Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/William Edward Sanders

William Edward Sanders

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The result was: not scheduled by Gog the Mild (talk) 15:35, 3 January 2023 (UTC)



William Edward Sanders was a First World War New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry that could be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces at the time. Born in Auckland, Sanders took up a seafaring career in 1899 and initially worked aboard steamships, before transferring to sailing ships to enhance his career prospects. He earned a master's certificate in late 1914, at the onset of the First World War. Sanders then served in the Merchant Navy and the Royal Naval Reserve, and completed his military training in the United Kingdom. He afterwards served aboard Helgoland, and later earned his own command, the HMS Prize. Sanders was awarded the VC for his actions while on his first patrol as captain, when Prize engaged and saw off a German U-boat that had earlier attacked and damaged his ship; this was the first and only such medal to be awarded to a New Zealander serving with a naval force. He was later killed in action when his ship was sunk by a U-boat. Several tributes to Sanders exist, including the Sanders Memorial Cup, a sailing trophy for 14-foot (4.3 m) yachts.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Tom Eastick, the current TFA as of this writing (16 December 2022), is the most recent war-related biography. Bill Denny, which ran on 6 December 2022, was the most recent WWI-related TFA (although he is more known as a politician rather than a WWI soldier); by the time this could be posted as TFA however, the most recent World War I-related TFA would be Nassau-class battleship, scheduled to run on 28 January 2023.
 * Main editors: was the FAC nominator and primary editor.
 * Promoted: 20 July 2020
 * Reasons for nomination: 140th birth anniversary on 7 February 2023.
 * Support as nominator. Vida0007 (talk) 11:13, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Happy to support this. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 08:29, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Scheduler comment: Two 2oth C white, male, warfare bios have been at pending for some time. For the 10th and the 13th. Three in a week would be overkill and so I am inclined to say "not yet" to this nomination. (And the "Reasons for nomination" seems uninformative.) Gog the Mild (talk) 17:14, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * I would suggest that the one for February 10th (George Andrew Davis Jr.) would be the one not to push through instead. If this pushes through, the gap between this article and Pavle Đurišić's article would be much larger than between Davis and Đurišić's (6 days versus 3 days). Not to mention that Sanders and Đurišić already have more supporters than that of Davis's.
 * (Side note: I would also like to apologize for the slew of nominations I made. I will not do such thing again, I realized that I did go overboard on those. Again, I am sorry.) Vida0007 (talk) 19:45, 18 December 2022 (UTC)