Wikivoyage:Destination of the month candidates

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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

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You 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

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You 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

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If 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

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Discussions for previously selected destinations are kept in the Archive.

Upcoming

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Schedule

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The 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
September 2024 Košice – pending stronger consensus to support Minot – pending stronger consensus to support Flight baggage - pending fixes and stronger consensus to support
October 2024 Yerevan – pending fixes and stronger consensus to support La Tremblade – pending stronger consensus to support Ohlone Wilderness Trail – pending fixes (?) and stronger consensus to support
November 2024 Perth – pending fixes and stronger consensus to support 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 – pending stronger consensus to support
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

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

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Decisions 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

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On 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.

  1. 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.
  2. Update the Photo credits page with the banner's original image, title and attribution.
  3. 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.
  4. Remove Template:Featurenomination from newly featured article.
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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: Košice
Blurb: Slovakia's second city is a bit off the tourist radar, still with a great deal of historical sites, scenic outdoors and interesting events to enjoy (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: May-Sep
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 18:41, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: This would be our first ever Slovakian feature. It's translated from a Star article in French WV which is why the article is extensive and tidy. While many listings have an older date, I did run everything through Google Maps when translating (it's pointless translating outdated stuff) so they are up to date as of January 2023. However, as this would go on the Main Page probably in September 2024 it's closer to two than one year after the translation, so listings could be checked again for up-to-date-ness a little before we run it.
Nomination

Place: Yerevan
Blurb: Cascades, fountains and grand buildings await you in the Armenian capital (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Apr-May, Sep-Oct. October for Yerevan Birthday?
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 18:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I recently upgraded the status to guide (somehow I remember it already was at guide status at some point, maybe it's another article downgraded for no apparent reason?) as it's really extensive. Sometime closer to when it's featured we need to check that places we've listed still exist, and that prices aren't too much off. Part of the lead section could be moved to Understand.
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Place: Perth
Blurb: Maybe the most isolated world city still has a cosmopolitan vibe and features beaches, wineries and as well as cute quokkas on Rottnest Island (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Spring or autumn
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 18:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: It's been a while since our last WA feature, so why not head to the by far largest city there? Most parts of the articles look OK but See would need to be expanded, some sections could use photos and it wouldn't hurt to check through the listings in the districts. I'd imagine the article would be featured in November or so, so there's no rush.
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I haven't had the chance to properly read through the article, but it might be a good idea to solicit the opinion of @Graham87:, who has previously lived in Perth. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 09:37, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'd prefer not to deal with this, honestly, unless there are very specific questions that require local input. I don't know Perth that well from the average traveller's perspective, especially these days. Graham87 (talk) 11:59, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That's fair enough. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 08:37, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
One other thing I noticed is that the static maps look horrendous (no offense, sorry). I can't tell which goes where, with several major freeways like the Tonkin Hwy missing. I can't do much since I've never been to Perth, though. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 03:39, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Place: Manama
Blurb: Bahrain's capital is a great introduction to the Middle East with a huge mosque, a souq, a world heritage listed fort and an archaeological site at its outskirts. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Dec-Mar
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 16:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: There's been a while since we featured something from the Gulf states. All listings have geocoordinates, and recently expanded the Understand and See section. Needs a bit of expansion still, maybe..? And before it's featured, as always, we need to check that all the listed places are still in business.
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Place: Medan
Blurb: A melting pot of cultures, Indonesia's fourth city is off the tourist radar for foreigners, but popular among Indonesians especially for its food culture. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Jan-Apr is the driest time of the year
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 16:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: We've featured Indonesian destinations quite a few times, but now when I checked all of them are from Java, Bali or Nusa Tenggara. This one would be the first from the bigger islands further north. Could use an update (ie. listings checked up using Google Maps) before it's featured. And it needs pictures in other sections than See!
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Place: Recife
Blurb: There are many sides to Recife, the city is steeped in colonial history but famed for its urban beaches too. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Oct-Feb (Carnival in late February!)
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 16:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Updated in late 2020/early 2021, nominated for a slot in early 2022. I mentioned then that the listings needed to be checked for up to datedness, but otherwise the article was in a quite good shape. Now almost half a year before the article was to be run, it was slushed because it hadn't been updated (also because there was a bad COVID situation in Brazil, nevertheless I can't remember this would have been a problem for any other article that was featured during the pandemic). So here it is again. Some edits have been made to the article by others in the meantime, to a large extent it's the same article. As I envision to see this on the main page perhaps for February's slot, it's better to make the up to date check later.
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Place: El Gouna
Blurb: This Red Sea resort has some activity for everyone, in an environment that's not just glass, steel and tourists on the coast. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: "Autumn and spring are the best times to visit", though I wouldn't run a place next to the Sahara desert too close to summer... March 2025?
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 18:59, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: How about an article about a beach resort town built from scratch, I don't remember us featuring any destination like that before? I translated the Star status article from German WV (which has a strong coverage of Egypt) last year, checking listings in Google Maps. Now when looking at the article, it has quite a lot of pictures, so maybe some of them should be deleted (the original article has even more of them), but otherwise I think the article looks OK.
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Place: Wilmington (North Carolina)
Blurb: Gardens and plantations meet antebellum architecture and beaches of the Atlantic in the city sometimes nicknamed Wilmywood (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: April 2025? - warm weather but not hurricane season yet, and in April there's an Azalea Festival too
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 18:59, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: This is one of those destinations that could work both as a DotM and OtBP, I'm putting it in the former because we already have OtBP candidates for the spring months. The article does have content in all sections, but a lot of listings need coordinates and when googling and adding them we will also find which places that have closed down. In other words, Wilmington needs the standard update a month or two before the article goes on the Main Page.
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Nominations for Off the Beaten Path

