Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-08-01/Featured content

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

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee. So, this issue, we're publishing what I had done when what happened happened. It's hard to be silly after that.

—Adam Cuerden

Featured articles
Fourteen featured articles were promoted this period.
 * Maurice Suckling, nominated by Pickersgill-Cunliffe
 * 'Twould seem a minor officer, who, for historical merit would suck,
 * Were his nephew not Horatio Nelson, who is noted for his pluck!
 * Suckling used his rank to push him into high positions
 * But died unexpectedly 'fore he was forty of longstanding conditions.


 * Order of Brothelyngham, nominated by Serial Number 54129:
 * They played as monks to poke fun of them, the bishops raging daily,
 * Going around and beating up fellows, robbing them quite gaily.
 * It's fun mediaeval blasphemy! The one weird trick that clergy hate
 * So head on down to Exeter, the fourteenth century's the date!
 * ...You do have a time machine, right?
 * ...You do have a time machine, right?


 * Thank You (Meghan Trainor album), nominated by MaranoFan (a.k.a. NØ)
 * Half sovereign, nominated by Wehwalt and Platonist Rainbow:
 * Kyriakos Pittakis, nominated by UndercoverClassicist:
 * Esplanade MRT station, nominated by ZKang123
 * Angel Aquino, nominated by Pseud 14
 * Abishabis, nominated by Z1720:
 * A leader of a religious movement amongst the Cree,
 * He encouraged many to stop hunting fur
 * The fur traders really didn't like this fact,
 * And he was vaguely accused of a mur-
 * -Der.
 * He was killed before trial, and information on what he was supposed to have done is vague. Well, that's one way to keep the economy going. Or maybe he was guilty. Who knows?


 * British logistics in the Western Allied invasion of Germany, nominated by Hawkeye7
 * Mars in fiction, nominated by TompaDompa:
 * From religious allegory, little green men, and Barsoom,
 * To Marvin the Martian who makes Earth go "boom".
 * (List incomplete; please add thirty more stanzas. —Ed.)


 * 40 Wall Street, nominated by Epicgenius:
 * Its good reputation now hits quite a slump,
 * Since, after he bought it, it was renamed after Trump.


 * Josette Simon nominated by BennyOnTheLoose:
 * Actress from Blake's 7, but her effect is long-lasting
 * In getting British directors to choose to use race-blind casting.
 * In the Royal Shakespeare Company she's been quite adored,
 * Which likely has got many other theatres "on-board".


 * Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication, nominated by Vaticidalprophet:
 * If we could speak to lions, could we understand them?
 * Now consider a species not even of this world
 * How could their communications then be unfurled?
 * Or be determined as just something random?
 * (You know, like TikTok, or whatever crap the younger generation are doing.)


 * Private Case, nominated by SchroCat
 * From its nomination:
 * Set up by the Victorian-minded and rather strait-laced administrators at the British Museum, the Private Case was the place they stashed the erotica and pornography to keep it away from the lascivious eyes of the hoi polloi. The BM denied its existence to the public and didn't list the works on the main public catalogue until the early twentieth century. As social mores changed in the 1960s, the museum began to liberalise their approach, and the collection is now entirely open access. From being a hidden dirty secret, it is now considered a superb resource to study the attitudes held by previous generations on sexuality, gender, etc.

Featured pictures
Eighteen featured pictures were promoted this period, including the one at the top of this article which I never got to show my father, and the one at the bottom.

Featured lists
Eight featured lists were promoted this period.


 * List of peramelemorphs, nominated by PresN:
 * Bilbies and bandicoots,
 * From Australia and nearby;
 * In the Crash Bandicoot games
 * They occasionally fly.
 * (I think you went off-topic there. -Ed.)


 * 12th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam, nominated by TheUzbek:
 * Bộ Chính trị Ban Chấp hành trung ương Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam Khoá XII
 * Covers the laws and regulations that they passed by
 * 26 January Twenty-twenty-one
 * At which time the 12th Politburo was done.


 * List of awards and nominations received by Angel Aquino, nominated by Pseud 14
 * While an actress worthy of much love,
 * She's in "featured articles". Please see above.
 * Well, the intent was there.


 * GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Artist, nominated by PanagiotisZois:
 * If you promote acceptance of LGBTs
 * In your music, you might get one of these.


 * List of accolades received by Toy Story 3, nominated by Chompy Ace:
 * List of awards and nominations received by Joan Allen, nominated by Jovian Eclipse:
 * List of National Football League annual receiving touchdowns leaders, nominated by Hey man im josh:
 * List of tornadoes in the tornado outbreak of May 4–6, 2007, nominated by Cyclonebiskit: