Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-06-20/Featured content



This week's "Featured content" covers Sunday 12 – Saturday 18 June

Featured articles
Six articles were promoted to featured status:
 * (killed in 653 or 654), was the King of East Anglia from the early 640s until his death. (Nominated by )
 * . Nominator says in irony, "while the great [US National Football League] quarterbacks remain in article purgatory, I bring a backup to FAC (I promise to bring a more important athlete here next time)".
 * , a governor of Kentucky, whose reputation as an orator put him in high demand, and whose zealous criticism of the Know Nothing Party attracted death-threats.
 * , a British fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for a number of important finds she made of the Jurassic age, including marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis, where she lived. Her work contributed to the fundamental changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the earth that occurred in the early 19th century, at a time when women were not even allowed to attend meetings of the Royal Geographical Society as guests.
 * , an American physicist, mathematician, and university administrator.
 * Rhabdomyolysis (nom), an interesting medical condition that arises from numerous different situations, from drug abuse to being trapped under a collapsed building. It has been a personal project of JFW's since 2007.

Monty Hall problem (nom) was delisted for reasons of prose, referencing, stability, POV and MOS compliance.

Featured lists
Six lists were promoted:
 * . (Nominated by .)
 * . ( and .)
 * . ( and .)
 * . ( and .)

Featured pictures
Two images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":
 * STS-134 International Space Station after undocking (nom; International Space Station), photograph by an STS-134 crew member on the space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation (created by NASA).
 * Bison skull pile (nom; related article), a photograph from the mid-1870s of a pile of American bison skulls waiting to be ground for fertiliser, restored by User:PawełMM, and modified by User:Chick Bowen after reviewers debated the visual resolution—the issue that had led to the delisting of the image (photographer unknown).

Featured portal

 * Portal:New South Wales was delisted because of page layout issues and lack of maintenance.

