Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Philosophy

Philosophy

 * 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 1, 2024 by Gog the Mild (talk) 11:34, 27 December 2023 (UTC)



Philosophy is a systematic study of fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, and mind. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions. Major branches of philosophy are epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epistemology studies what knowledge is and how to acquire it. Ethics investigates the principles of moral conduct. Logic is the study of correct reasoning. Metaphysics examines the most general features of reality. Philosophical methods include analysis of concepts and language, reliance on common sense and intuitions, use of thought experiments, description of experience, and critical questioning. Influential traditions are Western, Arabic-Persian, Indian, and Chinese philosophy. Many of the sciences were part of philosophy before they became separate disciplines. Philosophy is relevant to diverse fields of inquiry by studying their scope and concepts and providing an interdisciplinary perspective.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Logic (November 5, 2023)
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 * Promoted: November 30, 2023
 * Reasons for nomination: The article was recently promoted and is a level 1 vital article.
 * Comment: I didn't include an image because, after a lengthy discussion, it was decided that the the main article should not have a lead image. For this reason, the current text is a little bit longer than otherwise allowed (1088 characters). If an image should be included, then https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-small.png could be considered as a candidate.
 * Given that the main article has an image now, I added an image and slightly shortened the text. For the previous version without the image, see here. I'm open to both versions. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:21, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator. Phlsph7 (talk) 10:23, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Gratz on the promotion to featured article. I'll leave this up for February; see WT:Today's featured article/January 2024 for the proposed January schedule. - Dank (push to talk) 13:58, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Sounds good, there is no hurry. Phlsph7 (talk) 14:14, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Pushed to February. - Dank (push to talk) 01:03, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Support First off, fantastic work on improving this article to FA. I'm sure it took a lot to get this most vital of articles over the line. As for a date, may I propose giving this a March 5-6 slot? (Based on the Greek letter phi being on the unicode code points U+03D5 and U+03C6) I think more than one day for a level-1 VIT article is perfectly justified, if there aren't any better options for these days. --Grnrchst (talk) 16:31, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Another possible date could be November 21, which is World Philosophy Day, but I understand this might be a bit far off. --Grnrchst (talk) 17:33, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Hello and thanks for the feedback. I was also considering November 21 but this seems to be too far off. I'm not in principle opposed to March 5-6, but I'm not sure that it's common to have a 2-day slot or to decide dates based on unicode numerology. But maybe some experienced TFAR folks can weigh in on this. Phlsph7 (talk) 12:52, 16 December 2023 (UTC)