Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-09-03/Featured content

This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 25 to 31 August 2014. Anything in quotation marks is taken from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.

Featured articles
Two featured articles were promoted this week.
 * Sind sparrow (nominated by Innotata) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found around the Indus valley region in South Asia. While the birds are "somewhat obscure", according to the nominator, the IUCN Red List classifies it as a species of "least concern".
 * Alsos Mission (nominated by Hawkeye7) Part of the Manhattan Project, the effort during World War II by the Allies, principally Britain and the United States, to create an atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project was also charged with coordinating foreign intelligence related to enemy nuclear activity, and the Alsos Mission was an effort to find out what the German research programs had discovered, and prevent the research from getting to the Russians.

Featured lists
One featured list was promoted this week.
 * The Smiths discography (nominated by SchroCat) The four studio albums, one EP, one live album, ten compilation albums, twenty singles, one video album and fourteen music videos on the Rough Trade, Sire and WEA record labels by The Smiths.

Featured pictures
Ten featured pictures were promoted this week.
 * Twenty-dollar, fifty-dollar, one-hundred-dollar, five-hundred-dollar, five-thousand-dollar, and ten-thousand-dollar gold certificates from the 1882 series (created and nominated by  Godot13) The 1882 series of U.S. Gold Certificates was nominated as a set. These bills, used to show ownership of gold instead of storing the actual gold, are the latest outcomes of Godot13's work with the Smithsonian Institution on the documentation of currency.
 * John Hay (created by C.M. Gilbert, restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden) John Hay, private secretary to President Abraham Lincoln, and Secretary of State under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Readers may recognise this image: Adam Cuerden restored it in celebration of the article on John Hay reaching featured article status, as reported in the 13 August issue of the Signpost.
 * John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (created by Bain News Service, restored and nominated by Adam Cuerden) British Admiral John Jellicoe (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935). He is wearing the uniform of the Admiral of the Fleet, which rank he achieved in 1919. This image forms part of the Military History Wikiproject's attempt to celebrate the ongoing centenary of World War I.
 * U.S. Colonial note printed by Benjamin Franklin (created by Benjamin Franklin and David Hall, nominated by Godot13) Three pence Colonial currency from the Province of Pennsylvania, as printed by Benjamin Franklin. The rough borders are typical for currency from this era; horrifyingly, many dealers will take scissors to these ancient currencies to neaten them up and make them fit modern æsthetics. Learning this resulted in quite a bit of cringing.
 * New Court of Corpus Christi College (created by David Iliff, nominated by Armbrust) David Iliff, a.k.a. Diliff, continues his photography of Britain's cathedrals and universities with the New Court of Corpus Christi College, part of Cambridge University.