User:Buffs/TFA request

18 November 2009

The Aggie Bonfire was a long-standing, school-sponsored tradition at Texas A&M University as part of the college rivalry with the University of Texas at Austin. For 90 years, Texas A&M students—known as Aggies—built and burned a bonfire on campus each fall. Known to the Aggie community simply as "Bonfire", the annual fall event symbolized Aggie students' "burning desire to beat the hell outta t.u.", a derogatory nickname for the University of Texas. The bonfire was traditionally lit around Thanksgiving in conjunction with festivities surrounding the annual college football rivalry game. Although early Bonfires were little more than piles of trash, as time passed the annual event became more organized. Over the years the bonfire grew to an immense size, setting the world record in 1969. In 1999, the Bonfire collapsed during construction, killing twelve people, eleven students and one former student, and injuring twenty-seven others. The accident led school officials to declare a hiatus on an official Bonfire. However, since 2002, a student-sponsored coalition has constructed an annual unsanctioned, off-campus "Student Bonfire" in the spirit of its predecessor. (more...)

I'm nominating this with six points: 2 for promoted more than 2 years ago, 3 for date relevance (day of collapse + 10 year anniversary of said collapse), 1 point because I have never had a request for WP:TFA fulfilled. I will also point out this article has been on the main page before, but I am posting this here anyway under WP:IAR; I believe that it is appropriate to feature this article on this date and feel making such a nomination is appropriate. — BQZip01 — ^talk 19:37, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Support Nominator. — BQZip01 — ^talk 19:37, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Support as a member of WikiProject Texas A&M. Oldag07 (talk) 21:33, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Yes, I realize...

...that it has been up there on the main page before, but it's worth a shot — BQZip01 — ^talk 20:16, 14 October 2009 (UTC)