Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/February 2022

Only TFA schedulers should make changes to the table immediately below. But please feel free to note any concerns, queries or thoughts below it. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:39, 8 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Date Article FAC nominator Promoted FTopic? Rerun? Request? Blurb? Notes
1 SMS Oldenburg User:Parsecboy 2013 Yes Green tickY Green tickY
2 Burnt Candlemas User:Gog the Mild 2021 Green tickY Green tickY
3 Bluey (2018 TV series) User:SatDis 2020 N/Sp Green tickY
4 Nodar Kumaritashvili User:Kaiser matias 2018 Green tickY Green tickY
5 New Zealand nationality law User:Horserice 2021 Green tickY Green tickY
6 2015 Africa Cup of Nations Final User:Amakuru 2021 Green tickY Green tickY
7 Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 User:Gerda Arendt 2022 Gog
8 Why Marx Was Right User:Bilorv 2021 Green tickY Jim
9 Apollo 5 User:Wehwalt 2021 Green tickY
10 Final Fantasy XIII-2 User:PresN 2013 Green tickY
11 Melville Fuller User:Extraordinary Writ 2021 Green tickY Green tickY
12 Ice dance User:Figureskatingfan 2020 Green tickY Green tickY
13 Great Western Railway War Memorial User:HJ Mitchell 2021 Green tickY
14 The Beautician and the Beast User:Aoba47 2020 Green tickY Green tickY
15 David Berman (musician) User:DMT Biscuit 2022 Green tickY
16 SS Choctaw User:GreatLakesShips 2021 Green tickY
17 Ur-Quan User:Shooterwalker 2021 Green tickY Green tickY
18 Wonderful Parliament User talk:Serial Number 54129 - Gog
19 Kererū User:Ambrosia10 2021 Dank Green tickY
20 Olympic Games User:H1nkles 2009 Yes Green tickY Green tickY
21 James A. Garfield User:Coemgenus & User:Wehwalt 2015 Yes Green tickY Green tickY
22 1937 Brazilian coup d'état User:FredModulars 2021 Green tickY
23 Duriavenator User:FunkMonk 2022 Green tickY Jim
24 The Boat Race 2021 User:The Rambling Man 2021 Green tickY Jim
25 Beowulf and Middle-earth User:Chiswick Chap 2021 Dank Green tickY
26 Battle of Drepana User:Gog the Mild 2020 N/Sp Green tickY
27 Patrick Francis Healy User:Ergo Sum 2021 Green tickY Green tickY
28 Ham House User:Isaksenk 2021 Green tickY Green tickY


No Hogs allowed

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Gog, because Hog Farm is traveling and is not supposed to be editing, I am adding his note here to be sure you see it. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:37, 8 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Sandy, that's what it looked like to me, but it seemed best to observe the forms. (Then it's not my fault  ) Gog the Mild (talk) 15:44, 8 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
You can please some of the people some of the time, with luck! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:47, 8 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Final Fantasy Tactics

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Hi @Gog the Mild: Final Fantasy Tactics is scheduled for Feb. I have the article listed at WP:TFAP as a potential request for June 20, the game's 25th anniversary. Would it be possible to delay this article's TFA appearance until then? Thanks. Z1720 (talk) 16:28, 8 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi Z1720, sure. Swapped out. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:39, 8 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Gog the Mild did you see User:David Fuchs review here? (I haven’t read it but saw it was lengthy.) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:19, 11 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Sandy, I have now, thanks. I would summarise it as "the article is wobbly, but not fatally flawed". As usual I await any comments or guidance from the FAR coordinators. Absent any I will run the article as is. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:36, 11 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
I am out of time today to follow, and still have not had time to read it, not sure if you wanted to ping the FAR Coords, or what they might add. As you know, I am never opposed to running "wobbly" TFAs that are "not fatally flawed" :) Bst, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:56, 11 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
It's got some issues but nothing huge or anything that would require a serious overhaul versus light edits. The top two editors are still active and I let them know it's going to show up at TFA some point soon so I imagine it'll be addressed fairly quickly. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 18:38, 11 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks David, here would be good - you'll need to creaate it as a new page. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:18, 13 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Took an opening stab—I just copied the length from the current TFA, but I recall there's some range for blurbs in terms of word count with or without images—is that written down somewhere official? Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 20:44, 13 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
925-1,025 characters, including spaces. Or 1,000-1,100 if there is no image. You had 1,089. I have tweaked it a little, trying to arrange things into a chronological flow. What do you think? Gog the Mild (talk) 21:11, 13 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

chinese new year

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i recently noticed that ZKang123, fac nominator for Chinatown MRT station with a blurb currently scheduled for about a week from now, had originally requested for the blurb to run in february due to chinese new year. currently, the blurb for SMS Oldenburg is scheduled on the requested date, and although the tfa nominator, Vitaium, technically requested that date, there does not appear to be a reason for that date being specifically chosen, as was noted during the nomination discussion.

would it be appropriate to move the mrt station blurb to the originally requested date? ZKang123 has also mentioned possibly being able to obtain a photo of a station entrance appropriately decorated for the occasion.

i do not know much about tfa scheduling, but offhand, i think that the main concern at this point is that a simple swap may not be ideal, since the blurb for Schichau-class torpedo boat is currently scheduled to run a few days after the mrt station's january slot. also, i do not know if a week would be enough notice for all fac nominators involved.

pinging Jimfbleak for january's scheduling and Gog for february's scheduling. dying (talk) 08:57, 10 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Julian of Norwich

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Would it be possible for the intended TFA on 7 February, Julian of Norwich, to be put off for another date? The 650th anniversary of her revelations is on 8 May 2023. There are lots of events planned for her anniversary year, and it would be great if the TFA appeared then. Her festival is commemorated on 8 May in Church of England and the Catholic Church. Amitchell125 (talk) 20:39, 12 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Amitchell125, sure. Can I suggest putting a marker down at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/pending? Gog the Mild (talk) 21:20, 12 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Will do. Amitchell125 (talk) 21:21, 12 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Done. Amitchell125 (talk) 21:28, 12 January 2022 (UTC)Reply