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Today's featured article for October 14, 2024

Stephen Waldorf and David Martin

Stephen Waldorf was a 26-year-old man who was shot and injured in 1983 by police in London after they mistook him for David Martin, an escaped criminal. Martin, who was known to carry firearms, had previously shot a police officer. He escaped from custody in December 1982 and the police placed his girlfriend under surveillance. On the day of the shooting, they followed her as she travelled in a car with Waldorf, who resembled Martin. When the car stopped, an armed officer went forward to confirm his identity. The officer believed that Waldorf was Martin and fired six rounds, first at the car's tyres and then at the passenger. Another officer fired through the rear windscreen. As the passenger slumped across the seats and out of the driver's door, a third officer opened fire. Two officers were charged with attempted murder but were acquitted. Waldorf subsequently recovered. Martin was captured two weeks after the shooting. The event led to reforms in the training of armed police in the UK. (Full article...)

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Picture of the day for October 14, 2024

The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on its wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average 100–115 cm (39–45 in) from beak tip to end of tail, with a 155–215 cm (61–85 in) wingspan. The white stork is a long-distance migrant, wintering in Africa from tropical Sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the Indian subcontinent. A carnivore, the white stork eats a wide range of animal prey, including insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, small mammals, and small birds.

This picture shows a white stork carrying a piece of plastic back to its nest and is fitted with a wildlife transmitter, photographed in Huevla, Spain.

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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2012 notes

New articles (unused): Battle of Bristoe Station; Second Raid on Schweinfurt
Omitted: Louis Le Prince; John Benjamin Murphy; Winnie-the-Pooh; Dalit Buddhist movement; Leonid Brezhnev
Included: Battle of Elchingen (first appearance); Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (first appearance); Balham station (first appearance); Fifty pence (British coin) (first appearance); Hosni Mubarak (5th appearance, last in 2007; rescued from Ineligible)

—howcheng {chat} 11:17, 13 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Battle of Hastings
New articles (unused): Erwin Rommel
Omitted: Battle of Elchingen; Curtiss P-40 Warhawk; Balham station; Fifty pence (British coin); Hosni Mubarak (ineligible—maintenance)
Included: Battle of Bristoe Station (first appearance; 150th anniversary); Louis Le Prince (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 125th anniversary); Second Raid on Schweinfurt (first appearance; 70th anniversary); Qibya massacre (6th appearance, last in 2010; 60th anniversary); 1973 Thai popular uprising (first appearance; 40th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 06:36, 13 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Hosni Mubarak
Omitted: Battle of Bristoe Station; Second Raid on Schweinfurt; Qibya massacre; 1973 Thai popular uprising
Included: Battle of Hastings (4th appearance, last in 2006); German submarine U-47 (1938)/HMS Royal Oak (08) (U47: first appearance; Royal Oak: 2nd appearance, last in 2010; 70th anniversary); Erwin Rommel (first appearance; 75th anniversary); Leonid Brezhnev (2nd appearance, last in 2011; 50th anniversary)
Repeats: Louis Le Prince (2nd consecutive appearance, 3 total)

—howcheng {chat} 09:31, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Omitted: Battle of Hastings; German submarine U-47 (1938)/HMS Royal Oak (08); Erwin Rommel; Leonid Brezhnev
Included: Defender of Ukraine Day (first appearance); Battle of Elchingen (2nd appearance, last in 2012); John Benjamin Murphy (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Balham station (2nd appearance, last in 2012; 75th anniversary); Hosni Mubarak (6th appearance, last in 2012)
Repeats: Louis Le Prince (3rd consecutive appearance, 4 total)

—howcheng {chat} 10:37, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Moved to Ineligible: German submarine U-47 (1938)/HMS Royal Oak (08) (U-47: ineligible—maintenance)
Omitted: Battle of Elchingen; John Benjamin Murphy; Balham station; Hosni Mubarak
Included: Battle of Bristoe Station (2nd appearance, last in 2013); Senghenydd colliery disaster (first appearance); Dalit Buddhist movement (2nd appearance, last in 2011); 1973 Thai popular uprising (2nd appearance, last in 2013)
Repeats: Louis Le Prince (4th consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:46, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Battle of Hastings (TFA for 2017); Curtiss P-40 Warhawk (maintenance); Chuck Yeager (maintenance); Fifty pence (British coin) (maintenance); Hosni Mubarak (maintenance)
Omitted: Battle of Bristoe Station; Louis Le Prince; Dalit Buddhist movement; 1973 Thai popular uprising
Included: Battle of Hochkirch (first appearance); Battle of Elchingen (3rd appearance, last in 2015); National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (first appearance); Felix Baumgartner (first appearance); Jacques Arcadelt (first appearance); Masaoka Shiki (2nd appearance, last in 2017; also appeared on September 19, his death anniversary); Sumner Welles (first appearance)
Repeats: Senghenydd colliery disaster (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 06:28, 14 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Winnie-the-Pooh (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Jessie Bonstelle
Omitted: Battle of Hochkirch (ineligible—TFA for 2018); Battle of Elchingen; Senghenydd colliery disaster; National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights; Jacques Arcadelt; Masaoka Shiki (deleted per above); Sumner Welles
Included: Battle of Hastings (5th appearance, last in 2014; rescued from Ineligible); Battle of Bristoe Station (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Sobibór extermination camp (3rd appearance, last in 2013; 75th anniversary); Dalit Buddhist movement (3rd appearance, last in 2016); Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham (first appearance); Mary Margaret O'Reilly (first appearance); Julius Nyerere (first appearance)
Repeats: Felix Baumgartner (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 03:09, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 suggestion

