Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/John A. Macdonald

John A. Macdonald

 * 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 11, 2015 by Brianboulton (talk) 20:18, 21 December 2014 (UTC)



Sir John A. Macdonald (1815–1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career which spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston (today in eastern Ontario) where he articled with a local lawyer. He became prominent at the bar, served in the legislature of colonial Canada and by 1857 had become premier. When in 1864 no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald was the leading figure in the discussions and conferences which resulted in the British North America Act and the birth of Canada as a nation on 1 July 1867. He was designated as its first prime minister, and served in that capacity for most of the remainder of his life, losing office for five years in the 1870s over corruption in the financing of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Macdonald saw the railroad through to completion in 1885, a means of transportation and freight conveyance that helped unite Canada as one nation. By the time of his death in 1891, Canada had secured most of the territory it occupies today.
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 * Main editors: Wehwalt
 * Promoted: 2011
 * Reasons for nomination: Bicentennial of birth of this important figure. Vital Article (Level 4).  I should add that if we still had points, this would have 12.
 * Support as nominator. Wehwalt (talk) 18:40, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support a major political figure with data significance. Also if the 12 point calculation is accurate, it would be, according to Today's featured article oddities, the highest known point total ever achieved if the system was still in use.--69.157.253.160 (talk) 20:05, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * It would be 6 pts centennial, 4 pts vital article, 2 pts for a 2 year FA.--Wehwalt (talk) 20:09, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Added to WP:TFAO. Hard to beat! BencherliteTalk 20:19, 28 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Support, strong TFA candidate for article on deceased politician who is no longer alive. High quality and educational. Quite high date correlation. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 03:32, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support What better day to get this deceased, cadaverous corpse out of our wallets and onto the Main Page? Curly Turkey ¡gobble! 14:19, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - Image needs an American PD tag. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:39, 21 December 2014 (UTC)