Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-05-17/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
No editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week.
Featured pages
Nine articles were promoted to featured status this week: Japanese battleship Tosa (nom), Oryzomys (nom), Brian Eaton (nom), Paramount Television Network (nom), Nature fakers controversy (nom), Iravan (nom), Great Auk (nom), Ernest Hemingway (nom) and July 2009 Ürümqi riots (nom).
Seven lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of storms in the 2006 Pacific hurricane season (nom), Moons of Saturn (nom), List of Texas Tech Red Raiders head men's basketball coaches (nom), List of battleships of Germany (nom), List of counties in Utah (nom), List of freshwater islands in Scotland (nom) and List of Florida Panthers players (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: Glacier National Park, Manitoba, The Historian, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Quiriguá, Ratanakiri and Marwari horse.
Former featured pages
Three articles were delisted this week: Harry S. Truman (nom), 2007 UEFA Champions League Final (nom) and Real Love (John Lennon song) (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: Turbot fish; Jerusalem in the early 20th century; BMW Welt; Ed Walsh; town of Ortahisar in Cappadocia; Anemone hupehensis var. japonica and Illustration of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
No featured sounds were promoted this week.
One featured picture was demoted this week: Evolution of the Confederate States of America (nom).
Ten pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
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Satellite picture of Africa -
Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus variegatus) -
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Calliope Hummingbird (Stellula calliope) mother feeding her chicks -
This, and the subsequent two photographs, are a featured set detailing the life of an Opium Poppy -
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Astronaut Clayton Anderson watches as a water bubble floats in space shuttle Discovery
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