Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Fabian Ware

Fabian Ware

 * 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/November 11, 2020 by Ealdgyth (talk) 14:23, 24 October 2020 (UTC)



Sir Fabian Ware (1869–1949) was a British journalist and the founder of the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC), now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He travelled to the Transvaal Colony where he became Director of Education in 1903. Two years later he became editor of The Morning Post. He expanded the paper but was forced to retire in 1911. When the First World War started, Ware was appointed commander of a mobile ambulance unit and began marking and recording the graves of those killed. In 1916 the Department of Graves Registration and Enquiries was created with Ware at its head. On 21 May 1917 the IWGC was founded; Ware served as its vice-chairman. He ended the war as a major-general, having been mentioned in despatches twice. Post-war, Ware was heavily involved in the IWGC's function. When the Second World War broke out, he continued to serve as vice-chairman of the IWGC and was re-appointed director-general of Graves Registration and Enquiries.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Not seeing any incredibly similar, Military bio: John Leak (23 July); War remembrance: Arch of Remembrance (4 July).
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 * Promoted: 7 July 2020
 * Reasons for nomination: Would be my 2nd TFA. November 11 marks the end of World War I and is Remembrance Day and Armistice Day. Ware spent a large amount of his life working towards rememberance of that war, and was known to give remembrance day addresses to Britain for many years.
 * Support as nominator. Eddie891 Talk Work 17:31, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support Seems an appropriate way of giving a nod towards Remembrance Day without being jingoistic. And its a very fine article. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:53, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Support per Gog the Mild. Hog Farm Bacon 04:24, 15 October 2020 (UTC)