19:06, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
:::: Thank you. You also incorrectly changed an image format which had consensus, and you lack consensus to change the text of the caption as I object. Come on Sandy. Let's both walk away, shall we?--] (]) 19:33, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
:: The article below (]) also has 16 instances of "however" in . It's a new FA (August 2012) Should all articles be checked for these issues? ] (]) 21:20, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
::: All articles (here and at FAC) should be checked for lots of things, so I'm not sure I understand the question. Other than to say, "of course"; lots of stuff is sliding through. ] (]) 21:54, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
::::Just as a note I've looked over ] and reduced the ''however''s to five. I will read over my changes tomorrow to see if I've changed the meaning. Looking at the links above it seems the problem is misuse and overuse - I don't think it's now mis-used or overused in that article. However,{{sic}} I don't think a simple word count is helpful. ] (]) 22:21, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
:::::I will of course check the article before it runs, and will give Sandy's suggestions the respect they deserve. (and yes, I'm aware that Sandy's trying to provoke conflict here, so the mild snarkiness in the last comment is the most she's going to get out of me)--] (]) 02:03, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
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*'''Support''', high quality educational and encyclopedic article on a dead politician, who has passed on, is no more, has ceased to be, bereft of life, may he rest in peace. &mdash; ''']''' (]) 18:09, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
::<small>Come on, he was a person, not a ] ;) ]&nbsp;<sup>(]&#124;])</sup> 05:31, 10 December 2012 (UTC)</small>
:::Yay, someone got ]!!! :) &mdash; ''']''' (]) 17:49, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' Fantastic article, centennial anniversary -- of course! ]&nbsp;<sup>(]&#124;])</sup> 05:31, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Comment''' I had not noticed that the instruction set had been massively changed without significant discussion. I am reluctant to allow the article to run given the arbitrary nature of the changes, and now, of the instructions.--] (]) 07:22, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
::Where are we if the instructions (of minor importance to me) are in the way of showing an important historic person on his centenary? --] (]) 09:31, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
:::I see no reason to go through 24 hours of hell which this article on the main page will inevitably entail to give legitimacy to an arbitrary process. The article will still be there.--] (]) 09:37, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support'''. I'm confident that the article will be in perfect order by the birth centennial date, which is not to be missed. ] (]) 19:41, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' excellent date connection, though the image placement is far from ideal (IMHO). ]&nbsp;<sup>]] ]]</sup> 20:34, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
::The image placement does not follow the ] ("Avoid placing images on the left at the start of any section or subsection"), but this must be a TFA tradition ;) --] (]) 23:43, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
::: get easily termed "disruption of the TFA process", --] (]) 09:58, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
::: Remember that "avoid" does not mean "never". It is just the less-preferred path. Due to the orientation of some images, and their necessary placement in text, sometimes the best solution is to not follow that guideline. An example of this is , as McKinley faces right in the cartoon, it must be a left-side image, and the image is best placed there as the image illustrates the "straddle bug" text nicely. This is something we trust editors with, and the article passed FAC like this, not that this makes it perfect but it's got something going for it.--] (]) 11:12, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
::::I remember. The guideline says "avoid", that translates to me to: generally it is better "right" but in specific cases "left" is preferable. The current TFA format, however, has it always "left" (at least to my observation so far), regardless of the picture orientation, --] (]) 11:44, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' When was the last time we had an article worth 11 points? ] (]) 14:10, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' ] (]) 15:14, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' - No brainer as far as I am concerned! -- '''<span style="text-shadow:7px 7px 8px Black;">]<sup>]</sup></span>''' 05:31, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' and urge Wehwalt's preferences regarding the image be followed. ] (]) 19:33, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Question''' Why don't the images have alt text? --] (]) 19:39, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
:Alt text is not a FAC requirement. ] (]) 19:52, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
::No reason why something we promote as our best work '''shouldn't''' have alt text though, right? Or perhaps we should forget those viewers who read our FAs with screen readers. ] (]) 20:00, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
:::Well, criterion 2 of the ] requires the article follow the ], which states on ] that "Images should include an alt attribute..." ] (]) 20:31, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
::::Alt text is not a requirement but I will not oppose someone adding them. Or we can choose not to run it :) (given the grief I'm already taking on multiple pages over this article, I'd be happier if it didn't, actually).--] (]) 22:21, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' seems pretty obviously a good idea to me. ] <small>(] • ])</small> 19:42, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Oppose''' mainly per the eccentric image placement policy in this article; giant images at the start of each section make the article unreadable on mobile devices, and the lack of alt text means that screen readers won't describe the images, in contravention of ]. Fixable? Yes. Our finest work that we would want to showcase? Not quite. --] (]) 09:38, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
::I'm not arguing with you, John, but I'm wondering if someone could take a look at the article on a smartphone and see what's going on? I'll do the same. I'll see if I can remember how to take a screenshot. It may be a problem with what browser is used.--] (]) 10:00, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
::: I just did. There's a problem when the mobile browser is used, though it's OK if the user happens to emulate the desktop appearance, which I always do. I'll play with it in a sandbox. If anyone is technically adept at these things please feel free to come to my talk, otherwise don't expect results soon. I have bronchitis and am also not motivated to edit right now because of hostile environment (see above).--] (]) 17:00, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
::::The centering of the image is causing the problem. I moved the first image left and it works on the mobile browser. John, as you opposed on this basis and I imagine checked it before doing so, can you confirm this? There's a bit of whitespace on right, so I will continue to play with it and when I find something satisfactory I will adapt it for the other images.--] (]) 17:34, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
::::::Rather than change it unnecessarily, I brought it up on the IRC channel #wikimedia-mobile. I discussed it with Max Semenik, who is one of Wikimedia's software developers, and he filed a bug report which is available . He said it would be discussed today, he had no idea whether if it would be fixed by January 9. I will keep an eye on the matter, and if time is getting close, shift the images left or right (alternating has been suggested) and they will not appear as distorted.--] (]) 16:13, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
:::::::::The developers have fixed the issue, and so the images appear now without distortion in the mobile platform, I just checked my iPhone and it looks fine. The explanation seems to be "We were setting a max-width but the height was left at the implicit original height of the image. Adding height: auto resolves this by keeping the aspect ratio neat." per .--] (]) 18:22, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Oppose''' due to the image placement. It may not violate any guideline ''per se'', but it still makes the article cluttered and hard to read. <small>(Call it the inverse of ].)</small> -- ''']]''' <big>]</big> 20:31, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

