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Currently accepting requests from July 13 to August 12.
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July 14 | UEFA Euro 2004 final | Date of the 2024 UEFA Euro final | 1 | |
July 16 | Hanford Engineer Works | 79th anniversary of the Trinity nuclear test | 3 | |
July 19 | John D. Whitney | 174th birthday | 1 | |
July 25 | Phoolan Devi | Marks date of death | 2 | |
July 27 | Aston Martin DB9 | Eight years since its discontinuation | 1 | |
July 29 | Yugoslav monitor Sava | 110th anniversary of her firing the first shots of World War I, re-run from 2017 | 1 |
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Political history of medieval Karnataka edit
The result was: not scheduled by Gog the Mild (talk) 21:55, 25 July 2022 (UTC) The political history of medieval Karnataka spans the 4th–16th centuries CE in the Karnataka region of India. In the 4th century, the Kadamba Dynasty of Banavasi were the earliest of the native rulers to conduct administration in the Kannada language. In south Karnataka, the Western Gangas of Talakad were contemporaries of the Kadambas. These were followed by the Badami Chalukya Empire, the Rashtrakuta Empire, the Western Chalukya Empire, the Hoysala Empire and the Vijayanagara Empire, all patronising the Hindu religion while showing tolerance to the new cultures arriving from the west. The Muslim invasion of the Deccan resulted in the breaking away of the feudatory sultanates in the 14th century. The rule of the Bahamani Sultanate of Bidar and the Bijapur Sultanate caused a mingling of Hindu traditions with Islamic culture in the region. The fall of the Vijayanagara Empire in 1565 brought about a slow disintegration of Kannada-speaking regions into minor kingdoms that struggled to maintain autonomy. (Full article...)
Darjeeling edit
The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 15, 2022 by Gog the Mild (talk) 21:56, 25 July 2022 (UTC) Darjeeling is a town in the Eastern Himalayas in India on the slopes below which Darjeeling tea is grown as far as the eye can see. Up those same slopes, ascending some 7,000 feet every day, the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway gives tourists the experience of late industrial-age steam travel. Both exist because in the early 19th century during East India Company rule in India, Darjeeling was self-consciously founded as a summer retreat for the British. Not just the cottages, the tea and the train, but residential schools for the children of domiciled British soon came to dot Darjeeling's hills. In order to make this possible, thousands of labourers were brought in from the surrounding kingdoms. Their descendants, who constitute the vast majority of Darjeeling's residents, have given the town a cosmopolitan ethnicity. In their many neighbourhoods which fringe the town at lesser heights and lower incomes, the Nepali language has found a home outside Nepal and the Tibetan language outside Tibet. Their goal for economic well-being and political identity is the unmade tryst with destiny that India self-consciously pondered on its first independence day this day 75 years ago. (Full article...)
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Political history of medieval Karnataka edit
The political history of medieval Karnataka spans the 4th–16th centuries CE in the Karnataka region of India. In the 4th century, the Kadamba Dynasty of Banavasi were the earliest of the native rulers to conduct administration in the Kannada language. In south Karnataka, the Western Gangas of Talakad were contemporaries of the Kadambas. These were followed by the Badami Chalukya Empire, the Rashtrakuta Empire, the Western Chalukya Empire, the Hoysala Empire and the Vijayanagara Empire, all patronising the Hindu religion while showing tolerance to the new cultures arriving from the west. The Muslim invasion of the Deccan resulted in the breaking away of the feudatory sultanates in the 14th century. The rule of the Bahamani Sultanate of Bidar and the Bijapur Sultanate caused a mingling of Hindu traditions with Islamic culture in the region. The fall of the Vijayanagara Empire in 1565 brought about a slow disintegration of Kannada-speaking regions into minor kingdoms that struggled to maintain autonomy. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Western Chalukya Empire (2 May 2024)
- Main editors: Dineshkannambadi
- Promoted: June 4, 2007
- Reasons for nomination: Forgotten about article from 2007. Dispute above is mostly about running it on the anniversary of Indian independence, which wasn't a good fit for a date.
