Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-06-19/Featured content

This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from 16 to 31 May.

Not much to say this week. I rushed it a bit, but, y'know. One does what one can. From past experience, if a featured content item isn't published, it's just spiked; none of the content in it ever gets mentioned in the Signpost and the next issue just carries on with the next batch of content.

Probably best to avoid that.

- Adam

Featured articles
Sixteen featured articles were promoted this period.
 * Thomas A. Spragens, nominated by PCN02WPS:
 * Centre College in Kentucky
 * To get Spragens was quite lucky.


 * The Dance of the Twisted Bull, nominated by Premeditated Chaos:
 * Through the torso of one of his models
 * Alexander McQueen shoved spears.
 * It's just an optical illusion,
 * But not in your worst fears.


 * James Madison, nominated by ErnestKrause:
 * One of America's founding fathers,
 * His reviews would probably be raves
 * For writing The Federalist Papers 
 * If he didn't promote keeping slaves.


 * North East MRT line, nominated by ZKang123:
 * Want to go to north-east Singapore?
 * Well, that's exactly what this line's for!


 * USS Marmora (1862), nominated by Hog Farm:
 * A sternwheel steamer that got clad in tin,
 * The American Civil War is the one she fought in.


 * Irish nationality law, nominated by Horserice:
 * Want to be an Irish citizen? Unless there's a flaw,
 * This article will tell you what sayeth the law.


 * Wood River Branch Railroad, nominated by Trainsandotherthings:
 * A Rhode Island railway, the article's strong,
 * For a line that was only five point six miles long.


 * Cherry Valentine, nominated by Another Believer:
 * A drag queen raised as a Traveller, a fact he made clear
 * Though few knew about Travellers LGBT or queer.


 * "White Horse" (Taylor Swift song), nominated by Ippantekina:
 * Taylor Swift sings that fantasy stories
 * Teach morals that they shouldn't do.
 * She's no princess; her boyfriend's no knight
 * And she shouldn't have believed that's true.


 * Coccinellidae, nominated by LittleJerry:
 * Ladybird, ladybird fly away home,
 * Your house is on fire, your children will burn.


 * Pasqua Rosée, nominated by SchroCat:
 * He opened the first coffeeshop in London town
 * What else did he do? It's not written down.


 * Untitled Goose Game, nominated by MyCatIsAChonk:
 * In a quaint English village,
 * The sons of the tillage
 * Find their problems never cease
 * Because of prankster geese.


 * Hungarian nobility, nominated by Borsoka:
 * Oh, Hungary, 
 * Oh, Hungary!
 * Oh, doughty sons of Hungary!
 * May all success
 * Attend and bless
 * Your warlike ironmongery! —WSG


 * 1980 World Snooker Championship, nominated by BennyOnTheLoose:
 * Fifty-three entered, though four of them withdrew,
 * Cliff Thorburn's the man that saw the thing through.


 * "It's a Wrap", nominated by Heartfox:
 * We're sure Mariah Carey will not have got fed up
 * When her old song grew popular once it was sped up.
 * A bit earlier this year, it got a new start
 * When TikTok discovered it, and it entered the chart.


 * Weesperplein metro station, nominated by Styyx:
 * A metro line was cancelled, and the most
 * That remains is under Weesperplein: A ghost
 * station.

Featured pictures
Nineteen featured pictures were promoted this period, including those at the top and bottom of this article.

Featured lists
Eight featured lists were promoted this period.
 * Angel Aquino on screen and stage, nominated by Pseud 14:
 * She was in many roles on stage and screen,
 * But by me none of her roles have been seen.
 * I'm sure she's good, but I fear this time,
 * I again have to go with a cop-out rhyme.


 * List of Top Selling R&B Singles number ones of 1967, nominated by ChrisTheDude:
 * A Billboard chart
 * With Rhythm and Blues heart.


 * GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, nominated by PanagiotisZois:
 * A number of shows for this award vied,
 * A suitable featured list for this month of Pride.


 * List of Alexander McQueen collections, nominated by Premeditated Chaos:
 * A fashion designer, we talked about him before
 * As such, I think I need not say that much more.


 * List of Billboard Tropical Airplay number ones of 1999, nominated by Magiciandude (Erick):
 * A Billboard chart
 * With a tropical heart.


 * List of Indianapolis 500 winners, nominated by EnthusiastWorld37:
 * Round and round and round they goes,
 * When do they stop? Nobody kno—
 * Oh, after 500 miles. Right. That explains the name.


 * List of nitrogen-fixing-clade families, nominated by Dank:
 * Not all these fix nitrogen (that's a symbiote in rhizomes)
 * But many flowering plants in this clade make their homes.


 * Werner Herzog filmography, nominated by HAL333:
 * Famed German director, with many a classic movie,
 * Watching them in celebration would be very groovy.