===January 10===
====Metropolitan Railway====
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The ''']''' opened the world's first underground line on 10&nbsp;January 1863, connecting the mainline railway termini at Paddington, Euston and King's Cross to London's financial heart in ] using gas-lit wooden carriages hauled by steam locomotives. The railway was soon extended and completed the ] in 1884, but the most important route became the line to {{stnlnk|Verney Junction}} in Buckinghamshire, more than 50&nbsp;miles (80&nbsp;kilometres) from London. Electric traction was introduced in 1905 and by 1907 ] operated most of the services. The Railway developed land for housing and after World War I promoted housing estates near the railway with the "]" brand. On 1&nbsp;July 1933, the Metropolitan Railway was amalgamated with the railways of the ] and the capital's tramway and bus operators to form the ]. {{TFAFULL|Metropolitan Railway}}</div></div>

On 10 January it will be the 150th anniversary of the opening of London Underground's first line by the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon. There are four points for the anniversary, and one point as I am a significant contributor and I have not previously had a TFA. I'm not claiming any 'similar article' points as we had ] on 13 November&nbsp;— although that's placed in the ''Geography and places'' section on ] and the previous article to appear from the ''Transport'' section was ] on 25 August&nbsp;— therefore '''5 points'''. ] (]) 12:59, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

*'''Support''' Wonderful choice, given the anniversary, historical aspects, iconic stature of subject, and face it, Trains to Underground was a significant step. ]<small><sup>]</sup></small> 13:24, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''', excellent date selection, educational, encyclopedic, high value for the site. &mdash; ''']''' (]) 17:14, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' Global significance & per above ] (]) 17:18, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
* '''Support'''. An excellent choice. ] <sup>(]|])</sup> 08:00, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
* '''Support''' ....for all the trainspotters out there....] (] '''·''' ]) 19:36, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''', per Cirt, - moved another train article to later, --] (]) 08:00, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''', timely, major centennial, major technology innovation, highly significant. ]<sup>]</sup> 20:50, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support'''. Definitely, a no-brainer given the extremely history value of this anniversary (the opening of the world's first underground railway). ] (]) 21:06, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Comment''' (not supporting because I have also contributed to the article) Could I suggest that the ] be used instead of the photograph of the 1920s electric locomotive. The drawing is much closer in date to the opening and shows the construction of the line, its use of steam engines and the ] track.--] (]) 02:11, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
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:I have been concerned that that drawing has several inaccuracies and has been commonly used as an image of the Metropolitan opening when it's set a few years later. It is atmospheric, but I have problems making out details of that image (the one on the left above) at the 125px size for the Main Page — I think the train is lost. However, a tighter crop (right above) perhaps shows the details better? How do those images show on other people*s monitors? ] (]) 21:34, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
::I'm concerned about the enormous amount of space around the train in the drawing and as shown in the crop, that I think is down to artistic licence/marketing. How about a different crop? ] (]) 13:12, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
]:I've changed the image and left the original one here in case anyone has a reason not to use the new one. ] (]) 09:13, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
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*Looks good to me; '''support'''. ] (]) 17:18, 29 December 2012 (UTC)


