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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 Z1720 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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Featured article candidates (FAC):

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Featured article tools:

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 is between 925 and 1025 characters including spaces, ” (Full article…)” and the featured topic link if applicable. If no image is used, the character length limits are between 1000 and 1100. Fair use images are not allowed.
IV.	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).

Currently accepting requests from April 1 to May 1.

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

1998–99 Gillingham F.C. season

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During the 1998–99 English football season, Gillingham F.C. competed in the Football League Second Division, the third tier of the English football league system. It was the 67th season in which Gillingham competed in the Football League, and the 49th since the club was voted back into the league in 1950. The club signed two new forwards, each for a new club record transfer fee, but started the season in poor form, winning only one of the first eight league games. The team then went on a much-improved run, being undefeated for 17 league games, and began challenging for promotion to the Football League First Division. Gillingham finished the regular season in fourth place in the Second Division, qualifying for the play-offs for promotion to the First Division. After defeating Preston North End in the semi-finals, they played Manchester City at Wembley Stadium in the final, which Manchester City won the subsequent penalty shoot-out to gain promotion. (Full article…)

Most recent similar article(s): 1937–38 English football season, Gillingham F.C., Dec 26, 2025
Main editors: ChrisTheDude
Promoted: November 13, 2021
Reasons for nomination: never TFA
Support as nominator. MisawaSakura (talk) 20:39, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support We have a lot of these to run, and this one has been waiting for a while. QuicoleJR (talk) 01:08, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: with a lot of sports articles proposed in specific date slots for March, including my suggestion for 1976 FA Cup final, I would propose holding this article for an April run. Z1720 (talk) 15:11, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn’t checked Pending yet when I supported this. I would support waiting for April, we do have a lot of sports running at the end of the month. QuicoleJR (talk) 14:04, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Page from the autograph

The Easter Oratorio, BWV 249, is one of three oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach for high holiday church services of the Lutheran church. He wrote an autograph score (page pictured) in Leipzig in 1738[, matching his Christmas Oratorio and Ascension Oratorio]. Bach had already composed the music in 1725 for two works, the congratulatory Shepherd Cantata, and a church cantata for Easter Sunday. The text of the Shepherd Cantata[, for Bach’s patron Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels], was written by Picander, in his first documented collaboration with Bach. Picander may also have adapted his text for the Easter work. Both are musical dramas involving characters, two shepherds and two shepherdesses, or figures from the Biblical Easter narratives. In 1738, Bach wrote a new score with only minor revisions and entitled it Oratorium Festo Paschali[ (Easter Oratorio)]. Structured in eleven movements, and scored for a festive Baroque instrumental ensemble of three trumpets, timpani, a variety of wind instruments, strings and continuo, it is unusual in featuring neither Biblical text nor chorales. Bach performed it in 1749, the year before his death. (Full article…)

Most recent similar article(s): nothing similar recently (31 October 2025)
Main editors: Gerda Arendt
Promoted: 2025
Reasons for nomination: for Easter – I know that the blurb is too long, but we will have to discuss what to omit (with suggestions in square brackets). The last sentence is very short for telling how dear the work must have been to him.
Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:04, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yugoslav submarine Mališan

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Henry Darger (April 12, 1892 – April 13, 1973) was an American hospital worker who became known after his death for his immense body of art and literature. Born in Chicago, Darger’s mother died when he was young, and he was placed in a boys’ home after his father’s health declined. He was taken to a children’s asylum in 1904, escaping four years later. He lived his life in poverty, doing menial work at various hospitals. When he was moved to a nursing home in 1972, his landlords Kiyoko and Nathan Lerner discovered his artwork and writing, popularizing it themselves. His work included a 15,145-page novel entitled In The Realms of the Unreal, centered on a rebellion of child slaves on a fantastical planet, and hundreds of watercolor and collage illustrations, using traced material from popular media. Often classified as an outsider artist for his secrecy, his work contains Catholic themes, graphic depictions of war and the killing of children, and many naked girls with penises, leading to debate on his mental state. (Full article…)

1986 World Snooker Championship

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Beyoncé (born 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead vocalist of Destiny’s Child, one of the best-selling girl groups. She then embarked on a successful solo career, releasing eight chart-topping studio albums—from the R&B set Dangerously in Love (2003) to the Americana-rooted Cowboy Carter (2024). One of the best-selling artists, Beyoncé has nine US Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs, including “Crazy in Love“, “Irreplaceable“, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)“, “Break My Soul“, and “Texas Hold ‘Em“. Her accolades include a record 35 Grammy Awards and 30 MTV Video Music Awards, in addition to a Primetime Emmy and Peabody Award. A significant cultural figure, she was named by Billboard as the greatest pop star of the 21st century and by Rolling Stone as the eighth-greatest singer ever. She owns the nonprofit BeyGood, the hair care brand Cécred, the whiskey SirDavis, and Parkwood Entertainment. (Full article…)