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The TFAR requests page is currently accepting nominations from January 1 to January 31. Articles for dates beyond then can be listed here, but please note that doing so does not count as a nomination and does not guarantee selection.
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| Date | Article | Reason | Primary author(s) | Added by (if different) |
| 2025: | ||||
| January 1 | York Park | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| January 6 | Maria Trubnikova | Why | Ganesha811 | Dank |
| January 8 | Elvis Presley | Why | PL290, DocKino, Rikstar | Dank |
| January 9 | Title (album) | Why | MaranoFan | |
| January 20 | Andrew Jackson | Why | Wtfiv | Sheila1988 |
| January 22 | Caitlin Clark | Why | Sportzeditz | Dank |
| February 9 | Japanese battleship Tosa | Why | The ed17 | |
| February 10 | Siege of Baghdad | Why | AirshipJungleman29 | |
| March 1 | Meurig ab Arthfael | Why | Dudley Miles | Sheila1988 |
| March 10 | Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number | Why | NegativeMP1 | |
| March 12 | 2020 Seattle Sounders FC season | Why | SounderBruce | |
| March 18 | Edward the Martyr | Why | Amitchell125 | Sheila1988 |
| March 26 | Pierre Boulez | Why | Dmass | Sheila1988 |
| April 12 | Dolly de Leon | Why | Pseud 14 | |
| April 15 | Lady Blue (TV series) | Why | Aoba47 | Harizotoh9 |
| April 18 | Battle of Poison Spring | Why | HF | |
| April 24 | "I'm God" | Why | Skyshifter | |
| April 25 | 1925 FA Cup Final | Why | Kosack | Dank |
| May | 21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian) (re-run, first TFA was May 14, 2015) | Why | Peacemaker67 | |
| May 6 | Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| May 10 | Ben&Ben | Why | Pseud 14 | |
| May 11 | Mother (Meghan Trainor song) | Why | MaranoFan | |
| June | The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished | Why | iridescent | Harizotoh9 |
| June 3 | David Evans (RAAF officer) | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| June 6 | American logistics in the Northern France campaign | Why | Hawkeye7 | Sheila1988 |
| June 8 | Barbara Bush | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| July 1 | Maple syrup | Why | Nikkimaria | Dank |
| July 7 | Gustav Mahler | Why | Brianboulton | Dank |
| July 14 | William Hanna | Why | Rlevse | Dank |
| July 26 | Liz Truss | Why | Tim O'Doherty | Tim O'Doherty and Dank |
| July 29 | Tiger | Why | LittleJerry | |
| July 31 | Battle of Warsaw (1705) | Why | Imonoz | Harizotoh9 |
| August 4 | Death of Ms Dhu | Why | Freikorp | AirshipJungleman29 |
| August 23 | Yugoslav torpedo boat T3 | Why | Peacemaker67 | |
| August 30 | Late Registration | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| September 2 | 1905–06 New Brompton F.C. season | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| September 6 | Hurricane Ophelia (2005) | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| September 20 | Myst V: End of Ages | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| September 30 or October 1 | Hoover Dam | Why | NortyNort, Wehwalt | Dank |
| October 1 | Yugoslav torpedo boat T4 | Why | Peacemaker67 | |
| October 3 | Spaghetti House siege | Why | SchroCat | Dank |
| October 10 | Tragic Kingdom | Why | EA Swyer | Harizotoh9 |
| October 16 | Angela Lansbury | Why | Midnightblueowl | MisawaSakura |
| October 18 | Royal Artillery Memorial | Why | HJ Mitchell | Ham II |
| November 1 | Matanikau Offensive | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| November 19 | Water Under the Bridge | Why | MaranoFan | |
| November 20 | Nuremberg trials | Why | buidhe | harizotoh9 |
| November 21 | Canoe River train crash | Why | Wehwalt | |
| December 25 | Marcus Trescothick | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| 2026: | ||||
| January 27 | History of the Jews in Dęblin and Irena during World War II | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| February 27 | Raichu | Why | Kung Fu Man | |
| March 13 | Swift Justice | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| May 5 | Me Too (Meghan Trainor song) | Why | MaranoFan | |
| June 1 | Rhine campaign of 1796 | Why | harizotoh9 | |
| June 8 | Types Riot | Why | Z1720 | |
| July 23 | Veronica Clare | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| September 20 | Persona (series) | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| November | The Story of Miss Moppet | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| November 11 | U.S. Route 101 | Why | SounderBruce | |
| October 15 | Easy on Me | Why | MaranoFan | |
| November 20 | Tôn Thất Đính | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| December 21 | Fredonian Rebellion | Why | Harizotoh9 | |
| December 22 | Title (song) | Why | MaranoFan | |
| 2027: | ||||
| June | 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) | Why | ||
| August 25 | Genghis Khan | Why | AirshipJungleman29 | |
| October 15 | The Motherland Calls | Why | Joeyquism | |
Categories
editLiterally every month without fail, at some point during the month a run of Special:WantedCategories suddenly throws up a redlinked category of the "Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations from [Current Month and Year]" variety (e.g. Category:Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations from July 2024) which I end up having to create on your behalf, even though I'm not normally involved in this project, because of the rule around not leaving stuff in redlinked categories. So if such categories are routinely expected to exist, then would it be possible for this project to take steps to ensure that they get created either by a project member as soon as they're needed, or automatically by a bot at the beginning of the month, before they turn into work for other projects to clean up? Bearcat (talk) 20:46, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- I have no idea. I've been a coordinator for seven years and I have no idea what this is. At a guess, I'd say it's something produced by the template when TFA/R nominations are created. Wehwalt (talk) 21:37, 28 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Bearcat and Wehwalt: these categories are a direct effect of a TFAR being accepted and scheduled. See for example Category:Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations from October 2024 where all of the five TFAs were placed in the monthly category by edits like this, made either by Gog the Mild (talk · contribs) or by SchroCat (talk · contribs), who used
