Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-01-11/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Olaf Davis (nom).
Featured pages
Nine articles were promoted to featured status this week: Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (nom), Edward Drinker Cope (nom), Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago) (nom), Frederick Scherger (nom), Tchaikovsky and the Five (nom), Justus (nom), Wife selling (nom), Peter Heywood (nom) and Anna Anderson (nom).
Seven lists were promoted to featured status this week: Mary Pickford filmography (nom), List of Montserrat national football team results (nom), Kate Rusby discography (nom), List of The Apprentice (U.S.) candidates (nom), List of Australian Open Men's Singles champions (nom), List of New York Mets first-round draft picks (nom) and List of National Treasures of Japan (paintings) (nom).
One topic was promoted to featured status this week: Australian cricket team in England in 1948 (nom).
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: Minas Geraes, Badnjak, Elwood Haynes, ToeJam & Earl, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, M249 light machine gun and One Hot Minute.
Former featured pages
Four articles were delisted this week: Cystic fibrosis (nom), Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention, 1968 (nom), Hurricane Floyd (nom) and Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2006 (nom).
No lists were delisted this week.
One topic was delisted this week: Seasons of Degrassi: The Next Generation (nom).
No portals were delisted this week.
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Lycoperdon umbrinum, Chiaroscuro woodcut of the virgin Mary, Cremastinae, 1868 photo of an Argentine gaucho, InterContinental Amstel Amsterdam, MS Majesty of the Seas and Crocoite.
No featured sounds were promoted this week.
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Eleven pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
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Political cartoon depicting Uncle Sam, George Washington, and Theodore Roosevelt greeting the Great White Fleet -
Russet potato -
Photocrom of the General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm -
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Dust storm over the Red Sea -
Ursus C-451 tractor
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