Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests
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, Dank and Gog the Mild, 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.
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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Currently accepting requests from September 1 to October 1.
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September 10 | Ken "Snakehips" Johnson | 110th anniversary of birth | 2 | 0 |
† Tally may not be up to date. The nominator is included in the number of supporters.
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Addie Viola Smith[edit]
Addie Viola Smith (November 14, 1893 – December 13, 1975) was an American attorney who served as the United States trade commissioner to Shanghai from 1928 to 1949, the first female Foreign Service officer in the United States Foreign Service to work under the United States Department of Commerce, and the first woman to serve as trade commissioner. Smith was born and raised in Stockton, California. In 1917, she moved to Washington, D.C. While working for the United States Department of Labor, she attended the Washington College of Law part-time, earning her bachelor of laws in 1920. In October that year she joined the Foreign Service and was assigned to Beijing as a clerk in the trade commissioner's office. Smith was promoted to assistant trade commissioner in Shanghai in 1922, and appointed trade commissioner there in 1928. She later held roles in the U.S. government, international organizations, and the United Nations. Throughout her life, Smith was also a member of several feminist organizations. Smith met her life partner, Eleanor Mary Hinder, in Shanghai in 1926. Both were memorialized by their friends with two stone seats at the E.G. Waterhouse National Camellia Gardens in Caringbah. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): I don't recall any similar person recently.
- Main editors: voorts
- Promoted: 9 June
- Reasons for nomination: rather new FA
- Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:35, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Support as FAC nominator. Just to note that Cora Agnes Benneson, an article on one of the first women to practice law in New England, will run on 17 July, if the coordinators feel the need to space this one out a bit. voorts (talk/contributions) 21:18, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Likewise, Nov 14th is right around the corner and would fit just fine there. I personally like the idea of biography pages running on anniveraries of birth so the article could fit then. But it's not a requirement. Harizotoh9 (talk) 10:42, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
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Ken "Snakehips" Johnson[edit]
Ken "Snakehips" Johnson was a swing band leader and leading figure in black British music of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in British Guiana, he was educated in Britain and travelled to New York to immerse himself in the Harlem jazz scene. He returned to Britain and established the Aristocrats (or Emperors) of Jazz, a mainly black swing band, with Leslie Thompson. In 1937 Johnson took control of the band through a legal loophole, causing the departure of Thompson and several musicians. Johnson filled the vacancies with Caribbean musicians, the band's popularity grew, and it changed its name to the West Indian Dance Orchestra. In 1938 the band broadcast on BBC Radio, recorded their first discs and appeared in an early television broadcast. Johnson was considered a pioneer for black musical leaders in the UK. Employed as the house band at the Café de Paris, a German bombing raid in 1941 hit the facility, killing Johnson. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Jacques Offenbach on July 15 might be similar, as they are musical biographies of people who organised musical acts.
- Main editors: SchroCat
- Promoted: March 23, 2023
- Reasons for nomination: 110th birthday
- Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 17:21, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- Support A nice change from recent pop culture pages. Harizotoh9 (talk) 14:43, 26 June 2024 (UTC)