Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate)

4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate)[edit]

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/April 28, 2021 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:29, 16 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of the same pattern as that carried by the regiment

The 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Organized on April 28, 1862, the regiment was present at the Battles of Farmington on May 9, and Iuka on September 19. The regiment participated in three charges against Union lines on October 3, 1862, during the Second Battle of Corinth. On October 4, the regiment and its brigade attacked fresh Union lines. Despite initial success, their attack was repulsed by a Union counterattack. On November 7, 1862, the regiment was combined with the 1st Missouri Infantry to form the 1st and 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated). The combined unit served in the Vicksburg campaign in 1863, before surrendering at the end of the Siege of Vicksburg. After being exchanged, the men rejoined the Confederate Army and served in the Atlanta campaign and the Battle of Franklin in 1864. On May 9, 1865, the consolidated regiment surrendered during the Battle of Fort Blakeley. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): Of course we have MILHIST all the time, so there's that similarity. The last two military units to run were 1st Cavalry Division (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) on December 6, 2020 and the very similar Landis's Missouri Battery on November 30, 2020.
Main editors: Hog Farm
Promoted: February 28, 2021
Reasons for nomination: April 28 is the anniversary of the unit officially forming. This would be my second TFA, if run. If it's deemed not significant enough, I won't be offended; there's already plenty of MILHIST at TFA. And I'm not entirely for sure how people will react to a Confederate flag being run as the main page image, but there's no other image that really goes with this topic at WP:NOTCENSORED.
Support as nominator. Hog Farm _Talk 02:55, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support but a photograph of Johnson would be good (and more interesting than the flag) given he was also a Confederate senator. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 08:13, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Peacemaker67: - We've got File:WPJohnson.jpg on Commons, which is most likely PD, but it lacks a lot of licensing information, which is why I removed it from the article before running it through FAC. It'll need a lot of licensing work before the image can be established as okay to run on the main page. Hog Farm _Talk 15:20, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, in that case the flag is fine. I'm not opposed to its use, especially given it isn't easily identified as Confederate. BTW, in the past I have been concerned with the use of Confederate flags in general being used to promote the "Lost Cause" case. That is clearly not what is happening here, as HFs articles on Missouri Confederate units are always neutrally written. The flag is unusual and may draw some interest to the article if it runs as TFA. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:19, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]