{{subst:TFAR top|monthyear=October 2024|passed=y|date=November 28, 2024}}(or something similar). So I think that it's up to these people to notice the redlink that may appear in the category box following an edit like that, and to create the category page to suit. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:12, 14 October 2024 (UTC)- Sure, except they very routinely don't, because it always, every month without fail, gets picked up by the WantedCategories report and thus always, every month without fail, ends up becoming my job. Bearcat (talk) 20:14, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- I guess the two obvious questions I have are, is it worth having categories like this, and in either case, what's the most efficient course of action? Wehwalt (talk) 20:20, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- Having read the discussion to this point three times I have no idea what it is about, what if anything I am doing wrong, or how if at all I need to amend my practices. Would it be possible for someone to talk it through a level or two down? Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:42, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Gog the Mild: OK. When SchroCat made this edit on 3 October 2024 (and I'm sure that it was a correct action), it put Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Wells Cathedral 1 into Category:Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations from October 2024, but the category page didn't exist at the time - Bearcat had to create it themselves the following day after being alerted by the presence of that cat in Special:WantedCategories. It's something that they have been going on about at VPT and other places for months, if not years. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:56, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- I see, I think. Is there a way to automate the creation so we are sure not to cause you any further problems? Wehwalt (talk) 21:09, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- Or, alternatively, to alter the code so that this is no longer created? Because I suspect it gets next to no page views. As you saw by my initial reaction, it's not something useful in TFA land.Wehwalt (talk) 21:10, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- Agree. Is there a point to Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations from October 2024? I'm new to scheduling and it's already an involved multi-step process, so not adding yet another step would be the better pathway. - SchroCat (talk) 04:52, 15 October 2024 (UTC) - SchroCat (talk) 04:49, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- The categorisation was added to Template:TFAR top by Bencherlite (talk · contribs), the template's creator. Why it was done, or if it is necessary, I don't know; but Bencherlite is WP:MIA so can't be asked. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:40, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- They don't look terribly high traffic or useful - to me at least. There's also nothing in the archives of this page or of Bench's talk page where there was a discussion that led to it. It seems superfluous to requirements. - SchroCat (talk) 09:11, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- I agree. Simply remove the code that produces this and no more problem, and we don't get talked about on VPT, wherever that is, and elsewhere. Can we agree to do this? Wehwalt (talk) 16:02, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- VPT = WP:VPT. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 16:48, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- I agree. Simply remove the code that produces this and no more problem, and we don't get talked about on VPT, wherever that is, and elsewhere. Can we agree to do this? Wehwalt (talk) 16:02, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- They don't look terribly high traffic or useful - to me at least. There's also nothing in the archives of this page or of Bench's talk page where there was a discussion that led to it. It seems superfluous to requirements. - SchroCat (talk) 09:11, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- The categorisation was added to Template:TFAR top by Bencherlite (talk · contribs), the template's creator. Why it was done, or if it is necessary, I don't know; but Bencherlite is WP:MIA so can't be asked. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:40, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- I see, I think. Is there a way to automate the creation so we are sure not to cause you any further problems? Wehwalt (talk) 21:09, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Gog the Mild: OK. When SchroCat made this edit on 3 October 2024 (and I'm sure that it was a correct action), it put Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Wells Cathedral 1 into Category:Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations from October 2024, but the category page didn't exist at the time - Bearcat had to create it themselves the following day after being alerted by the presence of that cat in Special:WantedCategories. It's something that they have been going on about at VPT and other places for months, if not years. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:56, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- Having read the discussion to this point three times I have no idea what it is about, what if anything I am doing wrong, or how if at all I need to amend my practices. Would it be possible for someone to talk it through a level or two down? Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:42, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- I guess the two obvious questions I have are, is it worth having categories like this, and in either case, what's the most efficient course of action? Wehwalt (talk) 20:20, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- Sure, except they very routinely don't, because it always, every month without fail, gets picked up by the WantedCategories report and thus always, every month without fail, ends up becoming my job. Bearcat (talk) 20:14, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Bearcat and Wehwalt: these categories are a direct effect of a TFAR being accepted and scheduled. See for example Category:Wikipedia Today's featured article nominations from October 2024 where all of the five TFAs were placed in the monthly category by edits like this, made either by Gog the Mild (talk · contribs) or by SchroCat (talk · contribs), who used
December nominations
editAs scheduling coordinator for December, I announce that nominations for any date through 31 December may now be made. Wehwalt (talk) 12:32, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
The December schedule will be found here. Nominations are still welcome and we'll adjust as need be.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:22, 31 October 2024 (UTC)