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Features and admins

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Administrators

Five editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Smith609 (nom), LinguistAtLarge (nom), Mentifisto (nom), Someguy1221 (nom) and Al Ameer son (nom).

Bots

Five bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: AnomieBOT (task request), RockfangBot (task request), SoxBot VII (task request), Sambot (task request) and HersfoldBot (task request).

Featured pages

Fifteen articles were promoted to featured status this week: Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (nom), Harriet Bosse (nom), Noel Park (nom), Noël Coward (nom), Agrippina (opera) (nom), John Brownlee sex scandal (nom), Nevado del Ruiz (nom), Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett (nom), Frank Hubert McNamara (nom), Hillsboro, Oregon (nom), Edmontosaurus (nom), U.S. Route 50 in Nevada (nom), Phil Hartman (nom), Laurence of Canterbury (nom) and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (nom).

Seven lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of Megadeth band members (nom), Silver Slugger Award (nom), Veronica Mars (season 1) (nom), List of National Monuments of the United States (nom), List of Mexican National Heavyweight Champions (nom), List of Houston Rockets statistics and records (nom) and List of members of the Gregorian mission (nom).

Three topics were promoted to featured status this week: Triple Gold Club (nom), Second Persian invasion of Greece (nom) and U-43 class submarine (Austria-Hungary) (nom).

No portals were promoted to featured status this week.

The following featured articles were displayed on the Main Page this week as Today's featured article: Operation Varsity, Hellingly Hospital Railway, Nathu La, Peter Jones, Germanium, Barthélemy Boganda and Red River Trails.

Former featured pages

Five articles were delisted this week: Black pepper (nom), Yoweri Museveni (nom), Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (nom), Llywelyn the Great (nom) and Washington gubernatorial election, 2004 (nom).

No lists were delisted this week.

No topics were delisted this week.

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page this week as picture of the day: Oswego Harbor West Pierhead Light, Stunt performer, Role preformed en travesti, Cone nebula, American Green Frog, Hotel Coronado and U.S. WWI poster.

No media files were featured this week.

One featured picture was demoted this week: Walt Disney Concert Hall (nom).

Eleven pictures were promoted to featured status this week and are shown below.


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