Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-07-27/Features and admins
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Approved this week|By seresin|27 July 2009}}
=Administrators=
One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Tedder (nom).
=Featured pages=
Twelve articles were promoted to featured status this week: {{foa|Quark|4}}, {{foa|Silent Alarm|1}}, {{foa|Oxygen toxicity|1}}, {{foa|Tropical Depression Ten (2005)|1}}, {{foa|Helgoland class battleship|1}}, {{foa|Ba Cut|1}}, {{foa|Battle of Bosworth Field|1}}, {{foa|Edgar Towner|1}}, {{foa|Ruffed lemur|1}}, {{foa|Linezolid|1}}, {{foa|Choral symphony|1}} and {{foa|The Bartered Bride|1}}.
Two lists were promoted to featured status this week: {{fol|List of songs in the Guitar Hero: On Tour series|2}} and {{fol|List of CMLL World Welterweight Champions|1}}.
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 this week as Today's featured article: Hurricane Ioke, Alien vs. Predator, Benjamin Harrison, Symphonic poems, 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga, Beth Hamedrash Hagadol and Hippocampus.
=Former featured pages=
One article was delisted this week:
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency (nom).
Five lists were delisted this week: {{ffl|List of Ashes series}}, {{ffl|List of Test cricket grounds by date|archive2}}, {{ffl|BAFTA Award for Best Film}}, {{ffl|List of top-division football clubs in CONMEBOL countries}} and {{ffl|List of awards and nominations received by Barenaked Ladies}}.
No topics were delisted this week.
=Featured media=
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Arcus cloud, Bergen, Haile Selassie I, Venus, Operation Crossroads, Monarch butterfly and New River Gorge Bridge.
One featured sound was promoted this week:
{{*sound|Enrico Caruso, Giuseppe de Luca, Giuseppe Verdi, Nè gustare m'è dato un'ora (La forza del destino).ogg|Nè gustare m'è dato un'ora...|(nom)}}
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Twenty-five pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
File:Musk Lorikeet jul08.jpg|Musk Lorikeet
File:Cherokee Pass2.jpg|Cherokee Trail
File:Swaledale Sheep, Lake District, England - June 2009.jpg|Swaledale
File:Concourse Singapore2 courtesy copy.jpg|The Concourse
File:VADM John Bulkeley 1988 NR edit.jpg|John D. Bulkeley
File:Bi-crystal.jpg|Bismuth
File:Cu-Scheibe.JPG|Copper
File:Female Chestnut Teal duck.jpg|Chestnut Teal
File:Male chestnut teal.jpg|Chestnut Teal
File:Isle of Graia3.jpg|Gulf of Aqaba
File:Microcarbo melanoleucos Austins Ferry 3.jpg|Little Pied Cormorant
File:Gallinula mortierii 1.jpg|Tasmanian Native-hen
File:Superb lyrbird in scrub.jpg|Superb Lyrebird
File:MeanMonthlyP.gif|Precipitation
File:Hispaniola Vinckeboons4.jpg|Hispanola
File:Leptecophylla juniperina 2.jpg|Leptecophylla juniperina
File:Skylark 2, Lake District, England - June 2009.jpg|Skylark
File:Keswick, Cumbria Panorama 1 - June 2009.jpg|Keswick
File:Speed boat and water skiier.jpg|Waterskiing
File:Purple Swamphen - Pukeko02.jpg|Pukeko
File:Correa Alba RTBG.jpg|Correa alba
File:Lycianthes rantonnetii.jpg|Lycianthes rantonnetii
File:The Zinc Works and Incat.jpg|Zinc works at Lutana
File:Pyrite from Ampliación a Victoria Mine, Navajún, La Rioja, Spain 2.jpg|Pyrite
File:Roulettes flying in formation.jpg|Roulettes