Wikivoyage:Destination of the month candidates
Here we determine which articles are featured on the Main Page as Destination of the month (DotM), Off the Beaten Path (OtBP) and Featured travel topics (FTT).
Nominate
editYou can nominate any article you would like to see featured. Any destination, region, itinerary or event that passes the "What is an article?" test is eligible for nomination.
However, before nominating, please check that the article follows these basic guidelines:
- The nominated article should have an article status of guide or star. This includes having at least one good picture, and listings/headers/etc. that match our manual of style.
- The nominated article must not have been featured since Wikivoyage became a WMF project in 2013.
- If the article has been nominated previously but failed, any objections should be addressed before nominating it again.
- Check the slush pile.
- If you think a once-slushed destination is now ready to go, list it as new, but with a pointer to the slush pile entry.
- The article should preferably be nominated 3 to 12 months before the intended feature date; ready to feature as is, or with edits that can be done well before featuring.
Well-known and/or popular destinations should be nominated as Destination of the Month, while more obscure destinations should be nominated for Off the Beaten Path. Featured Travel Topic includes travel topics, phrasebooks, itineraries, and other articles not part of the geographic hierarchy, as well as airports (as they are not usually destinations in their own right). Where applicable, you should propose a good time to visit the destination as a month to be featured.
The basic format of a nomination is as follows:
{{FeatureNom
| place=Destination
| blurb='''[[Destination]]''' is a place of contrasts, and as such it...
| status=Guide
| time=March-June
| nominatedBy=~~~~
| comment=Great article and it's just luvvly-jubbly in the springtime.
| DotMImage=[[File:Destinationimage.jpg|thumb|300px]]
}}
Add a nomination to the end of the appropriate section.
Discuss
editYou can comment on any nomination based on timeliness and adherence to the criteria above, just add a bullet point (*) and your signed opinion.
===[[Destination]]=== Great article and it's just luvvly-jubbly in the springtime. TravelNut 25:25, 31 Feb 2525 (UTC) * Looks nice, but shouldn't the Do section contain more than just quilting contests? ~~~~
Please note that the following are not considered valid reasons to oppose a nomination:
- "I don't like it." All objections have to be based on the guidelines above: poor formatting, missing information, etc. Personal opinions, dislikes, etc. do not count.
- "Wrong time of year." Articles are supported or opposed based on their content. Timing can be worked out later.
- "Wrong type of place." Articles are supported or opposed based on their content. Whether it's DotM or OtBP can be worked out later.
Select
editIf an article gets several comments in favor and none against for a week or so, it's eligible to be placed in an appropriate time-slot in the Upcoming queue. If the objections are relatively minor and are being worked on, add them to the Upcoming queue tentatively (add a question mark "?" after the article). Feel free to move the queue around or swap articles if it makes sense. If a nomination clearly does not make the grade and if the objections are not easily fixable, they go into the Slush pile.
Once a nomination has been scheduled, an appropriate banner image and text blurb must be selected. Go to Wikivoyage:Destination of the month candidates/Banners to start that discussion.
Archive
editDiscussions for previously selected destinations are kept in the Archive.
Upcoming
editSchedule
editThe following queue should contain about the next few months' worth of upcoming destinations. Note that new DotMs are rotated in on the 1st of each month, OtBPs on the 11th and travel topics on the 21st.
Month | DotM | OtBP | FTT |
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November 2024 | Presidente Prudente – pending fixes and stronger consensus to support | Western food in Asia | |
December 2024 | Manama – pending (fixes? and) stronger consensus to support | Yarrangobilly Caves – pending stronger consensus to support | Churches in Antarctica – pending stronger consensus to support |
January 2025 | Medan – pending fixes and stronger consensus to support | El Hierro – pending fixes and stronger consensus to support | Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/MV Aster |
February 2025 | Recife – pending fixes and stronger consensus to support | Tezpur – pending fixes and stronger consensus to support | Serbian phrasebook – pending fixes and stronger consensus to support |
March 2025 | El Gouna – pending stronger consensus to support | Sekigahara – pending fixes | Jewish Stockholm tour – pending stronger consensus to support |
April 2025 | Wilmington (North Carolina) – pending fixes and stronger consensus to support | Khujand – pending fixes? | Vancouver International Airport – pending fixes and stronger consensus to support |
Try to avoid two overlapping or back-to-back features from the same country, as well as long streaks of features from the same continent. It is customary to wait 24 months between articles from the same or nearby cities.
