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The Birds (Alexander McQueen collection)

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/October 5, 2024 by SchroCat (talk) 13:49, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Jacket from the collection

The Birds is the fifth collection by Alexander McQueen for his fashion house. It was inspired by ornithology and the Alfred Hitchcock film The Birds, for which it was named. The collection centred around sharply tailored garments and emphasised female sexuality. The runway show was staged on 9 October 1994 and the venue was a warehouse in the London district of King's Cross. The Birds was styled with imagery of violence and death; some models were covered in tyre tracks and others wore white contact lenses. Reception was generally positive, although the styling drew accusations of misogyny. The show's success allowed McQueen to secure the financial backing to stage his next show, Highland Rape. Garments from The Birds appeared in both stagings of the retrospective exhibition Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. Seán McGirr heavily referenced The Birds for Autumn/Winter 2024, his debut collection as creative director for the Alexander McQueen brand. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): The Girl Who Lived in the Tree is scheduled for Sep 18
Main editors: Premeditated Chaos
Promoted: August 25, 2023
Reasons for nomination: 30th anniversary of the collection's runway show. There has been discussion at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests#Alexander McQueen that there are too many McQueen articles running on the Main Page.
Support as nominator. Z1720 (talk) 17:00, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as per my discussion on the above link. Great Mercian (talk) 09:18, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Not sure that proximity trumps quality, especially here. Article is well-written and deserving of display; if not shown off now, then when? Making someone wait months or years down the line against their will is not fair, in my opinion. joeyquism (talk) 20:00, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Joeyquism: Just noting that I am not the original FAC nominator. Instead, I often suggest articles at TFA to run on specific dates meaningful to the article. I'm fine with waiting if that is what the community wants. Z1720 (talk) 20:29, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Z1720: Thank you for the clarification! I was aware of the authorship discrepancy, but I just wanted to get my two cents in over here where the coordinators can see more easily. joeyquism (talk) 20:32, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - Excessive amount of Alexander McQueen fashion collections on TFA. These should be spaced out much more apart. Harizotoh9 (talk) 06:18, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Seriously concerned with the direction we are heading in and the rhetoric coming out of users with zero FAs to their name.--N Ø 07:28, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have Macedonia (ancient kingdom) and the recent rerunning of Pinkerton (album). Great Mercian (talk) 23:21, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Macedonia was taken to FA status by Pericles of Athens. Pinkerton was FA'd by cowbellcity45. I don't see your name at WP:WBFAN. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 23:49, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

support: agree with MaranoFan - PMC's work on these articles is admirable. ... sawyer * he/they * talk 22:08, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Running this for the 30th anniversary seems reasonable, and I'd like to echo the comments above about the high quality of PMC's work. As of yet, the oppose !voters above have not provided a sufficient counterargument to this. (I'll admit that 3 weeks between similar TFAs is cutting it a little close, but I think we can afford a little leeway for a major anniversary such as the 30th anniversary. If it were something like the 29th anniversary, on the other hand, it would be a somewhat harder sell). Epicgenius (talk) 04:09, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. This is a quality article about an underrepresented subject in the encyclopedia proposed to run on a fairly relevant date. That an editor has managed to get a large number of related articles to featured status is a fact to be celebrated, not discouraged by preventing them from making the Main Page, and I'm very disappointed by the arguments the opposers have been making on this point. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 20:35, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support not an underrepresented subject at all, PMC has made a lot of these articles FAs. I still think it can appear on t he main page however. 750 h+ 07:10, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aoba47 (talk) 21:11, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]