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Features and admins

Approved this week

Administrators

Two editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process since last report: Jafeluv (nom) and MZMcBride (nom).

Thirty-two articles were promoted to featured status since last report: König class battleship (nom), Quiriguá (nom), Banksia prionotes (nom), Electron (nom), Unification of Germany (nom), 1968 Illinois earthquake (nom), Rudolf Caracciola (nom), Ernie Toshack with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 (nom), Neil Harvey with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 (nom), Tom Swift (nom), Chicado V (nom), Blackburn Olympic F.C. (nom), Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (nom), California's 12th congressional district election, 1946 (nom), Yukon Quest (nom), Ravenloft (module) (nom), Cosmo Gordon Lang (nom), Chinese classifier (nom), Fredonian Rebellion (nom), North by North Quahog (nom), North Island (Houtman Abrolhos) (nom), Cyclone Orson (nom), Icos (nom), Polyozellus (nom), Derfflinger class battlecruiser (nom), A Weekend in the City (nom), Christopher Smart's asylum confinement (nom), Joe Hewitt (RAAF officer) (nom), Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album) (nom), Postman's Park (nom), The Covent-Garden Journal (nom) and Battle of Grand Port (nom).

Eight lists were promoted to featured status since last report: Santigold discography (nom), IWGP Tag Team Championship (nom), List of Governors of West Virginia (nom), List of tablets on the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice (nom), Timeline of the London Underground (nom), List of Spanish football champions (nom), List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War I (nom) and List of teams and cyclists in the 2009 Giro d'Italia (nom).

Three topics were promoted to featured status since last report: Star Wars: Jedi Knight titles (nom), Derfflinger class battlecruisers (nom) and Lists of Victoria Cross recipients by campaign (nom).

No portals were promoted to featured status since last report.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page as Today's featured article since last report: Polish culture during World War II, Rock Springs massacre, Cochineal, Khan Noonien Singh, Archie Jackson, Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, Amchitka, Crush, Cædwalla of Wessex, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Diocletianic Persecution, Battle of Edson's Ridge, Her Majesty's Theatre and Linezolid.

Twelve articles were delisted since last report: Stanisław Koniecpolski (nom), Douglas Adams (nom), Baby Gender Mentor (nom), Yuan (surname) (nom), Sequence alignment (nom), Franklin B. Gowen (nom), Médecins Sans Frontières (nom), Louisville, Kentucky (nom), History of New Jersey (nom), Norman Borlaug (nom), Final Fantasy IV (nom) and Thomas Pynchon (nom).

Two lists were delisted since last report: List of 1888–1889 New Zealand Native football team matches (nom) and List of WarCry band members (nom).

No topics were delisted since last report.

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day since last report: Camera obscura, Fiddler beetle, Japanese Instruments of Surrender, Damage from Sayre Fire, Penitentery at Port Arthur, Social dance, William McKinley, Child laborers, Wreckage of 1900 Galveston Hurricane, Hypericum calycinum, Asilidae, Memorial for September 11 attacks, Jacqueline Kennedy, the Singel and Andromeda Galaxy.

Two featured sounds were promoted since last report:

1892 – Werther: "Va! laisse couler mes larmes"(nom)
Field cricket(nom)

Two featured pictures were demoted since last report: Arizona Cap Canal (nom) and Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin (deleted and delisted as copyvio; nom).

Thirty-seven pictures were promoted to featured status since last report and are shown below.