The schedule is not cast in stone. However, any change made to the schedule should have a compelling reason behind it, and should be effected as far in advance as possible of the article's scheduled term on the Main Page. In particular, unless absolutely necessary, we discourage nominee articles from being slushed or rescheduled after banners have been made for them, which usually happens 2–3 months before being featured.
Whenever an article becomes a current feature, it should be removed from the list, the discussion archived, and (when changing out Featured Travel Topics) a new month added to the end of the queue.
Next changes
editDecisions regarding which images to use as the banners are made at Wikivoyage:Destination of the month candidates/Banners.
The section below provides an opportunity to see what the upcoming featured articles will look like on the Main Page using the banners that are currently most popular on the above page.
Updating
editOn the date of the scheduled change, the DotM, OtBP, or FTT should be changed as close to midnight UTC as possible. This can only be done by administrators. When the featured page is changed, please follow the following procedures to do so and archive content to the appropriate pages. At each stage, please double-check that you are correctly moving content. Several steps involves copy pasting of the file names of the Main Page banners – former, current, and next – so it can be useful to open those in tabs first.
- Update the featured articles on the main page by replacing the current 'banner' template section with those of the appropriate banner for the new DotM/OtBP/FTT found in the Next change section above.
- Update the Photo credits page with the banner's original image, title and attribution.
- Add the former featured article to the appropriate archive page: Previous Destinations of the month, Previously Off the beaten path, or Previous Featured travel topics.
- For the former featured article, add the appropriate parameter to the pagebanner template (directly after the image filename) to label the page as having been featured previously.
- For former DotMs, add: |dotm=yes
- For former OtBPs, add: |otbp=yes
- For former FTTs, add: |ftt=yes
- Remove Template:Featurenomination from newly featured article.
- Archive the newly featured article's nomination. Simply cut-and-paste the nomination section of the newly featured article from this page to Wikivoyage:Destination of the month candidates/Archive.
- Update the Next change section above by adding the banner from the discussion page. View the table in the Schedule section above to determine what next month's change will be, then update the image and blurb in the "Next change" section with that found in the upcoming featured article's nomination.
- In the schedule, use <s> and </s> to strikethrough the newly featured article. Remove the row from the table if the newly featured article is the FTT.
- Archive the newly featured article's banner by cutting-and-pasting all banner suggestions and the associated discussion into Wikivoyage:Destination of the month candidates/Banners/Archive.