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Place: Minot
Blurb: This air force and rail town is also – at least heritage-wise – a piece of Scandinavia on the Great Plains. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: May-Sep (Sep for the Norwegian Autumn Festival in early October)
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 18:41, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: A tidy article, however many coordinates are missing, there's room for a couple more images, and this article too needs to be checked for up-to-date-ness a bit before featuring.
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Place: New England National Park
Blurb: Visit one of the world's best preserved Gondwana Rainforests in New South Wales with many of New England National Park's hiking trails showcasing exactly that. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Southern winter (ideally), though spring and autumn also work.
Nominated by: SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 06:02, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: We have 25 Australian guide park articles – let's feature another one of them.
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Place: La Tremblade
Blurb: Do you like surfing and oysters? Then, then this Charente-Maritime town facing the Atlantic definitely is for you! (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Apr-Oct, mid-summer might be quite hot though
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 18:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Translated from a Star article on French WV about year ago, so it should be fairly up to date despite what the timestamps say.
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Place: Presidente Prudente
Blurb: Named after a president, this regional town has plenty of green spaces and interesting events around the year (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Spring or autumn probably
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 18:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: We've never featured anything from Brazil as OtBP, so let's fix that. Speaking of fixing, there are some minor things to fix in the article. It's always nice with photos, but they need to be spread out more evenly and possibly some of them deleted. Some listings, especially in Drink, lack descriptions. Luckily there are the websites of the places listed, so it should be easy to get a picture of the place and write a short description. Finally the long list of Wi-Fi hotspots could perhaps be deleted.
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Place: Yarrangobilly Caves
Blurb: Nestled deep in Australia's Snowy Mountains, Yarrangobilly features not just caves, but thermal pools and great hikes as well. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Any time
Nominated by: Jpatokal (talk) 00:18, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: It's been several years since we had an Australian OTBP, and both the caves and the pool are nice all year round. I intentionally chose a non-cave pic to give a better feel for the area, but open to alternatives.
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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)[reply]

