Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-02-25/Features and admins

Administrators
Six users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: OhanaUnited (nom), EdJohnston (nom), Scarian (nom), Icestorm815 (nom), Gb (nom), and Parsecboy (nom). Another user, ^demon (nom), was also re-promoted to administrator status (see related story).

Bots
Four bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: OverlordQBot (task request), EBot IV (task request), SoxBot III (task request) and HBC AIV helperbot 8 (task request)

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

Twelve lists were promoted to featured status last week:, , , , , , , , , , and.

No topics were featured last week.

Two portals were promoted to featured status last week: (the 100th featured portal on the English Wikipedia) and.

The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Bobby Robson, Battle of the Gebora, Tech Tower, Bengali Language Movement, Rachel Carson, East End of London and Ban Ki-moon.

Former featured pages
Four articles were delisted recently:
 * - Delisted after a discussion regarding the underuse of citations for references that were in need of sources.
 * - Delisted after a discussion regarding the underuse of inline citations for the article.
 * - Per several under-referenced sections and the need for a copy-edit to improve the prose of the article.
 * - The removal was reliant upon the recent featured article review of History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 (which was also delisted), due to the underuse of inline citations, therefore failing requirement 1c of the featured article criteria.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: David Suchet, Damselfly, Inelastic Collision, Mount Etna eruption and T206 Honus Wagner baseball card. One featured picture was demoted: Love or Duty

No sounds were featured last week.

Twenty-one pictures and one video were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.