Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-08-24/Features and admins

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{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Approved this week|By seresin|24 August 2009}}

=Administrators=

Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Maunus (nom) and Jake Wartenberg (nom).

=Featured pages=

Fourteen articles were promoted to featured status this week: {{foa|Big Star (band)|1}}, {{foa|Lisa the Vegetarian|1}}, {{foa|Synthetic diamond|2}}, {{foa|Operation Charnwood|1}}, {{foa|Ancient Egyptian literature|1}}, {{foa|To Autumn|1}}, {{foa|Keith Johnson (cricket administrator)|1}}, {{foa|Convoy GP55|1}}, {{foa|James Newland|1}}, {{foa|John Lerew|1}}, {{foa|Samlesbury witches|1}}, {{foa|Hurricane Bob (1985)|1}}, {{foa|Fungus|1}} and {{foa|James Nesbitt|2}}.

Four lists were promoted to featured status this week: {{fol|Order of battle at the Battle of San Domingo|1}}, {{fol|National Film Registry|1}}, {{fol|List of 250cc Motorcycle World Champions|1}} and {{fol|List of new churches by John Douglas|1}}.

One topic was promoted to featured status this week: {{fot|The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion}}.

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: Emperor Penguin, Harry Murray, Gangtok, Zinc, Noël Coward, Candide and Edward Wright.

=Featured media=

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Bird-and-flower painting, Grampians National Park, Phobos, Stereogram, Protesters in Dar es Salaam, Redeye cicada and Keble college.

No featured sounds were promoted this week.

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Twenty-four pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.

File:Parliament House, Canberra, Pano jjron 25.9.2008-edit1.jpg|Parliament House, Canberra

File:Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon edit.jpg|The Coronation of Napoleon

File:Gawthorpe new.jpg|Gawthorpe Hall

File:Wallace Goldsmith - Oscar Wilde - Canterville Ghost - He met with a severe fall.jpg|The Canterville Ghost

File:Canna sp.jpg|Canna hybrida

File:Oscar Wilde - An Ideal Husband - You brute! You coward!.jpg|An Ideal Husband

File:Derwent Water, Keswick - June 2009.jpg|Derwent Water

File:Creedite 3.jpg|Creedite

File:Malachite, Zaire.jpg|Malachite

File:Amethyst. Magaliesburg, South Africa.jpg|Amethyst

File:The Story of the Mikado - Frontispiece.png|The Story of the Mikado, by W. S. Gilbert

File:Cracticus tibicen tibicen juvenile ANBG.jpg|Australian Magpie

File:The harbour in Kingstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland, in about 1895 - Option 2.jpg|Dún Laoghaire

File:Our New First Lord at Sea.png|Comic of William Henry Smith in Punch magazine

File:Pickering_-_Greatbatch_-_Jane_Austen_-_Pride_and_Prejudice_-_She_then_told_him_what_Mr._Darcy_had_voluntarily_done_for_Lydia.jpg|Pride and Prejudice

File:Royal_Avenue_Belfast2.jpg|Belfast

File:Azurite, Burra Mine, South Australia.jpg|Azurite

File:Quartz var. Smokey from Morella, Victoria.jpg|Quartz

File:Chlorophyllum rhacodes LC0093.jpg|Chlorophyllum rhacodes

File:Silver crystal.jpg|Silver

File:Bromine vial in acrylic cube.jpg|Bromine

File:Miesmuscheln-2.jpg|Mytilus edulis

File:Pegesimallus sp robberfly.jpg|Pegesimallus sp.

File:John Quincy Adams drawing2.jpg|John Quincy Adams

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