Wikipedia:Unsuccessful nominations for Today's Featured Article

This is an attempt to log and explain why some articles that were nominated at Today's featured article/requests were not selected. It currently contains all unsuccessful nominations from the start of Bencherlite's time as TFA delegate/coordinator (late November 2012) and a few earlier relevant discussions.


 * Yellow (§) indicates that the article has run at TFA.
 * Pink (†) indicates that the article has lost its FA status since nomination.
 * Silver indicates that the article was ineligible because it was not a featured article, or had already appeared as TFA.