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Features and admins

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Administrators

Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Killiondude (nom) and Cobi (nom).

Featured pages

Eleven articles were promoted to featured status this week: Stanford Memorial Church (nom), Volcano (South Park) (nom), Huntington's disease (nom), Doug Ring with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 (nom), Victoria Cross for Australia (nom), North Road (stadium) (nom), Ashton-under-Lyne (nom), Joel Selwood (nom), Fertilisation of Orchids (nom), Siward, Earl of Northumbria (nom) and Tropical Storm Faxai (2007) (nom).

Seven lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of tallest buildings in Singapore (nom), List of Copa Libertadores winners (nom), List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums from the 1990s (nom), Marine Corps Brevet Medal (nom), List of CMLL World Trios Champions (nom), List of Second World War Victoria Cross recipients (nom) and Timeline of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season (nom).

One topic was promoted to featured status this week: The Simpsons (season 5) (nom).

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Rosewood massacre, "Premiere", Phagocytes, Opera, Maiden Castle, Arena Active Protection System and Vagrant Story.

Former featured pages

Seven articles were delisted this week: Meteorological history of Tropical Storm Allison (nom), Aramaic language (nom), African American literature (nom), Krag-Petersson (nom), Names of the Greeks (nom), Rail transport in India (nom) and Anne, Queen of Great Britain (nom).

One list was delisted this week: List of first-class cricket quadruple centuries (nom).

No topics were delisted this week.

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Louis Armstrong, Yellow-Faced Honeyeater, Excavation, 2008 South Ossetia War, Austins Ferry, Tasmania, Resignation letter of Richard Nixon and Mount Rushmore.

No featured sounds were promoted this week.

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Nineteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.

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