Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Taylor Swift

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Taylor Swift 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 unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add {{collapse top|Previous nomination}} to the top of the discussion and {{collapse bottom}} at the bottom, then complete a new nomination underneath. To do this, see the instructions at {{TFAR nom/doc}}. The result was: not scheduled by Wehwalt (talk) 09:20, 5 November 2017 (UTC) Taylor Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. A popular contemporary recording artist, she is known for narrative songs about her personal life. Swift released her self-titled debut album in 2006, which spent the most weeks on the Billboard 200 in the 2000s. Her second album, Fearless (2008) became the best-seller of 2009 in the US and won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner. With her later albums Speak Now (2010), Red (2012) and 1989 (2014), she became the first act to have three albums sell a million copies within one week in the US. Red, 1989 and her sixth album Reputation (2017) spawned the number-one singles, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood" and "Look What You Made Me Do". Swift's many accolades include ten Grammy Awards and five Guinness World Records and appearances in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015, Time 100 (2010 and 2015), Forbes' 100 most powerful women (2015) and Forbes Celebrity 100 (2016). One of the best-selling music artists of all time, she was one of the finalists for Time Person of the Year in 2014. (Full article...) Most recent similar article(s): Audio Slave on 20 July Main editors: FrB.TG, IndianBio, Popeye191 Promoted: October 2016 Reasons for nomination: birthday Support as nominator. FrB.TG (talk) 14:05, 25 October 2017 (UTC) @WP:TFA coordinators I wish to withdraw my nomination. FrB.TG (talk) 19:39, 4 November 2017 (UTC) OK, thanks for being flexible on this. Just think. You can run it when she turns 29. If not next year, remember: in ten years, she will turn 29 for the 10th time ... (joke)--Wehwalt (talk) 19:48, 4 November 2017 (UTC) Good one! FrB.TG (talk) 19:52, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

Taylor Swift

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/August 23, 2019 by Ealdgyth - Talk 16:22, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Taylor Swift (born 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. She has sold more than 50 million albums and 150 million single downloads worldwide. Swift released her self-titled debut album in 2006, which spent more weeks than any other album on the Billboard 200 in the 2000s. Her second album, Fearless (2008), became the best-seller of 2009 in the US and won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner. With her later albums Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017), she became the first act to have four albums sell a million copies within one week in the US. The last three albums spawned the number-one singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood", and "Look What You Made Me Do". Swift's many accolades include ten Grammy Awards and appearances in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time, Time 100, and Forbes Celebrity 100. (Full article...)

• Most recent similar article(s): Faryl Smith on May 14
• Main editors: FrB.TG, IndianBio, Popeye191
• Promoted: October 2016
• Reasons for nomination: To coincide with the release of her upcoming album, Lover
• Support as nominator. FrB.TG (talk) 15:56, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
• Support Krimuk2.0 (talk) 06:32, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
• It's a good blurb, but 1177 characters ... the max is 1025. Find some stuff to cut. - Dank (push to talk) 21:26, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
  • I would cut out the years of being included on various lists, the mention of being a Time Person of the Year finalist, and the mention of being a "popular contemporary recording artist" to start. I also find it interesting there's no mention of starting as a country music act and moving into pop, but adding that would require more content to be cut/summarized. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 03:34, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
    • I cut slightly more than that and got 966. Max is 1025, so we can add a little back. - Dank (push to talk) 04:13, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
      • Thank you. This looks ideal in my opinion now. We can probably mention the transition from country to pop. Not sure where it could be mentioned though. FrB.TG (talk) 07:28, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
• Support -BRAINULATOR9 (TALK) 14:10, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
• Support Aoba47 (talk) 22:29, 9 July 2019 (UTC)
• Comment: I think that December 23 13, being Swift's thirtieth birthday, would be a much more appropriate date for the article than the day a new album comes out. Sceptre (talk) 01:53, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
• Support Moisejp (talk) 16:10, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
• Comment: @Sceptre: Her birthday is December 13, but I do agree with the sentiment. Her 30th birthday will be quite a milestone. Shuipzv3 (talk) 16:17, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

I prefer a main page appearance due to an album release much more than a birthday, although I can understand how significant a 30th, a 40th or a similar birthday is as well. FrB.TG (talk) 17:27, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

@FrB.TG: I don't have strong feelings either way about which date. My only concern is that August 23 might appear promotional, though I'm hoping I'm wrong. Shuipzv3 (talk) 17:43, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Well, the blurb doesn’t mention the album so there shouldn’t be anything promotional about it. The main reason I want it for August 23 is that readers are going to be much more interested in her with the release of her new album than on her birthday. FrB.TG (talk) 17:57, 27 July 2019 (UTC)

Support, in any case. Shuipzv3 (talk) 05:25, 28 July 2019 (UTC)