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{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|{{{1|The best of the week}}}|By Dabomb87 and Tony1|9 August 2010}}

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=Featured articles=

Nine articles were promoted to featured status:

  • Russian battleship Slava (nom), launched in 1903, played important roles in suppressing the Sveaborg Rebellion of Russian soldiers in 1906, rescuing survivors of the 1908 Messina earthquake, and resisting the German navy in World War I (Sturmvogel 66).
  • {{foa|Wotton railway station}}, the story of a station built in 1871 on a private horse-drawn tramway as part of the Duke of Buckingham's "increasingly harebrained scheme to provide a mass-transit service to an area populated almost exclusively by cows" (Iridescent).
  • Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (nom) is the third book in US writer Maya Angelou's six-volume autobiography, set from 1949 to 1955, which examines such themes as race, conflict, and motherhood (Christine).
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  • {{foa|Minnie Pwerle}} (1915–2006), an Indigenous Australian artist whose much-sought-after work was characterised by a "spontaneous" style, typified by bold and vibrant colour executed with great freedom (Hamiltonstone).
  • {{foa|Shimer College}}, a small, academically rigorous US college with an unusual history and curriculum (Nasty Housecat).
  • {{foa|John Brownlee as Attorney-General of Alberta}}, recounting Brownlee's major role as a conservative in the United Farmers government of the province of Alberta in western Canada (Steve Smith).
  • Pathways into Darkness (nom), a 1993 video game in which the player has to rescue the world from a godlike being (David Fuchs).
  • Transandinomys (nom), a genus of two long-whiskered, medium-sized rice rats from Central and South America (Ucucha).
  • {{foa|Walter Bache}}, a 19th-century English pianist and conductor who was a prominent student of Franz Liszt (Jonyungk).

Choice of the week. The Signpost asked featured article review delegate Dana boomer to select her best of the week. "I chose Walter Bache. Featured articles on classical music are rather few and far between, and I found this one to be a fascinating read. I’ve never studied the classical composers and artists, and so to learn more about them, and be routed to such articles as War of the Romantics, was quite fun."

Four featured articles were delisted:

=Featured lists=

Five lists were promoted:

  • {{fol|List of Chicago Cubs first-round draft picks}}. Of the 56 players picked in the first round by the Cubs, 28 have been pitchers, the most of any position. One of the picks has won the MLB Rookie of the Year award, and another is a member of both the 3,000 hit club and the 500 home run club (nominated by Courcelles).
  • {{fol|Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording}}, awarded since 1998. Recent winners include Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (Alive 2007)" and Lady Gaga's "Poker Face". (Another Believer)
  • List of Digimon video games (nom). The Digimon series revolves around the eponymous Digimon creatures and their human "Tamers", who both serve as player and non-player characters depending on the game (Tezero).
  • {{fol|List of Cleveland Indians managers}}. Two managers, Tris Speaker and Lou Boudreau, have led the Indians to World Series championships (LAAFan).
  • {{fol|List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain|3}}, comprising the volcanoes in the Hawaiian archipelago, Northwestern Hawaiian islands, and Emperor seamounts. The ages of these volcanoes range from 400,000 to 85 million years (Resident Mario and Awickert).

Choice of the week. Staxringold has written 26 featured lists, mostly on the subject of baseball. Here is his pick: "Much as I might like to go with a baseball list, my choice has to be List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian – Emperor seamount chain. The nominators went through three FLCs, grinding out all the little details for this in-depth, very nice list covering the chain of volcanoes near the Hawaiian archipelago. Dynamic lists are never easy to pull off, and Mario and Awickert did a great job."

=Featured pictures=

File:Okonjo-Iweala, Ngozi (2008 portrait).jpg, Managing Director of the World Bank, and former Finance Minister of Nigeria]]File:Nicholas Kratzer by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg was a German mathematician and horologist who was appointed astronomer to King Henry VIII.]]

Ten images were promoted:

Choice of the week. We asked JovanCormac, a member of the Organising Committee for the Commons Picture of the Year, to choose his number-one for the week: "Picking this week's standout was an easy choice: This NASA film of Atlantis taking off is simply one of the best videos in our library. Shot in impeccable 1080i full HD quality, it shows details I'd never seen before from the liftoff. Even though from a technical viewpoint it's just as easy to include videos in articles as it is to embed pictures, in my opinion there is still not nearly enough video footage on Wikipedia; in particular, videos are often overlooked in the featuring process. The newly featured video gives me hope that this might improve in the future, confirms NASA's status as one of the foremost contributors of public domain material, and is a jewel in our slowly but steadily growing collection of commercial-quality encyclopedic footage." (top)

One featured picture was delisted:

=Administrators=

There were no promotions to adminship.

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