Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-04-11/Features and admins



This week's "Features and admins" covers Sunday 3 – Saturday 9 April

Administrators
No editors were granted administrator status this week.

At the time of publication there was one live RfA: Bahamut0013, due to finish Wednesday.

Featured articles
A total of 13 articles were promoted to featured status:
 * SMS Markgraf (nom), a König-class battleship of the German Imperial Navy which served during World War I. (Nominated by )
 * , a 75 mi road in the U.S. states of Maryland and Delaware.
 * , an effort that has received significant recent publicity after online videos of the species gained popularity.
 * , a former gossip columnist who became the British Labour Party chairman.
 * , a continuous truss bridge in the U.S. state of New York. It was sold for one dollar to a man who unsuccessfully attempted to operate it as a bungee jumping platform.
 * Maya (M.I.A. album) (nom), an electronica album incorporating elements of industrial music, by British-Tamil artist M.I.A. who prefers to spell its title as "/\/\ /\ Y /\", allegedly to avoid its detection in Internet search engines.
 * , a relatively inactive season.
 * , a former train station in upstate New York that was later converted into an Italian restaurant.
 * with a lifespan in captivity of up to 170 years, it is one of the longest-lived vertebrates. (,, , and )
 * concerning the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works traditionally attributed to him, considered a fringe belief by most scholars and historians. Until recently the subject of an arbitration case (Signpost coverage), the article includes mention of itself, citing a reliable source's judgement that Wikipedia's coverage of the authorship controversy "puts to shame anything that ever appeared in standard resources". A blog dedicated to alternative theories protested against the FA promotion, claiming it was "effectively closing the page to any further edits for a year" and represented "inaccurate and unjustified bias against all discussion of the Shakepseare [sic] authorship question". (,, and )
 * Fantastic Adventures (nom), an American pulp science fiction magazine published from 1939 to 1953.
 * , the longest-reigning female monarch in history. She ruled during a period of monumental change in the United Kingdom and British Empire.
 * Akodon spegazzinii (nom), a species of rodent found in northwestern Argentina.

Two featured articles were delisted:
 * Emu (nom: referencing, prose)
 * Devil May Cry 2 (nom: referencing, prose, comprehensiveness and images)

Featured lists
Three lists were promoted:
 * (Nominated by .)
 * (Nominated by .)
 * (Nominated by .)

Four featured lists were delisted:
 * List of current champions in World Wrestling Entertainment (nom: considered to be a content fork)
 * List of Kansas City Chiefs starting quarterbacks (nom: outdated information, referencing, comprehensiveness)
 * Extreme points of Sweden (nom: considered to be an unnecessary content fork)
 * List of YuYu Hakusho episodes (season 4) (nom: comprehensiveness, referencing)

Featured pictures
Eight images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":
 * The Seeker windmill (nom; related article), De Zoeker windmill, in Zaanse Schans, North Holland, Netherlands. This mill was used to produce oil. (Created by User:Murdockcrc.)
 * Webcam X-ray (nom; related article), a set of industrial CT transmission/projection images of a Logitech C500 webcam. (Created by SecretDisc.)
 * Plumbeous Water Redstart (nom; related article), a species of bird found in southern and eastern Asia. It prefers fast-moving streams with boulders. (Created by User:JJ Harrison.)
 * Seagate ST33232A hard disk inner view (nom; related article), the "guts" of a 3.5-inch hard drive. (Created by Sting.)
 * Branchiopoda (nom; related article), the ventral and dorsal view of an adult specimen of a class of crustaceans. (Created by User:Micha L. Rieser.)
 * Alice Manfield (Guide Alice) (nom; related article), an Australian mountain guide, naturalist, photographer, and chalet owner. (Creator unknown.)
 * Black-winged Stilt (nom; related article), a long-legged wading bird. (Created by User:JJ Harrison.)
 * Svyato Mikhailovsky Cathedral (nom; related article), encircled by several massive chapels with gilded bulbous domes and slender tent-like belfries. (Created by User:Richard Bartz.)

Featured sounds
Three sound files were promoted:
 * Overture on Hebrew Themes (nom; related article); Written on commission for the Jewish ensemble Simro, it uses the unusual combination of clarinet, string quartet, and piano. Performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra in 2009.
 * Fireside Chat 1 On the Banking Crisis (nom; related article), one of U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt's famous evening radio speeches during the Great Depression. He reassured worried American citizens and appealed to them to support his agenda.
 * Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech (nom; related article), another speech by Roosevelt, this time addressed to the newly seated 77th United States Congress as his State of the Union address. It expressed fundamental universal rights that went beyond those expressed in the United States Constitution.



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