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Here the community can nominate articles to be selected as "Today's featured article" (TFA) on the main page. The TFA section aims to highlight the range of articles that have "featured article" status, from Art and architecture through to Warfare, and wherever possible it tries to avoid similar topics appearing too close together without good reason. Requests are not the only factor in scheduling the TFA (see Choosing Today's Featured Article); the final decision rests with the TFA coordinators: Wehwalt, Gog the Mild and SchroCat, who also select TFAs for dates where no suggestions are put forward. Please confine requests to this page, and remember that community endorsement on this page does not necessarily mean the article will appear on the requested date.

  • The article must be a featured article. Editors who are not significant contributors to the article should consult regular editors of the article before nominating it for TFAR.
  • The article must not have appeared as TFA before (see the list of possibilities here), except that:
    • The TFA coordinators may choose to fill up to two slots each week with FAs that have previously been on the main page, so long as the prior appearance was at least five years ago. The coordinators will invite discussion on general selection criteria for re-runnable TFAs, and aim to make individual selections within those criteria.
    • The request must be either for a specific date within the next 30 days that has not yet been scheduled, or a non-specific date. The template {{@TFA}} can be used in a message to "ping" the coordinators through the notification system.

If you have an exceptional request that deviates from these instructions (for example, an article making a second appearance as TFA, or a "double-header"), please discuss the matter with the TFA coordinators beforehand.

It can be helpful to add the article to the pending requests template, if the desired date for the article is beyond the 30-day period. This does not guarantee selection, but does help others see what nominations may be forthcoming. Requesters should still nominate the article here during the 30-day time-frame.

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How to post a new nomination:

I.
Create the nomination subpage.

In the box below, enter the full name of the article you are nominating (without using any brackets around the article's name) and click the button to create your nomination page.


II.
Write the nomination.

On that nomination page, fill out as many of the relevant parts of the pre-loaded {{TFAR nom}} template as you can, then save the page.

Your nomination should mention:

  • when the last similar article was, since this helps towards diversity on the main page (browsing Wikipedia:Today's featured article/recent TFAs will help you find out);
  • when the article was promoted to FA status (since older articles may need extra checks);
  • and (for date-specific nominations) the article's relevance for the requested date.
III.
Write the blurb.
Some Featured Articles promoted between 2016 and 2020 have pre-prepared blurbs, found on the talk page of the FAC nomination (that's the page linked from "it has been identified" at the top of the article's talk page). If there is one, copy and paste that to the nomination, save it, and then edit as needed. For other FAs, you're welcome to create your own TFA text as a summary of the lead section, or you can ask for assistance at WT:TFAR. We use one paragraph only, with no reference tags or alternative names; the only thing bolded is the first link to the article title. The length when previewed is between 925 and 1025 characters including spaces, " (Full article...)" and the featured topic link if applicable. More characters may be used when no free-use image can be found. Fair use images are not allowed.
IV.
Post at TFAR.

After you have created the nomination page, add it here under a level-3 heading for the preferred date (or under a free non-specific date header). To do this, add (replacing "ARTICLE TITLE" with the name of your nominated article):
===February 29===
{{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/ARTICLE TITLE}}

Nominations are ordered by requested date below the summary chart. More than one article can be nominated for the same date.

It would also then be helpful to add the nomination to the summary chart, following the examples there. Please include the name of the article that you are nominating in your edit summary.

If you are not one of the article's primary editors, please then notify the primary editors of the TFA nomination; if primary editors are no longer active, please add a message to the article talk page.

Scheduling:

In the absence of exceptional circumstances, TFAs are scheduled in date order, not according to how long nominations have been open or how many supportive comments they have. So, for example, January 31 will not be scheduled until January 30 has been scheduled (by TFAR nomination or otherwise).


Summary chart

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Currently accepting requests from July 1 to July 31.

Date Article Notes Supports† Opposes†
Nonspecific 1 Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures 1 1
Nonspecific 2 Heartburn 1
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July 4 George Washington Independence Day (United States) 2
July 5 Siege of Breteuil 669th anniversary of the town's relief 1
July 8 Edgar, King of England 1050th anniversary of death 1
July 15 Manitoba 155th anniversary of creation. TFA rerun 1
July 16 Holden Commodore (VE) 19 years since it began production. TFA re-run. 1
July 16 Trinity (nuclear test) 80th anniversary. TFA re-run. 1
July 25 Lesley J. McNair 81st anniversary of his death 1
July 26 Liz Truss 50th birthday 1
July 27 Dick Cresswell 105th birthday 1
July 29 Gaetano Bresci 125th anniversary of Bresci's assassination of Umberto. 1
July 29 Tiger International Tiger Day 2
July 31 Battle of Warsaw (1705) 320th anniversary of the event 1

† Tally may not be up to date. The nominator is included in the number of supporters.

