Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Vampire

Vampire

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 Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 22, 2017 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:23, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A vampire is a being from folklore who subsists by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires were undead beings that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term vampire was not popularised in the West until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Early folk belief in vampires has sometimes been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalise this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria was also linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited. The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of The Vampyre by John Polidori; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century. However, it is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula which is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films, and television shows. (Full article...)

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Main editors: Casliber, Spawn Man
Promoted: January 21, 2008
Reasons for nomination: originally promoted on November 4, 2003, it was mainpaged on July 13, 2004. At that time the article looked like this. Hence we are looking at mainpaging a majorly different article some 13 years later. I like this article as it is broad, popular culture yet has some scholarly material, and there has been little else like it in the FA cache to go on the main page. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:03, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support as nominator. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:03, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Fascinating, enjoyable read. —ATS 🖖 talk 19:33, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support - we have few TFAs like this, so very good for diversity. Is this one of the first renominations? In any case, 13 years is a long time... FunkMonk (talk) 21:54, 12 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Good choice. SarahSV ^(talk) 17:13, 13 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Interesting read and a very excellent choice. Aoba47 (talk) 09:52, 17 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as there are still well over one thousand featured articles that haven't been on the Main Page. Jonathunder (talk) 00:29, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

True, but the issue is topic variety...and we have very little folklore material (as opposed to birds, hurricanes, fungi, banksias etc.), which is why I proposed this. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 08:23, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Jonathunder, it was recently decided on the TFA talk to allow reruns of articles which first appeared more than five years ago. The reason was that the dwindling stock of FAs that have not been on MP contains a significant number of old FAs that don't meet current standards or have not been maintained. Of the others, most are restricted to a few topics, and, as Cas Liber says, we can't get a balance across the month without reruns. Do you have any other grounds for your oppose? Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:15, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why not go with Blue men of the Minch, which has been featured since 2014 but hasn't had its turn on the Main Page yet. Jonathunder (talk) 13:40, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What keeps you from nominating it for TFA? There are many days in the year, you know. Also, I could be wrong, but it may have been FAC nominated by someone who doesn't want their articles as TFA (Sagaciousphil is against, don't know about Eric Corbett), an issue which further decreases the pool of TFAs, and which is currently being discussed.[1] FunkMonk (talk) 13:49, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support amongst the "well over one thousand" FAs that haven't been on the main page, this was main-paged in a bygone era, 13 years ago is a long time in human terms, let alone Wikipedia terms. Better to feature quality articles, particularly as they have evolved substantially since the time they were first on the main page. The Rambling Man (talk) 20:56, 19 April 2017 (UTC)a[reply]
Support: Oh god yes. Remains one of my favourite articles here. Ceoil (talk) 22:51, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]