Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

 * 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/January 8, 2023 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:22, 10 December 2022 (UTC)



Alfred Russel Wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, and biologist. He is known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, identified the faunal divide called the Wallace Line, and was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species, leading some to call him the "father of biogeography" or of zoogeography. An account of his adventures in Southeast Asia, called The Malay Archipelago, was published in 1869. He worked on warning coloration in animals and reinforcement, a way that natural selection could contribute to speciation by encouraging barriers against hybridisation. He was also a social activist, critical of the social and economic system of 19th-century Britain. He was one of the first prominent scientists to raise concerns over the environmental impact of human activity.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Kathryn D. Sullivan a scientist, is running Nov. 23.
 * Main editors: FAC Nominator: . FASA:.
 * Promoted: May 25, 2007. FAR "Kept" October 8, 2022.
 * Reasons for nomination: Subject's 200th birthday. This would be a TFA re-run from 2009. I created the blurb from the lede, although I ask that others more knowledgeable to please review and make necessary edits.
 * Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 18:06, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Happy to Support as contributor during FAR. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:40, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. A "must run"". Well picked up. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:55, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support Aoba47 (talk) 18:44, 8 November 2022 (UTC)