Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-05-08/Featured content

This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 1 to 15 April.

If you plan to write featured article summaries in poetry (maybe that's just me) it's really convenient to have some of them be on songs. All you have to do is take the opening bit of the song, rewrite it to be about itself, and there you go: Self-referential music. And you only have to keep the rhyme scheme as good as the original, which means I can let myself get away with slant rhymes for once, which I feel guilty about using otherwise.

On a personal note, this issue marks my first featured picture of the year (see above), after a very rough first three months. This being me, there's three others by me this issue, and it's looking good for that or more next issue. Have to catch up somehow, eh?

—Adam Cuerden

Featured articles
Ten featured articles were promoted this period.
 * Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, nominated by MartinPoulter:
 * A journey to Mecca in artefacts arrayed
 * At the British Museum where they were displayed;


 * "I Don't Wanna Cry", nominated by Heartfox:
 * Once again we sit and listen
 * To Mariah Carey's song.
 * Latin torch song, sung so sweetly,
 * Baby, look what it's become.
 * It can make a million record sales
 * And earn her some change.
 * It's a Billboard hit, and Heartfox brought it
 * Up to featured article, hooray!
 * (Cue chorus)


 * Li Rui (politician), nominated by Ganesha811:
 * Li Rui was a member of the Communist party,
 * He defied Chairman Mao, and for following his heart, he
 * Was imprisoned and rejected, but restored when Mao died,
 * Then wouldn't help nepotism, so was once more denied.


 * The Next Day, nominated by zmbro:
 * Bowie hid his work
 * Then a sudden release
 * You never knew that
 * That he could do that
 * Just sudden release
 * Planning it for months he
 * Kept everyone quiet
 * He bided his time
 * To The Next Day
 * Just sudden release.
 * Just sudden release.


 * Ernest Roberts (Australian politician), nominated by Peacemaker67:
 * He fought in the Boer War, he wrote for newspapers,
 * And then he joined in on political capers.
 * For Adelaide, for Labor he won many an election
 * But he was struck down in his prime, which would cause them all dejection.


 * Portland Spy Ring, nominated by SchroCat:
 * The Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment:
 * A successful place for Soviet lavishment.
 * They paid out the money, the secrets they got
 * And five separate spies then would each get their cut.


 * Diodorus scytobrachion, nominated by FunkMonk:
 * A silesaurid dinosauromorph
 * Of which few bones have yet come forth.


 * "Made You Look" (Meghan Trainor song), nominated by MaranoFan (a.k.a. NØ):
 * Trainor wrote a doo-wop song
 * Tiktok danced it in a huge throng:
 * A dance challenge for all day long,
 * It's Made You Look.


 * Battle of the Trebia, nominated by Gog the Mild:
 * Hannibal and Romans again, so go put on your tunic
 * And get settled in for a war that is Punic!
 * We're coming in hot with a Roman defeat:
 * Surprise attacks from the rear really turn up the heat.


 * 1867 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, nominated by Wehwalt:
 * The Democrats supported a Republican, but that one, Cowan, didn't win.
 * The caucus of Republican legislators voted for Cameron (not Curtin).
 * ... It's hard in a short poem to cover 19th-century elections,
 * So go and read the article — or at least some key selections.

Featured pictures
Twelve featured pictures were promoted this period, including the images at the start and bottom of this article.

Featured lists
Seven featured lists were promoted this period.
 * List of Seattle Sounders FC seasons, nominated by SounderBruce:
 * SounderBruce writes on Seattle Sounders;
 * I wonder where he got his name?
 * Still, Bruce is one of those all-rounders,
 * This list his latest claim to fame.


 * Alia Bhatt filmography, nominated by Krimuk2.0:
 * No more just Bollywood star alone,
 * With her upcoming role in the film Heart of Stone.


 * GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary, nominated by PanagiotisZois:
 * GLAAD selects the best of film that has LGBT within,
 * But why's so many of this set lack articles on them?


 * List of Billboard Latin Pop Airplay number ones of 1999, nominated by Magicandude (a.k.a. Erick):
 * Yet another featured list we have to put within the hoard
 * Of yearly lists of music as reported by Billboard.


 * List of early-diverging flowering plant families, nominated by Dank:
 * The eudicots and monocots won't be found within this list.
 * But of flowering plants you'll find the rest of all those that now exist.


 * List of roles and awards of Angeline Quinto, nominated by Pseud 14:
 * A Filipina actor/singer, she won herself great fame,
 * With mostly Filipino things I don't know well enough to name.
 * She did Four Sisters and a Wedding and "Patuloy Ang Pangarap",
 * But I don't know the subject, so this poem is quite crap.


 * Timeline of the Warren G. Harding presidency, nominated by Thebiguglyalien:
 * After World War I, his presidency tried
 * To make things better. And then ... he died.