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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-03-08/Features and admins

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Features and admins

Approved this week

Administrators

No editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week. X! was promoted to bureaucrat.

Nineteen articles were promoted to featured status this week: No. 1 Wing RAAF (nom), The Kinks (nom), USS Congress (1799) (nom), Nothing to My Name (nom), Nick Adenhart (nom), Flag of Japan (nom), 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (nom), American Beauty (film) (nom), Pilot (Parks and Recreation) (nom), Bronwyn Bancroft (nom), Mary Rose (nom), Mindomys (nom), Banksia sessilis (nom), Babakotia (nom), Galerina marginata (nom), 2009 Giro d'Italia (nom), Battle of Osan (nom), Manitoba (nom) and Delichon (nom).

Ten lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of North Carolina Tar Heels men's head basketball coaches (nom), List of United States Military Academy alumni (Confederate States Army) (nom), List of Iowa State Cyclones head football coaches (nom), List of non-ecclesiastical and non-residential works by John Douglas (nom), List of Italian orders of knighthood (nom), List of UK hit singles by footballers (nom), List of New Jersey Devils seasons (nom), List of Somerset CCC players with 100 or more first-class or List A appearances (nom), Philadelphia Athletics (1890–1891) all-time roster (nom) and Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture (nom).

Three topics were promoted to featured status this week: Supernatural (season 2) (nom), South Park (season 1) (nom) and Major League Baseball awards (nom).

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article this week: Sholes and Glidden typewriter, Suffolk Punch, Kinzua Bridge, Battle of the Alamo, "We Are the World", Ceawlin of Wessex, Flower and Superb Fairywren.

One article was delisted this week: El Al (nom).

One list was delisted this week: The Prodigy discography (nom).

No topics were delisted this week.

No portals were delisted this week.

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Port Vell, Barcelona, ca. 1896 advertisement for American production Carmen, Lotus-Namam, the symbol of Ayyavazhi, Cover of a 1910 issue of the original incarnation of Life, Granny Smith apples, Scanning electron micrograph of the coccolithophore and Yellow fever mosquito .

No featured sounds were promoted this week.

No featured pictures were demoted this week.

Fifteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week.