Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-08-19/Featured content

This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 2 to 8 August.

Featured articles
featured articles were promoted this week.
 * Annunciation (Memling) (nominated by Victoriaearle and Ceoil) Victoria's and Ceoil's new featured art piece. Painted in 1489 by the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling, this artwork depicts the Virgin Mary in a domestic bedchamber receiving the richly dressed Archangel Gabriel and two attendant angels. It is the Annunciation, the moment in time when the Virgin receives the news that she will bear the Son of God. The 15th-century viewers would have understood the hidden language of the objects and the lighting: the white lilies in the painting symbolize the purity of the Virgin, as does the light shining on the sideboard and passing through the glass of the water flask, the candle-holder, the dove above her head in a halo is the symbol of the Holy Spirit, while the irises are symbols of suffering. The light was associated with Mary and the incarnation, and it has a special significance in the painting, symbolizing the divine light.
 * Chetro Ketl (nominated by Rationalobserver) Chetro Ketl is a structure of a type known as a great house, which was built by the Ancestral Puebloans staring in 990 CE and nearing completion circa 1075 CE. It's situated in Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwest New Mexico, USA.
 * History of Liverpool F.C. (1892–1959) (nominated by NapHit) Liverpool Football Club were founded when local brewer John Houlding found himself the owner of a football ground without a football team. The ground at Anfield had been rented to Everton Football Club; Houlding put pressure on the club to buy the ground, which would have given him a substantial profit. They decamped, and Houghton decided to form a new club, also called Everton. The Football League forced him to adopt another name, thus depriving generations of footy fans of the chance of seeing Everton playing with themselves. He chose "Liverpool", and dispatched his manager John McKenna on a recruiting trip in Scotland. The entirely Scottish team played their first match on 1 September 1892, a friendly against Rotherham Town which Liverpool won 7–1. By the 1950s the club had gone into a slow decline. In 1959 (the endpoint of this article) Bill Shankly was appointed manager. He stayed in the job until his retirement in 1974.
 * Mascarene grey parakeet (nominated by FunkMonk) The Mascarene grey parakeet was endemic to Mauritius and Réunion, but has been extinct since the 1760s. The parakeets were hunted for food although they were regarded as lean and tough meat. When caught a bird would cry out- the cry attracted hundreds of parakeets who would wheel around the trapped individual. Hunters would then bat the parakeets out of the sky with sticks. Being a forest dweller, the deforestation of the islands by slash-and-burn contributed to their decline.
 * Ursa Minor (nominated by Casliber) Ursa Minor or the Little Bear is a star constellation in the northern sky. The brightest star in the constellation is Polaris, otherwise known as the North Star, whose apparent position is close to the north celestial pole. Mariners have used this star for navigation since time immemorial. There is also a constellation called Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear.

Featured lists
featured lists were promoted this week.
 * Azealia Banks discography (nominated by Azealia911) Azealia Banks is an American rapper who has released one album, Broke with Expensive Taste and a number of singles and music videos. Banks describes herself as the "  cunt  queen", which she attributes to her upbringing- "I'm from Harlem. I went to art school; I grew up with the  cunt  s...To be  cunt  y is to be feminine."
 * Billboard Latin Music Award for Reggaeton Album of the Year (nominated by DivaKnockouts) Reggaeton is a musical genre developed from Spanish-language reggae. The music has characteristic rhythms derived from the Jamaican hit Dem Bow by Shabba Ranks, produced by Bobby Digital, who promoted the use of digital drum machines. Reggaeton artists tend to rap their lyrics in a hip-hop style.
 * Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album (nominated by Jaespinoza) The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has presented this award since 1984 with various name changes. The latest awardee is Panamanian artist Rubén Blades, who also won in 2000 – the only person to have won twice.
 * List of Derbyshire County Cricket Club grounds (nominated by ChrisTheDude and AssociateAffiliate) Derbyshire County Cricket Club was established in 1870 and has played first-class cricket at the County Ground in Derby since August 1871. It has remained the main ground, but the club has played first-class, List A and Twenty20 matches at twenty other grounds including Park Road, Buxton, where a game in June 1975 was halted due to snow.
 * List of amphibians of Bulgaria (nominated by Gligan) Bulgaria is a hospitable home to twenty species of amphibians; newts, frogs and toads. The Macedonian crested newt is the latest species to join the menagerie – it was raised to species rank after molecular phylogenetic research in 2007 revealed that it wasn't a subspecies of some other newt.
 * List of awards and nominations received by Satyajit Ray (nominated by Vivvt) Satyajit Ray was a world-renowned film director and composer of film scores who received awards and recognition for his 36 films made over a career spanning from 1950 to 1992. Ray was prominent in Bengali cinema although he also made films in Hindi; his awards were for directing, screenplay writing, composing and writing lyrics. He was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1992 for his "rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook".
 * List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Graeme Swann (nominated by Sahara4u and Harrias) Graeme Swann is a former English cricketer, employed as a right-arm off spinner. The off spinner typically uses accuracy and variation in pace to dismiss the batsman. Swann has taken five or more wickets in a single innings during eighteen international games making him joint twenty-seventh in the list of haulers.
 * List of York City F.C. players (fewer than 25 appearances) (nominated by Mattythewhite) This is a list of those football players who have played for the first team of York City F.C. (including as substitutes) for between one and twenty-four times. Of the more than 500 players, some were on loan from other clubs, and others played for the club for a short period before transferring.