Nominations for Destination of the Month
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Place: Manama |
Nomination
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- Almost per comment. Ypsilon (talk) 16:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support oer nomination. Mrkstvns (talk) 12:54, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
Place: Medan |
Nomination
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- Almost per comment. Ypsilon (talk) 16:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nomination. The article is good and updated. M.akbar.raf (talk) 03:36, 29 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nomination (also looks like most listings have been verified recently).Mrkstvns (talk) 18:36, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 10:57, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Place: Recife |
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- Almost per comment. Ypsilon (talk) 16:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nomination. Mrkstvns (talk) 18:48, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
Place: El Gouna |
Nomination
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- Support --Ypsilon (talk) 18:59, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
Place: Wilmington (North Carolina) |
Nomination
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- Almost per comment. --Ypsilon (talk) 18:59, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
Place: Kraków |
Nomination
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- Very close - It was slushed back in 2012, then apparently because the district articles were in a poor state. Now they do have content and usable status, though we should definitely update the listings there. The main article is quite OK, but some sections with bullet points could be converted to normal text, and there is probably a thing or two to update here also. Finally, the last third of the article could use a photo or two. --Ypsilon (talk) 18:22, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Place: Snowdonia National Park |
Nomination
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- Very very close per nomination --Ypsilon (talk) 19:51, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- Other than updates which I think can be done in due time, don't see why not. Support. It's also nice to see some European nature (outside the Nordics) being featured. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 10:58, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
Place: Gothenburg |
Nomination
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- Almost per nomination. --Ypsilon (talk) 19:51, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Nominations for Off the Beaten Path
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Place: New England National Park |
Nomination
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- Support per my comment. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 06:02, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
- Support; maybe June or July would be a suitable month? --Ypsilon (talk) 20:01, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
- Yes indeed; it's less likely to rain in those months making the park 2WD-accessible. SHB2000 (t | c | m) 23:40, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
Place: Presidente Prudente |
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- Almost per nomination. --Ypsilon (talk) 18:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
Place: Yarrangobilly Caves |
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- Almost – as the person who started and wrote much of the article, thanks for the nomination! I might add some geolines to it (am familiar with the trails), but I can't see anything much missing from when I was there. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 07:29, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for adding the paths! Could you annotate them as well, maybe in the mapframe description? Jpatokal (talk) 00:31, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Done, though in the listings instead. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 01:30, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for adding the paths! Could you annotate them as well, maybe in the mapframe description? Jpatokal (talk) 00:31, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
- Support if you guys think it's good to go (I've scheduled it for December). --Ypsilon (talk) 20:06, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
Place: Sekigahara |
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- Support Can't see anything that would prevent this from being an OtBP. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 12:07, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support Article looks good & the site is important. Pashley (talk) 15:00, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support The article is good. Having visited once, I can attest that the historical sites are really not geared for English-speaking visitors, but the article doesn't pretend otherwise and it's fine for a mildly interesting day trip. Jpatokal (talk) 06:01, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Well, if there are few places to eat and drink and sleep, we can't list any more than there actually is :). I think we should run the Sekigahara in October for the re-enactment of the battle as we will probably already have one Japanese feature sometime next spring (Public baths in Japan as FTT). --Ypsilon (talk) 08:50, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- Not Yet With zero "Eat" or "Buy" listings, this article has not earned guide status. We should not be saying things like "some decent restaurants and cafes opened both in the battlefield and around the station". Instead, those restaurants and cafes should be given listings. Sekigahara's website shows that the city has numerous restaurants. Similarly "souvenir shops around town" should be given listings. Other encampments should also be given listings. They will not overwhelm the article and they provide deeper understanding of the battle, especially in an article that says you won't understand if you don't speak Japanese. The article also doesn't list much outside of the battlefield. No War Land? No cave? No mention of the Nakasendo post town (Sekigahara-juku)? How about the opportunity to don samurai outfits? I have been to Sekigahara numerous times. It wasn't really on my radar to edit, but maybe I can try adding things here and there to get it up to standard. ChubbyWimbus (talk) 14:59, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- Better to run it in the spring, then, if there's content that needs to be added to the article. --Ypsilon (talk) 07:51, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support The article now has listings for the sites mentioned in ChubbyWimbus's comment, including for restaurants. The article is still at Usable status but can be upgraded to Guide before being featured. --Tuyuhun (talk) 08:12, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
Place: Khujand |
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- Comment - I'd imagine a city of almost 200,000 inhabitants would have a few more places to Drink and Sleep worth listing? --Ypsilon (talk) 19:21, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: I was going to say something similar to Ypsi – surely a city of that size has more establishments than what's on the page as of typing this? --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 23:05, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- I have been living in Khujand since Aug 2023, and there is one bar and only three reputable hotels, which are all listed. There do exist a few other businesses that brand themselves as being "hotels", but I have not been able to verify their quality or any other important information about them. There is one bar in town, and even then it's more for hookah than for alcohol. Tuyuhun (talk) 01:15, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- I see, in that case I support. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 01:55, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- I went and added the few other hotels that I know of that I could find information for online. I also broke it down into "Budget and Mid-range" and "Splurge" subsections. Tuyuhun (talk) 02:00, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- One thing, though: given this is TJ's second-largest city, wouldn't this be better suited as a DotM? --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 23:38, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- I think it could be either - Central Asia as a whole is very much a "forgotten" part of the world (at least by Anglophone travelers) so imo it would probably be at about the same level of notoriety as a place like Zinder or Taos - known to a decent number of travelers, but nowhere near the numbers that somewhere like Recife or Harbin are known. But if the consensus is that it's better as a DotM, then that works. Tuyuhun (talk) 04:47, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- My thing by doing so is we're being extremely ethnocentric by only catering for Anglophone countries (enwikivoyage has evolved into catering for pretty much everyone given how lackluster most other voy projects are barring de and itwikivoyage). But I also wouldn't object it being an OtBP if that's what consensus goes with. SHB2000 (t | c | m) 10:24, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Are the sights crowded with tourists? If so, DotM would suit better. But if there aren't many tourists, even if the city is comparably well-known, then OtBP feels alright. –LPfi (talk) 13:22, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Maybe, but it feels incredibly wrong to feature Arches National Park, Glacier National Park (Montana), and Milford Sound as DotMs but not this. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 13:57, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Having lived there, I can say with relative certainty that it is NOT a hyper-touristy destination. We didn't start to get tourists until the end of spring (partly because only a
stupidmasochistic person goes hiking in Tajikistan's mountains in the winter and partly because that's when the Central Asian/Silk Road package tours start running). All of the national parks SHB2000 listed get more tourists and have more name recognition than Khujand. My vote is for OtBP. Tuyuhun (talk) 20:25, 26 July 2024 (UTC)- We also need to update the banner since there has been an uptick in construction on the north side of the river; I tried earlier and it didn't work. Tuyuhun (talk) 20:27, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- Are the sights crowded with tourists? If so, DotM would suit better. But if there aren't many tourists, even if the city is comparably well-known, then OtBP feels alright. –LPfi (talk) 13:22, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- My thing by doing so is we're being extremely ethnocentric by only catering for Anglophone countries (enwikivoyage has evolved into catering for pretty much everyone given how lackluster most other voy projects are barring de and itwikivoyage). But I also wouldn't object it being an OtBP if that's what consensus goes with. SHB2000 (t | c | m) 10:24, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- I think it could be either - Central Asia as a whole is very much a "forgotten" part of the world (at least by Anglophone travelers) so imo it would probably be at about the same level of notoriety as a place like Zinder or Taos - known to a decent number of travelers, but nowhere near the numbers that somewhere like Recife or Harbin are known. But if the consensus is that it's better as a DotM, then that works. Tuyuhun (talk) 04:47, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- One thing, though: given this is TJ's second-largest city, wouldn't this be better suited as a DotM? --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 23:38, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- I went and added the few other hotels that I know of that I could find information for online. I also broke it down into "Budget and Mid-range" and "Splurge" subsections. Tuyuhun (talk) 02:00, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- I see, in that case I support. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 01:55, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- I have been living in Khujand since Aug 2023, and there is one bar and only three reputable hotels, which are all listed. There do exist a few other businesses that brand themselves as being "hotels", but I have not been able to verify their quality or any other important information about them. There is one bar in town, and even then it's more for hookah than for alcohol. Tuyuhun (talk) 01:15, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Pashley (talk) 21:59, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support again, if there isn't any more places to list, then the article would be complete... --Ypsilon (talk) 20:08, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
