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 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Main Page § Change "From today's featured article" to "Today's featured article". Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 13:27, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a draft schedule for January's TFAs at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/January 2026. I'll start scheduling shortly. As always, the door is still open for late suggestions or requests for changes. - SchroCat (talk) 16:28, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not a big deal to me, but what happened to this: "Comment: Better on St Patrick's Day, perhaps. - SchroCat (talk) 06:28, 24 August 2025 (UTC)" see Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Corleck Head, just curious. MisawaSakura (talk) 23:39, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Crap, forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me. - SchroCat (talk) 08:12, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Copying my comment from that talk page: Hello, I noticed that my FA (The One Where Michael Leaves) was selected as TFA for that day, but I added it to 'possible today's featured article requests' list to appear in 2029 on the episode’s 25th anniversary. Is there any way to remove it? I’m honestly quite surprised it was chosen despite being added to the requests list, and am also surprised I wasn’t pinged to be notified of this Crystal Drawers (talk) 12:10, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That's not a problem: I shall swap it out for something else. You were notified of its selection: I left a message on your talk page about it! - SchroCat (talk) 12:37, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

These are still commercial products after all, and running a featured article for a recently released piece of media may appear promotional in one way or another, even if there is no intention to. There is also the extended awards seasons for film, television, music, etc that can last a year after its initial release and running a piece of media that is nominated may appear to be trying to influence the vote or as commentary on it if it won or lost.

Thus I feel there should be a formalized rule that prevents recent media from running until a year or two after its release date.

see also:

• Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/KPop Demon Hunters

Harizotoh9 (talk) 18:50, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say the earliest we should run a media article is on its first anniversary. Any earlier would be problematic, like you said. QuicoleJR (talk) 17:50, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with QuicoleJR. I also suggest that a media piece should not run on the release day of another major piece of media connected with that article. For example, Rihanna should not run on the date that her next album is scheduled to released (whenever it is announced), and The Masked Singer (American TV series) should not run on the finale date of the current season. I think this is already an unwritten rule at TFA (and co-ords already avoid doing this) but I would be fine with formalizing it if that's where consensus is. Z1720 (talk) 18:02, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I saw this comment by Wehwalt but, since this question is off-topic I thought I would ask it here:

I have been limiting specific date nominations to 5 or 10 year anniversaries. Should I broaden out my nominations to suggest articles for other anniversary dates? I would still consider such things as topic diversity and give preference to editors who want to nominate their own articles. Z1720 (talk) 17:52, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking just for myself, I am more interested in topic diversity than anniversaries and find "Never TFA" an entirely sufficient reason for nominating. I may be swayed by significant anniversaries: 10, 50, 100; eg David Bowie died on this day ten years ago. Recently there have been a lot of biographies, to the extent that I was tempted to toss a few back when scheduling February. But the spread was good and I hate disappointing those who put in the work on the noms, so I went with it, but would hope for a lower ratio than 12/28 when my turn comes up again in May. An anniversary per se is unlikely to sway me one way or another. Other TFA coordinators may have different opinions on all of these. Does this help? Gog the Mild (talk) 18:25, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]