- Support as nominator. Harizotoh9 (talk) 21:03, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
- We already have two articles in the same category lined up for July, so this will probably get pushed into August, but feel free to discuss it. I see there was some opposition to the previous TFAR nomination but I haven't looked at that closely. - Dank (push to talk) 22:00, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
- No rush, it could even be run in September. Harizotoh9 (talk) 02:21, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Harizotoh9: I'm going to check with Gog, who will schedule August, to see what he recommends. - Dank (push to talk) 02:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- No rush, it could even be run in September. Harizotoh9 (talk) 02:21, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
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July 14 edit
UEFA Euro 2004 final edit
The UEFA Euro 2004 final was the final match of Euro 2004, the 12th European Championship, organised by UEFA for the senior men's national teams of its member associations. The match was played at the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon, Portugal, and contested by Portugal and Greece. The two defences ensured that goal-scoring opportunities were limited, and the score was 0–0 at half-time. Greece scored the only goal of the match after 57 minutes when Angelos Basinas took a corner kick to Angelos Charisteas, who sent a header past goalkeeper Ricardo. Several pundits labelled Greece's tournament win the greatest upset in the history of the European Championship, with their pre-tournament bookmaker odds at 150–1. Greece subsequently failed to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and did not successfully defend their European Championship in 2008. Portugal eventually won the European Championship in 2016. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): 1964 European Nations' Cup final is scheduled for June 19
- Main editors: Amakuru
- Promoted: September 30, 2021
- Reasons for nomination: July 14 is the date of the UEFA Euro final. Other finals articles will also be appropriate for this date, but this is the 20th anniversary one.
- Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 01:52, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Thanks for the nom, sounds a good shout to me having it coincide with final day. Having another Euro final TFA five days later hopefully won't raise too many eyebrows will it? — Amakuru (talk) 10:06, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support Good idea to have this on the front page 20 years on from the final. NapHit (talk) 08:38, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- 'Support'. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:27, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
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Hanford Engineer Works edit
The Hanford Engineer Works (HEW) was a nuclear production complex in Benton County, Washington, established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. Plutonium manufactured at the HEW was used in the atomic bomb detonated in the Trinity test on 16 July 1945, and the Fat Man bomb used in the bombing of Nagasaki on 9 August 1945. DuPont was the prime contractor for its design, construction and operation. The land acquisition was one of the largest in US history. Construction commenced in March 1943, and the construction workforce reached a peak of nearly 45,000 workers in June 1944. B Reactor, the world's first full-scale plutonium production nuclear reactor, went critical in September 1944, followed by D and F reactors in December 1944 and February 1945 respectively. The HEW suffered an outage on 10 March 1945 due to a Japanese balloon bomb. The total cost of the HEW up to December 1946 was over $348 million (equivalent to $4.1 billion in 2023). (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): MAUD Committee, 30 May 2021
- Main editors: Hawkeye7
- Promoted: 30 March 2024
- Reasons for nomination: We normally celebrate the development of nuclear weapons on 16 July, the anniversary of the Trinity nuclear test
- Support as nominator. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:27, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support 750h+ 13:44, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support appropriate date, and excellent article from this series on the Manhattan Project. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:57, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:28, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
July 19 edit
John D. Whitney edit
John D. Whitney (1850–1917) was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was the president of Georgetown University from 1898 to 1901. Born in Massachusetts, he joined the United States Navy at the age of sixteen, where he acquired a book that had fallen overboard, which began his conversion to Catholicism. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1872 and spent the next twenty-five years studying and teaching mathematics at Jesuit institutions in Canada, England, Ireland, and around the United States. He became the vice president of Spring Hill College in Alabama before becoming the president of Georgetown University. He oversaw the completion of Gaston Hall, construction of the entrances to Healy Hall, and the establishment of Georgetown University Hospital and what would become the School of Dentistry. Afterwards, Whitney became the treasurer of Boston College and then engaged in pastoral work in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and Baltimore, where he became the prefect of St. Ignatius Church. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Enoch Fenwick
- Main editors: Ergo Sum
- Promoted: September 27, 2023
- Reasons for nomination: Whitney's 174th birthday
- Support as nominator. Ergo Sum 20:49, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
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Phoolan Devi edit
Phoolan Devi (1963–2001), popularly known as the Bandit Queen, was an Indian dacoit (bandit) who later became a politician. She was a woman of the Mallah subcaste who grew up in poverty in the state of Uttar Pradesh, where her parents lost a land dispute. After being married off at the age of eleven and being sexually abused by various people, she joined a gang of dacoits which robbed higher-caste villages and held up trains and vehicles. When she became its leader, she punished her rapists and evaded capture by the authorities, making her a heroine for the Other Backward Classes. She was charged in absentia for the 1981 Behmai massacre, in which twenty Thakur men were executed, allegedly on her command. After this event, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh resigned, and calls to apprehend her were amplified. She surrendered two years later and spent eleven years in Gwalior prison awaiting trial, then was released in 1994 after her charges were set aside. She was subsequently elected as a member of parliament for the Samajwadi Party in 1996. She lost her seat in 1998 and regained it the following year; she was the incumbent in 2001, when she was assassinated outside her home in New Delhi. Her worldwide fame had grown after the release of the controversial 1994 film Bandit Queen, which she did not approve of. There are varying accounts of her life because she told differing versions to suit her changing circumstances. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): Last woman: Anna Blackburne Last underclass person: The boy Jones Last Asian article: Take Ichi convoy
