Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Albertus Soegijapranata

Albertus Soegijapranata
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 * 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 Today's featured article/July 22, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 11:01, 3 July 2013‎ (UTC)



Albertus Soegijapranata (1896–1963) was a Javanese cleric who became the first native Indonesian bishop upon being created as Archbishop of Semarang in 1940. Born to a Muslim family in Surakarta, Dutch East Indies, in 1910 he converted to Catholicism and was ordained in 1931. First serving as a pastor in Yogyakarta, Soegijapranata was consecrated as the vicar apostolic of the newly established Apostolic Vicariate of Semarang in 1940, moving to the city to take the position. During the Japanese occupation, Soegijapranata resisted attempts to seize Church property, including his vicariate's cathedral, and protected the area's Catholics. During the ensuing national revolution (1945–1949) he promoted a nationalist cause, moving his seat to Yogyakarta to support the new government and working to promote international recognition of Indonesia's independence. During the post-revolution years he wrote extensively against communism and worked towards a self-determined Indonesian Roman Catholic hierarchy. He was made an archbishop in 1961, dying two years later in the Netherlands. Soegijapranata is now considered a National Hero of Indonesia and in 2011 a biopic on him was released to commercial success.

4 points: 50th anniversary of his death 1 point: No similar article in 3 months (Reginald Heber on 21 April seems to have been our last religion biography)

Total: 5 points — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:18, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment I'd like to support an article that combats our systemic bias issues, but there are some problems with the blurb. Note, I've not checked the article. What's a (unexplained and unwikilinked jargon) "vicar apostolic"? The blurb currently says that he resisted protecting the area's Catholics, which I'm sure was not the case. Does "expanded the church" mean that he oversaw construction, made converts or something else? Was he at the Vatican Council when he died (why is it mentioned?) Who considers him a national hero. "Biopic" seems a little informal language, but the other issues are more serious. --Dweller (talk) 22:04, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
 * "Vicar apostolic" is one who oversees an Apostolic vicariate, linked now. Added an "ed" to "protect". Changed the other two issues as well. "Biopic" has 8070 hits on GScholar, as opposed to 1200 for "Biographical film". — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:00, 18 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Support. I saw this at DYK and thought it was a great article then, and it's even better now. Prioryman (talk) 21:19, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Hawkeye7 (talk) 23:32, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:59, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support' I have no problems with runs of similar articles. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:59, 3 July 2013 (UTC)