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{{Wikipedia:Signpost/Template:Signpost-article-start|{{{1|A week for marine creatures}}}|By Tony1 and Dabomb87|18 October 2010}}

File:Phyllorhiza punctata (White-spotted jellyfish) edit.jpg. It averages 45–50 cm in bell diameter, but grows to larger sizes in the Gulf of Mexico, where it has become an invasive species that is a potential threat to shrimp and fish populations. Read the judge's reasons and Nick's comments below.]]

=New administrator=

The Signpost welcomes Looie496 (nom) as our

newest admin. Looie496 is a neuroscientist who specialises in learning and memory, with a focus on the hippocampus; many of his publications have involved theta rhythm. He has been contributing since April 2008, and since then has co-maintained WikiProject Neuroscience. More recently, Looie496 has been involved in an effort sponsored by the American Society for Neuroscience to encourage more scientists to contribute to Wikipedia. He is interested in dispute resolution, and has participated at ANI, WQA, and various other noticeboards, with an eye to contributing to AIV, UAA, and RPP.

=Featured articles=

image:Hydnellum peckii 62842.jpg. The "teeth" covering the cap's underside are specialised spore-producing structures.]]Four articles were promoted to featured status. These articles will be considered next week by the judge for Choice of the week.

  • {{foa|Typhoon Sudal}} (2004), the strongest storm to hit the Pacific island of Yap in half a century, causing major damage to property but no loss of life (nominated by {{u|Hurricanehink}})
  • {{foa|Bring Us Together}}, one of Richard Nixon's political slogans, and another article in the ongoing series prepared by {{u|Wehwalt}} on this American politician.
  • Hydnellum peckii (nom), the "bleeding tooth fungus", aka "strawberries and cream": it looks like candy, but doesn't taste like it, says nominator {{u|Sasata}}. (picture at right)
  • {{foa|Sid Barnes with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948}}, an individualistic and colourful sportsman, known for his habit of fielding at point blank range to intimidate opposition batsmen. He once spent three weeks in hospital after taking a hit in the chest by a ball ({{u|YellowMonkey}}).

Four featured articles were delisted:

=Featured lists=

File:Philip Bliss.jpg, Keeper of the Archives at Oxford University from 1826 to 1857, from the eponymous FL Choice of the week]]Five lists were promoted:

  • {{fol|List of Afghanistan ODI cricketers}}. Twenty-two players have represented the Afghanistan national cricket team in One Day Internationals (ODIs) (nominated by {{u|Harrias}})
  • {{fol|List of World Heritage Sites in Spain}}. These sites are selected for their cultural and/or natural significance. One natural site, the Pyrénées – Mont Perdu site, contains the Pyrenees mountain chain and is shared with France ({{u|Grsz11}}).
  • {{fol|1993 College Baseball All-America Team}}, which includes three Major League Baseball All-Stars, one Major League Baseball record holder and three World Series champions ({{u|TonyTheTiger}}).
  • {{fol|List of Chicago White Sox Opening Day starting pitchers}} Mark Buehrle holds the record for making the most Opening Day starts for the White Sox, with eight ({{u|Rlendog}} and {{u|Wizardman}}).
  • {{fol|Celine Dion albums discography}}, consisting of twenty-three studio albums, six live albums, and seventeen compilation albums. Dion is the best-selling Canadian artist in history ({{u|Max24}}).

Choice of the week. We asked FL nominator {{u|PresN}} for his/her choice of the best. The choice is from both last week plus the three new FLs from the week before:

:"Out of the five lists from this week and the three from the previous week, I'm going to go with Keeper of the Archives from last week. I found it interesting and informative on a subject that was a bit further outside the mainstream than most Featured Lists. I would have suspected any article about a subject going back to the 1600s to be scanty on sources and information, but found quite the opposite with this article. I probably shouldn't have been surprised that Oxford kept good records on their record-keeping position!"

One featured list was delisted:

=Featured pictures=

File:Fridtjof Nansen LOC 03377u-3.jpg, Norwegian renaissance man and Nobel laureate]]File:Squid komodo.jpg squid]]Ten images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom".

Choice of the week. DerHexer is a regular reviewer and nominator at Common’s featured picture candidates. He told The Signpost:

{{cquote|This was not an easy decision, because there were very interesting subjects to choose from. In particular, three more of Alchemist-hp's fine pictures of chemical elements were promoted: Nickel and Zinc. But all in all, I preferred what is a beautiful underwater shot of a white-spotted jellyfish (phyllorhiza punctata). Although not entirely sharp, the photo still shows many details and amazing colours of a world not often visited by humans. That photo may have convinced me to join that hidden world and possibly even to take pictures there for Wikimedia projects!}}

=Featured portal=

File:Casa Milà - Barcelona, Spain - Jan 2007.jpg's photograph of Casa Milà in Barcelona, Spain, by the great modernist architect Antoni Gaudí—from the newly featured List of World Heritage Sites in Spain]]

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