Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-11-18/Featured content



'This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted between 8 and 14 November. Text may be adapted from the respective articles and lists; see their page histories for attribution.'

Featured articles
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 * Ralph Vaughan Williams (nominated by Tim riley) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies. Vaughan Williams is among the best-known British symphonists, noted for his very wide range of moods. Among the most familiar of his works are Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, The Lark Ascending (1914), and Job: A Masque for Dancing.
 * Smooth toadfish (nominated by Casliber), also known as Tetractenos glaber, is a species of fish in the pufferfish family Tetraodontidae. It is native to shallow coastal and estuarine waters of southeastern Australia, where it is widespread and abundant. Up to 16 cm long with distinctive leopard-like dark markings on its upperparts, it has a rounded front and tapers to a narrow tail at the back. Often an unwanted catch by anglers, the smooth toadfish is highly poisonous because of the tetrodotoxin present in its body, and eating it may result in death.
 * Baryonyx (nominated by FunkMonk) is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in the Cretaceous Period, about 130–125 million years ago. The holotype specimen was discovered in 1983 in Surrey, England, and the animal was named Baryonyx walkeri in 1986. It was about 7.5 m long and weighed 1.2 MT, but the holotype specimen may not have been fully grown. Baryonyx lived near water bodies, in areas where other theropod, ornithopod, and sauropod dinosaurs have also been found.
 * Operation Copperhead (nominated by ErrantX) was a small military deception operation run by the British during the Second World War. It formed part of Operation Bodyguard, the cover plan for the invasion of Normandy in 1944, and was intended to mislead German intelligence as to the location of General Bernard Montgomery. The operation was conceived by Dudley Clarke in early 1944 after he watched the film Five Graves to Cairo.
 * Tank Girl (nominated by Freikorp) is a 1995 American science-fiction action-comedy film directed by Rachel Talalay. Based on the British post-apocalyptic comic series of the same name by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett that was originally published in Deadline magazine. The film is set in a drought-ravaged Australia, years after a catastrophic impact event. It follows the antihero Tank Girl as she, Jet Girl, and genetically modified supersoldiers, called the Rippers, fight "Water & Power".
 * Final Fantasy Type-0 (nominated by ProtoDrake) is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation Portable. Type-0 is part of the Fabula Nova Crystallis subseries, a set of games sharing a common mythos which includes Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XV. The story focuses on Class Zero, a group of fourteen students from the Vermillion Peristylium, a magical academy in the Dominion of Rubrum.

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