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

No Hogs allowed

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

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]

• Hi David, do you fancy having a go at a blurb? Gog the Mild (talk) 17:30, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Now you're in trouble, Fuchs; look where that led :) :) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:34, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Hey Gog, sure, where would that go? Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 18:15, 13 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

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

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]