Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Nestor Makhno

Nestor Makhno

 * 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/February 24, 2024  by Gog the Mild (talk) 22:41, 7 January 2024 (UTC)



Nestor Makhno (7 November 1888 – 25 July 1934) was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian Civil War. Born into a poor peasant family in southern Ukraine, Makhno became involved in the local anarchist movement and was imprisoned for his activities. Following the 1917 Revolution, he returned to his home town and became a local revolutionary leader, spearheading anarchist resistance to Ukrainian nationalists and the White movement. Upon defeating his enemies in battle, he established the Makhnovshchina, a mass movement by the Ukrainian peasantry to establish anarchist communism in Ukraine, coming to control much of the southern and eastern part of the country. After collaborating with the Bolsheviks to defeat the Whites, his former allies turned on him; he was wounded and driven into exile in 1921. He died in Paris from tuberculosis.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Last military commander was in 11 October 2023; last Ukrainian was in 24 February 2023.
 * Main editors:
 * Promoted: 11 November 2023
 * Reasons for nomination: Date would be the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This would be my first FA to appear on TFA. It's listed as a level-5 vital article, but used to be level-4. It has an equivalent article on 61 other language versions of Wikipedia.
 * Support as nominator. Grnrchst (talk) 15:26, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Support - happy to see this here Mujinga (talk) 17:38, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose the date, but support otherwise - would be seen as supporting a point of view on the conflict. One we probably all share, but regardless I'd like the encyclopedia to remain neutral on that current event. Ab e g92 contribs 18:16, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * @Abeg92: I'm not sure what side we would supposedly be supporting by posting this. Makhno wasn't in favour of either a Ukrainian state or Russian invasion, the blurb even states this. --Grnrchst (talk) 19:33, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, let me be more precise and say it's the side I support and probably not many other folks here do. Either way, in the interest of featuring this soon and giving the moderators an easy option, I nominate March 17th the day in 1910 he received his (thankfully later commuted) death sentence. Ab e g92 contribs 16:33, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm still not sure what you're talking about. I nominated Makhno for this date because it's an important date in Ukrainian military history and Makhno is an important figure in Ukrainian military history. That's it. I don't know what point of view we'd be supporting by putting this up on 24 February. --Grnrchst (talk) 16:48, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * is the idea that putting this up on 24 February is supporting the Ukrainian side in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine? -- asilvering (talk) 00:51, 3 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Support proposed date (Feb 24). I don't see a POV issue with the date. I recommend shortening the image caption. czar  05:05, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Support either date. I don't see a conflict with Feb 24, but wouldn't mind either date. Radzy0 (talk) 20:59, 6 January 2024 (UTC)