Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-02-22/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
No editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week.
Featured pages
Nineteen articles were promoted to featured status this week: Tropical Storm Marco (1990) (nom), What Is and What Should Never Be (Supernatural) (nom), Ratanakiri Province (nom), Lightning Bar (nom), Voyage of the Karluk (nom), The Disasters of War (nom), Anthony Roll (nom), Theoren Fleury (nom), Like a Rolling Stone (nom), Mono-Inyo Craters (nom), 1910 Cuba hurricane (nom), Inauguration of Barack Obama (nom), Geastrum triplex (nom), Noronha skink (nom), Admiralty Islands campaign (nom), Court of Chancery (nom), Elvis Presley (nom), Wendell H. Ford (nom) and Aliso Creek (Orange County) (nom).
Seven lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of American League pennant winners (nom), List of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim first-round draft picks (nom), List of places of worship in Worthing (nom), List of San Francisco Municipal Railway lines (nom), List of Major League Baseball managers (nom), List of TNA Women's Knockout Champions (nom) and List of National Treasures of Japan (castles) (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: Master Juba, Stereolab, Vkhutemas, Old Trafford, The Battle of Alexander at Issus, Panzer I, Halley's Comet, Columbia Slough and Castle.
Former featured pages
No articles were delisted this week.
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: Vide of plasma globe, "The Gerry-Mander", An engraving of action from Act I, Scene 1 of The Tempest, Phaon iridipennis, "The Journey", Pharyngeal jaws of a moray eel and Siegmund "Zishe" Breitbart.
One featured sound was promoted this week:
| The flock call for the Masked Lovebird (blue mutation) | (nom) |
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Sixteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
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Tyhpoons Parma (left) and Melor (right) engaged in the Fujiwhara effect, which is where two tropical cyclones in close proximity "rotate" around each other
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A United Nations patrol through the suburb of Bel Air on 19th January 2010, a week after the Haiti Earthquake
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Northern ascent of Catbells
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The Pelion Range at Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park
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