Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Simonie Michael

Simonie Michael

 * 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/March 5, 2023 by Wehwalt (talk) 17:46, 2 February 2023 (UTC)



Simonie Michael was a Canadian politician from the eastern Northwest Territories who was the first Inuk elected to a legislature in Canada. Before becoming involved in politics, Michael worked as a carpenter and business owner, and was one of very few translators between Inuktitut and English. He became a prominent member of the Inuit co-operative housing movement and a community activist in Iqaluit, and was appointed to a series of governing bodies, including the precursor to the Iqaluit City Council. He became the first elected Inuk member of the Northwest Territories Legislative Council in 1966, where he worked on infrastructural and public health initiatives. Michael is credited with bringing public attention to the dehumanizing effects of the disc number system, in which Inuit were assigned numerical identifiers in place of surnames. Michael helped prompt the government to authorise Project Surname, which replaced the disc numbers with names.
 * Most recent similar article(s): I don't see any recent similar articles. There have been some articles about politicians in the last month, but this is distinct in many ways.
 * Main editors: User:Astrophobe
 * Promoted: January 22, 2023
 * Reasons for nomination: This would be my first FA to appear at TFA, which is a major goal of mine, and I'm eager to do any more work that's required to make that happen. Thanks!
 * Support as nominator. Astrophobe  (talk) 21:27, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: the only available image of him is non-free and was removed from this request. Instead I've put in an image of the place he was from. - Astrophobe  (talk) 02:40, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Vida0007 (talk) 03:50, 29 January 2023 (UTC)