Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-08-03/Features and admins

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{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Approved this week|By seresin|3 August 2009}}

=Administrators=

One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: ThaddeusB (nom).

=Featured pages=

Nine articles were promoted to featured status this week: {{foa|Charles Carroll the Settler|1}}, {{foa|Herrerasaurus|1}}, {{foa|Adrian Cole (RAAF officer)|1}}, {{foa|Fight Club (film)|3}}, {{foa|Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)|1}}, {{foa|Hepatorenal syndrome|1}}, {{foa|The Lucy poems|2}}, {{foa|Mary Toft|1}} and {{foa|Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907|2}}.

Thirteen lists were promoted to featured status this week: {{fol|MCW Heavyweight Championship|1}}, {{fol|BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award|1}}, {{fol|List of international cricket centuries by Sourav Ganguly|1}}, {{fol|List of Grade I listed buildings in South Somerset|1}}, {{fol|NWA Wrestling Legends Hall of Heroes|1}}, {{fol|List of Premier League hat-tricks|1}}, {{fol|List of First World War Victoria Cross recipients|1}}, {{fol|List of England national football team hat-tricks|1}}, {{fol|List of Gold Glove Award winners at catcher|1}}, {{fol|List of City University of New York institutions|1}}, {{fol|List of CMLL World Tag Team Champions|1}}, {{fol|List of tallest buildings in Las Vegas|1}} and {{fol|WCW United States Tag Team Championship|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: 243 Ida, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Forest Park, Don Tallon, Nagorno-Karabakh War and Michael Gomez.

=Featured media=

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Sea otter, Black mulberry, Atomic bomb, The Nightwatch, Clyde River, NGC 1300 and Metriorrhynchus rhipidius.

No featured sounds were promoted this week.

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

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

File:ItalianMarketPhiladelphia.jpg|Italian Market

File:Pacific Black Duck jun08.jpg|Pacific Black Duck

File:US Capitol 1814c.jpg|United States Capitol

File:Abutilon ×hybridum Patrick Synge.jpg|Abutilon × hybridum

File:Carpobrotus rossii.jpg|Carpobrotus rossii

File:French marigold Tagetes patula.jpg|Tagetes patula

File:Aldabra Giant Tortoise Geochelone gigantea edit1.jpg|Aldabra Giant Tortoise

File:Battus philenor 02.jpg|Pipevine swallowtail

File:African boy transporting fodder by bicycle edit.jpg|Fodder

File:Charge of the Light Brigade2.jpg|Charge of the Light Brigade

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