Nonspecific date nominations

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Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

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Lego Indiana Jones logo
Lego Indiana Jones logo

Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Traveller's Tales and published by LucasArts. Based on the Indiana Jones franchise and the eponymous Lego Indiana Jones toy line, it follows the events of the first three Indiana Jones films: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, and the Last Crusade. The game includes local co-op mode gameplay as well as puzzle and platformer aspects, and 84 playable characters with a variety of special abilities. The game was announced in 2007. The design of puzzles was altered to fit the Indiana Jones franchise, but any mentions of Nazism from the franchise were removed. Lego Indiana Jones received generally favourable reviews from critics. Its gameplay, retelling of the films, and co-op mode were commended by reviewers, but had conflicting opinions about the second player's artificial intelligence and game mechanics. Reviewers also praised the game's graphics, environments, and soundtrack but disagreed on the sound effects. A sequel was released in 2009. (Full article...)

I would say just make a note at WP:TFARP for June 3rd, 2028 as a reminder and then nominate it for the 20th anniversary of release. Harizotoh9 (talk) 13:34, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That sounds good to me. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 13:51, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Heartburn

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Photo illustrating heartburn
Photo illustrating heartburn

Heartburn is a burning sensation felt behind the breastbone. It is a symptom that is commonly linked to acid reflux and is often triggered by food, particularly fatty, sugary, spicy, chocolate, onions, citrus, and tomato-based products. Lying down, bending, lifting, and performing certain exercises can exacerbate heartburn. Causes include acid reflux, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), damage to the esophageal lining, bile acid, mechanical stimulation to the esophagus, and esophageal hypersensitivity. Heartburn affects 25% of the population at least once a month. Endoscopy and esophageal pH monitoring can be used to evaluate heartburn. Some causes of heartburn, such as GERD, may be diagnosed based on symptoms alone. Lifestyle changes, such as losing weight and avoiding fatty foods, can improve heartburn. Over-the-counter alginates or antacids can help with mild or occasional heartburn. Heartburn treatment primarily involves H2 receptor antagonists and proton-pump inhibitors. (Full article...)

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July 4

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George Washington

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George Washington

George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States. Born in Virginia, he opposed the perceived oppression of the American colonists by the British Crown and was commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After forced to retreat from New York City, he crossed the Delaware River and won the battles of Trenton and Princeton. Washington led a decisive victory at Yorktown, then served as president of the Constitutional Convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution. As U.S. president, he set precedents for the office of president, such as republicanism, a peaceful transition, and the two-term tradition. Washington owned many slaves but opposed the practice near the end of his life. His image is an icon of American culture and he has been extensively memorialized. In both popular and scholarly polls, he is consistently considered one of the greatest presidents in American history. (Full article...)

Support, perfect for 4 of July. LittleJerry (talk) 19:53, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: 2026 is the 250th anniversary, while this is the 249th. Perhaps it would make more sense to re-run Liberty Bell this year, and save the first President's article for the 250th? Harizotoh9 (talk) 11:10, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Liberty Bell is more directly related to the events of July 1776, and Washington was not in Philadelphia then. It would seem more appropriate to run Liberty Bell for the 250th. In my eyes, anyway. Just speaking as an editor, July isn't my month to schedule.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:29, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

July 5

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Siege of Breteuil

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A Medieval depiction of a fortification being assaulted
A Medieval depiction of a fortification being assaulted

The siege of Breteuil was the investment of the Norman town of Breteuil, held by partisans of Charles II, King of Navarre, by French forces between April and about 20 August 1356. It was interrupted on 5 July when a small English army relieved and resupplied the town. The French king, John II, attempted to bring the English to battle, but they evaded him and the siege was renewed. The French attracted praise for the splendour and high status of many of the participants, but made little progress as the town was well-garrisoned and stocked with food for a year. Attempts to mine under the walls were to no avail. An August a large mobile siege tower was pushed up to the walls and an assault launched, but the tower was set on fire and the attack repulsed with many casualties. Taking Breteuil became a matter of prestige for John and he refused to take the army south to face a major English offensive. Eventually the garrison was given free passage and a huge bribe to persuade them to depart. (Full article...)