Births: Hannah Arendt(b.1906). Arendt is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century.Moira Paul (talk) 23:34, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- You just added her to December 4, so she cannot appear on her birth date (articles are supposed to get one featured (in bold) appearance per year, although some occasionally slip through the cracks). —howcheng {chat} 03:10, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Winnie-the-Pooh (book) (blurb previously featured Winnie-the-Pooh, which is still ineligible); Chuck Yeager
New articles (unused): Second Philippine Republic; Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders; 1957 Valencia flood; 2014 Nepal snowstorm disaster; Al-Mu'tamid (moved from October 15)
Omitted: Battle of Hastings; Battle of Bristoe Station; Sobibor extermination camp; Dalit Buddhist movement; Felix Baumgartner; Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham; Mary Margaret O'Reilly
Included: Battle of Hochkirch (2nd appearance, last in 2017; rescued from Ineligible); John Benjamin Murphy (3rd appearance, last in 2015); HMS Royal Oak (08) (3rd appearance, last in 2014; 80th anniversary); Erwin Rommel (2nd appearance, last in 2014; 75th anniversary); National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights (2nd appearance, last in 2017; 40th anniversary); Joseph Plateau (first appearance); Jessie Bonstelle (first appearance)
Repeats: Julius Nyerere (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 20th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 16:05, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

Can I put in a request to include the uprising at Sobibor extermination camp? It's timely since a new museum is opening at the site this year. The article has also received a major rewrite over the past year (mostly Buidhe and myself) and now has a much-expanded section on the uprising itself. Botterweg14 (talk) 23:08, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Botterweg14: Sorry, I made the update for 2020 before you posted this request and didn't see it. —howcheng {chat} 20:36, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I realized it was probably too late. Maybe next year! Botterweg14 (talk) 21:56, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

New articles (ineligible): François Bozizé (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Isaac Mizrahi
Omitted: Battle of Hochkirch; John Benjamin Murphy; HMS Royal Oak (08); Erwin Rommel (ineligible—maintenance); National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights; Joseph Plateau; Jessie Bonstelle (ineligible—POTD for 2020); Julius Nyerere
Included: Battle of Hastings (6th appearance, last in 2018); Balham station (3rd appearance, last in 2015); 1957 Valencia flood (first appearance); 2014 Nepal snowstorm disaster (first appearance); Antipope Dioscorus (first appearance); Amaro Pargo (first appearance); Mary Margaret O'Reilly (3rd appearance, last in 2017)

—howcheng {chat} 16:20, 15 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Isaac Mizrahi (maintenance)
Rescued from Ineligible (unused): Jessie Bonstelle
New articles (ineligible): Carbonaceous sulfur hydride (date not in article)
New articles (unused): Laura Askew Haygood
Omitted: Battle of Hastings; Balham station; 1957 Valencia flood; 2014 Nepal snowstorm disaster; Antipope Dioscorus; Amaro Pargo (deleted—moved to Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 4|October 4]]); Mary Margaret O'Reilly
Included: Battle of Elchingen (4th appearance, last in 2017); Roundhay Garden Scene (4th appearance, last in 2010; blurb previously featured Louis Le Prince, which is currently ineligible); Winnie-the-Pooh (book) (first appearance); Sobibor extermination camp (4th appearance, last in 2018); Leonid Brezhnev (3rd appearance, last in 2014); Samuel Daniel (first appearance); Joseph Plateau (2nd appearance, last in 2019); Sumner Welles (2nd appearance, last in 2017)

—howcheng {chat} 07:29, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

typo?

1980 – The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party concluded, having anointed North Korean president Kim Il-sung's son Kim Jong-il as his successor. should this be 'having appointed '? Potholehotline (talk) 12:13, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]