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 (Monday, March 16)
The 78th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 2005 and took place on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. Televised in the United States by ABC, the ceremony was produced by Gilbert Cates and directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Comedian Jon Stewart hosted the show for the first time. Crash won three awards, including Best Picture. Other winners included Brokeback Mountain, King Kong, and Memoirs of a Geisha, with three each. The telecast garnered more than 39 million viewers in the United States. (Full list...)
From today's featured list (Wednesday, March 18)
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Seventy-four songs were recorded by the English rock band the Smiths during their five-year career from 1982 to 1987, comprising seventy originals and four covers. The Smiths were formed in Manchester in 1982 and signed a one-off recording contract with the independent record label Rough Trade Records, releasing their debut single, "Hand in Glove" in May 1983. The next year saw the release of their debut album, The Smiths, and the band's popularity increased with Meat Is Murder (1985), their only UK number-one studio album. Several more albums were released prior to the Smiths' breakup in 1987, including The Queen Is Dead (1986) and Strangeways, Here We Come (1987), as well as the live album Rank in 1988. The majority of the Smiths' songs were written by the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr. Since their breakup, the Smiths have been considered to be one of the most influential bands of the 1980s. (Full list...)
From the next featured list (Friday, March 20)
Dan Quayle, the 44th Vice President of the United States, has run for public office several times, beginning in 1976. He is a member of the Republican Party, one of two major parties in the United States. Quayle began his political career in 1976 by unseating incumbent Indiana Democratic Representative J. Edward Roush. After serving two terms in the House, Quayle upset three-term incumbent Democratic Senator Birch Bayh as part of a Republican landslide. In 1988, Quayle was chosen by then-Vice President George H. W. Bush to serve as his running mate in the 1988 presidential election. Quayle and Bush won the election, defeating Democrats Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, taking office on January 20, 1989. He and Bush ran for reelection but were defeated in the 1992 presidential election by Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee Senator Al Gore. (Full list...)