Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-07-27/Features and admins

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{{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.

=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

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