Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2023-09-16/Featured content

This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted in August.

So, I missed an issue, but I've caught up, and I'm doing somewhat better. Actually managed to describe all the articles; Lists are just... a list, but, well, I'm doing what I can. And as can be seen from last issue, if I don't do this, no-one else does.

—Adam Cuerden

Featured articles
Thirty-four featured articles were promoted this period.
 * Nuremberg trials, nominated by buidhe
 * Most of the stuff in this featured content report is goofy stuff appropriate for a rhyming gimmick. This article, however, concerns the trials of Nazi war criminals after World War II, in which the full extent of their deeds was exposed.


 * Australiformis, nominated by Mattximus
 * You might call these parasitic worms unscrupulous,
 * But they'll only infect you if you're marsupulous.


 * Titanis, nominated by Augustios Paleo (a.k.a. AFH):
 * These birds of terror would be feared,
 * But thousands of years ago they disappeared
 * (Probably just waiting for us to get complacent. The Antarctic ice is thawing; the cryogenic tanks will soon open.)


 * Five pounds (British gold coin), nominated by Wehwalt:
 * One of the largest gold coins to enter circulation,
 * The "quintuple sovereign" is a strange situation.
 * Still, I'll gladly pay you five pounds for one. Any takers?


 * Boukephala and Nikaia, nominated by AirshipJungleman29:
 * In Pakistan these cities wait,
 * Founded by Alexander the Great.
 * One's named after a nearby victory, of course;
 * ...The other one, though, is named after his horse.


 * Daytona USA, nominated by Red Phoenix:
 * To play this racing game, for quarters we'll beg ya,
 * It's still big in arcades, and was made by Sega.


 * Florence Petty, nominated by SchroCat
 * She taught the working class to cook cheaply, so they could eat,
 * Suet puddings were her special treat.


 * Frank McGee (ice hockey), nominated by Kaiser matias:
 * "One-Eyed" Frank McGee
 * Played hockey though one eye couldn't see.
 * His team won the Stanley cup four years in a row,
 * So, y'know, great job! Way to go!


 * Revolutionary Girl Utena, nominated by Morgan695
 * The follow-up to Sailor Moon, it's essential:
 * Complex and weird and experimental!


 * Five Nights at Freddy's (video game), nominated by The Night Watch:


 * JUMP SCARE
 * (Is that unfair?)
 * (Probably is, but I don't care.)


 * Rodrigues night heron, nominated by FunkMonk:
 * A Mascarene bird, all we have are its stats:
 * It just didn't survive the introduction of cats.


 * 1927 World Snooker Championship, nominated by BennyOnTheLoose:
 * Joe Davis won first
 * And also the next fourteen:
 * If you love snooker,
 * This article's keen!


 * Daisy Bacon, nominated by Mike Christie:
 * Editor of Love Story Magazine, and the stories she'd tell:
 * It might have been a 'pulp', but it sure sold well.


 * Annie Dove Denmark, nominated by PCN02WPS:
 * Head of Anderson College, her worth is quite plain,
 * But in ways that a couplet just cannot explain.


 * "Mother" (Meghan Trainor song), nominated by MaranoFan (a.k.a. NØ):


 * Kyla (Filipino singer), nominated by Pseud 14:
 * Melanie Hernandez Calumpad
 * Is not the sort of singer
 * That you would describe as 'bad'.


 * Lou Henry Hoover, nominated by Thebiguglyalien:
 * Herbert Hoover, her husband, and her had a passion,
 * And translated De re metallica from the Latin.
 * First woman to graduate from geology at Stanford, it's rather shady
 * That if people heard about her at all, it's just as First Lady.


 * Air Board (Australia), nominated by Ian Rose:
 * This is the first attempt at a guide to this, so Ian asked their opinion, sensibly,
 * And the Air Board got back, and said he covered it, quote, "quite comprehensively".


 * Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty, nominated by LunaEatsTuna:
 * For academic discussion of founding of your own state,
 * Hobbs and Williams step up to the plate.


 * Howard Florey, nominated by Hawkeye7:
 * Alexander Fleming gets the raves for penicillin's great discovery,
 * It was a group effort, though, and Florey too helped all those patients to recovery.


