Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-07-27/Features and admins

Administrators
One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Tedder (nom).

Featured pages
Twelve articles were promoted to featured status this week:, , , , , , , , , , and.

Two lists were promoted to featured status this week: and.

No topics were promoted to featured status this week.

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Hurricane Ioke, Alien vs. Predator, Benjamin Harrison, Symphonic poems, 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga, Beth Hamedrash Hagadol and Hippocampus.

Former featured pages
One article was delisted this week: Lord's Resistance Army insurgency (nom).

Five lists were delisted this week:, , , and.

No topics were delisted this week.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Arcus cloud, Bergen, Haile Selassie I, Venus, Operation Crossroads, Monarch butterfly and New River Gorge Bridge.

One featured sound was promoted this week:

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Twenty-five pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.