Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-10-05/Features and admins
{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|Approved this week|By Hiding|05 October 2009}}
= Administrators =
One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week:
= Featured pages =
Fifteen articles were promoted to featured status this week: {{foa|Hurricane Grace (1991)}}, {{foa|History of the Montreal Canadiens}}, {{foa|Columbia River}}, {{foa|Simon Bolivar Buckner}}, {{foa|Moors murders}}, {{foa|Barbara L}}, {{foa|Battle of the Alamo}}, {{foa|Star Trek: First Contact}}, {{foa|Otto Julius Zobel|2}}, {{foa|Rhodotus}}, {{foa|Jackie Robinson|4}}, {{foa|Virginia|3}}, {{foa|First Roumanian-American congregation|2}}, {{foa|Brian Booth}} and {{foa|Tragic Kingdom|3}}.
No lists were promoted to featured status this week.
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 as Today's featured article this week: Vauxhall Bridge, Texas A&M University, Byzantine navy, The Slave Community, Chinese classifier, Murray Chotiner and Virus.
= Former featured pages =
= Featured media =
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week:
Ischnura heterosticta, Werdau townhall, Sprekelia formosissima, American Empire as depicted on Puck, Map of Germany, Ross Bridge and A Currier and Ives print of Brooklyn in 1879.
Five featured sounds were promoted this week:
{{*sound|John Philip Sousa - Stars and_Stripes_Forever.ogg|Stars and Stripes Forever|(nom)}}
{{*sound|Anchors Aweigh.ogg|Charles A. Zimmerman - Anchors Aweigh|(nom)}}
{{*sound|Ludwig van Beethoven - Paul Rosenthal - Edward Auer - Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major - 1. Allegro assai.ogg|I. Allegro assai}}
{{*sound|Ludwig van Beethoven - Paul Rosenthal - Edward Auer - Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major - 2. Tempo di minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso.ogg|II. Tempo di minuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso}}
{{*sound|Ludwig van Beethoven - Paul Rosenthal - Edward Auer - Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major - 3. Allegro vivace.ogg|III. Allegro vivace}}
Three featured pictures were demoted this week: Plunging bronco, Bar Diamond Bar range (nom), Rolling Thunder Cloud (nom) and Red sunset (nom).
Fifteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.
File:Valletta-view-from-senglea-edit1.jpg|Valetta, capital of Malta
File:Ramariopsis kunzei Kaldari 01.jpg|Ramariopsis kunzei
File:Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew Gardens - July 2009.jpg|Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew Gardens
File:Anthochaera chrysoptera.jpg|Little Wattlebird
File:Ulysses S. Grant from West Point to Appomattox.jpg|Grant from West Point to Appomattox
File:Micrantheum serpentinum.jpg|Micrantheum serpentinum
File:WestertorenAmsterdam.jpg|Westertoren, Amsterdam
File:Trafalgar Square 360 Panorama Cropped Sky, London - Jun 2009.jpg|Trafalgar Square
File:NYC_subway-4D.svg|Diagram of the New York City Subway
File:Lactarius indigo 48568.jpg|Lactarius indigo gills
File:Kostas Martakis 1.jpg|Kostas Martakis
File:Extermination_of_Evil_Tenkeisei.jpg|Extermination of Evil Tenkeisei
File:Bengalia sp.jpg|Bengalia sp. blow fly in Bangalore
File:Connie Mack3.jpg|Connie Mack
File:Dean_Franklin_-_06.04.03_Mount_Rushmore_Monument_(by-sa)-3_new.jpg|Mount Rushmore
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