 * WSNS-TV, nominated by Sammi Brie:
 * This Chicago television channel with a nineteen seventy creation
 * Grew huge, got challenged, and then became a Spanish-language station


 * Affine symmetric group, nominated by JayBeeEll (JBL):
 * Number lines and the triangular tiling of the plane
 * Define the symmetry group that bears this here name.
 * Symmetry in pure mathematics has... a somewhat complex meaning,
 * So, from a poem like this, not much help you'll be gleaning.


 * Venus in fiction, nominated by TompaDompa and Piotrus:
 * The impenetrable clouds blocked all view of what might be below,
 * So if a writer got it wrong, well, no-one (then) could know.


 * Ministerial by-election, nominated by John M Wolfson:
 * Until 1926, an M.P. given a job as minister
 * Had to undergo a situation sinister.
 * After they got their ministerial selection,
 * They were kicked out and had to survive a new by-election.
 * So if your party took power within Westminster's halls
 * You'd best hope your new leaders won by-election, or everything stalls.


 * The Birds (Alexander McQueen collection), nominated by Premeditated Chaos (PMC):
 * A collection that was built to shock
 * Based on the movie by Alfred Hitchcock


 * Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale, nominated by Isaksenk:
 * As the English Civil War embroiled
 * This Scottish Duchess helped the Royals


 * "Never Forget You" (Mariah Carey song), nominated by Heartfox:
 * No music video, no performances live,
 * Yet on the Billboard Hot 100 it still did arrive.


 * Radoje Pajović, nominated by Peacemaker67
 * Montenegran history from World War II
 * Would be a lot less well covered were it not for this dude.
 * (Eh, that's a half-rhyme, but I'm actually doing poems this issue, and it's a double-length one, so screw it, good enough.)


 * Ludwig Ross, nominated by UndercoverClassicist:
 * A person who you ought to seek
 * If you like archaeology, and like it Greek.


 * John Oliver, nominated by MyCatIsAChonk:
 * A comedian who tells the news
 * Teaching the why of his liberal views.


 * 2022 Tour Championship, nominated by Lee Vilenski:
 * Very few things rhyme with snooker,
 * But of Vilenski's work, I'm not a rebuker.


 * Asimov's Science Fiction, nominated by Mike Christie:
 * Science fiction magazines are in decline
 * This one was really important, though, in its time.


 * "Gento" (song), nominated by Abacusada:
 * Di ka basta-basta makakita ng gento.


 * Jessie Murray, nominated by SchroCat:
 * To discuss her psychoanalysis others would avoid
 * For her failure to follow the false doctrines of Freud....

Featured pictures
Twenty-seven featured pictures were promoted this period, including the ones at the top and bottom of this article.

Featured topics
Two featured topics were promoted this period:

Nominated by Pseud 14:

Nominated by MaranoFan (a.k.a. NØ)

Featured lists
Nineteen featured lists were promoted this period.
 * William S. Hart filmography, nominated by Jimknutt
 * List of storks, nominated by AryKun
 * List of Best Selling Soul Singles number ones of 1972, nominated by ChrisTheDude
 * Kyla discography, nominated by Pseud 14
 * Pit Stop Challenge, nominated by EnthusiastWorld37
 * List of World Heritage Sites in Yemen, nominated by Tone
 * List of World Heritage Sites in Panama, nominated by Tone
 * List of Colorado ballot measures, nominated by ThadeusOfNazereth
 * List of lorisoids, nominated by PresN
 * List of Hot Soul Singles number ones of 1973, nominated by ChrisTheDude
 * List of awards and nominations received by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, nominated by MyCatIsAChonk
 * Julia Michaels discography, nominated by MaranoFan
 * World Video Game Hall of Fame, nominated by PresN
 * Municipalities of Sinaloa, nominated by Mattximus
 * List of National Football League annual passing touchdowns leaders, nominated by Hey man im josh and ULPS
 * Eiji Tsuburaya filmography, nominated by Eiga-Kevin2
 * Daya discography, nominated by MaranoFan
 * 95th Academy Awards, nominated by RunningTiger123 and Birdienest81
 * List of Mckenna Grace performances, nominated by Pamzeis