Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-05-10/Features and admins
Approved this week
Administrators
One editor was granted admin status via the Requests for Adminship process this week: Blurpeace (nom).
Featured pages
Fifteen articles were promoted to featured status this week: Lemur evolutionary history (nom), Free State of Galveston (nom), Funerary art (nom), Battle of Villers-Bocage (nom), The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (nom), Terry Fox (nom), Keith Miller in the 1946–47 Australian cricket season (nom), Bog turtle (nom), Silky shark (nom), The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman (nom), Gough Whitlam (nom), Wilfred Rhodes (nom), Mycena haematopus (nom), Westcott railway station (nom) and Cottingley Fairies (nom).
Nine lists were promoted to featured status this week: Family Guy (season 5) (nom), List of FC Barcelona seasons (nom), List of National Parks of the United States (nom), List of 1920s jazz standards (nom), List of Olympic medalists in softball (nom), List of Phi Kappa Psi brothers (nom), List of Kansas Jayhawks head football coaches (nom), List of Colorado Buffaloes head football coaches (nom) and List of South Africa women ODI cricketers (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: Bird, Sex Pistols, George V of the United Kingdom, 1937 Social Credit backbenchers' revolt, 2009 Giro d'Italia, Jason Voorhees and Neville Chamberlain.
Former featured pages
Two articles were delisted this week: 35 mm film (nom) and Marshall Plan (nom).
Two lists were delisted this week: List of Formula One fatal accidents (nom) and List of family relations in the NHL (nom).
No topics were delisted this week.
No portals were delisted this week.
Featured media
The following featured pictures were displayed on the Main Page as picture of the day this week: Southern Crowned Pigeon; white nectarine; missing square puzzle; illustration for Act II, Scene 3 of The Winter's Tale; Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin sitting together at the Yalta Conference; Eastern billabong fly and photo of a man scalped as a child.
No featured sounds were promoted this week.
No featured pictures were demoted this week.
Four pictures were promoted to featured status this week.
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Political cartoon depicting Roscoe Conkling during the 1880 Republican National Convention -
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Karnataka High Court in Bangalore, India
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