===January 14=== ===February 10===
====Adelaide leak====
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The ''']''' was the revelation to the press of a dressing-room incident during the third ] ] of the "]" series. During the course of play on 14 January 1933, the Australian Test captain ] was struck over the heart by a ] by ]. On his return to the dressing room, Woodfull was visited by the England manager ] who enquired after Woodfull's health, but to Warner's embarrassment, the latter said he did not want to speak to him owing to England's Bodyline tactics. The matter became public knowledge when someone present leaked the exchange to the press; such leaks were practically unknown at the time. In the immediate aftermath, many people assumed ], a full-time journalist, was responsible. Fingleton later wrote that ], Australia's star batsman, disclosed the story. Bradman always denied this, and continued to blame Fingleton. Woodfull's earlier public silence on the tactics had been interpreted as approval; the leak was significant in persuading the Australian public that Bodyline was unacceptable. {{TFAFULL|Adelaide leak}}</div></div>


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Two points for 80th anniversary of the incident, one point for promotion over a year ago (February 2011). However, last sports article scheduled is for 22 December, so loses two points (the last cricket article was October 13). So that makes '''1 point''' I think. ] (]) 23:27, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''': Good anniversary, and the Dec 22 article is much different from this one.--] (]) 01:00, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''', high quality article and good date relevance. &mdash; ''']''' (]) 18:03, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' per the above, - not only sports, also press, not really similar, --] (]) 10:00, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' Unique topic, interesting. ]<sup>]</sup> 20:48, 21 December 2012 (UTC)


===January 15=== ===February 12===
====Hobey Baker====
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''']''' (1892–1918) was an American amateur athlete of the early twentieth century. Considered the first American star in ] by the ], he was also an accomplished ] player. Born into a prominent family from ], he enrolled at ] in 1910. Baker excelled on the university's ] and ] teams, and became a noted amateur hockey player for the ] in New York City. He was a member of three national championship teams, for football in 1911 and hockey in 1912 and 1914, and helped the St. Nicholas Club win a national amateur championship in 1915. Baker graduated from Princeton in 1914 and worked for ] until he enlisted in the ]. During World War I he served with the ] and the ]s before being promoted to captain and named commander of the ]. Baker died in December 1918 after a plane he was test-piloting crashed, hours before he was due to leave France and return to America. In 1921, Princeton named its new hockey arena the ]. The ] is presented annually to the best collegiate hockey player in the United States. {{TFAFULL|Hobey Baker}}</div></div>


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Date relevant to article topic = 1 point. Similar article not showed in over 6 months. (The similar article is the Hockey Hall of Fame) = 2 points.--] (]) 21:18, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''', I don't recall seeing something too similar in a while, good relevant date, high quality article, recently promoted in 2012. &mdash; ''']''' (]) 16:15, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
**There was another American sports biography article on 13 December. ] (]) 14:30, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
***Yes, but that was of a sport more unique to USA, ], and this is of a sport more known in other countries, ]. Good choice to show that variety and diversity on the main page. &mdash; ''']''' (]) 20:04, 16 December 2012 (UTC)


===February 19===
Please add to the summary chart at the top of the page; this doesn't show in TOC. ] (]) 20:14, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' Nice to see a hockey article <span class="nowrap"><font color="green">Canuck</font><small><sup><font color="maroon">89</font> ]</small></sup> <small>05:29, December 17, 2012 (UTC)</small></span>
*'''1 point at most''' as sports biographies are sports biographies, and TFAR does not sub-divide similarity by sport (and certainly not by whether or not sportsmen are in a hall of fame). I note also that a sports article is nominated for 14th January and that, if Kenneth Walker runs on 5th January, Baker would be the third US airman killed in battle to appear within 6 weeks. Blurb expanded to proper length, years of birth and death added, full names cut. ]] 11:02, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Weak oppose''': Article seems suitable for TFA, but we seem to be pretty sports-heavy, particularly if Adelaide Leak runs the previous day. Maybe next month? ]<sup>]</sup> 22:46, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
* It would be sub-optimal to run two sports articles back-to-back, and one is proposed for the 14th; why is this article not proposed in one of the non-date-specific slots, to give the delegates some leeway on choice of date? Those slots are empty. Also, point tally would be negative when we substract for similar articles (14th, and airmen). Also, there are four biographies on the page now, back-to-back sports, and three airmen killed in battle in a little over a month; delegates will have to overlook something that has community support to maintain mainpage diversity. ] (]) 14:22, 28 December 2012 (UTC)


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===January 18===
====Over There (Fringe)====
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===February 20===
"''']'''" is the two-part ] ] of the ] science fiction drama series '']''. Both parts were written by ]-winning screenwriter ], together with ]s ] and ]. Goldsman also served as director. ''Fringe''{{'}}s premise is based on the idea of two ], our own and the Other Side, each of which contains historical idiosyncrasies. The two universes began to clash in 1985, after ] (]) stole the parallel universe version of his son, ], following his own son's death. The finale's narrative recounts what happens when Peter (]) is taken back to the Other Side by his real father, dubbed ] (Noble). ] agent ] (], ''pictured'') and Walter lead a team of former ] test subjects to retrieve him, after discovering that Peter is an unwitting part of Walternate's plans to bring about the destruction of our universe using an ancient ]. Part one aired on May 13, 2010 to an estimated 5.99&nbsp;million viewers, while part two broadcast a week later to 5.68&nbsp;million. Both episodes received overwhelmingly positive reviews. {{TFAFULL|Over There (Fringe)}}</div></div>


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2 points -- Jan 18 will be the series finale of the American science fiction series '']'', so I thought I'd give it a good send-off (1 pt for date relevance). This article was promoted in July 2011 (1 pt). As far as I can tell, no television episode will have appeared within a month of this date. This is the first time I've nominated an article that I've significantly contributed to, though ] ran earlier this year. ''']''' ]] 18:54, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Comment''' agree with calculation at 2 points. ], though. ]] 19:09, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
:*I found three link issues, which are now all resolved (one citation was removed entirely as the corresponding sentence was backed up by another source). Thanks, ''']''' ]] 19:29, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Weak oppose''':We just ran a South Park episode; seems like another TV series is not a priority. Nothing personal, just seems like we have something more interesting out there that has more potential points. ]<sup>]</sup> 20:46, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
:*I understand your concerns. But just looking at the other potential TFAs in January (4 historical biographies, one sports incident, and ]), I think this article would actually be adding some diversity. ''']''' ]] 21:51, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Oppose''': I have to agree with Montanabtw; I'd like to think there is a large enough variety of featured content left to make the front page without having two television episodes run within five weeks of each other. Perhaps not...--] (]) 09:03, 30 December 2012 (UTC)


===January 26=== ===February 22===
====Douglas MacArthur====
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''']''' (1880–1964) was an American general who played a prominent role in the ] during ]. He received the ], and was one of only five men to rise to the rank of ] in the U.S. Army, and was the only man to become a ] in the ]. After graduating first in his class from ] in 1903, he participated in the 1914 ] and served on the ] during ], becoming the U.S. Army's youngest and most highly decorated major general. Thereafter he held a variety of posts, including ]. He retired in 1937, but was recalled to active duty during World War II. After the ], he ] to Australia, where he became Supreme Commander, ]. He fulfilled a famous pledge to return to the Philippines, and officially accepted Japan's surrender on 2&nbsp;September 1945. He oversaw the ] from 1945 to 1951, implementing many reforms, and led the ] in the ] until President ] ] in April 1951. {{TFAFULL|Douglas MacArthur}}</div></div>


===February 23===
'''3 points''': Vital article (4 points) + date relevance (1 point) - another article on a Medal of Honor winner (Walker on 5 January) (2 points). After MacArthur returned to the United States in 1951, his former staff and subordinates began gathering together annually at his penthouse at the Waldorf Towers in New York to celebrate his birthday. After his death, they continued to hold a reunion every year, but at varying locations, including a visit to Australia in 1974 hosted by Sir ]. ] (]) 19:59, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
:Blurb tweaked to c.1,200 characters, feel free to tinker if you feel I've got the balance wrong. ]] 20:30, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
**I've tweaked it. 1,194 characters, including spaces. I'd like to mention that his Dad got the medal of honor too, but don't have the characters... ] (]) 19:52, 20 December 2012 (UTC)


