Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-08-24/Features and admins
{{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.
=Former featured pages=
Eleven articles were delisted this week: {{ffr|Pneumonia|1}}, {{ffr|Voter turnout|1}}, {{ffr|Sikhism|1}}, {{ffr|BBC television drama|1}}, {{ffr|Black Seminoles|1}}, {{ffr|Whitstable|1}}, {{ffr|Blitzkrieg|1}}, {{ffr|Microsoft Data Access Components|1}}, {{ffr|Triumph of the Will|1}}, {{ffr|History of Arizona|1}} and {{ffr|Music of Nigeria|1}}.
No lists were delisted this week.
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: 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