Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-10-12/Features and admins

Administrators
No editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week.

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

Seventeen lists were promoted to featured status this week:, , , , , , , , , ,. ,, , , and.

Three topics were promoted to featured status this week:,  and. Also, was promoted last week and your writer missed it. Apologies.

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article this week: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Catherine de' Medici, Plymouth Colony, Ununoctium, Janet Jackson, The Time Traveler's Wife and Water fluoridation.

Former featured pages
Two articles were delisted this week: and

No lists were delisted this week.

No topics were delisted this week.

Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Eastern Grey Kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), 1818 technical illustration of hot air balloon technology, NGC 1672, Two black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens) in the act of mating, A 1901 etching of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, James Gillray's 1807 caricature of the breakup of the Ministry of All the Talents and The California Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus beecheyi).

Four featured sounds were promoted this week:

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Ten pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.