Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-12-26/Features and admins

Administrators
Seven users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Salix alba (nom), PrimeHunter (nom), Jj137 (nom), Masem (nom), Tony Fox (nom), Mattinbgn (nom), and Versageek (nom).

Bots
Six bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: MelonBot (task request), PaievBot (task request), MelonBot (task request), SoxBot II (task request), BJBot (task request), and Maelgwnbot (task request).

Featured pages
Fourteen articles were promoted to featured status last week:, , , , , , , , , , , , , and.

Seven lists were promoted to featured status last week:, , , , , , and

Three portals were promoted last week:, , and. No topics were promoted last week.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Heian Palace, Tropical Storm Allison, Dorset, Bupropion, Aggie Bonfire, German occupation of Luxembourg in World War I and Nancy Reagan.

Former featured pages
Three articles and one list were delisted last week:


 * — Promoted in August 2004 and kept in February 2006, the article was delisted this week; its nominator, Haukur, noted that "Greenland is an actual country inhabited by an actual nation, an Inuit one. This article should be largely devoted to telling the story of that nation. It almost completely fails to do so - instead putting all its emphasis on European-descended people." No concerns were addressed during the course of the nomination.


 * — Promoted in March 2006, the article was delisted due to a lack of professional prose, and substandard sourcing.


 * — Promoted in November 2006, the review noted issues with comprehensiveness and referencing. Itub argued that the article was as comprehensive as any article on the topic could be, but without any efforts to fix issues found with the article, it was delisted.


 * — Promoted in January 2007, the review noted formatting inconsistencies, information better suited to other articles, lack of summaries, and poor layout; with little-to-no input on the review, and no improvement of the list, it was removed.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Portland, Oregon; Mulberry Street (Manhattan); Motorcycling; John Wilkes Booth; Frederick III, German Emperor; Ivan Shishkin; and Neue Wache.

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