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'''Comment''': Haven't we had a lot of military figures recently? Birthday is an obvious date, just wondering if we have been a little heavy on military officers, particularly American ones? This isn't an oppose, just a question> ]<sup>]</sup> 22:44, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
* There were two in December (Jesse Brown and William the Conqueror), and this will make it two in January (with Kenneth Walker). I am one of the guilty parties who writes a lot of military biographies. MacArthur is probably the best known though, and I'm sure the article will attract a great deal of interest. ] (]) 17:10, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
*::True enough about interest, and William the Conqueror is a dramatically different character; just thought there'd been a lot of 20th century military articles recently, so figured I'd raise the issue in case it was an issue. ]<sup>]</sup> 18:36, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Comment''' I would have run this on 5 April 2014 (fifty years since death) as there's more date relevance, but I've got no objection to this nom either. ''']''' <sup>(])</sup> 23:50, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Support''' MacArthur is quite well known and accomplished a great many things, so there are a number of dates that this would work for. I would be fine with this running on the date suggested. I copyedited the blurb a bit. '''<font color="navy">]</font>''' ''(<font color="green">]</font>)'' 06:35, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Oppose'''. The article has always been too hagiographic. Too often it gives Big Mac the podium with long quotes that are not his most famous. (1. "By profession I am a soldier..." 2. "My strategic conception for the Pacific Theater..." 3. "The Japanese people since the war..." 4. "For five hours I toured the front..." 5. "I am closing my 52 years..." 6. "The shadows are lengthening...") Only the fifth quote should be present, and it should be trimmed down to the most famous bit: "...I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." I'm surprised that the biography does not include one of his more famous quotes about the "misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." That one seems to me more applicable to modern times than rah-rah sentiments about the "hordes of death" and "the battalions of life". In general, the lengthy quotes should be taken, not here. The bare statement in Misplaced Pages's voice, "a later generation would rediscover his philosophy of war, and see it as far-sighted", is just too much, as there is nothing like consensus on Mac's controversial legacy. The word "relief" repeatedly used for him getting fired by Truman is a powder puff replacement for the club Truman used. At the same time, the "Legacy" section does not emphasize quite enough how much respect is given MacArthur today for his guidance over occupied Japan. ] (]) 01:38, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
**The word "relief" is technically correct; we went over this ground repeatedly with the dismissal article. It is not true though, that Truman personally relieved him. ] (]) 04:47, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
*'''Oppose''' per Binksternet. I see a lot of unresolved discussion on the article talk page from months ago which could if pursued resolve the issues with this article. I don't feel right meantime in promoting this as our best work. --] (]) 09:33, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

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Currently accepting requests from February 1 to March 3.

Date Article Notes Supports Opposes
Nonspecific 1 Benjamin F. McAdoo African-American for Black History Month 3
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February 3 Claire Redfield Aniversary of Resident Evil – Code: Veronica 1
February 4 Prostate cancer TFA re-run from 2006. World Cancer Day 2
February 5 Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. TFA re-run from 2015. 150th birthday 1
February 6 John Silva Meehan 235th birthday 2
February 9 Japanese battleship Tosa Centenary of sinking 1
February 10 Siege of Baghdad 767th anniversary 2
February 12 Ragnar Garrett 125th birthday 1
February 19 Huaynaputina 425th anniversary of eruption 1
February 20 French colonization of Texas 340th anniversary. TFA rerun 2
February 22 Eddie Gerard 135th birthday 1
February 23 Donald Forrester Brown 135th birthday 1

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Benjamin F. McAdoo

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Benjamin F. McAdoo (1920 – 1981) was an American architect mainly active in the Seattle area. Born in Pasadena, California, he was inspired to study architecture by a mechanical drawing class and the work of Paul R. Williams. After working as a draftsman for local architectural firms and the Corps of Engineers, he pursued his Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Washington. The first licensed Black architect in the state of Washington, his work featured a modernist aesthetic influenced by the Northwest Regional style. After designing a number of low-income houses and apartments throughout the 1950s, he was hired by the Agency for International Development to design modular houses in Jamaica. He returned to Seattle after a period of work in Washington, D.C., and pursued civic commissions. Outside of work, he participated in the NAACP, hosted a weekly radio show on racial issues for several years, and unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Washington House of Representatives. (Full article...)

