Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-11-16/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
Four editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Bellhalla (nom), Franamax (nom), Fribbulus Xax (nom) and Amorymeltzer (nom).
Featured pages
Seven articles were promoted to featured status this week: Upper and Lower Table Rock (nom), Control (Janet Jackson album) (nom), Upper Pine Bottom State Park (nom), The Beatles: Rock Band (nom), Richard Gavin Reid (nom), William of Tyre (nom) and Shojo Beat (nom).
Ten lists were promoted to featured status this week: Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award (nom), Timeline of the 1987 Atlantic hurricane season (nom), List of 125cc Motorcycle World Champions (nom), Ashley Tisdale discography (nom), World Series Most Valuable Player Award (nom), Luton Town F.C. league record by opponent (nom), Premier League Manager of the Month (nom), List of Louisville Colonels managers (nom), List of Governors of Delaware (nom) and List of India women ODI cricketers (nom).
No topics were promoted to featured status this week.
No portals were promoted to featured status this week.
The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article this week: Millennium '73, Battle of Arras (1917), Grim Fandango, "I Don't Remember", William III of England, Zelda Fitzgerald and Trial by Jury.
Former featured pages
Three articles were delisted this week: Isambard Kingdom Brunel (nom), The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (nom) and TARDIS (nom).
No lists were delisted this week.
No topics were delisted this week.
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Ase o fuku onna, Turkish treches from WWI, Sydney, Great White Pelican, Man entering "colored" section of theatre, during racial segregation in the US, one of the Dartmoor crosses and Oriental latrine fly.
No featured sounds were promoted this week.
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Ten pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
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Frontispiece to Original Stories from Real Life -
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Sketch of a Mayan relief at Palenque -
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Use of a reflector to photograph a model -
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Olympic Stadium in Berlin -
Dead acacia trees in Dead Vlei
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