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Features and admins

Approved this week

By seresin

Administrators

Three editors were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Killervogel5 (nom), MrKIA11 (nom) and SpacemanSpiff (nom).

Featured pages

Six articles were promoted to featured status this week: Rise of Neville Chamberlain (nom), 1930 FIFA World Cup (nom), Premiership of John Brownlee (nom), Edwin P. Morrow (nom), Battle of Morotai (nom) and Mellitus (nom).

Five lists were promoted to featured status this week: List of tallest buildings in Oakland, California (nom), 2007 Pan American Games medal table (nom), List of World War I aces credited with more than 20 victories (nom), List of unreleased Michael Jackson material (nom) and List of WCW World Television Champions (nom).

No topics were promoted to featured status this week.

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: The Lucy poems, Amagi class battlecruiser, Spyro: Year of the Dragon, Bramall Hall, Planescape: Torment, Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident and Eric Bana.

Former featured pages

No articles were delisted this week.

One list was delisted this week: List of Victoria Cross recipients by nationality (nom).

No topics were delisted this week.

Featured media

The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Albino wallaby, Battle of Jerusalem, Zhong Kui, Red Delicious apples, S. bercaea, Red Wattlebird and Mount Redoubt.

One featured sound was promoted this week:

United States Army Band Reveille

(nom)

Four featured pictures were demoted this week: Palace of Westminster at night (nom), Large bonfire (nom), Oceans diagram (nom) and Map of Han Dynasty (nom).

Fifteen pictures were promoted to featured status this week.

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  Common Wombat
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  Red-necked Wallaby
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  Execution of conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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  Phases of the moon
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  Canon EOS 400D
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  Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni by Domenico Ghirlandaio
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  Napa Valley
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  Maria Island
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  Dunrobin Castle
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  Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire
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  Dust Devil trails on Mars
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  River Thames
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  Cape Barren Goose
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  Desiccation cracks in mud
• 
  World War I poster in Yiddish

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• This week's FP promotions and delistings do a good job of illustrating the welcome rise in standards not only in photography and images, but in Wikipedia standards altogether over the years. It's encouraging to see steady improvement despite all the auspices of doom and gloom people have been muttering about the project. Seegoon (talk) 18:08, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

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