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This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 22 March through 28 March. Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; refer their page histories for attribution.

Featured articles
Four featured articles were promoted this week.


 * German–Yugoslav Partisan negotiations (nominated by Peacemaker67) During the redeployment of Josip Broz Tito's headquarters and partisans across the Nazi puppet state of Croatia in August 1942, a group of Germans from the Organisation Todt were captured. The leader of the group had been tasked by the German Abwehr with making contact with the partisans and a series of prisoner swaps were initiated. By March 1943, the partisans' military situation had deteriorated, and to forestall continuing German attacks they again entered into tentative negotiations regarding prisoner swaps and a possible truce. The Germans saw a possibility that the partisans may oppose a British landing, because this would have given support to the Royalist Chetniks. There was an exchange of "between 600 to 800 Partisans in total" by 1945. Tito stated in 1978 that the objective of the negotiations was "solely to obtain German recognition of belligerent status for the Partisans".
 * 1804 dollar (nominated by RHM22) The 1804 dollar is an odd bird. Despite the date, none with this date were minted until the 1830s, although silver dollars had actually been minted in 1804, but dated 1803. Large silver coins, such as the Maria Theresa thaler, were used worldwide as standard trade coins. The introduction of the US silver dollar in 1794 added another coin to the trade, and large numbers of dollars were exported by traders. From 1806, the production of silver dollars was officially halted (none had been struck since March 1804) in favour of the minting of smaller denominations; this meant that there was small change available to the US economy, but the exporting of coins stopped. The "1804" dollars were struck when Edmund Roberts, who headed a trade mission to the Far East, requested sets of coinage to be presented to kings and sultans as gifts. The date may have been chosen because the Chief Coiner thought that there had been coins minted with that date; he was anxious to avoid angering coin collectors!
 * Deinocheirus (nominated by FunkMonk and IJReid) Deinocheirus is a genus of ostrich dinosaur. They're called that as they have a superficial resemblance to the bird. Living about 70 million years ago, they were big- one specimen was about 11 m long and weighed 6.36 tonnes.
 * M-theory (nominated by Polytope24) M-theory is a unification of "all consistent versions of superstring theory." It's not yet been completely formulated, but it's reckoned that the theory "should describe two- and five-dimensional objects called branes and should be approximated by eleven-dimensional supergravity at low energies." M-theory was introduced by Edward Witten, whose "proposal was based on the observation that the five string theories can be mapped to one another by certain rules called dualities and are identified by these dualities."

Featured lists
Seven featured lists were promoted this week.
 * List of Navy Midshipmen head football coaches (nominated by A Texas Historian) The United States Naval Academy is represented in college football by the Navy Midshipmen football team. Since 1882, the team has had 36 head coaches. The present coach is Ken Niumatalolo.
 * List of Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order appointed by King Edward VII (nominated by Noswall59) Admission to the Royal Victorian Order is the personal gift of the "reigning monarch of the United Kingdom and several Commonwealth realms"; it recognises "distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign" (the monarch), their family and their viceroys. This list is of those men given the Knight Grand Cross of that order by King Edward VII.
 * List of York City F.C. players (25–99 appearances) (nominated by Mattythewhite) York City Football Club was formed in May 1922. Since then "more than 300 players had completed their York career after playing in at least 25 and fewer than 100 senior competitive matches." The list includes Charlie Lemons, Len Butt, Fred Laycock, Andy Leaning and Michael Gash.
 * World Fantasy Award for Best Artist (nominated by PresN) The World Fantasy Award for Best Artist is an annual award for the "artists of works related to fantasy released in the preceding calendar year." It's awarded at the World Fantasy Convention; the winners are decided by a selection process which starts with an attendee ballot to select two finalists, followed by a nomination of three more by a panel of fantasy authors, who then vote on the overall winner. The winner gets a caricature bust of H. P. Lovecraft.
 * List of scheduled monuments in Sedgemoor (nominated by Rodw) They do say that if you walk through the ankle-high mist on the levels you'll be dead within the fortnight. Never mind- you can spend the fortnight visiting these marvellous monuments. You'll have probably seen Brent Knoll, a flat-topped hill close to the M5 motorway.
 * 63rd Academy Awards (nominated by Birdienest81) The 63rd Academy Awards were held in March 1991. Dances with Wolves won Best Picture and six other awards. Unfortunately, the wolves could not make the show, as they had a previous engagement with ghosts, mobsters, and dopa.
 * List of cricketers who have carried the bat in international cricket (nominated by Vensatry) In the game of cricket, when an opening batsman remains not out at the end of the fortnight game, they are said to have "carried the bat". The expression refers back to a time when batsmen shared bats, and the outgoing batsman would leave their bat on the field to be used by the incoming player. An equivalent expression, "carrying the box", fell out of use after an outbreak of crabs.

Good articles
This is a new feature, including a list of all the good articles promoted during the week covered in this report (22-28 March 2015). Please tell us what you think! This week, thirty-seven good articles were promoted.