Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-02-15/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
Five editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: J04n (nom), Phantomsteve (nom), Father Goose (nom), Mike Cline (nom) and Kingpin13 (nom).
Featured pages
Nine articles were promoted to featured status this week: Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park (nom), Golden White-eye (nom), A Momentary Lapse of Reason (nom), 2007–2008 Nazko earthquakes (nom), Battle of Winterthur (1799) (nom), HMS Calliope (1884) (nom), Irish Thoroughbred (nom), Sam Loxton (nom) and Flower (video game) (nom).
Eight lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of best-selling singles of the 2000s (UK) (nom), List of Major League Baseball players with a career .400 on-base percentage (nom), List of Baccano! episodes (nom), Bayreuth canon (nom), Shortlist Music Prize (nom), Aurealis Award for best horror novel (nom), Austin Aztex all-time roster (nom) and 3,000 strikeout club (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: Cloud Gate, HMAS Melbourne, Overman Committee, Ice hockey at the Olympic Games, Carabane, Miranda Otto and Flocke.
Former featured pages
Two articles were delisted this week: Franklin D. Roosevelt (nom) and Captain Marvel (DC Comics) (nom).
No lists were delisted this week.
One topic was delisted this week: World Series of Poker Europe (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: Myrmecia forficata, Kishū Kumano iwatake tori, a Japanese woodblock print in the ukiyo-e style, Thomas Edison, Gypsum, Scarlet Robin, Illustration of the poem "The Queen of Hearts" and Las Meninas.
No featured sounds were promoted this week.
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Eight pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
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Funeral ceremony among slaves at a mid-nineteenth century plantation in Suriname -
Prosthetic mask attached by the the International Red Cross during WWI. This is the man before the mask. -
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Panorama of Manhattan skyline -
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