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We didn't start the wiki

Wreck of the ship George Roper, Point Lonsdale (1883) by Fred Kruger — restored by Adam Cuerden, promoted to FP in January 2024.

This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from October 2023 through May 2024. Quotes are generally from the articles, but may be abridged or simplified for length.

It has been quite some time since we've last had a featured content segment, huh? The backlog has grown so great that, in the interest of giving things their proper respect, we've decided to separate the FAs from the other forms of featured content. Here is a full list of newly promoted FAs, starting from when our last Featured Content column left off (in that case, at the end of October!)

135 featured articles were promoted during this period. Enjoy the list, and pay no heed to the ordering or any musical accompaniments you might hear.

Featured articles

Night frog, Angel Reese
Tannehill, Marie Hingst
26 innings, Bandit Queen, Makhno
Easy on Me, Walt and Lincoln
Marshfield, Communication
H. sechmenii, Argosy
Taylor swift promo.
Benty Grange, Leigh Sayers
Firebird, plovers
Boulez, Guallatiri
Teloschistaceae.
Caitlin Clark, Holidays
Brompton doing okay
Tom de la More, Spencer scores,
Torpedo boat T4

[Chorus]:
We didn't start the wiki
It's been always growing while the web's been slowing
We didn't start the wiki
No we didn't write it,
but we tried to cite it!

Len Deighton, Mount Berlin
Eye and Brother Jonathan
My Little Love, the peeping tom
Channel 64
OneShot, The One
Reverend John Littlejohn
Somerset Cricket Club, Running Out of Time
Will Slack, Kalven
Albona, Sovereign
Jack the Ripper, Old King Ed
a Printing Plant and Bill Madden
Steinbock, Hernan, Bulkeley and Doom again
Illinois race, Hanson Place
Champaign v. Madigan

[Chorus]

George Griffith, Phil 101
Speechless, Dolly de Leon
Hö'elün, Israelis
Gillingham early eighties
Wildest Dreams, Oyster dress,
attempt against the Tirpitz
Missouri Medicaid
George Town in Pulau Pinang
Carmichael, Cane Hill
Citigroup, storm petrel
Warburg House, sungem
Tomorrow Speculative Fiction
Notts in twenty-twenty-three
Beulé and the Beaulieu
Leucippus, Ben&Ben
adapted dissertation

[Chorus]

Sounders' year, Boundary
The Spy Who Loved Me
Breakdown, new Brompton
Day Before the Revolution
Ojos del Salado
Hanford, FA Cup final
Capri-Sun, Cross Temple
Nicoll Highway caving in
Ty Cobb getting suspended
Dark Pictures Anthology
"Well he would, wouldn't he?"

[Chorus]

Overlook, Benneson
Tufted jays and John Pulman
Edziza Complex
Pornographic artifacts
Olsen, Munsey's, Alan Wace
Centre vs. Harvard game
Blackburne, Raynald, Morgan-Chase,
Tumors in the prostate
Illinois FOIA
Member of Stenochiridae,
Pseudastacus crustaceans
Broadway, Nasutoceratops
Etika, Ed Bradley
Soccer eighteen-seven-three
An Aston Martin touring car
and John Bullock Clark Sr.

[Chorus]

The Hunger by McQueen
Mount Hudson, Ed Ætheling
Ottoman art history
Football final forty-three
Franco-Russian feminist
Her Majesty's Secret Service
Guinea-worms inside the skin
Worlds by Porter Robinson
Jacques, operetta factory
Great cuckoo-dove from New Guinea
Smithsonian photographer,
the Prior of Worcester
Viaduct in Milton Keynes
George's Greek prehistory
Pan Am Flight Two-one-four
I can't write this any more!

[Chorus]

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Did anyone else sing the whole thing from beginning to end? QuicoleJR (talk) 15:18, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Me. ‍Relativity ⚡️ 18:11, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I did, until I got derailed pondering whether Running Out of Time (song) would actually fit the meter better if it included the "(song)" at the end of the article title. FeRDNYC (talk) 05:22, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah me too lol ―Howard • 🌽³³ 14:58, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bravo! An ingenious and entertaining solution to a long list of excellent articles. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:40, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reminds me a lot of We Didn’t Start The Fire, now I got that song stuck in my head. West Virginia WXeditor (talk) 20:24, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Great song though one question. Will the Fls and FPs be named? Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 00:28, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Image description for Wreck of the ship George Roper, Point Lonsdale (1883)

This image description on Wiki-Commons for

English: Wreck of the ship George Roper, Point Lonsdale (1883) by Fred Kruger. According to the website The History of Queenscliffe, the people seen are the family of G C Robinson. (emphasis added) may be incorrect or misleading.

The central foreground tableaux reads as posed group containing a policeman or Bobby whose baton, in his left hand, blurred by motion, is in mid-stroke, about to land on a man with a large pack or sack on his back. The image description ought either to acknowledge the nature of the foreground material or to replace the full image with the cropped image.

It would be shame to lose the whole of this striking historical photograph. Changing the Commons image description would be my first choice.

— Neonorange (talk to Phil) (he, they) 05:29, 21 June 2024 (UTC) —[reply]

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