  • Most recent similar article(s): I cannot find a recent article on an architect at TFA, though correct me if I'm off base here.
  • Main editors: Generalissima
  • Promoted: 16 November 2024
  • Reasons for nomination: I think it would be nice to have an article on African-American history in February to mark Black History Month in the United States & Canada.

Coordinator note: The character limits for TFA blurbs are between 925 and 1,025 including spaces. The draft blurb above is 1,027 characters and needs a coupe trimming if the nomination is to be valid. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:32, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

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February 2

James Joyce

Joyce, c. 1918Joyce, c. 1918

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. He is best known for his short story collection Dubliners, and for his novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Together with Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson, he is credited with the development of the stream of consciousness technique in which the same weight is given to both the internal world of the mind and the external world of events and circumstances as factors shaping the actions and views of fictional characters. His fictional universe is firmly rooted in Dublin and reflects his family life and the events and friends and enemies from his school and college days. In this, he became both one of the most cosmopolitan and local of all the prominent English language modernists. (Full article...)

  • Most recent similar article(s): Stanley Green (historical biography)
  • Main editors: Wtfiv
  • Promoted: September 13, 2004; saved at FAR in 2006 and in 2021
  • Reasons for nomination: Re-run (hasn't appeared on the main page in over 20 years). Also 143 years since birth

Coordinator note: The character limits for TFA blurbs are between 925 and 1,025 including spaces. The draft blurb above is 1,027 characters and needs a couple trimming if the nomination is to be valid. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:34, 17 December 2024 (UTC) @Gog the Mild: fixed. 750h+ 17:06, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

February 3

Claire Redfield

Claire Redfield is a fictional character in Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan), a survival horror video game series created by the Japanese company Capcom. She was first introduced as one of two player characters in Resident Evil 2 (1998) alongside Leon S. Kennedy. The character was initially conceived as a blonde motorcyclist named "Elza Walker" for the prototype of the game, but her name and role were changed for the final build to connect its story to that of the original. During the events of Resident Evil 2, Claire arrives in the Midwestern United States town of Raccoon City, which has been overrun by zombies, to find her missing brother Chris. Claire is the protagonist of several Resident Evil games, novels, and films, and has appeared in other franchises, including Monster Hunter and Teppen. In the live-action Resident Evil films, Claire has been portrayed by Ali Larter and Kaya Scodelario. (Full article...)

Coordinator note: The character limits for TFA blurbs are between 925 and 1,025 including spaces. The draft blurb above is 1,234 characters and needs trimming if the nomination is to be valid. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:36, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gog the Mild Done. Thanks! 🍕BP!🍕 (🔔) 17:06, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
Whoops! I missed the 21 Jan nom. Yeah, sorry B P but the two of them within two weeks is not going to happen. Give it another 3 or 4 months and chance your arm again. Which potentially leaves the date open for the train crash. Which I already have on my list to look at wearing a different hat. Don't go away folks, I'll be back. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:16, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

February 4

Prostate cancer

Diagram of prostate tumor pressing on urethraDiagram of prostate tumor pressing on urethra

Prostate cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate. It is often detected through blood tests for prostate-specific antigen, followed by a biopsy. Most prostate tumors cause no health problems, and are managed with surveillance. Dangerous tumors can be surgically removed or destroyed with radiation therapy. Those whose cancer spreads receive hormone therapy, targeted therapy, and eventually chemotherapy. Most tumors are confined to the prostate, and 99% of men survive 10 years post-diagnosis. Those whose tumors have metastasized to distant body sites have a poorer prognosis; 30–40% are still alive five years after diagnosis. Each year 1.2 million men are diagnosed with prostate cancer and 350,000 die of the disease, making it the second-leading cause of cancer in men. Prostate tumors were first described in the mid-19th century. Hormone therapies were developed in the mid-20th century, resulting in Nobel Prizes for their developers Charles Huggins and Andrzej Schally. (Full article...)

February 5

Marcus Ward Lyon Jr.

Marcus Ward Lyon Jr.

Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. (February 5, 1875 – May 19, 1942) was an American mammalogist, bacteriologist, and pathologist. He was born into a military family and collected local wildlife around his father's army posts. He studied at George Washington University while working part-time at the United States National Museum, receiving a Ph.D. in 1913. Lyon published many papers on mammalogy, formally describing six species, three genera, and one family. In 1919, he moved to South Bend, Indiana, to join a newly opened clinic. He began to publish medical studies but continued his work in mammalogy, with a particular focus on the local fauna of Indiana. He published more than 160 papers during his career. Lyon became a major in the Medical Reserve Corps during World War I and was appointed president of the American Society of Mammalogists from 1931 to 1932. He was a member of Sigma Xi, the Society of American Bacteriologists, the Indiana Academy of Science, and the Biological Society of Washington. (Full article...)

  • Most recent similar article(s): Mary Anning was TFA May 21
  • Main editors: Maky
  • Promoted: March 2, 2013
  • Reasons for nomination: 150th birthday. Re-run from 2015. TFA blurb from it's last run, with some modifications and reduction of character count.
    • Coordinator comment: Given the large number of FA bios yet to receive their outing on the main page, is there a pressing reason for this worthy but unexceptional article to be re-run? Gog the Mild (talk) 23:10, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

February 6

John Silva Meehan

John Silva Meehan

John Silva Meehan was an American publisher, printer, and newspaper editor. Born in New York City on February 6, 1790, he served in the US Navy during the War of 1812. He then moved to Philadelphia, publishing a Baptist religious journal. When the firm moved to Washington, D.C. in 1822, Meehan edited and published a Baptist weekly newspaper. In late 1825 he purchased the City of Washington Gazette, renaming it the United States' Telegraph and taking a partisan stance. He was appointed as librarian of Congress in 1828. A large fire in December 1851 destroyed much of the Library of Congress's collection; Meehan oversaw its reconstruction. The election of Abraham Lincoln prompted Meehan's removal in 1861, and he died suddenly in 1863. Historians were critical of Meehan's tenure, noting that he deferred to the Joint Committee on the Library for policy, did not change the library's catalog system, and failed to make progress in transforming the institution into a true national library. (Full article...)

February 9

Japanese battleship Tosa

Tosa at Nagasaki on 31 July 1922Tosa at Nagasaki on 31 July 1922

Tosa was a planned battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Designed by Yuzuru Hiraga, Tosa was to be the first of two Tosa class ships. Displacing 39,900-long-ton (40,540 t) and armed with ten 410 mm (16.1 in) guns, these warships would have brought Japan closer to its goal of an "Eight-four" fleet (eight battleships and four battlecruisers). All work on Tosa was halted after the Washington Naval Conference and the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty. As the vessel had to be destroyed in accordance with the terms of the treaty, it was subjected to various tests to gauge the effectiveness of Japanese weaponry before being scuttled exactly one hundred years ago (9 February 1925). (Full article...)

February 10

Siege of Baghdad

Siege of Baghdad

The siege of Baghdad took place in early 1258 when a large army under Hulegu, a prince of the Mongol Empire, attacked Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Hulegu had been sent by his brother, the Mongol khan Möngke, to conquer Persia. He expected Baghdad's ruler, Caliph al-Musta'sim, to reinforce his army, but this did not happen. Provoked by al-Musta'sim's arrogance, Hulegu decided to overthrow him. The Mongol army of over 138,000 men routed a sortie by flooding their camp, and besieged the city, which was left with around 30,000 troops. After Mongol siege engines breached Baghdad's walls, al-Musta'sim surrendered on 10 February, and was later executed. The Mongol army pillaged the city for a week; the number of deaths is unknown, but Hulegu estimated a total of 200,000. The siege, often seen as the end of the Islamic Golden Age, was in reality not era-defining: Baghdad later prospered under Hulegu's Ilkhanate. (Full article...)

February 12

Ragnar Garrett

Ragnar Garrett

Ragnar Garrett (12 February 1900 – 4 November 1977) was Chief of the General Staff in the Australian Army from 1958 to 1960. He completed staff training in England just as the Second World War broke out, joined the Second Australian Imperial Force, and commanded the 2/31st Battalion in England before seeing action with Australian brigades in Greece and Crete in 1941. Promoted to colonel the following year, he held senior positions with I Corps in New Guinea and II Corps on Bougainville in 1944–1945. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his staff work. After the war, he served two terms as commandant of the Staff College, Queenscliff, in 1946–1947 and 1949–1951. Between these appointments he was posted to Japan with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force. He took charge of Western Command in August 1951, became Deputy Chief of the General Staff in January 1953, and took over Southern Command as a lieutenant general in October 1954. He was knighted in 1959. (Full article...)

