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By seresin
This week's TFPs
Thomisus onustus
Jerusalem Railway Station
Flower of a Feijoa plant
Traumatic insemination
Isaac Massa
Damage done to Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War
Scene from 1886 edition of The Bride of Lammermoor

7 (nom) was promoted to administrator. Xeno was made a bureaucrat.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article:

  • Baltimore City College, a public college-preparatory high school in Baltimore, Maryland, United States
  • Banksia prionotes, a species of shrub or tree of the genus Banksia in the Proteaceae family
  • Cyclone Gonu, the strongest tropical cyclone on record in the Arabian Sea
  • The Beatles: Rock Band, a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems
  • "The Open Boat", a short story by American author Stephen Crane
  • Helmut Lent, a German night fighter ace in World War II who shot down 110 aircraft, 103 of them at night
  • Edwin P. Morrow, the 40th Governor of Kentucky.

Seven articles were promoted to featured status: No Line on the Horizon (nom), 1910 London to Manchester air race (nom), Halkett boat (nom), SMS Helgoland (nom), Loggerhead sea turtle (nom), Horses in World War I (nom) and Symphony No. 8 (Mahler) (nom).

Six lists were promoted to featured status: Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album (nom), 1991 College Baseball All-America Team (nom), List of Honorary Fellows of Keble College, Oxford (nom), 1966 NBA Expansion Draft (nom), Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year (nom), Hugo Award for Best Novella (nom).

Two articles were delisted: S-mine (nom) and Henry James (nom).

Media features

Two featured pictures were demoted. 1958 Corvette (nom) was delisted because it lacks sharpness and is no longer "used in a meaningful and encyclopedic manner"; Hansom cab (nom) was delisted because of its small resolution.

Twelve pictures were promoted to featured status:

Jesse Jackson in 1983 A knight's tour A 2600 series car in the Chicago transit system Molybdenum
Main circuits of the basal ganglia This and the next six photographs are a featured set. They depict the scales which compose the wings of the Inachis io butterfly. Closeup of the scales High magnification of the scales
This and the next four images were taken with an electron microscope. This image is approximately 50× magnification. Approximately 200× magnification 1000× 5000×
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New design

I have re-designed the presentation and structure of this page. I hope it is to everyone's liking. I tried to remove some of the repeated skeleton language, and implement a cleaner and slimmer design. Feedback, good, bad or ugly is requested and appreciated. Suggestions on the content itself are also requested and appreciated, as continued from last week's note.

I would like to thank all the editors who provided feedback in response to my note last week, and in particular Tony1. ÷seresin 08:37, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The images are overlapping the side bar. It may just be me, though. - Peregrine Fisher (talk) 15:48, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Nice work, seresin! Tony (talk) 17:42, 8 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good to me. :) — Pretzels Hii! 10:46, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I think the parts about the new admins/bureaucrats and the part about what FAs were on the main page last week need to be defined a little better. If "The following" at the first part of the sentence about the FAs from last week could be bolded, I think it would be easier to recognize right away that the two pieces aren't connected. Other than that, it looks great! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 18:52, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
White space: There's a large gap above the 12 pictures at the bottom, if the browser window is any narrower than 1200px. So 1024x768 and 1152x864 have problems. Perhaps we could put the 12 promoted pictures into 3 columns, instead of 4?
Headers: I agree with Wilhelmina - the top two sections need headers, or something. Perhaps "Promotion report" and "This week's TFAs" (to match the sidebar's TFP header)?
TFP background: Could we use some sort of neutral gray, instead of the "background color = #CC9" we currently have?
TFP captions: The captions and righthand edge of the images are getting cut off.
Hopethathelps. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:31, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have any problems viewing it. Looks good! - BanyanTree 11:13, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've taken a screenshot (File:Signpost-whitespace-tfp.jpg) to show the problems explained above. I'll have a go at fixing some of these, later, unless somebody else gets there first... -- Quiddity (talk) 19:21, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]


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