Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-02/Features and admins

Administrators
Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: E (nom), Nick Dowling (nom), AliveFreeHappy (nom), Jon513 (nom), and Mitchazenia (nom).

Bots
Three bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: Darkicebot (task request), MastersBot (task request), and Eubot (task request).

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

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

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

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Flight feather, Ladakh, Religious debates over Harry Potter, William Bruce (architect), Love. Angel. Music. Baby., Ganesha, and 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl.

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


 * — Promoted in April 2004, the article was delisted due to insufficient references and a substandard lead section. Although some work was put into improving the article, after two months it was still not of featured standard and was delisted.


 * — Promoted in March 2005, the review noted issues with referencing. Without any efforts to fix issues found with the article, it was delisted.


 * — the review noted a lack of references; with 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: Santa Claus; Yellow-bellied Marmot; Piccadilly Circus; Lioness; Roesel's bush-cricket; Elizabeth II; 28 August 2007 lunar eclipse and Flammarion woodcut.

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