Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-09-28/Features and admins

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{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Approved this week|By seresin|28 September 2009}}

= Administrators =

Four editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: The ed17 (nom), Bob the Wikipedian (nom), OlEnglish (nom) and Mjroots (nom).

= Featured pages =

Fourteen articles were promoted to featured status this week: {{foa|Cartman Gets an Anal Probe|1}}, {{foa|Leopold Report|1}}, {{foa|The Dark Side of the Moon|3}}, {{foa|Henry Wells (general)|1}}, {{foa|Crown Fountain|4}}, {{foa|Alice Ayres|1}}, {{foa|Hermann Detzner|1}}, {{foa|SMS Hindenburg|1}}, {{foa|ToeJam & Earl|2}}, {{foa|Buildings of Jesus College, Oxford|1}}, {{foa|Badnjak|1}}, {{foa|Sam Loxton with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948|1}}, {{foa|Adelaide Anne Procter|1}} and {{foa|Ghosts I–IV|2}}.

Seven lists were promoted to featured status this week: {{fol|Lang Lang discography|1}}, {{fol|List of counties in New Jersey|2}}, {{fol|Lily Allen discography|1}}, {{fol|Grade I listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset|1}}, {{fol|League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award|1}}, {{fol|Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year Award|2}} and {{fol|Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year|1}}.

One topic was promoted to featured status this week: {{fot|Virginia Tech Hokies bowl games|1}}.

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article this week: Cyclone Orson, Ross Sea party, Italian War of 1542–1546, The World Ends with You, Boy Scouts of America membership controversies, Yukon Quest and Imagination.

= Featured media =

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Magpie flower, Snell's law, Knight, Hoddle Grid, Calediona, New York, Charon from the Divine Comedy and Gabions.

Twelve featured sounds were promoted this week:

{{*sound|Pietro Frosini - New York Blues (1916) - hiss reduced.ogg|Pietro Frosini - New York Blues|(nom)}}

{{*sound||Qaumi Tarana Instrumental|(nom)}}

{{*sound|USAFB Czardas.ogg|Vittorio Monti – Csárdás|(nom)}}

Giuseppe Cambini - Trois Quintetti Concertans

No. 1 in Bb major

{{*sound|Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini - Quintet No. 1 in Bb major, movement 1.ogg| I. Allegro maestoso}}

{{*sound|Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini - Quintet No. 1 in Bb major, movement 2.ogg| II. Larghetto cantabile}}

{{*sound|Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini - Quintet No. 1 in Bb major, movement 3.ogg| III. Rondo Allegretto grazioso}}

No. 2 in D minor

{{*sound|Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini - Quintet No. 2 in D minor, movement 1.ogg | I. Allegro espressivo}}

{{*sound|Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini - Quintet No. 2 in D minor, movement 2.ogg| II. Larghetto sostenuto ma con moto}}

{{*sound|Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini - Quintet No. 2 in D minor, movement 3.ogg|III. Presto ma non tanto}}

No. 3 in F major

{{*sound|Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini - Quintet No. 3 in F major, movement 1.ogg| I. Allegro maestoso}}

{{*sound|Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini - Quintet No. 3 in F major, movement 2.ogg|II. Larghetto sostenuto}}

{{*sound|Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini - Quintet No. 3 in F major, movement 3.ogg| III. Rondo Allegro con brio}}

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

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

File:Russell Falls 2.jpg|Russell Falls

File:Salticidae sp. AF.jpg|Clynotis severus

File:Australian Mounted Police Victoria-edit1.jpg|Mounted Police

File:Nardwuar1-photo-rgb NR.jpg|Nardwuar the Human Serviette

File:Fort Baker and Angel Island.jpg|Fort Baker

File:Salticidae sp. AF 2.jpg|Jumping Spider

File:Canberra From Black Mountain Tower.jpg|Canberra

File:Hakea epiglottis.jpg|Hakea epiglottis

File:Mount Ellinor, Mount Washington Panorama.jpg|View from Mount Ellinor

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