Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Katy Perry

Katy Perry

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of 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 TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/October 25, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 06:17, 15 October 2014 (UTC)



Katy Perry (born 1984) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager, releasing her debut album in 2001, then moved to Los Angeles to venture into secular music. After signing to Capitol Records in 2007, she rose to fame in 2008 with the release of the single "I Kissed a Girl" from her second album, One of the Boys. Perry's third album, Teenage Dream (2010), became the first by a female artist to produce five number-one Billboard Hot 100 songs. Her fourth album, Prism, was released in 2013 and included the number-one singles "Roar" and "Dark Horse". Perry has received many awards and nominations, and been included in the Forbes list of "Top-Earning Women In Music" for 2011, 2012, and 2013. She has sold 11 million albums and 81 million singles worldwide, making her one of the best-selling artists of all time. She made her film debut voicing Smurfette in The Smurfs in 2011, and released a documentary film in 2012, which concentrated on her life as a touring artist and the dissolution of her brief marriage to English actor and comedian Russell Brand in the early 2010s.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Most recent pop music TFA was Electra Heart on August 8, 2014, while most recent music biography TFA was Megadeth on September 7, 2014, if groups count, otherwise most recent music biography TFA was Pierre Monteux on July 1, 2014
 * Main editors: SNUGGUMS and Samjohnzon
 * Promoted: August 22, 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: Katy Perry's 30th birthday is October 25th, first FA for top contributors (SNUGGUMS and Samjohnzon) as well as WP:WikiProject Katy Perry. Main contributors took this from delisted GA back up to GA this past June, and up to FA this past August.
 * Support as nominator.  Snuggums ( talk  /  edits ) 02:27, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, mainly per her 30th birthday - a few-times-in-a-lifetime (assuming she doesn't self-destruct while still young) opportunity. Nice work with your first FA, too; we don't have a whole lot on modern mainstream music. Tezero (talk) 03:00, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you :D!  Snuggums  ( talk  /  edits ) 03:13, 9 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Support Per the nomination and Tezero. — Indian: BIO  · [ ChitChat  ] 04:55, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks :3!  Snuggums  ( talk  /  edits ) 05:01, 9 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Support Let's celebrate Katy Perry's 30th birthday. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:39, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * My thoughts exactly, :)  Snuggums  ( talk  /  edits ) 22:03, 9 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Support - I see this featured article as a great opportunity to reach out to good prospective female editors. -  Floydian  τ ¢  23:38, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * That could happen,, but I should note that most of those who gave input at this article's FAC (as well as many of the article's editors and the reviewer for its GAN) are male :P  Snuggums ( talk  /  edits ) 23:52, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Certainly, but none of those were front and centre on the main page :) Fingers crossed! -  Floydian  τ ¢  00:23, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Out of those who gave input at the FAC, so far only IndianBio has commented here..... hopefully there will be more!  Snuggums ( talk  /  edits ) 00:27, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Support, nothing more to say that wasn't already said.--Retrohead (talk) 07:37, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated, ^_^  Snuggums  ( talk  /  edits ) 12:55, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Support, per recent successful nomination and its useful improvements. IPadPerson (talk) 23:04, 10 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Glad you say so,   Snuggums  ( talk  /  edits ) 23:16, 10 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Support, impressive. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 22:58, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed,  Snuggums  ( talk  /  edits ) 00:11, 19 September 2014 (UTC)