Place: El Hierro |
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- Some work needed per comment. --Ypsilon (talk) 19:21, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
Place: Tezpur |
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- Support though some time before it is featured closed places should be deleted, links updated etc. --Ypsilon (talk) 19:38, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
Place: Vaals |
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- Almost per comment. --Ypsilon (talk) 19:51, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Nominations for Featured travel topic
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Place: Churches in Antarctica As to the article itself, I realise this is a bit of a niche topic and no traveller visits Antarctica for its churches (unless they're a part of a maintenance crew or something alike) and also somewhat overgeneralised, Wikivoyage attracts many armchair travellers and thanks to the excellent work of Grahamsands, this is a good armchair article, in my opinion. |
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- Support as nominator. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 10:43, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
- Comment: We have plenty of travel topics nominated, and the travel topics have potential for new articles, with itineraries, and thematic articles such as these. Shall we allow geographic travel topics to run as DoTM and OtBP? /Yvwv (talk) 14:38, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
- If the alternative is to run a destination article that hasn't been updated since before the pandemic, I think such flexibility is preferable. Otherwise, probably not. Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:47, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
- I'd be open to featuring this in Off the beaten path, because it doesn't get much more OtBP than this. Jpatokal (talk) 02:55, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Place: Western food in Asia |
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- Support per nomination. --Ypsilon (talk) 18:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Excellent and surprisingly comprehensive. Jpatokal (talk) 00:37, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Support. Pashley (talk) 03:14, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
- Support Definitely an excellent article for what is otherwise a niche topic, at least in the Anglosphere. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 06:55, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
Place: Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/MV Aster |
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- Support --Ypsilon (talk) 09:46, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nomination Mrkstvns (talk) 14:15, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Support --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 00:03, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
Place: Public baths in Japan |
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- Close - otherwise the article looks good, but the redlinks need to be dealt with (turned into redirects or articles, preferably with the baths listed). Also, as Jani said, I think the content of the Toilets section should be merged into Japan#Toilets. --Ypsilon (talk) 09:52, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- I've merged the Toilets section back to the main page and commented out the redlinks for now, many of which are quite obscure; about the only name I recognized was Unzen. Jpatokal (talk) 06:44, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support per above. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 23:07, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Place: Serbian phrasebook |
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- Support. Ypsilon (talk) 20:22, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: When it comes to season, we have some tradition to feature phrasebooks during the beginning of the year. This is appropriate, as climate in Serbia is good at spring and autumn. Not sure about public events, though. /Yvwv (talk) 23:12, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Well, we don't need events for all articles, even if they are nice to have every now and then. --Ypsilon (talk) 16:30, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support and yeah, gotta agree with Ypsi with the timing. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 00:03, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
Place: Vancouver International Airport |
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- Support --Ypsilon (talk) 20:22, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support - Looks complete and listings are generally less than 3 years old. Mrkstvns (talk) 16:33, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support per above. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 00:02, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- Almost - Pretty good article but the "Destinations" section is a huge washlist of every place that a flight out of this airport goes. A short summary paragraph with just the highlights would be better. Mrkstvns (talk) 18:12, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
Place: San Diego International Airport |
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- Support as nominator--Someonehere12345 (talk) 04:32, 20 August 2024 (UTC)
- Support - nicely complete article that's up-to-date. Great airport too, very convenient to the downtown area. Mrkstvns (talk) 16:43, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Very very close - would be nice to have a few more pictures here and there. Otherwise it's apparently up to date and good to go. As YVR is going on the Main Page next spring, this will probably have to sit around here on the nominations page for a while as we don't want to run similar articles (in this case airport articles) too close to each other in the schedule... --Ypsilon (talk) 19:58, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
- I just added a few more images Someonehere12345 (talk) 22:45, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support per Ypsi. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 00:02, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
