Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-02-18/Featured content

This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted to featured status from 1 February through 7 February.Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.

Featured articles
Five featured articles were promoted this week.
 * James B. Weaver (nominated by Coemgenus) James Baird Weaver was a member of the United States House of Representatives and two-time candidate for President of the United States. After several unsuccessful attempts at Republican nominations to various offices, and growing dissatisfied with the conservative wing of the party, in 1877 Weaver switched to the Greenback Party, which supported increasing the money supply and regulating big business. As the Greenback Party fell apart, a new left-wing third party, the Populists, arose. Weaver helped to organize the party and was their nominee for President in 1892.  Many party insiders, however, were wary of Weaver's association with the Prohibition movement and preferred to remain uncommitted on the divisive issue.
 * I Never Liked You (nominated by Curly Turkey) I Never Liked You is an autobiographical graphic novel by Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, originally serialized as Fuck in the pages of his comic book Yummy Fur.  Brown was at the forefront of the 90s wave of autobiographical comics.  Since cartoonists usually spent most of their days at the drawing table trying to eke out a living, here autobiography didn't mean high adventure, it meant the minutiae of human existence.  These cartoonists put their own lives under the microscope, unflinchingly portraying their weird emotional states, sexual fantasies, and masturbatory habits. In I Never Liked You, Brown tells the story of his introverted teenage years in a Montreal suburb.  He is painfully unable to express emotion, especially to women, including his dying mother and the girl next door he is interested in.  The powerful story and minimalist style drew critical adulation and awards, so if you are in the mood to revisit your awkward adolescence, this is the book for you.
 * Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck) (nominated by Ceoil and Victoriaearle) A new featured article  from our exellent featured art article editor team  Victoria and Ceoil (is this number 45 or?)  Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata is the name given to two unsigned paintings completed around 1428–32 that art historians usually attribute to the great Flemish artist Jan van Eyck. The panels are nearly identical, apart from a difference in size.  Both are small paintings: the larger measures 29.3 cm x 33.4 cm and is in the Sabauda Gallery in Turin, Italy; the smaller panel is 12.7 cm x 14.6 cm and in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The paintings show Saint Francis of Assisi, who is shown kneeling by a rock, in prayer as he receives the stigmata of the crucified Christ on the palms of his hands and soles of his feet.
 * The Thrill Book (nominated by Mike Christie) The Thrill Book was a short-lived US pulp magazine published by Street & Smith in 1919. It was intended to carry "different" stories: this meant stories that were unusual or unclassifiable, which in practice often meant that the stories were fantasy or science fiction. Although The Thrill Book has been described as the first American pulp to specialize in fantasy and science fiction, this description is not supported by recent historians of the field, who regard it instead as a stepping stone on the path that ultimately led to Weird Tales and Amazing Stories, the first true specialized magazines in the fields of weird fiction and science fiction respectively. Street & Smith cancelled the magazine after the sixteenth issue, dated October 15. A printers' strike has often been suggested as the reason.
 * William of Wrotham (nominated by Ealdgyth) William of Wrotham was a larger than life figure from the dramatic days of the English middle ages.  When Robin Hood roamed Sherwood Forest, William was having action-packed adventures as... Archdeacon of Taunton and "keeper of ports".  Like the Sheriff of Nottingham, William was a minion of King John, usually depicted as so villainous that the Magna Carta had to be forced upon him by his own rebellious barons.  One of those rebels was William, who until that point had ably served John in a number of ecclesiastical and naval posts.  After a brief time in exile, William was back in the good graces of John and his son and successor Henry III.  Chronicler Roger of Wendover dubbed him one of John's "most wicked counsellors", but later historians called him a distinguished administrator.

Featured lists
Six featured lists were promoted this week.
 * Preity Zinta filmography (nominated by FrB.TG)  Preity Zinta is an Indian actress known for her work in Bollywood films. She made her debut in 1998 with a supporting role in the drama Dil Se.. and starred in the commercially successful thriller Soldier. In 2001, Zinta featured in the dramedy Dil Chahta Hai, which is cited in the media as a defining film of Hindi cinema. She starred in two blockbusters—the science fiction film Koi... Mil Gaya and the drama Kal Ho Naa Ho.
 * 67th Academy Awards (nominated by Birdienest81) Held in March 1995, sentimental favorite Forrest Gump won Best Picture over four better 1994 films and took away 6 wins out of 13 nominations. To this day, some insist it should have been Pulp Fiction's year, and while the film catapulted Quentin Tarantino to stardom, out of 6 nominations it only went home with Best Original Screenplay.  Gump earned Tom Hanks his second consecutive Best Actor, making him and Spencer Tracy the only winners to do so in this category.  Jessica Lange got her second Oscar and first Best Actress award, while Best Supporting Actress Dianne Wiest became the first person to win two acting Oscars for performances in films directed by the same person, Woody Allen.  Best Supporting Actor winner Martin Landau was doing some of the best work of his career in his 60s and capped that with a tour de force as film star Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's Ed Wood, a film inexplicably overlooked for a Best Picture nomination.  At the ceremony, when the orchestra tried to play him offstage he pounded his fist on the podium and shouted "No!", angry because he was unable to thank Lugosi.  Whovians take note, future Doctor Peter Capaldi shared the Best Live Action Short award for writing and directing Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life, only the fifth tie for an award in Oscar history.
 * List of municipalities in Yukon :  (Nominators Mattximus and Hwy43)  Yukon is the second-most populous of Canada's three territories, with 33,897 residents as of 2011. Over two-thirds of the population of Yukon (23,276 residents; 68.7%) reside in Whitehorse, the largest municipality in the territory. It is also the largest municipality by land area at 416.54 km2.
 * Vidya Balan filmography  (nominated by Krimuk90)  Vidya Balan is an Indian actress known for her work in Bollywood films. She made her acting debut in 1995 with the sitcom Hum Paanch. Vidya had five film releases in 2007 and played a variety of roles in them, including a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis in Mani Ratnam's semi-biographical drama Guru. From 2009 to 2012, Vidya starred in five consecutive films that garnered her widespread praise.  She is the recipient of several awards, including a National Film Award, five Filmfare Awards, and five Screen Awards, and was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2014.
 * List of World Series Cricket international centuries  (nominated by Harrias)  World Series Cricket (WSC) was a professional cricket competition established by Kerry Packer which ran from 1977 and 1979. Packer set the competition up after failing to gain the rights to show Test cricket on his Channel Nine television channel. It was opposed by the International Cricket Conference (ICC).
 * Julia Roberts filmography  (nominated by Cowlibob)  Julia Roberts is an American actress and producer who made her debut in the 1987 direct-to-video feature Firehouse. Roberts made her breakthrough the following year by starring in the coming-of-age film Mystic Pizza (1988). Roberts' next role was opposite Richard Gere in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990). The film is estimated to have sold over 42 million tickets in North America—the most for a romantic comedy in the United States as of 2014. For her performance, Roberts won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress (Musical or Comedy). Two years later, Roberts starred in the legal thriller The Pelican Brief, an adaptation of the John Grisham novel of the same name. She also starred in the Ocean's Eleven series and the title role in Erin Brokovich, which earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress.