Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Thomas Crisp

Thomas Crisp

 * 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/April 28, 2019 by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  07:23, 29 March 2019 (UTC)



Skipper Thomas Crisp VC, DSC, RNR (28 April 1876 – 15 August 1917) was an English posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross. Crisp, in civilian life a commercial fisherman operating from Lowestoft in Suffolk, earned his award after being killed during the defence of his vessel, the armed naval smack His Majesty's Smack Nelson, in the North Sea against an attack from a German submarine in 1917. Thomas Crisp's self–sacrifice in the face of this "unequal struggle" was used by the government to bolster morale during some of the toughest days of the First World War for Britain, the summer and autumn of 1917, during which Britain was suffering heavy losses at the Battle of Passchendaele. His exploit was read aloud by David Lloyd George in the Houses of Parliament and made headline news for nearly a week.
 * Most recent similar article(s): March 26 2019 - SMS Schlesien (last WWI article)
 * Main editors: Jackyd101
 * Promoted: 21 April 2007
 * Reasons for nomination: anniversary of birthday
 * Support as nominator. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:08, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Support A well written and interesting article. Entirely suitable to be TFA. Gog the Mild (talk) 11:09, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Support Looks great for TFA! EggRoll97 (talk) 07:00, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose unless a good reason to replace the already selected aricle Pyramid of Unas is provided.--64.229.166.98 (talk) 23:13, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Support: in response to the above oppose vote, there is more of a reason for this article to appear on this specific date. It is the anniversary of a birthday as stated in the reasons for nomination. The Pyramid of Unas article does not appear to have a connection with the date at all. That article could easily be moved to a different date (probably sometime in May given the current openings). Aoba47 (talk) 18:28, 26 March 2019 (UTC)