- Main editors: Mujinga
- Promoted: November 18, 2023
- Reasons for nomination: Marks date of death
- Support as nominator. Mujinga (talk) 20:52, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Mujinga: this has 1,440 characters, wayyyyy above the recommended limit, which is between 925 and 1025 characters. Reduce this. 750h+ 08:01, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
For image, ideally we'd like the person, but it appears copyrighted. But how about the image of Seema Biswas portraying her in the film Bandit Queen instead? It's an actress portraying that person so it's better than nothing. Harizotoh9 (talk) 04:59, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- Yes the image on the article is fair use only. I considered the Biswas pic but personally I'd rather have no pic. Mujinga (talk) 11:50, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:28, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Mujinga: Two problems: lack of an image (any image that will keep the Main Page people happy would work for me, it doesn't have to be an image of her), and we don't usually do death anniversaries at TFA. This is a hard call for me, but if there's no image, that makes it an easy call. - Dank (push to talk) 22:38, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Dank thanks for the message - I didn't know death anniversaries weren't a thing and to be honest I'm not really into marking dates anyway so I'd be fine with another date (I went for July 25 because people at TFA seem in my experience to prefer a date with resonance, if there's any actual guidance on this I'd love to read it). Or we could go to August 10 her brith date if that's better? On the image, I'd like to push back a bit since this was not an issue with for example Olive Morris at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 16, 2022, I don't think it even came up. It's a reflection of systemic bias that we do not have many free to use photographs of women from the majority world, particularly working class / underclass one, so I'm not interested to include a photo just for the sake of a photo and it was hard enough trying to illustrate the article at all. Having said all that, I could ask around (again) at some relevant wikiprojects. Mujinga (talk) 10:16, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Try also asking at Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Requests Gog the Mild (talk) 13:00, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Just read this ... I agree about systemic bias being a problem. Gog will be scheduling August and has agreed to take a look at this one for next month. I can tick off several boxes at the same time here (summer film, balance, etc.) by running Nil Battey Sannata ... I was involved a bit when that made it through FAC back in 2017. I hope you like that article as much as I did. - Dank (push to talk) 12:28, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
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Aston Martin DB9 edit
The Aston Martin DB9 is a two-door grand touring car produced by the British automaker Aston Martin from 2004 until it was discontinued on 27 July 2016. Commencing production in January 2004 for the coupe version and February 2005 for the convertible version, the latter termed the "Volante", the DB9 was designed by Ian Callum and Henrik Fisker. The DB9 succeeds the DB7, which Aston Martin produced from 1994 to 2004. The car's chassis is composed of aluminium and composite materials melded together by various different techniques. Aston Martin, in 2008 and 2010, implemented minor alterations to the DB9's exterior and engine. But in 2013, the most significant update was made, with the car's most prominent adjustments lying in its front fascia. The DB9 was adapted for Aston Martin Racing in the form of the "DBR9" and the "DBRS9", both introduced in 2005. To commemorate to discontinuation of the DB9, Aston Martin released the "DB9 GT" in 2015. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): We haven't had any recent FA automobile articles, but the last one was on 15 July 2021 with "General Motors companion make program.
- Main editors: 750h+, which is me!
- Promoted: 6 May 2024
- Reasons for nomination: Eight years since its discontinuation
- Support as nominator. 750h+ 11:31, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Great to have an automobile article appear on the Main Page. Pseud 14 (talk) 19:21, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:29, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Gog the Mild: appreciate this!!! thank you so much for the support. 750h+ 01:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
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Yugoslav monitor Sava edit
The Yugoslav monitor Sava was a river monitor built for the Austro-Hungarian Navy as SMS Bodrog. She and two other monitors fired the first shots of World War I in the early hours of 29 July 1914, when they shelled Serbian defences near Belgrade. During the war, she fought the Serbian and Romanian armies, and was captured in its closing stages. She was transferred to the newly created Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), and renamed Sava. During the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, she fought off several air attacks, but was scuttled on 11 April. Sava was later raised by the Axis puppet state, the Independent State of Croatia, and continued to serve under that name until 1944 when she was again scuttled. Following World War II, Sava was raised again, and was refurbished to serve in the Yugoslav Navy from 1952 to 1962. After that she became a gravel barge, but was later restored and opened as a floating museum in November 2021. (Full article...)
- Most recent similar article(s): previously ran as TFA on July 28, 2017, Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō is scheduled for June 20.
- Main editors: Peacemaker67
- Promoted: January 23, 2016
- Reasons for nomination: 110th anniversary of the ship firing the first shots of World War I is July 29, 2024.
- Support as nominator. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:07, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:30, 31 May 2024 (UTC)