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Article name
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Main Page blurb
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Possibly objectionable content keyword?
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| April 21, 2004
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Murder of James Bulger
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 21, 2004
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"James Bulger was a toddler who was abducted and murdered by two ten year-old boys"
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Note: Link is to state of article and title of article at time of FA promotion.
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Violence
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| May 3, 2004
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Prostitution
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 3, 2004
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"Prostitution is the sale of sexual services for money or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons."
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Note: Link is to state of article and title of article at time of FA promotion.
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Sexual
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| December 8, 2004
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Bishōjo game
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 8, 2004
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"Although nearly all bishōjo games involve romantic or sex appeal of some kind, they may or may not be pornographic."
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Note: Link is to state of article and title of article at time of FA promotion.
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Sexual
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| January 5, 2006
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Marilyn Manson (band)
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 5, 2006
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"Until 1996, the name of each band member was created by combining the first name of a female pop culture icon and the last name of a mass murderer or a serial killer"
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Note: Link is to state of article and title of article at time of FA promotion.
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Violence
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| May 13, 2006
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Prostitution in the People's Republic of China
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 13, 2006
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"Since the loosening of government controls over society in the early 1980s, prostitution in the People's Republic of China has not only reappeared, but can now be found throughout urban and rural areas."
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Note: Link is to state of article and title of article at time of FA promotion.
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Sexual
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| November 30, 2006
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History of erotic depictions
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 30, 2006
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"The history of erotic depictions includes representations of sexual acts that have been created by nearly every civilisation, ancient and modern."
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- Note picture used in TFA blurb: File:Pompeii-wall painting.jpg.
- Note: Link is to state of article and title of article at time of FA promotion.
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Sexual
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| February 19, 2007
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The Four Stages of Cruelty
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 19, 2007
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"Beginning with the torture of a dog as a child in the First stage of cruelty, he progresses to beating his horse as a man in the Second stage of cruelty, and then to robbery, seduction, and murder in Cruelty in perfection."
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Violence
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| October 31, 2007
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Halloween II (1981 film)
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 31, 2007
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"The film immediately follows the events of the first film, and centers on Michael Myers's attempts to find and kill Laurie Strode and Samuel J. Loomis's efforts to track and kill Myers."
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Violence
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| July 9, 2009
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Gropecunt Lane
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 9, 2009
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"Gropecunt, the earliest known use of which is in about 1230, appears to have been derived as a compound of the words "grope" and "cunt"."
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Profanity
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| July 11, 2009
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John Edward Brownlee sex scandal
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 11, 2009
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"MacMillan claimed that the married premier had told her that she must have sex with him for his own sake and that of his invalid wife."
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Sexual
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| April 1, 2011
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Cock Lane ghost
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 1, 2011
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"Fanny scratching in 18th-century London's Cock Lane was so notorious that interested bystanders often blocked the street."
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Profanity
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| October 31, 2011
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 31, 2011
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"The film tells the story of a German doctor who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, forming a "human centipede". "
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Violence
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| February 7, 2012
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Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 7, 2012
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""Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" is the pilot episode of the animated television series South Park."
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Profanity
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| March 2, 2012
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Murder of Julia Martha Thomas
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 2, 2012
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"Webster dismembered the body, boiled the flesh off the bones, and threw most of it into the River Thames, allegedly offering the fat to neighbours as dripping and lard."
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Permalink of TFAR discussion, ended: (26 February 2012)
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Violence
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| December 17, 2012
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Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 17, 2012
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""Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo" is the ninth episode of the first season of the animated comedy television series South Park."
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- TFAR discussion: Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo and Permalink of TFAR discussion, ended: (4 December 2012)
- Blurb nomination for deletion at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 17, 2012
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Profanity
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| March 16, 2013
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Icelandic Phallological Museum
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 16, 2013
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"The Icelandic Phallological Museum, in Reykjavík, Iceland, houses the world's largest display of penises and penile parts. "
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Permalink of TFAR discussion, ended: (25 February 2013)
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Sexual
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| December 1, 2013
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Frank's Cock
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 1, 2013
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"Frank's Cock is a 1993 Canadian short film written and directed by Mike Hoolboom"
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Permalink of TFAR discussion, ended: (5 November 2013).
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Profanity
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| March 1, 2014
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Fuck (film)
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 1, 2014
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"Fuck is a 2005 American documentary film by Steve Anderson, which argues the titular word is key to discussions on freedom of speech and censorship."
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TFAR discussion: Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Fuck (film)
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Profanity
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| September 18, 2014
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Murder of Joanna Yeates
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 18, 2014
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"Following a highly publicised appeal for information on her whereabouts and intensive police enquiries, her body was discovered on 25 December 2010; a post-mortem examination determined that she had been strangled. "
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TFAR discussion: Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Murder of Joanna Yeates
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Violence
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| December 15, 2014
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Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/December 15, 2014
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"Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties is a 2009 nonfiction book by law professor Christopher M. Fairman about freedom of speech, the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, censorship, and use of the word in society."
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TFAR discussion: Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Fuck: Word Taboo and Protecting Our First Amendment Liberties
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Profanity
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| October 25, 2015
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Debora Green
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Wikipedia:Today's featured article/October 24, 2015
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"Debora Green (b. 1951) is an American physician who pleaded no contest in 1995 to killing two of her children and trying to kill her husband, Michael Farrar."
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Explanation of selection: '"It was selected by me in my position as TFA coordinator for both the anniversary of the fire and as we had not had a crime article in a long time."
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Violence
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