Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Die Hard

Die Hard

 * 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   to the top of the discussion and   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) 14:05, 4 November 2022 (UTC)



Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan, with a screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, and starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia. Die Hard follows New York City police detective John McClane (Willis) who is caught up in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife. Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner feature in supporting roles. Die Hard is considered one of the greatest action films, and is also often named one of the best Christmas films. It revitalized the action genre, largely due to its depiction of McClane as a vulnerable and fallible protagonist, in contrast to the muscle-bound and invincible heroes of other films of the period.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Most recent film I can see is El Camino in August, so plenty of time between appearances.
 * Main editors: Darkwarriorblake
 * Promoted: April 10, 2021
 * Reasons for nomination: Almost literally 20 years in the making (article was created in October 2002), it's time for the ultimate (debatable) Christmas action film to grace the front page, and there's not really any better time to do it than Xmas Eve or Xmas Day!!
 * Support as nominator. Darkwarriorblake / Vote for something that matters 20:51, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose This ran as TFA on May 13, 2021. Only 18 months prior to this nom date. Normally re-runs need to be five years after the first, per WP:TFAR. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 10:16, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose per PM67, too close of a rerun. Hog Farm Talk 20:17, 26 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I missed it had been on the page in the last few years, but we did rerun Groundhog Day for a bit of fun, and this is relevant to the proposed date and on that particular day it seems like it would be an interesting piece on the front page instead of some article on a historic war or something. Anyway, I'm not going to argue about it, just my 2 cents. Darkwarriorblake / Vote for something that matters
 * The difference here is that Groundhog Day was about a character reliving the same day all the time so it was reposted on April Fools Day as part of a joke that was consistent with the films theme. In other words there was special considerations beyond date relevance for that rerun that simply don’t apply here.--65.92.162.81 (talk) 23:14, 29 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose: As much as a I love this movie, it is far too early to re-run this article on the main page. Aoba47 (talk) 05:23, 27 October 2022 (UTC)