February 19

Huaynaputina

Huaynaputina is a volcano in a volcanic plateau in southern Peru. Lying in the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, it was formed by the subduction of the oceanic Nazca plate under the continental South American plate. Huaynaputina is a large volcanic crater, lacking an identifiable mountain profile, with an outer stratovolcano and three younger volcanic vents within an amphitheatre-shaped structure that is either a former caldera or a remnant of glacial erosion. The volcano has erupted dacitic magma. In the Holocene, Huaynaputina has erupted several times, including on 19 February 1600 – the largest eruption ever recorded in South America. Witnessed by people in the city of Arequipa, it killed at least 1,000 people in the region, wiped out vegetation, buried the surrounding area with 2 metres (7 ft) of volcanic rock and damaged infrastructure and economic resources. The eruption caused a volcanic winter and may have played a role in the onset of the Little Ice Age. Floods, famines, and social upheavals resulted, including a probable link with the Russian Time of Troubles. (Full article...)

February 20

French colonization of Texas

La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684La Salle's Expedition to Louisiana in 1684

The French colonization of Texas started when Robert Cavelier de La Salle established a colony in Texas. It faced difficulties such as Native American raids, epidemics, and harsh conditions. La Salle led unsuccessful expeditions to find the Mississippi River, and explored the Rio Grande and East Texas. The fort could not receive resources after their last ship was wrecked and most remaining members were killed during a Karankawa raid in 1688. The colony established France's claim to the region; after the Louisiana Purchase, the colony was the basis of the United States's unsuccessful claim to this region. The Spanish monarchy funded expeditions to eliminate the settlement; when discovered, the Spanish buried the cannons and burned its buildings. Years later, Spanish authorities built a presidio at the same location; the presidio was later abandoned, and the site's location was unknown. In 1995, researchers located La Belle in Matagorda Bay, and the fort was rediscovered and excavated in 1996. (Full article...)

  • Most recent similar article(s): Perhaps Donner Party on June 3
  • Main editors: Karanacs
  • Promoted: March 15, 2008
  • Reasons for nomination: Feb 20 is the 340th anniversary of La Salle's landing and the beginning of the colonization. This is a TFA re-run from 2009
Coordinator comment: I am unsure why this unassuming article's unimportant anniversary (340?) should allow it a second TFA. Is there some pressing reason why it should displace one of the many FAs which have not yet had their first TFA? Gog the Mild (talk) 16:07, 17 December 2024 (UTC)
  • I try only to nominate articles where the event is an interger of 5 and 10, so that the article can appear on a more special date (especially for re-runs.). While there are lots of articles yet to appear at TFA, the community has determined that TFA re-runs need to happen since FAC is producing less than 365 articles a year. I prefer that TFA re-runs happen on associated special dates, instead of randomly assigning articles or re-runs throughout the month with no date association I also try to avoid more than 2 article re-runs in a week per the instructions. Z1720 (talk) 19:15, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

February 22

Eddie Gerard

Eddie Gerard

Eddie Gerard (February 22, 1890 – August 7, 1937) was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he played professionally for 10 seasons for the Ottawa Senators, as a left winger for three years before switching to defence. He was the first player to win the Stanley Cup four years in a row, from 1920 to 1923, three times with the Senators and once as an injury replacement player with the Toronto St. Patricks. After his playing career he served as a coach and manager, working with the Montreal Maroons from 1925 until 1929, and winning the Stanley Cup in 1926. He coached the New York Americans for two seasons before returning to the Maroons for two more seasons, then ended his career coaching the St. Louis Eagles in 1934. Regarded as one of the best defenders of his era, Gerard was one of the original nine players inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945. He is also an inductee of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. (Full article...)

February 23

Donald Forrester Brown

Donald Forrester Brown

Donald Forrester Brown (23 February 1890 – 1 October 1916) was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour in the face of the enemy that could be awarded at that time to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. Born in Dunedin, Brown was a farmer when the First World War began. In late 1915, he volunteered for service abroad with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) and was posted to the 2nd Battalion, the Otago Infantry Regiment. Fighting on the Western Front, he performed the actions that led to the award of the Victoria Cross in September 1916 during the Battle of Flers–Courcelette, part of the Somme offensive. As he was killed several days later during the Battle of Le Transloy, the award was made posthumously. His Victoria Cross was the second to be awarded to a soldier serving with the NZEF during the war and was the first earned in an action on the Western Front. (Full article...)

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