Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article

April

Just a quick note that April is filling up fast. There are 13 TFA requests at the pending page; April 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 21, 22, 24, 25, and 29 are already taken. The April 1 (April Fool's Day) request seems fine, but it's not uncommon for several articles to get suggested and voted on. Anyone who has a burning desire to get something date-relevant on the calendar for April might want to go ahead and sign up on the pending page. - Dank (push to talk) 18:20, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Also: I'm going to be doing the scheduling about a week early this month, so if you have requests, please get them in soon. - Dank (push to talk) 21:51, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

For a discussion about April 1, see Talk:Main Page#Order of Brothelyngham. - Dank (push to talk) 02:34, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

Today's featured American or British article

Quite disappointing how much Today's Featured Article is basically ignoring countries other than the UK and the US, with a sprinkling of other western countries included. What about African topics? What about one of our biggest audiences in India? What about allowing readers from English-speaking countries to learn something about the rest of the world? AusLondonder (talk) 08:47, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Yeah. But, if people don't write those articles, what ya gonna do? Also see: WP:WTAF. ——Serial Number 54129 11:57, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

We've got quite a few articles relevant to Australia and New Zealand coming up soon, and Flag of Canada and Maple syrup will appear on July 1 and 2, if that helps. - Dank (push to talk) 13:45, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mike Christie: Way to suggest that Aussies, NZers and Canadians aren't from English-speaking countries... :D ——Serial Number 54129 14:41, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

As Serial says, this being TFA the coordinators are restricted to scheduling articles which have achieved featured status. That said, nominations for May are currently open and articles nominated or on the potentials page include a historical Indian empire, the Israeli law on citizenship, a tropical storm in Mexico, an Italian handbook on bomb making, a WW2 Japanese convoy to New Guinea, and a song by a Filipino band. Any editors who feel that any particular featured article deserves a day on the main page in May are encouraged to nominate it here. Any editors who feel that there are a lack of articles at featured level for any particular topic or area are strongly encouraged to work on improving some articles from that area and nominate them for featured status here. Gog the Mild (talk) 15:38, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

There is also a set o' pages up at WP:FAC that might join the available pool if they get reviews or work done. They include a Chilean volcano, a monastery in Kyiv, a fossil from Europe, a Palestinian dynasty, a Mexican bird, a Filipino band, a Chinese church, a Medieval European nobleman, a Yugoslav submarine, a Greek philosopher, a construction accident in Singapore and a German brand. A big part of the reason why TFA is so English-dominated is b/c the articles that can be nominated tend to be about American or British topics, so one has to work on the non-English ones. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 16:59, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

• Yes, FAs on these areas are relatively rare, and tend to be on the MP really quickly after promotion (like other topics such as art), so your basic premise that they are "ignored" is not only wrong, but the reverse of the truth. If you look at the 717 articles at Wikipedia:Featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page you will see this. Johnbod (talk) 17:10, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
• Can only repeat the above: people have to actually write the articles if they are to be featured, but this is the English Wikipedia, so it's just more likely that our pool of editors is knowledgable about subjects related to the Anglosphere. We'd all want more articles about more diverse subjects, but then we need the people who are able to write it. I'm saying that as someone from a non-Anglophonic country. FunkMonk (talk) 23:13, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

WP:ERRORS today

Andrew, Bazza, Black Kite (to ping just the first 3 commenters): about what's going on at WP:ERRORS/TFA today, I'm only speaking for myself, but I think we've probably reached the point where I need to say something about how this impacts my job at ERRORS and at the monthly TFA talk pages (such as WT:Today's featured article/April 2024) going forward. All three of you have made vital contributions to TFA blurbs over the years; thanks much. And I'm not remotely suggesting that there's anything wrong with this discussion in particular. My point is that, given how people tend to overreact more these days to what they see as insensitive language (I blame social media, mostly), and given how much more discussion there is these days about language, including at the monthly TFA pages, I'm probably going to wind up saying less going forward. I still don't know after 10 years what the TFA coord job entails ... it's probably glorifying it to even call it a job ... but there is some expectation that I'm supposed to stay neutral, so as the total level of discussion goes up, my participation has to decrease, to some extent, so that I don't lose that valuable perception of at least an attempt at neutrality. (I don't want to get too deep into the linguistic weeds here, but since people are going to ask if I don't say something: I know that many copyeditors have insisted on "immigrate to, emigrate from" for decades. The problem is, this isn't a settled issue at all. Some think it's just blindingly obvious and comes directly from the Latin prefixes, while others think that slavish devotion to Latin prefixes is a bad thing. Not only is it not settled, but in the 2020s, these discussions can potentially become heated, because of the perceived dehumanization of using words that evoke animal migration for some readers, and because of the politicization of all things involving immigrants.) I suggest that we "migrate" more of these discussions to the monthly TFA talk pages, where everyone can (theoretically) have a shot at input; if we don't, then I'm going to have to cut back on my own input. Thanks again. - Dank (push to talk) 17:25, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

As the coordinator for May's TFAs I won't be watching Errors, I never do. So I will pay no attention to reports of errors unless pinged. I have not noticed either my input or lack of it materially effecting outcomes, not do I consider the majority of reported "errors" to actually be "errors", and so I allocate my time elsewhere. In the unlikely eventuality of anyone being interested in a coordinator's opinion on any proposed blurb for May, I urge them to read them here and comment on them here, where I will read them, will probably respond to them, and may action them, as I do each time I coordinate a month's TFAs - eg here and here. Getting comments in two or three days before they are due to hit the main page, and ideally two or three weeks, would be appreciated. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:07, 30 March 2024 (UTC)