Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-03-07/Features and admins



This week's "Features and admins" covers Saturday 26 February – Friday 4 March

New administrators
The Signpost welcomes three editors as our newest admins.
 * Boing! said Zebedee (nom), from the UK, is a freelance writer and online forum moderator, who has mainly done gnoming and anti-vandalism work. He is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors, the Wikification Drive, and the Wikipedia Typo Team.
 * Kudpung (nom), from Malvern, UK, has been a significant contributor to five GAs, has founded WikiProject Worcestershire, and played a part in establishing and implementing the WP:BLPPROD process. He currently coordinates WikiProject School, and loiters at WP:EAR to offer assistance to newbies. He has credentials in business studies, linguistics, pedagogics, and media, and "wrote some awful plays and an even worse rock opera", he says.
 * Neelix (nom), from Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada is a veteran editor who has made significant contributions to the backlog at Requested moves, apart from creating more than 4,000 articles and uploading more than 800 images. He says he's a split infinitive, singular they, and serial comma kind of guy.

At the time of publication there are two live RfAs: Gfoley4 and Slon02 3, both due to finish Saturday 12 March.

Featured sounds
Four featured sounds were promoted.

Featured lists
Four lists were promoted:
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Featured articles
Seven articles were promoted to featured status:
 * , 19th-century governor of Kentucky, physician, philanthropist, reformer and accused bioterrorist. (Nominated by )
 * (1911–86), an American pulp fiction author turned religious leader who founded the Church of Scientology.
 * (1864–1921), an English amateur cricketer who played for Somerset, captaining the county from 1889 to 1893, as well as Oxford University and the Marylebone Cricket Club.
 * , played on 5 October 2010 at Qwest Field in Seattle. The match determined the winner of the 2010 Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation.
 * , the most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer's disease.
 * , an American-produced 2008 3D concert film featuring rock band U2 performing during the Vertigo Tour in 2006.
 * Myotis alcathoe (nom), You'd think that after centuries of systematic research, we would at least know all the mammal species in Europe. Wrong; new species are discovered every few years. The bat species described in this article was first named in 2001, and only now are we gaining an understanding of its ecology and distribution.

Featured pictures
Seven images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":
 * Haitian Presidential Palace destroyed by Earthquake (nom; related article), after last year's tragic event. The palace's collapsed cupola has become a symbol of the devastation caused by the quake. The Haitian government plans to demolish and reconstruct the palace; so far only the rotunda has been demolished. Reviewer Nergaal said "it is an impressive picture and I am amazed we have a free picture of it". (Created by Logan Abassi; picture at top)
 * Grey-tailed Tattler (nom; related article), photographed in Tasmania. This close relative of a North American species shows the characteristic unpatterned, greyish wings and back, and a scaly breast pattern extending onto the belly in breeding plumage. (Created by User:JJ Harrison.)
 * Black Rhinoceros skull (nom; related article), a historic specimen (with the whole skeleton) was collected in southern Africa for the Gallery of Paleontology and Compared Anatomy, National Museum of Natural History, Paris, by Pierre Antoine Delalande during his travels between 1818 and 1820. (Created by User Jebulon at Commons; picture below.)
 * Map of the Painted Turtle distribution (nom; related article), a map showing the native range of the Painted Turtle, in North America. The map was praised by reviewers for its quality and encyclopedic value (Created by User:Fallschirmjäger.)
 * The mushroom Cortinarius vanduzerensis (nom; related article), a North American mushroom species that clearly shows one of its main characteristics, the extremely slimy cap. (Created by John Kirkpatrick (natashadak) at Mushroom Observer.)
 * Nazca Booby (nom; related article), a bird found on the Galapagos Islands and known for practising obligate siblicide; The Signpost was disappointed to learn that this is not an unusual sexual position. (Created by User:Benjamint444.)
 * Common Imperial Blue Butterfly (nom; related article), a small-sized species found in eastern Australia. (Created by User:Benjamint444.)



Information about new admins at the top is drawn from their user pages and RfA texts, and occasionally from what they tell us directly.