Place: Sekigahara
Blurb: This quaint mountain town and battlefield, where Tokugawa won control of Japan, gives visitors firsthand insight into feudal Japanese warfare. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: March-May; October
Nominated by: Tuyuhun (talk) 11:34, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: This town would be perfect for OTBP, given its importance in Japanese history and its well-developed tourist services. It is a small town with very few dining options and lodging (which might be an issue but might not depending on consensus), but it is close to larger Japanese cities like Maibara and Nagoya and would be a perfect day trip from Kyoto et al., especially since it is on a major train line. It is especially beautiful in the spring when the plum and cherry blossoms bloom, but the Battle of Sekigahara was in October of 1600, so it would also work for an October listing.
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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)[reply]
  • Support Article looks good & the site is important. Pashley (talk) 15:00, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Place: Khujand
Blurb: Founded by Alexander the Great and beloved by Lenin, Tajikistan's second city is more than just a base for hiking into the nearby Fann Mountains. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Any time
Nominated by: Tuyuhun (talk) 17:18, 13 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: We've done one (1) Central Asian destination in all of DotM history (Karakol). It's high time we feature something else from the region. While I know that even major CA cities like Almaty might count as OtBP, I nominated Khujand because it's a hidden gem of the region and many mountaineering tourists use it as a base for treks into the Fann mountains when they visit Tajikistan. Many 'multi-Stan' tours now go through Khujand as well, since the Pamir Hwy is essentially a no-go with the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border being closed. It can be run at any month of the year since the climate is mild enough in the winter and not boiling hot in the summer. Summer or Fall would fit best with the mountaineering schedule.
Nomination
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
    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)[reply]
    I see, in that case I support. --SHB2000 (t | c | m) 01:55, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    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)[reply]
    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)[reply]
    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)[reply]
    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)[reply]
    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)[reply]
    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)[reply]
    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 stupid masochistic 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)[reply]
    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)[reply]
  • Support. Pashley (talk) 21:59, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Place: El Hierro
Blurb: The remotest of the Canary Islands is a place to explore forests and volcanic formations and enjoy the relaxed island lifestyle (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Dec-Apr is probably most popular, though the weather is OK around the year
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 19:21, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Given the tremendous popularity of the Canary Islands as a place to escape the winter for Europeans, it's surprising how we've never had any feature from here. Well, maybe it's suitable that the first feature is the least visited island, as OtBP. The article is mostly a translation from the article at de-WV, where many listings lacked descriptions. I've expanded most of them based on what I've found online, though there are still some listings to expand. Aiming for January's or February's OtBP slot.
Nomination

Place: Tezpur
Blurb: The venue for a love story involving the grandson of Lord Krishna, don't be surprised to find several shrines and temples in this city on the Brahmaputra. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Nov-Mar
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 19:38, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: We need something for February's OtBP slot, and there's been a while since we featured an Indian article. The article looks good, but it was slushed a little over a year ago because of the Drink section. However, as I commented on Talk:Tezpur (the last thread), it's really hard to find drinking establishments in Tezpur, especially ones serving alcohol, and this also goes for the menus of restaurants. So possibly there really isn't anything to add to the Drink section. If this is the case I think the article is good to go after a removal of closed places.
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Place: Churches in Antarctica
Blurb: While you won't be able to visit all Antarctic churches at once, the few churches on the frozen continent highlight how Christianity has truly reached every corner of the globe. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: sometime during the summer, between October and February.
Nominated by: SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 10:43, 2 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Although I said I'll wait a bit before nominating this, I'll be out next week and there's no harm in nominating this early.

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.
Nomination
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Place: Flight baggage
Blurb: There are many things to take into consideration when packing for a flight - check out our guide for useful advice! (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Anytime
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 18:41, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: A look at Previous Featured travel topics reveals we don't very often run articles that aren't bound to a specific geographical location. But here's one. I think everything relevant is included.
Nomination

