Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Kent, Ohio

Kent, Ohio

 * 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/December 27, 2015 by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:48, 10 December 2015 (UTC)



Kent is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the largest city in Portage County. It is located along the Cuyahoga River in Northeast Ohio on the western edge of the county. The town is counted as part of the Akron Metropolitan Statistical Area and the larger Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area. The population was 28,904 in the 2010 Census and 29,639 in the 2014 estimate. Part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, Kent was settled in 1805 and was known for many years as Franklin Mills, due to its water-powered mills along the Cuyahoga River. In the 1830s and 1840s, the village was on the route of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. Franklin Mills was noted for its activity in the Underground Railroad, leading up to the American Civil War. Marvin Kent made the village the home of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad maintenance shops. In 1864 the village was renamed Kent in honor of him. Today Kent is a college town best known as the home of the main campus of Kent State University (building pictured), founded in 1910, and as the site of the 1970 Kent State shootings. While historically a manufacturing center, education is now the town's largest economic sector.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Birchington-on-Sea (August 29, 2015) – a village in Kent
 * Main editors: JonRidinger
 * Promoted: 2010
 * Reasons for nomination: no settlement for a while
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:46, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Support as main editor. November/December also coincides with the 110th anniversary of the first permanent settlers arriving. JonRidinger (talk) 13:13, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - Was going to schedule this, but there are issues with dead links. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:05, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I went through and updated a number of them, plus several others had their archived version added. Let me know if there are any others I may have missed. Thanks --JonRidinger (talk) 16:00, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * There are still seven tagged. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:34, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I ran Checklinks and appear to have gotten all of them. The ones that show up as possibly having an error all work when I click on the link... --JonRidinger (talk) 14:01, 7 December 2015 (UTC)