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Today's featured list  Today's featured list is a section included on the Main Page on Mondays and on 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 (Friday, August 1)
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The works of the Nigerian author Wole Soyinka comprise twenty-five plays, ten essay collections, seven poetry collections, five memoirs, three novels, and two translated works. His first major plays were The Swamp Dwellers (1958) and The Lion and the Jewel (1959), both of which were performed in Ibadan, Nigeria. After Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared the independence of Biafra in 1966, Soyinka was arrested and accused of taking sides following his attempt to negotiate between the Nigerian government and the Biafran separatists. When the Nigerian Civil War ended, he was released in 1969 under an amnesty. Madmen and Specialists (1970) was his first play after his release. His arrest and prison experiences were detailed in his first memoir, The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka (1972), which along with Poems from Prison was written and smuggled out during his imprisonment. (Full list...)
From today's featured list (Monday, August 4)
The Swedish pop group Tages released six studio albums and 26 singles in their home country during their existence from 1963 to 1970. Their professional career began during the summer of 1964, when they won a contest awarding them a recording contract with Platina Records, an independent record label. Their debut single, "Sleep Little Girl", was released in October 1964 and became a large hit in Sweden. The band's debut album, Tages, was released in November 1965, reaching the top 10 of the Finnish Albums Charts. The band's fourth and fifth albums, Contrast and Studio (both 1967), were released by Parlophone, whereas their sixth and final album, The Lilac Years (1969), was released through Fontana Records. The Lilac Years and the band's final three singles were released under the name Blond, which was considered more internationally viable by their management. (Full list...)
From the next featured list (Friday, August 8)
The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics were held at eighteen competition venues across Singapore from 14 to 26 August 2010. To accommodate the 3,600 athletes from 204 different National Olympic Committees, eleven existing sites were used, six temporary sites were built, and one new site was built for permanent use after the Olympics. Organised by the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee after winning the hosting bid in 2008, the Singapore Turf Club was the only venue constructed to host the equestrian events, while others like the Singapore Indoor Stadium and The Float@Marina Bay were upgraded for the Olympics. The largest venue was The Float@Marina Bay, with seating for 25,000, while the smallest venue was for the archery events at Kallang Field, with seating for 500. (Full list...)