Wikipedia:Today's featured list
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Today's featured list  Today's featured list is a section included on the Main Page on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, in which an introduction to one of Wikipedia's featured lists is displayed. See this month's queue. The lists appearing on the Main Page are scheduled by the featured list director, currently Giants2008. To be eligible to appear on the Main Page, a list must already be featured. For more information on the featured list promotion process, please see the featured list candidates, as well as the featured list criteria. In addition, a blurb is drafted, introducing the subject of the list. Blurbs are roughly 1,000 characters in length, with no reference tags, alternate names or extraneous boldface type, although a link to the specified featured list should be emboldened; a relevant picture is also usually included with the blurb. The previous three lists that were featured on the Main Page appear along the bottom, in reverse chronological order. You can submit a list to be scheduled at the submissions page. At the moment, lists are scheduled by the featured list director or by the featured list delegates, although we will eventually be devising a community-based system for selecting each day's list. We encourage editors to submit and to review as many blurbs as possible. If you notice a problem with an upcoming featured list to appear on the Main Page, please leave a message at the Main Page errors page or on the TFL talk page. Find out more on how to get involved. |
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From the previous featured list (Friday, February 20)
The filmography of Billy Wilder, an American filmmaker, comprises 50 films from 1929 to 1981. Billy Wilder's first screenplay was for the German silent thriller The Daredevil Reporter (1929). In 1938, he began collaborating with Charles Brackett on screenplays with Ernst Lubitsch's romantic comedy Bluebeard's Eighth Wife. It was the first of 14 consecutive commercially successful films co-written by Wilder and Brackett, including the comedy Ninotchka (1939) and the romantic drama Hold Back the Dawn (1941). In 1944, Wilder directed and co-wrote the screenplay for the film noir Double Indemnity, which is considered to be a classic of its genre. He followed this with The Lost Weekend (1945), a drama about a writer struggling with alcoholism, for which Wilder won his first Academy Award for Best Director and shared the Best Original Screenplay award with Brackett. He won his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Brackett for Sunset Boulevard (1950), as well as the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama. During the 1950s, Wilder also received Best Director nominations at the Oscars for Stalag 17 (1953), Sabrina (1954), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), and Some Like It Hot (1959). (Full list...)
From the next featured list (Monday, February 23)
The Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester, England, reflect the region's architectural, industrial, and civic development seen across its ten boroughs from the Late Middle Ages into the 20th century. The 241 Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester are "particularly important buildings of more than special interest", including timber‑framed halls, churches, mills, warehouses, transport structures, and public buildings (example pictured) that illustrate Greater Manchester's growth from rural townships into an industrial and urban centre. The list brings together these nationally important structures, outlining their historical context and architectural interest, and offering an overview of the area's diverse built heritage. (Full list...)