July 8

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Edgar, King of England

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14th century depiction of Edgar
14th century depiction of Edgar

Edgar c. 944  – 8 July 975) was King of the English from 959 until his death. Edgar mainly followed the political policies of his predecessors but made major changes in the religious sphere, with the English Benedictine Reform becoming a dominant religious and social force. Edgar's major administrative reform was the introduction of a standardised coinage, and he issued legislative codes concentrated on improving the enforcement of the law. After his death, the throne was disputed between the supporters of his two surviving sons; Edward the Martyr was chosen with the support of Dunstan, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Chroniclers presented Edgar's reign as a golden age when England was free from external attacks and internal disorder. Modern historians see Edgar's reign as the pinnacle of Anglo-Saxon culture but disagree about his political legacy, and some see the disorders following his death as a natural reaction to his overbearing control. (Full article...)

July 15

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Manitoba

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The flag of Manitoba
The flag of Manitoba

Manitoba is a province of Canada. Indigenous peoples have inhabited what is now Manitoba for thousands of years. In the early 17th century, English and French fur traders arrived and established settlements in the area. The Kingdom of England secured control of the region in 1673 and created Rupert's Land, which included present-day Manitoba, under the administration of the Hudson's Bay Company. Negotiations for the creation of the province of Manitoba commenced in 1869 but disagreements over the right to self-determination led to the Red River Rebellion. The resolution of the conflict and further negotiations led to Manitoba becoming the fifth province to join Canadian Confederation on 15 July 1870. Manitoba is Canada's fifth-most populous province. It has a widely varied landscape, including from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline, dense boreal forest, large freshwater lakes, and prairie grassland. Manitoba's capital and largest city is Winnipeg. (Full article...)

July 16

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Holden Commodore (VE)

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Holden Calais V
Holden Calais V

The Holden Commodore (VE) is a full-size car that marked the introduction of the fourth generation of the Holden Commodore—a series of automobiles produced by Australian carmaker Holden. Referred to as Holden's "billion dollar baby", the company invested over AU$1 billion in developing the car before production began on 13 July 2006; it made its public debut on 16 July. The VE marked Holden's first project designed entirely in Australia; previous generations relied on Opel-sourced platforms. The company produced several body styles of the VE, comprising a sedan, a ute and a station wagon dubbed the Sportwagon. Variants by Holden's performance vehicle partner, Holden Special Vehicles, were released soon after the sedan's debut. Over the VE's lifespan, Holden also introduced a series of ongoing changes, identified by the model year (MY). Often ranked as Australia's best-selling car throughout its lifecycle, the VE was discontinued in May 2013 and succeeded by the VF. (Full article...)

  • Most recent similar article(s): Tesla Model S
  • Main editors: me and OSX
  • Promoted: February 2025. this article was previously promoted to FA to 2007 but delisted in 2020.
  • Reasons for nomination: re-run, 19 years since it began production, 17 years since anything Holden-related appeared on the main page, underrepresentation of anything really Australian as TFA.
  • Support as nominator. 750h+ 09:44, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Trinity (nuclear test)

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This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 16, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 14:44, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Trinity was the code name given to the nuclear test that saw the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. The code name was assigned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, after a poem by John Donne. It was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project on the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in the Jornada del Muerto desert. The only structures originally in the vicinity were the McDonald Ranch House and its ancillary buildings, which scientists used as a laboratory for testing bomb components. A base camp was constructed, and there were 425 people present on the weekend of the test. It used a Fat Man bomb of the same design as that detonated over Nagasaki. The complex Implosion-type nuclear weapon design required a major effort from the Los Alamos Laboratory, and testing was required to allay fears that it would not work. Its detonation (shown on video) produced the explosive power of about 20 kilotons of TNT (84 TJ). The test site is now part of the White Sands Missile Range. It was declared a National Historic Landmark district in 1965, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places the following year. (Full article...)

  • Reason: Normally, I nominate a Manhattan Project article to run on 16 July, the anniversary of the Trinity test. This year marks the 80th anniversary. So I am nominating the Trinity article. This article already ran in 2015, but that was ten years ago. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:55, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

July 25

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Lesley J. McNair

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McNair as commander of US Army Ground Forces in 1942
McNair as commander of US Army Ground Forces in 1942

Lesley James McNair was a United States Army lieutenant general who served in both world wars. prior to this he saw service in the Veracruz occupation and Pancho Villa Expedition. During World War I he served with the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front. At 35, he became the Army's second-youngest general officer. During the early stages of World War II he was the commander of Army Ground Forces, and played the leading role in the organization, equipment, and training of Army units before they departed for overseas combat, some aspects of which are now considered contentious. He was killed on 25 July 1944 by bombs dropped by the US Eighth Air Force while he was in France as commander of the fictitious First United States Army Group, part of the Operation Quicksilver deception plan for the invasion of Normandy. He received a posthumous promotion to general. (Full article...)

