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Approved this week

Administrators

One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: The Wordsmith (nom).

Featured pages

Nine articles were promoted to featured status this week: City of Blinding Lights (nom), Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (nom), Cedric Howell (nom), Film noir (nom), Antonin Scalia (nom), Banksia sphaerocarpa (nom), Gray Mouse Lemur (nom), Tchaikovsky and the Belyayev circle (nom) and Death of Ian Tomlinson (nom).

Twelve lists were promoted to featured status this week: Laudian Professor of Arabic (nom), Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album (nom), List of Sacramento Regional Transit light rail stations (nom), List of Memorial Cup champions (nom), List of Texas Longhorns head football coaches (nom), List of Braathens destinations (nom), Mayor of Jersey City (nom), List of Washington state symbols (nom), List of Bristol Rovers F.C. players (nom), List of battlecruisers of Germany (nom), List of international cricket centuries by Brian Lara (nom) and Timeline of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season (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: Nikita Khrushchev, Pauline Fowler, Huntington's disease, Smallville (Season 1), Mendip Hills and Callisto.

Former featured pages

Two articles were delisted this week: Characters of Kingdom Hearts (nom) and Imperial Japanese Navy (nom).

No lists were delisted this week.

No topics were delisted this week.

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: Sketch of John Quincy Adams on his deathbed, Asci of a Morchella elata morel mushroom, Enrico Caruso, Ernst Haeckel's "Tree of Life", Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, Emerald cockroach wasp and Quartz crystal.

No featured sounds were promoted this week.

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Eighteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week.

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  Swamp wallaby
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  Hildebrandt's Starling
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  Trachylepis maculilabris
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  A man in Kabul selling the ingredients for goat Siri paya
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  Marriott Center
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  Osmium
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  Dakota Blue Richards as April Johnson in the 2008 film Dustbin Baby
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  1881 political cartoon of Charles J. Guiteau
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  South America
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  Dipodium roseum
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  Crimson Rosella
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  Crested Pigeon
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  Bangkok
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  Regent Parrot
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  Australian Raven
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  White-faced Heron
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  Black soldier fly
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  Eurocopter AS350B

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funny that there's so many bird pictures from different sources this week. They're lovely. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 01:56, 3 March 2010 (UTC) re[reply]

That article on the death of a G20 protestor should never have been featured. All of the refs need to be copyedited and some need to be checked line for line for accuracy. Ottre 09:57, 8 March 2010 (UTC)~[reply]