Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-08-08/Featured content





This week's "Featured content" covers Sunday 31 July – Saturday 6 August

Featured articles
Seven articles were promoted to featured status:
 * Messiah (Handel) (nom), among the most frequently performed and best-loved works in the whole choral-music literature. People who know hardly a note of classical music are still likely to recognise the opening notes of the "Hallelujah" chorus. (Nominated by Tim riley, Gerda Arendt, and Brianboulton)
 * , a coin struck by the United States Mint ("Mint") from 1948 to 1963. The fifty-cent piece pictures Founding Father Benjamin Franklin on the obverse, and the Liberty Bell—complete with its crack, a matter of some controversy at the time—on the reverse.
 * , the dramatic voyage of two Japanese battleships and their escorts from Singapore to Japan in February 1945. By this stage of World War II, the Allies were close to cutting off Japan's shipping routes, and the warships—loaded with supplies of raw materials—evaded attacks by 26 submarines and over 88 aircraft. Remarkably, they sustained no damage and all reached Japan.
 * , a primate species that, like all lemurs, is endemic to Madagascar. It lives in dense rainforest in southeastern Madagascar, off the south-east coast of Africa.
 * , a retired British Army officer and former defence adviser to the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron; he has served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and is the incumbent Constable of the Tower of London.
 * , an English association football player who played professionally as a forward for Reading and Cardiff City during the mid-1970s, and who was also known off the field for his heavy smoking, drinking, womanising, and drug-taking. He died in 1990, aged 38, after a heart attack.
 * Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (nom), a 1989 American science fiction film, and the penultimate to star the cast of the original Star Trek science fiction television series. The film was directed by cast member William Shatner.

One featured article was delisted: Belgium (nom: referencing and coverage)

Featured lists
Five lists were promoted:
 * List of works by Charles Holden (nom) (Nominated by .)
 * List of Front Mission media (nom) (.)
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One featured list was delisted:
 * List of Bleach manga volumes (nom: structural issues)

Featured pictures
Six images were promoted. Medium-sized images can be viewed by clicking on "nom":
 * Forggensee panorama photomontage (nom; related article), made by compositing 16 freely licensed images (created by User:Mmxx, a Wikigraphist at Wikipedia's Graphic Lab), where requests for image improvement are sometimes met).
 * Library of Congress Main Reading Room (nom; related article), created by Carol M. Highsmith, born 1946, a photographer and author who specialises in documenting architecture, ranging from the monumental to the everyday and the whimsical (from the Carol M. Highsmith Collection at the Library of Congress).
 * Mangrove Robin (nom; related article), found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical and tropical mangrove forests; it builds its nests in trees that overhang water (created by User:JJ Harrison).
 * Azure Kingfisher (nom; related article). Creator User:JJ Harrison said he took this image "in technically challenging conditions (1/20th, 700mm, ISO 1600 wide open!). ... I spent quite a long time in a hide to get it".
 * Male impalas (nom; related article), engaged in a fight during the breeding season, in the Mikumi National Park, Tanzania, East Africa (created by User:Muhammad Mahdi Karim).
 * Frecce Tricolori (nom; related article), the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Aeronautica Militare. Formed in 1961, they comprise nine aircraft and a solo, the largest number of aircraft of any aerobatic team in the world. (created by Łukasz Golowanow, Konflikty.pl).

