Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-05-11/Features and admins

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{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Approved this week|By seresin|11 May 2009}}

=Administrators=

Three editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Rjanag (nom), Dinoguy1000 (nom) and Laser brain (nom).

=Bots=

=Featured pages=

Nine articles were promoted to featured status this week: {{foa|Franklin Knight Lane|2}}, {{foa|Fort Ticonderoga}}, {{foa|Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver}}, {{foa|Bruce Castle}}, {{foa|Arthur Henry Cobby}}, {{foa|Nancy Drew}}, {{foa|Nancy Cartwright}}, {{foa|SS Pennsylvanian}} and {{foa|United States Academic Decathlon}}.

Twelve lists were promoted to featured status this week: {{fol|Kronos Quartet discography}}, {{fol|List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire}}, {{fol|List of Olympic women's ice hockey players for Canada}}, {{fol|List of number-one albums of 2008 (Japan)}}, {{fol|List of United States Military Academy alumni (Medal of Honor)}}, {{fol|List of Grade I listed buildings in West Somerset}}, {{fol|List of Silver Slugger Award winners at designated hitter}}, {{fol|List of Silver Slugger Award winners at pitcher}}, {{fol|2009 WWE Draft}}, {{fol|2008 World Series of Poker Europe results}}, List of alumni of Jesus College, Oxford: Clergy (nom) and {{fol|List of Detroit Red Wings players}}.

One topic was promoted to featured status this week: {{fot|Seasons of Veronica Mars}}.

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Exosome complex, Haumea, Ursula Franklin, Restoration of the Everglades, Pontiac's Rebellion, The Million Dollar Homepage and Eli Lilly.

=Featured media=

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Greater Crested Tern, Wire brush, German Instrument of Surrender, Painted Lady, Propaganda of the Spanish–American War, Excavations in the Atapuerca Mountains and Sumo wrestler.

No media files were featured this week.

Four featured pictures were demoted this week:

:File:Denver Lightning.jpg (nom),

:File:Keplers supernova.jpg (nom),

:File:Pieris brassicae caterpillar.jpg (nom) and

:File:Meadow Argus02.jpg (nom).

Thirteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.

File:Pseudatelus sp..jpg|Pseudatelus sp.

File:Stocking factory2.jpg|Knitting machine

File:De slag bij Terheide - The Battle of Schevening - August 10 1653 (Willem van de Velde I, 1657).jpg|Battle of Scheveningen

File:Sibylla pretiosa Cryptic mantis Luc Viatour.jpg|Sybilla pretiosa

File:Hakea laurina Tas.jpg|Hakea laurina

File:Rockefeller Center, December 1933.jpg|GE Building

File:Caruso with phonograph2.jpg|Enrico Caruso

File:Refueling panorama gnangarra.jpg|Sikorsky S-61

File:House sparrow portrait.jpg|House Sparrow

File:Under the horse chestnut tree2.jpg|Painting by Mary Cassatt

File:Leptospermum squarrosum.jpg|Leptospermum squarrosum

File:Bad Hindelang panorama view from south.jpg|Bad Hindelang

File:Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti WB.jpg|Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti

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