Place: Ohlone Wilderness Trail
Blurb: The wilderness outside San Francisco offers some serious hiking with beautiful views (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Spring or fall per Ohlone Wilderness Trail#Climate
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 15:46, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: ...and yet another topic I've been thinking about nominating for quite some time. If there's something important missing, I think SelfieCity who's written most of the article can add it.
Nomination
Actually, I just discovered that the dynamic map already contains the trail, it appears on the dynamic map when you open its menu (in the upper right corner) and tick the "Hiking" box. Is there some way to have it displayed on the map by default, that'd probably be faster than drawing/coding the trail from scratch? --Ypsilon (talk) 10:54, 18 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • My understanding is that geolines have never been a requirement for featuring. However, I agree that they make hiking itinerary articles better, so I have connected the relevant Wikidata item with OpenStreetMap and added a mapshape template to the article. Assuming I've done it correctly, once everything has had a chance to sync we should hopefully see the geoline in the article's map. —Granger (talk · contribs) 15:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks. That's more time-effective than drawing it from scratch and hosting it locally. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 07:07, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • I would want some more information about what you can expect from the campsites and whether there are some facilities along the route. If this is clear for locals, the info should go into some hiking/park travel topic, and that article should be referenced for the info. –LPfi (talk) 20:10, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree more information is needed about the campsites. Do they have potable water? Non-potable water? Toilets of any kind? Are campfires allowed? If so, are there permanent firepits, and is there a feasible way to obtain firewood? Which ones require reservations, and how can they be reserved? Maybe SelfieCity can help clarify. —Granger (talk · contribs) 04:44, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Place: Western food in Asia
Blurb: What's a Maharaja Mac, Shanghai-style borscht or "soy sauce Western food"? Check out this article for an unusual culinary tour around Asia! (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Any
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 18:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I guess it's good to run as it is, though if there's something important missing, feel free to add it.
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Place: Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/MV Aster
Blurb: The M.V. Aster was scuttled in 1997 the Hout Bay of the Cape Peninsula near Cape Town, as a diver-friendly artificial reef. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Star (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Southern summer: Late 2024 or early 2025
Nominated by: Yvwv (talk) 12:01, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: We have been featuring the best of Diving the Cape Peninsula and False Bay/Dive sites articles; the last one in early 2022, which is now past the recommended 24 month cooldown between neighboring destinations. These articles alleviate the shortage of features from Africa, without compromising on quality.
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Place: Public baths in Japan
Blurb: Bathing Japanese style is a pleasure, and a visit to a Japanese hot spring should be on the agenda of every visitor. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Any time of year, except maybe midsummer
Nominated by: Jpatokal (talk) 22:28, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Needs a bit of cleanup but contentwise this is great. Not entirely convinced that "Toilets" belongs in here though.
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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)[reply]

Place: Serbian phrasebook
Blurb: Written in two scripts, Serbian is closely related to other languages in the former Yugoslavia. As such, this phrasebook can be helpful throughout much of the Western Balkans. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Any
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 20:22, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: We've featured something from most European countries, but the countries that have never been on the Main Page are almost all in the Balkans. So let's add a few countries more with this phrasebook. All of the words and sentences have been translated, but as usual I plan to add quite a lot of pictures (as usual with our featured phrasebooks) to make the article livelier.
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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)[reply]
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)[reply]

Place: Vancouver International Airport
Blurb: Canada's main airport on the Pacific is well connected to East Asia. (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Any; again as the airports that get their own articles are places where many people change planes and also for departures from the destination, the local weather really doesn't need to be considered unlike for our DotM and OtBP features...
Nominated by: Ypsilon (talk) 20:22, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Believe it or not, it was before the pandemic we last featured an airport guide from outside Asia. Here's a good one that I had my eyes on for quite a while. A shoutout to User:Othello95 for starting up and writing much of the article!
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Place: San Diego International Airport
Blurb: The main airport to America's finest city is the busiest single runway airport in the world, (should not exceed ~145 characters)
Article status: Guide (must be guide or above).
Time to feature: Year round, not only because there are people who change planes in the San Diego International Airport, but also because San Diego itself is a good place to visit any time of the year.
Nominated by: Someonehere12345 (talk) 04:28, 20 August 2024 (UTC)Someonehere12345[reply]
Comment: Last time an article from an airport in the United States was featured travel topic, it was November 2019 Atlanta. (please note I do not have a banner in mind, but if anyone does then feel free to bring it up in the destination of the month candidates/banners page.
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