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Features and admins

Approved this week

Administrators

Three editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Bwilkins (nom), Everyking (nom) and Leonard^Bloom (nom).

Featured pages

Twenty-eight articles were promoted to featured status this week: A Rugrats Chanukah (nom), Supernatural (season 2) (nom), Helmut Lent (nom), M-28 Business (Ishpeming–Negaunee, Michigan) (nom), Muhammad al-Durrah incident (nom), Chorioactis (nom), Hurricane Rick (2009) (nom), Johann von Klenau (nom), Jay Pritzker Pavilion (nom), Halley's Comet (nom), Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York) (nom), Banksia cuneata (nom), Battle of the Nile (nom), Amazing Grace (nom), Charles Eaton (RAAF officer) (nom), Henry Edwards (entomologist) (nom), Steve Dodd (nom), John Diefenbaker (nom), James Whiteside McCay (nom), Second Test, 1948 Ashes series (nom), Carucage (nom), Bodiam Castle (nom), Jack the Ripper (nom), Rambles in Germany and Italy (nom), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (nom), Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Baxter Healthcare (nom), SECR K and SR K1 classes (nom) and Thomas Baker (aviator) (nom).

Six lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of awards and nominations received by William Gibson (nom), List of Oklahoma State Cowboys head football coaches (nom), IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (nom), List of Houston Astros first-round draft picks (nom), List of international cricket centuries by Donald Bradman (nom) and List of England Twenty20 International 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: Accurate News and Information Act, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Edward VI of England, "Ode on a Grecian Urn", Hurricane Fabian, Fantastic Universe and Richard Gavin Reid.

Former featured pages

Two articles were delisted this week: Boy Scouts of America membership controversies (nom) and Phil Collins (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: Sydney Opera House, Illustration for the first edition of The Hunting of the Snark, Illustration of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, Citrus swallowtail, Bartholomeus van der Helst's 1648 painting depicting a company of schutterij, Lady Barron Falls and George Washington Carver.

No featured sounds were promoted this week.

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Three pictures were promoted to featured status this week.