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Features and admins
Administrators
Five users were granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Hersfold (nom), Hurricanehink (nom), DeadEyeArrow (nom), Doug (nom), and Aleta (nom).
Bots
Seven bots or bot tasks were approved to begin operating this week: STBotI (task request), SoxBot IV (task request), John Bot (task request), ClueBot II (task request), Bikabot (task request), Erwin85Bot (task request), and FlagBot (task request).
Featured pages
Fourteen articles were promoted to featured status last week: Rokeby Venus (nom), Effects of Hurricane Ivan in the Lesser Antilles and South America (nom), Damageplan (nom), 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack (nom), Song Thrush (nom), Super Smash Bros. Melee (nom), Tomb of Antipope John XXIII (nom), HMAS Melbourne (R21) (nom), Elderly Instruments (nom), Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards (nom), Opeth (nom), Æthelred of Mercia (nom), D. B. Cooper (nom), and This Charming Man (nom).
Fifteen lists were promoted to featured status last week: List of retired Pacific typhoon names (JMA) (nom), Silverchair discography (nom), Timeline of Jane Austen (nom), Slayer discography (nom), BBC Young Musician of the Year (nom), Virginia Tech bowl games (nom), List of Halo media (nom), List of Scottish football champions (nom), List of tallest buildings in Albuquerque (nom), List of tallest buildings and structures in Salford (nom), List of Press Gang episodes (nom), The Prodigy discography (nom), European Golden Shoe (nom), Manchester City F.C. seasons (nom), and The Simpsons (season 7) (nom).
No topic was promoted to featured status last week.
Two portals were promoted to featured status last week: Portal:English football (nom) and Portal:Journalism (nom).
The following featured articles were displayed last week on the Main Page as Today's featured article: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico, Paleolithic-style diet, Surfer Rosa, Reese Witherspoon and Freedom Monument.
Former featured pages
Six articles were delisted recently: Saturn V (nom), Game theory (nom), Marginated Tortoise (nom), Korean name (nom), New England Patriots (nom) and Robert Lawson (architect) (nom).
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed last week on the Main Page as picture of the day: Hereford, Fissure vent, Magpie-goose, USS Franklin, Catrina, Tagus River and First Battle of Grozny.
One featured picture was demoted: Image:Prokaryote cell diagram.svg.
No sounds were featured last week.
Three pictures were promoted to featured status last week and are shown below.
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