Place: Jewish Stockholm tour |
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- Support - Interesting and somewhat unexpected topic; I would never have guessed there'd be so much of Jewish heritage in Stockholm to create a whole article. For the scheduling, I remember saying earlier that I planned to nominate Gothenburg for some summer month next summer, meaning it'd be better to run this during either of the holidays you mentioned - why not right away at the Pesach (March's FTT slot - if readers are worried about the weather they can postpone their visit a couple of months)? --Ypsilon (talk) 20:41, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support per above. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 22:07, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: Some Jewish sites (in particular the cemeteries) are too far from the main route to serve as useful waypoints, though still mentioned in the article. Several of the waypoints (statues of kings etc) don't have a direct connection to Swedish Jews, but instead serve as proxies for important events in Jewish history. As mentioned, Swedish Empire (with emphasis on Stockholm) featured May-June 2023, giving 22 months cooldown before May-April 2025 (24 months have been recommended), and we would wait until 2027 to feature another Stockholm-based article (Södermalm heights tour, Stockholm environmentalist tour or Haunted Stockholm tour might be considered). /Yvwv (talk) 19:56, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I don't see how the Swedish Empire article would be focused on Stockholm. Just six out of 35 listings are from there and the very point of the article is the Swedish government/king exercising power (in some cases far) outside present-day Sweden. --Ypsilon (talk) 15:48, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- The 24-month cooldown is in any case just a recommendation, and it is suitable to schedule this article for 2025, as the Jewish community celebrates a multiple anniversary. /Yvwv (talk) 17:26, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I don't see how the Swedish Empire article would be focused on Stockholm. Just six out of 35 listings are from there and the very point of the article is the Swedish government/king exercising power (in some cases far) outside present-day Sweden. --Ypsilon (talk) 15:48, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Place: Gemstones |
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Needs work– in particular, the § Museums section which is lacking many details and coordinates. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 00:01, 4 October 2024 (UTC)- The museums now have coordinates (they already had links to the listings, from where I got the coords), and the collections and gems have wikidata links (except the Three Treasures, which don't seem to have an article in Wikipedia in English). They have descriptions; what more details would be needed? –LPfi (talk) 07:12, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support upon further improvements. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 06:36, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- The museums now have coordinates (they already had links to the listings, from where I got the coords), and the collections and gems have wikidata links (except the Three Treasures, which don't seem to have an article in Wikipedia in English). They have descriptions; what more details would be needed? –LPfi (talk) 07:12, 4 October 2024 (UTC)
- Close The other parts of the article look good, but surely there must be more than four gemstone museums in the world worth visiting? I would also believe that some mines have visitor centers and/or can be visited as such. --Ypsilon (talk) 05:56, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
- I did a web search & added some I found.
- No doubt more could be done. Pashley (talk) 18:04, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
Place: E69 |
Nomination
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- Support as nominator. --Ypsilon (talk) 19:49, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support Hey thanks for the nomination :-). --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 20:51, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- Comment. - While I Support the article in terms of content, I think we need to take a break from featuring Nordic countries' articles for a bit. We've featured an itinerary from at least one of Finland, Sweden, and Norway every year since 2021, which is a much higher feature rate than what most other countries have. I'd say we should wait on this article at least a year or so and give other countries' itineraries a chance, especially if we run the Jewish Stockholm Tour article in 2025/early 2026 (although I know someone commented on that post that we should wait until 2027 for that article). Tuyuhun (talk) 08:32, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Well, the problem is that sadly we don't have that many topic articles (topics, itineraries, airports, phrasebooks etc.) left that are 1. both at guide or Star status and 2. we haven't featured as FTT and 3. haven't earlier been deemed not good enough for the Main Page, with little to none development on them thereafter.
- Those that remain are just from a few corners of the world (aside of phrasebooks, most are from the U.S., Northern Europe, Japan and Australia) and we have even less topics not bound to any specific part of the world - such as Gemstones above. Sure, we do have some geographical diversity when it comes to articles of the same type like airports and cuisine articles, however we likewise usually try to keep one year between articles of the same type.
- Therefore I've tried to stuff a couple of Northern European articles in the summer slots when it's the best time of the year to visit here to save eligible articles for the rest of the year. --Ypsilon (talk) 15:41, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- Articles featured on Wikitravel up to 2012 are unofficial, and eligible to feature again. (See Wikivoyage_talk:Destination_of_the_month_candidates/Archive/2019-2023#Shall_features_before_2013_be_seen_as_unofficial?) That gives us some more candidates. However, rather few of those are travel topics; see Previous_Featured_travel_topics#Unofficial_features. /Yvwv (talk) 20:11, 16 October 2024 (UTC)