Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Kosta Pećanac

Kosta Pećanac

 * ''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).

The result was: scheduled by Brianboulton (talk) 14:42, 16 April 2015 (UTC)



Kosta Pećanac (1879–1944) was a Serbian Chetnik commander during the Balkan Wars, World War I and World War II. Pećanac fought on the Serbian side in both Balkan Wars and World War I, joining the Toplica uprising of 1917. Between the wars he was an important leader of Chetnik veteran associations, and was known for his strong hostility to the Yugoslav Communist Party, which made him popular with conservatives. As president of the Chetnik Association from 1932, he transformed the association into an aggressively partisan Serb political organisation with over half a million members. During World War II, Pećanac collaborated with both the German military administration and their Serbian puppet government in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia. In July 1942, rival Chetnik leader Draža Mihailović arranged for the Yugoslav government-in-exile to denounce Pećanac as a traitor, and his continuing collaboration with the Germans ruined what remained of the reputation he had developed in the Balkan Wars and World War I. By March 1943, the Germans had disbanded Pećanac's Chetniks as inefficient and unreliable. Pećanac was interned for some time, and was killed by agents of Mihailović in May or June 1944.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Most recent Warfare biography was Audie Murphy on 17 March 2015, but most recent Balkan Warfare biography was Pavle Đurišić on 13 April 2014. Balkans history topics are seriously underrepresented on en WP.
 * Main editors:
 * Promoted: 20 April 2013
 * Reasons for nomination: 5 May 2015 is the 71st anniversary of his purported execution. The article is in nine European languages on WP, showing widespread interest across Europe.
 * Support as nominator. Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 02:20, 22 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Do we need "Serbian" linked twice in successive sentences to different targets? BencherliteTalk 19:24, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
 * No. Removed one. Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 11:36, 31 March 2015 (UTC)