Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/February 2023

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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) 13:10, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Date	Article	FAC nominator	Promoted	FTopic?	Rerun?	Request?	Date?	Blurb
1	Space Shuttle Columbia disaster	Balon Greyjoy	2022			Y	1	Y
2	Resolution Guyot	Jo-Jo Eumerus	2019			Y	-	Y
3	HMS Argus (I49)	Sturmvogel 66	2012					Y
4	Made in the Dark	Seraphim Whipp	2008			Y	4	Y
5	Colin Robert Chase	Usernameunique	2021			Y	5	Y
6	Rhea Seddon	Hawkeye7	2022						Y
7	Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe, BWV 22	Gerda Arendt	2015		2015	Y	7	Y
8	Northolt siege	HJ Mitchell	2022					Y
9	Forest raven	Casliber	2015					Jim Y
10	George Andrew Davis Jr.	Ed!	2012			Y	10	Y
11	Fatima Whitbread	BennyOnTheLoose	2022					Jim Y
12	Battle of Powick Bridge	Harrias	2020					Y
13	Pavle Đurišić	Peacemaker67	2012		2014	Y	13	Y
14	I Need You (Paris Hilton song)	Aoba47	2022			Y	14	Y
15	UEFA Euro 2020 Final	Amakuru & The Rambling Man	2021					Y
16	Goldfinger (novel)	SchroCat	2019	Yes				Y
17	Theodora Kroeber	SusunW & Vanamonde93	2022					Y
18	Back to the Future	Darkwarriorblake	2022					Y
19	Corp Naomh	Ceoil	2022					Y
20	Wisconsin Territorial Centennial half dollar	Wehwalt	2022					Y
21	Bengali language movement	Rama's Arrow	2007					Y
22	Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts	TheJoebro64	2022					Y
23	American transportation in the Siegfried Line campaign	Hawkeye7	2022					Y
24	Artemy Vedel	Amitchell125	2022					Jim Y
25	Lake Street Transfer station	John M Wolfson	2022					Y
26	Japanese fire-bellied newt	An anonymous username, not my real name	-					Y
27	Ibn al-Ash'ath	Cplakidas	2022					Y
28	USS Indiana (BB-1)	Yoenit	2010			Y	28	Y

Comments

@Gog the Mild: Should we save Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus for Christmas 2023? This might be a better fit for that time period. Z1720 (talk) 16:07, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Bah! Humbug! Ok. Swapped. Wehwalt please note; you may also want to look at the 21st. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:18, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Got it and concur about Virginia Claus.--Wehwalt (talk) 15:17, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

• I'd prefer to run Growing Up Absurd on its (minor) October anniversary, if amenable czar 18:50, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

  Hi @Gog the Mild and Jimfbleak:, just making sure someone saw this. I received a notification that it's running in February. Thank you for your work at TFA! czar 04:37, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Czar, I had missed that. Pulled. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:17, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

• @Gog the Mild: Yoenit is the FAC nominator for USS Indiana (BB-1). Z1720 (talk) 16:05, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Changed. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:09, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Bengali language movement

Gog the Mild I don't think Bengali language movement is fit for the main page. There is overquoting, grammatical issues, listiness in popular culture, a criticism section, citation overkill, a general mess from the Criticism section onwards (including See also that needs pruning), it has an expansion tag, and unvetted content was merged in from other articles. This article is FAR worthy. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:21, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks Sandy. A455bcd9, any thoughts? Gog the Mild (talk) 15:27, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi, SandyGeorgia's points seem all valid. I don't know whether that's enough to make the article unfit for TFA or the for the main page in general though (could be moved in "Did you know ..." or "On this day" otherwise). a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 08:04, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

I don't see how it's eligible for DYK, and the OTD folks usually check for maintenance issues. This one is bad enough that I'll be submitting it to FAR as soon as I have an opening (unless Gog decides to go ahead and run it, in which case I have to wait for three days after TFA). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:31, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

It was featured on OTD on February 21 in 2009, 2010, 2014, 2017, 2020, and 2022. So that's why I thought it could be eligible for OTD this year as well. a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 07:56, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi A455bcd9 and thanks for the response. I'm going to swap it out. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:06, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Thx, Gog; I'm keeping an eye on this as an example, as I have long been unsure whether FACbot will pick up the update at WP:URFA/2020A. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:10, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

PS, the damage to this article is sad to see. It is a clear example of a previously fine FA that has been damaged as a result of not being watched, and I suspect it was the merges from other articles that caused most of the damage. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:12, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

A4, I don't believe the article had maintenance tags on its past OTD outings, but I could be wrong. My impression has been that the editor who schedules the OTDs checks for maintenance tags, which it now has. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 14:18, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

In that case it's not eligible indeed. a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 14:45, 17 January 2023 (UTC)

Follow-up, @Gog the Mild and A455bcd9: I wanted to bring this to your attention, as I just noticed and got the full picture. After seeing this edit today, I went back through the article history and realized that Antoine had reviewed the article on 19 November, but throughout December, the article was damaged by a long series of IP edits (indicating, problematic, that no one is watching this FA closely). A big chunk of the damage occurred between the time Gog inquired at WT:URFA/2020 on 20 December, and I finally took a more serious look more than three weeks later. So the 19 November "Satisfactory" mark was a valid one, someone is at work repairing the article now, and I should have checked the article history to inquire whether a revert was in order. I suppose we're still better off not running it TFA, as it may not yet be stable, but I just wanted you to be reassured, Antoine, that your 19 November review was healthy and helpful, and your good work is most appreciated! SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:09, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Thanks @SandyGeorgia for taking the time to go through the article history. I should have done it but I thought this satisfactory mark was maybe a moment of weakness from myself... I'm reassured :) a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 06:57, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

18th-century european liturgical music

Gog, the schedule currently has two consecutive blurbs that cover 18th-century european liturgical music: artemy vedel and jesus nahm zu sich die zwölfe, bwv 22. is this deliberate? if not, i assume it may have been overlooked because the first is a biographical blurb and the second a musical one. the second blurb is currently scheduled for the 300th anniversary of the subject's first performance, while i have yet to find a similar relevance for the first blurb. dying (talk) 00:37, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi dying. Yep, I am aware of that. I'm happy with it, but could move Artemy Vedal if you find it disconcerting. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:23, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

I don't care either way, but if Vedal is moved it can run on April 13 (birthday) or July 26 (215th deathdate). Some replacements might be Weymouth, Dorset (Geo - City), Las Meninas (painting), or Banksia brownii (Biology - plant), as I think blurbs could be written for these relatively quickly and they are deemed Satisfactory/Kept at FAR within the last two years. Z1720 (talk) 16:53, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Z, since you are keeping an eye on this, be sure to update the TFA dates at URFA/2020 should that be needed, K? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 16:56, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

If I were to move it I would keep it in February, but perhaps swap it with Rhea Seddon on the 24th. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:56, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

personally, i don't have a preference. i had only brought it up because i have previously seen schedulers try to avoid having multiple music blurbs being scheduled close together, and was not sure if you were aware that these two were running consecutively. i'm fine with it if you are, so thanks for letting me know. dying (talk) 23:07, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

@Dying, Hawkeye7, Z1720, and Amitchell125: After second and third thoughts I have decided to swap Artemy Vedel to the 24th and Rhea Seddon to the 6th. Thanks all, especially dying for flagging this up. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:09, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

@SandyGeorgia: The FACBot should be able to handle updating the URFA when articles are swapped now. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:33, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Awesome; I imagine that was no easy feat! Thanks, Hawkeye7. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 03:48, 1 February 2023 (UTC)