July 26

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Liz Truss

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Liz Truss

Liz Truss (born 1975) is a British politician who was prime minister from September to October 2022. A Liberal Democrat in youth, she defected to the Conservatives in 1996. After several bids for public office she was elected as an MP in 2010 and served continuously in government in the Cameron, May and Johnson ministries, latterly as foreign secretary. After Johnson resigned in July 2022 Truss stood in the election to replace him, defeating Rishi Sunak and becoming the leader of the party. Two days after her appointment as prime minister Queen Elizabeth II died, freezing government business for ten days during a national mourning period; after its conclusion Truss's ministry announced a mini-budget which was received badly by markets, the fallout from which subsequently engulfed her government. Facing a rapid loss of confidence in her leadership, Truss resigned fifty days into her premiership and was succeeded by Sunak, becoming the shortest-serving British prime minister. (Full article...)

July 27

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Dick Cresswell

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Dick Cresswell

Dick Cresswell (27 July 1920 – 12 December 2006) was an officer and pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Born in Tasmania, he joined the RAAF in July 1938. He commanded No. 77 (Fighter) Squadron from April 1942 to August 1943, in Australia's North Western Area Campaign, flying against Japanese raiders. He claimed the squadron's first aerial victory—the first by an Australian over the mainland—in November 1942. He commanded No. 81 (Fighter) Wing from May 1944 to March 1945, and simultaneously No. 77 Squadron between September and December 1944. In September 1950, during the Korean War, Cresswell took command of No. 77 Squadron for the third time. He oversaw its conversion to Gloster Meteors, becoming the first RAAF commander of a jet squadron in war. His performance earned him the Commonwealth and US Distinguished Flying Crosses. From 1953 until 1956 Cresswell was responsible for converting pilots to jet fighters as commanding officer of No. 2 Operational Training Unit. (Full article...)

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Gaetano Bresci

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Bresci (c. 1890s)
Bresci (c. 1890s)

Gaetano Bresci (1869–1901) was an Italian anarchist who assassinated King Umberto I of Italy. He became an anarchist after experiencing exploitation in the workplace and later emigrated to the United States, where he joining the Italian immigrant anarchist movement in Paterson, New Jersey. News of the Bava Beccaris massacre motivated him to return to Italy to assassinate Umberto. Bresci killed the king on 29 July 1900, during Umberto's scheduled appearance in Monza, amid a sparse police presence. The government of Italy suspected that Bresci had been a part of a conspiracy but no evidence was found to indicate that others were involved. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and confined on Santo Stefano Island, where he was found dead of an apparent suicide the following year. After his death, Bresci became a martyr for the Italian left-wing. He inspired the American anarchist Leon Czolgosz to assassinate United States president William McKinley. (Full article...)

Tiger

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The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a large cat and a member of the genus Panthera native to Asia. It is recognisable by its black, vertical stripes on orange fur. It is traditionally classified into nine subspecies, though some recognise only two subspecies. Tigers currently live in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and the Russian Far East/Northeast China. They mainly live in forested habitats, where they live a mostly solitary life. They are apex predators and prey mainly on ungulates. A male tiger mates with the multiple females within his home range. Females give birth to usually two or three cubs that stay with their mother for about two years. Tigers are considered to be endangered with their main threats being habitat destruction and fragmentation and poaching for fur and body parts. They are legally protected in all range countries. The tiger is among the most popular of the world's charismatic megafauna and has been featured in the ancient cultures of Asia and modern culture worldwide. (Full article...)

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Battle of Warsaw (1705)

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Battle of Warsaw (1705)

The Battle of Warsaw was fought on 31 July 1705 as part of a power struggle for the Polish–Lithuanian throne during the Great Northern War. Augustus II the Strong, elector of Saxony and king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, was allied with Denmark–Norway and Russia against Stanisław Leszczyński, who had seized the Polish throne in 1704 with the support of the army of Charles XII of Sweden. The Polish nobility of the Sandomierz Confederation supported Augustus II and his allies, while the Warsaw Confederation supported Leszczyński and Sweden. Augustus II helped develop a grand strategy to crush the Swedish forces and restore himself to the Polish throne, sending an allied army of up to 10,000 cavalry under the command of Otto Arnold von Paykull towards Warsaw to interrupt the Polish parliament. A 2,000-strong Swedish cavalry contingent under the command of Carl Nieroth defeated Paykull's army on the plains west of Warsaw, and Leszczyński was crowned in early October. (Full article...)

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